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even if you don't have a dream for yourself, like even

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1:43

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1:49

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to eat, whatever. And so

1:54

that part is

1:56

being irresponsible if

1:58

you don't know that part. You're being

2:00

totally irresponsible. If you're

2:03

an adult and you don't know how

2:05

much your groceries cost, your, whatever, that's

2:07

total irresponsible, period. There's no excuse for

2:10

that. So it doesn't make you an

2:12

evil human. It just makes

2:14

you irresponsible and you need to change. You

2:16

ready? What's

2:36

going on world? Welcome to another edition

2:38

of the secret to success podcast. I'm

2:40

your host CJ joined as always by

2:42

the Bayesian sensation, Mr. Carl Wesley Phillips.

2:44

What's going on y'all? What'd it do?

2:46

I got Dr. King in the building.

2:48

Dr. King, man, just a little bit

2:51

hungry. That's about it. I can read it. Well,

2:53

I can read it. Do it. Oh,

2:55

that brother home. Oh, that brother started.

2:57

Oh, that brother started. That brother stop.

3:00

We'll get it. We'll get into Dougie

3:02

fresh in a minute. Hey, make sure

3:04

you call her though. Give

3:06

me my phone before I get too late. I'm

3:08

going to call her and make sure you look

3:10

out. Here's the blessing. Leaving big tips. Yeah. Keep

3:13

them to stay open a little. Yeah. No, no,

3:15

no. Douglas, how you feeling, man? Man,

3:17

I'm happy new year, man. I'm going to be real.

3:20

You got to save for the pie, even though like

3:22

I got a thousand tons. Happy new year. Yeah. I'm

3:24

saying happy. Man, I'm going to be

3:26

real. If I could just

3:28

be honest, man, I don't even feel like

3:31

being here, I don't feel like talking, bro. Like,

3:33

man. Ma

3:36

getting to you too, huh? No,

3:39

the new year getting to me, Ma, like, Ma,

3:42

I just want to grind, man. I

3:44

just want to man, like I

3:46

went to a funeral yesterday and me and

3:49

man, I'm just living life on

3:51

my own terms and just

3:54

enjoying my marriage, my life, bro. I just want

3:56

to grind, bro. I don't. Yeah,

3:58

bro. I don't even want to. Yeah. Like

4:00

some years I came in like, you know,

4:02

like hype. Like I got these dreams. I got these goals. Like

4:04

I don't know what to talk about. You know what I'm saying?

4:06

Like I just want to, I just want to

4:08

put my head down, man. And man,

4:10

and I pull my head up maybe like June.

4:13

You know what I'm saying? And just see

4:15

the fruits, but yeah. Yeah. Mr.

4:17

B pass, man. To

4:19

the legend. Yeah. Give context to who

4:21

Mr. B is. Man. Yeah,

4:24

man. Man. A legend.

4:27

My wife said this. I didn't say this.

4:29

My wife said if Mr. B was born

4:31

white, he would have been Zuckerberg. Steve

4:34

Jobs. That's what my wife said. He would

4:36

have been easy. Listen,

4:38

y'all. Mr. B,

4:42

I was introduced to him through E, but

4:45

like for real dude. Okay. First of

4:47

all, we are celebrating

4:49

today and we're going to put out a video

4:51

here shortly. But the Patreon fam, oh

4:53

wait, let me introduce the Patreon fam too,

4:55

because they in the building. Shout out to

4:57

the Patreon fam is watching live right here.

4:59

We just had about an hour and a

5:01

half Q and a slash kicking session with

5:03

the Patreon fam. If y'all not listening,

5:06

you're not in Patreon. You need to get in there.

5:08

We got a whole crew in there, man. Shout out to

5:11

everybody who had a question today and was chopping it up

5:13

with us. They're watching the podcast live

5:15

so they get it unedited. So if our curse is

5:17

just going to be in there for them, we edit

5:19

it out for y'all at home. Grocery

5:22

shop. But oh yeah. No, down in the grocery store.

5:24

We thought it pick us up something since you forgot about.

5:27

Hey y'all, I promise I ain't forget about them.

5:30

They weren't even on my radar. I ain't thought

5:32

about them. Yeah, you got to think about somebody.

5:34

Forget them. I was with Dee Dee this morning.

5:36

I'm talking about her. I was on my way

5:38

over here. Dee Dee was like, I need something

5:40

to eat. I was like, all right, let me

5:42

stop and go grab yourself a pocket. She's like,

5:44

no, no, no, no, no. I'm not about no

5:46

pot. Stop and go get me something to eat

5:48

right now. Why don't we have a personal assistant?

5:51

All this money y'all made. Don't nobody personally assist no

5:53

more. Wow. Everybody want to blow

5:55

up. We Got to blow up the real

5:57

way. Are

6:00

you. What? I could be dorm all

6:02

but as soon as the Saudis that were

6:04

was help was it got a car was

6:06

it they got this nobody own at no

6:08

more Bravo Ricardo Day one of variables are

6:10

we to say the bear potted today nearly

6:13

citizens they humbug the go pick up somebody

6:15

are not as an officer I don't the

6:17

in a history of past on say if

6:19

you said you was gordon yellow mediterranean spot

6:21

or might have been like know what he

6:23

would serve our vivid little once I got

6:25

my god or any of the you know

6:27

it sounds like or spot not be the

6:30

only one likes of. Be a lot of

6:32

puts on also found themselves in officers in

6:34

my wife don't like records but I see

6:36

that out by jeff ament us actually we

6:38

are like it's walk off home girl was

6:40

like yo did he do a vest was

6:42

not yeah like I got you don't wear

6:44

body or maker a mentally all like I

6:46

bet would you get all the let us

6:48

as a citizen of goes your did of

6:50

this is not not not will be honest

6:52

job. Here's. The real truth. I'm

6:55

really was rushed in the get back

6:57

here. That's. Why I didn't get

6:59

a orders glass lights already messed up.

7:01

I should be over to Islam is

7:03

will grant duties rep I'd eat my

7:05

eyes is got mine within that they

7:07

grabbed a quick bite of the runway

7:09

go grab run so fast that. Like

7:14

the left elbow split it. Yet

7:17

everybody get a bite at and I'm will

7:19

be real I would bite with the ah

7:21

to the about my wife was the worst

7:24

was seized whenever I think I'm doing right

7:26

us when. I

7:28

swear. It always it up some

7:30

wanna talk of since the uprising right

7:32

right up rob islam my eyes a

7:34

muggle did or did it go take

7:36

another thirty points the already been over

7:39

there are oh know about i sexy

7:41

when i say on a tax or

7:43

proceeded to assist as you say a.

7:45

Comparison of some muscle know

7:47

russ. Bit. upset

7:50

by citizens i don't add new

7:52

my to say that we there's

7:54

off as i will be open

7:56

obama was here on rails are

7:59

us god Yo, Rush. I got it.

8:01

The universe is good to us because the

8:04

universe got Apple got a thing now when you send

8:06

a text and it's wrong, you can edit

8:08

it and fix it. Our universe

8:10

got edited back. You know what I'm saying? For me, you

8:12

know how you used to always play the text? Well, they

8:14

got a feature now. But you can only edit it after

8:16

like two minutes. Yeah, it's all there then. If I go

8:18

away, you can't edit it now. Well, don't

8:21

know. All I need is the two. Because what I'll

8:23

do more is if I'm

8:25

texting, like let's say, Quarshon, I'm

8:28

like, boy, you know somebody I

8:30

ain't really super close with. I'm

8:32

paying attention to every detail because

8:35

I don't want them to think, you know,

8:37

like he can't spell. But it's with C,

8:39

I'll just be loose with it. Like, whatever.

