The Potnas welcome one of Northeast Houston’s own, renowned barber, G-Lee (2:08)! In “Debrief of the Week,” JT recaps his trip to the Colorado Mountains for a wedding, leading to great commentary from D-No and G Lee (14:03). In the “Ice Breaker,” the fellas give their Super Bowl winner predictions, followed by a hilarious “Fit Check,” a recap of JT’s Fantasy Football drafts and Beyoncé Tickets update (21:25). In “News,” the fellas unpack a situation where a husband abandoned his wife during a connecting flight for being late (34:30). In the “Highlight Topics,” G Lee walks us through his barber journey, tipping etiquette, a breakdown of haircut prices, and provides client Do’s and Dont’s (44:36). The Potnas then transition into an insightful discussion about the construct of Black People and therapists after JT recaps his first-ever therapy session (1:28:52)! We promise you won’t want to miss a second of the conversation in this episode of your favorite podcast!
The Potnas welcome one of Northeast Houston’s own, renowned barber, G-Lee (2:08)! In “Debrief of the Week,” JT recaps his trip to the Colorado Mountains for a wedding, leading to great commentary from D-No and G Lee (14:03). In the “Ice Breaker,” the fellas give their Super Bowl winner predictions, followed by a hilarious “Fit Check,” a recap of JT’s Fantasy Football drafts and Beyoncé Tickets update (21:25). In “News,” the fellas unpack a situation where a husband abandoned his wife during a connecting flight for being late (34:30). In the “Highlight Topics,” G Lee walks us through his barber journey, tipping etiquette, a breakdown of haircut prices, and provides client Do’s and Dont’s (44:36). The Potnas then transition into an insightful discussion about the construct of Black People and therapists after JT recaps his first-ever therapy session (1:28:52)! We promise you won’t want to miss a second of the conversation in this episode of your favorite podcast!
You're now tuning in to the sounds of the podcast podcast. Hey, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, depending on where you're at on the globe. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 5-6. That's 56 of the Pond's podcast, baby, and we are back. Oh, y'all thought I was about to hop on the freestyle huh, no, I was hoping, oh you was hoping, yeah, that we were what the.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 56 of the Pond's podcast. And we are your hosts, the Pond's, where we're delivering our perspective on topics, news and shit, God damn it. And we are your hosts, the Pond's, starting on the right hand side of the panel. Give it up for the Pond that has the greatest vernacular, Dino, aka the Dixonary. Ladies and gentlemen, Hold on.
Speaker 2:I want to retire that button for me, please. Oh yeah, I like that. It's like I'm on Oprah what's happening y'all?
Speaker 1:And then I am the other half of the Pond's podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Papa Tizzle. What the hey, motherfuckers, what's up? Baby, that was my daughter, kco Baco. Yeah, she got her own button. Now, ladies and gentlemen, what the hey? Yeah, say it to her, talk to her. I'm a baby, I'm a baby, oh god damn it. You're alive, bro, yeah it's Papa Tizzle, baby the live thrills. I don't know if I like that. You don't like Papa Tizzle.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I'm still trying to see.
Speaker 1:That's one of my names in my fantasy league.
Speaker 2:Damn yeah, but without further ado all right. Papa Tizzle.
Speaker 1:I'd like to introduce our special guest for today's episode, helen from the East Side of Houston, texas. Baby. He is a North Shore alumni. You may have seen him on the track. You may have seen him on the field in the high school days balling like no other, rocking that red and white right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That the boys was like.
Speaker 2:Junior Capers Crimson Crane baby, bring it back, bro, it ain't bro.
Speaker 1:Hey, and now this guy is the most top. Oh shit, run that shit back, run that shit back. And this guy right now is the best barber in Houston Texas. Helen, now from the North Side, north East Side of Houston Texas, baby, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the one, the only G the barber. What the fuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, g the barber, Can you feel about that intro bro?
Speaker 3:It's crazy. I've been cutting this man half a wet. How many years?
Speaker 1:Shit, it's been over two years. And he got my name Two and a half G Lee, the barber Shit that's crazy G Lee talk to you Come here, dinker bro, take your hat off, I'm gonna see what I do. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you want to see the masterpiece? Hey, he was going to get it For our listeners.
Speaker 2:He was gatekeeping for a while, bro. He was like damn, who doing?
Speaker 1:that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, hold on, let me take the headphones off so y'all can see this masterpiece.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna lie, he do his thing. That look like a hairpiece. Oh yeah, it's been a pan double for that.
Speaker 1:My shit looks like I always get the Blair Underwood. Now I just asked for the Blair Underwood.
Speaker 3:And then he, you know that would make it happen. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:I went from it was Rico Suave at first. Then it was like I told him to make me like a Dominican.
Speaker 2:Take me up to New York, baby. So it's a new country you already know, baby. So you like, is this like a Blair Underwood Denzel cut.
Speaker 1:This is a Blair Underwood Denzel Jalen Hurts and Young Tizzle, the live thrizzle baby, what's up? Baby girl, kaco man, we're quite training baby. We train after noon.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Hey, oh, speaking of training today somebody, so okay.
Speaker 1:A little bit of a recap right Before we get to. Well, let's, let me talk about my recap right quick, and then we'll give you a proper introduction. G and then yeah, I definitely forgot the fucking last name in your name, bro, there's so many.
Speaker 2:G's the bar.
Speaker 1:But you're a DG, you're a.
Speaker 2:DG, the number one. G, I'm trying to you gotta decide if you're gonna let him make it or not.
Speaker 1:He trying to put you. Well, it's time for you to make a new course, because aren't you a junior? I hate trying to change your name, you're not.
Speaker 3:What's your?
Speaker 1:papa's first name.
Speaker 3:His first name is Gerald. My middle name is different.
Speaker 1:Okay. But you still G Lee nigga. Come on, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. But anyways no technically it's not Junior. So it's not Junior. Because, like my, uncle, you have to have every junior. He is the exact. John Dixon the second John Jacob, jacob Jacob.
Speaker 2:My name is my name? I don't know. I don't even know that's an old slave. He's all right.
Speaker 1:Anyway, all it is. I just made it up. Oh shit, okay, okay. So before I talk about the debrief of the week, right, let's go ahead and give G Lee, the barber, the most proper introduction. You want me to do your intro all over again? No, no, okay, okay, okay. But that was live, though. I mean, people didn't need to know the last thing I'm going to give you your chance to have your handle at the end. You said what you put it together. That was the best intro I think I've ever given.
Speaker 2:You put it together. It was dope. I'm trying to fix. I'm really upset that. I'm like oh my God.
Speaker 1:It sounds good.
Speaker 2:I mean nice if they knew my name for real.
Speaker 1:And you know what's crazy? What's that? My next door neighbor is a barber and he's G. He goes by G Damn.
Speaker 2:What the fuck we ain't talking about we? Ain't talking about. See, he didn't even leave me a room.
Speaker 1:But he spells his name stupid and I know he's listening to the podcast. But, nigga, you spell your name with G-H-E-E, stop that.
Speaker 2:Stop that shit. That's like the Indian butter G, that's called G G.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he was trying to use the bonnix.
Speaker 3:I'm just G like Fred G sound food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on baby, yeah, hey, hey hey, that's the way you have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the way you put it. Put on that butt.
Speaker 1:Don't talk about all that jiggle boom coon and shit that I was doing with the fucking huh. That sound like a jiggle boom song or like coming to the stage.
Speaker 3:Foxy, that sound like home. That's what it sounds like that sound like home. You can't tell me. You were a little. You know what I'm saying. That was after school. What is the best, all right.
Speaker 1:all right, but before we go further god damn it let's give you an introduction. I mean a proper introduction when you from, your occupation and then how you connected to the podcast. Where you from what you do. Yeah, where you from. Where you at Taking it all the way back, all right, so where you from.
Speaker 3:Where you from I'm from the east side went to North Shore Ready, all right, how you feel? Good, great, you know what I'm saying Great alumni.
Speaker 1:Great school. What did you do? What sports you play?
Speaker 3:I played football and I threw it in track. I didn't run. Come on yeah.
Speaker 1:I wasn't running, oh, you weren't running. I held man Okay, all right. Well, and then what?
Speaker 3:is your occupation now. It takes a lot of energy.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, if you want to leave, all right, we got some country boys up in here. And then what's your occupation? Right now? I'm a barber. Come on, baby yeah.
Speaker 3:A clip of wizard A clip of wizard.
Speaker 1:A clip of wizard. Wait you combine two NBA teams together.
Speaker 2:Clip of wizard. I always think of sports, but JT was gatekeeper for a while. Oh yeah, we're going to get in For a while Like, for a while it goes live.
Speaker 3:How was?
Speaker 2:gatekeeping, because he had these haircuts that looked like they were painted on.
Speaker 1:Lego pieces.
Speaker 2:I'm like come on, G, that's kind of disrespectful. I'll take that as an insult Because I have partners who had like blue lines that look just like your shit.
Speaker 3:Come on, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:Jt won't let me put no enhancements on this haircut, and could you elaborate G on what you mean by enhancements?
Speaker 3:No spray dye. No, no topping like hair spray dye.
Speaker 1:And look, listen, every time I go into the shop.
Speaker 2:now, when, it's like the norm now, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is the norm. Because he's offered it so many times, I've never lost. Somebody did it to me for the first time.
Speaker 2:Everybody wanted Instagram haircut and it looked amazing. I looked at him. I was like damn, this shit looks fake these niggas are getting worse than the women.
Speaker 2:It was so good, but I didn't know what he had done. To be honest, he had put some shit in my hair. Had it like this before I had lost, had it curled up, had me looking like no, because he, like I, got a wash and a cut. He washed my hair, but after the wash he put some shit in my shit to activate it made it curled up. I'm talking about my shit.
Speaker 2:look, this is before you had dress, right yeah yeah, yeah, this is when I had, like when I was growing it out though?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was growing it out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:A while ago. This is before the sponge with the shit. My point is Homie had like had my shit like crispy, crispy. I didn't know he had done like spray paint and all kind of shit. I don't should call it hair follicles. He had my shit because it was a little area where it was kind of he had cut too low. Last time it was kind of.
Speaker 1:And our listeners, especially our female listeners. When he's saying spray paint, he's literally talking about spray paint like spray dye, airbrush.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the women know what I'm talking about. I don't even know why I have to elaborate on this right now.
Speaker 3:It was gonna happen for years. It was gonna happen for years. What they use? They liquid makeup.
Speaker 2:I would say they been getting that for years, yeah yeah, yeah, you're right, yeah, I brought the airbrush.
Speaker 3:They got that little makeup.
Speaker 1:Uh, airbrush man, it just looked different, you used to airbrush t-shirts right Back in the day, Dino, Actually, that is false?
Speaker 2:No, actually I did not. Yes, you definitely did. False. Oh, you used to paint shirts.
Speaker 1:Paint them.
Speaker 2:I used to compete with the airbrush Ninkers, but now I used to hand paint my drawers.
Speaker 1:And them shirts were so hard they were in the paint job that was yeah, funny, your shirt was really rugged. You could slap a nigga with this shirt. Yeah, it was like with the color he could take it, shut off and use it as a weapon. Bro, it was like a rope, it was so hard.
Speaker 2:I can't relate. Uh ah, tulip paint, it was tulip paint, it was acrylic paint, pretty much.
Speaker 1:Oh, did it? Did it just break up when you tried to roll your shirts?
Speaker 2:No, the thing about it after, after, like my freshman year, my sophomore freshman year, going into sophomore year of college, I figured out I used to add this medium that used to make the paint Like it was softening it up when it was on the shirts. Cause, and I'd be honest, how it's a bananas. He was like I used to pay shirts for him. He was like, bro, I fuck with your shit, but like I went to a gig.
Speaker 1:I couldn't have been down. It was so crisp.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to like DJ and that motherfucker was like wouldn't be in layers of paint on his shirt. You didn't test it out before you started?
Speaker 1:No, I was on the same day. Oh my gosh, you got to try the product before you sell the product. My good brother it was art.
Speaker 3:I've never seen a machine as wearable art.
Speaker 2:Franklin say what when I was?
Speaker 1:Japanese T-shirts.
Speaker 2:I know All right, well, but no, I didn't spread the other, franklin. Um white. Yeah, he was out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, frank.
Speaker 2:White baby, I knew the story. Yeah, I was blue magic. Yeah, my house caught. I remember this car back in the day, but yeah, man Wait is that the right person? No, no, no, I'm talking about I'm making a Frank Lucas.
Speaker 1:It was one of the Franks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wrong, frank, anyways but anyways, huh, yeah, yeah, nobody.
Speaker 2:That's minus three.
Speaker 1:Be ready to, of course, correct me. Um, and then how you connected to the partners. Obviously, you're my barber. I'm Jay.
Speaker 3:He's uh now, but it was crazy.
Speaker 1:The stylist.
Speaker 3:We hairstylist yeah.
Speaker 1:What is? That's what we basically start calling you. You're not even a barber anymore. He's a stylist.
Speaker 2:Cosmetologist.
Speaker 3:Cosmetologist Shit what else Hair magician, hair magician.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like that one. Oh yeah, I think it's a great time for me to play that. He's a fucking genie.
Speaker 2:He's a hair genie. I see what you're saying. I didn't get the connection for the night. Yeah, very Talk about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, all right, um, but yeah, so let's get into a little bit of a ice breaker. Oh, and then, by the way, I guess I'll address your gatekeeping. So he, dino, says that I'm gay keeping because he got one point.
Speaker 2:Who got this edge of this crispy? Finally, he had put me on. I was like, okay, but then I go lie y'all. See, this is the thing, my nigga being real humble right now. So who? G listen, I'm going to just tell you how I got put on.
Speaker 1:My nigga JT was like all right, I'll finally this who cuts my hair.
Speaker 2:Fine, here he is. He sent me his info. Boom, I hit bombing. I didn't realize that thing at the time. I probably had a note, so I had an Android phone.
Speaker 1:I told you to download the fucking app he ain't saying none of that shit. Yes, I did. What are you talking about? I hit him up. I'm like, hey, what's up bro.
Speaker 2:My nigga say, hey, you the man, what's happening? He said, yeah, you need to go down on that. I go. You ain't special, nigga, I'm like man, I mean.
Speaker 1:so I looked up to win but I went like almost two weeks in the vans right, Like a month or something like home was popping.
Speaker 2:So I went to the shop. I'm like, okay, then I got chopped up in the shop, but like the point is it was a quality cut. You know what I'm saying. But that's how I got put on. I'm like yo, this ain't just anybody bro. Well, you can just pull up and home. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1:Let me, let me, just let me stop disrespecting G Right.
Speaker 2:I just didn't like it because I just need to go ahead and take this hat off and just show the magic how long when he chopped you up.
Speaker 1:Yesterday.
