The Other Half Podcast
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The Other Half Podcast
Navigating Tattoos in the Workplace, Cheaters & Breaking Traditional Barriers FT. Dre
A candid conversation unfolds as The Other Half Podcast welcomes Andre Hernandez, bringing fresh perspectives on tattoos in professional environments. The episode opens with a lighthearted debate about whether anyone would fly someone out for a second date—unanimously deemed too expensive and risky by all parties.
The discussion takes a vulnerable turn when the hosts and guest share personal experiences with infidelity. Andre reflects on discovering his ex with a coworker, while Erika acknowledges being cheated on in every relationship except her current one. Beyond the pain, they explore how these experiences build character and enhance one's ability to recognize red flags.
Andre's journey from school counselor to aspiring police officer forms the heart of the episode. His candid explanation of leaving education for better financial opportunities resonates with anyone who's faced similar career crossroads. "I'm still too hungry and motivated to just stop at education," he explains, revealing his ambition to eventually become a school resource officer where his mental health background would prove invaluable.
Cultural upbringings become a fascinating point of comparison when Andre discusses his Filipino household, challenging stereotypes about strict Asian parenting. This contrasts with Erika's less structured Hispanic upbringing, sparking a broader conversation about how cultural backgrounds shape our development.
The conversation shifts to lighter territory with their dream dinner guests and Andre's surprising past as a New Balance-sponsored soccer player. Full of authentic moments and meaningful insights, this episode delivers genuine conversation that feels like catching up with friends.
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Have you ever cheated or been cheated on? If so, what happened?
Speaker 2:That's a long story, you want to go first.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you want to go first. Who?
Speaker 2:Erica, bring us in. Erica, bring us in. What do you mean? Bring us in, Erica?
Speaker 1:Intro hey guys, what do you mean?
Speaker 2:Bring us in Erica.
Speaker 1:Intro hey guys, we're back With another podcast.
Speaker 2:Number three.
Speaker 1:Number three we have a special guest. Let's hear that intro girl what?
Speaker 2:up Let us hear that intro. We need an intro.
Speaker 1:I don't have an intro.
Speaker 2:Coming to the stage, we got the buffest Filipino. I know A WWE enthusiast. Come on man. Come on man. Used to be a counselor, now he's a security guard, so he'll throw you out of school in a heartbeat, andre.
Speaker 3:Hernandez, how's it going? The?
Speaker 4:crowd goes wild. I'm good. I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 2:Hold on. We got a crowd over here, you got a sound on. Oh, that's the wrong one, huh no that wasn't, that was kind of weak, that's the crowd. There you go, had to find it. Welcome to the podcast. Appreciate it, man.
Speaker 4:Welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you having me on here this your first podcast. Yeah, if you stutter, it's alright. Alright If you mess up, it's all good.
Speaker 2:Derek can mess up all the time, so it's cool.
Speaker 4:It's all good.
Speaker 1:No, I don't, I'm a natural.
Speaker 2:Alright, we got our icebreakers Powered by Hella. Awkward, you know, it's black-owned, asian-owned, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Minority-owned.
Speaker 3:We got sponsors? No, not yet.
Speaker 1:Oh, not yet. Just shout them out, man, just showing them All right, ready, mm-hmm, let's do this first one. I have two cards today.
Speaker 3:Uh-oh, because I want to do something a little different.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got an extra card, All right. Are you letting someone fly out all expenses paid on the second date?
Speaker 4:Am I letting somebody fly out All?
Speaker 1:expenses paid on the second date.
Speaker 4:Hell no Nah.
Speaker 2:I can't do. It 't why I got trust issues.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you gotta, you gotta trust them, bro, like second date I don't know about that even it's all paid. I don't know. I like to slow play, well I guess.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing if if you make it past the first date, then I know you're worth a second date a lot of times but it depends on the situation, right are we talking? Are we actually?
Speaker 1:I would say you're talking, you like the vibe, you like them.
Speaker 2:No red flags yet I might, yet all expenses paid, is crazy though that is because that means, because I'm that you're paying for them right, that means you're paying for everything.
Speaker 1:That would be a no for me. Dang Right away.
Speaker 2:Nope, you're paying for everything.
Speaker 4:Nope, no no.
Speaker 2:It's too expensive. You're going to have to do something.
Speaker 4:It's too expensive, I can't do it.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to pay for the meals. Pay for the Uber.
Speaker 1:Pay for something I feel like I did that with you.
Speaker 2:You did that with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, you lived down the highway.
Speaker 2:That doesn't matter she ain't right, she's flying me off Anytime. We went out to eat. Remember that time I came to get you.
Speaker 3:Remember that time I bought you that $200 jacket yeah pulled up in an SRT Pulled up in an SRT Cor Corvette. Oh my gosh At.
Speaker 4:Zoomies, that's crazy. Where's the love?
Speaker 2:None, none, you feel me?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went up to the cashier and they asked us oh, are y'all together, Y'all dating?
Speaker 2:Right away, he said nah. We just friends.
Speaker 1:Nah, we just friends, we didn't know at the time Exactly True.
Speaker 4:See you, erica Hayden. Bro, you changed your answer. I still stick to no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I probably. I say no, I'm not gonna go To something. A lot better In my opinion. Yeah, it's too expensive, it's crazy yeah it's crazy.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 4:People really do do that, though, yeah, I know Facts and they be getting their heart broken and on top of that, women be getting Flown out a lot. But no man. It's.
Speaker 1:But would I get flown out? Yeah, by who? No, I'm saying if somebody wanted to do that for me.
Speaker 3:I would probably accept it.
Speaker 2:You hear this.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Next question. Nothing expected, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Okay, the second one is this one is a little, you know, I think everybody can relate have you ever cheated or been cheated on?
Speaker 1:if so, what happened? That's a long story, you right, oh yeah, you want to go first. Who?
Speaker 2:andre, you go first.
Speaker 4:You are yes oh yeah, um, have I ever cheated? No, have ever been cheated on. Yes, most recently, shoot. Y'all know the story.
Speaker 2:That's my god sum it up, just sum it up, real, real, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh basically I was with my partner, my ex, for about a year, year and a half okay and long story short.
Speaker 4:her and you know a co-worker of hers that you know just so happened she was friendly with and we don't have to go to the solicitor. Yeah, it got a little too friendly. And to sum it up, I mean- Erica set us up, didn't she? She got a whole family and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Dang. No, because yours is more wild to me. Which one you know? The one that's got the little proof that wasn't getting cheated on. She was just crazy. Oh, that's true, that was just a lie.
Speaker 2:I got cheated on. I was at lunch at work, right, and you know the ex, we were on a I guess on a break, but then we were. I'm thinking we're back together. And then I look on her instagram and she got a whole boyfriend and all that. You know it'd be like this one. So sometimes you gotta take a hell to find treasure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 4:Maybe it was a lack of communication, maybe it wasn't maybe she was just foul, that's true, but all men gotta go through it though no, you don't have to, but it does.
Speaker 2:It builds character. It builds character For sure. I'll say that.
