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Embrace The Great
From Homecoming to Hip-Hop: Embracing Greatness & Generational Shifts
In this episode of Embrace the Great Podcast, hosts Shaw and Dominique dive into a soulful conversation blending nostalgia, culture, and wisdom. They unpack the recent No Limit vs. Cash Money Verzuz battle, reflecting on leadership, legacy, and why our culture too often tears down its own greatness.
The duo also take a heartfelt turn into homecoming memories, family traditions, and how the lessons from our grandparents’ generation shaped who we are today. From laughs about dressing up for the Verzuz to reflections on community, influence, and growing older, this episode captures the perfect mix of humor, heritage, and heart.
Tune in as Shawn and Dominique celebrate what it means to truly embrace the great—in music, in family, and in life.
Welcome to another installment of Embrace the Great Podcast with your host Sean Ellerby and my boy Dominique Moldrow. What's happening, man? What's happening? Ain't nothing much, man. How we start off today every time? What's what's on your mind?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I'm not a whole lot, man. Just just continuing to embrace the great, man. Had a good couple of weeks, so everything good. What's up with you?
SPEAKER_03:Ain't nothing much, man. Just kind of doing the same, having a good couple of weeks, trying to get ready for these holidays and having a good time during Halloween. Um, reflecting on homecoming and also, you know, look a little bit at that versus battle, man. Talk about a little bit of some of that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, that's definitely uh something that I wanted to touch on, man. Um just the greatness of it from my point of view. Um, of course, you know, I grew up on both of those labels. Um, you know, recited a whole bunch of songs off of them, man. I I I thoroughly enjoyed it, man. What about you?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's the same. Enjoying it, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, more so on the cash money side, like knowing everything. And again, I I'm I listened to a lot of No Limit. Again, I think No Limit won the battle for what it was, but again, it's like you don't I don't feel like No Lim and uh Cash Money had all the artillery. One, and then two, is like, you know, I just vibe with cash money a whole lot better because that that was that was the lifestyle back then.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean it was according to what what you like, just the setting of it, man. But my biggest thing, you know, I enjoyed it all. I I sung both, you know, when both labels had their turn, you know, sung along with both. Um you know, I definitely enjoyed uh just seeing those guys, man, on stage amidst all the rumors and stuff that people try to create. Um I just I loved it, man. Me and my son, I we create we recreated album covers um for the verses. I I put them on I posted them on social media, got a lot of laughs off of it. But I had on my my camo rag and I put some luminophil on my teeth and and that sort of thing, man, just to watch it. You know, I you know I I like those nostalgic moments and it took me back. Got on FaceTime with a few of the boys while it was going on, man, and we just enjoyed it. Um, but the biggest thing, man, um, like I said, I celebrated it. Um of course I would have liked for everybody to be there on both sides, because yeah, no limit was missing a few two, but of course, on cash money side. But you know, I go back to, you know, when we was younger, man, we I went to I've seen Cash Money in concert, I think three times.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And not one of those times was everybody there. So, you know, that you know, you would like that you would like to see it, but I enjoyed it for what it is, man. But what I did what I don't like, the two things I didn't like was that, and just, you know, maybe the venue could have been in a southern setting. Rather been New Orleans, Atlanta, whatever. I think that's it. I don't think it would have been fitting in New Orleans. Yeah, for New Orleans, that's just what I look at. Yeah, but of course, you know, I'm sure they had their reasons for not doing so, but I just wish they'd have picked the southern city. But another thing, man, that it irritates me, just I don't understand why there's a fallout when something like that takes place. Like, why do people try to create drama in something that it that's not the purpose of that being done?
SPEAKER_03:That's it. But and and you say that, and again, I looked at it from a different standpoint as far as because again, I'm big on leadership, right? So I look at no limit as far as Master P and his leadership versus baby in cash money leadership, and I saw a huge difference in regards to who fooled with who. You know what I'm saying? Like it's still like years later, people still rock with Master P. Years later, it's like the stuff with baby is like, uh, you know, what do you want to get into it? Is that the leadership? Because if it's one person, you can look at something else. But then when it's multiple people, I look at things a little bit different, man. I wish it was.
SPEAKER_01:But why does it have to even come to that? Why can't people just sit and enjoy the catalog that both of them put out without bringing that stuff up? Without embracing the greatness of they made you shake your ass in the club, they got parties going, that sort of thing. Well, why does it have to result to and this is the thing, okay, it can result to that, but you don't know if that's really the case. You don't know if that's why Lil Wayne wasn't there. Um, I've seen plenty of social media rumors got dispelled off the videos alone. Like it was one where at the end they were saying Master P didn't want to say nothing at the end because he didn't want to say anything to baby, that sort of thing. But then, turn around, there's a uh video when I think BG was doing his song. Master P and baby were sitting on the stage talking to each other. They dapped each other up and talked. Um, they said Snoop Dogg had a problem. I saw a video where it said Snoop Dogg had a problem with Birdman. And then there's a video of before the verses started that came out. Snoop said, you know, he was saying something about him arriving at the venue. He was like, Yeah, man, Birdman had to let me in through the side door because I didn't want to do all that. So that just dispelled all those rumors that people want to put out there. No, I that's the part that I hate, man. Like we so we we want to be put on this stage as a as a culture, this, that, and the other. But then we get on social media or the blogs or whatever and talk down on everything. Like, you don't see those type of things happening after country music awards and and that sort of thing. They just embracing the greatness of whatever the what might have happened.
SPEAKER_03:So sometimes as a people, we are our own worst enemies and that's all. It's a cultural thing, because again, and I think it again comes back to childhood because is in some of the stuff I think about and talk about. As a youth coming up, you you learn everything bad about you. Everybody tell you what's wrong with you. You go to school, the roasting comes, everybody tell you what you're doing. Yeah, everything else like that. So it's not a culture of creating that. So we have to turn around and find a way to create that. And again, it was something I was looking at earlier, and I kind of wanted to talk about it today. But it was like mindsets in the wealthy, um, the difference in mindset in the wealthy and the non-wealthy, right? You say the not the non-wealthy have a some uh uh something where they have a problem asking for help. Whereas the wealthy people have zero issues asking for help. They have zero issues asking for things and they they are used to collaborating where we're used to being told no, or we are told make we have to make things harder to feel like we succeeded. We got to be, oh, I did it all, I got it out of the mud, I did this by myself. And like everybody else who's wealthy, that mindset is not there. It's not, oh, it's not, oh, I got, I got, I got it. Okay, we did this, and I'm talking to my friends, and we're handling business while we're talking, but we're getting things done, and it's an expectation that things are going to happen, not the expectation of things are not gonna happen or it's gonna be bad or whatever the case may be. And um, it just again, the mindset of our people I don't like a lot of the times, but again, it's like, okay, understanding it. And then one, I always ask this question, how can we change it? But then I start asking the question myself, can it change? What what is it gonna take to change?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's the thing. I I I what is it gonna take? Like me, I I was just I had this talk earlier, man. Like, you know, everything starts at the house. Um, you know, probably a year or so ago, I I noticed my youngest, he was talking about basketball, of course. And you know, he was just saying uh he liked one better than the other. And I'm like, okay, that's fine, but you don't have to talk down on the one that you think is better than the other. You know, I I you know, and he understood that. Like, okay, it's okay to say you like this one better than the other, but you don't have to talk down to prove your point.