8:42

So you know, C will be like on the podcast with

8:44

it though. They hooked me up. Now I got a new

8:46

feature. I sent him a text and it ain't right. It

8:50

let me go in and edit it right there. So

8:52

he can't bring it and go, look at this text

8:54

he got. The universe

8:56

looked out for me. Apple heard what he was

8:58

doing. You know what,

9:00

y'all? I still listen. You know what's crazy? I've

9:03

been E right here for 17 years. You

9:06

know, we've been doing the power for eight years.

9:08

We just hit eight years. Seriously? Yeah,

9:10

2015. December 2015. I've

9:12

been on at least four. Yeah,

9:15

I'd say four. Yeah, about four. So

9:19

I try to, you know, still, you

9:21

know, two man responsibility.

9:24

So we go to church the other day. Now

9:27

church is a little different than

9:29

church here. Oh yeah. So thousand

9:31

people there. That's big. So I

9:34

go up to E after church. It

9:37

was a long story. Okay. So first of all,

9:39

I told E, bro,

9:41

he says he was renting a car. I thought he

9:43

was driving to Bama for the funeral. So I was

9:45

like, oh, okay, that makes sense. You're going to rent

9:47

a car. Cause I was just going to come

9:49

pick you up. He's like, no, I'm renting a car. Well,

9:51

then the morning of he

9:54

like, oh, no, I'm taking

9:57

the rental car back. So I was like, well,

9:59

why are you ain't? I just had me come pick you. I got a

10:01

picture of him dropped you off. I ain't got no problem with that and

10:03

he was like, nah, nah, nah. I'm

10:05

good. But then he hit me in

10:08

the rental car. The train broke down. So

10:10

now we got a thousand people here ready

10:12

to hear E preach and he

10:14

hit me and you know my wife, you

10:16

know, she's running the show. So she like where

10:19

is E? I'm like, uh he's

10:22

stuck on the train headed to the rental car. Now

10:24

I'm feeling dumb because I'm like, I should have just

10:26

went and picked him up. Yeah, but I didn't know

10:28

you wasn't doing that. So then he was like, you

10:30

could tell him what happened in the car. You you

10:32

said it in the sermon, but I guess y'all got

10:34

into a crazy. Bro, bro. He said

10:36

my man almost killed. So what what was crazy

10:38

was I got into a cab. It must have

10:40

been like a I don't

10:43

I'm I'm thinking like a town.

10:46

What was it? Uh what was

10:48

uh Chrysler's uh minivan back

10:50

in the day? Oh, the county

10:53

care van. No. What was it? No. It's

10:55

a town and country was a must have

10:58

been an 86. He had he had the

11:02

cloth over the seat. Oh yeah. With the

11:04

stains on him. Carpet in the back food.

11:06

I ain't never see. I'm like, how did

11:09

he get a license? Bro.

11:11

But what happened was when we got off the train,

11:13

it was weird because

11:15

everybody was on the train and I

11:17

was like y'all should have knew something was wrong because people

11:19

was coming up and seeing it was open and jumping on.

11:21

Yeah. So it must have been about in our cab alone.

11:24

It must have been about and I mean on the train.

11:26

It must have been about 75 people

11:29

just on ours. Not the one like

11:31

you know you got three different ones.

11:33

Yeah. Bro. I'm looking at the

11:37

people who running it and they just sitting there and

11:39

I'm like bro. What's up? We

11:42

he was like, it's gonna be fixed in a minute. I

11:44

was like, what's a minute? He's like

11:46

in a minute. I was like, bro. I'm gone. I was only at

11:48

10 minutes. Yeah. I'm like, I'm out. So when

11:50

I got off, I was like D. We don't got time to

11:52

run all the way back to terminal north terminal

11:54

south terminal and wait on the Uber. So we

11:56

gotta get a cab comes right

11:59

here. I get in with my man, bro. I

12:02

tell you, my man was doing like 90. Like

12:04

I was, some part of me was happy.

12:07

Like he trying to get me there on time. They

12:10

said 10 33. They black, 10 30

12:12

don't mean 10 30. It mean like 10 31, 10 32. So

12:16

I get there right when she starts saying. You feel

12:19

me? Now they started. No, we can start no time.

12:21

Yeah, they do pretty good. So I

12:24

promise y'all this one accident, he

12:26

was driving, lady got over in

12:29

the lane without paying attention. And

12:31

in some kind of way, she got halfway in.

12:33

And then she went back. He never stopped. Oh,

12:36

this ain't my first rodeo. I

12:39

was like, whoa, what you know? I don't know, bro. So

12:42

it was like two or three times he almost got in

12:44

some cars and then, but I wasn't tripping because he

12:47

got us there on time. I don't know. It's there at 10

12:49

33. We got there at 10

12:51

30. My man got us

12:53

there on time. So anyway, yeah, he delivers a

12:55

phenomenal sermon. Y'all should check that out. We're going

12:58

to post that in the Patreon. That's

13:00

deep. I'll get to hear before it comes. Yeah, they get

13:03

the Patreon. They get the sermon. Y'all been checking out the

13:05

sermons in the Patreon? Yes. Yeah, I've been seeing the comments.

13:08

Oh, dope, dope. So

13:10

again, back to me trying to do my two man duties.

13:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now I know he ain't got no

13:15

rent a car because he took a

13:17

crazy Uber there. He preached about it. So we didn't have

13:19

a chance to really talk because he came in like right

13:21

when it was starting. I was already saw, I was like,

13:23

oh, what's up. So anyway, when he finished preaching, my

13:27

wife drives separate because she got a. They're like

13:30

six, eight. Oh, bruh, she be there. I'm talking

13:32

about super. And she leave late. So

13:34

usually, as soon as it's over, I'm

13:36

out the door. I'm back to the crib. Yeah. So

13:39

I was like, man, you know

13:41

what? He probably going to need a ride of some sort.

13:43

I don't want to have the Uber back. You know what

13:45

I'm saying to the airport because he had to flight at

13:47

three o'clock. So I came backstage

13:50

and was like, he need a ride.

13:52

He was like, yeah, for sure. And I

13:54

said, cool. And Trey was ready to go. Trey

13:57

was like, damn, I'm ready to go. I

14:00

was like, all right, cool. I said, wait, God, dad, about to, I

14:02

said, you going to do the meet and greet? And he was like, Oh

14:04

yeah, for sure. So I was like, all

14:06

right, cool. And Trey was like, ah, so

14:09

he was like, God, dad, I don't know. I

14:14

got it. He was like, Oh, that's going to be

14:16

at least another hour. So

14:18

me and Trey went to the volunteer room and we

14:20

just kicking it. So I'm thinking eat shoot

14:22

me a text when he, I'm

14:25

sitting in the volunteer room by 45 50. I

14:30

said, man, man, not listening, not listening.

14:33

If I go out there, you're

14:35

going to have to delay it further because

14:38

now people are going to be like, yo,

14:40

see what's up. And not that I don't

14:42

love everybody. I do love everybody. Just take

14:44

that. I like that. Well, I mean, slightly

14:46

different. I like that. Yeah. I

14:50

ain't want to go out there and be like, all right.

14:52

Now I didn't took another hour because I was like, I

14:54

told, uh, Shonee, I

14:56

said, Hey, run out there. See if

14:58

he, she was like, Oh, I ain't see him. I

15:01

said, no, I think he went to did the, cause

15:03

you did it in a different location. And you say

15:05

one. Okay. Okay. Cool. So I was like,

15:08

she was like, I ain't seeing him. I'm like, what you mean? He must've did it

15:10

somewhere else. So I seen another volunteer. And I

15:13

was like, Hey, um,

15:16

can you go see where he almost like winding up

15:18

so I can bring the car around? Whatever. Two

15:21

men. Oh, he

15:23

been gone by 30 minutes. Bro,

15:26

I'm talking about, I ain't called me.

