Family, Sports, Life - Ty Talks | Ep. 48

In this episode of Creative Roots, Tae sits down with Ty from the Ty Talks Podcast, and from the moment the cameras start rolling, you can tell this one is going to be a good time.

Ty came through the studio ready for jokes, laughs, and real conversation with the team. On his podcast, Ty covers a wide range of topics including sports, family, culture, and everyday life, and this conversation follows that same energy.

We get into:

How Ty started the Ty Talks Podcast
The growth and traction he’s seen since launching
His Top 5 picks (which might spark some debate)
The journey of building a podcast from home
The importance of support and community in podcasting

Ty also takes a moment to show love to the Charlotte Podcast Studio team, sharing how grateful he is for the help he received when setting up his in-home podcast studio.

Expect laughs, honest conversation, and a few moments that might make you pause or even debate.

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Tae-@taewiththeedits
Shamar-@alanluxstudios

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

I knew I was gonna start a podcast one day or something, but I didn't know the podcast space would be like this now, like what it is. You know, but to spend that amount of money and don't get nothing back off it.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

And ain't made nothing. It's just and then you do it every single year.

SPEAKER_04 0:18

In the beginning, go as hard as you can. Like every day, even if you feel like the video don't look as clear or whatever, like that.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

So when they were doing the show on BET, I was there. Oh, for real?

SPEAKER_04 0:31

Yeah. Oh, I need to go search you up, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Oh, I ain't on none of the episodes. But I was I was there. You in the background somewhere or another? If I am, I missed it too.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Truth in the air, let it speak.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

You sound what?

SPEAKER_04 0:57

Low key funny. You got that.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

He is sometimes not even me trying. Tom people saying stuff, and people be like expressions, and I'd be like, I wasn't trying to make nobody laugh. I was really trying to tell you how mad I was, but well, you see what I laugh at.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

Simple. Simple little stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Yeah, I tell people I've been through a lot, man. I got a lot to laugh and talk about. You know, a reason to smile. Dina.

SPEAKER_05 1:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Ow. How how I look.

SPEAKER_05 1:30

You look great.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Let me clear. I got something on my face. Huh? I gotta clear my throat. Yeah. We were going on everything too, Dina.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

That man funny boy. You just funny, man. Ever since I met you, you just a simple funny guy.

SPEAKER_05 2:03

Shine bright like a diamond.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Shine bright like a diamond, diamond. Alright, so anyway, now that we got all that out of the way. Um, you know I had to record no episode in a long time. Oh, it's been a minute. I'm about to, it's been a minute. Oh wow. It you know, they they come out every week, but they don't get recorded every week. Um welcome back to another episode of Creative Room. Y'all, I don't know what Dina is back here doing, but she's nothing. Huh?

SPEAKER_05 2:44

I'm doing nothing. I'm working.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Oh, she's working. Why did you end up with that chair?

SPEAKER_05 2:52

So it won't make any noise.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

And it makes more noise than that other one.

SPEAKER_05 3:01

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Let's go. Listen here, y'all. Welcome back to another episode of Creative Bruce Podcast where C Song Become Visions Grown. I am your host, Tay.

SPEAKER_05 3:10

I'm Dina, Tay's trusty sidekick for the day. You don't like that?

SPEAKER_00 3:17

No, I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. I just wasn't expecting you to say that. Yeah, so you know, uh I would like to give a shout out to Alan Lux Studios. I like the Luxe. I would like to thank us. Shout out to Charlotte Podcast Studio. I would like to thank us. And shout out to Artbox Charlotte. I would like to thank us. Today, we have a young man sitting across from me. Y'all seen him on the live. Y'all talked, well, I don't know if y'all talked to him on the live, but he was definitely talking to Shamar. I missed the whole conversation. I really don't know what was said. Even during the playback, I was like, I don't know what just happened. But it was cool, Linda. It was dope. And this man, um, family man, uh he reached out to us and was like, yo, I need some help. And because of who we are, we went to the house and we gave him some help. Um, we have Ty from Ty Talks Podcast, a podcast about all things sports, which means Tay would not understand anything because Tay don't watch or play sports. Now, all right, talk to the people. Let them know who you want to tell them about your podcast.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

Well, I'm Tyrande's. Uh my podcast is Ty Talks Podcast One. Uh I'm trying to keep it open and just start not talk about just sports. Uh, so basketball, football, life, etc. Uh, that's why I just called it TID Talks. I didn't want to add anything sports related to it. Uh, but yeah, uh, I'm from Virginia, not Charlotte, but I've been here 10 years.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Uh so he's a Charlatan, y'all. I don't care what he's over here talking about.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

But yeah, um, yeah, man. Uh came here on uh creative roots just to sit down with my my guy. He uh he helped me come so far, I ain't gonna lie. Without them, I would have nothing going on right now for me. Uh but yeah. Appreciate you take it.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Hey man, we appreciate you, man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, this is what part of 100, man.

SPEAKER_04 5:27

I'm being 100 with you, man.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Yeah, this is part of what we do. You know, um, you were in the community before we really started building the community. You know, not just um the creative roots community, but just the things that we do with Charlotte Podcast Studio, because I don't think people know that we actually go to people's houses and we do um home consultations and we basically analyze your room and say, hey, you want to get this, you should get that, but you definitely need these items. And when they get that stuff, we go right back to their house, we set everything up for them.

unknown 6:04

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

So I don't think we ever told you that.

SPEAKER_04 6:06

We just y'all just I just asked, and y'all was like, sure.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

I didn't even know y'all was doing consultations and nothing like that.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Oh yeah, we we do a lot of consultations, and when people see that price, they be like, I'm just gonna come to y'all.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

Well, uh I I appreciate y'all doing it for free.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Yeah, we ain't gonna tell everybody else that you know I don't edit. They're gonna have to go back and re-watch that. Hey, just don't worry about it, keep on going. So, listen, man, listen, listen, listen. Um, you already know Creative Roots, where we sit down with creatives and talk about their journey from the beginning. Um, from what I can remember, you've been into sports almost your whole life, if not, you know, from the womb, right? Um, you talk to people, you um you're getting to a point where you have guests, you know, coming to be on the podcast, right? Definitely. Um, so what seed was planted that got you started on this whole TID talks journey?

SPEAKER_04 7:10

Uh so for years, uh from well, from high school, probably middle school before that, uh, I was always that random. Uh just bring up sports if somebody talking about something else. Uh so I just I kept that in the back of my head. Uh like I knew I was gonna start a podcast one day or something, but I didn't know the podcast space would would be like this now, like what it is.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

But uh true, true.

SPEAKER_04 7:33

Uh but yeah, it just came from me being random. Uh somebody talking about something. I just popped in like talking about sports when they didn't want to hear it at all. So I'd be talking to myself about it.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Oh, so you were the guy like, hey, how about them Lakers?

SPEAKER_04 7:47

Yeah, I was that guy. I was that guy. I was definitely that guy.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Yeah. I didn't I wasn't really into sports. I started like playing the video games. I wasn't really into sports.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

I ran track uh my senior year of high school. I was a manager uh half of the year for the uh sports team until I wanted to start making some money uh and stuff like that. So yeah, uh I just love sports, man. Like I can just talk about it all day. Uh I know you say you don't know nothing. I mean, I ain't gonna say I don't know nothing. I know you gotta know something, Tay. I know you gotta know something.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

My son plays um football. Okay. Um they were putting him at uh he was on the offensive line, but then he lost weight.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Um, because football did that. Um then he went to a tight end, and then they just happened to put him on defense, and he's been like uh linebacker. So he either plays uh he plays one of the outside linebackers now. Okay, and man, that boy loved hitting people.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

So, you know, I I had to go to the old school references of like um look at this person and look at that person. I see the guy's clear face clear as day. Um the Ravens.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

Lamar?

