Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson recap the best pop culture moments of the week Including the cost of living back in 1985, Bun B joins talks Houston sports teams & RodeoHouston, Unc talks about his old device gadgets & much more!
04:21 - Cost of Living in 1985
11:17 - Spello-Cinco and Dunc on Unc
18:13 - Bun B joins the show
59:20 - Shannon’s old gadgets
1:01:20 - Parents make kids pay bills
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Head over to your nearest boost mobile store and make the most out of your tax refundah. Looking back at the cost of living forty years ago in nineteen eighty five, which one of these items surprises you the most? A new house costs eighty fourth thousand, three hundred. The average income was twenty three thousand, six hundred. Minimum wage was three thirty five an hour, average rent four hundred and thirty two dollars a month, college tuition forty five hundred and sixty dollars. A spanking brand new car was less than seventy seven hundred dollars. Milk was two twenty a gallon. Eggs was eighty five seven dozen A loaf of bread cost sixty eight cents, a movie ticket was three fifty five, and gas costs a dollar twelve a gallon.
Now, listen, one thing I want to say about this. I remember these days nineteen eighty five.
Yeah, I remember I was the junior and high school. Yeah. Hey, listen, I was a freshman in high school.
Now, when I think about it, they always say history repeats itself.
No, that ain't happening. Wait, listen to me, stay with me.
Now, if you look at some of the things going on fashion, politics, some of the thing that's going on in the world, we're going back to the sixties and the seventies in certain areas and aid spects in life if you actually pay attention to certain things. Now, we talked about history repeating itself, At what point would we get back to this?
Never, You're never gonna buy a house for less than one hundred thousand dollars less.
It's a row house. List, it's a crack house. You ain't getting no new car.
You ain't getting no new car for those seventy seven hundred dollars for joke, Hey, gas eight will ever be a dollar twelve a gallon? Hey?
On eggs? Was eighty five cents.
I was eighty eggs was eighty five per since per dozen?
Yeah, I was, Lord, I was seventeen. I remember it. Yes, Oh my goodness, Yes, I remember I told you you used to get three loads of bread for a dollar.
I remember you get three loads load for bread with sixty cents now, but I remember you can get three loads of bread for a dollar. Yes, I remember this. I was seventeen. I remember this now. I ain't know nothing about no new house, the house we call. Probably we stayed there and probably cost fifteen hundred dollars.
But yeah, I remember this.
The funny thing about it is, is the price of everything keeping going up, right Yahing around us is keeping going up. They're taking jobs away from people using technology chat beat, chat chat, GPT and and AI and all this other stuff automated services.
But minimum wage isn't going up the way it should.
No, I remember, to be able to offset the price of everything going up.
So something something way.
Exact wages are going up, yeah, average consumer, the hourly is not because it's what seven thirty a now?
Yeah, I worked for three thirty five an hours so I know.
Yeah, oh yoven back then, Oh, Joe. You look at that faith, Damn bro, My grandma called hell even in eighty five cents, even at sixty eight cents for a loaf of bread, it was still hell on the port of sharp household.
And you look at the price of night like that. Yes, yeah, yes, that's crazy.
Gallery gas was a dollar twelve a galer and you weren't going nowhere unless you had two dollars to put in my tape.
So it wasn't no free ride.
Hey, come take No, you got to pay right, Yeah, I'm yeah, I remember that like yesterday.
That's crazy. New car? What do you know if for seven thousand wars?
Oh?
Can I can imagine you buy a car?
By Grady made one hundred and ninety seven dollars every two weeks, so she made less than four thousand dollars a year. So how did you're gonna pay for a new car? Yeah, you're right, and buy and buy and buy food?
Can you imagine if everybody ren was four hundred and thirty dollars? Still? Do you know how much money that was back then? Yeah? I already know. You have to tell me. I was there.
You looking you looking at today's money when you make it today's money and you looking at yesterday's prices.
Right right right, trans brought your hands back there.
You know how your grandma, how your mama's pregnant struggle to pay four hundred and thirty something dollars or that was a phone on the money.
Yeah, I already know, but just imagine. Tell granny granny made.
Five hundred dollars a month, so you're gonna pay rent at four thirty two of money she made five hundred.
Mm And so funny. You notice how they made it work back then? They made a way. Yeah, matter what, because you.
Ain't lost, you make pig feet, you ate cool, You at squirrel, You ain't rabbit, you ain't possum. Yes, that's how you ain't tried. You ain't my noise. Just that's how you made it. You went and caught the mess a fish and you ain't. Yes, that's how you made it work. You wasn't eat no steak, no lamb chop, no lobster, no crab legs, those lops, no scallops.
No, you're eating that right.
I never I had never heard of a person eating crab like oh till you know them dungeons, crab them blue crab, but like them king krab leg, I ain't never heard nobody eat no lobster, nobody need no lobster.
Tking about can we go get some? Uh?
We were gotten called like a senior and got guy. Tell me, man, I'm gonna take old girl, the red lobster. You want lost her. But you know guys who you got that uh that work study money. You know you got that work study money. Oh, Joe, you try to press somebody you think about to eat something, please die, eating salmon croquette in the can, eating buying the sausages and eating baloona, that tube bloona with the red with the with the you know the tube, the lone tube of bologna, Joe, not the lost bob with the slicer. You wasn't getting that right. You get that big ass tube.
Hold on what you know? I bet you ain't had no beanies and whenies. Nah, we didn't eat that.
We didn't have porking bees though, okay you know, yeah.
Porking beans and porking beans. And you you chake the hot dogs and cut the hot dogs up in the porgram.
Yeah okay, and now you're talking. We got the we got the hot dogs. The fifty came in the pack, but the hot dogs still had the chasing on them.
See they were pink. Yeah, yeah, get down what I'm talking about, Joe. You ain't getting no you ain't getting no no good, no Hebrew National. But I'm looking at the presced I'm like, if I look back at this and now, O Joe, and I think, boy, we were bad off, O Joe, we might have been bad worse than I previously thought, right, boy.
And there was some days that boy, boy, hey, there was some days. Oh yeah, hey, when when life is simple that.
Y'all get ready, it's time for your favorite sakem but it's time for spello sinko what you had where your had on?
Joe, put your hat on?
Hey, and you you know who got mad at me and cut my hat up a long time ago.
That's why I stopped winning. You heard me? Yeah?
Yeah, okay, O Joe, I'm gonna start you.
Let me lock in first, Let me lock you that. Don't rush me. Don't rush me.