15:28

Nothing. I'm sitting in there. They're like

15:31

just trailer. That me was like, where

15:33

did God, that go? I said he on

15:35

his way to the airport. I thought we was taking him. I

15:37

said, I make two of them. So I sat

15:39

there. So look, I don't need you. First of all, get

15:42

there how you get there. But I was just like,

15:44

man, see, I'll be trying to step in and

15:46

do my two men. And now he

15:48

going to say, Oh, you know, see big time

15:51

now. So he can't, but I did. I had

15:53

you. I was ready to go to the airport.

15:55

And you know what? God is going to give

15:57

you credit. Okay. That's all I ask. God

16:00

knew you wanted to do it. But

16:03

I do want to say this for

16:05

2004, 24, there are those of

16:08

you who you

16:10

had some problems in 2023 and I'm going to

16:13

be real with you. If you don't do

16:15

something very intentional and deliberate, they're going to happen in

16:19

And so when she called me, you know,

16:21

although, you know, I had a ride to the airport, I

16:23

still was kind of like, yo, how did that happen? You

16:26

know what I'm saying? In my brain, I still was like, how did that happen?

16:29

And one of the things I realized that

16:32

for my personality that I have

16:34

to do is

16:36

communicate over communicate. That's

16:38

it. Because what I'll do is

16:40

make a lot of assumptions. There are a

16:42

lot of you. That's like one of your

16:45

challenges is you make a lot of assumptions.

16:47

Right. And so

16:49

what I'm learning is even if you

16:51

assume, still communicate.

16:55

The worst that can happen is you

16:57

all say the same thing. You feel me? But

17:00

what happened was and

17:02

I was I was pissed. But

17:05

I didn't want to like with my personality, I

17:07

don't like embarrassing people. You feel me?

17:10

That's one of my things. And I got to

17:12

do a better job of being more demanding. But

17:15

Ken grabbed me and was like, yo, you

17:17

got to go. And I was like,

17:19

I got to go. Where my plane, I don't got to

17:21

be at my gate into 315. My

17:24

plane only to three people. Oh, no, you got to go. So

17:27

he was doing that aggressive thing like you got

17:29

to go. Yeah. I was like,

17:31

bro, like I'm chill. Like I got like your car

17:33

outside. And I was like, what?

17:35

My car outside. So did you even remember? I

17:38

said, did you even remember I was going to take

17:40

you? I did. But when they said my car was

17:42

outside, I thought I knew I know I assume it

17:44

was you. Oh, because

17:46

they said your car is outside. So

17:48

I assumed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh,

17:51

no, I was I was in the volunteer. Yes.

17:54

So so so what I did was say, all right, here's what I'll

17:56

do. It was still about 15 people

17:59

in the line. Yeah. So I was like, yo,

18:01

bro, that's disrespectful. Like you can't just cut it

18:03

off. Yeah, right. They've been waiting in line all this time. So

18:06

I literally just went to each person and shoot that.

18:08

Yeah. Yeah. Personally. And they got about your my apologies.

18:11

I got a row. Yeah. So what happened

18:13

was I got outside and Keisha

18:15

from Toby's camp, she came

18:17

insane. Oh, killed it too. She killed it.

18:20

So Keisha came insane. So

18:22

Keisha, they had a rental car.

18:24

I mean, they had an Uber for her because

18:26

she had to be at the airport for a

18:28

350 flight. So the

18:30

need it was like, Oh, y'all going to put your

18:32

other gear like y'all going at the same time. So

18:35

the needed to know me and see had

18:37

agreed. So can grab me, put

18:39

me outside. I'm like, whatever. Like, all right. I just see,

18:41

see when I got this one, I got in the

18:44

car. I was like, Oh, she

18:46

must have known cause it's Candace and

18:48

the needed as running the show. But let me tell you

18:50

how I got embarrassed. So will was there.

18:53

Shout out to Will. So will was

18:55

like, we, we were sitting in

18:57

the volunteer room and will, you know, you saw Will. I

18:59

didn't see him. Oh yeah. We was at church. I'm like,

19:01

look, look how I got embarrassed.

19:03

Y'all. So I was like, uh, so I

19:05

was like, so Trey was like, Oh man.

19:07

So we'll saw a trade kind of like,

19:09

Oh, they ready to go. Will

19:11

lived that way. You know, I

19:14

live North. Right. So we'll

19:16

was like, Oh see, go ahead. I got, I

19:18

got him. And I was like, nah, it ain't

19:21

really just about the ride. Like me and he,

19:23

you know, like he gonna want me to, you know, he was there.

19:28

He was there when he was there when the

19:30

volunteer was like, Hey

19:35

will normally this, I say, I mean it for real. You want

19:38

to ride. Yeah.

19:40

I was like, he was, Will rewards. Will was

19:42

like, Oh, okay. I guess. Yeah. He really wanted

19:45

to ride. I'm like, don't

19:47

miss that though. And

19:49

all of the, you know what I'm saying? What

19:51

we talking about y'all Fredo. Miss that. I realized

19:53

like, yo, soon as I got in the car,

19:55

I should have judged, but I made the assumption.

19:57

There's no way this car got here without Candace.

20:00

knowing that the car was there. I

20:02

was in there solo, because they were still doing stuff.

20:04

So you know how it goes. Let's go to the

20:06

back side of it, though, for a relationship. You could

20:08

be pissed. Oh, no. No,

20:10

no, I'm saying not you, but I'm saying a regular human

20:13

being, bro, this could turn into y'all and talk for a

20:15

week or a bit. No, no, no. I'm just saying. People

20:17

being they feelings. People in there feelings off of stuff. So

20:19

I'm just saying, the fact that you can communicate, and it

20:21

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24:28

of all, let me say something. I

24:30

was the least shocked human. Oh, no doubt Know

24:33

how you you know, I'm saying I know how you do your thing

24:35

like no not that you would do it on purpose But I'm saying

24:38

like and that's what I'm saying That's why I was hurt because

24:40

I was like when he called me I was like

24:42

yo this way and again, I want you all to hear what I'm

24:44

saying. This wasn't my thing No,

24:46

no, I let somebody bully me into doing

24:49

that cuz I could have just said when

24:51

they did it like oh, no On

24:54

our own and I roll with CJ right here it

24:56

I could have said that but I'm saying I thought

24:58

I'm gonna be real I thought in the midst of

25:00

because you just came off that it wasn't like a

25:02

big long like yeah It was just like I came

25:04

to you like a you need or he was like,

25:06

yeah So I wouldn't like no, I didn't even know

25:08

if you remembered that I said I remember but I'm

25:10

trying to teach a lesson here Yeah, yeah, there are

25:12

those of us who? Will

25:15

let people bully us. Hmm, you know

25:17

I'm saying I'm not saying maybe like a stranger

25:19

something was like it's all so

25:22

fast Yeah, yeah, it's Ken is the needa.