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Ray, uh Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis, okay. Um, I even I even told him about Pac-Man. I say I say, listen, I understand y'all young. Don't don't take the heads off like like like this. Nah. But make sure they know not to come back to your side.

SPEAKER_04 9:18

If you showing them Ray Lewis clips, you making an animal.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Hey man, I'm working on it, you know. We I I feel more animals need to be made. You know, more beasts need to be on the field and on the court. Me personally, and listen, we're going there. Me personally, knowing what era I grew up in, Michael Jordan, you know, the the bad boys of Detroit, uh people getting taken out of the game because the helmets is flying off.

SPEAKER_04 9:48

Bill and beer.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

We done, yeah, we I feel sports and got, I don't know if it's a little softer, or if it's being uh, for lack of words, watered down for the sake of competition.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

It's in between. It's like uh I don't know. Back in the day, I don't know if a lot of people that uh once they got professional, they had this story that they, you know what I'm saying, they weren't all rich before they got rich, you know what I'm saying? Right. Uh they were struggling, having these backroom um stories of struggles and their parents and stuff like that. But now everybody is like rich before they even become professional. Like, I don't know, I don't think a lot of people is really putting their effort to get what they need to be. It's a lot of laziness and non-defending.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Yeah. In in high school and college, and they make it to the NBA, the NFL, and then all it's like, I mean, I'm already paid. What I need to put forth effort for.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

NIL is killing the sport, I think. Like sports period. NIL, uh like them high school players getting paid, college players getting paid. But they don't got no rules to it. I think if they can adjust and give it some rules, it'll make uh make it better. But right now, like Cooper Flag, he made what? I don't know, you know who that is. But he was number one, uh he was the number one draft pick uh last year. Uh he was only 18 year old when he got drafted to the NBA. Uh, but just in college alone, he made like 60 million. Look at T.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

I'm gonna pick up this football and get on there and field with my son or something.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

I'm telling you 60 million.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:35

NIL, they just paying people now. Like that, that's not even a that won't even know NBA contract. That was off endorsements.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

You know what? I I I remember a time where doing all of that stuff was like illegal. Yeah. Um, I can't remember what the name of it was, but if you accepted money from a college, you know, it was like illegal. And you would get fined, the school would get fined, the coach, you know, whoever is buying the cars, buying the clothes. Like five years ago. That was only five years ago.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

That was like five years ago when that happened. That like all that change happened in the in the last four or five years.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Right. So now it was like, well, let me go and say this too. I remember it was a thing of, well, the school's making money off these players, why these players can't make part of that money. True. You know, you you got YouTube and you know, the the upcoming of uh what were they called? Um they were basically highlight videos, you know, and people were able to, or schools or whatever were able to monetize off of that. So the high school is getting money, you know, get them kids something. You know, they in college, they got tuition. Yeah. But the school is taking all that money and the tuition. Yeah. At least let them get that money and pay off, pay their tuition off or something, right? You know, so it was, I just I just remember there being this big thing of let them people eat.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

You know, I'm eating ramen noodles, and y'all still, you know, for laying yon, and you know, y'all got personal shifts, and I still got to pay tuition back.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

You know, so I I know I remember that part.

SPEAKER_04 13:17

And it's it's a good and bad, it's definitely good and bad, but I think you just need more rules to it. Like, it needs to be more structured. Yeah, because you got players. Uh soon they not getting playing time with this one college. They like, oh, uh, I'm going into the portal. Let me go to this school next year and get a bigger bag. Uh and if it don't work out with that, they quitting and going to the next school. So it's like free agency now.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Uh like I don't, I don't, um, I think the biggest thing in college, you pick a major. You pick a school because they quote unquote specialize or they're known for that major. Um, I don't I don't get the switching schools, especially if this is the school you chose. But but then again, I guess did you choose the school for sports? Yeah. Thought that you could come here, you could thrive, da da da. Yeah. And it didn't pan out. And I mean, I guess the door's always open if that's the case.

SPEAKER_04 14:14

Transfer portal was wide open for these kids, man. Like, soon they not get no minutes, it's like, I'm out.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

I mean, that's kind of how some people be at a job too, though. Yeah. So I I I think even with that, people are looking at it more like it's a job, yeah. And not um something to build a career off of or a passion. I think that's the word I want to use. Y'all ain't passionate no more.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

They not, they're not passionate at all enough. I think people need to, I don't know, just wait instead of giving up. You know what I'm saying? Uh back in the day, like, for example, uh, some player, a player might not get playing time his first year, but soon that point guard or senior point guard leave, he can get playing time. Uh now they like, uh, I ain't getting no playing time now, I'm out.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yeah, and coming straight from high school and you the star player on the team, and you play all what is it, 60 minutes. Yeah. And and then you get to college and you pay in playing six minutes, man. You say, right. Well, I mean, what you think will happen when you get to the NBA? What you think will happen when you get to the NFL? Because it's rare. Rare. They take a veteran player and swap out a rookie. Right. And when they do, it's like He gotta be elite.

SPEAKER_04 15:34

He gotta be elite. He gotta be elite that first year, right? Gotta be. Gotta be elite. You is not coming to the NBA getting no playing time if you're not. And then you don't never know what coach you might have too. So you need to practice this, waiting your turn now, because when you get to that NBA or NFL or whatever, you don't know what coach you're gonna have. And you don't want to do it on that level, because then it's like you about to mess up your whole career.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Right. Being all in your feelings. Cause I know um I think it might, I think it might have been the first or the second game for my son. And that boy was over there, he was heated. And I'm like, y'all won. What's wrong? He was like, I ain't get to hit nobody. Oh man. And I was like, what? And I'm thinking in my head, like, but you you play. But then I had to play it back in my head. He didn't play that long.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

You know, when you have a certain set of people that you always play, like you said, you got to be patient.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

And I told my son, I said, every time you get on that field, I said, I don't care what position they got you at. You on special teams or you on defense. I said, I don't even care if you're on offense. You find somebody, you lay them out. No way to coach, know we need to keep putting him in.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

I said, don't go soft.

SPEAKER_04 16:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Because they play one team, all them kids was about our height.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

And you know them coaches, they'll make it personal quick too. They'll make it personal very quick. So don't get on the wrong side of them like at all. Like they'll spread the word that you got a bad attitude and all different types of stuff. So say it all the time.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

I told my son, I said, yeah, you need to be patient with it, but at the same time, you need to also be like, put me in the game, coach.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

You know, because when you you play the same players the whole time, and then it's football. Yeah. You know, that's a whole hundred plus yards if you include the infield. You're gonna burn them kids out.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Especially in middle school. Them kids gonna get burnt.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

You know, you got some of them kids that have endurance. And I mean, even in NBA NFL, you know, you you play these guys all the time. Some of them ain't got the endurance.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

They don't. They they tired after two runs. You know, but yeah. All right, I'm done talking sports now. Hey, that's probably all that's about all the sports talk I can do. That's cool. So middle school, you were that guy that was always talking about sports, no matter what the subject was. Um, just just out of nowhere. Right. Out of nowhere. So do you have um, are you one of those that have a favorite team or do you have favorite players?