Let me let me lock in and focus so I can I can chat. This is for y'all. Tonight is for y'all.
Chat. I'm telling you, I want to Spelling nineteen seventy nine.
Be able to give oo the strength to lock in and dispel. These words help them to focus, understand, and as I enunciate these words correctly, just give o Jo the strength and the courage to spell these words with conviction. Yes, we asked all these things in your name. Amen's up, Let's.
Go, Amen, Amen, Amen your first word, first word?
You bick with us. You bick with us.
You won't be to get ahead by the gamelaneously you biq with us?
How you come out the game with something like that. Okay, it's gonna get easy er. Okay, okay, we start were starting with that? You you you say it again? You bick with us?
You biquous? Now, yes, I'm I'm assuming its u B. Let's start there.
You big, you big? Now big lighter is b I C So I'm gonna go U B I C.
You big?
Who where b U b I C Q T I S t.
U b I q U I t O U s U biq with us? Now you know now you knew I was gonna get that. Now that I thought you get that with I thought that was the chance. What okay, okay, how about this with out Joe this one, and you've heard of this one? A demigog Oh, a demi God?
Wait, you mean a demi god.
A demigg demi god is a leader exploring emotions to gain power.
A demi god? Man, are these words even? Excuse me? Are these words even in the sours? I've never stood at before? A Demi? Say it one more time? I bet you get.
A demi god A d E m I A demi god g O D Where the hell you get a from? I said demigog?
Oh, you said demi? I thought you said demi God. No, but you're wrong. D E m A g O G you e demigod? Oh my goodness, hey, un.
And not only do I not know these words, the chat don't know me that, And I hope nobody in the chat is laughing at me because I know you're not. Finna say and pretend that y'all know some of the words I'm talking about, because I ain't never heard of the last one, and I definitely don't know how to spell the first one we did.
How about this paradigm? Paradigm? Oh p A r A d I g N No, what p A R A d I g M. That's what I just said, sound like you said chat. Do you see how fast I spelled it because I knew how to spell it. We're running back. We'll give you that one. How about this one?
Let's stop playing with me. Channel dope huh antidote antidote A A N T I anthidote A N A N T I D O T E antidote.
A N E C D O T E antidote. God, don't get man, Jesus, elucidate what to clarify, explain clearly, elucidate a lucid date elucidate to clarify or explain clearly elucidate.
Aluser so elusive elusive elusive is e L So a lucid date would probably be e L as well, you s elucidate I D A T E lucidate.
E l U s I D A T E elucidate. So that's not what I just No, Hey, this is gonna be the eest one if you don't get this one. A bore to detest strongly dislike I A bore you A bore? Oh, my goodness, A bore. I mean it could be a bore like a b o r A I mean, my bad A b o A r. But it could be a b o r E what where are you going with? Or a bore A b o r? Which one of the three is it?
That's I mean, I didn't go to Harvard. I went to deliver A high school. That's far I got to understand. I went to Harvard for one semester. Okay, that should be enough to help these words.
I mean that's when they saw my application and knew it was fake, and that's when they got thrown out.
Yes, so what what are you going with? A boar A boar A b o r A b A b o r A b h or r A bore Okay, I got it right.
No you didn't. No, I said, the night is sigling. No damn what Joe? You there? I got out one for four, one for five. Well, listen, if I if I played baseball, I'd be a Hall of Famer.
Not actually you wouldn't. That's below the Bendoza lined there. You gotta be at least two two fifty. I can work with you three at the ballpark. Okay, on yo, this is dump on up n c A A oops, okay, here we go, here we go?
Hey, I gotta go back then, I gotta study month of Saurus or so man because Jesus Christ a Chat, I apologize, chat. I'm glad this wasn't the life of that situation because y'all would be playing my funeral.
My goodness, that was abusinal. That was horrible. Yeah, that was God. Hey them some crazy words though. Okay, here we go. Dunk on Uncle n C double A Hoops Riddle Edition. Okay.
He played for the Kentucky Wildcats. He won the twenty twelveth n C Double A National Championship. Known for his elite defense and shot blocking.
Went number one overall in the Anthony Davis Well God, can I finish? Now? I'm gonna hold you. Okay, you got that one? You got that one? Okay, here we go, Here we go.
He played for the Yukon Huskies, went fourth to four in the NC Double A Championship twenty thirteen, the twenty sixteen never lost the NCUBLEA Tournament game. One of the greatest women's college basketball players ever.
Where am I she went four for four? Oh? Oh Stewart, Breonna Stewart, God damn it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, you two you two for two? Okay, Okay, you know you know your stuff. Huh A little bit. Okay, here we go.
Coach for the Duke Blue Devils won five n CUAA Championships nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety two, two thousand and one, twenty ten.
Oh damn. Okay, okay, okay, hey, you're on a roll today.
Huh.
I'm gonna ask you for the I'm gonna ask you for the numbers for the lotto after this. Okay, here we go.
Legendary coacher, the Tennessee Lady Balls won eight summit.
Actually her middle name is pat Head Summit. She married.
The guy's last name was Someer. Her actually maid name is patt Head. But he tried, you know what, the scoring she got beat. She got beating the tournament game. And she was about to give birth to a son. And they said they wanted the land to play in Virginia and she said, no, I'm not having my son in Virginia.
Hey boy, you're showing off the night in front the company. Huh okay, okay, here we go, here we go, Let me putt my glasses back on.
He played for the Blue Duke. He played for the Duke Blue Devils scored forty one points. In the nineteen ninety two Elite eight game versus Kentucky.
He was perfect from the floor. Christian Latner, He didn't miss a single shot or free throw. He hit the buzzer, beat her. Yep, remember like yesterday, caught the pass from Grant Hill at the top of the key, turned around, bam ball game.
Do you remember that game on?
Joe?
Oh, hey, man, come on man, hell nah, Okay, here we go. Last one. All right, you ain't gonna get this one. Played for the Iowa Hawkeys, known for the triple doubles and record breaking performances.
One of the top scores in NC double A history. Revolutionized women's basketball, not Kitlyn Clark. Go Joe, Hey, I want to know who briefed you before this.
I thought you was gonna give me like, well, who won the nineteen seventy five national championship and the men? I thought you were gonna ask me something like that.
Who won the national championship in nineteen seventy five for the men?
Yeah? I think n C State.