Speaker 2:This is yesterday's cut Look like this morning. So that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's today? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was yesterday, so, um, but yeah. So a little bit of a debrief and if y'all have anything noteworthy then I'll afford y'all the opportunity to speak to. So this past weekend we went to Colorado Uh, what I'll afford y'all the opportunity. Yeah, because I'm selfish right.
Speaker 2:I'm main character center, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good Self-awareness, it was good. It was good baby, it was good what's happening.
Speaker 1:Oh, did you hear that wheezing? That came out. Yeah, you've been doing that shit, don't let him say the S words I don't fucking squeak.
Speaker 3:Can we?
Speaker 1:say the S words, I know right.
Speaker 3:All my S blends right.
Speaker 2:Okay, you do it. That's shit crazy. So Colorado, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I don't really see Taylor Strickland, but now, taylor Moss, you married her high school sweetheart, her best friend, cam Moss. Shout out to the newlyweds. The Mosses, moss Moves was their hashtag. But they had a beautiful wedding with the scenic Windows 7 background of mountains and trees and vegetation in Estes Park, colorado. And if you, just to give y'all an idea of where the shit was, when you touch down at a river, you got to get a rental because there's no Uber out there. You got to drive all the way up into mountains like literally winding up a fucking mountain, not a hill, a mountain. Shit's scary bro. We saw like really ghost and stuff.
Speaker 2:on the side of the other they had deer and rabbits in the yard.
Speaker 3:I caught a flat in Colorado on the mountain.
Speaker 2:Oh, how long did you wait there? Oh, that's a scary movie. Hey, let's write that.
Speaker 3:We all three got out the car and changed that, oh y'all had a blanket, so everything was cold and shit.
Speaker 1:Was it during like the summer, though, and then it got cold, or it was like in the fall, it was like around March, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Who was all with you?
Speaker 3:It was me and two of my teammates from college.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's why you should write that down and send that to me. That's a scary movie. That's the start of a good scary movie.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's how you know, they country boys though. Oh no, they ain't no starting. No scary movie, no, but them niggas, them niggas from North Shore.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. It don't matter where you from, what I'm saying is you being in the place. We got to drive. We don't got mountains and snow in motherfucking Houston Texas, so you got to drive up a mountain. You catch a flat.
Speaker 1:That's a horrible nightmare. Yeah, but they were prepared. Don't let it get dark, nigga. That's why I asked them how long you huh? You said no, you weren't, you had blankets, you had blankets. And then you got out, you changed it and then you was back.
Speaker 3:You know why we had. You know why we, why we trying to say why we were prepared? Why? Because, like I said, it was spring break. So, like, typically in like those midwestern states and shit like that, we don't stop snow until April. That's crazy. So it was still snowing.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's still. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:That's terrifying. We were coming from California, so we had our own shorts and shit. Oh nigga.
Speaker 1:Yeah, y'all.
Speaker 3:We coming from California, sunshine and good weather. And then you get driving through Arizona and shit in the bottom, hot air, it Hot air, hot niggas tripping Big time. Bro, get to Colorado and catch a flat and you'll let a fucking night get to the stress.
Speaker 2:With snow on the ground.
Speaker 1:But the fact that y'all were able to, which I do. Did y'all plug up the tire or did y'all have a spare?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had a spare.
Speaker 1:We changed that.
Speaker 3:What were y'all driving?
Speaker 1:Um shit in my. What do you have Like? Is it a truck? No, it was a car.
Speaker 2:It was a car. Wow, we had a bourbon. We dipped through in the bourbon and that was. That was terrifying.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad you three brothers made it out man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I am too yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um so we were, we were in SS Park, right, but y'all should go to like to the mountains, though.
Speaker 2:Anybody listen, who hasn't been like it's worth? We always do tropical beachy vacations, black folk. It is definitely worth it to go up in the mountains and like, just go, go, go, experience the cold weather, the snow all that On my Instagram feed I have a quite a plethora of uh, men and women, okay, that are going up and getting cabins.
Speaker 1:You did a cabin trip a couple of years ago for your birthday. Speaking of all right, I'll just wrap this up basically saying that all I was all the way in Colorado went to this liquor store cabin liquor store and then three people was like are you? You look like you, denzel Washington, son from training day.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's right.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome you are. You are gorgeous, my brother, it was a black man. When was this? This was in. It was in a liquor store. I said when, when? Yeah, I, that's the thing. I didn't even get a cut from you before I went and this was on Friday. Okay, this was on Friday this past Friday and I just got my cut yesterday.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I'll be honest, we just league going in Colorado, colorado, the entire state, yeah, I was like oh, you're saying that he was high he was Damn.
Speaker 2:You said, I wasn't that woofy.
Speaker 1:I like I had touched myself.
Speaker 2:He's not known for having crispy face G like his shit. Never, oh, john David Washington. He like a black kid that was raised rich.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I don't think he was mistaken me from with him, but that nigga, because that nigga ugly, but I wouldn't say, look, I mean, but he definitely looked like a mix of his mom and his daddy.
Speaker 2:He's a celebrity who was raised rich, so he didn't always had a crispy face.
Speaker 1:I don't think you look just like well you look like it was just the Denzel Washington training day cut. That's what it was. That was the first time he had like a clear like mid, mid to high fade and the waves and shit on top and stuff.
Speaker 2:It was real dark and then he had like the goatee and stuff.
Speaker 1:I see what you get, yeah, yeah. So he was just like, pardon me, my brother, and, by the way, we don't I don't see too many like you. Well, that's true.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you know we were playing this game of how many times we could see a black person. You'll find niggas in mountains, bro. That is not our, that's not our native to range.
Speaker 2:We don't come from that at all, we are not from that, so that's crazy. Like even them, like the Strickland, they were always an anomaly, because I don't know nobody from up there for real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's my with the kicker. I was like, how's crazy, yeah, when you from.
Speaker 1:And she came, look man it's like we're gonna get her on the on the pop. I'm not gonna be on the pop one day, but I mean like she was incredible.
Speaker 1:She ran for vice president, the guy who ran for president was also at the wedding and stuff and we we had chopped it up and stuff. Shout out to Corey Rady but yeah, man, it was just, it was beautiful. But Taylor, she's ran for president. She's, taylor and I have a lot in common, including our passion, which is dance, and she has correlated dance into cheerleading. So he's not currently a Denver Broncos cheerleader. So, yeah, where's the? Where's the fucking button? Or yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's how we do Black girl magic. Black girl magic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, black girl magic. And then she is also in. I think she's gonna probably butcher me for this, but I think she's in consulting or marketing or journalism or communications, I think of some sort. But she's very successful in her career. She's a Renaissance woman, so shout out to her. And then her husband, cam, is even better, so well, in his own life. So terrible. It was kind of fun.
Speaker 2:You'll say something great I know, I know I'll fuck it up. Yeah, Is there something like?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, she's a queen, though, and Cameron actually.
Speaker 2:Shout them out Congratulations, yeah, congratulations. Hey, okay, I'm married, you're married, you're not married, right, okay I? Just make it sure See what's popping. I hear it.
Speaker 1:But this niggas not in the streets, though he yeah. Okay, all right, let's get into our icebreaker. So, ladies and gentlemen, football is fucking back. I just want to ask you three gentlemen Uh-oh, who do you got winning the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2:Damn, we got to go wait. The season is just really getting there.
Speaker 3:You want my answer. You want a realistic answer, I want both.
Speaker 1:Who do you want to win and then, who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 3:You know, I'm always choosing my rounds first.
Speaker 1:They get it so do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I think I'm going to win real this. I mean, I'm going to have to go with Patty mom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, baby, hey, that's my quarterback in both of my fantasy leagues, baby. But before we talk about fantasy football, oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't be mad if I just got the jet stardom. Really I wouldn't be mad at all, I might be.
Speaker 1:That's cute, that's cute, but he ain't gonna win that shit. He'll get to the playoffs, though I think he'll take the jet stare with sauce and all of them, but um, I feel like within a minute between this season, next season, he's gonna, he's gonna get on that.
Speaker 3:They got the talent, they got the talent.
Speaker 1:I think I got a new haircut. He looked healthy. Now he ain't got a swag up, he got like good daps with with sauce and the boys and shit he done brought.
Speaker 3:We tell my.
Speaker 1:This nigga look like, uh, kirk Cousins now over there with the chains and shit. They look cool, he looked. He looked happy. Yeah, he was miserable in Packers and we used to come in the shop and they used to grill the fuck out of me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but he told old buddy the other day what show some respect, show some motherfucking respect.
Speaker 1:God damn it.
Speaker 2:That's hanging now.
Speaker 1:Right, wait who he directed. That too.
Speaker 3:Oh man, that D lineman from the other Giants.
Speaker 1:Baby. He said I'm in New York, big New York baby. Anyways, alright, so you got your rams that you want, but then you think that the jets? You know I'm not gonna answer this question cuz you don't watch football?
Speaker 2:Oh well, no, I'm gonna answer it, but I'm not gonna answer it. Like you know, you want me to, oh, you want the Texas to win.
Speaker 1:I would always Like.
Speaker 3:You got the cup for real. I wouldn't be mad at the Texas. This Don't hate the Texans. And then like there's not, like they the Cowboys, it's just not real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nigga them, niggas.
Speaker 3:There is like Well, let's not see that's.
Speaker 1:It's possible because Go ahead. It's a.
Speaker 2:Texans what I was gonna say is, if it's somebody who I kind of would like hold on now, that I probably say I go red to my homes because, yeah, well, I, I want to get into too many wives, but just to for the Texans thing, I'm a hometown boy, bro, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go Houston every time, but they are not a team that's Come on. That's anytime, but that's not what we ever Rockets like we. We got young talent.
Speaker 1:I think we just need to understand where we're at and then Focus on and figure out Foundation and then stars straws though.
Speaker 2:We always got winners in the business thing, though. We always win. Yeah, shut your hat.
Speaker 1:You definitely look like Ronald McDonald, like catch up in mustard packets right now.
Speaker 3:I was going for the old rockets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it might be my glasses. He looked like real mustard.
Speaker 2:Definitely classic. Oh, houston, like a night shirt that you got on early, logic one.
Speaker 1:If that was the case then he would have rocked that. He got some dope merchant and then he want to bring up this night shirt With a pocket on his on his left. Itty, come on man, he's going to count. It's not doing All right.
Speaker 2:Oh, what's his name?
Speaker 1:Mickey Mouse on your yeah, because I'm magical babies. You already know what the fuck. Yeah, yeah, don't disrespect him out.
Speaker 3:Mickey. Mickey served his purpose throughout the year hey yeah, we keep an eye keep.
Speaker 2:Mickey might be asleep. It up cuz Mickey, the top of shit I ain't want to learn for oh yeah, we were watching.
Speaker 1:Kako does watch like Christmas, mickey Mouse specials, like at all times throughout the year? Anything to make but there's a I think it's the second wish upon a quiz Christmas, christmas. I need to open my mouth and annunciate better Like Donald um no, but uh. Pluto was I mean, mickey was mean as shit Tell him. Pluto Christmas, get out of your cage and never come out. I'm telling you, bro, he's been on that shit.
Speaker 2:Oh, cuz goofy is a dog, dog brown. He the only one has not, like all the other animals, talk.
Speaker 1:But, bro, they got what is good remember when they get all remember. In rug, res go wild. They gave spike a.
Speaker 2:Fucking voice.
Speaker 1:I did not like that shit. I did not like that shit bro.
Speaker 3:Think about most of the talking dogs that they got in clutch on the autocracy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Shit Pluto.
Speaker 2:Has low key save the day and can't talk. Yeah, you know he's a cat, I'm not mine he does a cat what y'all thought he was?
Speaker 1:he thought he was a mouse, or see, you never thought about it. Right, it was a goofy Pete the cat I'm a goofy was the same thing. I thought he was like a fat big swole goofy speaking of Pete the cat like.
Speaker 2:So what the fuck is goofy a dog.
Speaker 1:Who's a dog? Yeah?
Speaker 2:but then Pluto, motherfucking dog, why he speak.
Speaker 3:I'm saying that shit never made sense to me as a kid what talk shit?
Speaker 2:hey, okay, maybe Pluto was really yo. Ghetto cuz oh blues blues, that's what that's.
Speaker 1:That blue school's got got Steve off the fucking show.
Speaker 2:No, he got Steve replaced. Oh no, he got him. He got, he got he had a part of there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he tried to be like an activist off.
Speaker 2:He was, he was the college, he was like it was. It was a lot, yeah, he did both.
Speaker 1:You say he was losing himself. Yeah, he did a whole interview about he. He reunited with blue, though.
Speaker 2:They had a whole comeback. Yeah, he was crying shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was those awesome.
Speaker 2:Wacked in them of well, he didn't belong that wasn't.
Speaker 1:That's the one with the. He's the replacement right. He had the chili boat awkward haircut.
Speaker 2:He was like a frat boy who got put on that somebody. Nephew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right so fantasy football are. Y'all brothers are participating in that nope. Let me go ahead and check out my how, my results are happening right now, oh yeah, I'm ten isn't it. Nope, nope. Look at Pat, my home's two touchdowns, oh, one interception. Now five 222 yards, but we got 23 point three points.
Speaker 2:You plan for two different leagues in it. Yeah, okay, I mean two different leagues.
Speaker 1:I got you have a whole check old Elliot, tyreek Hill or Del Beccom, george, kittle, pippman, buffalo DST. And then, and then, what's his name? Daniel Carson, on one team and then on the other, I got you have my homes again. James Connor. No, not that whole. I suggest like the main main squad. Yeah, I'll be cook on the jets. Oh, hopefully he He'll. Uh, who else is on? The was his runner-back for the jets damn, I can't remember his name.
Speaker 3:I'd have been able to tell you to uh.
Speaker 1:Now I Christian Kirk.
Speaker 3:They got another good running bag. I can't remember his name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got jerk McKinnon and that was a bad call, because I definitely switched him out for Brandon Ayuk and San Francisco for my flex, and this nigga McKinnon only got two points, I mean still like 10 and a half minutes left before quarter.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I will honestly be scared to trust San Francisco's like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're, uh, we're party as the quarterback I don't.
Speaker 3:I know he had a good seven games last year, but I don't really know what he Is gonna bring when he comes to a four season. Hey, courtney recruited him as a quarterback.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:See, we'll see. I mean, look a pat pat. My home's kind of had a similar start. I mean, I put my money back up to Alex Smith.
Speaker 3:I'm looking be the next time Brady, or he can be the next.
Speaker 1:What's his name? Trey Lance man. What a city position he's at. Oh, or Jordan love, shit. I mean, jordan love is just now getting to start. He been in the league how many years already?
Speaker 3:for three, three okay, but this is the thing I tell people about joining love. Situation is like how many, how many backup, how many run, how many quarterbacks that have set behind somebody came into a league and been successful? Tom Brady Tom Brady set behind Drew Brees, me a Drew Blerso maybe like half a season, was it how?
Speaker 1:does he? I thought it was. I thought it was about two years.