SPEAKER_04 18:16

I got favorite players. Uh, my first favorite player ever was Alan Iverson.

SPEAKER_03 18:22

AI.

SPEAKER_04 18:23

AI. AI. I had a stint when I did like Kobe a little bit. Uh, my favorite player of all time, though, was Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant. Uh, don't do that, Tay. Don't even start it, man.

SPEAKER_00 18:35

No, no, no, no. Don't even start it.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

We're talking about the greatest score ever, man. Yes, better than Jordan. That's scoring. Yes, yes, yes. Jordan.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

I mean, I was gonna ask, you know, why Kevin Durant? Because you don't really hear people say Kevin Durant. You always hear people say the most popular player.

SPEAKER_04 18:51

I think Kevin Durant is the most unstoppable NBA player ever. Ever. He was he will cook everybody one-on-one easily. He's seven. In this era, this job. No, he'll cook Jordan all them seven easily one-on-one. I ain't trying to hear that to you. In the prime? Or now? Prime, prime Michael Jordan. He will cook one-on-one. Now I ain't saying Katie's better than Jordan. I'm saying he will cook Michael Jordan one-on-one. He's gonna make his way around. 6'6. Katie is seven foot. And he's doing the same, he's dribbling like a guard and pulling up like a guard. And what you supposed to do with that? Like Kobe even said he couldn't figure out Katie. What you mean? So he said foul him. File him.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

You about to dunk on me?

SPEAKER_04 19:39

That's the only, you know. That's my favorite player, man. But does height matter though? Yeah. He's a seven-foot guard. Basically.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

At first I didn't know he was that tall. I thought he was like 16.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

He'd be lying. He'd be lying, bro. Because when you put him next to seven-footers, he is.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

He's right there.

SPEAKER_04 20:03

No, no, no. It's not that. I'm just thinking like. Go do your research, Tay. Go do your research.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

No, that's what you for.

SPEAKER_04 20:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

You got to come and give me the facts.

SPEAKER_04 20:12

I got you. I got you.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Because Tay ain't got no facts on that feet. Now you won't talk cameras, come holler at me. You know, you won't talk lighting and color green, you know, come holler at me. But sports. That's about all I can give you right there. So Kevin Durant, you got a top five NBA, top five NFL, or you don't.

SPEAKER_04 20:36

I got a top five NBA. KD's not in my top five, of course. He in my top ten, but top five. It will have to be Magic. Jordan. LeBron. Tim Duncan. Shaq. You got some centers up in there. You got to. You gotta do the you gotta do the top five by position. So I went point guard, shooting guard, small four, power four.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

You did. I caught on to I caught on to that. But yeah, Tim is a beast though.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

Quiet. Oh. Five championships all spread it out. Different decades.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Played some of the best of the best. Yeah. You know, Jordan did um AI. Yeah. Uh Kobe. Uh Magic.

SPEAKER_04 21:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

You know, him and Bird. You know, there are things that say they saved the NBA.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

They did. They saved the NBA. They definitely did. It would have died if it weren't for them too.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

I feel the same way. It would have died. I think I think so too. I think so too. Um shoot. Dina over there working. I'm so proud of Dina right now. So Dina, are you into sports? Do you watch sports?

SPEAKER_06 21:57

Have you played sports? I play sports. And I loved sports back in the day, not now. I don't have time to keep up with it. And there's too many channels, you know. You can't just go to one-stop shop.

SPEAKER_04 22:10

That I don't like. I don't like this Amazon. I don't like you gotta go to YouTube, you gotta go to this, you gotta do that. Peek. Gotta have all these subscriptions to watch.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

So they lost me.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

She said they lost the.

SPEAKER_06 22:22

They lost me too.

SPEAKER_04 22:23

Random months. You see$10 come out, then you see$20 come out. Then you see$15 come. You're like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Right. So my my knowledge on sports started with uh don't do me like that. I ain't even said nothing. Madden, no, not even Madden. Tech Mobile. Tech Mobile. Wow. Did I just date myself? Maybe I did. Tech Mobile, okay. Uh Madden 95. Okay. You know, we we talking the original Nintendo.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

We're talking uh Blitz era, the 90s. Okay. That's my knowledge of sports. So of course, as time goes on, the last sports game I bought was 2K21, 2K22. Okay. Because I said I'm done buying sports games. What's changing?

SPEAKER_04 23:18

I ain't gonna lie, ain't nothing changed. Uh nothing changed. It's not changing. Uh they just add in what clothes and brand deals and stuff like that for you to actually buy. You still spending your money. Yeah. You basically spending your money now.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

You spending your money to buy clothes and shoes for a character that's gonna be replaced in 11 months. On the TV, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:38

That you're not gonna have.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

10 to 11 months. I've seen people spending thousands of dollars and ain't making no money off of it. Now, if you are a gamer and you playing 2K, you play Madden, you know, you play whatever game it is, kudos to you. You're funding uh what was told to me, you're funding your blessing. You're funding a moneymaker, you're giving yourself um an investment to what's going. I mean, if I spend a thousand dollars and I know I'm about to make ten thousand, a hundred thousand, I'm spending that exactly like take that, you know, but to spend that amount of money and don't get nothing back off it, and ain't made nothing, it's and then you do it every single year. Yeah, I remember my most favorite time in sports was you play the the college game and you were able to build this character and then you import him into Madden to see where he gets drafted.

SPEAKER_04 24:54

And you know, they actually they bringing that back. Uh they need to. Uh I think they're doing it for the NBA too. So 2K has took over the college game. So that's gonna be coming back. But oh yeah, I get I definitely get you though about spending all that money on clothes and all that like that. I'm quick to go to the little free, free session.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

I'm fine with the brown shirt and the brown shirt, the 2K gray shoes. Yep, and I'm fine with the generics, you know. I'm fine with the the huns, I'm fine with those. You know, and and I know it's gone from uh I know it was even like 2K10, you had a whole draft combine. Yeah, you paid for um$10. You could literally go through a draft combine, you worked this this player, you had certain games in like D-League, and then 2K dropped, boom.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

Yeah, I miss live.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

My first I miss NBA Live too.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

My first NBA and NFL game was EA Sports, uh, but it was Madden 03 and NBA Live 03. Those are my first. Uh that brought back some memories real quick. Man. That was my first sports game.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

You know what my first NBA Live game was on? What? Dreamcast. Dreamcast. I know a lot of people don't remember that thing, but man, that thing used to make me mad. You used to have to take the the triggers and you had to perfectly squeeze them to get that thing to line up because it would be two arrows. And as you moved them, they would jump. And then once you got them things to line up, that's how you made your free throw.

unknown 26:30

Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

I I remember like, was it live 05? You had to the dunk competition, you had to press some quick buttons real quick just for them. Like they didn't take all the fun and experience out of those games.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Uh yeah, and that's that's what I was getting to. And I I kind of feel that's also mirroring sports today. You know, you don't have to even go and get drafted, not drafted, but you don't have to go to college anymore. I think there was once a law or rule that you had to at least go to college for two years. But now, you know, people coming straight out of high school, and that's kind of how these games are. You create this player and you tell the game what team you want to be on.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

So with the NBA, they still making them go to college for one year. Uh one. But yeah, but for because some of them, I ain't gonna lie, some of them are just like this year's draft class is it's too much. Almost everybody, all the freshmen is averaging 30.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

Yeah. 20, 25, 30. If you go look at their stats, they are killing. And that's back to uh this NIL. You got players that's like 27, got a whole family, 28, 29, and they on these teams still, you know what I'm saying? But you're you're getting destroyed by an 18-year-old freshman, you know what I'm saying? Like, so it's embarrassing. Um, I just yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Well, we're gonna leave that alone. Todd Talks has spoken. So um, again, you know, you reached out to us, and you know, whenever you need something, as long as we can, you know, we got you, and we always there. Um with this, the podcast and everything that you've done with the and surrounding it, how has that support been, you know, from beginning to now?