Speaker 3:In what way.
Speaker 2:You need to have your canon moment, because I know what I don't want to deal with. I can spot a red flag now.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know.
Speaker 4:Facts no, he's still in the booty now.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you just gotta let karma come around.
Speaker 4:That is true. Now you look like you're on vacation in Cuba.
Speaker 2:Hold on man.
Speaker 1:Now look at you. Where's your fedora at? He has one. Oh, you got one, that's funny. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Y'all do me.
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 1:I've been cheated on and I don't know why I feel like most women have yeah, everybody has no, but honestly, I just think, if you allow it the first time, like it happened to me the first time, and then I took them back, it happened again. It was like a you know, they don't respect you if you let them. That's's why you know, you just don't allow it. Sometimes you can't help that it happens. People are just dirty and grimy, you know. But yes, I have been cheated on every single relationship Except this one.
Speaker 2:Nah that's good, I was about to say I was about to say. Anyways, we're going to move on. Erica said that's a bad question, dog.
Speaker 1:If you have been cheated on or if you've cheated, tell us what happened In the comments.
Speaker 2:Facts, facts we wanna know.
Speaker 1:Also, would you ever Fly somebody out? All expenses paid, no Vice versa no.
Speaker 3:I got bills to pay.
Speaker 2:It's dudes that do that, though, I know Alright, so look, today's topic is Tattoos in the workplace.
Speaker 3:Mmm, mmm, all right so look, today's topic is tattoos in the workplace. So those of you who know Andre on the game, we call him Dre. You feel me, I'm feeling.
Speaker 2:Uzi or whatever you want to call him. You feel me? That's his gamer tag by the way. You working in a school, you got tattoos, which is crazy because we didn't grow up with teachers with tattoos or anyone at the school had tattoos like that. So how is that?
Speaker 4:A lot of people, when they first see me, they're very kind of not taken aback in a negative way, but they're more like, oh, you're tatted, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I am, and that doesn't you, you know, change the fact that I can do the job well you know, facts. So I'm like my parents. You know, obviously is like that's my character. This is represents me, right um I. I know what I'm capable of.
Speaker 4:I know what I'm able to put on the table to help my co-workers or know my team become more efficient, and so I think it just adds another layer to me, because they see me and they're like, oh well, he sticks out.
Speaker 2:So that boy, he got layers.
Speaker 1:I got layers, you feel me you need a one right here.
Speaker 4:I know I should get a leg one, but you know taxes are expensive.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna lie to you, I'm one of the legs, Lee, but I don't want. My upper leg is the most sensitive part. Oh, really I'm not doing that yeah.
Speaker 4:I thought about it, but I'm like, if I do have extra bread, I feel like right now I'm just done, just because.
Speaker 2:I got everything that I needed, yeah.
Speaker 4:So I'm like, if I'm going to get another tattoo, I'm going back to Iowa to get tattooed by my artist self, for sure.
Speaker 1:Okay yeah, my artist self for sure?
Speaker 4:okay, yeah, for sure. Have you ever had a tap out? Have you heard of that? Yeah, like I just learned about painful too painful, like basically.
Speaker 1:I think it's like you get tatted until you can't take it anymore. Uh, you can get as many tattoos as you want. I've never had that before no, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:I just learned about that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, see some people got too much money, they be doing all that. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not.
Speaker 3:No, it's completely free, it's free, it's free.
Speaker 1:But you just they do it in uh dallas. I have a friend that goes and gets it done.
Speaker 4:It's free my god that's crazy, yeah I don't know, I see. If I'm putting stuff on my body, I want it to have meaning. I don't want just anything random on my body Because like yeah, I feel like your skin, I mean your body, is like a canvas, right? So like I want to put something meaningful on there rather than something random, you know.
Speaker 2:So what about that Scooby-Doo on your back?
Speaker 4:Oh man, that's a different story Really.
Speaker 2:Nah, I just want to. For me, I never had a job where, no, I did. I never had a job where? No, I did, I did so. I was working at Verizon in barber school and when we started it was very like dress up shirt dress pants, all that.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dress shoes, but eventually they were like oh you can wear jeans and you can let your tattoo show. So, because of my arm tattoo, I had a long sleeve, but then they switched to policy, yeah. And I was like, hey, can I get a t-shirt? And they was like, nah, nah, you good, just keep the long sleeve, dog. And I was like, dang, you're going to switch to policy and not get a window t-shirt exactly, but it did me dirty.
Speaker 1:I just feel like it's crazy that we're in 2025 and it's even a thing yeah.
Speaker 4:I feel like it's very surprising when you meet somebody that has no tattoos.
Speaker 2:I feel like everybody has at least one, even one, just one minor, small one or you got something, but you haven't had to deal with this because your tattoo isn't really like Mine's between my fingers.
Speaker 1:But that has been a thing where they took, like when I went to the bank, it had to be hidden.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Mine's's hidden. But I have always wanted, like hand tattoos. Now I can, because I don't, I won't be in a different profession yeah but yeah, I want like hand tattoos, kind of like a hannah, but yeah kind of like drace yeah, no, he ain't gonna.
Speaker 2:They ain't real tattoos.
Speaker 1:And then I want a rose, one down my arm, it's so expensive though.
Speaker 4:It is.
Speaker 1:It's the only reason why I haven't done it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get a portrait of Erica on my nipple.
Speaker 1:We should go to Vegas and get one there.
Speaker 2:You seen on TikTok they got one where it's like $10 for a small one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're small Like these.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you can't get more than one, then huh.
Speaker 3:You can't. Oh, you should go do that.
Speaker 2:That'd be fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, erica's never been to.
Speaker 2:Vegas, so I gotta take her.
Speaker 1:Oh really no, I've never actually been Like in Vegas.
Speaker 4:I've only been there To like say I'm going there next month you are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wrestlemania, wwe See that leads to the next question. Matter of fact, let me check my question because I'm going to make sure I get it right. Yeah, how is life being a WWE influencer? Because he watched WWE steal, even though it's… it's popping, you know it's popping.
Speaker 4:It's become a mainstream again. It is A lot of people would be posting John Cena turned heel the Rock. It's just huge. No, it's fun. I like being able to showcase what I've always liked. I feel like for the longest time I kind of was like I'm not going to put that so public Because I'm like oh, I'm kind of embarrassed.
Speaker 3:It's professional wrestling.
Speaker 4:But I'm like, no, I like what I like, and I know there's other people out there that like what I like. I know there's other people out there that like what I like, and so I'm like no, I'm going to just do me and post what I want to post, and since then I've posted a few videos that have gone viral and whatnot. I ain't going to lie.
Speaker 2:I went through your comments one time. It was no bad energy, nothing negative.
Speaker 1:I was like what I know. There's a whole community out there.
Speaker 4:See what happens when you do just what you like, exactly, exactly. You find other people and you know, I've been to a few shows where you know it's nothing but pods of energy. Honestly, the community is awesome, so I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Man, that boy out here in the community, I know you rich.
Speaker 1:I know I feel like you're so active.
