SPEAKER_04 0:12

Welcome back. Poor choices only, episode 10. Happy to have you here with us. As always, James.

SPEAKER_03 0:20

We got a Bodie over here behind the scenes, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

I'm sorry. I just hit myself in the mouth in the mouth with the mic. I'm so sorry. The mouth. Like I was I was in it. Sorry though. Real talk. My bad. Happy Tuesday. Welcome back. We've really been missing you guys. I don't know, man. Today's today, man. I've been thinking about y'all. Today's today. Today's the day.

SPEAKER_04 0:50

Today's the day for what?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Today's the day. Today's the day we come to sit down, have a good moment, have a good talk. Be able to talk to you guys, man. I've been I've been like anxious. I've been anxious to talk. Like I've been ready to talk. I've been like, man, where's my friends? Where's my where's the people that love us? Where's here? Who the where the people at for this content? Where the people at that's ready to watch something forget like, you know, get get live, you know? I've been waiting. I'm here, man. It's Tuesday. Let's go. It's Tuesday, it's Taco Tuesday. Go get your tacos. Can't tell you to do anything else with your tacos, but get your tacos. And whatever else you do, happy Tuesday, man. Yeah. You know. Taco. Taco Tuesday.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

We never got tacos on Tuesday. We never got tacos on Tuesday, but I know what today is. But I mean, LeBron needs tacos on Tuesday. You see what I'm saying? Be like LeBron. There's a LeBron lover over there. Yeah, for real. You probably don't know. We're advertising right now. Yeah, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

It's my go, bro. We're saying this is the guy. As we do all things, let's get into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

How was your week, Vassier? Week was good. I mean, work wasn't crazy. Work was really pretty chill. I mean, had my two clothes, my brunch, and I mean I worked them. That's pretty easy. Friday. Nah, you know what? Sunday was really a little chaotic, but made the best out of it. Pulled through, got out of it. Retired, got home. Had a good week, honestly. It was a good weekend through the week. I mean, you know, you have your ups and downs. So I mean, a little bit of a little bit of downs through my week. I had to make it through it, make it to the weekend, kind of started building up, making a little bit more positive. So I mean I finished the weekend very positive. Started the week, positive to low, I finished very high on positive. So I mean, overall a good week. As long as I finish good at the end of the week, that's all that matters. Speaking of work, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 2:54

A lot of y'all. People not YouTube specifically, but people at work, y'all starting to be a little fake. Not fake in the means of like you're fake, but like people are starting getting mad at me that I'm not picking up shifts anymore. Like I'm starting to just work the shifts that I've got. And they people used to look to me to pick up their shift because I used to pick up everything. But now that I want to take a little time to myself and just not only work the shifts that I'm given, y'all getting mad at me. Like you getting mad at me because I'm not picking up Sundays anymore.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

I'm not getting mad at you because you're not picking up Sundays anymore. I'm working my Sunday. I'm not putting it up. I'm getting mad because you don't get scheduled on Sunday. You see what I'm saying? That's a problem, bro. What they start out to be just me, you and him.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

Yeah, for real. But I mean, we got Dave. We got Dave. It's my own Dave. Go.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

If you don't know Dave, you're lacking. You need to come in and see your boy Dave.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Chillest man I've ever met, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Can't tell you what it looked like. That is personal. Come in and see him, for real.

SPEAKER_04 3:57

No, because someone was like, I was like, I they came in after they wanted their chip picked up. They're like, wow, you're not picking up shifts anymore? I'm like, no, I gotta live my life a little bit. I said I did that all last year. Bro, tell him to send them to me, bro. I'm all happy. Yeah, but not a lot of people picking up brunches.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

That's yeah, for real. I ain't picking up no brunch. I can't even lie.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

I picked up your Saturday brunch two weeks ago, but this past week I was like, Don't wanna pick up, don't I want to take somebody on Saturday shift, Saturday brunch? And I was just like, nah, I'm gonna enjoy the day off. I'm gonna enjoy my day. I ain't even gonna get on him on here. I thought about it. I thought about saying something. I'm not. I've really been, you know, been nice. You guys can see. What do you gotta say? Go ahead. Okay, you know what I'm about to say on Friday. I talked to him and I said, let's go get brunch on Saturday. Because I don't work Saturday morning. He said, babe, call me. Call him, no answer. Call him, no answer. Call him, no answer.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

I said, call me if I answer, yeah, we'll go. If not, that means I'm asleep still.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Called him three, four times. He never answered. Yes, he was asleep. Never. I'm not going for that.

SPEAKER_04 4:59

And then he called me at 12.30 and what did I do? Answered.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Like, I really want to cry because I was really feeling the espresso Varditi. I really wanted an espresso Varditi. I really just wanted to like Martini Day, right? I don't never have them days. I'm always making espresso. Will you go to Brunch this Saturday? Yeah, I don't know about that one. You work this Saturday, but it's a double the excuse my language a double the second hour or something like that. So I'm not hearing that. I'm really not hearing it at all. You know I work. See? Don't be bad. Listen, I might I might pick up to work with you Saturday morning. That'll make it better. I wanna go get espresso martinis myself. I wanna go drink. I'm tired of making alcoholic beverages. Tired, man. People come in a lot to them all the time. I sit there and say, I'm so happy I get to make you a drink. I wish I could have it, but I ain't gonna make it. That's what makes me happier. Line. Why? I'm lying. Like I wish I could get on the other side of the bar and you come over here and make my drink. Like you come over here.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

I can't. I cannot. And we were we worked the bar bar top together on Frida on Saturday. We did. Pretty live. Pretty live.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

He how's that go, boys? Man, I know, I know you mean we made we made cheddar.

SPEAKER_04 6:13

Like what am I gonna say? We made cheddar.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Who's trying to get off on no? Who's really trying to get off on what that report said 13 1300? Then the report changed to the city.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

Bro, so we we went from bro like me, me, Kavassier, and our other bartender all looked all looked at this report before we printed it, and it was saying like we were owed like a like a hundred something dollars. We printed that, that shit changed. And so we went from making like making like 130 like we make extra to like giving it 130 back. Even with giving it out though, we still made money. Yeah, and I know Kwasi wanted me to stay on the bar top because of that, but that ain't gonna happen. I'm so sorry, it's not that hurts though, give money back.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I've had that happen before. Like we we ended up messing up with the drawer one night, and I mean we thought we made like insane money. And if we had to give like bro, it was like $200 back, and it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 7:10

It hurts when it goes in your pocket and you gotta take it back out. Yeah, it's like I don't want to give it.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

I don't want to give it to you. It's like as soon as it hits that pocket, it's mine. You know what I'm saying? Like, hey, it hurts.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

I'm like, what do I owe you? What? Tell me how. Right now for real.

SPEAKER_04 7:26

I'll tell you what, well, we worked the bar top Saturday. I'll tell you what, he did not have to come down to my side not one time. You didn't, not once. Like he's thinking, because you can't think of a time he did when I got there.