Because seventy six was Indiana, seventy seven was Marquette, seventy eight was Kentucky, seventy nine was Michigan State. Eighty was Louisville, eighty one was Indiana again, eighty two was Michael Jordan this year. Eighty three was in c State, eighty four with Georgetown. God damn, yes, you tell that one. So when did David Thompson win seventy four? Hey, I got I got a problem.
We got it.
We got a whole court, especially with the chat, the check. We all we all got a whole court. But there's a there's a small discrepancy and the level of difficulty and my questions when it's time to spell, and the questions that you get on dunk on.
I thought you was gonna ask me some like some n c A stuff like you know who won the ninety six National Championship, or.
Tell me, ask me something about Cheryl Swoops.
Right Lynette Wadard Right, I mean you can't ask me something about coach k Right.
Okay, don't worry about it. I got listen. Next time, I got you, I got you.
I'm gonna take the degree of difficulty maximum the way you can do with my words.
Yeah, ask me where Oscar Robertson played or something like that. Right, Okay, you know Jerry West played the Ohio State So don't ask me that. Now you played at West Virginia.
Now they played Ohio State, didn't he?
I was there, Me and Jerry, Me and Jerry might have been a West Virgeriy Lucas played at Ohio State.
Damn why oh I had a bad night to night for yeah, West Virginia, Jerry, because that's where he's from, Jerry Lucas. Oh, I had a bad night, Chad, I you did?
Oh Joe, Uh, it's time to welcome. His birthday was yesterday. He celebrated so happy belated birthday. He's the owner. He's a co owner of the iconic smash burger joint trill Burger. And if I follow him and I think he just opened up another one trio burger.
Bun be what did do? Hey? Hey, what's going on? Gentlemen? What's going on? Thanks for having old man? What's making? What's good? I see?
I see shining over that little something man. You know, I got a the lotion on, that's all it is, lotion. Buy Let me ASKI you this, let me let let's let's kick it off with this. But when did you come up with the idea to start tril Burger.
I didn't come up with the idea I did. It was brought to me by two mutual friends of mine. Okay, one that I knew in the previous career as a clothing line designer and the other I knew in the previous career as a podcaster for the Texans. They both moved into new paths, one becoming a restaurant tour the other becoming marketing and promotions manager of restaurants. So the restaurant tour Andy Wynn came up with an idea forrest mash Burger, but smashburger phenomenon was already moving on the West coast.
He from California.
He saw the trend starting to move east and he was like, if I don't catch it by Texas, I'm a miss the whole smash burger trend.
But I don't have as strong a brand out there. I need someone to partner with.
And my other friend, Nick Skurfield, was like, well, I know Bun has had a food blog for many years called you Got to Eat This dot com Go check us out. And he was like, I know Bud's been looking for an entry point into the culinary space. I didn't want to do a full restaurant because there's so many different menu items, and there's so many different ingredients that you shock and a lot of things you lose and people don't and people don't come in and buy that that shrimp in a day or two. That shrimp starts to go bad by day three, and you lose it. A lot of stuff off slaws, you know what I'm saying.
So but this was a very refined, very simple concept. I went and met up with him.
I tried to burger and I thought, not only was it one of the best burgers I've ever had, I thought it was one of the best meals I'd ever had.
The flavor combination is incredible.
Anybody that's ever had it will tell you they may have had good burgers, but no one has ever done.
With a hamburger.
What we've done, and what I mean by what we've done is we care about it more than I think the people care about a burger. Most burgers are after dawns. You know, something like, I got thirty minutes for lunch work? Can I go and get something real quick?
Man?
I left this club. I'm full of this look. I got to try to soak it up with something. You know what, I'm got to absorb that bing, gotta absorb it. But you know, but we found a real sweet spot, man. You know. We found a way to not only introduce a better product into the public, but also for me personally, a way to transition my cultural equity that I built up in the entertainment industry into the culinary industry in a way that I could capitalize off of it a lot better than I could in the music industry because of the contractual agreements that I signed at a very young age, and with this I was able to own everything outright with my partners. There was no investors as it was with the record company where you take that advance up in front. We did all this out of pocket. We continue to do it out of pocket. We don't take any money out of the company so that the company can grow, be selfless, sained, so we don't need investors, We don't need finances from anybody, and we just tried to build something that we believe the last longer than we will.
I like that. I want to go back with it being your birthday. You know you turn the young are you you're getting younger?
You know your recent birthday bonanza at Houston Rodeo Obby. It featured a diverse lineup man you had Keith Sweat, Don Tolliver, Yolanda Adams. What inspired you to blend hip hop, R and B and gospel for this event?
You know, we've done a lot of different lineups with my shows at the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. Last year was the first year that they'd ever had two full rap nights. One was My night and one was with fifty cent his tour, and it kind of started to get away from what the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo as far as Black Hair Today has always been, and that's been a very inclusive evening that was always family friendly, and with some of this rap music, it could get away from being a family friendly environment very quickly. And so the Rodeo is like, look, we would love to reset the bar, Like we appreciate what your hip hop contributions and all of the talent that you brought to the stage have done for the Rodeo, but we think we need to reset the bar because if we don't, we're going to lose the demographic. And that was the problem with the Rodeo before, was that the Rodeo had aged itself out.
The Rodeo did not bring in hip hop and.
Younger music in a timely manner, so they started to age people away from the Rodeo younger people. And when I say younger, this may sound crazy, but when I say younger, I mean like fifty another. Right, there was nothing that was catering to them. Nothing in popular music was catering to them. Nothing in popular culture was catering to them. And so it they became a concerted effort to try to make sure that the people on stage reflected the diversity of the city of Houston, which is arguably.
Be the most diverse city in America right now.
There's over one hundred spoken languages and so many different cross culture things happening in the city, and so we did a good job of diversifying it.
But at the same time, you don't want to leave people out.
And I could tell that if we did one more show that was Rahap centric, my mama wasn't gonna want.
To come no more.
And we're gonna want to come no more because it can be a little much. The way people dance to it, I get it. There's an energy, and we want to bring energy and entertainment, but we don't want to do that and make sure that other people don't isolate.
Absolutely.
You know, my mother comes to the rodeo, my siblings, my wife's siblings, our children, our nieces and nephews, and now our grandchildren all come.
So I got it.
I wanted to make sure that I got something that from my mama and my wife's mother that they could relate to things that we can relate to my children and my grandchildren. So that's why you get a keep Sweat for us, you get your line of Adams for the older and more Christian grandmothers and aunties and whatnot. And you get a Don Tollivan for a younger artist, uh, Coco Jones for a younger artists, you know what I'm saying.