SPEAKER_03:And see, sometimes I think people take preference as somebody else talking down. Like, I don't have to talk down anybody to say I prefer XYZ. I hate it, it happens all the time.
SPEAKER_01:I hate it. So I and I feel like all of that, and I promise, I even did something. I I said, okay, I'm gonna scroll social media just to see what a positive I can find out of it. And I didn't find not one person wanting to talk positive about the verses. And at the end of the day, let's say somebody's on the outside looking in that's not a part of the culture, but is interested in the culture of uh cash money no limit, they're gonna sit back and say, Well, I'm not gonna listen to that if their whole makeup is based off them having beef with somebody else. And that's totally not the case for those that know the history of both those labels. But I just feel like I just feel like every time something like that happens, we we as a people, and damn it, I'm gonna say, we as black people, we diminish the greatness of whatever's going on by wanting to talk down on it so much, which is why I don't watch I don't watch Sports Center anymore. I don't watch all those those shows that you know are are part of it. Because because okay, it's it's one thing to debate, but it's another thing to talk down on something to prove why you like the other. And I and I I I absolutely hate it with a passion.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but it's the culture, man. And I don't hate debate. I love debate. I actually love people hearing different points of view because that's at that time, that's the only time I can I can actually learn. Because the only time you're talking, you're only repeating what you already know. So if you listen to somebody else's point of view, it may make some points. Yeah, I get that, and yeah, I don't. But at the end of the day, it's all your preference. You can't say one is better than the other when they never went against each other. If they're going head to head on everything else, judge on that. But you know, I like this person better because, okay, and that's your preference. I don't mean mine is wrong because you like something else better. Um yeah, it's a way, and it's a way we can do it. Um, and again, I think it starts by leading them by example. Like, I don't hate on anything if I can possibly help it. Like, and I might, you know, you hear me say the term life is life. Like, even if I don't agree with it, life is life. That's the life they chose to live, there's a choice they chose to make. So who am I to tell them they're wrong when I don't know the circumstances they face to make those decisions? Now I can say what I would do in those situations, but if I'm not in the situation, who's to say I can or can't? But, you know, as you keep living, you get different life experiences and things show you, um, they show you a different lens on how to look at certain things, man. Because I I'm thankful that I don't look at the world the same way at 42 that I did at 21. You know, having that conversation with my son hit me up and just asked a simple question. Dad, did you know what you want to do when you were my age? And I had to be honest, like, man, no, I had no clue. I was just going with the good time and having the vibe at that point. I said, I really didn't have a purpose until I had kids. And he kind of like, okay, thank you. And then like, you know, it was weird for him to, I ain't gonna say weird, it was different because it was something I was never experienced with to ask that question, but I was thankful he asked that question. So if he was feeling lost, what didn't know which direction to go? I didn't want him to feel like, you know, you're you're you're not where you're supposed to be because you are making steps in the right direction of doing things that you want to do to get the way you're going. You're not gonna get there overnight. So it's just part of the process.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and I still don't know what the hell I want to do.
SPEAKER_03:Hey, look, at 40-something years, hey, and we're talking about I'm I'm getting there now. When I say that, like I'm, you know, read a little stuff. Most millionaires are made in their 40s, and you're like, okay, why? Why is that? You know, but it got the opportunity and failed. And finally in this and see what the wave is, man. And right now, it's a lot of stuff going on within the world in general, man. Like it is it's scary because it's like you can't bank on anything, and we're worried about um, you know, government shutdown and all the things that come about with that. And sometimes we just look at certain stuff and ride on certain stuff, but it's a lot of stuff that goes unchecked on the government level that, you know, is a regular check, and sometimes they miss stuff, man. Again, I think we had to bring a World War III personally. Just looking at how things are going on, the overseas stuff going on with the different countries already at war. Trump um and his tariffs and uh his terminology on a lot of things and his decision making. I just think it's prepping for World War III again, building a little new section of the White House. Um, just a lot of stuff that's going on.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But just to touch a little bit, man, I got that off my chest uh about people stopping uh uh diminishing greatness. Just because you don't like it, don't mean that it's wrong. But just to touch on the verses a little more, man, I just want to get your take and I'll go through, you know, just the songs, just to see how you feel about it. Just going off the titles. Now, there's a different when you're watching the verses, of course, the delivery of it and all the things. Of course, that's gonna play a role. But we just talking about song for song. I could be biased, but I don't think it's close. But just song for song. Now, in my opinion, I had toss up at the gate 400 degrees and no limit soldiers. What you had, what you had with that one? I'm always be 400 degrees.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. I think I'm gonna ride 400 degrees.
SPEAKER_01:But I had to ride my bias back, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but understanding that No Limit Soldier, man, had everybody going crazy. Yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Because I, you know, when when Juve came out with 400 out the gate, I'm like, whoa, that's all we doing. I'm thinking something simple, but you know.
SPEAKER_03:Nah, but that comes from true fans, because I had to say 400 degrees wasn't no radio miss. You had to listen to Juve do 400 degrees.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there you go with that. But I looked at it like this. Both of them are hood classics. Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah, so you know, I I I gave you had you got to go toss up with that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh still fly, still fly and break them off something. I gave that the cash money. Yeah. I break them off something is cool, but uh I couldn't tell you a break them off something verse. Yeah. I know a few bars, but I can't tell you the I can't go word for word. Yeah, so I went with Still Fly on that. Uh Project Chick and Freak Ho. Oh, I'm sorry. I that's not in my vocabulary. I was reading people's I did my vocabulary. They say freak 304s. Yeah. I went with Project Chick on that one. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, just whatever you went with.
SPEAKER_03:But when Freak when Freak 304s came on, that was a different feel than the other one. Now the other one's more chill, but when you in the club, the other one hit a little different.