SPEAKER_01 7:39

I didn't call him to come to my side either.

SPEAKER_04 7:43

He didn't call me. No, he never called me. He just did.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

I went, they told me to go eat. I went to go eat. I came back. Full bar top, man. James really felt how I be feeling. He really I saw it in his face. You hear me? Because I left. It was like six people. He was having like a chill night. People was just chilling, talking, drinking, eating. Not too busy. He said, go eat. So I went to go eat. I come back, full bar top. James over here. I'm cooking. I'm locked in. I said, what you need me to make? You tell myself, uh-uh. It's not right now, not in the moment. I said, I told him, I said I got it all. I said I don't need you. I got it all. He said, What can I make you? Like, talk to me, but like I'm just sitting here looking around back. Give me something. He ain't trying to talk to me, man. He don't blew me off like twice. Third time, I'm like, all right, listen, what can I do for you? Talk to me. Like, talk to me. Finally did. I was just like, see, yeah, that's a hobby. Y'all be coming back, think I'm tweaking? Oh, I'll be really zoned in. I'll be just on the walk. I'll just be I'll be on that mode.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

He's zone in and mine's on a different way. I'm just quiet whenever you're loud.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

No, when I get loud, it's when I like to play, when I like joke, when I like to, you know, just make things seem a little unusual, but they're very calm. You see what I'm saying? It ain't like driving the awareness of people like, whoa. Like, it's like it's like mind-blowing. It's like pop up. It's like, are they serious? Like, what's going on? Like, do we listen to this or not? It's just a mess. It's like giving somebody, giving them the attention while I'm getting beat on and getting crashed on. Make them feel like they're having a good moment to listen to a little bit of comedy. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 9:20

I will say what what pisses me off is when they try to treat our bar like a club. And they got bro, when they got like me and him handled this like it was on point, and there was like this group that was just standing up and ordering and just go interchanging. So we're not keeping track of who has what because we're we don't have time for that. We got a full bar plus this is going on.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Talking about makeup, just hang over here. Can I get a margarita? Can I get a Avita?

SPEAKER_04 9:45

And they're they're standing up and drinking the shit drinking the shit. Like, bro, like we're we're not that type of bar.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

Yeah, and that's what's tough. It's like, I mean, bro, I feel like most of our time is ringing in drinks, figuring out who has what. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, cranking out the drinks ain't really the hard part. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 10:00

It's just easier when people are sitting down, so we have a designated spot. But bro, they were just standing. There was the two people sitting down and there were 10 of them behind them ordering drinks.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

And then they all went to community right after a game of drinks. Wow. Yeah. I went to community. One check? Separate checks.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

Separate, bro. They were all like different. And I was like, so I'm like, what do you have? What do you have, bro? That shit annoys me.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

Yeah. Yeah, that that's definitely tough.

SPEAKER_04 10:22

That's why I like bro.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

There are some people that I will say I have that come in and they'd be like, uh, do you want to close me out? You want to try, like, you want to do that? I'm like, at most, if you don't start a towel, I can start a towel for you. You don't have to close out, but you can put a card on file. Like, I appreciate the people that do come in, they're like, You want to close me out? Like, try to make it easier. You know what I mean? I'm like, you don't have to close out. I can start a towel for you. Like, I appreciate you for the thought. A lot of people not doing that. They just come up, think they can leave, and come back, and we know exactly who you are.

SPEAKER_04 10:49

Like, like this is a club stir. Like, it's not.

SPEAKER_03 10:51

Yeah, for real. This is not a club stir. And it's like we got too many people to take care of for that to be going up. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Yeah, no, it's a lot of real. But uh, it was a good time. It was a nice little change for me to work the bar top.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

If you ever want to take your girl or your man on a five-star date, bring them to stir. Come on now, we got Krabvis for the suit. If you ain't never heard that song, yeah. I feel like Kravis. It's like one of the most good things to have. It's a five-star date. Bring them the stir. But realistically, if you're literally looking for a five-star date, bring them to stir, but bring them to the bar or stir. Don't take them to the floor or to a server table. Bring them to the bar. You get that experience that we give people. We give them constant. It's not like your server walks away and comes back maybe five, ten minutes. No, it's your bartender is at you right away for your service and giving you a show live. And then when you come in, just ask for a pistachio martine. Don't do that. I'm talking his lips over there tweaking, and I knew he was gonna say something crazy. Don't do that. Come in and ask for something off the draft menu. You see what I'm saying? Stop asking Maria, Margarita.

SPEAKER_04 11:58

Listen, he would love to make you a pistachio martine. Love to.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

I would never tell you no.

SPEAKER_04 12:02

Be stop Mike.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

I would never tell you no. And I'll tell you at your face. I'll tell you. I would never tell you no. I will tell you no. Yeah. And that's what's the difference between Stir V Sop and Ster James. You know what I mean? Like, you get what you get. You gotta get a nice cop or you get bad cop. But we're all the same. You see what I'm saying? So if he's bad cop, I'm bad cop, I'm good cop, he's good cop. But you know, we equal.

SPEAKER_04 12:24

Speaking of that, this man. This man overserved another guest, bro.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

I'm a little sudden though. You know, before he said that, before he said I overserved the nice guest, I overserved the guest. I didn't really actually serve him anything. I gave him a white Russian. I didn't even see him sit down. It's when I came back. When James again beat on and I was trying to figure out what I can make for him, he had nothing for me. I saw a guest that needed help that he didn't get to. So I walk over, get him water. He'd been sitting at the bar, but he had no service. So I went over and gave him water. I was like, How you doing tonight, boss man? Like, what you looking to get? He's like, Can I get a white Russian? I said, I said, are you drunk? Like in my head, I said, Are you drunk? I'm like, are you tipsy? Like, I'm like, that ain't much. I can't really go off of. So I'm like, you know what? You ask for a white Russian. It's not that crazy. It's like heavy cream, Kahloula, and some banana, some vodka. So I was like, you know what? We're gonna dilute it a little bit. We're gonna dilute it a little bit, give you less alcohol, but still give you your alcohol. But I'm gonna keep my eye on you, type genre. Give him a drink. He never took a sip of it, bro. Never. 15 minutes later, he tries to get sup, falls, takes the chair down. Bro, he turns to me. He goes, he goes, Oh my god. I look at James because I told him before. I said, bro, please help me keep an eye on him. Please keep it up on him. James said, Yeah, he got me. He didn't even see him fall. I'm the only person. I'm over there shaking tits. I'm like, I said, bro, where he go? Hey man.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

He's on the ground, okay? He on the ground. Gang, I'm looking like, you okay over there?