Speaker 2:Andre done, gone viral in all his accounts if you like, bro.
Speaker 4:No facts I have. When he first got out here, I met him.
Speaker 2:He's like yeah, man, I'm an influencer for counselors.
Speaker 4:I was like what yeah man?
Speaker 2:Then you go through his page. They got a little wild man. When you go too deep in them comments, I know they get a little wild.
Speaker 4:People just be blunt, yeah, just to say the least, and I'm like I wouldn't be that blunt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 1:That's cool though.
Speaker 2:Hey. So let me ask you this how was it growing up in an Asian household? Because you know they have a what's the word?
Speaker 1:Is it like stigmatized? They got like a stereotype, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2:Of, like all Asian parents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I have Asian friends too.
Speaker 2:Not angry, but like super strict and stuff like that. So how was that?
Speaker 4:So my parents, they were never really like strict.
Speaker 2:You never got beat.
Speaker 4:Look, I got my butt whooped. You know what I'm saying If I started acting up, but I'm glad, I'm honestly, I'm appreciative of the way that I was able to grow up. Uh, my parents were never like, oh, like, you can't do this, this and this, but I yet still had the freedom.
Speaker 4:they trusted me to do what I want, because they wanted me to experience life you know, and uh, I'm grateful for them just because of the fact that, yeah, like you know, they've been able to help raise me and really give me a good perspective on what life is about so yeah, I wasn't. It wasn't like, oh, like it's so strict now I'm gonna become a rebellious now that I'm out of the house on 2018.
Speaker 1:But yeah, there's a difference yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So like they gave me some leeway, but also they were like yo, like you get your head structure?
Speaker 2:yeah, I had structure, yes, it was organized so yeah, erica, erica, uh, she was telling me how some some people say they get beat at home. Yeah, I had some parents streak.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a couple uh vietnamese friends though vietnamese sorry my knees vietnamese, whatever you just said it and shut up and basically they would tell me how they would get beat just for, like, not having A's. If they had a, b, they would get beat, that's crazy and like I mean abuse. Like she literally told me yeah, I was, yeah, I was abused, that's normal. Like getting burnt, like literally get her mom would get like a lighter and just like burn her.
Speaker 3:Damn.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That wasn't like. It wasn't like that for me.
Speaker 1:She need me to call CBS no.
Speaker 2:I'll call CBS boy.
Speaker 1:Dang. That's crazy. No, I think there's a difference. I think that maybe I think a lot of Asian households have a lot of structure. Yeah, I also feel like you guys are really good with finances for the most part.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say this though, filipinos, y'all sound like Y'all just had a regular upbringing, some of y'all crazy.
Speaker 3:I know my boy Jazz.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, my boy Jazz Crazy. He built different Facts. He built different Jazz is cool, though. Shout out Jazz.
Speaker 2:Shout out to Jazz, but Dang, I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1:You think it's different than how you were raised In a black household.
Speaker 2:Like Asians. Yeah, oh yeah, is there structure, I feel like other races, are more family-oriented Of course there's structure, but I feel like in the black community it's a little more relaxed now. It's not as strict as my mom. More relaxed now, it's not as strict as my mom. The way she raised me and the way she's raising my siblings is two completely different things. But I understand that.
Speaker 4:She's older now, she's grown and she's at a different point in her life than she was when she had me, but let me counter it with this, though See how some of these kids are being raised nowadays.
Speaker 2:You see it firsthand, you're looking at school dude.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, he's all I see it in your house.
Speaker 4:I'm like you guys are fine, but not some like. It's just crazy to me that some of these kids have the audacity to be real up and confronted with you and be disrespectful and I'm like that would have never flown, like at all and I graduated not long 10 years ago, 2015 in high school young 2015 erica when you graduate you know how old I am yeah, I was born in 88, okay well, it would have been 06 damn.
Speaker 3:Damn, I didn't graduate actually until 2019. I had a rough life. We made it, though.
Speaker 1:One day we're going to talk about my story and my life, why it's the way it is. I didn't really start living until I was like 25.
Speaker 2:That's when you met me.
Speaker 1:I met you when I was 26.
Speaker 2:I was the start of your life for real. It's crazy, huh? I met you when I was 26.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was the start of your life, for real it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Huh, it's cool. No big deal. No big deal.
Speaker 3:Dang yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, but look, I feel like, are your parents like Straight from the Philippines, or?
Speaker 3:no, yep, they are Yep.
Speaker 2:First generation, first generation, man Damn. So when they came over here, did they have to get like a visa and all that Yep had?
Speaker 4:to do all that, and then they got citizenship.
Speaker 3:Yep, that's what's up.
Speaker 4:Yep, that's what's up.
Speaker 1:And then they had you here.
Speaker 4:Yep In Iowa, obviously.
Speaker 1:Okay, but In the.
Speaker 4:US. Yep, my mom. She immigrated. She was the first one to immigrate and then she bounced around Because she worked in the lab for, obviously in the medical field. She was first living out in LA and then lived in Houston for a little bit. It's kind of like travel nursing.
Speaker 3:She was able to travel.
Speaker 4:Then she ended up in Iowa. That's when my dad finished school. That's when he flew out. That's where they pretty much started their lives together.
Speaker 2:They already knew each other, like they were already together.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when she was doing all this over here. Yeah, he was finished up school.
Speaker 2:So who's older, your mom or your dad? My dad Dang. Yep, that's crazy. Yep, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I feel like I've heard the story before.
Speaker 2:Have you One of my friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you, it's one of my friends uh, yeah, danielle, that's how her parents met. Her dad was a traveling nurse or something, but no his parents were already together.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah that's cool don't know nothing about that girl, yeah they was married there was.
Speaker 4:They got married in the philippines and then they split because obviously she had to go, she was done, she had to work, want to come to the United States, and then Maybe Filipino parents, just nicer, probably Y'all ain't like regular Asians, man, we different, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I ain't gonna lie to you. I had a. I got an Asian dude I cut. He's hilarious, he's like yeah, man, I'm dead inside, but he to.
Speaker 3:Nothing.
Speaker 1:I told you yeah, I wonder what it is or why. I think it's just passed down.
Speaker 4:I think it's just the norm, it's their norm.
Speaker 1:But yeah, but then you would think they would grow up and be rebellious. Yeah, I know I was. I wasn't raised in the Asian home.
Speaker 2:That's because you you're Mexican, y'all crazy. It's different. That it's different. That's different. Y'all are crazy, how Y'all just are. Everyone knows Mexican women are the wild right. First of all, yeah, give us an explanation.
Speaker 1:It's because you know what, In Mexican households I feel like the dad. I didn't have a dad growing up, by the way y'all, so I was raised by my mom my whole life. But normally in a regular Hispanic household the dad is always at work, Always. It's kind of like he's there but he's not there, Right, and the mom is usually around. But the mom our moms are like like. My mom, honestly, was not. She was so busy working and going to school. She didn't know what thing I was doing. She assumed she was so busy working and going to school.
Speaker 3:She didn't know what thing I was doing.