25:24

Yeah, they don't know the conversation I had

25:26

with CJ Yeah, so I could have easily

25:28

just been like, you know, let her let

25:30

her take her car and go But I

25:32

let my man on some thinking

25:34

he thinking and can my

25:36

dude, but yeah, I want to hurt him get

25:38

there Yeah, I know did he want to get

25:40

and I could have easily just got in the

25:42

whip like yo Ken Let's just go to the

25:44

back right roll with C and whatever. So I

25:46

didn't even want to go with them Yeah, like

25:48

that wasn't even my plane. That was their plan

25:50

for me and a lot of you are not gonna

25:53

be successful Mmm in

25:55

2024 because you're letting other now that was minor

25:59

But for some of you Yeah, yeah. It's real life

26:01

situation. You get bullied into things you don't want

26:03

to do. You're not a natural pilot. Or

26:06

get bullied out of things you know you're supposed to

26:08

do. Absolutely. You're not a natural pilot. You

26:10

have a tendency to be

26:13

concerned about everybody's feelings. That's

26:16

what we do. You're a flight attendant. You're

26:18

a grounds crew. You start with others. That's

26:20

how you start. You don't start with

26:22

yourself. You go, how's this going to make them feel? How's

26:24

it going? And when I look at my wife, I

26:27

realized there's pros and cons to it. But

26:30

I realized with Dee Dee, she

26:32

doesn't necessarily have some of the same challenges that

26:34

I have. Because she never starts with you. She

26:37

never starts with how you feel. She always starts

26:39

with, what do I want? Like

26:41

I said with the food. Dee Dee wasn't going to know

26:43

what the squad wants. And not in a negative way. But

26:45

Dee Dee was like, yo, you about to go over there

26:47

and be there for you lying. You saying you're going to

26:50

be over there for an hour. You're two.

26:52

Y'all might be over there for three. I don't want

26:54

to eat at three o'clock. Like I want to eat

26:56

right now. So I'm like, all right, cool. What you

26:58

want? I don't know. You tell me. I'm like, OK,

27:00

what you eat. What you eat? You do

27:02

a wife. All you want best is you a

27:04

wife. I'm like, vegetables from where? It's a conversation.

27:07

See, and I had to read. I called see

27:09

you like, yo, some stuff that I'm thinking of

27:11

changing. Yeah. And I was like, but you know,

27:13

so much involved that he was like, well, what's

27:15

involved? Absolutely. And I was like, well, there's

27:18

this. He's like, oh, you

27:20

just got to do this. This is what's important.

27:22

Like I hear any other stuff and I'm not

27:25

saying it's not relevant. But that's not the

27:27

goal. The goal is we're going here. So you need

27:29

to shift and make whatever. And I was like, yeah,

27:31

to your point, I don't process it like that.

27:33

But I was wise enough now to say, OK,

27:35

let me call some of the processes a little

27:38

differently than I do and we're

27:40

going to win. So you

27:43

had to go to a funeral

27:45

man. And so I will

27:47

say my introduction to Mr. B,

27:51

he came around and he just brought

27:54

a forward thinker. Yeah.

27:56

Listen to what I'm about to tell you. This

27:58

ain't no cap, bro. I can make this up.

28:01

First of all, I think

28:04

probably 12 years ago, he

28:06

told us to do a podcast. I was just going to ask what

28:08

year because I'm talking about it was my man. A

28:10

podcast. I never even heard. I never heard. I

28:12

never heard. The first person I heard. We were

28:15

at Michigan State. Yes. We were. The first person

28:17

I heard. So he was working with Michigan State.

28:19

No, no. He

28:21

from. I'll let you get it. I'll let you get a

28:23

back story. I just want to tell you how Carl and

28:25

I. So he was saying to a

28:27

podcast. The other thing Mr B did before

28:30

YouTube before Zuckerberg did it.

28:33

My man had a a

28:35

platform called I think it was black I TV

28:38

black I TV and

28:41

it was basically YouTube before

28:44

YouTube before there's any

28:46

YouTube. My man had a website. It

28:48

was called black TV and it was

28:51

random videos like with blacks

28:53

just like everything. Just just anything like

28:55

you want to click on it. It

28:57

looked a lot like YouTube. Wow.

29:00

He was also the first one to

29:03

give us a camera. So we used

29:05

to run around. You got to think I'm being

29:08

honest when we first hooked up. We

29:11

never were recording anything ever. So we

29:13

like this is like y'all gotta understand

29:15

something. Content is some new

29:17

stuff because not sound like

29:19

the words has been embedded in our culture forever.

29:22

Content is some new stuff that just came out

29:25

like before that you couldn't do content unless you

29:27

was like big time because now you got your

29:29

phone and it wasn't on the phone. And I

29:31

guess it was some of y'all with the big

29:34

you know joint of that was like shooting. Yeah.

29:36

I had a little look

29:40

at course I was there. You

29:43

know but nobody was really like everybody have

29:45

a phone or you know it wasn't like

29:48

commonplace. You have a recording device. So we

29:50

were running around doing like I said he

29:52

probably I'm not joking with y'all he

29:54

probably did a thousand bad

29:56

as you want to breathe before we kept your

29:59

back. Y'all think. that that just so happened

30:01

to be one magical night. No, we just had a

30:03

camera and a mic. We have

30:05

been doing that for years. And

30:08

Mr. B was the first one that came and was

30:10

like, yo, here go a camera. And

30:12

really that was what gave Carl 100% his

30:15

goal in the company. Because before that, imagine

30:17

we rolling around. It wasn't

30:20

really no whole lot of use for Carl

30:22

because I'm speaking, he's speaking. Carl

30:24

ain't definitely not. I just slide. That was about

30:26

it. He would do our slides for

30:28

the presentation. Powerpoint. And

30:31

so when the camera came along, it was

30:33

like, okay, cool. So that was my introduction

30:35

to Mr. B. I'll let you know. And

30:38

quiet as kept Mr. B

30:40

drove, I don't know what he drove

30:42

was a truck or something. I don't remember, but

30:44

he drove like a small U-Haul

30:46

in the back. He gave us bro. I'm about

30:48

to go down. I'm talking about that night. I

30:50

can describe it. It was four speakers. Like you

30:53

got the Bluetooth joints, like we're a four of

30:55

them. That's what we use for the advantage. Full

30:57

mixing board. He gave us equipment that we didn't

30:59

know how to use. I'm being 100%. He

31:01

got equipment for multi-cam stuff that you could

31:03

look at the screen. Where did

31:05

he come from? I'm so saying from LA. So

31:08

he was born in LA and

31:10

him and Quincy Jones was

31:12

like this. Oh, so how

31:15

does Quincy Jones got to be in that?

31:17

I got to be in his early eighties. Maybe.

31:19

Hold on. Late seventies, early eighties. No,

31:21

he got to be eight. I said

31:24

mid seventies at 72. Right.

31:26

He passed at 72. So he

31:28

was, you know, Dan Quincy Jones

31:31

90. So he was, so imagine it was

31:33

like me and C relationship there. So he

31:35

was, you know, whatever, but brother

31:38

midnight star was did a tribute to him

31:41

and was like, yo, he brought

31:43

us to Quincy Jones. Take

31:46

six. He brought us to

31:48

Quincy Jones. So that's like, that's

31:50

what his beginning was. LA read,

31:52

you know, the deal, baby fat, all

31:54

of them. He was the one that

31:56

took them to Quincy. So he was

31:59

like. you know what you are in

32:01

real estate, he was that in music and

32:03

entrepreneurship in general. And

32:06

like he said, he's, bruh, like

32:08

visionary, bruh, like you were visionary. Like, bruh,

32:10

I promise you, like you

32:12

probably the second one I met. But when I tell you Mr. B was

32:14

like 30, 40 years in

32:17

advance, bruh, even when we went to his house, I was

32:19

like, it looked like it was in the future.

32:22

Yeah. If y'all would have met, bruh, stuff was like, yeah,

32:24

stuff was like, yeah. When

32:26

he would build his house, bruh, it would

32:28

be, it's not just these kind of walls.

32:30

Yeah. Like when you walk in his crib,

32:32

it's a museum. Yeah, you know, the slab

32:34

that he would have was like, where did

32:36

they even get that kind of marble design

32:38

from? And then the chair would be a

32:40

different color than he could cook. So

32:42

if he loved you, bruh, I'm just

32:45

going to say this. It

32:47

might be a baby stretch, but he'll

32:49

put Jamie to shame. Baby

32:52

stretch, baby exaggeration. Mr.