SPEAKER_01:Bro, hey. My mama sent me about my grandma. Hey, come on now. But I went with Project Chick, so that I had it uh 2201, cash money. Um rich niggas or how you do that there. I go how you do that there. Yeah, I I gave that, even though, even though that's one of my favorite cash money songs, bro. I I went with I went with How You Do That there. Just off of you know how that did the cry on that. Yeah. Uh Cash Money is an army and bourbons and lags. I went with cash money as an army. Yeah, yeah. It's one of the coldest beats ever, dog. Yeah, and that'd be BG staple.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, and then slow motion, and I could tell I went with slow motion, which they cheated because soldier slim was a big part of that song, and soldier slim no limit. So I think cash money got one over on them on that one. But uh with slow motion, and then bling bling, it ain't my fault.
SPEAKER_03:And that the only head I said except the shock of head that you can call out without having to think about something. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:I'm not speaking on such.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, but we talked about this, and I know we talk about a little while to be brother. Yeah, but that's the only song I can recall that I can say, okay. I know that one, but yeah, other than that, I couldn't think of other nanother song that he made.
SPEAKER_01:And then bling bling, nah, I'm sorry, set it off and Mr. Ice Cream, man. And see, I I think that was just a tough. If if if set it off was played in another against another song, then but Mr.
SPEAKER_03:Ice Cream man, bro, come on. And that the one thing classic, right?
SPEAKER_01:Correct, yeah. Correct. That's a good classic. So I gave that to no limit. Number one stunned about it, about it. I think that was another one that just finished the wrong song. Yeah, I gave that one a tie, actually, because how both of them set that up. Like Birdman went, y'all know I started this stun, and boom, boom, boom. And then after it went off, he was like, Yeah, you started it.
SPEAKER_00:But guess what? Guess what it is.
SPEAKER_01:So I think I gave that one a tie. And then get that, I think after that is when the verses went south because I think they was pressed for time and all that. Yeah. So get your role on and make them say, uh, I gave that one a no limit. Yeah. And then I need a hot girl, chopper star. I I went with I need a hot girl, but chopper style, that was when we first got to college.
SPEAKER_03:Look, I know about two dudes who got a dance off that song. Every time I come on, they just start hitting a little dance. I just laugh all the days. Man, come on.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, you about to make me pull my shirt up.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that one hit in college. If you wouldn't, if you wasn't in a club when this came out, you you don't know what I'm talking about. You don't know what I'm talking about, man. That hit. I don't know what another hit that dude had. Chopper. His name is Chopper, isn't it? Yeah. And then, you know, like I said, they went down as a dad of Million and Down for my niggas. That was, of course, down. That was the only song going in I think Cash Money didn't have an answer for.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:They didn't have an answer for that. And then Snoop came out for his verse. Yeah, that's it. That killed it. Um, and then back that ass up. That's you know, that's that's played at receptions, bought mitzfas, uh, all of the above. So for the 9-9 and the two things. Again, man, I I I thoroughly enjoyed it. Like I said, of course, like everybody else, I wanted everybody to be there and maybe another venue, but I dressed up for it. You know what I mean? I had my white tee. I had some pants and roachabol on them.
SPEAKER_03:I was ready. That's like going back to high school that we did for class night.
SPEAKER_01:You know, we pull up in the golf cart like it, like it was a hummer. Crazy. That's another story for another day. Nobody got the video today, do it.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think so. That's a before they start videoing everything. We'd have had that one out, that would have been on point right there. That was funny.
SPEAKER_01:Man, but that's my take from the last few weeks, man. Of course, you know, we enjoy homecoming. That was always a big thing, man. So oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So, what's your biggest takeaways from homecoming?
SPEAKER_01:Homecoming, man, is uh first of all, first of all, I'm old. I'm old, I'm old. Um, you know, I I we went out Friday, and of course, man, when you go out, and it, you know what it always takes for me to see that one person I ain't seen in a long time. Yeah. And then they be in the mix. So it's I feel like I have to show them, like, you know what I'm saying, bro, what you've been missing. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like daddy did not do things, stay out a little longer than I said I was, and all that type of stuff. But it's just that, man. I mean, I I I'm a little older, man. Next year we gotta, well, the coming years, we gotta get some more people to help us out in the morning, setting that thing up. Uh, because I was tired. I I you know, I had to do a little maneuver to make sure we were straight early. But you know, it was it was cool, man. Everything we got a lot of love for uh the the podcast we did, Mr. Brooks. The episode we did, Mr. Brooks and Coach Page. Uh that was big. But I mean, everything always falls in place, in my opinion, homecoming, man. Everything.
SPEAKER_03:This actually was one of the better homecomings to me. And I didn't anticipate that, didn't feel like that going in. It was almost like an exhaustion, so to speak, before homecoming kind of hit. But then, you know, after we did the podcast, you know, I went out, I ain't say went out, but I went stopped downtown and actually had a good time, got home later than anticipated, and it kind of started the week. But like you say, seeing people who hadn't seen in a while, and too, um, one of the things I took joy in, man, is like watching the kids I see grow grow up. Yeah, and now that they're coming back as alumni, they're coming back with their classes, their class shirts, their different things coming up and still coming to our tent, of course. But it was like that's the blueprint to some of them. But that was the part that made me feel really, really good. And then my daughter calling me the whole time because she was on the trip in Florida, like, Daddy, I feel like I'm missing a good homecoming. I said, Yeah, you're missing the great one right now. But it it was a really, really good experience. A lot of people there, man. Yeah, it was. There's always a lot, but this shit, Jesus. It felt like it's more ridiculous because even with the places I went, I seen pictures of other places, like, man, this is crazy. Yeah, especially for a high school homecoming. I know y'all hear us talk about a high school homecoming, but it's not like a regular high school homecoming, man. I think in the influence that Wilson has, and especially in this area, a lot of the other schools mimic what we've done and started doing things on their own. And I'm loving to see that as people coming back to have more school spirit. Um, Wilson is one of those places that if you hear about it from Florence, South Carolina, you will know about Wilson High School because we have alumni chapters all over the United States. But it's like that pride we go with and to see other schools and other places kind of take that on, it makes me feel good because again, that's the influence that we have growing. And I always laugh, talk about the um different words between power and influence. Which one would you rather have? And my answer has always been influence. Because influence, you know, power is like you got veto power. You can say, Yeah, I know, but influence, man, you can impact the whole lot and just sit back and watch the waves go. And I look at like a wave. It started off small, ripple, but as it continues to grow and the impact that it has across one of the state. And I say the whole state, because I know people in the upstate who straight up told me, look, we find out what y'all did for homecoming. We start doing some of the same things at our school. I'm like, well, that's good. You know, so again, it just shout out to Wilson Homecoming. Like you said, I realize that I'm old, um, and getting up every morning, every time to start cooking and prepping and doing all the other stuff. It just, you know, always want people to be more accountable, but also understanding the homecoming weekend, the vibe and everything else that comes with it.