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Like, you okay? Like, okay, like, hey, bro, you you good? I'm telling John, I'm like, bro, I need you to come down here. Like, come here, like, come help me right now. Like, come help me. I'm over there screaming while I do it on the ground. I'm like, Kevin. I need you over here right now. He he ignore me. Look at him like, you're the manager, bro. Telling me you don't see this dude over here just fall out the seat and take this chair down. You didn't hear that? I heard it. So he gets up, sits in the chair, and I'm just like, I'm gonna take this drink. I'm gonna take it. It's mine.

SPEAKER_04 14:28

Yeah, he came over and he said, Should I take a drink? I said, absolutely. You should just absolutely do that.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

I went over there. I said, Hey, listen, man. I love everybody. I love people. Like I love you dearly. But this drink, I'm not gonna let you drink it. I'm gonna take it away from you. Come back and see me. I'll honor it to you. I said, come back and see me. I got you. Like, come back. I was like, but tonight, I'm not gonna let you have it. Like, I'm sorry. I love you too much. I want to make sure you make it home. I care about you. I want to make sure you make it home. This is mine, okay? I'm gonna take this away. He said, Man, let me just kill it. I said, No. Oh, he said, come on, man, let me just kill it. Let me have it. I said, Can't let you do that, man. Like, care about you too much, let you kill this drink. I said, because you kill this drink and you get out here and do anything you want to do, you might not see tomorrow. I said, But the fact that I want you to see tomorrow, this drink right here, that's what's gonna do you in. Let me have it. Let me take it.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Mine. Alright, gone. That's a good bartender out there for real. I mean, are you looking out for the customers, bro? I took it.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

I'm like, you don't need it. As much as you don't have it tonight, you're fine. You might feel like you need it, but you don't need it.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Like, I'll go drink, I'll go out, I'll get a little drunk, but I cut myself off. I cut myself off because I know I don't had a good time. I'm well over what I think I should have had. I'm having a good time. I'm gonna cut myself off. It's respectful. It's just know when is your limit and what's not your limit. That's really real. I feel that I know my limit is very well.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Yeah. It's one of those things. I mean, but there's nothing you can help on that. You know what I'm saying? Like he came in there acting like that. You know what I'm saying? So that's what I tell James.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

I was like, I didn't get to see him sit down. Like I didn't get to see how he walked in, how he came in. Yeah, all I can pick up on is how he said a white Russian took me. Like, that's it. And I was like, he didn't he said it clear, but he slurred a little. Like he slurred a little. And I was just like, I'm gonna give him one drink. I'm gonna keep my eye on him. He never drank it and fell. And I was like, yep, that's it.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

You can't have it. He gave you a chance and you ruined it.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

And we're one of those bars, bro, where it's just like, man, like that's not accepted there. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just it's not okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

And everybody sees it at the bar. Everybody sits at the bar, let you act drunk and get out drunk. They remember it and they see it and they they treat you, they base you off of what happens at the bar, off our bar, because it's it's visible. Anybody that sits at the bar gets to see every other seat right there at the bar and get to see how they act.

SPEAKER_05 16:52

Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

After I did that, everybody was just like, oh my god, you're a good bartender. Like, oh my god, like you gave him that drink, he didn't even drink it, you took it away, you made sure he wanted to make it home. Like, you're a good bartender. I'm just like, appreciate you, I care about people. Like, I'm not gonna sit you sit here and let you just get wasted and let you walk out the door and me don't know nothing about it and act like I don't care. That's wrong of me. That's I say I forget my license, brother. I care about you. Forget my license. I want to make sure you wake up tomorrow. Like you're meant to see tomorrow. Don't let my license and me trying to get you drunk or anybody else get you drunk get in the way of that. Like, bro, you have a purpose on life. And I feel like everybody has a purpose. Even we go through all and everybody's not where they want to be, and everybody don't have what they want to have. We still have a purpose on earth, bro. We didn't choose to be here. God gave our parents a reason to create us to put us here. So we have purpose. Whether we know that purpose or not, we have purpose. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_04 17:47

That's how I feel. Can I say something that pissed me off last night? So as you know, I'm not broke, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:57

No, you're rich.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

You're right. Kavase got a nickname for me. What you call me?

SPEAKER_01 18:01

His name, well, my brother Big Kid got a nickname for him. I've been calling him. It's called Big Meach. His name is Big Meach.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

You know, you know, whenever they need a loan from Big Meach, they go and I get to the Bank of James and see if it's open.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Hey, Bank of James open 24-7. Whenever you need to stop by, just call him 1-800 James. You hear me? He's gonna get at you, he's gonna get alive. But guess what? He don't charge no interest. But whenever I do loan from Bank of James, I pay interest. I just like to let them know I appreciate your services for being open all the time. You know what I mean? Like it's it's well needed sometime, you know. Yeah, man, Bank of James are always open.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

So, so I've so a couple weeks now, I have not been going to the bank and depositing. Because I when I go to the bank, I only deposit my 20s and my hundreds. I don't deposit tens, fives, ones, that's all saved in my my bread box. And I checked my bank last night. I said, that's the first time in probably two years my bank hit the negatives. I said, I said, all right, is it about time I go to the I go to the bank to the ATM? Because I don't go into the bank because you know it's too much anxiety for me. That's too much people talking for me. That's too much anxiety for me. I'm not gonna do it. So I go to the drive-thru ATM and this is like two in the morning. Usually it's open, bro. I went to my usual bank, closed. They said out of service. I said, bet. So I go to the next one 10 minutes down the road, closed. What day is it? Is it Sunday? It's yeah, it was yet last night. It was it was a Monday night.

unknown 19:28

Dang.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

It didn't say closed. It's like 2 a.m. though. No, but it's like the ATMs stay open to where you can put in money if you need to. And it was out of service. At both, there's two at the bank I go to, out of service. I went to the walk-up one of that same bank, out of service. So three, three ATMs out of service. I said, bro, ain't no way all banks of what my banks are closed all throughout Chattanooga. I go to four different spots. Close, close, close. I said, I said, I'm just gonna eat this overdraft tonight. Like, it's gonna be I'm trying to deposit like two, three thousand dollars and I can't. Like, so I gotta go after we do this. I'm gonna have to go to the bank and fix that.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

But that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 20:07

Like, like that, that pissed me off. I said, bro, I said, hey, I guess I procrastinate you. Because usually I go to the bank every Tuesday after I get off work. I just haven't been going the past two.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

So it's like he's the Banca James for a reason. And when you behind me behind that bar, I don't like putting my cash in the bank. I like carrying my cash around. So when I need Becca James, I need Banca James to help me virtually. You know, physically, I got it in cash, but do need to live virtually in my life sometimes. Well, parking class, you know, parking $11 a night, bro. I mean, now we're covered. You know, brother James covered me in the blood of James, you know what I mean? So parking's covered. We got that situated.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Y'all on the same account? Yeah. Yeah, he usually used my card. Me and Big Dog on the same account.

SPEAKER_04 20:50

You just give her 30 parking. She gives you 35 or you give her 35?