Speaker 1:She assumed. But I just feel like they're not very involved because they're so out of tune of what's going on.
Speaker 2:You was out in them streets acting a fool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was out at like clubs by like 15, 16.
Speaker 3:I was drinking by the time I was 16.
Speaker 1:And I was just out because I didn't have a dad to lay it down, right, I don't have anybody to really like put me in place. My mom was working, going to school. She didn't have time for that, so no one was really around. Yeah, I think it's different. I just feel like that's normal in a Hispanic family, though, if you think about it, that's why a lot of Hispanic women get pregnant really young. That's just my opinion. There's just no real structure at all.
Speaker 2:Your mic they can hear me, y'all can hear me, I know that's just what I think traditionally Hispanic women are, just you know what are you talking about? We're just spicy you can't handle the heat, stay out the kitchen, okay. I'm gonna tell you right now, dog Andre, you dated a Hispanic woman yeah it was rough, huh yeah, that's, yes, yeah, that's a yes, okay, but like
Speaker 1:full hispanic or like she was mexican.
Speaker 4:This is back in iowa. It wasn't long, but it wasn't long.
Speaker 2:We're talking about iowa. Yeah, hold on man, hold on man, it's still mexican.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there's a big, there's an avi hispanic mean?
Speaker 1:what are y'all trying to say when you from it?
Speaker 2:is.
Speaker 4:Where I'm from it ain't none. Well, obviously I grew up in a very predominantly white community, but then when I moved out and then lived up in the central part of Iowa, the capital, that's when it became more diverse. Actually it really became more diverse when I went to college honestly, that boy was in college.
Speaker 2:Where you go to college at winpen university what?
Speaker 4:where is that at? That's not asian. No, I don't know. It's quaker bro. Yes bro, quaker school man quaker school yes you know the quakers, not quaker oats, don't be getting mixed up I only know quaker oats, because I know, you know about Quakers. I mean, you grew up in that part of Iowa.
Speaker 2:Hey, no, quaker Oats is right there. Yeah, exactly On the river.
Speaker 4:Yeah, his hometown stinks. We made cereal. His hometown stinks.
Speaker 2:They do stink. They be getting the stench, but look, if you work there or you know somebody that worked there, they'll bring you 45 boxes of cereal. I kid you, not Everything, captain Crunch. All that bro.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, girl, we would have stocked up if you know somebody. But y'all in Iowa got the worst potholes of all time.
Speaker 4:That's just his town.
Speaker 2:That's because of snow.
Speaker 3:That's because of the snow. It deteriorates all the elements of the weather.
Speaker 2:That boy work construction. Yeah, the weather, that boy work construction. Yeah, man, that boy work construction before I just be knowing stuff like that. That's funny, hey. So what brought you to arizona? Exactly?
Speaker 4:uh, so I graduated from my grad program with my master's degree in professional school counseling and then then after that I kind of came to a crossroads because the school that I was interning at I really wanted to work at, and so I interviewed and I ended up not getting it. But then I'm like you know what I feel like I've maximized all my opportunities here in Iowa. I need to start fresh. I need to get out of Iowa anyways.
Speaker 4:And I was thinking about it and so I was like at first I was like really like frustrated because I didn't get that job, because I really liked the school that I interned at. But then I was like you know what, let me put myself, uh, out there and like see what's where I want to go I have the freedom to do so, I have the power to do so, and so, um, I was looking around and I really, at the time, wanted to live in Seattle Washington.
Speaker 4:Why I was really intrigued by it. I don't know, just the vibe, and I've seen pictures and all that. I've never been. We've talked about this. Bro, it's rainy as hell out there, I know, but I like the rain You've never been. I've never been. I need to, though you got to visit, I will, but I realize that now because I love living out here. But at first I was really looking to move out there. But then I'm like, nah, it's too expensive. I was looking up all the-.
Speaker 2:You're going to be emo out there.
Speaker 4:The cost of living I'm like I can't afford that and if I'm going to be paying that much, I could be paying that amount for a bigger place somewhere else, so I'm like okay, let me look elsewhere.
Speaker 3:I knew, for a fact.
Speaker 4:I wanted to be on the West Coast because I had family at the time that lived in California. I wanted to be close to them, and so I was like, okay, well, where else? I never thought about Arizona until I literally came across like a YouTube video, because it was my YouTube algorithm talking about living in Arizona. So I clicked on it and that's really what. Like transpired it and I went down a rabbit hole of like living in Arizona and the cost of it and the prices, and then after that I was like yo, I want to move out here.
Speaker 4:It's at the time affordable, yeah close to california and it's a whole new, fresh start, and it doesn't rain all the time, it's all sunny and I'm like I'm like I've never heard about you know, I've never heard a bad thing about arizona besides the heat, right, right.
Speaker 4:But I'm like, okay, the heat is the heat, that's it. But so then I finally made, um, I just applied for like every high school that I every school, honestly, that I could look at, because I was on a job listing site and I just applied. I didn't know any where these schools were at, but I was. I just want to be in arizona and I applied, man, for at least like 20 plus positions, cause at the time this was like March, february of 2021. And so this is like the hiring season for like schools right now, cause they're trying to figure out you know who's returning next year and all that.
Speaker 4:And so just put up, I just put myself out there and eventually, you know, one of the schools that ended up being, you know, the first school high school for me that I worked at, uh interviewed me, loved me and, yeah, from that point forward it was march 2021 and I was hired, I accepted the position and looked up the. I looked up the uh community and uh, and it was like a very similar to the community that I was working at previously where I did my internship and it was really nice up and coming. And then, yeah, from there I was like I got to visit, I got to check this out.
Speaker 1:What city was that that you got in?
Speaker 4:Queen Creek. Okay, I work out there right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it is not how it used to be.
Speaker 4:No, it's crazy how much it's developed within the last couple of years.
Speaker 1:You know how it used to be Well because I just had a client that came in yesterday. A client not my client and she was saying that they had a house out. They have a house out there, but their mortgage is about to be paid off. They're going to sell it and move to the Midwest Because, she said when they moved out there it used to be so affordable. They bought their house for $100,000. It's a five bedroom, two bath.
Speaker 2:But nothing was out there, right. No Costco, no Target, no she said now it's worth over $700,000.
Speaker 1:Yep. It's insane, and that's why I'm like dude.
Speaker 4:I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to afford a house at this point Anywhere in Arizona. I don't know.
Speaker 1:And I know and everything just keeps going up. But I'm like it is, it really is.
Speaker 4:But yeah, that's how I ended up out here. So, man, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2:You're going to stay, yeah, you're going to stay. Yeah, for good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'll probably as of right now. Yeah, for good.
Speaker 2:I have no intentions of moving anywhere else.
Speaker 3:Because I like the job about it.
Speaker 4:I'm trying to get into. I'm like, okay, I can't really like just up and move. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:my family's out here. Now you are out here, I'm like you know what I'm saying. Like your family out here, shout out, kenny, he did what he did like his mom, cuz come on, yeah, so I'm like, okay, like we got.