SPEAKER_01:It was um, I saw uh something, I just saw it this morning, I believe, man. Um he didn't make it homecoming, but being Ben Ingram, man, uh Jeopardy Champion, he went back to the school. Um, and I think he helped host like the challenge, yeah. So that was pretty good, man. Shout out to Ben Ben Ingram, man.
SPEAKER_03:Always seeing that, man. Class 2001, man. Love seeing it.
unknown:Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03:But what else you got, man? Um, nothing much, man. Just on off the top of my head, life, man. Just it at different points in life, man. I I just, you know, how you sit, I sit back and have reflection sometimes, and where do I want to be? Where am I at now? And and where have I been? So I can kind of look at the progress that I've made from where I was to where I'm am now and don't get discouraged because again, in the present, you know, I sometimes feel like, man, I'm not doing enough. I need to be doing more. And then sometimes I look at, man, I'm doing a whole lot, wishing, you know, people would step up and do other stuff, but in the same breath, it's like I can't ask people to do stuff that they're not accustomed to doing. So I got out that mindset a long time ago. But just uh, I ain't gonna say midlife crisis, but looking and reflecting, like, man, a lot of the people from my childhood that I will go to are no longer here and realizing like we are the adults, we are the ones that we look for them to do stuff, we are the ones that are supposed to be doing that stuff now. And you know, personally I've been doing a lot of it, but in that same breath, man, it's like, you know, why ain't this Thanksgiving ain't the same? Why um Sunday dinners ain't the same? We the one in charge of them. We're not doing it.
SPEAKER_01:You know what? Not to cut you off. That's crazy. Oh my gosh. So this week, of course, not the harp on homecoming, but this is where it started for me. You know, every year we cooked the big hog or whatever, yeah, and we had the head and feet. Remember, I used to go take it to my grandma or granddad every day. They no longer here. So I kind of got hit with a dose of that, right? So what's today? Uh so a few days ago, um, you know, it was all rainy and cold, and I thought to myself, boy, this is one of them days, boy, I can go to my grandma's house and she got that big old pot of soup sitting on the stove. So I called my mom, I was like, Mom, what you doing? She was like, Nothing. I said, Ma, I want some soup. And she laughed. She said, I do too. And she knew it out, she knew why I said that. Because we could go to grandma's house and she, you know, she, and it was a crazy thing. After I hung up with my mom, she called me probably about a few hours later. She said, uh, I'm on the way to Florence, I got some soup. And we just, you know, she bought the house and I poured it in the bowl. It was real good too.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But it was just like one of them moments where you feel like, you know, it ain't just me that feel this way. So it's crazy that you say that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that grief may hit you because I'm again, you talk about that like we do the hog, and my grandma, only thing she ever asked for for the homecoming, bring me some hog by the house. So I always time I don't eat at home. I nibble a little here and there, but I never really eat. And it just, I be in the moment to just enjoying the people. But when I went to fix that box and she I ain't had her to take it to it, like, man, it make you think a little bit. It make you think a little bit and reflect.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna let you finish, because I got remind me, I got something later that one of my pick six is kind of touch on that.
SPEAKER_03:But go ahead. Nah, just again, just reflecting on the people that weren't there, and now, like, again, like I say, reflection. And my on my mom's side of the family, well, my immediate family, my, you know, my mama's parents and kids and siblings, I'm the oldest male on that side of the family, bruh. Like, all the male stuff comes to me. Like, they look at me like I'm the like the patriarch of per se of that side of the family.
SPEAKER_01:You the oldest grandchild. I'm the oldest grandchild. I'm on both sides. Pee, we older than you. No, I'm talking about from my mom's side.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I'm the oldest grandchild on my mom's side.
SPEAKER_00:That, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yep, and so it's like I'm the oldest male, period, on that side of that group, and it's like, man, you and you know, you don't realize the stuff you didn't do. My uncle, you know, I like to say he didn't do much, but then you realize he did way more than I thought about what he did, because you know, when he ain't there, now I get those phone calls. Same thing with my stepfather. He's not there, I get those phone calls. Okay, we got to renovate this, we got to fix this. You know anybody to do this? And it's like, man, I'm trying to maintain my own household and get stuff together, but now it's like, okay, things happen for a reason. It's God's time, and so how do I look at the situation and how do I make it better?
SPEAKER_01:So, how much of your how much of your grandparents' household, your grandma or grandfather's household do? What do you think they sacrifice to do those sort of things? To make sure everybody in the family, just outside of her her kids and grandkids, because I know my grandma shoot, the whole community of that whole street, Chase Street, somebody came in that house, the first thing she is, you want something to eat.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So how what do you think your grandma probably sacrificed for her family that allow her to do those things that make you remember her off of certain things?
SPEAKER_03:Man, one it was um well, Sunday, Saturday morning breakfast. Like I just think about your time Saturday morning breakfast, either fish and grits or grits, bacon and fat back or whatever the case may be. But she she wasn't the best cook and she broke it down. Like her sister was the cook. Um, all the five girls, five boys. I think all the boys went to the military, and the girls, four of the girls were nurses, and one was the cook, and she did more of the house, and she was the oldest girl. But my grandma, like what she did was taught me really how to manage money. Like she knew how to manage a household, and even when she was married, she got divorced, and she went and bought her own house and paid it off in her lifetime. So when I see stuff like that, and she took care of everybody, like everybody can go to grandma, right, and and it might be money, it might be a word of advice, it might be let me borrow your car, it might be can I do this? And like she was always in the way she did it is the part that got me because she never made a fuss about it, she never brought it up, she was like just between me and you. And everybody felt like that.
SPEAKER_01:So, but do you think you like have you ever heard your grandma say, Well, man, I wish I could have done this or that? Like, do you think she put stuff on the back burner that she wanted to do to make those type of things happen? That's what that's what I'm trying to say.
SPEAKER_03:But talking to her, she was simple. And I was the one trying to get her to do more, but um, because she had the resources and stuff to want to get out, do more. But her biggest thing was taking care of her family. Like, that was her thing. She ain't as long as my family got a place to lay their head, no matter what they got going on, if they can always come here. Like, even to this day. I'm 40-something years old, have stayed in my grandma's house in 20 years, 20 some odd years, but I always felt comfortable enough I can go there and not have to worry about anything. Like, okay.