And then the more for my base. You know Luda t I. You know, we hit him, put you in the chest with that hip hop.
So we want to make sure that when people come down, because now it's become a tourist attraction. There's literally it is that that come down for this thing. Now, I want to make sure that they get hung and what look anytime you know the triple O G Bun b is on it. You know it's gonna be big, and you know he gonna do right. He gonna do right by Agtown because the age town down he bought in bread. He Hey, he believe in that. And I love that. But I love the fact that the Rodeo came to you and said, we we really appreciate it, but let's not get too far away from what we intended to Rodeo beat, because we'll while we're bringing it one demo, we're losing another demo.
How can we blend these demo together and grow it so they still come?
More of you guys still come and guess what We expand this thing, And a lot of people didn't really understand it, because you know, I don't tell everybody who's coming. I typically keep about two or three surprises to innovate people on the spot. So when I was saying, hey, I got Don Tolliver and I got Keep Sweat, and I got Coco Jones and I got Yolanda Adams, people don't see how that mix is in the room right. People don't see how those genres blend together. And people really didn't understand the vision. We knew what we were doing the whole time. Alanda Adams was specifically brought in to be a part of their memorial program where we aunted all of the legends that have fallen and then we thought it was good to have some praise in the room. I feel very blessed to have this opportunity. I've done this for sure four times. I've sold over three hundred thousand tickets and just four shows, we're averaging seventy four thousand people every time we've done this, So it's been a beautiful opportunity, not just for me, for my family, for my business. I've been able to pass it on to other people that grew up in Houston dreaming of doing on the rodeo. Now they've actually been able to do it. I grew up at a time where, you know, you didn't even think that somebody that did hip hop music would even be on that stage, and now we exist where I live as an example to the next generation.
Maybe one day I can do the rodeo like bun Beee. You know what I'm saying.
So we understand, We understand how deeply this thing resonates with so many different people, and we don't want to let people down, especially right now. I don't want to seem like I'm leaving people out of something because this world is so divisive right now.
Yeah, and things are not really as inclusive.
And I don't think people understand no culture is more inclusive as black people, because black people understand what it's like to be left out. So we don't want people left out of a good time, you know what I'm saying. And we know that you don't need a bunch of money to have a good time, So we try to make entertainment as authentic and realistic and approachable as possible for people.
And I think we've been able to do that with the Rodeo.
Hey buy You know, we've been makingself out of nothing with nobody for the longust time. Hey, we don't need no money, So when I get five dollars, it's a part of part for sure. Hey we had on the more Hood party one dollars. Hey we got the block lid. You know what I'm saying by let me ask you this, but when you when you were growing up, did you go to the Rodeo when you were growing up? Yeah, that was my first concert ever. That's a big there's a big inside joke about it. The first concert I ever went to was Conway Twitter and Loretta Lynn when I was eight years old. The funny the coy body's doing the lorrela lyd. Yeah, my mom had gotten a car wreck and a man had hit her, and she was very nervous because this was in the seventies, you know what I'm saying. The black woman by herself in an accident with a white man. She just knew for exact that she would be at fault. But the police came. He told the police it was my fault. She did nothing. He took care of everything, and then he asked her, would you like some tickets to go to the rodeo when the rodeo come, and.
She said sure.
She gave him my information the address, and she never thought nothing of it, and a couple of weeks later the ticket showed up and so they took the family into the rodeo and that was my first concert, my first time for being in the astronout, you know what I'm saying. And it left a lasting memory on me, like like one of my first musical memories is the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo concert and just you know, over the years going every different time. My wife shares these kind of memories. My wife saw Michael Jackson for the first time at the rodeo.
You know, a lot of.
People have you know, you can basically, you know, have a timeline of your life based on different experiences at the rodeo, the first time you went as a youngster, the first time your parents dropped you off, because it's literally the safest environment you can be in at the rodeo. So there was a time when you get fifteen and sixteen, your mama would drop you off at the rodeo during spring break and you and your friends can hang out all night and then get picked up later because it was a safe thing, you know what I'm saying. So it's been a part of many people's lives over the years, and now people actually have a real time experience at the Rodeo and not just w when I perform. We have like a nine thousand square foot installation called Trill Town where we do the burgers, we do our trill tenders. We have merged trail lemonade. We have a bar, you know, basketball goal for people who play little games, win hats, win merchandise. So we've made it something that everybody that celebrates Houston culture can come in and feel comfortable. I know that there are people from other races that feel funny trying to celebrate other cultures and mixed company because they're not allowed to be as free as they would like to be amongst some of their own people.
We provide a night where everybody can come.
And be who they want to be, and nobody's gonna look at you sideways, because in order to enjoy it, you gotta leave your prejudice at the dope. You don't like white folks, you can't compass white folks gonna be there having a good time. You don't like black folks, you can't compass black folks gonna be have a good time, Straight folks gave folks from Mexican's Asians.
Everybody comes out and they all have a good time.
So the only way you can enjoy is leave your bulls, your bull stuff at the dope, and hopefully we believe that if people have a good enough time with other people of other cultes and make friends and learn things, maybe they.
Won't pick it up when they leave and they can leave their prejudices outside. For us. That's live man, listen. But when you're talking.
When you're talking, I can hear a passion enthusiasm in your voice the way you're explaining everything.
Listen, it's a new light. Yah, yuck, it's a new light on me. Listen. You've always been vocal about social issues.
You know, you've engaged in various, various community initiatives in Houston.
Man, what drives you still?
You know?
And your commitment to always give back to the community. And do you have any upcoming projects that you're excited about that you can tell us.
We in Houston as entertainers, athletes, what have you. We have a different relationship with the public as other places do. I believe that there are lines that are drawing, cultural lines, neighborhood lines, other things that come into play, and other major cities in America where people can't really bond in the way that we bond right Like La has cultural lines, it has neighborhood lines that some people can't cross, so that city can very very seldom come together and unite.
Same thing with with New York. Some people might be from Queens or Brooklyn or whatever.
In Houston, we had division maybe twenty five thirty years ago between the North Side and the South Side.
That doesn't exist anymore.