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Nah, I just give it to her for free. I just pay 35 a month. She's on my account, so she gets out for free.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

That's his lady. He said, You good, baby? Yeah, she's the homie. She's it.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Big dog the homie, man. He's it.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Go. Go. Almo, go.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

Once you become the goat, you can get once you become the goat, you can get a free parking. For real. I'm already the goat, damn bad. I'm not being part of the biggest. That's big dog. She's a goat, bro. For real. Anyways, Bodie, how was your week?

SPEAKER_03 21:21

Man, it was good. I uh other than you almost dying. Yeah, it was kind of sick, but I mean I didn't know it was dying. You know, we we prevailed, we're here. So uh I don't know, bro.

SPEAKER_04 21:29

I had hives like yeah, I came in, I came in Saturday and I was like, hey, Bodie's supposed to bar back. Where is he? He's like, Oh yeah, he had he had to go home. He had an allergic reaction.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Yeah, but that's the thing is I don't I don't really know if it's an allergic reaction. Like I really don't know what it was. I think I just like I've been swimming a lot. Um, and I think just bro, my allergies just got so bad that like my whole body just broke down to hives. Yeah, I mean like my face was covered, like my back, all that. But I mean, bro, it lasted like two days. Wait, wait, wait. I don't think it's because it could have just been a chlorine.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Well, I mean, it's a saltwater pool, so I don't know if that just dried my skin out so much that it made it break out. I don't know. I really don't know. But I mean, you know, had to call off Saturday, unfortunately. I was supposed to work a double, so that'd have been a good good bag day for me. But, you know, we ended up making up for it. Had a couple closes here the past couple days. So, you know, it's been pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Life happens, man. Yeah, it really did.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

I hated to call off, but it was like, man, I really don't want to show up. Terrible and like my face broke out.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

You know, so it's like me saying the word bar back just triggered something in me, bro. Did I tell you what me and Visaw witnessed last Saturday?

SPEAKER_01 22:42

I'm gonna tell you before he said it, okay? Hold on, time out, time out. I'm gonna let him finish it. But I'm gonna tell you, I'm a psychic. He's gonna sit here and talk about how we had a barbag playing cards with two females in the window. I already know.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

Bro, so we we just got done getting our getting our butts whooped. And bro, and I'm looking at these dishes. There's so many dishes. And Kabossier comes up to me and goes, bro, look at him. I look to my right, bro. He's playing cards with the guests, bro.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

He's playing cards, like actual cards with two females in the window. And I'm sitting there like, huh? Look at James. I wish I could right now. I wish I could play cards. I wish I could stop making drinks and just play cards, James. I wish I could.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

Hey, they're trying to make some real money, bro. You know what I'm saying? They're trying to take the whole thing. He was over there posting crushing my money.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

He was over there crushing ice, and then out of nowhere, they said, I guess play cards. He said.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

Let's be nice. He was in that bag melt like uh that one time when it melted all over your shirt.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

Bro. Bro. That was so funny. Bro, when a bar back. Oh, dude, that you do you remember that? No, so so someone, I'm not gonna say who it was, we're not gonna expose him, but a barback had put ice in the little crushing bag thing, right? And he he we told him to go do something, he forgot about it. This is before we opened. And my shirt was on the t on the counter. He put the bag of ice right next, he put the bag of ice right next to my shirt. And it sat there for like 30 minutes, milted all over my shirt. All over bro, man, Jimes' shirt was a different color.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

So uh it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

What did you do like that? And I it was bro, it was and bro, he bro, I came back, I said, I literally picked up the bag of ice. I said, bro, we just saving this for later, or what are we doing? Bro, it was like 95% water.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

He forgot, bro. He forgot.

SPEAKER_04 24:36

All over my chairs. I asked, I asked uh our GM, I said, Hey, I said, bro, I said, this is ain't no way I'm wearing this shirt right now. I said, we have to let this dry before I put this on. I said, is it cool about you working this black shirt? You said, yeah. He said, we'll just let it dry.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Oh bad. I'm gonna come in and get my shirt wet and hope I can get it. Nah, that ain't gonna slide. No, that was the one we had uh glad y'all know it ain't gonna work because guess what? I'm still trying it. I'm gonna try it.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

I think that was like on a like a I think it was like a Monday brunch. Yeah, it was a Monday brunch, something weird, bro. It was like you and me, it was you and me, and then and then our that was our bar back in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

Yeah. We thought he got I think decently busy that day. I mean the no, we were slow.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

That was the day we were like so slow. Okay. That's when I tipped him out like $10. And like we barely made a hundred. Like that was terrible, bro.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

I don't know what day y'all had brunching, but it's kind of kind of kind of whoa, kind of crazy though. I don't know what day y'all had.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

It was the day that I forget what day it was too, but it was like it was like one of those Monday off holidays. They asked you first, and you said, nah, I can't that day.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

This had to definitely be before Memorial Day because uh wasn't Memorial Day. It was it wasn't Memorial Day, I know. Because it was June, you okay.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

It was like it was like a President's Day or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

Something weird. It'd have been a minute, it'd just been a minute. It was yeah, it was a while.

SPEAKER_04 25:54

It was like when our old GM was still there.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

Yeah, it was probably when I first started Martin, to be honest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Yeah, because I remember I wanted you on that Monday with me, and then they said they said they asked you, and you said, nah. And then they put Buddy on and say, Hey, I'll take that. Yeah, hey, we lost it.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

I can't come in. I'm sorry. After working the weekends and not going to sleep for real on my weekends and just working and working and working, I cannot work Mondays, bro. I'm sorry. If I worked Mondays, I would be way more trash than what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

How many days a week do you work?

SPEAKER_01 26:23

I know you know the answer to that. You just want me to come out. Okay, listen, guys. Listen, listen. I went from being a store restaurant manager to working, I was working five, six days a week to working three days a week now at that as a bunch of. Don't get me wrong, it's not always gravy. It's it's not always gravy. It's not a few.

SPEAKER_04 26:46

I get four or five. I get I've been getting four. It kind of past few.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

I've been getting three, but I pick up on a Saturday morning. So I work four shifts.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

And you will get a get the occasional Thursday night. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

So this occasional two on that.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

You definitely get as many shifts as I do. You just you just combine them into like two or three different.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Sometimes I get three, sometimes I get four, sometimes I might get five. But mostly.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

Bro.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

But mostly anyway, I'm gonna get about three shifts a week. So I mean, yeah, I end up just honestly, I like to enjoy my week, which is like the weekdays sometime. I work some a couple events at River Dance. I work there sometime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. But I mean, most of the time, I might be off to the week. I just enjoy my week, make my money, pay my bills. If my bills are paid, I'm happy. If I got a little money left over, I'll do things with my my daughter when I get her. But other than that, we're living life. I'm not working on five, six days a week no more. I'm working three days a week and living them five, six days a week. You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Living.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

I'm living. You know, man. Forgot it all.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

We talked about last at all.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

I'll check I'll change gears a little bit. We talked about the week. It was the week.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Yeah. It's the week. I'm sorry. So welcome back. And we're back. We sorry the camera gave us a little interference, but we're back to tell y'all about the rest of our week. We're here to finish it out. Let you guys know so we can move on to the next thing, you know. So, what y'all got anything to add on about the week?