32:54

B could cook, bruh. I mean, he

32:56

was on a whole other level. And so Jamie,

32:59

you're just going to let him talk to

33:01

you like that. You need to come in

33:03

this kitchen. You ain't no joke. What happened?

33:06

You got 10 minutes to respond. You got

33:08

10 minutes. That's definitely the difference between them

33:10

in terms of speed and time. Oh yeah.

33:12

Yeah. But Mr. B might've been older, so

33:15

that's probably why you can't do. But, yeah,

33:17

no, no, no. So yeah, take six. You

33:19

know, they career, bruh. They

33:21

still singing to this day. Boy, Joy

33:24

still, that's the only job they've ever had.

33:26

You know, and so he introduced some nequinses.

33:29

So, yeah, he would. And what did

33:31

he do for you? Like early on? Like

33:33

what, what, what did he do? For me, what

33:35

he did. You talk about exposure. Yeah. So I

33:37

never worked for Mr. B in terms of the

33:39

cameras and stuff, but Mr. B

33:41

was the first person. I wish we just, when

33:43

we showed the video to this group, but Mr.

33:45

B was the first person who you talk about

33:47

exposure. Like, yo, bro, he had me,

33:50

he had me bodyguard for Bill

33:53

Clinton, bro. Actual bodyguard,

33:56

actual like bodyguard, me and his son.

34:00

And then there was FBI. I never heard it in the

34:02

world of trouble. I never heard it in the world of

34:04

trouble. I thought I was the only fucking officer out here.

34:07

And you know we're so crazy. You was with

34:09

the service. What's Chris Denton? Hey. And

34:11

I'm going to show you something. He was with the secret service.

34:13

He told me that too. This was crazy to what he just

34:15

said. Yeah. Bro, a lot of

34:18

people could like maybe do that. Yeah. He

34:20

had us all in the all black suits, all black, whatever. But bro. Was

34:23

he ascended it in or was this? What

34:25

he did was he was over like,

34:27

you know how when you do a big conference? Well,

34:30

let's just say, oh yeah, building security. So like you

34:32

got your service, but y'all was just like the building

34:34

security. Yeah. But what like whatever

34:36

earned your leisure is he put that whole thing together from top

34:38

to bottom. Yeah. So

34:40

he did a big black caucus for the natural.

34:42

That's the best. That's the best. Right. Bro,

34:45

here's what's so crazy. This was level. He

34:47

was on to his point. Secret

34:51

service thought I was in the seat. They thought

34:53

I was in the academy, bro. Yeah.

34:55

Bro, they was coming up to me like because I had

34:57

this. Did you have an earpiece? I did. And

35:00

I had and I had I don't know what

35:02

the I don't know what the seal button I

35:04

had, but I had a button on. Yeah. And

35:06

so them cats was coming to me. But what

35:08

was like a presidential? It was. They

35:11

was coming up to be really that dude. They

35:13

was coming up to me saying, and I didn't

35:15

get it to afterwards, but they were saying congratulations.

35:18

And I was like, what? They was like,

35:20

okay, you how long you been in the academy? And

35:22

I was like, I'm like, about this time, you

35:25

know, I'm straight. Yeah. I'm not

35:27

saying. Oh, yeah. I'm

35:29

just like a while now. I've been here for

35:31

a while. You feel me? Anybody ever come

35:33

up to you and give you the pen speech? No,

35:36

nobody ever said nothing to me. More,

35:39

more, more. No, more

35:41

dirty. No, we were

35:43

so we was at the mall one time.

35:46

I think it was in Park City, Utah. Don't

35:51

lose where you was. I got it. I

35:54

got it. Yeah. You hang

35:56

it with him too much. Yeah, exactly. I'm telling you, I don't

35:58

have. No, we don't know how to. No, no, no.

36:02

No, when I tell you, I listen. Yo,

36:08

so we in Park City, Utah, right? And

36:11

I don't know the wives was shopping. I don't

36:13

know. Me and Ma was just like

36:15

standing in the middle of the food court waiting on

36:17

them, whatever. And it was

36:20

this big old white dude

36:22

security. Looked like Paul Blart, Ma

36:24

Cop, riding around his little

36:26

segue. And Ma,

36:29

I guess he was bored, talking about, hey, man, come

36:31

here. So my man rides over to

36:33

him. You know, Ma owned a

36:35

security company. How

36:38

long you been doing this? And my man said, this

36:40

is my first week on the job, sir. Ma

36:43

was like, yeah, I was a police officer. I owned

36:45

a security company. So he was like, oh,

36:47

man, he's like, little man,

36:49

like, this is my moment. We

36:54

in Pleasantville. Ain't nothing going on. That

36:57

boy Ma said, I'm going

36:59

to teach you a lesson right quick. My man said, yes, sir.

37:01

He said, you know what your most valuable weapon

37:03

is? He said, no, sir, what is it? Ma

37:06

reached in my man's pocket and

37:09

pulled out his pen and

37:11

his notepad and said, this

37:13

right here, depending the path, write down

37:16

anything you see. Don't

37:18

chase nobody. Don't

37:20

try. My man was like, yes,

37:22

sir. We learned. That's smart. Oh, man.

37:25

I told him I had that pen. I said, listen to these

37:27

words. I'm going to tell you. The pen

37:29

is mightier than the sword. And my man was like,

37:32

he was listening to Dr. Martin Luther King. I have

37:34

a piece of paper. He was like, because I told

37:36

him I told him I was. Ma saved his life.

37:38

I told him I was a Chicago police officer. And

37:40

I was like, you know, I was Chicago. So he

37:42

was already like, yes, sir, salute me. And then I

37:44

was just like, this pen. Get

37:47

you out of a lot of trouble. And

37:49

I was like, this picker saved lives. Your

37:52

number one job is to be

37:55

a great witness. Ha ha ha. But

37:57

look, my man was excited about being alive.

38:00

Top flight security. When I gave him back

38:03

that pen, it was like he had

38:05

the glow. He had the pen out like

38:07

this. You got people

38:09

who lost their lives running up

38:11

on somebody acting like they're somebody.

38:14

And you and him ain't got a gun on. That

38:16

was good, Mark. So back

38:18

to your service career. So they come up

38:20

to you like, sir, how long you been

38:23

in the academy? You just said four minutes.

38:26

I don't remember what I said. You really was

38:28

in the academy. They was

38:30

like, oh, bro. Bro,

38:33

I'm not playing, y'all. He had me

38:35

with Clint. Me and Clint was just kicking it, bro. We

38:37

were just kicking it. So was he running for

38:40

off? He was already president of

38:42

the United States of America. He was already president.

38:44

I'm backstage. This is the expo. When you talk

38:46

to exposure, ma. Ma, Mr.

38:48

B was the first one to show me that

38:51

there's an apartment complex in a hotel. You

38:53

thinking because you stay in the one bed room. Right.

38:56

Look, you don't know on the 18th, 20th

38:58

floor. Yeah, my man, look. It's a whole

39:00

penthouse up there. Mr. B took me to

39:02

the first one at the Western in the

39:05

Western at the Detroit Airport. Mm. Bro,

39:08

it was right there. Then they had

39:10

Dennis Archer, our mayor from Detroit, was

39:12

there with Clint. And so I

39:14

got to talk. He was like, you from Detroit? I'm like,

39:16

yeah, we chopping up. Bro, I promise

39:18

you, ma, I don't remember what. Became

39:21

of afterwards, like, but I

39:23

remember my confidence. Like, yo, I was with the president. How

39:25

old are you at this time? So I couldn't have been

39:27

no more. I came here at 30. I

39:30

came here when I was 30. So I came here at 32.