Everybody sees themselves as Ustonias, no matter who you are and where you come from in the city. So we've been able to build a connection with people that's different. People see us in the grocery store, people see us in the mall, people see us in restaurants and car washers in the gym. We're very visible and we're very approachable and very personable. So people feel like when they buy our music, they're not just investing in music, they're investing in people. They're investing in neighborhoods, and they look at us as cultural exports, like you know what I'm saying, Like when you come to Houston, we don't brag about who the best big ee jay z are nows. We brag about who the best slim thug, Kiki mumbeet. You know what I'm saying, scarface. Those are the kind of like we have a lot of pride. You know, Texas has always been a self sustained entity. It was its own country, and so we felt fully embraced then till very recently, everything we wanted we had to make it on our own. Entertainment wise, if you wanted to be a recording artist, you know, a New York label or LA label was probably not gonna sign, So you had to go out. You had to make relationships with wholesalers and distributors and record stores and radio stations and club bonis and all of that and make your way.
And we all had to do it.
So there's a common respect that we all have for each other because we all kind of had to progress that particular path in order to make it.
But it's the people. It's not just the artists. It's the people of Houston who don't look at us in that way.
Yeah, there may be somebody that's never seen me before and might be excited to get a picture, But if you rolled with me through Houston for twelve fourteen hours, you hear a lot of what's up, Oga, what's up, b what's up. It's not a lot of oh my god, oh Wowuse. We don't put those walls with people, and that's why the relationship with us is a lot different, you know what I'm saying. As far as projects, we are opening the second store probably within the next seven days, seven to ten days. The second location of the Treilberger be open in Spring, Texas. We'll have two more locations but by the end of the year. And I'm currently in Dallas right now with the wife mainly let you know some myer anniversary. My birthday is four days and points, so I would never forget my anniversary, you.
Know what I'm saying. So that's what's up.
So we spent the daytime, well on the anniversary, letting us shop. We spent nighttime with me going to my favorite restaurant. There's a Carbone here. It's the closest Karlone I can get to in Houston. That's my favorite restaurant. So we drove up here. We did a little shopping, we did some did some dinner with a good friend of mine, and uh, you know, probably look at some locations tomorrow right around Presno and playing over at a couple of different spots, you know, and looking for a location.
But we hope to be in Dallas and Austin by the by summer next year.
If LUs, hey, hey boy, Chad us out what you think about nightcap at the rodeo. I think there's room to possibly do it at my activation like that, because I'm to understand, I don't think people understand what the Rodeo is. The Rodeo is a twenty one day event. Yeah, I'm only one night of twenty one nights of concerts that that take place in the NRG Stadium, the Football stay. Yeah, average about sixty five sixty six thousand people at night.
Easy. Wow.
So it's arguably the biggest music festival in the world that isn't promoted as a music festival. Could we talking about twenty one concerts day after day after day after day? You know what I'm saying. It's a huge undertaking. Now that being said, my space, my wife thought of the idea of bringing in the DJ and DJ booth and some space up there there, so there is a stage. Now next year we can make it a little bit bigger. Okay, hey bigger that way we can up there, Yes, absolutely, may What do you think about nightcap that trial time?
Two thumbs up. That's what's wiped out bringing it. Oh we're gonnay, were gonna pay he Hey, oh gee, you know we're gonna circle back on this night. Were real taught? Now? No, I'm open to it because I want to make it a bigger weekend for people.
We realize now that and you know, you look at the music, Boots on the ground and all this other soul that's blowing up right now, that that black cowboy country Western lifestyle, yes always existed, is now in the forefront.
And my weekend at the rodeo is becoming a big proponent of that. You know what I'm saying.
It gives a place that's big enough for everybody, because a lot of black rodeos, unfortunately, are still smaller. They're still growing. They got a lot of momentum energy, but they still they're still growing. They're still smaller. My rodeo is the largest rodeo in the world, you know what I'm saying, So do you wouldn't have a larger audience that cater to with that type of movement in motion. My wife brought in DJ paying me from South Carolina. He's the biggest line dance and Southern soul DJ in the country, and we had people. Our space couldn't even hold how many people wanted to dance. They were dancing in the street. You know what I'm saying. It's just such a great way for people to come together and commune. That's what music has always been for people of color. It's always been a reason for us to get together and commute that Domino's playing called barbecue crawfish. Those are all excuses for us as a culture to come together and spend time together. We don't even like each other. But if so and so who doing the barbecue trade doing the barbeque?
All right?
I come who cooking potato salad? Us to doing potato sad? All right, I'll show up. Yet, it's an excuse for us to get together. I like and so I'm I'm I'm looking at that. We built something that now gives people an entry point. If you don't know about it, you haven't had any experience. This is a very easy entry point into this cultural representation. But for those of them that know, oh, it's it's the bat sitting, it's the bat set.
When you when you talk about this, man, I'm thinking about your plate. Well, your plate is full, man, Your plate is full.
Man.
At this is your role as a musician or entrepreneur, you're a community leader.
Man.
How to hear you balance all these different facets of your career? And what then? What keep you motivated?
Baby?
Because just listen to it. This is a lot. It is it is.
But I think everybody on this knows that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. You just got to figure out how to handle it right. I have an amazing support system. I have a beautiful, strong black woman as a wife in my corner. And the reason I've gotten this far it is not because I know it all. I could do it all. My wife refuses to settle for a lesser version of me. So when you know I'm not going all the way in and not giving one hundred percent, she'll hold me account. I like, like, you know you could do better than that. You know you're supposed to be doing more than that. There be a lot of times I want to phone it in. I'll be like, man, I just want to stay home. Now, Why would you do that? Knowing you told them people you was gonna come. You know, my wife, I can't. I can't do it.
My wife knows.
My wife believes it, has always believed in my greatness. And when I don't live up to it, because she talks about it, she holds me account. So I go out and do the rodeo and all that, and the next day I gotta come home and put the trash out. You know, I got to pick up stuff in the garage. I got to make sure I don't need a kitchen light on all those things. We have moments where we are very blessed that we get to see the world and travel the world and do all of that. But every other day, man, we are family trying to exist, making sure our children, our grandchildren are okay, that we got a good home that's comfortable for us to live in.
You know, all I got to do is give her a house. Is she gonna make her home? She was what he just said, Oh you see what I'm talking about. Ye what I've been telling you that. But I'm trying to get him to settle down. But I'm trying. I'm trying to get him to find my wife.
Because listen, the way you're talking, the way you explaining things, it shouldn't be hard after hear what you just said.
But she got to keep up with him though. That's the thing. You gotta keep up with him. He got to find a woman that's so busy he could jail.
Hey.
Listen, we found from one hey buy, we found one farm. He interviewed it not too long ago. Waituse, she ain't got wait wait till she ain't got no time for him.