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Uh, you know, they always say your fans is gonna come from people that's not, you know what I'm saying? Closer, right? Closer to you. You're gonna see once you put in a network every day, it's not gonna be the people that you thought that were actually repost, share, like or whatever. And that really don't mean that much to me, but sometimes it does because you like, uh, you know what I'm saying? Like, we've been through a lot. Uh, so for me to be doing my own thing and it's not getting repost or share or something like that, yeah. You feel some type of way, but after a while you don't really don't care about it. But uh it's like, yeah, man, putting a network, you gotta I don't know, people probably thought I was playing BSing, uh, but now that they see something from me every day, it's like, oh, he's not playing. Uh like.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

So you posting every day?

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Yeah, I've been trying. Uh this week I had took a break because I needed a break. I needed a break bad. Uh family problems, emergencies, and stuff like that. So I needed that mentally. Uh, but uh I had an interview yesterday, so I'm be posting that this week. Uh, and then I'm here with you today. Uh, and then I'm gonna go do my own thing and prepare for the week.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

So nothing wrong with that. He wanted to be a sports anchor. He's not gonna tell y'all that I don't know if that's really what he's doing is dope. Not what you okay. Nah, not yet.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

I wanna not yet. We work. I want to keep it open. I wanna keep it open.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

We're working on, you know, anchors and you know, uh courtside commentary.

SPEAKER_04 29:53

All of them gonna be retired in 20 years. All the ones we got now, Stephen A. Smith and all of them, they're gonna be old.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

So, yeah, you know, if y'all need somebody, because you know you do, he'll take a paid internship too. You know, we got miles of fee, you know, we got bills, we can't do no more free interning, you know. But uh yeah, holler at Ty.

SPEAKER_04 30:14

Three kids and one on the way.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

See? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Yeah. He now's free. I need it all.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

I need it all. If it's free, it ain't for him. No, not at all. No. Okay, maybe the interview. Maybe the free interview, but outside of that, talk to me.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

Some people, you know what I'm saying? I'm still in the beginning, so I'm not gonna.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

We're not gonna outrule everything. We'll find out how to make it work. Definitely, right? Yeah, definitely. So have you had people just be like, Ty, what are you doing and why? No.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

No? No, I'm not gonna say they not like that, but nothing negative at all. No, I mean, you got people that comment on your stuff like, uh, what are you talking about? You know what I'm saying? But it's like a sports opinion or something like that. Uh, I don't let no heavily opinionated. Yeah, yeah. I don't let that stuff get to me. But I haven't had nobody tell me, like, nah, I don't do this. Uh, you know what I'm saying? Like, I haven't had nobody go that far. No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Nobody to say the market is saturated. No, no.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

And if I hear that, I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

I wouldn't care either. I mean, because everybody is entitled to their opinion, right? Now, at the same time, everybody shouldn't be sharing their opinion. Definitely. Because when you have a closed mind, you got blind zone, you can't really see anything, you're everything you say is heavily opinionated, shut up. Definitely. You know, go go sit down.

SPEAKER_04 31:48

And I try not to like dwell on everything like uh be negative. I try to be realistic.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

That's that's the best thing. Um because I've always said um people gonna talk about you. Oh, yeah, for sure. People gonna talk. It don't matter if you did something good, you did something bad, people gonna talk about you. Let them talk. My thing is it's all engagement.

SPEAKER_03 32:13

Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

So go ahead and leave that comment, and like I said too, it's like thanks for commenting. Cause now it shows to the algorithm that I do respond to people. Regardless of how ignorant y'all can be sometimes. Man, sometimes. Okay, maybe not y'all, but y'all understand what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 32:31

Sometimes they go far. I'd be like, all right, just off in a uh opinion. I said Steph is the best shooter ever. Oh man, that uh, you know what I'm saying? Like it's it's great.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

Well, what about so-and-so? What about so-okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What I'm talking about them right now. Right. If you if you say of all time, yeah, you might have to, you know, quote unquote go to battle. But if you're like in this era, you know, you still might have to go to battle, but just not as much. You know, and I and I think that's another thing too. I think people see that you reach these uh these records and they put that person like, okay, yeah, that he well, he beat this person. And it's like, okay, well, you also gotta think about the time this one player played. You know, like if there's this player that over the span of 10 years scores a million points, but then there's another player that did that in three years. I think the person that did it in three years is a much better player than the person over the 10 years. That's just me. So then at that point, there's no battle.

SPEAKER_04 33:39

Yeah, you know some stuff about sports. You know some stuff, you know a lot of stuff, Tay. Look, you're having good conversations. Of course he does. You said what, Dina?

SPEAKER_06 33:47

You know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Shout out to NBA Live, shout out to 2K, shout out to Tech Bob, shout out to Madden, shout out to uh uh uh NCAA college football, you know. That's all I know. That that's where my knowledge comes from. And then my son. Oh, and then I oh, I forgot. Don't don't get on me. I used to collect basketball cards.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

Okay. That ain't nothing wrong with it. They end up making money like over time. They do. I look, I connect collect Pokemon cards, so you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

And I know them things are not uh very cheap. Well, not cheap, but I know they they worth some money too.

SPEAKER_04 34:23

You can pull a card out the pack and then it's worth a thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Exactly. It's crazy. Card collecting. I know you collect the cards, but yeah, man. Yeah, I got a whole book. I was about to jump on my brother one day. I had like three pages of Michael Jordan cards.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

Don't tell me.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Oh my god. And you know, my whole book is about this thick. Oh, don't tell me. Jordan, Kobe, Shaq. You got the cars with Kobe and Shaq. You got the cars with Kobe and Jordan, you got cars with, you know, two players in their prime. Oh my god. I got the the booklets that they used to make. I got all these cards, and you know what my brother did? He took all those cards out of the little sheets and replaced them with his Pokemon cards. And I said, Mama, get your bail money.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

You said Jordan, though. Like that Jordan cards in a binder from that time. Fresh from the pack.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

And probably rookie Kobe and Rookie Shaq and all different oh Kevin Garnett, uh, Alan Iverson, Stefan Marbury. He said, get the bell money ready. Get the I said, Mama, get your son. Because if I get him first, you you're gonna lose two kids today.

SPEAKER_04 35:47

Did you put them back in the binder?

SPEAKER_00 35:50

No, he didn't. Oh. Wait a minute. They're gone? They're still in a box. I'm I'm a collector. So there's a whole shoe. I even have NASCAR cards. Oh, wow. And I mean, these are the thicker cards with the uh hologram on NASCAR.

SPEAKER_04 36:07

You know a little bit about NASCAR?

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 36:11

I do. I know, I know some. You know some. Dina laughing at me.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:17

Who the greatest of all time in NASCAR?

SPEAKER_00 36:18

I mean, Dale Elnhardt. Dale Elhard. Number three, I give it to him because that was my era. You know, I I give it to his son because of just the name. Um, I don't really remember many other names.