SPEAKER_01:So that was that was one of my big things, man, when when my grandparents, I I still have one grandparent still living, but um my great-grandma and my grandma and granddad that stayed together. There were there were times where I could be going through something personally, and all I had to do was just go over there. I ain't had to tell them what I had going on. I ain't had to tell them, grandma, I need this. I all I did was go over there and listen to her talk, needed her comfort. Presence. Oh I ain't had to go in there and say nothing. But when I left, I was I'm straight. I probably figured out the solution to it just going over there.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and that's a grandma thing, man, because again, I didn't meet my my father's mother until I was 14. But me and her had a great relationship. And I mean when I say great, like on when I first moved back to Florence, I would take a lunch break, just go to grandma's house. She meet them cooked, I'd be done lay down, take a nap, but she be done talk about this or run me to the store or whatever the case may be. But it was always, like you say, comforting. Um and being the oldest, and I I can admit it now. Um, you know, you get away with certain stuff that you everybody else ain't probably got away with. You know what I'm saying? Like I would be the first thing, like I got away with. I ain't gonna say murder, but if something happened and I got in trouble, it ain't last long. It was like, nah, not him. Like it's almost like bypassing. I got an uncle that. Couldn't stand it, you know what I'm saying? Like he would get mad, like legit mad. Like, why you let him do this? And now I can't do this. But then she hit him with some stuff, and it was like, Well, I don't have to ask him to take out the trash, I don't have to ask him to do this. He worked in two jobs. She started naming out the stuff that I was doing. And again, I'm just living, not realizing she's paying attention to it.
SPEAKER_01:And that's one thing my great grandma always told me if you're doing the right thing, there's always gonna be somebody to look out for you.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. I tell my kids that you keep doing the right thing, people help. You do what you want to do. Look, you be by yourself doing what you want to do. But you know, that presence of grandparents, man. Like you said, I got one grandparent living too, and um, I've actually been trying to make a better relationship. Not to cut you off.
SPEAKER_01:I got my grandma and granddaddy were still living. Shout out to granddaddy. Shout out to you, granddaddy. That's my dad. Jesus Christ, I'm tripping. Shout out to shout out to my granddaddy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but being the oldest man, that's funny. That's funny. Any man forgot about his whole grandfather.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no, but no, I you know, we we we was talking about grandmas. I was thinking grandma, grandma, grandma. Yeah, but I do have a grandfather that's Yeah, I got my grandfather still living, man.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm I'm trying to, and you know, it's like one of those, and I had to sit back and look, right? Because it's breaking the cycle. And it was my father's father, and they don't have a good relationship. And me and my father didn't have one. We're decent now. We didn't have a good relationship coming up or whatever, because you know, differences and how things will look. So, you know, how I am what with my son, I'm like, I'm gonna break this curse or whatever. So, what on Father's Day recently, this past Father's Day, I went to my grandfather's house, took my family, and we laughed, joke, sit and talk. But I also learned some things about him that may, you know, kind of put things in perspective. And one of the things um was that his father died when his mother was pregnant with him. He never met his father. And so, like, okay, how can somebody be a father when they don't know how and hadn't seen the example? So it was like, okay, that makes a whole lot of sense now. But it's like going back, looking at that stuff, man, and just trying to build a relationship where there was none, but then still trying to navigate, making it feel comfortable because I'm I'm a hundred percent comfortable with me, but I don't know how people will take me in again at this point. And I hate to say this, and I know it's gonna sound bad, but I'm 40-something years old, man. It's like the discipline part trying to tell me to do something is out the window. You can ask if I want to do it, but I didn't got to where I'm at in my life making my own decisions. What you mean, that like they still trying to ask, tell you what. Yeah, and I don't know if that's his personality or anything like that. So again, it's navigating that because I don't want him to come across like, oh, he's stubborn, he this, he that. Like I am stubborn, but at the same time, I'm cordial, I'm friendly, but I don't, I didn't build a lot of stuff by myself to try to let anybody else have an opinion on it.
SPEAKER_01:And I think I I I fall into that, not probably not because I know you, probably not as bad as you, but I have a problem when people approach me with uh with this phrase, because it makes me not, and I always, when people say to me, Well, you need to do uh uh no no, don't do that, don't come at me like that. Because that out of that's out of that automatically the trigger that shuts me down. Like you trying to, you know, I don't like that. Yeah, like don't tell me what I need to do. And you might be right, I might need to do it, but you ain't finna sit here and tell me that. Like what you need to do, yeah, because that just come off wrong.
SPEAKER_03:Like, yeah, and it bumped heads and I think it's yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And you might be a hundred percent right. I probably need to do it, but you ain't finna say that.
SPEAKER_03:Like, not like that as a way to approach conversations, yeah. You know, I'm and and I like to say I lead with respect and everywhere I go, but in that same time, I ain't gonna I'm not gonna take disrespect. You know, and it's in and I don't, you know, I don't anticipate anything like that, but it's just a again, understanding and learning how to navigate that. Um, and again, I think at this point he's just happy to have um people around. In fact, people want to have a relationship with him, because you know, talking to older men, one of the things that they said that the best thing, one of the best things, and never about money, it's like having a good relationship with my family when I don't have to do anything for them. But I and that's when they're more willing to do it. And that's the crazy part to me.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But that comes with a lot of things, man. As long as I feel like as long as you got family, you always gonna have to do for somebody. When when my oldest was born, the day he was born, I remember sitting there having a bill with my dad, and he told me, that's your son to the day you die. Damn what people say when your kids turn 18, whatever the case may be, that is your son to the day you die. So that's something I'll you always gonna have to do for for him. Now there's a a certain extent you're gonna have to do for him. You know what I mean? There's a certain extent you'll have to do for him, but you always gonna have to look out for yours. So as long as you got family, you always gonna have to do something.