39:33

I was 32 when I got here. When I came

39:35

to Michigan State, I was 30. But this is like right

39:37

before that. When did Clint get in office? In

39:40

the chat, Patreon, help us out. Anybody know when Clint got in?

39:42

Y'all need to be our fact checkers up there. I

39:45

would say Clint left office in 2000, like

39:49

2000, the end of 2000, because I was on

39:51

his detail, his last trip. All right. So

39:54

I was there. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

39:58

No. Yeah. You

40:00

know during that time 20s must

40:02

have been the late yeah, cuz I ain't come to Michigan State

40:04

2003 So it could have been

40:06

99 it had been 99 98. Yeah, so Thousand

40:09

he left somebody what is it? What are they

40:11

saying? When was Clinton? Nobody's saying? Oh, yeah I

40:14

was honest, right? Yeah, so so so anyway, that

40:16

was the first level of exposure then

40:18

hotels then like brain You know everybody

40:21

bro, like he knew like bro.

40:23

So, you know, of course when you do

40:25

those events, there's also like concerts you do

40:28

Mm-hmm. He got zap and

40:30

Roger him Roger grew up together. They

40:32

chopping it up midnight No,

40:36

no, what did I just say midnight star? Oh So,

40:41

yep, so I was like that was the time

40:43

frame so I was I was you know, he

40:45

was with midnight star They was telling us the

40:47

stories how he got them, you know,

40:50

bro. He was like He

40:52

got us to he put us in a

40:54

slot right after the Commodores Wow So I'm

40:57

listening to these stories bro, like and

40:59

I saw he was a first Wow African American man I

41:01

ever saw that got like a five hundred thousand dollar check

41:04

You know man, like I saw the check and

41:07

then I saw him telling white

41:09

men what to do I've never seen that

41:11

before I'd seen where white man had hired

41:13

black Me right right up but he had

41:15

hired white men who were designers and stuff

41:17

and was telling go over there do this

41:19

do that Do that, but he was he

41:21

brothers. It's just now in his death crazy.

41:23

He's still teaching so I

41:27

Didn't really spend a lot of time with him. Like

41:29

I went to go see Nana his mom When

41:32

I was there in October for Oakwood, so I've

41:34

seen him but not you know as much because

41:36

he was on the road again But what he

41:38

started more was he started a all black tourist

41:40

company? Bro, I didn't

41:42

even notice bruh. It's a nine

41:44

billion dollar industry It's

41:47

a nine billion dollar industry, bro. And of course

41:49

you can imagine you go to any major city.

41:51

Mm-hmm They have tours. Yeah, you feel I'm saying

41:53

like you go to just chill out DC whatever

41:55

So he and some of his boys went and

41:58

got certified. So whatever the

42:00

tourist thing is, right? And so when I left,

42:02

I was like, yo, that's dope, bruh. I

42:05

called my, well, I talked to my wife because I ain't,

42:07

as a flight attendant again, yo, we have a lot of

42:09

ideas and we think every

42:11

idea is dope. So I always check with

42:13

my wife to make sure it's like not, you

42:16

know, me dreaming. But I told my

42:18

wife, I was like, yo, I need to call

42:20

Jaylen and tell Jaylen to go through that school. She

42:23

was like, absolutely. So I knew it was right. She

42:25

was like, yo, Jay don't do nothing but travel. He

42:27

love travel. And to get in

42:29

that industry, like he could start,

42:31

like when y'all send these kids, these whatever,

42:35

he can do tours. So you don't have to do

42:37

tours with strangers per se, but like

42:39

in our community, when we take these trips

42:41

and whatever, whatever. And so even in his

42:43

death, bruh, he had just started something that,

42:45

you know, that was whatever, but yeah, he

42:47

was an entrepreneur. He was the

42:50

first entrepreneur I ever met who was

42:52

running his own show and doing

42:54

his thing. And I only regret, and I

42:56

can let you listen to a recording. We

42:58

had talked a week ago and to your

43:00

point, mom, my only thing was you

43:02

were grinding at 72 like you were when I met

43:04

you when you were 40. You're

43:07

on the same grind. And his

43:09

sister said the day he died, he had

43:11

cooked a mean spread for Christmas for everybody.

43:13

People are like, who's everybody? His kids is

43:15

grown. She was like, for people that, you

43:17

know, in the community that didn't have food

43:20

and they could just come by and grab a bite to eat.

43:23

She said after he had cooked the whole day,

43:25

peeling potatoes, making potato salad from scratch, you know,

43:27

she was like, he went to go take a

43:29

nap or go to sleep at seven, something seven,

43:32

30, eight o'clock at night, they're an hour behind.

43:34

He was catching the game. I think the raiders

43:36

played, if I'm not mistaken, he's from LA. And

43:39

she said he went to sleep and had a heart

43:41

attack, you know, so, but we

43:43

had just had that conversation. We keep happening

43:45

with you guys. Take

43:48

care of your health. Well, let's talk about that, right?

43:50

Because it's the new year and everybody like, I'm about

43:52

to grind, I'm about to do this, I'm about to

43:54

do that. Like what

43:56

is that balance, right? Because I think,

43:58

you know, you can get... in that mode where

44:01

you going and doing a lot. Five pillars.

44:03

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. For sure. And

44:05

I'm saying like to each person,

44:08

I think that means something different. You know what I'm

44:10

saying? Like some people would be like, Oh, I'm, I

44:12

need to, I'm up in this area. So I'm about to grind

44:15

in this area. You said it, my man, you in your seventies

44:17

now and you working like you were when you 40, like

44:20

at what point do you start tapering off some of

44:22

that? You know what I'm saying? Like,

44:24

like, how do you know when to taper back

44:26

some of that? You know what I'm saying? Like, and I

44:28

don't even think you got a, like

44:32

when you get older, you just have

44:34

to learn how to delegate. I'm

44:36

still quote unquote in my life,

44:39

my life appears as I'm grinding. I

44:41

just got other people doing it in

44:43

different areas. So the whole cooking thing

44:46

got a chef, you know, we

44:48

get meal preps and things like that, but

44:50

we now got more meals, healthy meals coming

44:52

in our life now than we ever have.

44:55

You know, cleaning the house.

44:57

We've got a bigger house now, 21,000 square

44:59

feet. It takes a lot to clean that house. We

45:01

just positioned ourselves so that the older version

45:04

of us can hire somebody to do that

45:06

cleaning. So I think a lot of times

45:08

people think that grinding is you,

45:11

you don't have to do it all the time.

45:13

Even when working out, I got the right trainers

45:15

in place to teach me how to work out.

45:17

Some people think just going to the gym is

45:19

working out and you got to know it's certain

45:21

body parts, certain things that's connected. I didn't know

45:23

that there's certain veins that go through your legs

45:25

that's got to do with your heart. And

45:28

they say the stronger your legs are, the more

45:30

healthier your heart and your brain and your brain.

45:32

I didn't know that. But when I was just

45:34

still working out like football, you know, you're just

45:37

in the gym. And I think a trainer was

45:39

moving that was on that. Ah, they

45:41

wasn't really on like what Hector is on like,

45:43

Hey, we need to strengthen up this part of your

45:45

leg because this is good for your heart and your brain. You're

45:48

like that, like, um, uh, what is that

45:50

called? Um, dementia, like,

45:53

man, it's been studies to show the stronger your legs

45:55

is the less change you got dementia. And

45:58

so now, but we're grand. We're sitting in

46:00

the gym, but we're grinding with a purpose. We

46:02

knowing what we're doing as opposed to just in

46:05

there. And I think that's why the exposure is

46:07

so important, E, because you can waste years and

46:09

years and years doing something, but doing it wrong.