Speaker 3:He didn't sit behind, okay, and. Roger's behind Brett far and Rogers may be the only one you can really and then pat my home's behind, alex Smith. Pat my home's only behind Alex Smith, because they wanted to get Alex Smith on the field to make film so they can trade him at the end Of the season. That's why Pat my home's played at me. He's a. He's an acyclic.
Speaker 1:I learned something new every time I go into the shop and we talk football, we talk big shit too and stuff, whatever, but he you know he won a super ball in the shit. Have you been me in a bet?
Speaker 3:I think I have okay, but Hold me, he'll put.
Speaker 2:He'll put too much money on anything. Yes, I will. What are you?
Speaker 1:talking about.
Speaker 2:He'll put how much. What you put note is on what would you want to bet? No, I bet no more.
Speaker 1:See, when you play it, I'm gonna get both of y'all in fantasy next year. No, you ain't, but I'll tell you what, though I mean?
Speaker 2:I put money on things, though, like certain games, a certain emissing, but I'm not. Fantasy just requires too much like no it doesn't you?
Speaker 1:if you just watch football on a regular basis, you don't watch it right now because you got two kids. You running the household of entrepreneurship, whatever you doing. You said you being a husband.
Speaker 2:I mean I might put it on, it might be just be on yeah, yeah, yeah, just having a backlight sit down, I can't really just nah, gee, I really can't understand. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna wait till dressing that much.
Speaker 1:I'm a wait till dressing gets into grade school and then your ass is grass. Nigga, you got to come on and I'm gonna put you in this. I might you gotta, get you gotta take a couple of else, but you're gonna get the gives it as money.
Speaker 2:I don't take a as well, okay, even when I play. When I last play, when I was in corporate America yeah, I was waxing- okay, and then last icebreaker, Beyonce tickets.
Speaker 1:I had two of them and I sold them motherfuckers.
Speaker 2:You dropped the price on them bitches a little bit right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I did. I definitely did I dropped them too early, though I should have known that they would have bought, because I originally had them listed for 1300 a piece. I bought them about two tickets for 900 total.
Speaker 1:Well, I put them on resell for 1300 a piece, trying to make too, much of a profit to have, but nobody wasn't even looking at it. And so then I was like damn, let me go ahead. And I went, did research so that it was like the price range was between five to 700, so I listed at 700 and then like two weeks later I got an email as well. I was coming home from Colorado that saying that the shit that's old. So I was like, oh man, awesome. So I made about a good 300, 300 dollars off of it, the 300 dollar profits. So you know, applause to me.
Speaker 2:That's the first time I ever sold tickets on ticket ticket message anything green, yeah, yeah and uh, you know.
Speaker 1:But uh, sam's going out with her girlfriends. They're all coming into town. It's gonna be a lot of women here, a lot of women A lot of them.
Speaker 2:Stop. The community, the community I thought you about to just step over the edge.
Speaker 1:We love the community here.
Speaker 2:You're not going, though. Oh no, I know I would. You gonna be with us, sam going you too, if you want to, because I'm sure you're probably gonna go to. Oh no, my's had thought about it, but not Jen. Not going to that shit, jen, I go.
Speaker 1:Especially now. Now, because them tickets is.
Speaker 2:Her sister going I think tab might be going and said I don't know what she's going, but but nah, jen ain't not. But yeah, if you get into something I might be there All right, let's get into news, all right.
Speaker 1:So a fellow listener sent this one in, shout out to she is Sam bam. Ladies and gentlemen, all right. So I have a question for you guys. All right, so this is what happened. Okay, a husband abandons wife during connecting, during a collect connecting flight, for being late, and the internet is taking his side. What? Who needs to sit?
Speaker 2:they ass down you just okay. You came out like hot, so that's the head you need me to run it back.
Speaker 1:A man Left his wife because she was doing a connected flight because she was running late.
Speaker 3:You've you met my dad before?
Speaker 2:Yep oh wait, are you still over there? And nah, I like, I mean damn. You just left. So what does that mean, though?
Speaker 1:I wouldn't necessarily be afraid of Sam if I got a flight and left the buffing ass in wherever they were connecting. She probably look like what is that, so what?
Speaker 2:you just said. What does that headline really look like for how they love Kevin at the hour?
Speaker 1:Okay so.
Speaker 2:What happens all?
Speaker 1:the time hold on, hold on, hold on. So let me try to set the scene. So what probably ended up happening? They, their flight, got delayed because the flights have been delayed since like may of this year because Of all the things kind of going on.
Speaker 2:What was the headline? Huh, you remember the head. What was the headline? Again, I feel like that was the headline. That was the headline.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so uh, a man has sparked debate on online after he asked the internet if he was the asshole for boarding a plane Without his wife during a layover while she was getting Starbucks. Oh you, oh, wait, wait, I didn't read that fucking part. Oh yeah, so I can hear the context.
Speaker 2:I need the context.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was the context. But here's the thing, though I go a lot of details if my lady was grabbing Starbucks.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna lie to you. Listen, nine times out of 10. She getting that shit for us. She gave me a lie. Take she know what I like. She don't get it the way I want it, but let me come back with coffee for us and I go live. I'm getting an early morning flight. I need some coffee. I don't know what you want to call it, but I want my shit.
Speaker 3:What's going on the Starbucks? You got to be real player about the situation. You know it might be. She might be pushing Uh, she's definitely pushing it? She definitely carry your own bag.
Speaker 2:She's risking it open that.
Speaker 1:Listen, listen, let me set the same for you. Oh shit, let me set the scene for you, though, like let's say, because she's not gonna go without just.
Speaker 1:But my lady gonna tell me half of it, go to Starbucks, get us some, some well, what this, what this situation sounds like, is that she made the decision that she wanted to get Without communicating but I think what ended up happening and let's just, let's just humor, humor me right I think what happened was the flight, their original flight, the first flight got delayed and by like however much, and was shortening the window for them to run from one end of the airport to the other to get on their connecting flight and Probably told his wife hey, we got a haul ass, we're not gonna, they're not gonna leave us. They know they have a name there.
Speaker 3:So I see they're not going to leave us right, so she was like I'm getting Starbucks because I can't deal with you right now.
Speaker 1:They get off the plane and launch off right, because you know everybody stands up once the plane lands right, everybody stands up. They got to wait an extra Anywhere from five to seven minutes before they even get off the plane. They probably got they shit. He took off running and he's like come on, shannon, what the fuck. And she's like I'm getting Starbucks. I told you I'm not dealing with it, that plane's not going nowhere. And then he went, got and checked in with the, uh, with the Concierge, and and I think what probably happened was he went and got on the plane and she's like and she was like, just go, I'm gonna be fine, I'll catch up. And he got on the plane. They closed the door. He probably tried to call her. She went answering the phone because she probably was hauling ass. They took off and then she went to the, to the clerk, can you let me on the plane? No, sorry, we already closed the door.
Speaker 2:No but my husband's on there.
Speaker 1:Ma'am, calm down, I I'm, you know what I'm saying. So it couldn't have happened.
Speaker 3:Exactly that way, because they say he abandoned her. It said abandoned. So in that situation I'm probably it's a headline like if she, if she, if she was like oh, I'm gonna go get Starbucks anyways. Like Hold on, bitch, like you can get a whole shot on the plane, on the plane.
Speaker 1:A shot of what Espresso Coffee. Black coffee.
Speaker 2:No, they ain't got no fucking coffee on the plane.
Speaker 1:They do have coffee, they do, but but I get coffee every fly with a strew waffle. Listen, you get a shot.
Speaker 2:Listen, y'all know women y'all act like that, our ladies. You can get a shot of jack on the plane. On the plane, listen, coffee.
Speaker 1:We have an espresso machine right there in the kitchen. We think that makes the finest. No, no, no wait, I'm about to hit you with the facts. Okay, women will have the finest latte machine, espresso machine, no, espresso machine at home, and we'll still be like but I want Duncan Sam Three times out of five.
Speaker 2:No, y'all be on that boy. Oh wait, what are you talking about? No, I need the word to know, because y'all be on that boy. Shit, how, who, who's we some suburban y'all, some suburban nights. Who me why? Because we have an espresso machine.
Speaker 1:No, because y'all get your fucking money. Get it again. Like me, niggas what? Got you a cure and we're gonna got uh we upgraded from a cure a whole bunch of dunking down that flavor. That's what I'm going. She don't like that. She's like. I can tell the difference. This is like Walmart shop.
Speaker 2:Duncan head.
Speaker 3:Duncan is what like you're saying that we're elitist.
Speaker 2:Notice what Homer Simpson hey, was Duncan don't. That's what, um, are you saying? Are you calling us elitist? What, uh, what? No, dunk like Like hey.
Speaker 3:I least it. He's like upper crust, upper crust upper crust.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's who eat Duncan, don't. Look right now. That's who eat Duncan don't oh. People who look like that.
Speaker 1:That's who in line at the dunking, don't he's pointing to the one punch portrait?
Speaker 2:They look like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think about it.
Speaker 2:No, it ain't Four starbucks, for that matter. Duncan is popping in the east coast when we lived in jersey and fell. We have ship leased.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, but the coffee ain't banging like that. No.
Speaker 3:I like it.
Speaker 1:Don't. There's a there's a, I've got it.
Speaker 2:No, I've got it, don't you go to kens.
Speaker 1:Kens, don't us write down the street from you.
Speaker 2:But I don't go there like, hey, I want a good ass latte from kens. I go there because it's convenient. Well, because you mississippi. So you.
Speaker 1:You are content with the hotel coffee.
Speaker 3:And make that collage at home and they got collages. Listen everyone go at this point of life.
Speaker 2:Hold on. Hold on If you got a good collage. I'm not pulling the, I'm be honest.
Speaker 1:Listen, you can have the best doughnut. We're not talking about collages, we're talking about coffee, because this woman missed her flight and now there's going to be trouble at home.
Speaker 2:This I already. She's gonna try to put this on him.
Speaker 1:She's the one that made the. Excuse me, it's already messed up. She's the one that made the decision to stop get starbucks, when he probably communicated and told her. We ain't got time for that. We need to get our ass on this flight because the flight has been delayed. We need to go ahead and make moves and she was being selfish, so I agree on one thing, that's my point you get selfish
Speaker 2:uh consequences.
Speaker 3:You can get a shot or something on the plane that's gonna wake you up. Come on, whatever it is, I feel a waste is three, four, five hundred dollar plane ticket.
Speaker 2:Oh you doing something. Why are you trying to get some?
Speaker 3:damn Eight, nine, ten dollar starbucks.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you he probably look it's, it's, it's, it's gonna go. One of two ways, either they would talk and they were fed up with each other. You just like, fine, fuck it, if you miss this flight, that's on you, right? He was either like that or Like the example that I set. He probably got on the plane and she was like, go, just go, I'll catch up. And they closed the door and they said, hey, no, I want this to be.
Speaker 2:I want this to be said if you make a unilateral decision as to where, you didn't consult me and you just say fucking, I'm going to starbucks, what then? Yeah, whatever happens to you, yeah, you deserve everything fully and full. You know what I'm saying. But now if you say, hey, I'm running over to starbucks and get it, i'ma get your latte the way you like it, with the woo, woo, woo, and I'ma get mine. You think we good? And if I say, yeah, go ahead and you miss your flight, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, All right, so check this out the full story was on reddit, but just for context, this was the second time they missed their flight the day before because the wife was running late. And they had to rebook. She wanted to run start run to starbucks, but it was.
Speaker 1:In another hold on you lost she wanted to run to starbucks, but it was in another terminal when she had to ride the train to get to it. He asked her not to go because they only had 15 minutes before boarding Started, and she went anyway. Once boarding started, he called her three times and she didn't answer the phone, and then they had already lost the day on their trip from her running late the day before. They were going to visit her, his daughter.
Speaker 2:We don't need any he did oh, she's not fucking with the daughter. She didn't want to go. Hold on the last sentence.
Speaker 1:He didn't want to disappoint his daughter a second time, so she went fucking with his daughter.
Speaker 2:She's like I'm getting my star.
Speaker 1:I'm not even making any supposition, I'm not making none of no, no, no now that we have the context, let's, let's go.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing when you make a unit, what I say earlier, what I made, when you make a lateral decision. It's on you if you say I'm going to take a train across the terminal, across the airport, to another terminal to get some starbucks.
Speaker 1:Oh and you disrespecting me and my sister, you know, and we already missed the day because of you. Oh yeah, hey yo no, no, no, yeah, oh yeah. But see my lady wouldn't do buy her ass up.
Speaker 2:She wouldn't do nothing like that. There's no way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or else right step off a little bit, but she would, she would never have done, no shit like that.
Speaker 2:What jt?
Speaker 1:All right, that's not me condoning violence. All right, let's go ahead and get into the highlight topic. Hey, hey, I'm awesome. Oh shit, hey slow. Okay, shit, I'm on the Ah. All right, what we talking about? This episode is called shop talk, and we want to know a little bit more about the barber cosmetology world. All right, first question why did you get into barbering?
Speaker 3:um. I'm being honest, I had some. I had some jobs. I was really waiting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are you waiting?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, you got to walk us through Just a little quick synopsis. So would you do sales just like every nigga that after the college?
Speaker 3:I did something, everything. I did something, everything I didn't why don't?
Speaker 1:why don't you guys go to?
Speaker 3:sales. I didn't win the sales. I didn't win the ice clean carpet. I used to work at the sweat HVAC with the uh the pipe yard. Pipe yard all kind of stuff. What?
Speaker 1:do you mean pipe yard, like Like piping and for the underground and stuff for the water pipes and stuff like yeah, yeah, gas lines or something?
Speaker 3:where they hold the pipes and stuff up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, pipes anywhere from like two inch pipe to like 20, eight inch pipe pause. But yeah, that's just.
Speaker 2:All right, I was gonna hit that buddy. Damn. You are officially hung on.
Speaker 1:All right, so then you fired. But have you been, had you been cutting hair? When did you start cutting hair, like when you got into profession?
Speaker 2:or like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like in high school, in college and shit or whatever like, um, the most I did in college was maybe, uh, I would. I had clippers to like keep my hair like maintained, but I couldn't like, yeah, myself up and different shit like that. But I would like give, I would like playing other people's edge up up because I can like look at it from the front.
Speaker 1:I can yeah.
Speaker 3:I still can't like look in the mirror and edge myself up.
Speaker 2:Oh, for real. So does that see you pick up by somebody that you trust, because you can't okay, got you? That's interesting, so you're about it, yeah the barber's barber got to be good though, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:They got to be good you can't go to him.
Speaker 2:You got to go to him because the barber's barber got to be on point.
Speaker 3:Think, and and everybody that that's cutting my hair. They'll tell you I'm gonna sit there, you gonna finish on me, you're gonna give me the mirror and I'm gonna be like I always feel nervous, like telling a barber, like, of course, before g Um, like telling a barber to make alterations after they finished.