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Nah, man. Pretty solid week, other than you know, me being sick. But other than that, it was it was solid, bro. Gotcha. Right into the vibes, huh?

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Yeah, man. You know, today, man, we call these the VSOP vibes. You know what the topic is today. Actually, you don't know what the topic is today. Kind of feeling today. Today's more of a chill day, man. We never done this, so we're gonna try something new. We're just gonna have a talk with the boys today, man. I don't know, man. Anything y'all feeling? Like today, I don't like today, I could figure out some vibes, but I really don't want to learn, like, throw anything on you guys today. I feel like I gave you guys a lot of things that you can watch over all these episodes that we done gave. Kind of feel like you guys can use some of that. So take your time to utilize some of the episodes, go back through, watch them, understand what we talked about, understand what we said. And you know, that's a lot of information. But today we just want to give y'all a little clip of us talking. Like, we want to come to you and talk all together. So today is not a V side vibes, it's the poor choices only vibes. Fair enough. I like that. I like that. That's the vibe. So I want to give it a y'all hands. If y'all got anything we should talk about today, you know, let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

But you know what I've been thinking about is like you remember when we went out to the the bar a couple of weeks ago on Sunday? And then and then that one guy approached uh one of our co-workers.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

I think I remember exactly what you're talking about, man. I was right there. Crazy. Did you hear about this?

SPEAKER_03 29:36

I didn't hear. I'm new to this. So y'all feel me. Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm new to this. Bro, crazy.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

This made me never want to buy another drink for a woman again.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

No names, no names, no names. I don't want to throw no names out there, but no, I was right there. It was about four or five of us. Probably about four of us that worked at Stir. And the one person was the one guy talking to the girl that works at STR with us, you know? Talking to her. I overhear her talking about some, hey, you should buy me and your friends a shot. She buy me and my friends a shot. Talking about us four that's right there. And I'm looking at her, I said, let me see how this works out. She spent game on me. Let me see how this go. He said, she said, you know what? Matter of fact, you should buy all my friends a shot. I said, I said, there's no way that I can stare here and watch this now, no more. Like, the dude was not having it. And she was like, Hey, if you ain't gonna have to buy us a shot, like, damn. That's real, like, that's crazy. So go ahead, go ahead. Finish your thought. It went from her trying to get just us four shots to like it was about 10-11 or whatever. Because we were like trying to get us all 12-13 deep that night.

SPEAKER_04 30:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

She was so serious, she was so serious, and like you could tell the dude was trying to get on tour and was trying to get in, and that was like her way of saying, like, you do this, like, hey, here I am. Like it's crazy. It's just like, well, I'm gonna let him take over because I know he has a little bit more to dive into it on it, but but it was crazy.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

Yeah, so that happened, and then bro. Long story short, bro. He he wanted to take her somewhere, and she and she was like, nah. And and bro, buddy got pissed, bro. He broke snitched on her and everything. What? Yeah, bro. That is crazy. Like, was like, hey, this is not her real name, her real name's this, and she I guess wasn't of age. Well, I didn't know that. Wasn't of age and bro, got her kicked out of the bar, bro. Bro, it was so petty for that.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

So was he of age? He was he was. That's crazy. Yeah, honestly, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

Bro, got kicked out. So what what what I'm gonna ask you guys is like what how far would you go to buying someone a drink for uh for us ladies buying a lady a drink? Would you do the whole, yeah, buy your whole I first of all, I would not I would not buy 13 shots for I'm generous with my money, but not for people I do not know.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Let me tell you something. I'm not rich. If I was that to buy you and your friends a shot, it wouldn't happen. Because I only buy me and my friends shots. So I ain't got enough room for you and your friends. I got enough room for me and mine. You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 32:23

So that's funny. But say money was a f wasn't a factor, would you still when it got them?

SPEAKER_01 32:30

I'm broke, baby. I'm sorry, baby. I only got this to the first when it got them.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

I wouldn't either. Like, why? You think you're gonna play me and buy it?

SPEAKER_02 32:41

Everybody shots? It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

I'm not waking up tomorrow looking at my bank account knowing that I bought you and your friends' shots. Like it's not happening. Like, it's crazy. It's like wow.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

I'm like, but I mean, some people are like that. Like, some people just want to buy people drinks, food, anything like that. I mean, like the dude that me and Jesse had at the bar that tipped us like $800, bro, which is crazy. Like, dude, he was just looking to pay for people's time.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

I mean, it's just like but I feel like some people are just let's be so like Buddy was after a mission. He went to the city.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

Yeah, and Buddy was younger than us. Buddy was like early 20s. Like, I'm tired. You trying to get an early 20-year-old to buy 11, 13 people shared.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Just the just the stake that some men will go to because he was thinking about it. He said he would. He said he would. He said he would if he if she went to wherever with him. That's when I walked away.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

He thought about thought about it. That's the fact. I said, oh that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 33:34

So some of y'all men out there desperate and need to chill out for real.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

I will say, if a woman tell you to do something and you ain't doing it already, you better not do it. You better not do it. The day that you do it'll be the day that you realize you was taken advantage of. And guess what? Ain't nobody siding with you. Police not siding with you, Trump ain't siding with you, and the government damn sure ain't siding with you. So be dumb if you want. You know what my brother told me? Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. So you wanna play stupid games?

SPEAKER_03 34:04

That's the most true thing I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Buy everybody a shot. I bet you would have ended up in your room that night and woke up and like I didn't get nothing.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. That's very true. Honestly, that's that's deep, bro. Play stupid games. I'm gonna start used to games. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Since he said it to him, I'm like, oh man, I don't want to play no more stupid games. I will say, bro, that I'm gone.

SPEAKER_04 34:25

That takes like him, bold as hell. Could never be me. I I've never I don't think I've ever been to the bar and be like, can I buy you a drink? Ever. That's bold, you know, that's too much people talking to me. Yeah, too much anxiety when it comes to that.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

I'll buy if I had a female in mind I was trying to talk to and I was like, you know, trying to hit on her, you know what it was. I'll buy her a drink. But I won't buy you and your friends a drink. That's a no-go. That'd say no-go. I mean, don't get me wrong. Like, it just depends on the the length of the friendship. Like, if I know you and your friends, and like, yeah, I'm talking to you, but I know your friend. It ain't many friends, like it's a friend. I'll buy you and your friend a drink. I have no problem with that. But a group of people, no, you would never get me to get sent out to buy 11, 10, 15, 20 shots.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

So how like when it turns into a group of people, you're just getting taken advantage of. So how would you shut down?