SPEAKER_04 36:35

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Jeff Gordon. Jeff, I like Jeff. Uh you got a bunch of people.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

Uh I'm trying to think. So I got some of their calls.

SPEAKER_04 36:43

What's his name the King? Uh, what's his name? Uh 43. Richard Petty.

SPEAKER_00 36:47

Uh yeah, can't forget about Richard.

SPEAKER_04 36:49

It's only three that won six or more championships in NASCAR. Who? Dale, Richard Petty, and Jimmy Johnson.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

And there you go. So yeah, this man do be talking about all things, sports and non-sports. I um I went to NASCAR Tech. Okay. And um, by the time I was done with the NASCAR part, I was basically like pit crew certified. Dang. But here we are.

SPEAKER_04 37:15

He don't know sports though. Pit crew certified. Man, that that record time is like eight seconds. Eight seconds. I know you got mew, mew, mew.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Like you get out there with the knee pads, you literally have to slide. Because I was having to go to the passenger side of the car. So you think you gotta hold this tire. Um, you go over there, you gotta wait for the person to and you have to literally slap that tire on there in one motion, hold it, and then they go through and it's and you both have to get back to the other side. Then when you're holding it, you gotta make sure you got that line so it don't get caught up. So you gotta like snatch it, go to the other side, and you have they can't slap that tire on, so y'all have to be in sync. I don't know if you know that much about it.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

No, I know my dad watched it, but I didn't seen people get smacked by the cars, yes, all different types of things.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

You have to be in sync with the person carrying that tire. And if you accidentally miss, because the other thing is once you pull that trigger, there's no letting it go. No, there's no you gotta warn take it. You have to keep that thing rolling. You just doom doom doom to all five. Wow, and then you have to step back so they can pull the tire out, put the new tire on. No, I've I'm wrong. I if I remember correctly, you once you get done, you pull that tire off, you sit it over here. So it's like a motion. So once this tire comes off, that new tire is coming in. Then they hold it. So you come, you put it down, and you gotta get up. And like you say, get out the way before you get ran over.

unknown 38:52

Right.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Yeah, you get ran over, you get light on fire, the gas and all that type of stuff is different.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Dude, oh my god, with the gas can. They put water in that thing while we was in school. Wow. And if you miss, again, it's it's a one direct shot. If you missed, all that water is now on your pants, it's on your shirt, it's in your shoes, and we had to wear boots.

unknown 39:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

They told me to do that thing, I was the one holding it like this, and I missed, and all that water came out. I said, Ain't gonna get no gas today. But you know, you you have to do that, and um we learned how to you know put the the cars on the dyno. So we had to drive up and we learned how to operate the dyno and all that. So I guess I do know a little bit more than what I say.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

You you you know a lot, Tay. You know, a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

You know, I was um working with a race car team, um Bubba Wallace. Is that his last name?

SPEAKER_04 39:50

Michael Jordan's uh team.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

Yeah. So when they were doing the show on BET, I was there.

SPEAKER_04 39:57

Oh, for real? Yeah. Oh, I need to go search you up, man. I ain't on none of the episodes.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

But I was I was there being in the background somewhere or nothing. If I am, I missed it too. But you know, when they were gearing up with all those uh the those at that time, still to meet kids, you know, I was there working on their car. So, you know, it was him and I think it was another um black guy. I think it I remember at least two or three, you know, white females. Wow. And I will be there helping work on their cause, you know, and I ain't just talking about no him in the wrench. I'm like, you know, I gotta get up on it and, you know, maybe do something too. I gotta check their seat, uh the harness, you know, checking the tires, and we have the pit crew, you know, after they do they uh they uh they first laps before everything take off, you know, we jack it up and we check their tires and all that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:53

You got a sports background, Tay.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

Maybe I forgot all about that. Did it on some oh you did, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:00

Did you really tell?

SPEAKER_00 41:02

You said what?

SPEAKER_05 41:03

Did you really forget?

SPEAKER_00 41:04

I did. I did. Well, maybe I forgot for uh for for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_06 41:11

For a NASCAR.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

What?

SPEAKER_04 41:12

NAS a lot of people. Yeah, dang.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

Yeah. It was right down the street from school up there in Mooresville. Wow. Yeah. Which reminds me too. You know I rap, right? I did too. Yeah. I made a theme song for NASCAR Tech. Oh, for real? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, shout out to NASCAR Tech.

SPEAKER_04 41:34

This is this man talking about he done did everything. I done done a lot. Everything. I done a whole lot.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

So um we we push away from all the naysayers. We ain't think about nothing negative. You know, the typical story of the people that we expect to support, don't support. But to me, it sounds like you got a revelation of that real early and you were able to adapt to it. Um your support is there where it needs to be. Have you had any like quote unquote majorslash famous people reach out to you?

SPEAKER_04 42:20

Uh so the person, uh not I hadn't had a couple NBA players like that ain't play a whole lot of minutes, but I done had one uh like argue with me about uh All-Star Weekend and stuff like that. Uh what's his name? Chris Mashburn Jr. Uh uh somebody that also helped.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

Was that his name? Jamal Mashburn. I really think.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

I think it was it's one of them Mashburn Jr. though. Uh but I know Jeff T uh nephew, he really helped me a lot to show me which which camera to get. Because he he does all they film in uh what club 520 and stuff like that. So he told me what camera to actually buy and uh which way to go, what would be a great starter uh camera? So when I asked him that, and then y'all set it up and all that stuff. So yeah, y'all, y'all, y'all famous.

SPEAKER_00 43:15

So you hear that Shamark, we famous, dog. Yeah, y'all, damn. Man, but that's dope. Because I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_04 43:27

Um it's not too much, but I just asked him which camera to get. Uh, and yeah, his nephew helped me, uh, so for sure.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

Um you still in contact with him?

SPEAKER_04 43:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He he's a he's a cool dude. Um, he commented on my my um post today with the little fire emoji and stuff like that. So you know what I'm saying? I don't be expecting these people to do this all the time, but whenever they do it, they do it. You know what I'm saying? I respect the the the support, no matter what.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Oh yeah. Like um, I posted a clip from uh My my case that I got. And just like, yeah, this is old, but you know, I never released it. Or at least I didn't release it on that platform. But when I did, you know, they reached out and they posted it on their um on their page. Who? Uh Nanook. I reached out to Nanook Cases. Um I don't remember when it was, but when I reached out, I just did an invite to collaborate. Okay. And they shared it straight from there.

SPEAKER_04 44:30

Uh day by day. Uh he's a what is it? Uh uh Super Philadelphia Sixers fan. Uh I had an interview with him also. So it was a couple people. Uh I'm saying, like I don't really be expecting too many people to like famous people to hit me up so early, but if they do, they do, you know what I'm saying? So it is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

Well, I mean, what's early?

SPEAKER_04 44:52

I don't know. I still think I'm early on in what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

Uh I've only been doing it for a year. You do have the subscriber count, right? Yeah, it's all right.

SPEAKER_04 45:03

I'm always better. It can always be better. Always be better.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

You know? Um, and then the the amount of follows, they they keep growing. Yeah. So the reason I'm saying that is because we're on episode 45, 46 with this one, Dina. Do you remember? We never remember, but we in the 40s. And the reason I'm saying, you know, never discount the early stages because, like I said, we got these mics, and we were on episode 28, 32 somewhere in there. You know, they reached out in like November. Wow. And we, you know, we got the mics right before the live. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 45:45

These are beautiful too. I ain't gonna lie to you.