SPEAKER_03:And I ain't never mind looking out for mine, but I also plant the seed like there's nothing like having your own. Like, and if you don't want me to have any say-so, have your own. And the only way you can have make me not have any say-so, you ask for my money, you ask for my say-so. So if you don't want to hear my say-so, cool, but I will help. You know, I ain't gonna mind, but you know, certain stuff comes with the territory. You're not gonna go get a job and you start getting the paycheck. You got to go through the application, you got to go through the interview process, you got to go through onboarding, you got to do all that stuff before you get a job. So you just ask for stuff and just think it happen. But a lot of the times, it's I I call it the microwave population. Everything wants stuff, everybody wants stuff now, now, now, now. And I'm like, nah, that's not, I don't operate like that. And I the reason why I operate like that, because again, I I'm a thinker. I sit back and I think about three or four different situations. Okay, three or four different outcomes. Well, how can we look at this? What's the easiest for this person, that person? And when I you do it over and over and over and over again, it becomes second nature. So it's like I I want to be in the part for a long time. I'm saying this out loud, I need a mentor. For the longest time, ain't nobody could, I ain't gonna say could mentor me, because again, I know I'm I'm headstrong, but it's like I want to get to another level. And the level where I'm at now, it's hard to navigate because I know I need to be doing, I know I need to be doing something else. It's almost like God pushed me. Your purpose is something different. Not saying I'm not doing things along the way that are purposeful, but my purpose is I haven't realized it yet. And I'm starting to get there and get in the path, and I think everything happened for a reason to put things and people in place to make these dreams realities. And that's the that's where I'm at now, kind of entering this year, looking at again, son graduating, um high school, getting out of high school, and that's like a different step. But also, again, now it's like me and my wife get to focus on each other. How do we navigate each other? Because we've been parents for so long. How do we get back to just being a couple? To the romance. Just being a couple constantly, because everything it's like, you know, just a daily check-in. Okay, you got this person, you got this person. I'm going to pick up this person. We going here, we got this, and everything's centered around the kids. And for the last two years, I'm kind of hinting, like, look, okay, these kids about to go, like, what are we doing? But um, and you we see progress. I see progress in different things. So it's like, again, that this I ain't gonna call it midlife crisis, but I feel like I'm I'm in the start of one, and uh probably on the way to one. You want that, you want that romance.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's the beautiful thing, and that's something we can touch on in another episode because um, yeah. Because that, you know, everybody, every man needs it. Yeah, oh yeah, we good. But yeah, man, that's crazy that, and and that's the beautiful thing about friendships and and talking to people, man. You you know, a lot of people don't know. We do this show, man, we don't talk about what we're gonna talk about. But then it's crazy that me, we go through the same thoughts, and not even the same thing, you have the same thoughts you know at the same time. So that's a big one, man. Um you know, it's shout out, shout out to everybody that may be going through that and and and those type of things, man. So but other than that, man, it's been a good week, man. I got I got some pretty good pick sixes, man. I can start some conversations. So just to go back and touch on that one that I that I wanted to pinpoint, this was actually my very first one, man. So what is a ritual or remedy? It's two part. What's a ritual or remedy that your parents taught you that you use today, and what's a ritual or remedy that you think your kids will take from you that they will use?
SPEAKER_03:Um, well, I can think off the top of my head, remedy. Anytime I have a sore throat, my grandma, gargoyperxide. When I first heard it, I was like, man, is you trying to kill me? She was like, No, gargoyperxide. So, you know, reluctantly I did it. Ever since then, that my throat scratched a little bit, I gargo peroxide, zero issue. So anybody in my household come to me, my throat hurting, garga peroxide. What are you doing? Goggle peroxide. I ain't say swallow, I just say gargle it, spit it out. It's gonna have this feeling, you're gonna feel you're gonna keep wanting to spit, but go ahead and get it out. But it's gonna call, it's gonna help whatever it is. And that's one I'm definitely gonna take. And I think my kids probably gonna take it. I finally got my wife on board because she she loves to go to the doctor, let the doctor tell her stuff. But I'm like, man, we got home remedies, we got home remedies. Grandma'll be keeping people alive a lot longer than some of these doctors.
SPEAKER_01:So it's nothing that like, so that's the one you said, your like maybe one that you that your kids will take from you. Um like down the road.
SPEAKER_03:A ritual, a man will work for what he wants, a person works for what he wants. My son already got it tattooed on him. I ain't, you know, the first, but yeah, they're gonna work for what they want. You know, I take care of needs, and I'm always big big on, look, I'll give you your needs. You need a place to stay, you need something to eat, I I got you, but the stuff you want, they ain't gonna, you know, that's something you got to work toward.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I I mean I I have uh there's uh a whole lot of rituals that I've that I've always had. But one that um I don't know, man. I know one that I know will pass down from my oldest for Cam. Uh even before I when you know I moved before I moved back to Florence, man, and and it got and it goes back to homecoming. Like when I was before I moved back to Florence, I come home. I always sign him out of school. For homecoming, yeah. And I would we would go pick the hog up, and I would let him pick the hog up, put it on the grill for me, and all that type of stuff. And even when I moved back to Florence, I did it. And then for homecomings when he was in high school, it was like, Cam, you wanna uh you wanna say you wanna ride with me real quick? He was like, Yeah, yeah, come on. Like, so he I he thoroughly enjoyed that. And even this year, man, he's an alumni. So even this year, you know, he called me probably a few weeks before and was like, Yeah, dad, we our first year out, he said we're gonna have the shirts, but you know, can I tell my class to come to y'all uh yeah, man, come on. Like, yeah, for sure. We already account for y'all anyway. We've been doing it. So, so yeah, that's one that I feel like.
SPEAKER_03:But I can't wait to go, I can't wait to go to their tent. Yeah, in a couple of years. Like, look, I wanna go sit down, like, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But um, a ritual, I I don't know, man. I think one, um, shoot, it's hard, bro. Like, I just say a simple one, man. I I I know I get the uh the candle burner for my mama. My mama burned candles all throughout the house. And I love it, man. Just to have, you know, that scent. Because scents are, you know, that's a part of that's a that mix messes with your psyche. I but I'm a true believer in that. You walk in a room and it smells a certain way, your your way of thinking gonna change. So so I I I you know, I burn candles, man, and you know, I I ain't sitting here saying I'm sitting here having a seance or nothing, but just that alone. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:My wife, my wife do it in the house sometimes. I I started, I get the one she don't like and take it to my little area, yeah. That's how it goes. But yeah, she burned candles. All right.
SPEAKER_01:So this is one here, and I thought I thought about it, but I couldn't think of one because it was so funny. What's the bad advice that that act what's bad advice you got that actually worked? I couldn't think of one, man. But I said this.
SPEAKER_03:Oh man, I I don't know if for airways, I'm sitting here trying to think about I received a lot of bad advice that worked.
SPEAKER_01:Um I'm gonna let you think about it, but the only way I can think of is back to college, and I'm gonna try to clean it up a little bit. And that's what I'm thinking. I'm gonna have to do anything with that. It was like, man, yo, uh, and y'all listeners just follow me on this. It was like, yo, go ahead. Go ahead and go ahead and talk to her. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, and it actually turned out to be uh somebody that got me a job. Because I didn't want to talk to her. It was like for whatever reason, I put it that way. I did.