SPEAKER_00 35:21

How do you shut it down?

SPEAKER_04 35:22

Yeah, so say, say Say I'm coming up to you, I'm a woman, right? Or you come up to me, I'm a woman, right? And you're asking me, Oh, like, can I buy you a drink? And what if I said, Yeah, you can buy me a drink, you gotta buy me my friends' drinks, though.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

You know what I'd say? Tell me what you said. I say, I'm so sorry. I didn't come in here planning about you and your friends to drink. I already got a tab open and I've been buying a lot of shots. Can't do it tonight. Then they hit you with it. Yeah, can't do it tonight.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

Like, and then you gotta hit them with the say listen. Hit him with the well, she hits you with the, but you want my friends to like you, right?

SPEAKER_01 35:50

You know what I would say? I would say, let me be back. I gotta use the restroom. Never came back.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

I mean that's the best way to sketch that situation, to be honest. Like, I mean, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

I would have gone on about my night and then great. Yeah, like I ain't even running into you, gang. Oh, I would have walked away and not even go to the restaurant. Now I'm back to my friends. I say, Yeah, she's crazy, like trying to give me body shots. It's not happening, gang. Like, who wants shots? Talking to my friends now. Who wants shots?

SPEAKER_04 36:15

No, I probably wouldn't I've probably been like I've probably been like, Yeah, let me get right on that. I'll go walk away.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

I wanna sent you out because you ain't finna come looking for me. I would say, Oh, let me go to the restaurant gone. Never see me again. You put 20% on that tab, I'm out of here, you know. See you later. Oh, me, I would have got gone.

SPEAKER_04 36:36

Would have got ghost.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

I cannot.

SPEAKER_04 36:38

Like I said, man, some man bold as hell. Could never be me. Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

Don't get me wrong. I mean, it ain't nothing special. Now, we're we're about to get married and your friends are all there, and I'm trying to get rounds and shots and everything. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I do that about it. I'm not with you. And I have nothing. I'll pick up the tab all the time. I got nothing with you. We don't have anything built, we have no foundation to even start it. No. No. At most, you probably get a drink, but at that, no. Yeah, you get mad when I pick up the tab all the time. I sure do. I get mad. But I'm my head, I'm at the same time, like, bro, I just already undid it. Like, what can I do?

SPEAKER_04 37:20

Like I'll do it so sneakily, too. She'll drop off the check and he'll just be, no, you did not.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

Oh, he'd be brought like, no, don't let him do that. No, no, no. Stop.

SPEAKER_04 37:32

There were one time, bro. He we were at Grant, we were at the the bar that we go to, and bro, he he was gonna buy like it was like me, him, and another bartender. He was gonna buy the shot. He was starting to get his cash out, and they had tap to pay, right? I just throw my car right on top of the tap.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Do you ever wonder how the tap to pay works though? What do you mean? Like, how does that work? Like, I mean, it's a plastic card. Yeah, but it's like a sensor. Yeah, but it's just like how does it know? You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 38:00

Like, how do I make the card? No, I know. I'm just in the bottom of mine.

SPEAKER_01 38:05

How many systems know to take this money from your bank when you tap it and the bank digest is your amount based off of a tab?

SPEAKER_03 38:12

Millions of cards. Like, I mean, bro, even the cards that we have on our tow system, bro, you just smack it on there and it's like good to go. Like, how does how does it recognize everyone's cards?

SPEAKER_01 38:20

You know, around the count numbers embedded to them. Technology's amazing, man. It's crazy. So that does show you technology. Like it's amazing.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

How do we have a how how am I able to call you from 10,000 miles away? Yeah, if I'm in California, I gotta call you. What? That's very true.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

I mean, uh, it's just the car thing just gets me confused.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

You know what? The fact that you guys brought that up, I'm gonna give you a little bit of V Side vibes today. Y'all don't know. We live in the world of the Matrix. Like you might not have this dude. Listen, you might be right, though. No, behind off screens and behind anything you might not know about, we live in the matrix. Like, everything is numbers, everything is like it's in between something that you can't see, like the car reading and tapping your card. When you're doing that, when you're tapping somebody's car, bro, somewhere in the space or somewhere, there are numbers going back and forth, like matching to like identify like that account, this, that, this, that. It's matrix, bro. We live in the matrix. Whether you feel like it or not, we have something in the past that we already know. We have something in the future that we can somewhat picture in our head, but we don't know too sure about it. It's because it's the matrix. We're all living in the past, present, and the future. Uh-huh. But we might not see it. Like clear. You can see something. Don't tell me that you ain't never seen something before it happened, and it really felt like you've seen it a little before, like Deja Vu. That's Matrix, bro. Deja Vu. Like, when you watch the Matrix, what do you see? Them going into the future and really living out actions in the future before it even happens. Like, we're in a little bit of it. Like The Matrix is like.

SPEAKER_03 39:59

I'll agree with that. Because I mean, bro, there'll be there'll be times where I'm thinking of something like I'm gonna give an example here. Like Oliver Tree passed away in the helicopter crash, R.I.P. Um, had a couple bangers, you know, goat. Um but like I was thinking about one of his songs the other day. And bro, the next inst the first Instagram reel that I opened up, it was him like singing a song, and I'm just like, how do they know that, bro? Like I was literally just thinking that, like, I didn't say any words about it, nothing like that. Like, how do they know, bro? You know what I'm saying? Like, I it might be the matrix, bro.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

Like, I mean I'm not saying base it off of it 100%, but I'm saying it is a thing to think about. Like, bro, there's a lot, like our genes, like our genes, you see how it is, it's like it's crossed as into a ladder, like you have certain genes that's just like fan and wave and like that's matrix, like our genes across so many things genetically. Yes, it's genetic. That's what I'm saying. It's the matrix, it's crazy. Like, yeah, it's just those things.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

But it's so much that it's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 41:00

And the fact that you said that's exactly what I said at the same time when you said it's genetic. I was saying it's genetic. Like, it's crazy. Like, that's what it is. That's but what that's what we live in. Like, don't nobody know for sure. Like Do you know what the Matrix is? Like, I watched all the matrix. Have you ever watched all the matrix and actually watched them? Yes, I know a lot of things that they was doing in and out of.

SPEAKER_03 41:23

No, I mean we control what we do, but it's like there is things that rebound off of what we do. What we doing is that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

There ain't somebody controlling you. You're controlling you, but you are bouncing off of things that you speak on and see based off of present and future. Like, that's what I'm saying. Like, ain't nobody controlling you, but you're living in the matrix where you might say something and then boom, and while it happens, it's like deja vu, but realistically, you just had a conscience of what was about to happen. Like, that could be that realistic. Or you end up being somewhere in the present where in the past you were, but you have no no understanding of it.