SPEAKER_00 45:47

Yeah, I appreciate them. Shout out to Mono for uh supplying these mics. We would like to thank y'all.

SPEAKER_06 45:53

Thank you, Mono.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Yeah, send me some, you know, right. Hey, holla at Ty. Um and then, you know, people are like, you know, man, I love what y'all are doing. And I'm like, we only episode 12. Well, what are we doing? You know, you you episode 13, you know, 14. What what you mean? Because I was gonna take a break. And my eyes watering, god dog. And we got to, you know, all that stuff, and I was like, But ain't it too soon for people to you're right, you know. But then you have other people, you know, guess that right there where you sit in there, like, man, don't discount it.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

Um, Terrence, Terrence McClure, he was like, Don't discount it. He's like, 'cause you you're doing something a lot of people ain't doing, and you think you've been doing this for a year. Most people stop episode two or three.

SPEAKER_04 46:47

I know. And that's why I I keep going, because that pops up in my head all the time. That uh after five, like you said, two, three, four, five, whatever, uh, people tend to start quitting. Uh they like us a lot. And I'm literally editing all this stuff by myself, uh, making uh what is it? Uh I don't know, just doing everything by myself. Uh so yeah, it's tiring. And I didn't post it 790 something videos on YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

So I don't think we got that many on Creative Roots, but um Shout out to Ty for putting in the extra work. Shorts included. Like it's yeah, yeah. So you got your four episodes, and then you have your your shorts and reels.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

Um And I be posting shorts for like two days after. So I after I'm finished with all the shorts from that video that I wanted to use, then I go to uh make a new video and stuff like that. So I try to give it like a two-day in between two days, something like that.

SPEAKER_00 47:48

So you know a little bit about uh social media strategy then.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

Like I told you, I rap, so I I I knew how people used to always be like, pay for promo, uh certain things. Uh so I I really get it now. Um I get it more than what I did then. I don't get it a hundred percent, but I get it more than what I did when I was making music and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

When you say pay for promo, what do you which aspect are you referring to?

SPEAKER_04 48:17

So as an artist from the artist standpoint, this is gonna be the artist tie coming out right now. So when I used to rap and uh have videos or when I drop albums and stuff like that, people be in your inbox, like uh uh we'll post this for$50 or$100 and all that stuff. Uh you know what I'm talking about. Uh was it uh it's just a bunch of those websites now.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Oh yeah, it's a lot of people that are in that space that are really just like we can help you. But the thing with me for me with that, it's not organic.

SPEAKER_03 48:55

It's not.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

You know, I I appreciate there being a massive amount of people that are promoting this, but those don't reflect, number one, my follow count, uh two, my subscriber count on YouTube, and three, they don't reflect real life. You know, when you and I've I've been in this space enough to where I can catch it. You got somebody posting two or three times on the same video, yeah. And it's like that could have all been one. Yeah, you don't respond. So even if you get 12,000 views, you didn't there there's no engagement there. Yeah. Because I know you didn't respond to all 10,000. No. Ain't no way in the world. Ain't nobody doing that. No. But after a while, that that's gonna get lost. Yeah. So yeah, I am totally against paid promotion.

SPEAKER_04 49:56

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

In that aspect.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

I asked somebody a couple weeks and no against y'all, because I know y'all could have came and took the photos. But I asked somebody on my birthday, uh See how he just threw that in there like that?

SPEAKER_00 50:06

I wasn't even gonna say nothing.

SPEAKER_04 50:08

Well, I asked somebody just for a couple photos. I said a couple, so it could have been two or three, whatever. I just wanted a couple photos. Yeah. I asked them, they said, yeah, it'd be$250. I was like, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I was like, next. So I hit my homeboy up that I already knew that can take photos. I just it was quality, but I just it was like, man, look, I'm not paying you$250 right now, just for three photos.

SPEAKER_00 50:35

Not for two or three. We can give you more than two or three. Yeah. For$250.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Yeah, that's insane. Right. I think everybody just money hungry these days instead of let me put in the work, let's help out together, let's let's grind, and you know what I'm saying? We'll be up there one day.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

But and I tell people, you know, we do a lot. I I really do a lot. Shamar does a lot. Dina is getting to the point where she's doing a lot.

SPEAKER_05 51:04

Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

You know, but the thing with me is like I said on the very first episode, if it's something that you love doing, then you would be willing to do it for free. That's your passion. And, you know, to piggyback on your statement, when you get to a point, you want to make money off your passion. And I understand that. Because when I hear 250, I'm like, that's it. They didn't say 500, they didn't say 800.

SPEAKER_04 51:33

Oh, wow. You know, so it is, it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:36

They didn't tell you, you know, what that 250 included. Like, you know, cause because when I hear that, oh, you want me to drive to you? That's that's gas. Then I have to scope out the place. Now I'm um uh scouting, you know. I got I gotta bring my lights, I gotta bring my camera. Okay. I might need a flash, I might need strobe, I might need to bring so now I'm piling all these things in my car. So I have to break them down, throw them in my car, come to your spot or wherever we're going, set that stuff back up. Then I have to take these pictures of you. And even if you say, hey, I only need two, I'm gonna take more than two. So now you got all of that that I gotta break all that stuff back down, put it back in my car, take it back to wherever it came from, set it back up. Now I have to edit these pictures. So when you say 250, I'm sitting here like, you should have given that man at 250.

SPEAKER_04 52:34

Nah, it was fine.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

But you know, you got you got a homeboy that was able to do it. So, you know, nothing wrong with that. You know. Definitely. But that that's just the price breakdown from somebody that's always behind the camera. Gotcha. You know, he's looking like, oh, that's all 250. And then I guess, you know, what's the skill set? You know, if you just started doing this, 250 is too much.

SPEAKER_04 52:59

And that's the thing. I feel like some people just come out the blue with these prices.

SPEAKER_00 53:03

Like, yeah, some people do.

SPEAKER_04 53:04

Instead of actually like being talented enough to charge those prices.

SPEAKER_00 53:09

Yes. Because you could have came in here. Shamar, correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't want to be misquoting, but we do. For$250, you could have came in here and got a plethora of photos taken in three different outfits, you know, three three sets of clothing and a bathroom provided. You know, you got a clothing rack to hang your stuff up on. You know, 250 could have gotten you a lot more. Yeah, you know, we don't have to drive to you, yeah, but we still gotta, you know, provide the space, we provide the lights, we provide everything. You just walk in the door with your outfits, you switch when you get done. We pose you. If you got poses that you want to do, boom. I mean, I again, Shamar, don't don't come for me. Dana don't come for me either. But you're gonna, you're not coming in here and getting five, ten photos, right? You know, from an hour, two-hour session. And again, don't quote that price with that time frame because Tay Do video is a completely separate charge for that. You know, but you know, to I don't know, I guess to help you see where we come from with that 250 price compared to if you just started and that's I'm not paying you. I wouldn't, I didn't even charge the most I ever charged when I first started my first year was$100. That was it. Right. And I'm like, you're basically only paying for me to sit down and edit. Yeah. You know, you didn't pay for my time at I have no skill set. You know, I haven't built that. Yeah. You know, but yeah, that's why I'm like, 215? Bruh. I never understand.

SPEAKER_04 54:49

She probably would have literally came in and took like three photos because I said a couple photos.

SPEAKER_00 54:53

And probably literally would have done that.