SPEAKER_03:It was no attraction. Yeah, and I had an attraction.
SPEAKER_01:And I talked to her, and I talked about it. Yeah, you talked your way into some employees. I talked to her, I talked to her, and yeah. So yeah, that was one for me.
SPEAKER_03:But that was I read, I was like, bro, that's crazy. Yeah, I can't really think of too much bad advice that that I should, that I didn't, that I took, and it was good. I don't know. I ain't got a tough one. I'm telling you, I'm about to come back.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, give me your time to think on that one. What's an overrated legendary sports figure or team to you? Overrated sports figure or team? Like overrated legendary sports figure or team. Like something a lot of people talk about. You like, man, they was lying. I got one for you.
SPEAKER_03:A legendary, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to think, man. I'm going basketball, football, baseball, trying to see him.
SPEAKER_01:It could be a per just a particular athlete or a team. That's overrated. Yeah, that you feel like is overrated. Uh I don't know if I got nobody, man. I got one, man. It's that, it's that uh Boston Celtics, the big three dynasty.
SPEAKER_03:Oh man, there ain't no dynasty. They go out one championship. They milk that championship more than anything I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_01:I can agree with you. That one. I don't think Doc Rivers is a great, I think he's a decent coach. I don't think he's a great coach. He's not up there with the city.
SPEAKER_03:No, he don't he don't win the big ones. Yeah. If he had to have a good thing. He has so many good teams.
SPEAKER_01:He's he hasn't won outside of that. They won one championship. Yeah, they went to another. And yeah, they probably could have won that other if if uh I think uh Kendrick Perkins got hurt and Paul Pierce. I think it was somebody in that starting five got hurt. Yeah, it was it was two in that starting five that got hurt, I think, during that second time. But damn it, they didn't win.
SPEAKER_03:Correct.
SPEAKER_01:And I think that that's the one for me. That little big that big three, that they're not legendary. Yeah, I mean they were good.
SPEAKER_03:They were good, but I think they milked that championship. They were good, they milked that championship the way ever they won championship felt like it way better than everybody else. Like, nah, like y'all did the same thing Jokic Nim did. Y'all did the same thing, you know, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum did.
SPEAKER_01:And people try to say, well, yeah, we made LeBron go to the heat. Maybe so. But that don't make y'all even more bad. He came back and beat y'all. He did the same thing y'all did. Y'all played with three, four Hall of Famers to be more.
SPEAKER_03:He did more. He won two championships.
SPEAKER_01:Y'all had y'all joined with three and created a fourth with Rondo, and he played with three. Or two others, I should say.
SPEAKER_03:So, yeah, I mean Yeah, Doc River can be one, I think, if it's highly overrated. Like for sure. Yeah, I can I can go with that one.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, what's a song that you like but wouldn't sing or play out loud around your boys? Um, seven years. Lucas Graham Years around me. That thing can touch you. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what's seven years Lucas Graham. I'm gonna tell you one, man. Cause I like the beat. I like because there's a one as the the there's a rapper that comes on that sets it off, Slim Thug. Okay. Uh check up on it by Beyonce. Well, yeah, I like that. But you know, that ain't one. You won't talk about the boy, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that's one for me. Yeah, check up on it by Beyonce.
SPEAKER_03:I let it fly down. Now the one with her and Usher, um, in the club with the remix with her and Usher, I love that one too. Like I'm an RB guy, like man. Look, I y'all can talk rap, I got RB.
SPEAKER_01:Check up on it with Beyonce is it for me. I ain't gonna lie. I like I like I jammed it. I had to crib, clean it up or something, you know. Come on, check up on it. But uh, all right. Your favorite outfit, yeah. This goes back to something that you know my boy looking for the romance, Benny. Favorite outfit of clothing to see on a woman.
SPEAKER_03:On a woman? I I like a uh uh and I like my women elegant, man. I like a Claire Huxtable type look. So I'm one of them ones that you know, I don't want my woman exposed like that. Like a look, I look at a car to be walked by, but I wouldn't want my woman dressed like that. But a nice little black dress that's fitting. Yeah, mine the same, but I nice little fitting back.
SPEAKER_01:Mine'll be my my answer is a nice black or red dress. I don't know why red, but I like tight fitting, nice fitting correct, yeah. And got to have a little bit of cleavage out. Like I got. I like a classy look, man. Yeah, down. I don't want the ponytail. I like your hair down. You know, I oh my lord. Maybe we ain't got to go to dinner. I'm with you. All right, uh, all right. My last one as far as this this portion of pick six. What was your what was your first AOL name or your first email name? My first um Playboy15 at gmail.com. That was my AOL screen name. My first Playboy Big Boy843. What's happening? I got my I got mail. They said you got to have a regular email, but yeah, Playboy15 at Gmail. But you know what's crazy? My my first email, and I still use it, it was in high school where uh, you know, people really started getting emails. I think this had to be maybe 99, our sophomore year, and I still I don't use it anymore, but I still get emails to it, and it was a play off of um high school mascot tigers and the number that I wore. But Tigers was taken, so I made a play. I put T I G then my number in US, so it spells Tigers instead of but yeah, I still got that email to be honest. Yeah, I don't want to know what that was. Yeah, yeah. That was my first ever email address, and I still, I still, I mean, I got a I have a Gmail address that business purposes, yeah. But yeah, I still I still kind of use my first uh ever email. I don't yeah, yeah, that was I I know one of our boys his name was Red Man Sexy. That was all he said. You already know who that was. Red Man Sexy. What? But uh yeah, man, that's it for that portion of pick six, man. Um we'll get we'll get into the other portion, but just want to make sure you ain't got nothing else before we get into that last one. Oh man, nothing. No, I'm good, man.
SPEAKER_03:Go ahead and continue.
SPEAKER_01:All right, uh, last one, rapid fire here. Would you prefer the peppermint puffs or the starlight peppermint? Starlight. All right, homecomings or family unions? Homecomings. Spring forward or fall back? Fall back.
SPEAKER_03:Oh I just don't like the fact that get dog so early. Look, I like that extra hour. And I used to party on that extra hour. That would have been.