SPEAKER_04 41:59

So you so you had a feeling when I changed my lifestyle that that was that's what I was gonna do? No, I never said that.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Never said that at all. Like between people, yeah, that was a what he chose to do for his life, I knew nothing about curveball. Curve all. I said, What James? I said, What are you talking about? So, yeah, I'm not hearing that. I'll talk.

SPEAKER_04 42:24

But no. But you but you had deja vu. You had a you had a feeling that was gonna happen, right?

SPEAKER_01 42:30

No, the fact crazy thing is if something crazy happened, yeah. I say deja vu now, but at the time when you came to me, I was one of the off moments of the algorithm of a matrix. I was I was not he was not lined up to do that, you know what I mean? He just broke off, he broke sequence, like yeah, he broke he broke the matrix, to be honest. Now the matrix somehow entwined with him, like it's just working out, like it'd been working out. The matrix knew the matrix knew before you even knew that you was gonna do that. You see what I'm saying? It already had it planned out, lined up for you. I don't think it did, it did ain't no way it's working out now, and it didn't. It did, it had it worked out, it had it lined up for you. Say, yeah, he might switch and change and do something different in his life right here. And you know what it was? They didn't know, but they had it lined up. I mean, you did. You changed your life, you know.

SPEAKER_04 43:22

You've been seeing, you've been seeing a different James. I talked to my buddy the other day, and he said, He said, I've been waiting. He said, I've been waiting to see James like this. You and Tom James. He said he'd been waiting to see him like this. He said, He said, This I've been waiting for all my college years, my college roommate. He said, I've been waiting for you to be like this. I said, I knew you had it in you. I knew you're a good looking man, and I knew you could be like this.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

Yeah, your boy James might go. Never mind. Chill out. Too much information. I got a brain, I know what to say and what not to say. So I thought about it. I said, nah. But nah. But yeah. I'll never watch The Pursuit of Happiness. That's James. That's James in pursuit of happiness right now in his life. He's in the pursuit of happiness. Kid Cuddy.

SPEAKER_04 44:15

Speaking of that, so yeah. Told you I had a date on Thursday, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

Tony's Foster. Fire. What you eat?

SPEAKER_04 44:24

I got a chicken party. It's good. Date went good. Oh, I almost hit some. Date went good. Trying to get me. We just weren't, you know, compatible. We mean connected, but it was just like we just live two different lifestyles.

SPEAKER_03 44:41

So will it be date number two? Or is it over number two?

SPEAKER_04 44:44

No, she like we already talked about it. Like, it's just like she goes to bed way too early. Like, it's just we just would never see each other. It's tough.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

I mean, you know, it definitely can work. I mean, it's only relatively early, but you know, I'd be staying up late since we're marching.

SPEAKER_04 44:59

The more connections out there, you know, the more the merrier. Yeah, for real, for real.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

Ain't the way it ain't the end of the world.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

No. Nah, nah. Not at all.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

Trust me.

SPEAKER_04 45:08

Especially my new mindset. It's whatever.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

Yeah, he lost it.

SPEAKER_04 45:11

It happens. And it respected her for communicating that and just being up front. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. That's real.

SPEAKER_03 45:16

Instead of getting you invested in the world.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

I told her that. I said I said, hey, I can't appreciate you communicating that. Like, because she she was the one that first brought it up, and I was like, hey, like, you don't know how no, you don't understand how much that means. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Yeah. That lets me know everything. Like, that's that's important. A lot of people choose to feel like not to tell the next person exactly how they're feeling or what they're thinking they want to do. And that right there just leads people to play mind games. And mind games are not fun. Like, mind games make people never want to try to do games, try to do things again. Like, as in play a mind game with somebody and leave them to question themselves and letting them to figure out what the answer is in between you two. That'll make them honestly not even want to connect with the next person just because you wasted that time, and that time just feels so vulnerable and valuable that you didn't treat it right. So the next person ends up not getting treated right because they don't know if that next person's gonna treat you the way you treated them. And it sucks. It's like but when people come out and like to be honest, that's what makes you feel like, oh, there's really good people out here in the world. Like, yeah, just because everything didn't hit off the right way, doesn't mean we don't like each other. But hey, I want to tell you this, like this is where I'm at. Like, we're not just we're not lined up the same, but I can see that we would have a good time. But I just want to be honest, like and nothing's wrong with that. That's what I feel like. That's the reason why I get so confused on when people say I'm wait for the right person. Like I feel like you should honestly go out, live life and adventure. The reason why is because you never know who the right person is. You adventure, you you can tell them that hey, I'm not feeling this, or hey, I am feeling this. That's all life is. It's all about what you two are feeling and what you two not. You're either aligned or you're either not aligned at all. Like that's just what it is. Like it's crazy. It's very crazy. It really is though.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

Right personal people, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

Yeah. But it's fun. Like, don't get me wrong, yeah, he might have gone on a date. Didn't come out going in on top, probably going on another date, date.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

And it wasn't like the date was awful. Like we talked the whole time. Like, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it was good. We connected.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

He went on a date, had a good time, had a good day. Like, other than that, if he didn't go on that date, James would have never gone to Tony's pasta. But since James had a date, he went to Tony's pasta, got to eat some pasta. I hope he ate some pasta. Yeah, he ate some pasta, okay? Chicken porn. He ate some pasta. Got to eat some pasta, enjoy some time, got to talk, had a good vibe. Like, it didn't mean that the date didn't go well. It's just they had a good time and they got to know each other and make a connection. Even though that connection might not be still here embedded and like going on, they'll be able to pick up somewhere later down the line and say, oh, hey, I remember you. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's a connection. Connections are always remembered.

SPEAKER_03 47:58

Connections are everything, bro. Honestly. I mean, even in bus in the business world and just in life, bro. I mean, that'll get you so many places. It will.

SPEAKER_04 48:05

All right. So, yeah, we had a little camera troubles again, but we're back now. We had a little intermission. We're gonna be back. Uh, we're gonna go right into top of the top with Bodhi.

SPEAKER_03 48:14

Yeah, let's do it, guys. You already hold on.

SPEAKER_04 48:16

Let our let our intern hand us our boards real quick.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

For sure, for sure. Hey, man. Hope you guys are having a good day today, man. You know, man, I'm walked outside today. It's a little hot, a little steamy. I ain't telling you too much, but.

SPEAKER_04 48:29

What's your what's your winning pen? You want black or green?

SPEAKER_01 48:32

Yeah, I don't know, man. It's okay, man. You want to tell them folks who my record is, man? What's your record is, man?

SPEAKER_04 48:36

8-1. 8-1.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

His is crazy. His is eight to one and mine's and mine's is one to eight.

SPEAKER_04 48:41

He won the very first one and never won again. Yeah, but I'll throw you a bone, too.

SPEAKER_01 48:45

You know when I'm gonna win again? It's gonna be the last episode. But you know what's crazy? It's never gonna be the last episode. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 48:51

Yeah. All right, so Bodie, go ahead and start us with the talk, big ass.