SPEAKER_04 54:56

So I was like, nah, I ain't hit nobody else no more. I'm hitting you, Tay, my homeboy, and you know what I'm saying? All that.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

So yeah, pass on them, you know. Just let me know. But um, I don't know how long we've been talking, Dina. We've been talking for a long time.

unknown 55:12

55 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

55 minutes. Oh, wow. Oh, we're right on time, then. We're almost right on time.

SPEAKER_04 55:16

I enjoyed this whole conversation for sure, though.

SPEAKER_00 55:19

Me too. Because I guess I do know a little bit more about sports than what I've been telling y'all.

SPEAKER_04 55:24

He's building an animal, man. He's building an animal. He's talking about he likes to hit people. He's building up.

SPEAKER_00 55:29

You know, get out there and run. We got a big hill. And I bet y'all run up the hill, run down the hill five times a day. You good. Well, you know, run up five, come down five.

SPEAKER_04 55:38

He's looking at Ray Lewis clips. Oh man. What you mean? Yeah. Yeah. What you building, man. Hey, man. You said what?

SPEAKER_00 55:46

A truck. Yeah. You seen Jacob's eyes.

SPEAKER_05 55:51

You know, he he I think that was Ray Lewis's nickname, wasn't it? The truck or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 55:57

Yeah, he said he liked to hit people too. So they say they talk like that. You got something wrong. I like to hit people.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

So yeah, you know, I I want my son. I tell myself, if you gonna play, play. Yeah. If this is what you want to do, you can't get to the NFL, you know, just well, you know, I guess, you know, it's whatever. Like, no, coach, yeah. I can take them. Yeah. Put them in a game. You're not gonna have the biggest player on the team. Ain't nobody else coming your way. Now you gotta go chase them, but hey, you gotta run. Get them. Right. Get them. And then what DNA said.

SPEAKER_04 56:34

Get them. I had a boy training an animal.

SPEAKER_00 56:37

I'm working on it. I'm working on it. You know. So, um, Dino, what's the last question we do? I got it. Okay. She gave it a look like, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_06 56:49

I was trying to go in.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

Oh, okay. So everything that you've done, the accolades, the the assistance, the support, you know, clearing your mind of the naysayers, knowing what you know, and being able to say, I see this being something that I can over time start monetizing. What advice would you give to another creator that's also having the same mindset?

SPEAKER_04 57:21

And I'm not gonna just all right, so in the beginning, go as hard as you can, like every day, even if you feel like the video don't look as clear or whatever like that. I got a lot of videos in the beginning, and yes, you came over there and edited and adjusted, but a lot of them, it's not as clear. You go back and look at them, they not as don't try to be perfect. That's all I'm gonna say. Don't try to be too perfect, like drop this content, just drop it, be consistent uh every day. Uh I know you gotta take some mental breaks, but in the beginning, if you really want this and you're trying to build them subscribers and all that, you have to go hard early on. Like you have to very early. Like, you have to go hard.

SPEAKER_00 58:03

Go hard and put it out.

SPEAKER_03 58:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

Regardless of how you feel about it. Look, don't be a perfectionist. Yeah. Because if you're trying to be a perfectionist, you're not really going as hard as you think you are.

SPEAKER_04 58:16

And look, it's a podcast. We're talking. You know what I'm saying? You're gonna have talking. You're gonna have little phone mic drop or something like that. You're gonna have certain things like that. It's it's okay. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 58:27

Yeah, and it's rare to have watch a podcast when they talk to people off camera, like I do. You know, is it's people want things to be so structured, but even like um Maya Lamy said, she's like, I might wake up in the morning with a thought or something to say, I still got crust in my eyes, and I ain't brushed my teeth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 58:48

I didn't show plenty of podcasts, you know. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 58:51

Uh-huh. You know, she still got the bonnet on, but she got a thought, she got a recorded. She like, because by the time you walk in the bathroom, you take care of yourself, you get yourself ready, you get yourself adjusted, camera ready, it's it's a wrap. Yeah. You don't have that same thought. No. You you don't you're not processing it the same way. Your emotion about that thing is not gonna come out the same way. Just press record.

SPEAKER_04 59:18

Yeah, that's he's exactly right. Just do it. Like just do it. Just do it. It does not have to be perfect at all. It's you're just talking. You're just talking.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

And and another thing too, you know, um Kev on stage and a bunch of other people have said it. Most people are watching your content on the toilet. Yeah. Which means they own their phone. Or at work, listening with headphones on. Yeah, they listen at work. You know, even even listening to the podcast while you're driving. You know, you don't have to see it. Now, don't discount the visual aspect and feel you can just leave this raggedy looking video for years. That's not what I'm saying. You gotta get better, you gotta get better at the camera visually to improve because there's gonna be a point where people really are stopping to watch and not just listen.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

You know, like I know here, people sometimes you have to watch what's going on. Yeah, you know, there's not dead silence just because Tay don't know what to say next and the guests ain't talking. Tay might be looking off camera trying to figure out what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:21

You know, Tay might be looking at Dina, I might be looking at Shamar. You know, the episode with Jonathan a couple weeks ago, you know, when one of his guests was dropping his phone, I was like, and there he go, dropping that phone again. And he like, my bad. In the background, I'm like, bro, you good, you good, but yeah, don't hold that phone.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:42

Aware. Just like, don't be doing it on purpose.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:46

Like, don't don't do certain things. Okay, there are some people that do this for um attention. Yeah. And when I say that is like, you know, they're they are um intentionally doing something. I can't remember what they call that in the gaming community. Like, it's like, man, I wonder if I can go across this bridge without dying. But you know if you go across that bridge, it's the wrong way. It's designed in the game for you to not make it across that bridge. Or it's like, oh, I wonder if in this game, if it'll let you run across the edge of this cliff without falling off. Gamers know it, and it's like, hey, well, let's see what happens. Oh, snap. Then it fell off the cliff. Because it's like one of those don't do it type things, but people expect you to do it. You know, I can't remember what it's called, but they call it they call it something. Um bait clipping, clip bait baiting, uh, something like whatever it is.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:42

I know what you're talking about, yeah. Clipping, bait clipping, uh whatever it is. I'm getting old too. So it's one of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:49

You know, so I'm like, you don't necessarily have to do that, but I know for me too, and I've said this before. Um, I listened to one or two people, and they were like, speak in um clips. So it's like when you speak, whatever you speak, think about would this be something that can be turned into a clip later on? You know, of course, everything that you say is not gonna turn into a clip, but keeping that mentality as you speak, when you're having a conversation in general, you know, like they will at one point, you know, Nigel was like table dropping gems. I'm like, I'm just talking. Yeah, I'm just talking, you know, I'm not trying to drop no gems, I'm not trying to be super educational, but I know I am, you know, you like, you know, I'm just naturally funny. I'm like, most of the time I'm not trying to be funny, it just happens. You're just naturally funny, man. Just natural, you know. And you know, they people be like, you and Shamar always arguing. I'm like, because I know what to say to get you know um conversational pieces from Shamar back there. Right, you know, I'd be like, Shamar, you ain't got nothing to say. Why are you bothering me? I'm just sitting here watching and enjoying the conversation, you know. But you know, go from the beginning. If this is truly something you want to do, do it. Don't focus so hard on the quality. However, audio is definitely more important than video, no matter how clean that video is. If you sound like this the whole doggone time, it's not gonna work. And I don't even know how that's gonna sound when I actually edit the audio for this, but y'all understand my point. Stop putting out that raggedy audio. Put out that raggedy video because most people don't listen. Um, but yeah, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:45