SPEAKER_01:That's cool them first two or three days. But when you get to work and get off the clock, you looking at that clock and you be like, man, it should have been four o'clock. It's three o'clock. That ain't cool. All right. Uh would you rather shoot pool or bowl? Um, I like both. Um, shoot pool. Rather shoot pool. I think I would rather bowl. Back to the peppermint. I like them starlights.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And then church candidate. Uh both of them church candidates, but yeah. I like I like to have uh a handful of the starlights when I'm coaching. I sit them right there on the uh scores table and throughout the game. I got you. Uh, homecomings family unions. That's a tough one for me, man. I because your homecomings are family, could be. I I'll probably homecomings, probably. It is a little more ratchet.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think I'm by it because it will another school that probably family.
SPEAKER_01:It is a little more ratchet in this with homecoming. You got to be careful because your grandma might be sitting on the city. Correct.
SPEAKER_03:You know, you can do what you want to do, and two, you can't enjoy that. I'm beyond because everybody's family. Yeah. Uh laptop or tablet?
SPEAKER_01:Um, give me a laptop. Yeah, I'm the same. All right, this is a tough one for me, man. This is the last one, bro, because ooh, Lord, this both of these made me pull my hair. Would you rather wash dishes or fold clothes?
SPEAKER_03:Uh personally, I'd rather fold clothes. You rather fold clothes? I'd rather I can't stand washing dishes, man.
SPEAKER_01:I can't stand neither one of them. Bro, I will go, I will wash all the clothes in the house. Putting them up, leave them right there in the basket. Yeah. And see that. Until the next time you wash clothes.
SPEAKER_03:And see, I would love to do that, but look, I got four other people had to wash clothes behind me, so I got to get mine up out the way.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know which one I'd rather do, to be honest, man. I it it will probably be wash dishes. But it depends on how much dishes and if it's pots and if I got to scrape them, I don't know. I had to wash dishes forever.
SPEAKER_03:Look, clothes and my clothes dishes might be somebody else's dishes.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, man. But yeah, man, that's those my pick sixes, man. Those uh so that's been heavy on me, man. Definitely, definitely, definitely been enjoying uh kind of sifting through these things, man, because it's some tough options out there.
SPEAKER_03:I got you. Hey, man, so what you got coming up? Anything coming up in the next couple of weeks? Oh, basketball season, man.
SPEAKER_01:It's my last free weekend. Well, I'm going to party to have some fun. This last weekend. But basketball season, man. Uh, I know in the state of South Carolina anyway, man. November 3rd, man. Shout out to all the coaches, man, that that's been putting it in that grind. Um, ready to, I don't want to say put your families on the back burner, but you know, ready to put other people's kids first. I should say that. Um and get into that grind mode from November 3rd to March 5th, uh, whatever that time frame is. Um we all are in a special type of, I guess I should say, can say fraternity to where, you know, those uh the coaching aspect is a very thankless job. You always get your faults always get pointed out. The grind does not get applauded enough, I should say, from the late nights and early mornings and taking kids home, feeding kids. Uh, I can go on and on. You gotta love it to do it. You gotta love it to do it, man. It ain't just Tuesday and Friday night, it ain't just game night. That's what people don't understand. Um, shout out to those coaches, man. Go ahead and enjoy your last weekend, rather be with your family or whoever. Because I'm about to enjoy mine. I tell you that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that coaching is something serious, man. Look, it took, I did it for a couple years on the high school level, and it's like the time and it takes, and again, for the pay, it ain't it. You you will hit a pay, it ain't worth it. But the relationships you build with the kids, the relationship you build with the community, that's the part that makes it worth it. So again, I salute all the coaches continuing with that fraternity, man. Look, I was happy to say I was a part of it for a little while. Did get the coach in the state championship, didn't get to bring home the hardware. But again, a great experience. And again, just to get up there and connect with the other coaches, man, that's always good because what I've learned, man, you you be around 10 like-minded people, you learn something. So you start talking to those conversations, and uh my wife is still coaching, she coaches cheerleading, but when they have the coaches' conferences, I try to go with her, and again, I know a lot of the people there, um, just either playing days, coaching days, or just in general through community work. But again, I applaud all coaches because again, you don't know the impact you have on our young people. Yes, sir. You see, and talk about the coaches we've had and the impact they had on us, but again, it's a continuous cycle, no matter how little big or small. But and again, I'm saying that because I still like coaching youth league. I don't try to get away from them, but youth league is where I love because everybody's playing for the love of the game. Ain't nobody trying to get no deals, ain't nobody trying to get scholarship, they're just playing because they're happy to play the game. And youth coaches, man, look, we need more of them. So get involved with it, because again, a lot of people who started out who get to the high school level, I see they start off in youth coaching to get a hang of what goes on and to see people continue to grow. And I say just from Florence, just from Florence alone, if our youth basketball program produces not just other players that played in high school, but we got a lot of coaches that coaching around the area now too. And I I love seeing that. So again, if you want to get involved with coaching, please start off with the youth programs if you're not already on that high school college level. Because I got a chance to say I had a little bit of time on the junior college level, and it's a different, it's a different ball game as far as coaching and the things they have to deal with. I wouldn't want to have to deal with the collegiate level only because of the NIL and the money aspect, because people act different with money. I like to try to keep money out of a lot of stuff because I always tell my sons, the only time men get in arguments is over money and women. That's the only time I've ever seen it. So if it's anything else, anything else can be resolved. So um again, shout out to the coaches.
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SPEAKER_03:Anything you got coming up? Um, coming up, no, a couple of things coming up. Um, and I know we got a community walk on November 8th. Um, that's with the whole community of Florence. I know um, I know November, the Qs are handing away 1,300 dinners the week the day before Thanksgiving. Um, that to different communities. We're gonna be set up at um Cumberland Church as well as New Ebenezer She-Rec building. And I think we got some going to Dillon as well, but um just trying to help, especially with some of the things that may be going on in the account. Some people may be losing some benefits, but that'll be a way to try to spread some of that holiday cheer. But um also, man, look, in a couple weeks, I got my birthday coming up, Veterans Day, and I have no clue what I'm gonna do because the obligations I got here.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:And so it's on the Tuesday. Ain't too much on the Tuesday, but for those who work up on a Tuesday. I'm gonna get right Monday night. Yeah, because my son's birthday the day before, so I probably end up wanting to do some stuff with him and then, you know, come in, celebrate quietly, and just kind of again prepare for another year, man, and be thankful for that I'm still here to celebrate. That's what it is, man. Shout out to Cash Money Records. 2025, man. Look, I um I don't have who do I have a quote for today? Um let me see. I think I saw something. I want to see if I can get it up real quick and see what we got as a quote that kind of stuck with me. Um I think the higher you climb, the more people see who you are. So instead of focusing on being seen, just work on climbing and you'll be surprised and the more people to see you. But with that, we are