Speaker 4:I'm like, at this point I'm like, where else would I want to go? I mean, it's gonna be no matter where I move it's gonna be expensive, but it's expensive. I'm like I don't have enough money to do that anyways right now. So I'm like I'm really just trying to get into what I want to get into and then, yeah, kind of just build from there, and if I the calling is for me to move, then so be it but as of right now, I'm staying yeah yeah, we love it here too yeah, I ain't moving.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you how I met Andre. Somebody booked on my bookse, right? He booked a haircut with me. I knew it was a 515 number, right, came in. Yeah, man, let me get this haircut, let me do this, let me do this.
Speaker 1:Let me do that. I didn't sound like him. Did you know him on TikTok yet or no?
Speaker 2:No, I never met this guy before. I never met this guy before. Turns out he was going to a barber shop that my sister used to work at.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, Kelly, come on man.
Speaker 2:Actually, my cousin owned that shop Shout out Blue Blades in Des Moines, let's go. But yeah, that's how I met him. I was like hey you know my sister. He's like, yeah, I was like, oh, you know him Little guy, this guy. She was like, yeah, that's Andre, yeah, that's how we met.
Speaker 4:That's crazy Small world man.
Speaker 2:Ever since then, you know, I've been taking him to school every day man. You know what I'm saying. That's my stepson right now. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Axe Learning from my dad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember when he said to me, because I remember when you were like, oh yeah, I met this guy, I guess from cutting his hair, and you're like, yeah, he has a TikTok, blah, blah, we're going to go to breakfast with him. Because, remember, we were already planning to go to breakfast and I'm like who and why and when? And then, yeah, it was cool Because I have a hard time meeting who and why and when? Who? Yeah, and it was cool. Yep. Because I have a hard time meeting people. That's why.
Speaker 2:That boy ordered something he didn't even like too.
Speaker 1:The hot chocolate, remember? Nope, you know what he ordered the cinnamon toast.
Speaker 3:And a hot chocolate. What was it? The cinnamon toast, the hot chocolate Cinnamon.
Speaker 2:What is it? Cinnamon, something? It was the French toast, the cinnamon roll.
Speaker 3:French toast, yeah, and he didn't like the coffee or hot chocolate or whatever it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, you didn't like it, see, man.
Speaker 1:I know, and you wanted to go there the other day, remember.
Speaker 4:They got one in Queen Creek. No, they had a decent. We went there another time. And I actually had a decent meal that time around. But yeah, I brought it up the other day and you were like nah, it's closed, they shut it down.
Speaker 2:They changed it. Somebody else bought it and they renamed it Different owner, but they got that same one in Queen Creek, so it's probably close to your house Probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Biscuits. One day I'm going to just pop up at your work and be like are you trying? To go get breakfast who me.
Speaker 1:No, I work in Queen Creek right now, but I'll be in Mesa.
Speaker 2:Mesa Gilbert. That's like on the border of Mesa Gilbert and Chandler it is.
Speaker 1:But even like going back to the potholes, queen Creek has by far the worst roads, in my opinion also. I'm pretty sure that's how I got a flat. Why? Because there is a pothole in every road, because they're like it's like they're trying to build roads.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a lot of construction down there too, because one way in, one way out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, yeah it's like there's not enough room for all that it's growing.
Speaker 2:That's why they need to put more another way in that way out another highway, something, something like that so I know that you're You're trying to be A police officer, right?
Speaker 1:Yes?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Freeze, get on the floor. So I know you're in the middle Of trying to do that.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:And then what's the rest Of your plans for the year?
Speaker 4:So I mean right now, my plans are Fully focused on just that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:You know I was, yeah, basically just to get into an academy, whatever, whatever agency picks me up, because at this point I'm just I'm just trying to get in. So you know, I've got a few big opportunities on the way right now that are happening here pretty soon.
Speaker 4:So I'm hoping that, like that picks up and that ends up, you know, being locked in and I can start my journey and start an academy here soon. But that's my, my, that's my plan right now. It's fully focused, fully fledged, on just that specifically, just because the fact that, like you know, I'm just trying to get to where I want to be, I want to do something I want to do, I already did enough counseling at the school.
Speaker 4:I'm like I realized later, uh, within my last week or not last week last year, of being a counselor, I was like I'm already doing this for students, faculty parents, you know I'm already, you know, building rapport with the community and whatnot, and I'm like, well, the only way up, because I'm like I want to make more money, I want to move up, you know. And it got to a point where I'm like, look, look, I need to look out after myself. And I was starting to look at, uh, other school districts that I wanted to work at and uh, I was like, dang, like y'all ain't paying, like it's crazy like yeah, they're not, yeah, teachers yeah, it's oh my god it's, it's crazy.
Speaker 4:So I was like, okay, like I applied for a lot of schools, and you know they were. I was grateful enough for the fact they were able to give me an opportunity hey, you could become a counselor for us, and you know they were. I was grateful enough for the fact they were able to give me an opportunity.
Speaker 4:Hey, hey, you could become a counselor for us, and all that and great people, but just the pay wasn't right there and I was getting paid a lot less than I was getting paid, you know, at the school I was at so I was like, okay, I need to like take a step back and like, okay, do I really want to do this right? And so my main thing was, too I'm like I want to move up on the ladder, and the only way you can move up within education is to become an administrator, and I don't want to do that. That's a full-time, 24-7 gig, you know what I'm saying that's hard work.
Speaker 4:And don't get me wrong shout out to administrators because like what they do is hard. Right, I can never do it, but I'm like I. I like my weekends, I like all that.
Speaker 4:But, I was like I want to do something more. I want to. I feel like I've got. I'm too. I'm still too hungry and motivated to kind of just stop at education. I'm like, let me kind of go outside of my comfortability and go after something that I always, low key, wanted to do, and so I was like all right, cool, let me start applying to become a police officer. And you're?
Speaker 2:trying to get paid yeah.
Speaker 4:So like I've, yeah, I've already, you know, been through the whole process of you know, like the polygraph, the psych, the medical, all the steps you got to do, and I already did that once and you know all the other agencies that I'm going through.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna have to do it again. But the thing is like, once you're through all with all that, then it's you're golden. And that's why I'm just trying to get in at this point, because the fact that, like, once you're in, you're in and I could after do a few years, so I really wanted to move to a different agency I can, but the opportunities are there and it pays well like. That's what I want. I want to.
Speaker 3:I want a retirement you just want to be comfortable? Yeah, I want to be comfortable I want to do.
Speaker 4:What I want to do, I've always had an interest in law enforcement and I had an opportunity back in high school. I took a criminal justice class that uh, at the time the lieutenant of the police department of my hometown, he was in charge of it and he actually gave me a call, uh, this summer in between from the end of my senior year to upcoming my freshman year of college and he offered me a spot to become like a reserve officer at my hometown and at the time I had to turn it down because I already accepted a scholarship to play soccer collegiately.