Speaker 1:Wow, you know what I mean. That's your, that's your head, especially since, like they're not giving me the mirror throughout, like the process, or they're like rotating the chair so fast that I can't even see myself in the mirror.
Speaker 2:I mean, I always have my back to the mirror. Why?
Speaker 1:Oh, because you don't want an eruption.
Speaker 3:You constantly looking in the mirror while I'm trying to cut your hair and while I'm trying to look in the mirror, at your fade Is making the process go way longer. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because he can see some you can't see, because he ain't done yet. Like he in the middle of it, like you said you, you call it artistry. You know artistry, could she can start off ugly the sketches, bro. It could be ugly as hell, but the finished product doesn't. It'll be masterful. I'm gonna trust what they person like I always get.
Speaker 1:I always start off trusting people and then I wait till they disappoint me and whatnot.
Speaker 2:I've waited.
Speaker 1:I've waited for the day to where, like a barber in the past, in my past it was going to mess up and then I was just gonna have to cut it all off and I wanted to see how it was gonna look like.
Speaker 2:You have, but how like did you not trust these? What is, barber you're trying out? Because that's the whole thing. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I, like I said I always start off trusting them, get I let them have full, like full, full reign of what they want to do After I tell them kind of like give them an idea of what I want. That's happened several times. They question my corners, back my sides, they push the actual top of my head line back.
Speaker 1:You can't do that. Yeah, and I, and, but but when those things happen, um, if it was on me, then, like, if I didn't do a good job explaining it or didn't show a picture of what I wanted, then I would be. I would be, I would be susceptible to giving them another chance.
Speaker 3:Um, yes and no, it's on you, because at the same time like If I'm good your hair. You tell me what you want. Once I say okay, I got it.
Speaker 2:Then I should be able to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I should be able to Perform the task and give you what you came in.
Speaker 2:You still got questions. You need to speak up. I'm a. Yes, you are professional.
Speaker 3:I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna ask you like but you just talked about that contradiction point, about Like you don't you try not to show the barber. I mean, are the client the mirror or the window?
Speaker 3:That's after I didn't already like yeah, like when you first come in, our first conversation is going to be what you want, what you looking for. If consultation, if, if your, if your, your words can't produce what I, uh, can't produce a vision in my head, I'm gonna tell you take out a picture and show me exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:But yeah, oh, if they're asking you questions, different hair, because different things.
Speaker 3:So it can get like.
Speaker 1:Blurred, I think that barbers, a lot of barbers that I've learned I found a lot of people come out here before g like this is the most consistent. But like you're trusting my very first barber when I was growing up in greens, point, um, ron, he come out here the longest before I before eventually he moved on, got a different shop. Then that didn't work out so he came back to his original shop.
Speaker 1:Um, I think it was actually trying to do a franchise or whatever, but After that, and then I went through a myriad of different, barbers and then I joined the hair for it went to austin. That's when I had some of the worst and the best haircuts, because you know, trusted our own Uh bread tree that we were in college with and stuff whatever. Those were hard times.
Speaker 3:I'd heard a lot of military horror stories.
Speaker 1:And yeah, and then being in the military, uh, I've never got cut by like white people or, uh, I won't say mexicans, because I did have a lot of hispanic people cut me, and in san Antonio, that was my first base, um, and then I ended up sticking with uh, two hispanic. Well, first, the first guy was in, uh, indian and mexican, and then he was inconsistent. He was always late, he was real unprofessional and then I went with his uh, with his right hand man.
Speaker 1:And then, um, and then I stuck with him, uh, for the long steve Steve swore I shot to steve man. But uh, he, he messed up Uh, quite often, but it was, it was like it was just blemishes. Um, like, sometimes it like level. Yeah, yeah, I hadn't the hairline wasn't was kind of slanted a little bit but it but it looked. Fly though it looked like I was. I go a lot homie used to have me in.
Speaker 2:My hair was crooked Because my shoes I'll be. I will look in the mirror and my shoe I'll be like.
Speaker 1:I've seen your hairline be a little bit.
Speaker 2:A couple of times yeah, am I tripping? Like, is my shit? Like? Am I crooked headed? Because my shoe will? I'll be like. But then I went to a different barber.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that nigga cut my shit crooked when you go to different, everybody has different. The point that I was trying to get at is everybody I think a lot of barbers have different, different understandings and uh and definitions of terms. So when you say a mid fade in like the East Coast, they think that's like pretty low.
Speaker 2:They don't ask for a number.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, that's the hair length.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the hair length.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yeah, when you're talking about numbers, you're talking about, like, how tall you want your hair or how low you want it to be. But when you're talking about the fades in the East Coast, most of the time a bald fade or a high fade is what they refer to as mid fade. Everything is lower in the East Coast, whereas in the South, the higher you go, I mean, or the when you say a mid fade, they're talking about like a high fade, A boost in the South side.
Speaker 2:You got to look and then a bald fade is the boosty fade. That's hot in the bitch.
Speaker 1:A bald fade in the South is the boosty fade, I feel like in the South.
Speaker 3:we rocked, I shit, pretty high. Yeah, a bald fade, but you got a mid bald fade, a mid bald fade, right exactly.
Speaker 1:It took a couple of times or whatever, but after, like the third try, like I finally showed you a picture, because every time I told him a mid fade and then it was like, kind of like, it was like between low and mid and I was like, no, this is too low because I'm going to have to always be in the shop. And then I finally showed him a picture. I think it was like Jalen Hurts for somebody and I was like this is what I want.
Speaker 2:And then he was like I got you Because that terminology is a switch up depending on where you at. That's real shit, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey to everybody, to our listeners. Y'all make sure that you just show, find a doppelganger or anybody that you want to look like cosmetically or hairwise, and your barber, if they're good enough, will make you look even better than that person.
Speaker 3:A lot of barbers are real like, like real egotistical tourists.
Speaker 1:They are, oh my God.
Speaker 3:It's like you can't, like you can't show, you can't do different stuff with them, so like, if you want to-.
Speaker 1:They're limited in their capabilities, huh.
Speaker 3:Is that what you're saying? Yeah, they're limited in their capabilities and they're like they can't. They can't take criticism. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a lot of West period though.
Speaker 1:The barber before G was a woman oh damn yeah, and she yeah, I know, she was like the third woman that's ever cut my hair and all the women have. She was the best out of the women, but she also was inconsistent and she was unprofessional.
Speaker 2:Was she yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, she was one of us.
Speaker 2:Is what I'll say yeah yeah, yeah, push up, push up, push up.
Speaker 1:But but no, she. And then that's when she was getting greasy with me, like yeah, she was talking, real greasy she. I was just like look, because not only did she start 45 minutes late, I mean 45 minutes after my appointment, after I told her that I had to be at work by a certain time and luckily, you know, there's a lot of decision to me, I show up two hours before you had some wiggle room.
Speaker 1:But she 45 minutes in. So I told her and she finally came in. She opened up the shop and she was just like yeah, yeah. And then she came in and started talking and I'm like yo yo, yo yo yo, jay, we got to start Come on. She's like, ah, okay, all right, cool. So she got to cutting and stuff whatever, doing that little nicking nicking on my head. I'm like you're not doing anything. What are you doing? I need you to come on. I got a meeting in like 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:You're about to have a fight with her Right.
Speaker 1:All right, all right cool. So she did and stuff whatever, and it wasn't even like perfect at all, like it wasn't her best, and so I was like I'm not.
Speaker 2:You used Russian, I was huh.
Speaker 1:No, no, not at all.
Speaker 3:She's got my.
Speaker 1:She's one of the fastest barbers I've ever had.
Speaker 3:So I'm not fast, I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:I tell people she's fast and efficient.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was fast and efficient, but when?
Speaker 2:she's slow, I always mean good, though You're upset but slow doesn't also mean good either, I agree.
Speaker 1:And she used when she would slow down. Oh my God, I was in the chair for almost two and a half hours one time and I see that's crazy. Yeah, that was absolutely insane. And on that time I asked her. I was like so this cut is for you, right? Because I've been here for two and a half hours. You were late 30 minutes, she was late multiple times, and then she and then she. It wasn't even the best haircut. So then, after she finished, I asked her. I turned around and I was like so can I be? Are you open to feedback? She was like yeah, yeah, what's up? And I was like okay, I'm only asking you because there's really nobody here in the shop.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like you were 45 minutes late, you. This isn't necessarily what I asked for.
Speaker 2:I asked for a midfay, you kind of you. You're freaking out right now. You're freaking out right now. People, she cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, we're good. She was upset and then she, you know, blew me off, and then she was like all right, cool, if that's what you want to do, then go find somebody else.
Speaker 1:But good luck, right, I'm like, all right, it doesn't take me long. And then that's when I went and walked into innovative cuts and Med G for the first time, and then the rest is history. Like I'm never going to really anybody else. There's one person in New York that I will go to, but that's practically about it. Like I'm not necessarily going to let anybody else touch my head but um you from New York.
Speaker 2:Now you're an orgy store. Yeah, new Houston, baby. We're sorry, baby, come on, man, you're a new orgy store.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, like the criticism piece, you're absolutely spot on. Out of all the barbers I've asked like to make changes. Sometimes, most of the time, you know, I would just accept the cut If, even if I didn't like it, I ain't go live in there, yeah. But I don't like paying for unprofessionalism With your late and your late multiple times and your come on, I've already paid you the money and I tip you. I always tip.
Speaker 2:I'm in the middle of a cut here, say damn, I ain't eight, nine bro. Oh, that nigga eating lunch in the middle of my cut. And I'm thinking, dan, you don't do with no other niggas bro, because we was people, he was my people. Yeah, like Dan, this sucks Like I'm getting the short end of the stick just because you my nigger.
Speaker 1:So we talking about pepies what's?
Speaker 2:your pep, I was going to say real quick, so it's a good segue into, because my man's does this and he him, so I ain't go lie. I noticed too. I think people where we are will pay for convenience and they'll pay for quality, because I noticed like just the price of a cut went up significantly from when I was and I got locked, so like I don't got to get it cut as often, or in the same way Like I get tightened up you know what I mean. I get tapered up, edged up and whatnot, but like at the end of the day I can put these locks down, throw a hat on and you don't know what's going on. You know what I'm saying. I'm good Until I get a Reese with it.
Speaker 1:We can tell when you get Wolfie.
Speaker 2:I don't get Wolfie, though, like what is Wolfie? You're Wolfie, right now, this ain't Wolfie, bro, this ain't Wolfie.
Speaker 1:I'm still a little.
Speaker 2:Wolfie Huh.
Speaker 1:I'm Wolfie, you're Wolfie, okay, but Finish your point.
Speaker 2:But like Wolfie, when you got like a good half inch new growth, you got some. Like you got some hair going on underneath. We can talk about prices right now. I'm not Wolfie, but like prices, what cause? I noticed. So I had a how do I say this diplomatically? I had a hunt. For I didn't have to hunt. I have a barber. The barber that I go to now consistently home and cut my hair for a while, like before I had locks. He a old school barber and he gon' have me crispy every time. So I've gone to other people too in a pinch or just to give him a shot, but nobody cuts like my guy, bro, like.
Speaker 1:But does he live on the other side of town or something he?
Speaker 2:works, oh, by NRG. Ah, there it goes.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing I've had cuts from people over here who have done a good job.
Speaker 2:But I think hearing this conversation made me think damn, I probably ain't got the right description language, whatever to have him. The way he cut my hair with whatever limited shit I gave him he could probably give me, like, like my guy, if I knew what to say. But I don't take the time to do that shit Cause you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I used to work at this barber shop when I first started, in my coworker, sometimes she would be like overbooked or she'll like not be there, and some of her clients would come to me and so I was like, okay, what kind of haircut you get? They be like I don't know, cole, just cut it. Man, you're not telling me.
Speaker 2:And then when I do your light or you have something else in mind yeah, that ain't how it goes.
Speaker 1:Was this one of your white clients? No, that's no, bro, but like when.
Speaker 3:I go to nail he just cuts.
Speaker 2:I don't like okay. So I went to him since way before I had locks, like when I was thinking about going to him, I was not going to him, I was whatever. He always had me tight. So think about it Like I can go to him and say, okay, now I got locks, and then you know my head, you know what. Look good, do something, just go. I can tell him that, but you can't just tell any barber that and see, some people don't know that.
Speaker 1:Well, they? I mean, if they're saying that, then they probably have been through some shit to where they somebody say, I'll just cut my head At this point. They're just like. I've seen your work. I've seen like other people like some sort of like I trust you and they, they're. Or they don't know they're probably referrals If they didn't know, then they wouldn't, they would.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're talking about like they don't know how to ask or what to ask. Yes, that is definitely. They don't know what to say. Well at that point is that, is that when you start guiding them G, I would you like show them like I'm trying to figure out like sometimes you can look at the hair, look at the hair and look at the head and see what, see what kind of cut they get.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh well, well, work with this.
Speaker 1:Now, that's a particular skill that he just you know, laid out on my list.
Speaker 2:You got an alien head or like a predator, a mug shape, real, can you draw? Can you draw G?
Speaker 3:Not really Like I went to. One of my majors was graphic design, oh shit.
Speaker 1:That's what Dino is, yeah.
Speaker 3:I would never like an artist who knows shit like that, but I was taught to like draw what I see. So that's like, why, like, when you show me a picture or something I can be like, okay? I know what you want, I can imitate that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you're imitated. Not a tracer and not a.
Speaker 2:So I mean, that's the superpower that is you have a keen eye for design. Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so prices G actually went up in prices.
Speaker 2:Everybody had. Yeah, I mean, I get it. It was an inflation.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie, yeah, Inflation COVID all of that.
Speaker 2:It's a universal thing, but you talked about paying for convenience.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got to go. All right, cool, we're going to take a quick pause and then we'll be right back. Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, I am. Oh, it's a yeah, so y'all gonna do burgers? We try to, but she'll examine it first and try to see if she wants to, and she's really big on like texture and really big on like colors. So she'll eat the burger, as long as it's texture.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not even just kidding, I'm not even gonna texture. Like, if you give me some texture, it doesn't come from the board.
Speaker 1:He's a pasta, kid, you can put the shots over there on the table. No, no, no. We'll take these later during the toast At the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's good, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're not gonna do much longer. He's a pasta kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but what kid ain't them?
Speaker 1:Yeah, pasta, mac and cheese, PB and J.
Speaker 3:I just thought about something I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 2:I think I'm a holla about you. I'm a holla at you about Atlanta. I just did some math for my hand. Right now I'm thinking of me, Then I'm thinking about you. I was like wait a minute, ABC. Now there's math on my head. I'm like wait a minute.
Speaker 1:He's all about.
Speaker 2:Like like.
Speaker 1:Like when we're gonna have our next kid, or what no he hasn't, why are you talking about? This shit. What are you talking about? You want to ask him on the pod, or you can ask me on the pod. You can ask me anything on the pod.