Were gonna find out where he's saying that he's gonna try to spend that money, sitting that plane, playing that vacation, anything he can and spend time with that woman. When he started, Oh Joe, when he started disregarding things he don't normally just start and and them, but sisters.
Started having to do things that he normally going to do, he got on. He got something on mind. I got I got one more question, I got one more question.
This is going I'm sure a lot of people in the chat would love to hit his answer because I definitely want to hear it. Who are your top five Houston rappers? Your top value Manut Rushmore. Now I'm just adding the fifth. I'm gonna make it five.
Instead of folk.
Okay, uh, We're gonna start with Krino. Carino as the OG of Houston rappers. He's the He's he's the he's the height, He's the epity me of what Houston Raps Foundation should have been getting taught. So we had the right ojeez to start it off for us obvious least Garface one of the not just one of the best writers in rappers in Houston, but just I mean.
Arguably the best teller that hip hop has ever had ever.
Very few people, I think only Tupac can really invade it convey emotion through words on a rap song and the way that Scarface does. When Scarface talks about death, you feel that loss. When he talks about friends. You know, he phrases, it's all called suicide, and I'm talking about I had never heard a song about somebody delving into the psychea of somebody that they thought was okay but wasn't okay, and then you start to question making sure you're okay like this. So the depth of callfaces of writing, talents, and mentality man have been criminally underrated in the world of hip hop.
I think number three, you Gotta Go Willie DH. Wily D has been about.
Willi D is the prototype, Like WILLI D is the type of person that when you think of a Houston rapper meeting one in a dark alley, WILLI D is you project liny. You know that's somebody that you know has stood on all ten toes constantly, consistently and still does the fun thing about watching Willie D one he loved the culture just as much as he always had and two he about that just as much as he's always been. There's certain things that you can you can count on, and WILLI D being about that life is absolutely one of them. He still leads by example, and he still makes us proud to be from Houston and knowing that, you know, whatever you say in this world, you better stand on him, because with some people it might be a fight with it, right, you know what I'm saying. Number four, Number four, I might have to go out on the limb here, man, I may have to go out on the limb with this one. I don't know how everybody's gonna feel about this, but I think Gainst Ennip and maybe one of the best rappers from Houston. And I'll tell you why. The only reason that people really didn't get into Gainst Nip is because of subject matter.
He did a lot of horror c you know, he wrote stuff for Bushwick and.
A lot of stuff was a lot of his music existed in this in this world of horror and gore and all of that type of stuff.
Friday the thirteen, Jason, all of that type of stuff.
That but his flow in the in the mid nineties, in the early nineties and I mean, it's some of the best rapping I've ever seen and done in my life. At number five, I'm not gonna put Pimp here because I feel like Pimp superseds a lot of things in this argument, I'm gonna go with Killer Collie on. I don't think anybody wants to be the best rapping in Houston more than him. I don't think anybody takes the art of lyricism as serious as he does. Now, we got people that got a lot of motion. Max So got motion, Meghan has got motion, Travis ot Walker, There's a lot of people from Houston, young artists, up and coming talent that got our that have motion and have fan bases and and really making major moves. But when we talk about just rap rapping, like rapping and like looking in the motherfucker face and meaning what you say when you wrap this stuff, I don't think anybody conveys that more than Killer Khalil. I think Killer Kalie Old could potentially be the best lyricist to ever come out of the city of Houston. He just got to the problem is he got too much respect for his predecessors, And I feel like in some form of fashion as a competitor. At some point you can respect the goat and still want to beat the goat at the same time.
I like it.
You're gonna get you out of here on this one. I'm just good at what they say. Man, they f all that. Man, they're fun being all of them. I'm ball for the time and that's what it gets. That's when it would be the best, Bob. We're gonna get you out of here on this one. Which Houston team are you most excited about this year? Your Cougars, your Rockets, your Texans or your Astros?
Now that's the great question. That is a great question.
It's always easy to be excited about the Coogas because there at this point, that's a program that does this for US basketball, That men's basketball team does this. At this point, they've they've gone into the last four marches being heavily favored. They've made it to the to the eight at least two three times. I think I know the last two years for sure. I think they got a great chance of going all the way this season. So, but that's at this point with that program, that's to be expected. These Astros are going through transition, right we lost break Man that was a hometown hero. We love Alex Bragman. You know, as we lost career, we lost a couple of other guys, but we're bringing in We always bring in young talent. That's been a great thing about this Astros organization that the Cranes have always brought in and nurtured young talent. They draft well and they build talented up. They don't look to just go out and try to buy a player. They're about winning several They're not about winning this year. They want to win several years. They've tasted it, they know what it takes to get there, and they believe they can do it. But there's still in a little bit of rebuilding right now. Lost a couple of pictures, got my colors back, so we're gonna figure it out. Their perennial playoff team, right, But it's gonna take more this year to get to that final step than I think it has over the last two or three seasons. The Rockets, I mean, my goodness, look at this young team you talk about, you talk about a talented, young team. Tillman has done a great job of being like, you know what, we just got to start over, like we're not one or two players away. We're a team away. But I mean he put this he put this team on the shoulders a green. Jalen is an amazing talent. I think he's a great leader. I think Thompson is a problem. I think he's a beast on that team.
I really do. I even got to him. It took away his name. It took a while. It took a while to figure out.
How to say his name, but they we got the promise with that young boy and this yeah, I unders saying that he grew up in the game of fundamentals, right, but he's playing with some dogs.
I watched another day try to do over the behind the back pasts. He almost had.
They teaching him that black top ball, right, they teach they don't have to teach him fundamentals, you know, how to pass? All they teaching him black top no look passes in the paint. When he finds that step that that boy is gonna be a real problem. But I sell all that to say, this team has everything in the and man, you Doka, he's the right coach.
And I understand why he couldn't stay where he was, but I'm so glad he's where he is. That's the truth. At the city love because they get to see me every now and then. So the city loved that.
Yeah.
But them Texans, Man Man, them Texas.
I think in two three years, Man, I think they're gonna be the ones to beat Man. It could happen in the next two years. This team is building a strong rupture that Miko knows exactly what he wants. The organization isn't scared to spend the money to give him what he wants. And they're so embrasive of the local culture. They do collaborations with local artists, and they bring in different talent to perform at the games, and they allowed me to bring my burgers into the stadium. They're doing everything they can to be as Houston centric an organization as they can be. They're putting the money where it needs to go. They're trying to strengthen that old line. I know everybody wasn't crazy about losing Tunsul, but I can understand organizationally why they feel they needed to go in another direction. I hear there were locker room problems, there were a ton of penalties right, a lot of things going on, and I just think they were growing in a different direction.