46:12

But when you were able to expose yourself to

46:14

the right individuals, the right people, they

46:16

able, I remember, I never really was that leg

46:19

guy really. I was on the arms and my,

46:21

you know, my trainer was like, J, the arms

46:23

ain't connected to your brain. That

46:25

ain't got nothing to do. That might be connected to, you

46:27

know, your wife holding your arm and making, you know, but

46:29

it's not another do it with your longevity. So

46:31

now, man, when we in longevity now,

46:33

as opposed to just muscle. So I

46:35

think that goes back to that you

46:37

can grind, but your definition of grinding

46:39

has to change. Grinding shouldn't just mean

46:41

you taking on everything. Yeah,

46:44

and I like your definition of it. And

46:47

for me, what I'm hearing, I just want

46:49

to speak out what I'm hearing is

46:52

you're saying you go from

46:54

your hands to your head as you get

46:56

older. Yeah, absolutely. You know what I'm saying?

46:58

So you're using your hands, you

47:01

know, when you're younger, like your strength, as

47:03

you get older, you start using your brain.

47:05

Absolutely. So now what you're saying is you

47:07

spend more time getting insight

47:09

and information to guide

47:12

you than you do your youth of just

47:14

going, going, going, going. I think for a

47:16

lot of people who are listening to us,

47:19

the younger you are, they're listening to us like, yo,

47:21

you really do need to go. Cause what I saw

47:23

with Mr. B, I saw

47:25

still hustling. I

47:27

saw still that like, you

47:30

know what I'm saying? Whereas I did something today,

47:32

man, just going to his

47:34

funeral. I did something today, got up at five,

47:38

did my prayer, whatever. And

47:41

then I got on the mastermind for an hour

47:44

and I went back to bed, you

47:46

know, and I'm gonna be real. I wasn't

47:48

tired. Like I wasn't like,

47:52

you know, like, oh, I don't

47:54

got no energy. I'm tired. I

47:57

wasn't, but I was like,

47:59

E, you're a. wife deserves

48:03

your energy now, like kill all of that up

48:05

early grind and stuff. Like you got up and

48:07

you prayed, you got on

48:09

the car, get in the bed. And I must've

48:11

put in four hours of work already. Probably. Yeah.

48:14

I just got in the bed with a elder.

48:16

I went to sleep, she went to sleep and

48:18

I woke up probably about, probably

48:21

about close to nine, you

48:24

know? So that was like seven to nine, 10 or

48:26

whatever. And once I got up, I

48:29

could tell she felt like

48:32

good, you know? So then I went downstairs,

48:35

got on the treadmill. Nope. I

48:39

could, I got on the treadmill. I don't

48:41

need you. Phil. Phil. Phil. Phil. Phil.

48:43

Phil. Phil. Oh man. I'm

48:46

talking about this. He ain't fooling nobody. Let me bring

48:48

him back. I'm with you. Carl, can we stay here?

48:50

I'm gonna bring him back. Yeah. Thank you Carl. I'm

48:52

gonna try to say I got in the bed and

48:55

held him. I held him. That's why he ain't got

48:57

that lunch. You stay

48:59

here. That's why you didn't think about us.

49:01

Stay right here. Of course, sir.

49:03

Just stay here. I got you. Can we

49:06

get some facts? Sometimes you just gotta unwind

49:08

the ribbon. You just gotta work

49:10

back all the way. Yeah. My daddy

49:12

Sharpe said it back. He's not a

49:14

journalist. He's a conversationalist.

49:17

He don't have no facts. Oh. But

49:19

now, said it, Sharpe said it. If you want facts,

49:21

go to the video. Your comment went, you walk in

49:23

like, man, you look satisfied. That's

49:27

on your face, dog. I know

49:29

that look. Oh,

49:32

bro. He walked in like, what the

49:34

hell with you, bro? We're doing a podcast.

49:36

In terms of, because again, we're talking about

49:38

your body gradually shifts as you get older.

49:40

What are some things that you can tangibly

49:42

look for, Ma. I need to

49:44

transition. OK, I might not be where I am financially, but

49:46

I still need to start making

49:48

a shift. What advice would you give to that? Either

49:52

or. What advice would you give

49:54

to what? To that person that's like, yo, I'm not

49:56

there yet. I'm in hustle

49:58

because there's a reason. I'm hustling if you get what

50:00

I'm saying. Right. So first you

50:02

got to identify what there looks like. You're

50:05

saying that a person saying I'm not there yet.

50:07

What is there? You got

50:09

to identify what's that destination look like

50:12

for you? You know, I

50:14

got one for me for this year for

50:16

my, I just said for my core this

50:18

year, I want to get back to

50:20

a place of, you know, I'm turning

50:22

50 foot 50. I'm turning 47. Slow

50:25

down. Slow down. Slow down.

50:28

I'm in the future already. I'm telling y'all I'm not even

50:30

joking. I say I'm in the future. You're a blue pant.

50:32

I live in the future. I

50:36

live in the future. And I understand that.

50:38

And I mean, we just a whole nother podcast. I'm

50:40

reading this book right now on just vision. And

50:43

a lot of y'all. The problem is that you're living

50:45

in the past and

50:47

that's why you can't get yourself

50:50

financially together. You can't get

50:52

yourself physically together. You can't get your

50:54

marriage. You can't meet problems where they're

50:56

at. You got to go ahead of them.

50:59

That's good. So, so I understand

51:01

the secret to success. No pun

51:03

intended. I understand the secret to

51:05

success and I understand that if I

51:07

want the, if I'm running into

51:09

financial problems today, I

51:12

can't go chasing today. I

51:14

got to go ahead. That's why investing is so

51:16

important because it allows you to set

51:18

up something and you might not realize that

51:20

investment, the profit from that investment for the

51:23

next year, next 12 months,

51:25

next two years, but it's

51:28

going to change your financial position

51:30

two years from now. And

51:32

that's going to be your reality, your current reality. The

51:35

same thing with your house. Let's be real. That's

51:37

why people grind. You grind because you want to have more money.

51:40

But you're grinding because you're grinding not

51:42

for the future. You're grinding for tonight.

51:45

Right now. And you gotta in order to change.

51:47

I'm telling you, bruv, I'm a, even,

51:49

you know, even to the house I own

51:51

right now, I bought that house back when

51:53

nobody probably would have bought that house and

51:56

I was able to get, I, you, I went to

51:58

the, I told Camille. In the

52:00

next five to 10 years, this house is going to

52:02

be worth millions. Most people

52:04

can't see it today though. Everything

52:06

I do got to do. My first house that I've,

52:09

the one that you say you never been inside, we

52:11

just drive by it. I bought

52:13

that house back when the... Mark got a whole house

52:15

that's like a

52:17

baby man that we done drove past 7,000 times.

52:20

I'd never been in it. He'd be like, yeah,

52:22

that's my other house. This dude just left everything in

52:24

there. Left everything in. I just went in

52:26

the other day too. TV's on the wall, clothes and... Ain't

52:28

nobody in there? Nothing. Left everything

52:31

in it. We just left... Hey,

52:33

listen. Hold on. Perfect. Perfect.

52:37

I was talking about it today. Yeah, my mom... It's

52:39

so funny because remember when I told you my mom said he

52:41

wasted money with that house out there? No. She

52:44

said the same thing about more. Why would he waste money

52:46

in half that house? How

52:48

much has it inflated since you left it there?

52:50

Yeah. So when we left the house, the value

52:52

of that house was probably about $400,000, where we left

52:55

it. What is it now? It's like $850,000. Just

52:59

sitting. The reason why I left it, because we

53:01

moved into our 20,000 square foot house and left

53:03

the 4,000 square foot house. And it

53:05

was only 10 blocks away. So

53:09

when I went to the storage company, the storage...