Speaker 1:I already had all my plans. God, you've done a lot.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So I'm like, ah, and to this day I still think about that. I'm like, what if I went this route? But then again, if I would have taken that, I don't think I would be here right now. Yeah, you wouldn't be here. And so I'm glad I took this road of let me go through education and work in mental health for a little bit and gain the experience, because now I'm fully fledged, I think, more prepared than ever to become a peace officer, and so I'm excited just because I know what I can bring to the table and what awareness I could bring to a community and what I could help do to help elevate a department.
Speaker 4:because of my experience, Especially here in Arizona.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's going to be good and if you ever run into the youth, I feel like I could see you really handling that. My goal is to become a school resource officer at some point.
Speaker 4:You know I want to be working in the school as a police officer where I could help you know, what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying and I've got that experience, you're going to have to rig up fights again. Yeah, but what if one of the kids put you in a headlock?
Speaker 4:Man, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2:I don't know these kids like 6'5 now dog, I know I don't know what they're eating, but they're. Roy sandwiches.
Speaker 4:I'm like man. They do not look like high schoolers the way that when I was in high school. All right, Let me ask you this, yeah.
Speaker 2:When you become a police officer. If you see Erica speeding, are you?
Speaker 4:giving her a ticket.
Speaker 2:I might give you a warning. Yeah, be real, I'm going to give you a warning, because when he was in Washington it was a dude. I cut Erica's morning because when he's in washington, it was a dude, I cut.
Speaker 1:It was like oh, my husband cut your hair, she used me to get her out of you.
Speaker 2:Feel me, no, no, no, don't use my resources. No, what it was was.
Speaker 1:He recognized my last name. He recognized my last name and then this you look, she wasn't gonna tell me either. April said mom got bored over soon she got home yeah, soon she got home oh yeah, no, I did not even try to use that, but he just let me go and he told me to tell you hi give her a ticket no, you need to give him a ticket because tell me why. Why are?
Speaker 2:we going I'm gonna be out of here going 80 in a 60 I'm gonna be out of here. Why are we going?
Speaker 1:60 in a 45 a.
Speaker 2:Avery, but I'm going to be out of his jurisdiction.
Speaker 1:You're going to get the most tickets and hey, work is work.
Speaker 4:To be fair, a lot of people be speeding out here, man.
Speaker 1:Everybody does.
Speaker 4:Even Erica.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, no, it's just crazy, I just think that TikTok, I got to send it to you too.
Speaker 2:It's so yeah, you want to move out to arizona like I've said before on my tiktok be prepared, be prepared for the heat and the traffic.
Speaker 1:It's like trying to scare y'all. It is wild it is and I do think it's california drivers coming out here, mixed in with arizona drivers snowbirds coming in too, yeah, so it's like a perfect mix of drivers.
Speaker 2:Fast, right, yeah, oh my gosh everything's fast I've just seen a accident right here in front of Walmart. There's always an accident.
Speaker 3:Every intersection also.
Speaker 2:Before the police got there too.
Speaker 1:Okay, wait, I got a question, Then we can close this out. Speaking of driving, my opinion is you know when you're at an intersection?
Speaker 2:right, oh my gosh Andre.
Speaker 1:You know when you're at an intersection and let's say you're turning left, yeah, and the light is blinking yellow.
Speaker 4:Uh huh.
Speaker 1:Then you're going to turn left. Stop, okay. Then you have the cars that are turning right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:On the opposite side.
Speaker 1:Picture this intersection.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're turning right.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You're going to turn left.
Speaker 1:Do you go all the way into the intersection when it is blinking yellow about to turn red?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you know that, police officer, that when you're in the middle of that intersection and that light turns red because you're waiting for all these other cars? To turn right and you don't have a chance to go. You get a ticket for that.
Speaker 2:So what she's saying is traffic coming this way is turning left and you're going this way, you're trying to turn left.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're in the middle of the intersection Right. You're trying to take that left. It's blinking yellow.
Speaker 2:Her thing is if this line is backed up, she won't get in this line to turn left, even though it and it turns red. But, you're supposed to get in the middle lane right.
Speaker 4:You're supposed to get in the middle lane. Thank, you. You're supposed to get in the middle.
Speaker 3:Guys, you are not supposed to go into the middle of the intersection, because if that light turns red If it's the middle lane.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, it's a turning lane, it's a left lane.
Speaker 2:We learned this in Driver's Ed, specifically, You're supposed to that middle of that intersection and that light turns red and you turn, you're getting a ticket. Oh, if you, okay, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:If you don't have a chance to turn at the light, yes, and you're out there too far. Yes is what she's saying I'm not talking about. He said you're gonna get a ticket, but you're still supposed to turn right, yeah, but if it turns red you can't turn because it's well, I'm still turned.
Speaker 2:But if I'm in the middle over the intersection I'm getting a ticket because I'm not getting hit exactly.
Speaker 1:Y'all tell me what you think. But that that's what he said, and I agree, because I'm so sick of people doing that. I'm waiting for you to turn right, turn right, turn right. I got the yellow light. I can't even turn. It's already turned red by the time and I've been stuck in the middle of the intersection. Turn, turn. I'm saying erica be on tiktok she'd.
Speaker 2:TikTok.
Speaker 1:She be on TikTok oh, is this what he said? He said on TikTok yes, it was on TikTok told you see but it's accurate.
Speaker 4:Let me ask y'all this question Arizona drives me nuts, let me ask y'all this question, since we talking about careers if y'all could, would you y'all have the opportunity to switch up your career? If you had the opportunity, you could make as much money as you want, would you switch it up. Or is there a time period in your life where you really you wish you would have switched up earlier? Oh, wow both it's kind of like a double you want to go first.
Speaker 2:Um, I haven't had to switch up because when I got to washington I knew I needed a career and I didn't have a career, right. But let's say the podcast takes off. Let's say my youtube. My youtube is starting to take off. I would try to somehow balance both, yeah, but I wouldn't do both of them fully. Um, I feel like you can't put all your eggs in one basket. But I don't really have a situation like that because I'm a barber, I already make my own schedule and I can make as much money as I want and all that.
Speaker 1:So you would never be an influencer instead I hate the internet, you could be, the you could be the next vick blent no I hate the internet
Speaker 2:the internet he does not like here's why haters man because I literally go through comments sometimes and it's like just a thousand hate comments and the guy is not even saying nothing wrong. He's a nice guy, it's just a opinion. Yeah right, there's a barbara influencer and he is just talking crazy about people and he's building a brand off of that. He's making a lot of money, but it's like you're literally spreading negativity, like I can't even buy his clippers because he's so negative?
Speaker 1:yeah, so you could be the opposite of that I mean, yeah, but there's still people.
Speaker 2:People on the internet have no respect for you.
Speaker 1:You have to not care about what people say, though.
Speaker 2:But it's like it's just a thing To be negative towards people. Yeah, it is, but that's the thing I think.
Speaker 1:For me.
Speaker 2:I feel like I've grown so much that I wouldn't care, but Because the reason I'd stay a barber Is cause, like I don't have to do, I barely even post my haircuts, and all that.