I think that they supplemented the defense. Absolutely.
They're probably going to have to draft a little more to tighten up that old line because they gotta protect CJ. They gotta protect CJ by all means. I like the Kirk signing. I like bringing Christian Kirk in. I think he's a fast young players, got some good talent. He definitely got hands, and CJ can hit him and drive. You know, because I knew we weren't gonna probably weren't gonna keep Digs another season. I don't think we were going to keep him another season, so they had to start thinking receiver receiver receiver.
Tank had his surgery. He's a young guy. I think he'll recover quickly.
I think, I honestly think Tank will be ready by game one of a twenty five to twenty six season. But I think the Texans are a team that everybody has got to circle their caunt of the dates when they play that team. That defense is only getting better. I'm curious to see what the new OC is gonna do. I think that's going to be the big test is what the new OC is going to be able to create with with TJ. But at least they won't be as predictable in year two as they were in year three as they were in year two, because year one was a lot of surprises. Year two they pretty much tried to replicate the playbook and people saw it a mile away. With a new OC, I think there's gonna be a new approach. I think he's going to find a better way of working with these new offensive line. I feel positive about what we're doing as a team, So I would put it in that order. I would say Cool's uh, rock Cook's Astros, Rockets infections for the one line.
Hey, triple O, g Bunn, beat Bro, thank you for joining us.
Congratulations on everything the Trill Burger franchises, the Rodeo, your big staple in the community. What you do to uplift your community. We appreciate you. We salute you here at nightcap. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you down the road. Absolutely. Thank y'all for doing that drop for the rodeo for me last year too. You know that says we're gonna find some space to put y'all in the matter fact, come bringing that night. People want to say that, not only that, let me perform. You know I can say that I think we're bringing up Yeah, we all appreciate that, y'all. Y'all bet you broke No, I told y'all that's the original. That's the O G like triple O G bunn beat. That's the triple O G I phone that's live. That's the number two version. This one holds ten thousand songs. This one holds a thousand song y'all. Remember the iPad touch, I pod touch, damn and check out. You know that stuff might be worth something because it was like you got to don't worry it might be I mean, guess what it's supposed to be worth something? With this plus fifty two hundred. Wait, come again, it's supposed to be this this plus hundred. All your stuff is in good condition, like make condition. You could probably get a good price for it.
Look at this O G. You know what I phone nine? No, that's the original. I thought I thought it started with number nine or my tripping. Then it started with number one. Here you talking about that, y'all? Remember that crazy hey? Hey, you know what you do? Puts the rand rap back in and pretend like it's brand new. No, I ain't getting rid of it.
You know how much it ain't never how much money you can get for that, the original iPhone.
I mean somebody probably somebody probably give me like five grand for it because it's the original. I know it ain't never, but it ain't. It ain't never been active, it ain't never been turned on. They never had no phoneb How.
Much said they can give you for it? Probably about five you go, you go ahead and sell that when you two hundred. No, no, they got to do yours is bad. Yeah, you remember the Samsung. Samsung. That's a joy. I ain't never had. Look at that.
Yeah, I ain't never got no joy Gataxy note right there. Oh, I'll tell you one thing. You have a text me and to turn green. I'm gonna block you. Yeah, I'm gonna block you. I got a little stuff I gotta show you all before I got back. I got about seventeen eighteen phones. Damn Yeah, cause I keep them, oh Joe.
A debate went viral on Twitter, asking your parents make their kids pay bills if they work a job, and the response with viral said, I'm just gonna say it, this is a big problem in the black community and we have to stop it. A lot of parents need help with their bills, so they take the money from their kids and disguise it as teaching them responsibility, and it's actually pretty effing ridiculous.
Oh Joe, what do you think you got to You gotta teach your kids responsibility at some point, you have to. I think if they're staying with you after the age of eighteen, now, if they're saving up, I wouldn't I wouldn't make my kids my kids if they need to stay with me after the age of eighteen?
Are you saving up to get yourself a place? You have to have some sense of responsibility.
I'm not gonna always be around, so you gonna You're gonna have to be able to be able to fend for yourself.
I can teach you how to fish. I can teach you how to fish, so you know how to do it when I'm not around.
Now, if I do everything for you and still coddle you and have you up under the roof and you're not having any type of responsibilit and you go out there in the real world, you're gonna be lost.
We we can't have that. I mean, we can't have that.
We've got to have some type of structure in discipline and method on how things are to go as a grown adult, you'd have to. But being under the roof and making sure allow you to save your money and get yourself together until you're ready to go on on your own and be an adult, start a family, whatever it may be.
I'm all for that. I'm all for that.
Yeah, I mean, no, Joe. I helped my grandmother with bills, but she didn't ask me to. I just felt it was the right thing to do because I saw my grandmother struggling. I'm making money, and so what I'm going to continue to watch your struggle now. She's struggling trying to put food on the table for us. She's struggling trying to put food, your clues.
On our back. So here I am.
I got a job, and it's I'm not making a whole lot of money, but ten dollars with a lot of money back in the seventies, twenty dollars with a lot of money back in the in the seventies. So you know, I'm working two jobs. Hey, I mean I remember the first time I got a job. I was five years old. I was walking behind the tobacco picker and tobacco field nineteen seventy three nineteen seventy four, and from that time I started walking from walking behind the back of pickers to carrying a row to doing that. So I'm working ten twelve hours a day doing that, come home, shower, me and my cousin. We played basketball, and then go catch chickens for another three four an hour, three four hours and chicken.
A dollar thousand, So we catching eight to twelve thousand a night. That's twelve dollars.
Now, you only caught chicken between Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because Friday was the last day. There is nothing going on on Saturday, so you started, so you have so they were gonna be there. No, actually Thursday was the last day. Thursday was the last day. You didn't catch you on Friday because they were off on Saturday and Sunday. The chicken that you caught Sunday they were there for the crew. The plant was operational Monday through Monday through Friday. So you caught Sunday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Then they did uh, and so you know, hey, I'm bringing home five dollars a day plus half a day. On Saturday twenty seven fifty plus.
We catch eight to twelve thousand, four nights a week, so I'm making maybe sixty dollars, but I'm working a ass got out.
Hey, hey listen, okay, back then, you know how how far you to stretch sixty dollars?
Back then?
Yeah?
Man, stop playing.