Some people be trying to put videos out from like, what is it, iPhone 4s and stuff like that. I'd be like, bro. Like, nah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:56

I mean, if that's all you got.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:57

Yeah, I true.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:58

I understand what you're saying. But first of all, why do you still have an iPhone 4? You know, there no, I don't think anybody should have anything less than at this point an iPhone. I'll say an iPhone 8. Yeah. Anything less than an iPhone 8, just stop.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:13

Use your phone, use your lighting right. You know, because almost every phone in the last five years or so, every phone does 4K 30. It sure do. It sure do.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:27

And you're teaching me a lot about this lighting too. I'm starting to see what you're saying. Like, if you had that adjusted right, you get the best quality out of it for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:35

But so I mean, these two lights, they're right above our heads, but they're aimed down. That instantly cancels the shadow going straight back. Um, they make my big old forehead a little shiny too, you know. And then it being that high, unless I raise my head, there's really no lens glare. Dina, am I lying? Am I right? Lens glare? No lens glare.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:00

Oh, your glasses or your head.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:01

Oh, my glasses.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:03

No lit no lens glare? But I yeah, it's right here. When you set up and stuff like that. I just taught y'all something else. Yeah. Catch that. So let the people know where they can find you.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:18

Uh so I'm on uh Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube. It's all TI Talks Podcast One. So it's at T Y T A L K S Podcast One. So the number one, not spelled out.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:36

So you've been watching the episodes, so you know this segment, this this whole section.

unknown 1:05:44

Oh God.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:44

Did you have a question that you would like to ask? A statement, a comment you would like to make? Boy, he digging.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:58

Nah, I ain't got I ain't gonna say nothing crazy. I give him and his and Shamar so much props. That's that's that's pretty much all I got. I know I say it so much, so I'm gonna just keep it simple.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:12

Well say thank you. Say thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:18

She said say thank you. Just say thank you. Say thank you. No, for real.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:23

I know I say it a lot, but if it wasn't for them coming in there and pressing something on my camera or something, I would not know anything. So I appreciate you, man. For real.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

I mean, we appreciate you.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:33

Right. All the simple things like when you told me, like when I was asking about editing uh and all that different stuff, you like it's a podcast. You don't gotta do too much. Right. And then I took that from there.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:44

So it's a podcast. We're talking about podcasting.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:48

It should be natural. Podcasting. It should be natural. It's not a movie, it's a podcast. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:54

You know, now if you want it scripted, need a scripting, you know, like if you're by yourself and you just want to read a script, there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:02

If you want to have your talking points, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I ask the same three questions and then I open the floor for a question to be asked. It's the same process, but I tell everybody you come here, we at your favorite cousin's house, number one. Shout out to Charlotte Podcast Studio again. I would like to thank us. Go ahead, Dina, because I seen you.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:24

I would like to thank us.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:26

See. And we make it very inviting from the from before you get here. I ask the same three questions, but it's also structured to where no matter what those three qu how those three questions are asked, you make the conversation. You determine how long we're here. You know, and again, no, no disrespect or no shots at anybody's episode that's been, you know, less than 45 minutes. But if you're getting in and you're dropping a lot of gems, and I can't really ask nothing, I'm just sitting in awe of what took place. Okay. I got one question for you. Go ahead. What makes you keep doing this? If Shamar was here, he would say, Shamar. But that that's that's part of it. The reason why I keep going is just because this is something that I like to do. I like talking to people, I like knowing about their journey, their story. I'm a storyteller. You know, I'm working on three short films at the same time. One is done, but I still have the other two to do. I'm a storyteller and I like to hear stories. And then I also look at this too like this is like um MTV behind the music. You know, you don't really hear anything about people, famous people, until they are on a show like that. Or they're in an interview. Well, I don't call these interviews, you know, these are conversations. But I keep going because I just love to hear people's story, where they come from, where they're working towards getting to, um, and where they are.

unknown 1:09:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:08

You know, and then letting other people know that, you know, there's more than just what you see from famous people that's out there, you know, things that are taking place, things that are going on, you know, locally. You know, Charlotte, Concord, Canapolis, you know, Gastonia, all these surrounding cities, people are coming from those cities here. You know, two of the ladies from February, they came from Greensboro. Greensboro. You know. So we we get a a plethora of people. You know, we've had people fly in. Wow. You know, so it's like just knowing there are people out there that are grinding, that are not high on a totem pole, and you know, uh, what's the word? Famous. But we all here, we all do something different, you know, and even if we do the same thing, we also got a story.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:07

True.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:08

So that's why I keep doing this. And Shamar.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:12

He's not gonna let you stop.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:14

And Trail, because those were the two people that I was like, man, I'm about, you know, after this episode, I'm taking a break. I was like, nah, yeah, you can't take no break. So I keep going.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:25

And this, I wouldn't really say that I had a week break because I shot a video. Well, I dropped a video early on this week, and then I had to do a podcast yesterday, and then I'm here with y'all. So it really ain't no break, but it feels like a break.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:36

I mean, when you when you take that mental health break, you you need a reset. Everybody needs to reset.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:44

You can tell when you need to just uh let me miss a lot right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:48

So that's why now um everybody knows that we pre-record, right? Yeah, but now I've gotten to the point where if I can't, I can I'll record everybody the same day or the same weekend. You know, um, I'm working on theming certain months this year. Um, which reminds me, we're going live. What's the date, Dina? Oh shoot. Dina. March 28th. Yeah, it's the last day of the month. Don't make no sense. He knows when March 28th.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:20

We are live.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:22

One to who?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:25

You keep doing this.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:26

You remember the time? I do. Hold on. Listen here. March 8th, we're going live. Make sure y'all are here with us. Um I think it's one to three or something like that. 12 to 12. One to four. One to four, twelve. We'll let y'all know. Yes, Tay. We'll let y'all know.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:42

Yeah, one of good no, don't get no wrong. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:46

Listen, by the time this comes out, you might have seen a flyer or something flying around already. So y'all should already know. But yeah. You have anything for Ty, Dina?

SPEAKER_06 1:11:57

No, I don't, but just keep going. That would be my what I would have to say to you. Keep going.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:03

Definitely. I ain't stopping. I ain't stopping at all. And if I stop, y'all come knock at my door and drag me out of the house.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:11

But you know why? Why we just dismiss. So listen, y'all. Ty, I appreciate you coming out here, having a conversation. Yeah. You know, talking to us. Um appreciate you reaching out and always, you know, returning the support. And, you know, being one of those people that are always there, um helping, support, pushing, you know, the podcast, pushing the mission, pushing everything that we do. And you know, we got you. You know, we can talk about.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:46

I appreciate you, bro. I really appreciate y'all. Like 100%. Y'all will never be forgotten, ever.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:53

You hear that, Shamar? We. We. It's we this time. See? I do speak French. But listen, y'all. Thank y'all for tuning in to another episode of Creative Roots Podcast. We'll see soon become visions grown. I would like to give a shout out to Alan Lux Studio, Charlotte Podcast Studio, and Artbox Charlotte. And Mono. Cause, you know, holler at Ty, because he he wants some of these mics.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:17

They're beautiful. I need these. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:19

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:20

At Ty Talks Podcast One Mono.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:22

Yeah, he's right there. You know. So that's it for this episode, and we will catch y'all next week. Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:32

My bad. I'm sorry. Come here.