Speaker 1:I can talk to the youth.
Speaker 2:I'm happy where I'm at. I love cutting hair. It's wonderful. Me, on the other hand. Yeah, go ahead, erica, tell your story.
Speaker 1:No, mine's both. So I really wish I would have. Honestly, no, I wish I could have started waxing sooner, because then I probably would have had my clientele built up by now. My goal would be to go into a studio with somebody else, but I didn't do that. I actually gave up on that two years ago when I got through training. It was too much, but now that I think about it, now I'm starting in the front, so I'm learning all the ins and outs of the company that I'm going to be working for and waxing for, so it's actually more beneficial because I know how to like talk about product and everything. So in a way, it happened how it's supposed to. However, if I could, my dream since I was like 12 was to be an influencer, so I've always wanted to do YouTube and stuff. My problem is I'm not consistent, so I've really held myself back a lot. Yeah, she ain't, but I'm doing better we. So I've really held myself back a lot. Yeah, she ain't.
Speaker 2:But I'm doing better. We've done a podcast every Sunday. Better late than never. We three in a row right now. We three for three, we for three. Yeah, 100% from the field.
Speaker 1:So, if that ever took off. I honestly I wouldn't wax. I'm not that in love with waxing that it's like something that I only want to do that.
Speaker 2:No, I only want to do that. Yeah, no, I love this kind of I feel like you'll like the when, like the relationship you build with your clients with waxing.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't think you'll ever like fully want to stop waxing. It'll just be like OK, maybe two days a week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, no, yeah. So I've thought about that too, because even if I start waxing and I do it five days a week, my goal would be to eventually just be part-time waxing at that center, just because it's overwhelming. You're doing like 82 to 85 people a day back to back in 15 minute, 15 minute um sessions. So I don't, that's overwhelming. I don't want to do that full-time. That's just not my goal. My goal would be to go down part-time. But if I could be an influencer on the side, then there you go, you better be posting, cousin I would have been a lawyer a lawyer yeah, criminal justice yeah hell, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's good, all right. Another question for y'all. I've never asked this question, but I always ask to people. I just haven't asked to y'all yet. Now that opportunity. So right, oh all right.
Speaker 2:So this ain't a police question, is it?
Speaker 4:no, it ain't. Uh. So if you could have a dinner with three, any three people in this world, living or dead, and who would you be at the dinner table with?
Speaker 2:living or dead.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, erica you said celebrities or just anybody, anybody um?
Speaker 2:I already know I already know, yeah, go ahead erica.
Speaker 1:Well, you said not just celebrities. My first one would be my brother-in-law, mike, because I would do anything to see him again, so that would be the first one that's the only person I've ever lost alive, um. Secondly would be alia, because that was my inspiration to sing, because, if you don't know, I do or I did sing. Thirdly, oh man, only three three it's between kim kardashian and karuchi, oh, or chris brown. I can't pick Sheenan Carucci.
Speaker 3:Oh, or Chris Brown.
Speaker 1:Chris Brown, I can't pick. You mean, oh man, I mean you're already alive. We're not talking about you, okay.
Speaker 4:Dang, she ain't gonna have you at the dinner table. Sorry, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Not significant either I don't want to answer this question no more Go ahead, All right look, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2:Marco, who is Marco? Marco, my boy. That's realistic, though we went out to eat one time. That's my boy. Marco's the funniest guy on earth. No, my God, I don't know who. Marco is my boy. Um, marco is the funniest guy on earth. No, oh my god.
Speaker 4:So marco is my homie going off track here, but marco is my homie that we met through what, we meet what how did we met through? You? Yeah, you met him through me. We went go-karting two years ago, yeah, but marco is like my home he. I met him, uh, working a mental health job a few years back 2018. And man, this dude oh my God, he is so funny. Man Shout out, marco man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll have to meet you sometime. Funny dude a lot. So now, marco All right, my three.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go. Obama for sure. What Obama for?
Speaker 4:sure, hey, I respect that. You feel me, you feel me bro. Obama be chill, Bro.
Speaker 2:He warned us about everything that's going on right now. You ain't seen. Leave the World Behind.
Speaker 4:Hey watch Leave the World Behind dog. You know he directed that.
Speaker 2:He did Him and like, yeah, okay, so I'm going to go. Obama, that's tough because I need somebody smart, somebody. Ah, that's tough because I need somebody smart somebody, ah, that's tough smart einstein for dinner. No, I mean, like that's tough. I don't know you, know you?
Speaker 1:I want to have dinner with people I can learn yeah yeah, man, I could learn, you got a hip-hop artist that you like I'm gonna go
Speaker 4:j cole I would say j cole I, I do, j cole boss I'm gonna go pastor michael todd, you got to keep the faith in there.
Speaker 2:You feel, max, that's one of one of my uh, one of them pastors that I like a lot. Facts Keep it. Black excellence. You feel me. Black excellence, my boy.
Speaker 1:Wow, yours are shocking.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you something Andre.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you was good at soccer.
Speaker 4:I was, I was good at soccer.
Speaker 2:How good were you at soccer?
Speaker 4:I was so good that I actually got sponsored by New Balance my sophomore year Dang Dang. And then what? Let me get some New Balances. So I did it for. So there was this competition, worldwide competition, right, and they took like the top 20 people like around the world. What you had to do is you had to like, so it was the new balance blackout squad, right and 20, they chose 20 people from out throughout the world. We got to send in video and basically from that video it showcased like your skills, like you post, like you plan, like highlights from a game, or you know you doing trick shots or whatever Right. You had to stick out. And so you know you doing trick shots or whatever right. You had to stick out. And so you posted your video and then after that there was a voting portion for it, right.
Speaker 4:And so at that point they I can't remember I think they notified me saying like hey, like you're like one of the top people that you know we're looking at um, and then at that point you had to get people to vote for you um in order to get in right, and so I essentially got you know all my teams like vote for me and all that I like contacted everybody like this is like, yeah, my sophomore year, and so contacted people like they used to be teachers at my high school, my friends, obviously, my family and all that contacted anybody that I could get a hold of that had an email address. Essentially that would put their vote in right, and so I got enough votes to where they came out with like a weekly ranking for I think like a month and the first week I was number one around the world top 20 I was there and once you made that final cut because they came out with the weekly updates of like who's ranked and whatnot.
Speaker 4:Once you made that final cut because they came out with the weekly updates of like who's ranked and whatnot. Once you made that final cut and you were within the top 20, that's when you were able to gain that New Balance scholarship or sponsorship. So basically, from that point forward I got in and every month they would send me like huge boxes of like cleats, backpacks, socks, like workout clothes and all that it was super cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So that's probably One of the Things I've Highlights it's been such a long time, yeah, highlights that For me Playing a sport, that definitely was A huge thing.
Speaker 2:You got NILs Before NILs Facts I did.
Speaker 1:I got a question for him Remember. Hold on, hold on Okay okay, and then I got one more.
Speaker 2:I ain't never wore New Balance, but you was. Jamal Murray, Kawhi Leonard, Cooper, Flagg. God dang All them.