Speaker 2:I mean, if I ask you right now, it ain't really nobody asking about this. I'm math, so okay, check it right?
Speaker 1:Are we gonna go back live? Oh hell, no Us.
Speaker 2:Oh, this is okay, this is fine. No, I don't think Sam would appreciate this. Go ahead, we'll talk about it later.
Speaker 1:Are you going to remember it?
Speaker 2:Probably because I'm not like. It directly correlates to me and what my plans are when I leave this month.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want to, you want to step out? I told her that it that's probably going to happen, since it's football night and stuff, especially if G got a pass to be out.
Speaker 3:But I was trying to.
Speaker 1:I was trying to to kind of wrap up in the next 30 minutes so that you can make a decision.
Speaker 2:But but that whole guy of pasting is crazy because that ties it.
Speaker 1:They're only have one meeting tomorrow and the rest of the time I was trying to dedicate to to me finishing.
Speaker 3:It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Go get in.
Speaker 3:It's fine, you walked off. They're like, it's scary, it's like humans, they are like people. I tell them to go home, I know.
Speaker 1:She loves looking like that too.
Speaker 2:She loves looking like that.
Speaker 3:All right, we're good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, and we are back. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for and we are back, ladies and gentlemen, had to take a little bio break. Yeah, man, all right. So where the fuck did we leave off? Oh, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to talk. Well, were we done? Talking about pricing? I mean, that was pretty much it.
Speaker 2:I just noticed the market change. It was worth it. I am you had mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 1:You alluded to about, you know, saying that people are willing to pay for quality, and I think what we've got? A lot of people in an uproar when a lot of barbers were following the trend of raising their prices like five, 10, $15 or however much. Yeah, I know barbers that went up in like like a bill, oh yeah, but anyway, down here, you, I mean people, no, no, no, down here like, like they're mindful. Well, well, yeah, the moment that a barber gets gets a celebrity client C list, b list, it don't matter.
Speaker 1:Then they go in for price and they say, hey, I'm big time. I have a barber who who had a celebrity client at home.
Speaker 2:He tried to raise his prices and lost, like a lot of his clients. You saw that Jusky video of him imitating a barber.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna send it to you after the, after the party, but I'm gonna send it to both of y'all. It was absolutely hilarious. It's like it's like when your, when your barber, get Hollywood, and that happened. Yeah, yeah, but but no, what I'm saying is uh, I think people, a lot of people, had a hard time getting with the price hike and paying it when the quality of the haircut wasn't lining up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the same shit.
Speaker 3:Like it was a lot. It was like a lot of barbers like raising their prices and stuff. And if you go back and look like at old movies we grew up on like at the time, those phase look tight as fuck. But when you go back and look at him black, that nigga shit was busted to be in a relationship Exactly, hey y'all man.
Speaker 2:So if you're going to barbers, if y'all are going to raise, if you're listening and you're a barber and you raise your prices.
Speaker 1:Make sure that you also do a little bit more uh in the effort of the quality of the of the haircut. Make it an experience. Get a hot towel and you know or make sure yeah. You know, maybe spray with like some fragrant alcohol, um, or get some type of uh like brush their hair or put a little bit of oil in it or some enhancement. Yeah, do a little bit more If they're going to pay a little bit more, you know, because y'all don't have to own the ones that experience inflation.
Speaker 3:It's just like in COVID.
Speaker 1:Come on now.
Speaker 3:It's just like negotiation, like they say, the perfect negotiation. Everybody feel like they got fucked a little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that they came out on top.
Speaker 3:If your price raises, like you should do, like a little bit more to like to like make people realize okay, he raised his price, because this is now like involved in the haircut that I'm paying for.
Speaker 1:But this is what I was trying to when he first came to me, I wasn't doing enhancements on everybody. No, you weren't, oh, you weren't doing what.
Speaker 3:I wasn't doing enhancements on everybody, like the spray and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no, I remember, not too many people was getting that. Yeah, I remember people started like y'all started getting a lot of clients that had hair loss looked and only haircuts Cause.
Speaker 3:A lot of people didn't know about it. Yeah, I know I didn't look on the hair and I was like oh, yeah, I like that yeah. So that's what gave me Okay.
Speaker 1:You were testing it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just going to put this on all my haircuts and charge this much more because you just like don't want it.
Speaker 1:The fly thing that G does is he will try out enhancements as like, as like free trials and then ask them like if they or sometimes he wouldn't even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, like he would try some sheen oil on my hair just to get it a little bit of more of a shine, especially if I had an event that I had to leave. Yeah, go in a tent. Yeah, exactly, that's another person that they talk. Compare me to, you know, shout out to my twin, treacherous twin. No, but, um, but no like. And, and most of the time the client will notice before he has to even say something and say like hey, did you like that? All right, cool, um, this is something I can do for you, um, for like, maybe like a dollar or two extra.
Speaker 2:A dollar or, or.
Speaker 1:I don't even think G would have even asked them, uh, for a raise in price. I think that they would just like it would just be expected. Okay, Common courtesy to tip higher.
Speaker 2:All in all I respect it, because for me it's not even a barber thing Like it's it's it's. It's a situation to where, like I feel like a lot of us realize our worth. Um, generationally, there's just a big, there's a. There's a big um difference in how we look at ourselves and how we look at our expertise, um, what we bring to the table, what our value is professionally, if I know I'm doing it like, if I know I'm doing a great service I'm doing I'm, if I know I'm the shit like what I'm providing provides a great value. I'm not afraid to ask for what I'm worth and I'm not because it goes.
Speaker 3:it goes in the same, it goes in the same category. Okay, so you work for your job, you work for your job. At a certain point you're going to go. Okay, like I'm really killing this shit, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, you're going to have that moment.
Speaker 3:Say boss man, hey, Jerry, let me get a raise. Yeah, Like I've been here like handling business for the for for X amount of time, Let me, let me, let me get a raise.
Speaker 1:I asked my first raise that I asked for, or if you don't ask for it.
Speaker 3:You going to think about it? Yeah, Only difference is my raise comes from like the people From tips. Yeah, like. Well, no, not from tips. Like, if I decide I want to raise my price, that's not a raise, that's the value.
Speaker 1:You have to create the value. Oh you, oh, so you create your own right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But at the same time at the same time, you have to provide the value, though I can't like raise to the point towards like okay, not all these people who got used to coming to me and like, who been like supporting me for so long, now they really can't even afford to come to me yeah. So so, what do you?
Speaker 1:do, then Did you lose clients when you raised your price.
Speaker 3:A little bit, but it wasn't to the point to where it was like it really it really affected me, it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you didn't feel bad about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did, because the ones that I lost wasn't they were spending money, were any of them kids?
Speaker 1:Were any of them kids like and their parents were bringing them. That's kind of fucked up.
Speaker 2:I feel pretty bad. Why do you say kids.
Speaker 3:Because, like he has a wide range of clients. Like kid prices normally are different than adult prices. That's true For sure, For sure.
Speaker 1:So, but you raised the kid prices too, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I raised the kid prices a little bit, but like so, when you turn a certain age, you're no longer in the kid. Your head is adult size. Yeah, but you need to come over here Like a lot of parents don't look at it. They're like oh, he's still certain such age how?
Speaker 2:do you head the same size? As yours, but he got a cranium.
Speaker 1:How do you feel about tipping?
Speaker 2:On four, fours or.
Speaker 1:Like what's the reasonable tip for you For people to tip you?
Speaker 2:Are tips necessary.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you feel like, okay, so I feel like they're necessary because I have a it's a barb in our shop. He calls me perfectionist.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 3:Because, as you know, I'm gonna sit there and tinker with your haircut until I feel like, okay, this whole is right and if I cut another hair I'm gonna miss it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's perfect. When you look into the mirror, I'm gonna let you like, look into me. Don't look in. Don't when I get you the mirror, don't do one of these and just know, look at your haircut, because and admire it when you walk out this door.
Speaker 1:I want you to be happy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people gonna look at your hair. Can you go eventually go to a mirror and be like, oh damn, I love you.
Speaker 1:Hey, man, come on man, hey. And every time I leave that chair it's a different, like admiration.
Speaker 2:That's a good feeling.
Speaker 1:Like man, I've never left the chair where G I was just like, oh, it's all right he did okay.
Speaker 2:Or damn, I should have had him tighten this up.
Speaker 1:No, it was always like a damn, I look good as fuck man. I started people started to have been clowning me about the Blair Underwood shit, but that's the phase that I'm in right now. I guess whatever, but hey man.
Speaker 2:Is that a papa-tizel? Papa-tizel looks like Blair Underwood.
Speaker 1:No, no, killing me in a good way, like being like, oh shit, well, you know he was beating his wife and shit, and I'm like, come on, man, not that Blair Underwood, I'm talking about the young, sexy fly-maw fucker that was in the 90s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on, man, but no, so the tipping thing right. What's the tip that you just feel like you're getting fucked over? Minus, of course, them not tipping you at all. Like, do you get to pocket all of the money that you make from your clients, or does a percentage of that go to the shop?
Speaker 3:So yeah, so it depends on what kind of barbechop you're dealing with. So you have your shop that charges you both on it, and then you have shops that charge you commission. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So the commission.
Speaker 3:They charge you a certain percentage of every cut. Okay, so like if, but they also supply you with all your like your wet supplies. You have to supply your own clippers and stuff like that. But like your wet supplies, your sheen, your sprays, your hose and spray and stuff like that, typically that barbechop, surprise you with that Alcohol and all that, okay, and then. But you have to pay a percentage of each cut. So if they're $45 a cut, like the clients that come in there, they're not your clients.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the barbechop clients. Do you like those kind of shops? No, oh, okay.
Speaker 3:I'd rather play you one flat feet.
Speaker 2:I'd rather pay you one flat feet.
Speaker 3:Rental. Yeah, and then everything else comes to me.
Speaker 1:Is that how your shop is right now, the booth rental? Well, because think about it.
Speaker 2:Because you can come in there and build a brand around you and you can come in there and they charge a certain price for a chop that somebody else hasn't done that same work and maybe they do the same thing, but you can charge, let's say, 15 more cut, 20 more cut because of what you can do with who you are, than they can. Yeah, this barbechop shouldn't be afforded more money just because of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't charge the same as like the shop price, but I don't go below the shop price.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I think that's one of the unspoken rules. If you're in a barbechop, the lowest you can go is what that shop has for everybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a $25 cut.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like if you're undercutting, like telling people hey, I got you for 20.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and people start to do you for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you're undercutting the rest of the barbechop. It's not going to bode well with everybody.
Speaker 1:That also means that you suck too, or you're going to be hurting or who knows? That's like barbechop.
Speaker 3:That's like oh no, it's different. Now barbechops man. I'm going to tell you how bad barbechop is, bro.
Speaker 1:That's desperation.
Speaker 2:We was saying we're probably taking some barbechop before we.
Speaker 3:A regular haircut is $5. Facts, that's all, even type shit.
Speaker 1:And you get what you pay for. My pop used to take us to barbechop.
Speaker 3:But the thing is damn, that's real country shit right there. $5 goes to the barberschool.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so they're basically cutting for free. They're cutting for experimentation, so my pop will pay 10.
Speaker 2:He'll pay 10. Seven was for the cut and he would tip the bar. That little tip is the order he gets. So really you pay him like $3. There you go son.
Speaker 3:I was also working on the side. Yeah, because you have to, because you can't survive on that. Yeah, it's people that come in there, bro, I bullshit you. It's people that come in there and would be like it's a lot of time to be the older people. They get a cut. It's cool. Now you got a fresh rich and a pocket. He'll use some soda water money.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on, son, that's disrespectful.
Speaker 3:I just got an hour on your fucking head, soda water money.
Speaker 2:Here I come, that's him, that's him.
Speaker 3:That's 20 hours.
Speaker 1:Do you get upset when your clients go to other barbers?
Speaker 3:That's beyond school. Yes, unless it's like a situation where it's like okay, you can't get you, you chose not to book with me or you didn't even cause. Nine times ten. I always tell my clients hey, you gotta get in early. You didn't even try to communicate with me. Hey, if you got a spot, can you let me know? Type shit, you just came in and you went to another barber. Okay, what? Ah, ah, ah.
Speaker 2:Hey, hello what that mean, though, ah.
Speaker 3:I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm gonna tell you how I was sleeping.
Speaker 2:He said okay, no, I'll lie to you, I'll cause. Hey, the way that he said it looked like somebody.
Speaker 1:It looked like a wife waiting for their husband to come home from going to the strip club with the boys all night.
Speaker 2:It's a more attack, like there's some more words behind that. Okay, he said okay, but he really was saying it was some other shit, cause he was like okay.
Speaker 1:So you dropping them as a client or you just gonna have a talk with them and then make sure that?
Speaker 2:they respect you.
Speaker 1:I feel like he just your relationship, like that's what you gonna do, cause that's like equivalent to cheating on you, right?
Speaker 3:I'm gonna make sure that you appreciate me after that, cause you know what's gonna happen. A lot of times, like some people, oh, you gonna blacklist them.
Speaker 3:Nah, a lot of people will come in and you see this all the time, like people come to the barbershops and sit down and get their hair cut and sit there with their eyes closed. They don't know what nobody else haircuts looks like in their barbershop. Yeah, okay. So if you come in like you supposed to be booking with me, you walk up to me like, hey, I couldn't get with you today. Do you mind if I holler at such and such? Okay, you know already. You know like okay and you making it known like okay, I tried, I feel I need this cut and this is the person that first.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was about to hit you with.
Speaker 2:Right Is what if they tried to book or this, who open? Well, listen, listen, that's where I was.
Speaker 1:I lived this situation. You know this almost happened twice with you with me and G. Oh you talking about your situation it?
Speaker 3:happened with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I showed up he went to tongue I say listen, but you didn't fucking book on the app. He didn't know.
Speaker 3:He's not a winner. I never went I told you to text him.
Speaker 1:I prefaced it. I told you that you had to text him on or text him or get on the app. And you did not follow the directions that you pulled up, and I told you what was going to happen.
Speaker 2:He wasn't going to be able to get you, I did, I did auto protocol of what you said and my nigga was booked and then you went to the swollest nigga in the fucking shop. I went to who was open.
Speaker 1:And Tom was bald at that time, right yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what.
Speaker 1:I'm saying so what the fuck does that?
Speaker 2:tell you.
Speaker 3:That's the rule.
Speaker 2:So I ain't go lie.
Speaker 3:Huh.
Speaker 2:But see, I had like locks and shit, so it was already backwards. But you don't go to the bald nigga because he don't even get a lineup. Like nigga, just get his shit straight Was.
Speaker 1:Dre there at the time he ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3:He chopped me up. I mean, I just seen Tom put a fucking line on a bald head.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, oh my God. That mean he cut it for real.
Speaker 3:God damn, I was nigga dead. He's so strong that he just literally created a permanent indention on that.
Speaker 1:But see, that's the thing too, because I got a shortlist too Like short line on a bald head.