SPEAKER_03 48:55

Yeah, for sure it does. Um, today we got top five American cocktails of all time. I'll give him a head start. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

He requested a head start, so I'll give him a head start. Sure. I'll give him a so Bodie, look at the clock, tell me when it's 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

You think by you letting me write on this whiteboard is me having a head start? You know what to give me a head start? Give me the what's number one. That's the head start. That's the head start. Y'all cheating. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

Is this is this American-made cocktails? Uh or is it just what America drinks?

SPEAKER_03 49:23

What America? Just what American drinks.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

Okay. Okay, can you know what? Just go ahead, play fair. Go ahead. Just write what you got down. I'm okay with it. Cocktails, right? Yeah cocktails.

SPEAKER_04 49:35

So no neat bourbons. None of that shit.

SPEAKER_03 49:39

Um, y'all got about 15 seconds left. That's cool. Give me a second.

SPEAKER_04 49:44

Uh that was for his head start. So I had no head.

SPEAKER_03 49:49

Correct. We ain't not together. Y'all take your time.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

You actually might win this one.

SPEAKER_01 50:00

No. I'm gonna tell you nothing about what I'm writing over here. I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

It's actually kinda hard.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

It is, man. That's really not a good try though.

SPEAKER_04 50:26

Wait, wait, wait, wait. I almost forgot something.

SPEAKER_01 50:30

Hopefully, two answers on one line. I'm gonna pray.

SPEAKER_03 50:36

You have a point if you get it right.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

Alright, I'm done.

unknown 50:44

You.

SPEAKER_01 50:45

I'm done. Alright. I'm gonna lose, but it's okay. So you wanna go first? You want me to go first? You go first, man. You the winner, man. Always, man. Win again, man. Lead, lead, lead. All I do is win, win, win. Alright, F five.

SPEAKER_04 50:57

F five, I have a dirty martini.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Four, I have margarita.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

Alright. Ooh.

SPEAKER_04 51:04

Three, I have sour. I have a sour. Two, I have an old fashioned. And then one, I have espresso martini.

SPEAKER_01 51:14

I forgot about a margarita, baby. Baby, I forgot about you. So sorry, I forgot about the margarita. Okay, listen, I don't even care anymore. I lost no idea because that one's very tough. Margarita is very important. You cannot forget a margarita. But anyway, it's number one. I'm gonna start from my one, not my five. My one, I got an old-fashioned. I feel like old-fashions are very popular. I make those a lot and I don't really like them. Two, I say espresso martini. If you're not like an old-fashioned, you're definitely going for espresso martini. Now three, I gotta say a Manhattan. It falls in the category where people start saying they want a Vucare, a Bobardier, or something like that. So say Manhattan. Or I got a classic martini. That's whether it's dirty, just stirred. Just a classic martini. Just martini, you know. Told you I was putting two on here. I put a whiskey sour slash a lemon drop martini. Okay, you gotta choose one. Those are two vastly different things. It's two different things. If I had to choose, I'm gonna put a sour. If like a sour, it's just it's just more something somebody would probably want to go for. It's a sour.

SPEAKER_04 52:21

Buddy, give us the top ten.

SPEAKER_03 52:23

Yeah, let's do it. Um so at 10 we have a Washington Apple. Really? Yeah. Yeah, we have I've maybe sold two of those. Dude, we have like five of those other night. Um at nine, we have a Vukrae. I almost put Vukre. I was close. Um at eight, we have a Boulevardier.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

I'm at high. It's gonna be a seven.

SPEAKER_03 52:44

It's gonna be a seven. We have Moscow Mule. I erased Mule. I had a mule on there. Um, and then at six we have Sazerac. I don't know. Apparently it's big as corlands. Yeah, Cazerac's good. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:59

I'm not a big fan of Pagearge bitters, but it's five. I don't know bad though.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

Five is a martini.

SPEAKER_04 53:06

Yes, sir. That's two points.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

You said a dirty martini, though. It's it don't count. Bro, it's a money martini. All martinis not dirty. All martinis not dirty. No, but all martinis are straight. There are straight, shaky martinis, and there are dirty martinis, and there are dirty martinis. I'll just give myself one point. Give yourself one. Because you said dirty. If you'd have just said martini, I would've let you have your two. But you said dirty. So uh what you call martini, is it over there? It just said regular martini. A regular martini is not meaning dirty. I'm giving myself one point. I mean, it just in general. He know that.

SPEAKER_04 53:40

No, it's just a regular martini. We've either the one point. Now you got one point too, because you said classic martini.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

No, no, yeah, yeah. Number four, we have whiskey sour.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

So I'll get one here and one here. Okay, I got one here.

SPEAKER_03 53:58

Um, at number three, we have mint julep.

SPEAKER_01 54:02

You know what? I'm gonna let you have it. Put your two for your martini because you had martini in the right line for where they say martini. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 54:11

Number two, we have Manhattan.

SPEAKER_01 54:17

This is number two. It seems like a number three drink. It's just a crazy word. I say that's coming up.

SPEAKER_03 54:24

You're not a that's kind of impressive. Manhattan's number one, old fashioned.

SPEAKER_04 54:29

Yep. He got two points there. He might have beat me. He just might have beat me. I think he did, bro. To be honest. What was the special martin?

SPEAKER_03 54:35

Special martini was on there, to be honest. Which is crazy to me.

SPEAKER_04 54:38

That's crazy. We had that, I had a number one.

SPEAKER_01 54:40

That's crazy. Especially two, didn't you? I did a two. The fact that we're bars in the crazy.

SPEAKER_04 54:46

That's just what it is in our area.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

I mean, everybody don't have a good espresso martine.

SPEAKER_04 54:50

Yeah, ours is what's known, that's what it's known for. So I guess that makes sense. I'm surprised margarita wasn't on the top ten at all.

SPEAKER_01 54:56

You threw me off of that one because I was like, damn, everybody do love Guamar. Like, Margarita's fire. On Tuesday.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

On Talk on Tuesday, people be drinking margarita.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

I mean, Margarita's just gotta get stuff played out. If I have to do this based off of what I got, five. You got six, huh? I got four. Oh, four. You beat the second one in the book. So win for me, win in the books, count it, but don't forget it because it might be another long time. All right, for real, man. Let's cheers, man. Bottoms up. All right. Well, yeah. That's all we got for you guys today. Thank you for coming. Appreciate y'all. You know, man, y'all love it, man. Y'all stay in tune. Y'all come back and see us. I'm gonna let my boy Bodie take y'all out today, man. He's gonna take you out today, man. Don't forget about Friday.

SPEAKER_03 55:38

Appreciate it, guys. Um, stay tuned for Friday. We got, you know, big talks with me. So we'll be locked in. Um, signed for work this week. We're locked back in. So see y'all next time. Y'all have a good one.

SPEAKER_01 55:49

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