Speaker 4:I was them before they even became a thing with New Balance.
Speaker 2:Well, I've just seen a commercial with Cooper Flagg on it, just yesterday at the gym. Yeah man, that's fire.
Speaker 4:I know Dude New Balance. They're comfortable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want some. I ain't never had a pair.
Speaker 4:And they're expensive now too, because people became started wearing them again. Now they expensive. So it's like, yeah, they're trendy.
Speaker 2:What's your question? Because I don't got time for this.
Speaker 1:All right, I know what time is it, yeah we have 53. Andre.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Would you ever?
Speaker 2:Would you ever Audition?
Speaker 1:Audition For Love is Blind ever audition audition for love is blind love is blind.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I would told you, I told you every time we watch that, we watch that show, yeah, every season.
Speaker 1:We're trying to get to every time I'm just gonna tell everybody I watch. Love is blind y'all know you watch. Love is blind too, because I see y'all talking about it every time. I'm like dang. I could see audrey on here.
Speaker 4:I feel like you're a romantic yeah, well, the thing is a lot of them. I don't know who they be picking, but they be just picking people that have a lot of followers and all that and don't have a lot of. I feel like they're all the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's getting, it's getting boring.
Speaker 4:They're not genuine.
Speaker 2:I don't watch the show like week in, week out, but I've seen clips and I've actually seen episodes before and I'm like what is this when you're from certain places?
Speaker 1:a lot of them are the same, like Minnesota. When it was Minnesota, it was like a lot of them were similar they were very similar yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I feel like a lot of them are just in it for the fame which obviously they are, and what not. But I mean I don't know, would you?
Speaker 1:Would you do it for real love? I would do it. Yeah, Absolutely.
Speaker 4:I would do it for the actual, genuine, like looking for companionship and whatnot.
Speaker 2:I don't care about fame. You're out here trying to get companions. I don't care about fame, you should audition. I should I actually put in the I'm going to be watching with my feet up, Heeline that is not true With the dang shoes on the couch man. This fool Andre got his feet on the couch sitting like that. Hey, andre seemed crazy bro. He came in the shop one day and sat like a first grader bro. It was crazy.
Speaker 1:Chris girls applesauce.
Speaker 4:You know like where you sit, you're just comfortable. It's like one of those things, man. No, I'd be on it, bro, for real, because I actually put in. What was it? A couple years ago, I put in an application to be on the what is it? The?
Speaker 3:Bachelor the.
Speaker 2:Bachelor right or whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if it's the Bachelor, is it the one where the girl, or it's the man, and then there's a whole bunch of women.
Speaker 4:Bunch of women. Okay, so I put in for that.
Speaker 1:I never heard anything bad, I'm, but not right now, like you know. Yeah, focus on what you're doing.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't make it through love is blind yeah, cause if they open up them doors, and I say it that's why it's called love is blind yeah cause you blind, I know.
Speaker 3:I mean yeah, but.
Speaker 1:I keep telling them this I feel, like looks matter somewhat right. But if you were blind, it wouldn't matter I'm not blind, though I can see man.
Speaker 4:You got glasses on you feel but that's love.
Speaker 1:When you can't, it's all about acts, blind dating. That's the problem. That's why people cheat man acts but then again people emotionally cheat too.
Speaker 4:So I do I, I do those I do cheat. No man, I do the show man for sure I should do. I should do it honestly, but I'd be on big brother for sure.
Speaker 2:The heck is that you know, big brother you too deep in tv, man.
Speaker 4:No, my mom used to watch that show all the time exactly I've heard about about lifetime shows, nah not like that.
Speaker 2:Lifetime shows, but I'd be, I would go on there. Yeah, lifetime is america's novellas Facts. Facts, I mean of course we got sitcoms, soap operas and all that. General Hospital, but Lifetime. Lifetime would get you crazy.
Speaker 4:It'll mess you up but it'll also be some fire. The Young and the Restless man Yep Daytime TV.
Speaker 2:Crazy, price is Right, price is Right. Hey bro, my grandma had a TV. Yeah, price is Right.
Speaker 3:My grandma had a.
Speaker 2:TV. It was like this big bro In the kitchen. It was the oldest TV I've ever seen in my life. And it was no, my great grandma. It was in her kitchen, above one of the shelves, and it would just play. Price is Right all year.
Speaker 1:It's like the Echo now.
Speaker 2:Oh, you hear.
Speaker 3:Bro, price is Right is a good show, it's like the echo now, while you're here, da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, yeah.
Speaker 2:Bro Price is Right is a good show. True, it had the old white dude. What's his name? He?
Speaker 4:died Bob Barker. Yeah, bob Barker.
Speaker 3:He died man.
Speaker 1:He lived to. Like what 90-something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 92 or something life. He was old. He had gray hair. I've never seen him without gray hair, see, people, the kids.
Speaker 4:Nowadays they don't have the childhood that we had I don't think it's different, but it's like it's not something different about our upbringing.
Speaker 2:I feel like bro, it's they never gonna read, they never gonna see vhs they're never gonna see none of the sitcoms. They probably don't know ludacris was a rapper facts like it's things.
Speaker 4:That is crazy yeah, yeah, you know, erica lived through some crazy stuff. They probably don't know Ludacris was a rapper, facts it's crazy. And Erica lived through some crazy stuff before us.
Speaker 1:You know how many people don't know that dance with Ashley and Will Smith where it's from.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:They literally don't get it. They don't get it. I'm just like y'all just be picking up anything on TikTok.
Speaker 2:Bro, they doing TikTok dances to songs that already got a dance. That's what I'm saying it's the songs I already got to dance. That's what I'm saying. It's crazy, man, Andre, you got to get on there. One time Andre was on TikTok dancing. All I seen was he was shaking his hips boy.
Speaker 4:That boy was I got rhythm. I got rhythm because I'm Filipino. I remember seeing you with your suits on Yep. When I was a counselor. Yeah, you were making TikToks. That's Yup, that's crazy Yup, because you know you got to be professional.
Speaker 2:Now you want to be professional.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, y'all should hear Andre on the game. He is anything but professional bro. I'm going to say it, I'm going to snitch.
Speaker 4:That's different man.
Speaker 2:That's different man.
Speaker 4:You hear that, that's different. I've been doing it because screwing with y'all is fun man.
Speaker 1:Making y man, making y'all uncomfortable, is fun. What's wrong? Yeah, I gotta listen to that every day, erica.
Speaker 2:You don't even have a headphone on, so you don't understand what we're responding it doesn't matter I can't hear you responding to him all you hear is what, what?
Speaker 1:all I can hear is you responding to him. Man, if you're on, my tiktok.
Speaker 2:You see clips I clips that ain't even nowhere near as bad as it gets. There's one I can't even post because it's so crazy. Oh my gosh, I went to post it, I said nah, nah.
Speaker 1:It's on your clips, your stream clips, yeah.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:Facts Go to my.
Speaker 2:Twitch Yep. But alright that wraps up this episode. You know, appreciate you coming through.
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