Speaker 3:Because, yeah, shot it off. Because, look, that's the thing about it.
Speaker 2:Because I went and I left, I left, I left. Happy bro. But the thing about it was you left content, I guess you don't say that's a good word.
Speaker 1:But I mean like that's happy, I left satisfied, that's a good word, see this nigga talking to me, talking about that I be gatekeeping but don't even follow the instructions when I bless him with the Look and then look.
Speaker 2:so last episode you say that I was gatekeeping with the merch. Hold on, hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no way I'm gonna address something from last episode.
Speaker 1:I forgot to start off the episode by saying that I was wrong about Christianity and Muslims? There's definitely not a lot more Muslims in Africa.
Speaker 2:There's more Christianity than Muslims.
Speaker 1:And then, what else did I have to correct myself on?
Speaker 2:That he really was wrong and I was right about most things. No, no, no about Sam On a podcast Last part, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1:A lot of people hit me up and was saying hey yo bro, you can't be like mansplaining Sam and her workout regimen. What they say they say Apparently they gathered from what I said that I was trying to keep Sam from working out. After I just spent a whole two and a half minutes protecting women, trying to relate with them, understanding the struggle, how hard it was for them to fucking work out after.
Speaker 2:And postpartum.
Speaker 1:And then after that I followed up by saying and maybe the delivery could have been better, but I said that Sam isn't able to work out because for one she's not willing to get up earlier. Boom, because it, you start prescribing. I wasn't saying that I wasn't willing to help her Whatever it was. I was saying that she's not working. It's not me that's holding her back from working out.
Speaker 3:They wouldn't rock with it. Sometimes it's your job just to listen and agree, not to give you opinion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they wouldn't rock with it. We run a fucking podcast. They wouldn't rock with it. Huh they. We are, huh they.
Speaker 1:They Won't rock with it, or they listen to be entertained, but when it comes to factual information, you need to do a more Better job, a more Well, a more consistent job or a concerted effort to listen and listen to context. Yeah. I had previously saying that I basically Not saying that I was prohibiting her from working out, but she just wasn't able to work out because it was going to take more hours. She's not to compromise more sleep and she doesn't work out in the afternoon Because she doesn't Too hard for her.
Speaker 2:You would support her, though Of course I would. I would.
Speaker 1:I would the people.
Speaker 2:But see, I think maybe that was a disconnect. Let's say we're in fucking with it.
Speaker 1:Listen, if you ever try the husbands and boyfriends and fiancé's out there, y'all know what it's like to wake your woman up when she is not ready to get up it is my woman.
Speaker 2:wake up before me. Yeah, what time.
Speaker 1:I don't know Shit the timer is about to go off. God damn it. Hold on One second. Y'all talk while I go get this timer.
Speaker 2:Talk while we get the timer. I just gotta say this real quick. Two things One, my lady not gonna move without me. You know what I'm saying. You know lateral decisions, or you? You know what I'm saying. You're gonna come holler at daddy. Number two, my barber. If he charge my money, he's worth it. I ain't gonna lie. Shout out to Tom, he's the nigga who chopped me up. But the thing about it with Barber's overall, they kind of put a bow on that conversation and put a period on it. Bro, you gotta be. How do I say this Diplomatically?
Speaker 1:You talking about being faithful to Barber's?
Speaker 2:Being faithful and honestly, I mean Barber's, yeah, but really low key, this is anybody. This is anything Like loyalty overall.
Speaker 1:How do you define loyalty? Once you define your, you need to define your. I mean, bro, you gotta define loyalty.
Speaker 2:I'm not just I don't owe anybody loyalty, that I don't really. That there's no equity, there's no I don't, we don't have any share.
Speaker 1:Well, let's not even talk about that we're talking about.
Speaker 2:But I have to say that because, yeah, like to my Barber, yeah, there's a level of loyalty to my lady, there's loyalty to my. There's certain things that's absolutely To my niggas. That, yeah, there's a lot of.
Speaker 1:I don't expect you to. I don't expect Tom to get upset with you after he's only cut your hair one time, twice, twice. But let's use me and G's example. There were a couple of times where I had reached out to him. I was looking for something. It wasn't the last minute, it was like the week of, but this is how poppin' he is as a Barber right, I know, look to the app.
Speaker 1:I went and it was like it was a Monday. I needed a haircut by like Thursday or Friday because it was right before a wedding and he had no availability. So then I text him. I'm like, hey, I got a wedding coming up and stuff. Could you get me on any of these days? He's like nothing's opening up, but I'll keep you posted, right, and I already know what that means. His standards and anybody else's standards don't equate to mine. So I'm gonna keep following up. And then so I was just like you know what, at this point I'm just gonna show up to the shop on this day, the day before, and then, if he's able to, I'll be willing to wait an hour. But if not, oh yeah, I'm just gonna have to get cut by Dre or Tom Whoever the fuck can give me.
Speaker 1:Nah, probably just them two, like just the right side of the barber shop, because the left side I was gonna ask have you ever been to that side? It's just a lot of hell, no.
Speaker 2:Why not? Why you say hell, no, no, just say no Because his pops is on the other side.
Speaker 1:Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Speaker 2:Stop, stop, stop, chill Immediately.
Speaker 1:Her name is CJ. She's on the other side and then there's another woman barber over there, but she, oh, damn. Okay, I haven't really paid attention to her work, but at the time there was another guy Before she got hired. It was a pastor over there, right?
Speaker 3:Okay so.
Speaker 2:They say a pastor, he would preach in the shop.
Speaker 1:He would be reading the Bible bro.
Speaker 3:He'd be reading books while he would turn. How does that work. It may have turned his back to the front door and be over there reading books and watching boondocks.
Speaker 1:Not only that, it'll be his clients that walk into the shop Dino, and he would ignore them. He'd be like I'm on break right now.
Speaker 3:No, he'd be like walk in, walk in. He'd ignore the door. He's the barber here for walking.
Speaker 1:And he's the only barber available.
Speaker 3:Everybody else is cutting and they looking at him.
Speaker 1:He doesn't look approachable. He just got his back turned. He looks so uninviting and he's the shortest nigga ever in this world, and that's the one who's here for walking. Yes, we had another one come in.
Speaker 3:There's a reason why he was walking into here, he was always walking off from where or leaving the shop and it's like fam, you supposed to be here for why?
Speaker 2:we got the Saturday.
Speaker 1:We were talking about the dude that was in JC before he got there.
Speaker 3:That was somebody else. I'm talking about him. He was a crossover there.
Speaker 1:The young dude? I don't think I've. I may have seen him one time but, I, just cannot remember what he looked like.
Speaker 3:I ain't gonna say he's my, I'm not, but listen there was. I mean, that's the question from earlier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, about if you come in and If I have actively tried to book with you and there's an important event coming up and you're just not available.
Speaker 3:If you try to put out, I might try to see if you can get with the person that I feel like cuts the. The closest to what you Closest to me and then, after they cut your hair, I won't have to do so.
Speaker 2:Which was Dre.
Speaker 3:I won't have to do so much work.
Speaker 1:Dre and Tom have cut my hair before. Tom cut my hair when you weren't. You weren't even at the shop.
Speaker 3:Just losing my hair. I think that's when I had COVID that time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you were sick and I desperately needed a haircut. It was. I was really wolfy. But the second time was me trying to book with him and he just was. He was popping that week, bro, I know what that looks like. And then I had asked Dre and that was the, and Dre did a good job. But I went right back to G because I'm like yeah, for sure, which is what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1:And even though G was acting like he was cool with it, I can tell he was a little. He still was a little upset. He hit me with the. Okay, he didn't hit me with it like that, but yeah it was like yeah, bro, it was.
Speaker 3:But if you come in and just like, man, I need a haircut, who can I go to? I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm gonna send you to somebody that's probably gonna fuck you up.
Speaker 2:Damn Just so. You know, just so, you know, just so you know you know how good you got it, guys, so that's one of the client Don'ts right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Now don't go into a barbershop, asking about another barbershop, because I'm gonna tell you how I don't know. Oh, that's disrespect. I've never been to a barbershop.
Speaker 1:And I've seen that before. Actually They'll come in here. Oh well, I've never done that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I was like, who in here can give me? There was this.
Speaker 1:Hispanic dude that walked into the shop and he was like, can you give me? And he was like, no, I can't.
Speaker 2:He's like okay, do you know where else I can go, like, come on, I've seen that before. Come on, I've seen that before, right.
Speaker 1:And then there was three other people in the shop asking him Like just be a little bit more.
Speaker 2:Some people don't know the shop rules. Though, bro, I'll be honest, all the shop talk, a lot of people don't know the rules. There's rules.
Speaker 3:You can come into the barbershop and expect to get right in the chair all the time. That's not going to happen, especially if you walk into the shop for the first time. Oh what? You walk into the shop for the first time and see rules and change.
Speaker 2:When I used to go to the shop there used to be a little clipboard at the front of the shop. You put your name on the list.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a lot of people come in there and ask and if you ain't got an appointment, you put your name on the list. Right, I got to write my name down on the list yeah, what a list.
Speaker 2:I come in and say hey, bro, is there a list? And I just give my name and if there's not no list, it's like no, but he can get you, that's yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, for the most part, since we've all been together so long, we know each other's clients and the different people that come in. So if you're not a normal at the barbershop, I can, I'll know that instantly and actually like you'll walk in, or if it's your first time.
Speaker 2:Some people get referred. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:You have to ask them are you looking for somebody in particular?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how long are you willing to wait on the client before you just move on to the next or you pick up a walk?
Speaker 3:It depends on the situation. So typically, if you don't communicate anything with me, it'll be 15 minutes.
Speaker 2:I'll say 10, 15.
Speaker 1:That's a good. And then say if they show up at the 20 minute market, you already started on the next head. What do you tell them?
Speaker 3:If it's like 20, 25 minutes, something like that, by the time I start on, by the time I get going on, your haircut my next client.
Speaker 2:I'm being a man, and now you. I pushed the whole schedule back.
Speaker 1:So you just tell them like, hey, man, you just got to book, so like, and then do they get a refund, or no, it says it on my ear.
Speaker 2:It says it on my ear. I respect that 100%.
Speaker 3:You have to think about it no.
Speaker 1:no, that's understandable. I'm going to respect your time.
Speaker 3:So, like I'm okay with you, like we in Houston, it's traffic everywhere. Yeah, I know people are going to be running late and running behind. Life happens.
Speaker 1:So life happened for me yesterday, yeah.
Speaker 3:And you tell me I was running late coming from my appointment. Okay, big, just come in, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was about to be another one of those situations.
Speaker 3:I know you're not one of those people who normally like come in Like hella late. Every time I was like I was actually about to text you, but no, like I had a good reason.
Speaker 1:No, dino, because I completed my first mental health therapy session. Are you a therapist? Yeah, bro, you ain't want to be the one to let to.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's okay.
Speaker 1:Come on you know I'm an open book.
Speaker 3:Okay, but I'm an open book. I'm an open book. I want to take a quick pivot. I'm going to take a quick pivot.
Speaker 2:So this is your first therapy session ever Ever ever the intake session that also turned into a little bit of the first session. Okay, what do you think it?
Speaker 1:was really good, so I kind of dominated in. You did most of the time.
Speaker 2:Well, I went in. She had asked me why?
Speaker 1:why therapy? Why now? Yeah, and she had asked if I had anything going on. I was like no, I mean like my job is paying for like up to six sessions, and my son founded out. So I was like I'm going to be a good doctor and I found it as a great opportunity to take, To take advantage of it, because Therapy has been trending for like the past five years. You have a doctor for your body.
Speaker 2:You go for annual checkups and physicals. Why not have one for your head? Exactly?
Speaker 1:And I told her to. I'm like I got a podcast. I've socialized with my friends. They are my therapy, right, my wife is my therapy and I get in my head a lot, but I'm always open for improvement. I want to be a better version of myself. So, and and if there's any areas that I can Rectify, because I've come off strong. I've come off strong to towards others a lot.
Speaker 2:In the past.
Speaker 1:I have a strong personality.
Speaker 2:Perfection bro.
Speaker 1:So that's how I prefaced it. And then she was like okay, tell me a little bit more about yourself and stuff. And I gave her a little bit of her history and she's like what are the things that you don't like? And I'm like I just don't like, I don't, I'm disappointed a lot by friends and then I so you were going to no, no, no, no, just these two parts, I'm not going to recap the whole session.
Speaker 2:No, this is good. I'm just happy that you appreciated the therapy session. Why are you smiling?
Speaker 1:at me and looking like that this is cool, so okay. You said that I needed this for a long time.
Speaker 3:You said that you don't see that with black men. No, I'm so.
Speaker 2:I just love we get in there, bro, because I try to to share, I try to to be honest.
Speaker 3:I feel like that should be like included in like health care. Everybody should have that.
Speaker 2:It shouldn't be a question. Why are you coming? Everyone should go.
Speaker 3:If you think about your job supplies you with certain certain health care. You get them. You get, I get regular health care. But like, know how mentally taxing it is to come into the same place to every day to do the same tasks, the same people do the same bullshit. And like you have no real release for that, right, you can't always come home and put that on the table, right, because she can't take she got her own.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she got, she got her own bullshit she dealing with, and it's like you don't want to just like unleash, like whatever emotion and anger that you got from your day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not fair.
Speaker 3:Into your, into your home and your place of peace.
Speaker 1:And I must say that for anybody who has been going to therapy, or anybody that's planning on going to therapy.
Speaker 2:it's more effective the more transparent you are, and so she said several times like you know, because I know she that she had to.
Speaker 1:That like, if you feel comfortable with revealing this, then you know, let me know. So hold on.
Speaker 2:Hold on real quick.
Speaker 1:You said she yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So I made sure she's.
Speaker 1:She's like a white Hispanic woman. Last name virtual. This is a virtual session.
Speaker 2:My first session was also a white woman in the Woodlands and I sat on her couch. Oh, that's awesome. It was like a movie and it was, I think, part of that pretty nice.
Speaker 1:It was so beautiful.
Speaker 2:Bookshelf had a waterfall like a constant water sound in the background at all times.
Speaker 1:Incent burning in the background.
Speaker 2:It's so burning. But like I mean, like literally, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oil diffusers was now.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what that's like. I remember it was a great.
Speaker 1:It was a really nice spot. It was a great possession. It was a spot in my memory of a spot. That's why but it was an office building.
Speaker 2:So you feel real comfortable I sat on that couch and it was like a movie.
Speaker 2:I spilled the beans. I just started talking, bro, and it was just felt so good to talk because I came like I mean you can, but like you know we're and also one thing that we're leaving out like we're, we're brought up a certain way, like there's certain things I'm going to get to my partners. I'm not just going to talk a certain way to everyone, because that's not how you come up, it's just and she caught me at a good time where I really needed it and I didn't know how bad I needed it. There's a lot going on, bro, my brother and like Lee, and everything was like where are you?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean like you had dealt with some pretty traumatic sit back to back, I was really understanding and it was so like once I finally experienced that I was like oh, this, what it is, I might be caught a hair doctor, all these different things like, but everyone, all y'all, need this, we all need one of her. Like, everybody needs one of these and I told her to.