53:11

We had all our stuff in there. The storage

53:13

company said $2,500 a month storage fee for all

53:15

of our furniture and things, because we didn't bring

53:17

nothing to our new house. The

53:20

mortgage to the 4,000 square

53:22

foot house ain't number $1,300. That's

53:25

a no-brainer. So I said, I might as well just leave the

53:27

stuff in here. Your own storage. Yeah, and just leave it in

53:29

there. And I was saving the house. I

53:31

was saying, people, you just don't know. Wow. You

53:33

just don't know. You shouldn't be there. You should sell

53:35

it. You wasted money. Why you ain't sell that? But

53:37

we had this conversation today. Me and your mom, your

53:39

dad was gone. He had a jury duty. I'll tell

53:41

you about that. Oh, yeah. Oh, Lord. I

53:44

told him to go on the... And

53:46

I was like, when you go in there, just tell him that your adopted

53:49

son is in town, who used to be a police officer

53:51

for 20 years. He hate criminals. Say

53:54

them exact words. And they gonna be like, oh, yeah,

53:57

hey, Tameesha just got called. all

54:00

the welcome to citizenship. They let him go.

54:02

They got hurt quick. Quick, bro. They let

54:04

you dead. They let you dead go, by the

54:06

way, too. He get out. They got out. He

54:09

came back home. I said, man, that was quick. But

54:12

so you're setting yourself up. A lot of

54:14

people, right, when they look at real estate,

54:16

their home, they go buy a house that's

54:18

already in a community that's already at this

54:21

peak. That's not setting

54:23

yourself up because you can't peak anymore.

54:26

And so in the next five years, 10 years, that

54:28

house is going to be either worth about the same

54:30

amount or it's going to go down or it's

54:32

going to be less. I was

54:34

telling Camille, we're young. Look, we in

54:36

our 20s. This house that we're

54:38

buying here, projects up, it was still Robert Taylor's was

54:41

up. We used to hear music coming from the projects.

54:43

I remember my dad used to be like, man, you

54:45

bringing a family back to the projects. I worked hard

54:47

to get us off the projects. And then now you

54:49

bringing a family back. My,

54:52

my, my. Years later, this

54:54

house, like I said, and I probably only

54:56

owe about 50,000. OK,

54:58

but you still have to have a level

55:00

of wisdom to do that. Right. That's his

55:02

point. You don't know. You

55:05

don't know. Yeah, you don't. What

55:07

Marlin has taught me and I'm going to say what he

55:09

said and say it another way. For

55:12

those of you, and I'm telling this to you, this

55:14

is your instructions. For those

55:16

of you who are listening to Mars, like, yo, he way too

55:18

far. OK, I'm going to

55:20

bring it down because I've been around him and I've been

55:22

learning. So what I've

55:24

learned from more, you have to do one or

55:26

two things either. How much

55:29

does it cost to be me? So

55:31

even if you don't have a dream for yourself, like even

55:33

you don't know what you want to do with your life.

55:35

If you don't know what your gifts are, you

55:37

know how much it costs to be you. Period.

55:40

You know how much it costs to

55:43

live, to eat, whatever. And

55:45

so that part is

55:48

being irresponsible if

55:50

you don't know that part. You're being

55:52

totally irresponsible. If you're an adult

55:55

and you don't know how much

55:57

your groceries cost, your whatever, that's

55:59

totally. irresponsible period. There's no excuse

56:01

for that. So it doesn't make you

56:04

an evil human. It just

56:06

makes you irresponsible and you need to change. So

56:09

I said to myself the other day, what would mall

56:11

do? So I was sitting there

56:13

and I said, Okay, you know how much it costs to be

56:15

you. mall said, I don't

56:18

remember where we were. It was a podcast, wherever we were.

56:21

mall said, how much does the future you cost? So

56:24

I said, Didi, we need to, we need to work on

56:26

the future us how much is the future us cost? Right.

56:29

And so I'm gonna give you all an example. I

56:33

went to the future. Like,

56:37

okay, ETA needs a museum.

56:39

So I was like,

56:41

Okay, got it. We got a museum. All right. I know

56:43

what it looks like. Okay, at

56:45

Oakwood. I need

56:47

a dorm. So there needs

56:49

to be a dorm with Eric Thomas

56:51

name on it. And it needs to be a

56:54

it needs to be a amphitheater

56:56

on the inside theater on the thing.

56:58

And they should just go ahead and

57:00

rename the whole school. Personally, somebody called

57:02

me the other day was like, no,

57:04

I'm not president. Every time I see

57:06

no, no, we don't need

57:09

to do that. Yeah, they need to go ahead and

57:11

call it ETA. Yeah. So I'm being real y'all like

57:13

I saw. Okay, so it was

57:15

like where so when I hit Johnny up

57:17

is like Johnny, here's everything that dorm needs

57:19

to have in here's what the museum needs

57:22

to have in it. So in our in

57:24

if God don't come back, these don't come

57:26

back in the earth is here another hundred and

57:28

some years. People need to be able to go

57:30

in the museum, starting with when you first

57:32

walk in and see what your success how bad do you

57:34

want a video and then you go

57:36

into different spots and see how we

57:39

became I want to start with the secret service. Before

57:44

come in. Be a little

57:46

earpiece. I

57:48

want to start right there. We

58:00

can dream. We don't bother, bro. We don't

58:02

bother, but don't put no disrespect, but for

58:04

real, Ma, so now when I'm stuck, I

58:09

just go into the future. So now

58:11

when I'm currently stuck, I was like, Diddy, what you want to do

58:13

in 2024? What

58:16

would a great 2024 look like? So

58:18

she's like, well, I don't know. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Think

58:21

about it. Think about it. She's like, all right, we just want to go

58:23

to Africa. We didn't go to Africa. Okay, where else do you want to go?

58:25

And I can't say it on- Where you got to go to Africa if she

58:27

said, we got to go to Africa. Yeah, but we said we was going to

58:29

go, so she's like, we got to go. Yeah,

58:31

we got to go. But I saw myself going to

58:33

Africa and taking a group of kids

58:36

and showing them, not necessarily on our first trip,

58:38

but I'm like, I see that whole- So for

58:40

me, it's if you're stuck, how

58:42

much does it cost to be you? If

58:45

you are not stuck,

58:47

how much does the future you cost? And

58:50

so it makes you think. And

58:52

then once you start thinking, the

58:55

wisdom either

58:57

comes or you start calling the

58:59

people with the wisdom. Yeah. So

59:01

as soon as I saw the dorm and I saw our museum,

59:04

I saw Johnny. Period. Like

59:06

I saw Johnny. Church, I was

59:08

like, yo, we got to take church to the next level.

59:10

I called Toby. I was like, Toby, here's what I need

59:12

you to do for me. This year,

59:15

if we could do one church service

59:17

in Houston and you take over it. So

59:20

you design it from top to bottom for us

59:22

to give God the glory. Who should be the

59:24

choir? How should they dress? What

59:26

should it look like, Toby? And then you do that.

59:28

And once you do that, I'm going to take the

59:30

team and let us watch it and go. This is

59:32

what the standard should look like. Oh, Lord. Oh,

59:35

Lord. You feel me? I want you

59:37

to be with me here, my man. You know what you're worried about? What you're

59:39

going to be about? You don't worry

59:41

about tomorrow. You're going to

59:43

be with me. You're going to be with me. You're going to be

59:46

with me. You're going to be with me. You're going to be with

59:48

me. Thank

59:54

you so much for rocking with us as always.

59:56

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