So even if I didn't help, Oh yeah, guess what, I bought my own school clothes there and a whole lot of eight nine, ten year old eleven year olds buying their own school clothes. Well, who else was gonna get them? What the hell I was working for? And I'm working, gonna hold my money, I'm gonna hold my money in my pocket. I'm watching my grandma's struggle. I got a Please.
What kind of school did you wor back then? Like Jordan ash? No, no, no, you know, uh you know sisans Rubb was sisans row Okay, okay, I know we had them tough tough skins. But hey, then if I got older, Lee jeans Oh did okay? Yeah? You had, sir? You did have one?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, you have LEVI and stuff like odds on that polo you had? Did you did you ever have a pair of rules? Please? Tell you had rules? With a zip on the side. I didn't you know, you know the rules are right kangaroos. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, y oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. We ain't have none of that. No, we had no We had chuck. You know back then, Oh Joe, the Chuck Taylor's white. You had to meet.
You had the meeting, the hides, and you had the loads. But you had them in all different colors. They came in black, they came in red, they got blue, they came to green. So you know, you got mainly I only had the white. I had the hide and the lows, and I got a blood a blue pant he you know what's funny, But they go with everything. It don't matter on you wear a black paint, what the white pair? They go with everything, yes, yes, And so that from like I said, for me, I get it. I mean I could see her point trying to teach responsibility, but I was teaching myself responsibility because my whole purpose, like man, I see my grandma struggling. She working that job making one hundred and ninety seven dollars every two weeks, and she, you know, working in a nursing home, the very nursing home. That she ended up living her final days the last two years of her life. Nah, man, I couldn't be good conscience. I could not even good conscious have money in my pocket and then have my grandma worried about. Well, well, boy, I don't know how I'm gonna pay this bill. This I don't know you know, the phone, I don't know about the gas, I don't know about the lights. Man.
Please so me.
I took it upon myself, and that is still my responsibility to this day is to make sure my family is taking care of But you know, hey, I've done My kids and their moms have done a great job helping them. Understand, that's your daddy money. Now, if he choose to give you something, that's on him.
But y'all know I owe you an education, and I gave you the best education because all of you, for the most part, you didn't stay.
But you started out in riving school and you had college played for, you got a car, you left college with no with.
No debt, no student loans, no car loans. Same. Now, anything I do after that, that's out of the kind that's in my heart. But I don't know you anything.
Now, hopefully you've learned a lot from your mom and from your dad to be so self sufficient. Now, I'm not gonna let you drown. No, never, never that or at least uh you know you you you might thank you drowning.
Matter of fact, hey, I about let you. I might let you take on some water. Matter of fact.
You know my baby, Remember I told you my daughter at PREVNM. You know she graduated. She graduated May sixteen, right May sixteen and May seventeen. Remember what I told you she wanted for graduation. Huh yeah, that that that g Wagon. So we had a conversation when I was with all the kids. I told her, I say, listen, she'd have made the Dean List of Honimals. You'd have made everything. I'm like, well, now what you want?
Now? You say you wanted the Mercedes? What is it? So?
I'm thinking she's gonna say g Wagon and you say no, Daddy, you know I don't really want no g Wagger.
I said, well, what happened? What made you change your mind? He say, I think it's too much the maintenance.
Uh, I just I just think I just want to start on. Just give me a C three hundred. I say, now we're talking. Now we're talking.
Do you want to you want a white one? I could tell her.
I could tell them to make your your your your interior pink, you know, with the ak stisted in the seat and all that.
Oh Joe, what happened when you got to get rid of it? You better hope you sell it to another a k man, you know wherever we're coming over with your back. Then guy used to get the headlined to get Gucci. I said, well you better yeah, yeah, I said, well you better hope hey get there to get their initials.
Black.
I said, you better hope you find another dude name Black back on the by cause I promise you you go back get the great cross the coldes trying to sell it. Syracuse football head coach Fran Brown have a policy that his players must save forty of their nil checks. There's no way as a coach that I'm going to pay you a lot of money and then you're going to walk away from here with no money, says during the upbringing in Camden, New Jersey, it could have been a difference in paying rent, keeping the lights on, buying food for his siblings.
Would you think I like that, because at some point, especially when you're that young. You know, kids, kids these days don't understand financial literacy. They get the money, they spend the money.
They had this.
They had this mindset that that worth and value is based on aesthetics and the accessories that you purchase that makes you feel like you were greater than it makes you worth or it makes you feel special.
I want kids to understand it best.
The people in the chat that are a lot of players and athletes today in regards to sport that they play, they feel that they have to live way above their means based on the type of money they're making. People in the chat players that see this, there is nothing I guarantee you, and I promise you, there is nothing you can buy that holds more weight or value than your name alone.
Nothing no, nothing than the name that's on that birth certificate.
Because when you take all the when you take off all that designer, all the jury, all the watches, that in itself is the value. It is Your your car, whatem Borghinis, and your rolls Royce, and your your I sed Out watch and your chains and all and that.
Shit don't mean nothing, man, nothing the true value.
Can you get the same reaction without the car, without the clothes without the jury.
Can you still pull the same chicks? That's your value, that's your real worth.
Can you Can you still do the same things you do with all the accessories aesthetics on when you don't have have it on?
Yeah, come on, man, stop playing man oh Joe. The things people like. I don't like money. I like freedom.
Freedom is what you get where you have money. Those are two different things. Some people just want money, I won't freedom.
Mm hmm.
Hey, financial freedom is a beautiful thing. And a lot of people we look all the numbers, we look at these these huge, gargantuan contracts. You know, still to this day money keeps going up, right, and one thing that has changed me you look up to statistically, the same amount of players are still going broke two years remove from the game, even though the money continues to rise all that till nothing is changing from a financial standpoint, because there's no structure and discipline when it comes to spending.
Because our mindset is, well, if you give me more, I won't go broke.
Yeah, But if you ain't got no financial you got no financial discipline, It don't matter how much that gave you, because you're just gonna keep on spinning exactly.
The more you make, the more you'll spend, because you all, man, I got this, I got this now.
I can do this.
Go so fast, man, they go so fast before you look up. You got an entourage. You got an entourage. You you, you the golden goose. You got to feed everybody else. You go shopping now, you got to buy everybody else something. You go to the club, you spend it forty fifty thousands in the section buying bottles. You got a bunch of chicks, you know, try and impress them for what?
For what? They don't google how much you're making. You ain't gotta do nothing. Your name alone gonna get you the woman you want. Anyway, They gonna deal with you based off the name alone. You don't, man, what are we doing?
Man?
Stop playing