Speaker 1:I mean, like it's so back to like the ethnicity and the gender and stuff, whatever. I wanted the complete opposite of what I am, and Also like I wanted something, so somebody that was gonna be unbiased, right. Um, so I didn't want a black woman, I don't want a black man, I didn't want a man I wanted to like, I wanted somebody that was going to address and she had a background in military too. She didn't know I was military at the time and then I had so I had revealed her.
Speaker 1:She was like you know, I'm not gonna lie most, most of the time my clients are people like a counter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I want, I want to. I want to ask you that too why you think, why do I want?
Speaker 1:a count, another race.
Speaker 3:Yeah why you want the opposite like cuz if you if you, because I want, I want to be challenged if you really think about it, like when you talking to somebody like of your same demographic, you have a better chance of them coming from like some place that that you can share, understand like they it's. It's likely you're gonna be judged why they're, why they're doing their job and yeah, I understand that right, but in due time I will eventually.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this is your first therapist. Yeah, I get it my first.
Speaker 2:My second therapist will be my next little white guy. Not beat, no, I will.
Speaker 1:Maybe, sure, but I want to go in this one person the color for show. I want to do a white, a white woman first, white guy first. Yeah and then eventually I Like, eventually, like. The end is like the black went black man and the black woman. Because I want to, I want to treat my therapist Like the places I've never been. I want to go and explore those and those opportunities. They're mindset and kind of like what they have to offer Before I reside home, because I know where to come home, I know when.
Speaker 2:Like you want to hear what they, how they perceive.
Speaker 1:Right how they perceive what I have been going through or what I'm dealing with right now, what I'm struggling with okay, right. So, and what do you accept it? You?
Speaker 3:can get that. You can, a little key, get that from anybody. How do you perceive what you went through? But like you go to therapy to get help and like that's what I'm Gressed from, that's what I was going to progress, from the things that you've been through, who can you the best answer?
Speaker 2:Well then, why you wouldn't?
Speaker 1:then why do you have a preference to pick a therapist?
Speaker 3:That's the same evening, somebody been able to like perceive what you went through and somebody that's been through something similar than what you've been through. It's gonna give you two totally different outcomes. So like, okay, so you, you go to, you go to, you go to the therapy, and a lot of times they want you to start at the beginning.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and she wanted me to yeah your beginnings, your childhood as a young black, as a young black male child, facts. So nine times out of ten I see we have a similar beginning to a black therapist. As you, as you grew, you eventually like Blossomed into something else. So I can see you like moving on from the blacks therapist to like a white therapist. Because your, the the space you're in in life they can kind of correlate to, rather than like say you did do some. Like a whole bunch of bullshit. Like oh, my mom was like my mom was a madam, it was always like prostitutes at the house. Like my dad sold drugs, type shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I didn't have that. Yeah, so at all, but listen, hold on, no, no, no, don't cut me off like I'm next in line.
Speaker 3:I Didn't have that type of last I grew up in the hood and I didn't have no one said you did no, no, I know, I know that, but what I'm saying was like I'm gonna make my point go ahead.
Speaker 1:The reason why I started out with it we had she was able to relate with some similarities and provide me some nuggets of knowledge that I didn't necessarily know about, and I feel like that that's gonna happen with any therapist. I'm not trying to discredit any therapist, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean like their gender or their background or their ethnicity degree Right, but but all suited differently for different.
Speaker 3:Every everybody like, even though that they're paid to do that. Everybody has their own like like they people say that that turn back on my mind.
Speaker 1:Well, let me also preface this I didn't, I wasn't up front with, like, my selection. There was really kind of like no other choice, but besides, like white women to choose from white and Hispanic women, so I didn't have, I didn't, there weren't any black options.
Speaker 2:Um, if there were black options.
Speaker 1:I wasn't gonna be able to select them like I'll put like this black therapists are sought out a Lot. Hey, they're, they're popping, and so the residuals, like the net, the black therapist. Because I got curious. I was like I just want to know when is the next appointment? The next appointment went until the end of November. Nigga yeah.
Speaker 2:I believe it.
Speaker 1:Come on Just like the same thing with pediatricians, like, oh, come on, yeah, we have a black pediatrician and we had the same one, the only way and she's the only one, and she's always what she's her, she's booked so much that we See the next pediatrician, dr Paul.
Speaker 2:I just want to see him. I just want to someone else. Yeah, I see her. Katie is. I mean, that's not her name. That's why I call her. I don't know. She's a Caucasian woman.
Speaker 1:But and then she work. Problem when she work part-time.
Speaker 2:She's in, like the Caribbean Cayman. She's somewhere every other week. Yeah this is living life.
Speaker 3:I'm not mad at her, dr Johnson, she's doing it matter her. My pediatrician, my son's pediatrician was my pediatrician when I was younger.
Speaker 2:That's why my pediatrician was a white man, so when she's doing with him, she recognizes different stuff that she remembers when I was.
Speaker 3:I'll take the stuff further. That's really dope.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cuz you got cuz just from. I mean, your children are gonna Logically have some of the same or similar things happen to them.
Speaker 1:That's really my doctor growing up, dr Kapasi.
Speaker 2:He was an Indian man Remember their name, oh yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 1:He did all of us, he did, okay, he did my sisters, he did my brother for a little bit and then and then me, and, and he was fantastic and I just felt comfortable. He made me feel kind of comfortable with just the whole process of An experience of the medical field. But anyways, long story short, the therapy session when was fantastic. I'll start unpacking the my sessions. As we go, I throughout the rest of the season and close out so tizzle, so hold on.
Speaker 2:so, yeah, yeah, you, you, you got a therapist now, yeah, and you in regular therapy session weekly, right now. Yes, of course okay.
Speaker 1:I haven't watched suits yet. It's a much watch list. Who's Lewis? Is he one of the main characters? Yeah, is he the? Is he the boss?
Speaker 3:He's one of the bosses or is he one of the hard? He ended up being one of the bosses, but yeah, he doesn't start off. You don't start off that way. Okay, you think?
Speaker 1:a pie about Harvey. He's Lewis. He's like the bald guy with the nose right. Yeah, is that Lewis?
Speaker 2:Always do that on the gesture Now Lewis is. I mean, he's smart, he's smart. He just his personal interpersonal skills. Be on some bullshit.
Speaker 3:So Louis goes to a therapy to work on him a little bit. He's on like call with his therapist.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like he's on call, what do you mean? I can get him.
Speaker 3:He can call it oh and any point in time.
Speaker 1:Jerry, this is what's fucking going on right now. I need you to call me down or let me know if.
Speaker 2:I'm Tell him was hanging and get him together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, I'm definitely him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm definitely him, Yep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like how I am stereotypically and typecast by all my friends like it's just like you're consistently, I'm cool with it.
Speaker 2:You're consistently, I've always been me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what makes it easy to kind of be like that's gonna be, but have y'all not been always y'all? Yeah, that's the question that I always. What god for all my friends.
Speaker 2:I challenge you all but like Y'all been doing a lot of exploration, I've always been this way.
Speaker 1:I've always been this way. It's gotta be in trouble. It's gotta be Boost in life. It's got to be promotions. It's got to be pussy. It's got to be slap fought. Yeah, it's pushing the gut.
Speaker 2:Fucked over his work. Well, that's, but like. Here's the thing too. All that, what you just described is all very much. You like all very textbook jt like above, fucking. So You're. You're talking to this therapist right now, so dope and I'm oh, yeah, I'm about, yeah, I'm about to put her through the fucking ranger and she it's gonna be good. I think she knows it. It's no way. This is not gonna be good, bro, I know, I know, I can't wait less.
Speaker 1:You know I'd like to be challenged and unless I'm accepted process I'm very got accepted. I'm very receptive.
Speaker 2:You must also be wrong.
Speaker 1:I'm, oh, you know me, I don't, I don't have a problem with me?
Speaker 2:I don't. I think this your first session. Okay, I'm gonna be quiet, just no, no, no no, there is no, say her name. No, don't think. Huh, what's first letter, her name, go see. Okay so, kathy, right. Okay. So I think, give Kathy a chance, I'm definitely going to get open to Kathy.
Speaker 2:Hold on, but, pete, this is the real part. It's a meter. The meal right here. Be open to, kathy not being the best fit for Tissel to. I am completely fine with that. I went through a bunch of sessions with with a Kathy, yeah yeah and they were good, but when I go back I'm not going for no, kathy, oh, I see what you're saying, like, like you're not serving me.
Speaker 1:It's not the fact that, like I'm always wrong, it's just you're not, I'm not. It's not fulfilling.
Speaker 2:It's not gonna be food, it's not. Yeah, I got. I got what you need right now, so Kathy would be good for your first, like my first one was a Kathy. I saw netcalf like a movie we need to.
Speaker 1:We saw, spilled the beans, like you understand, but then she met her limit.
Speaker 2:I won't be going back to Kathy because Kathy ain't got the context, the contextual knowledge, the things I need to help.
Speaker 1:So let me, let me let me let the audience know. And, uh, I don't, like, I'm not a white washed guy. I mean I'm, I've born. No, no, I'm not an Oreo. I'm not somebody like I grew up differently um Then, and others like I, but similar at the same time.
Speaker 3:Like I don't know why I brought up the black therapist like.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a father growing up.
Speaker 3:I didn't mean to like take it to the extreme, but that's cool nine times out of 10. We can go there, you like you. You like you say you grew up in the hood, you grew up without a father. You end up going. You end up going to and graduating from one of the most prestigious colleges in, in, in the nation.
Speaker 1:In university by, by letting Goku and anime characters, these characters on my wall, being my father figure. Besides my brother and my stepfather. They can relate. They can relate to that.
Speaker 3:Because nine times, nine times ten, like people of our skin color have come out of some bullshit. And yeah, made it to become therapists and be able to help other people. Yep right, they kind of was in your same lane, like they might have been in the hood, but they wouldn't like or they live close enough to it where they know what that is. He might be in the hood, but he's not a hood, nigga yeah it's bingo, that spot on.
Speaker 1:That's what I was.
Speaker 2:It's what you're trying to say hood, nigga, and I know what can help him, because I didn't. I've been around enough for them to get. I know what they need. They need, yeah, they don't need applesauce, they need vitamin c. Yes, I'm saying, or like you know, like that wasn't good an analogy at all, but I don't know, I'm, maybe I'm not a hood nigga.
Speaker 1:I'm a nigga that grew up in the hood.
Speaker 2:You're not a hood nigga at all.
Speaker 1:But no, no, no, but I'm just, uh, you know who? Yeah, I mean, I'm a black man that grew up in the hood.
Speaker 2:Even if you were a hood nigga I mean that's how you self identified. Like that A black therapist would just and I mean, who know, there's some probably terrible black therapist. But I'm saying I agree with him because I'm circling back around for round two, I'm not going back to a cat.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, that's understandable, but I feel like you need to give a little bit more context to what you're saying and I think we need to give our listeners A context what he's saying.
Speaker 2:I think it's hitting the nail on the head.
Speaker 1:For me personally, that that she's not fulfilling your part. What you're looking for, I think what. I think what.
Speaker 2:I need is somebody who has a bit more contextual knowledge, cultural, ethnic, whatever it may be. I need you to understand who I am a bit better, so I don't got to give you all this. You ask me all these questions, if you understood. If I all I gotta say is I'm from here and then my brother was this, you gonna know what that means. Yeah, and what you were, her, what Kathy. I had to say Okay, so you needed your son.
Speaker 2:I had, to like I had to go through all this shit just to get you here, where, if well, huh, I would have just seen the draw. You would have known where I was, at what type of time I was on, what it really meant.
Speaker 3:Like he's saying if you say that to Kathy nine times out of ten, kathy's mind she may you may not see this, because she's been doing the jobs oh no but in her mind, her faceless person is going like this Well, at that point is Kathy's job to then refer you to a different therapist?
Speaker 2:No, she did her job and she did it well, no, but wait, I worked. Me. You got into that, okay, all right, but I learned from Kathy. But if you, when I learn from.
Speaker 1:But if you feel like you got to a point where you were fulfilled and and y'all have met Y'all's, y'all's limit as far as like the extension that you want to go and you want to go further, she and the and she can't go into depths and crevices of Of your experience and to advise you on how to move forward, right.
Speaker 2:It's her responsibility to that.
Speaker 3:I think she can get there. Kathy's gonna take you. She's gonna take too long. Kathy's gonna take you this way. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, so that still kind of ties into my point of it's her responsibility to refer you to a different therapist then, and if she doesn't know that then it's her job.
Speaker 3:To advise you, I think that you need to go Succeeding in the position, okay, so then, whatever her name is, she's probably gonna take you this way, because she's gonna be like oh, my cousin dealt with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, pookie, my brother, that it was. So you don't want from a to to d.
Speaker 3:I can, I can push you there, I can put you there easier, because I know where this comes from, I know what it looks like, I know what it's gonna lead to and I know what can fix it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Kathy is trying to figure that out. What is this? Even me? What has happened to you? She's trying to dissect the situation. She got to go a, b, c, d, e, f, g.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Whereas sis could have went from a to g straight just because of what she knows. Contextually, got you, got you.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So then do you tell you, do you tell her that and then tell you tell her like hey, I have no obvious to speak to this woman ever again.
Speaker 2:Okay, when I look my next session, it will be with somebody who I think is better equipped to deal with where I'm at right now. All right, so I don't know what that is it, but it'd probably be a personal color.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to To expanding with with my therapist. It's my first time, but I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2:Like I'm gonna give her, like you gotta go, I think after a couple of two.
Speaker 1:I think after a couple of sessions I'll be able to tell like if it's going to be worthwhile or if I need to move on with a session by weekly, monthly. With that it looks like it's weekly right now, but then oh, weekly. Yeah, but um, but I I wanted to so a month is four sessions.
Speaker 1:Yes, so, and yeah, you'll know, for sure, bro, yeah, you should know, but um, I mean but but we'll see but the reason why I brought up the fact that I grew up differently, meaning that like I still had the same experiences of any Kid and growing up in the hood black kid growing up in the hood but my interest is what kind of set me apart from my peers? So like all those action figures and all these anime characters and stuff, even though we all kind of watched anime and it was around us like I, like I was attached to it.
Speaker 1:It was it made me, and then, on top of that, I didn't have. I didn't have a father. So that's why I confided in people, like I confided more in cartoons and Fictional characters than I did in actual people.
Speaker 2:I didn't have a lot of you a rap, I mean.
Speaker 1:yeah, I only looked up to Denzel, my uncle and my brother and my sister's dad. That's about it. And then everybody else was like Goku, roni, kenshin, you, you, uh, you scared you were meshi and and uh, spider-man, batman, it's a hell of a hate is superman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because nigga, I am spider-man, like I'm the next one. I'm the other black one, but uh and not, uh, not, not, uh, not, hopey, but I'm tizzling, but anyways, uh, I know in my own fantasy, don't be surprised if I audition and I actually get the part in a color your spider suit.
Speaker 3:What color is your spider suit.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, I know it, it'll probably be. Uh, I'll come back to you. But black, black, lavender in white. So black, but not fasm, not, not the new, not the new one at the bottom, ben Riley. Ben Riley's a Villain. Oh, you haven't been reading the new series. Yeah, okay, we'll talk about it after the part, but this party purple but not man, that that conversation took a right turn, not a left, but I like that happy you a therapy.
Speaker 2:When you say that, that's yeah exactly. And when you say therapy, I had to hop on it, paul.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's shit, we can. We can keep going if you want to, but what now?
Speaker 2:I want to say yeah okay, just one thing for me, bro. So when we could, we got a circle back you to have a few sessions. I need to hear kind of we're gonna talk. I need to hear we'll have a mental. One thing you you've gotten out of it like has your therapist gave you some homework. That was really.
Speaker 3:Heightening.
Speaker 2:She said you had something I was really revelatory, like damn, this was. This made me really realize this about me, or whatever I can give you the same, I can give you some right now. It's the biggest thing I've gotten from therapy. It's it's. I can give it to you, it's easy. But I want to know from you is there like some homework that you did? That was like damn.
Speaker 1:I probably wouldn't have done this on my own and this really helped with XYZ the homework she said she gave me was think of a couple of things that you want to do to help you yourself grow and get to the place that you want to be. And then the thing that I learned from her. I learned a couple of key things.
Speaker 3:But the one that stood out was about cake.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, the thing that I learned about it's about cake. Oh, she asked her. She asked me how low she was and stuff, because I had told her one of the things I told her that I didn't like was like Me being disappointed friends, and then the other one's being a burden on people. And then I told her the whole example about being on the airport or being in on the plane and having a child. I was like I'm like I don't want to be that person. Yeah, because I know how that makes me feel and I can't do anything about it, because I'm not expecting not to do anything about it and it just deal with it. But at the same time I you would feel toward the person exactly, I mean because I'm just looking at the parent.
Speaker 1:But, anyways, I told her that I just wanted to be on the plane and I was really like I'm not really sure what I was going to do.
Speaker 2:So I was like I'm not sure what I was going to do, I'm not sure what I was going to do, but anyways, I told her that I had cake.
Speaker 1:Oh, as a as my daughter, and she's 17 months old, about to be 18, and she was like, have you ever heard of she were? I think she referenced like a book or a Philosopher, but she had the concept was talking about from. She had said have you ever heard of the phrase like God? Or our children are God in their own universe?
Speaker 2:And I was like no we're not.
Speaker 1:What does that mean? She's like okay, basically like kids are experiencing the first. Toddlers and infants are experiencing things for the very first time. Yeah and so when they get sleepy and lay their head down, they think that they make the sun go away.
Speaker 1:And so and then, yeah, right. And then when they wake up and it's still dark, they're like what the heck is going on? Where's that light, that that I may go away? And then that's why I start crying and freaking out and spazzing out. And then they need something that's going to familiarize them, or like whenever they get put on the boom, or when they get held by their parent, or when they get blanket, a something right, right yeah and it's like okay, I did this comforts me, or I've had this before and I did that.
Speaker 1:And so when another kid comes next to them, when they're playing, when they've been playing by themselves for like Two or three months, and then they're finally getting introduced further by another kid Socialization wanting to come over and play with them, they're like Right, who are you? And I didn't invite you over here. So no, you can't have this. No. And then they're doing anything to try to protect their realm Until they're willing to allow them to. I sound bop in my daughter.
Speaker 1:Or until, like, their parent comes through and tells them like, hey, no, don't do that, and it's just like what the heck, that normally happens.
Speaker 3:Like they don't have like any siblings kind of close to them, right, because? Because if they, if they like, pretty much all the one housing, everything in there is theirs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and that's what she was getting at and so I thought that was really interesting. And then she kind of taught, found a unique way to tie that into when that feeling of me not wanting to be a burden came from.
Speaker 3:But next episode, right, yeah, yeah, naturally kids mangle with kids cuz it's like, oh shit, somebody my size.
Speaker 2:Oh, bro, that's what she's at now. Yeah, she, she looks at kids and smiles at them and whatnot.
Speaker 1:She won't be fucking with anybody else, like all the adults, and whatnot. But she sees a kid out of all of us and she, she's like, and then she wants to go walk over there and like play with them and we're not.
Speaker 2:You have to teach that type of dumb shit yeah.
Speaker 3:I watched the shit all the time in the barber shop. It'd be like kids. It'll be like some kids there and then another family would like couple kids come in and then no words have to be said. Yeah, they're in there With your partner that you've been knowing for forever. In a day like, yeah, like that movie, what is the black in it? Where they can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I still Want to play. Oh yeah, oh yeah. You ain't got to even know what you plan.
Speaker 1:You want to go downstairs in the basement and play Dungeons and Dragons?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you have? Yeah, okay, I got this, I got this, but I'm the thing I remember be I. Here's the thing that's crazy too. I'll be talking about decent nephews. I remember being a kid, like I'm. I'm old enough to know better, but I'm young enough to remember. I remember being a kid, still right now. I remember what we used to play. I remember how they used to feel. So, brother, I remember that like the purity of that is so dope, that like I, I really what. My kid, my daughter, is the most outgoing. She gonna get it in. Like, if it's another kid around her age younger, older she can find a way to get in with them. My son gonna play shy, look at left right a little bit. He'll try to see. Maybe then he'll get in there. But my daughter, she bro, she be trying to like play tic-tac-toe with grown-ups. I'm like go somewhere.
Speaker 1:Go sit over there. I can tell I this is gonna be a little fucked up to say, but I'm gonna say it. I Can tell that it's getting to the point where you have a preference of one over the other at times, at times that that's a little leverage that I'll give you, because you definitely talking to the jewel.
Speaker 2:It's not a preference, it's of course. You're never gonna say it and admit it. But no, I can, just it's not a gem she's getting testy because Geez he's never been four years old. We're in a wrong, okay six now six years.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. So, here's the thing. Oh god, daughter, I'm not even going on 16.
Speaker 2:It's not a, it's not a preference. It's an acknowledgement of the difference between them. There's such a yeah, contrast, yeah, such a contrast with all the other options that I'm like, learning them every day and they dope as hell, but it's like they, so they different is Jason like Jen, or is he demonstrating personalities that are kind of like?
Speaker 2:Definitely Jen some, but he got some me and I'm gonna get me twisted like I mean any way you can. You mean I myself my flavor Too concentrated to not get some of this sauce, yeah, but here's the thing. He expressed it differently. So I'm like, I'm like I watch you like damn, it's so funny because he got that straight drop. They go what you already know. But it's, it's not a preference, it's just I'm really just getting an old man. I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2:I think my daughter is my twin. I think he's supposed to be her twin.
Speaker 1:She's me. He's like trying to Be like you. Your DNA, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:I have to really like the way I have to sit and like we talking right now. I have to like watch him to try to figure him out, cuz he'll be. I don't, jewel was me, we, even before she could speak, I knew exactly, hence why I think he's on your nerves right now, because you know she won't.
Speaker 1:But that's why I think she's getting on your nerves right now versus him, like you never seen anything.
Speaker 3:I love getting my nerves. That's your, I think. What? What if I'm catching this right? Uh-huh, okay, so you always have a daddy's girl, like it's always daddy's girl. Like take us, gonna be the same way with you, like if she's not already, if you, if you haven't Realized it already, so with her being there oldest yeah, and the girl.
Speaker 3:And then him being the youngest, like you have to show him attention, like if he was not. If he was the oldest like you, you'll be able to be like. Okay, you six, you a boy? Yeah, I don't have to like be.
Speaker 1:I don't have to focus on you as much. Yeah, you need to explore this. It don't have to be like hook to my leg.
Speaker 2:I got a water him.
Speaker 3:You might want to be around me, but you like you can go, be a boy and like explore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she doesn't want that. She wants to be around this nigga all the time.
Speaker 3:The princess is not gonna be like this.
Speaker 1:He is, he is her everything.
Speaker 2:You got a water, young man, I do. Yeah, I mean you, you spot on. Because like I mean baby girl, you gotta say baby girl is all, she's everything. But like that's your son, like that's a young man, he is the, he's him.
Speaker 1:You know saying so but I think that's the difference between you and I. I wanted a daughter. I didn't know. I didn't know that I wanted a daughter. I, I was just gonna be happy with a kid. But when we was revealed that I was having a girl, I was like I never really thought about how I was gonna be as a girl. Dad, yeah, and now like I don't really care to have a son anymore. It's crazy to say that, but I feel more pressure having to raise a son.
Speaker 3:Then I then I feel it's having to raise a daughter. It's probably like this man so like say say you say, how did you sign?
Speaker 2:he's one year, I don't do the months.
Speaker 1:Jiggle, tell your ass up when she hit that part.
Speaker 2:I mean he's one, he's when I'm not doing that. Oh, he's 18 months, in 22 days. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3:But what's up, say, say they were both the same age, like he's six, she six, he's in the other room, she's in the other room. Okay, as long as he you don't hear him hollering, he didn't broke some. He didn't even came there. You're not worried about him. Yeah, but baby girl, but you okay? Yeah, all right, I'm just checking on you and nobody you know about yourself. You just been a little quiet. I was just making sure you're all right, yeah it's two different curiosities, it's just a different approach.
Speaker 3:You're gonna handle them different. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's, and it may be different everybody, but you know you 100% right in the terms of like it's and it's not even like a, a calculation that you're doing that. You just it's just, it's just how it is. Like I don't handle them the same way. Yeah, they're ending also again, and I say this because it's some shit. I'm really living right now. My daughter is me in alternate timeline where I'm a girl and I'm six years old. She is me, she has my, she stole my brain, she took my face and made it pretty like she is a little me, with Pigtails and female parts, like she is a she is me and when I talk to him like exactly, I can't be mad at her.
Speaker 2:I was saying that's smart. Yeah, so she says some smart ass shit. I give me bopped in the mouth when I was her age. I'm like respect, yeah, cuz I mean you right and there's no. I mean I know what I can.
Speaker 1:I say you right today was the first time I ever heard Darian talk to her the way that he talked.
Speaker 2:What was that?
Speaker 1:Just get a smile with you, like I already read my book, and you're like, okay, we need to go read, you need to go finish reading. But I already finished the book. Yeah, but you didn't finish your reading time.
Speaker 2:So go back with what I'm Alexa how much time does?
Speaker 1:she got it. Reading time is 10 more minutes, all right, so you got 10 more minutes to go read another book, but I don't want to.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not gonna tell you again, so you just gonna have to go over that after you definitely not gonna get no tablet time for and I, it was just Okay and I'm like that's Darian talking to Darian.
Speaker 1:It is. I Get it I never heard Darian talk like that before and it was the funniest fucking.
Speaker 2:Thing and.
Speaker 1:I want to hear more of it. I'm looking forward. I love, I love when parents, parents talk like talk shit and get and get, discipline the kids. I love that. Shit is the funniest thing in the world, and if you don't, see, see it as being funny.
Speaker 2:So much you don't have a good personality. So much agency, kid. I don't have a good sense of humor. So much Kids like we endowed them with.
Speaker 1:So much agency there's two things that I have if.
Speaker 2:I had if I had quite gay. If I asked, I get for three questions that you got to stand growing up with me, one would have got me bopped.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to tell you I look, I was two things that I love that.
Speaker 1:I love laughing at it's. It's kids getting discipline and I love when people fall.
Speaker 2:I fucking love me physically fall yeah like when they just slipping and roll.
Speaker 1:That's the funniest shit. And then I love cat videos. I love cuz cats are so much givious. It's do you know, they put a cute no, no, no no just any cat video, like when they put a cute comer next to it and then they see it like, oh what.
Speaker 2:I've been seen ever. Cats are smart. I don't trust them.
Speaker 3:They they box, they brawl they they slap box, they do all niggas. If you ever think about it.
Speaker 2:They read it when they see something that that that startles them. They're like whoa. They brace up, my mama had cats they they they they slap box and at all the time.
Speaker 1:They always slap box and like which, which we all did growing up over on this side of town. Yeah, and then what else do they do they? They, they move and walks. They were always looking behind their shoulder.
Speaker 3:Come on, man, what's your boss? A comedian, yeah.
Speaker 1:Too hard I think that's enough for this episode. Ladies, gentlemen, thanks for sticking with us. We explored a lot of different topics and, man, this was good. We get it. Definitely got to have you back, g.
Speaker 2:You did your fucking thing I did ask the person I want to ask about yeah, I mean like that's been a trend you know, you know we never get to the itinerary.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then we start exploring different Ventures and avenues. That I had to just no, no, no, no, no, that was completely fine.
Speaker 2:I know what was in the therapy, that's. That's what's up.
Speaker 1:But this is what. This is why we always have you back, while we always are gonna bring our guests back. We. We got guests that are wedding in line from seasons like we still got to bring doctor. Sack you better, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:This is season eight. Yeah, this is season eight, and I talked to him about me coming on, since season five like.
Speaker 1:But G is a very busy person too, so the fact that he was I went to the app.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the protocol.
Speaker 1:Listen, I think we'll book, hey look, and then, and then the guests that we do have, they end up canceling because of mishaps and stuff. They're like, but no, like I, I want you to rebook me. Like, is there another opening? Like don't, like can't get me out of the season, like I want to do it and the way that the season is booked, you know, and the season gets booked like a month in advance too, yeah, so glad we get we able to talk to because, bro, like really this is the conversation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we haven't come safe with dope people who we've already had dope conversations with in real life. And this is what I do all day.
Speaker 3:Come on, yeah. So you're right of conversation, are you right?
Speaker 1:All right. So, with that said, let's get into the toast and guest token. Ladies and gentlemen, toast and token. First off, let's get the shot glasses Dino and G. If you will. G, you got the the shorter amount of Of all. This is actually Dino's cuz. I'm definitely Vegeta, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean like I spread the.
Speaker 3:East.
Speaker 1:I spread love the Brooklyn way, baby.
Speaker 3:Who said that?
Speaker 1:what lines that from? Come on bro.
Speaker 3:I spread love the Brooklyn way.
Speaker 1:Duh biggie smile.
Speaker 2:Come on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there we go, that's easy one I. That's a test, y'all All right? Um man, of course this toast goes to our very special guest G Lee the barber ladies and gentlemen, who's done a?
Speaker 1:fantastic job, just dropping knowledge and gyms and jewels. We appreciate you, bro. We love you. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule for us and to be on the show. We were definitely gonna have you back. And yeah, yeah. And this toast is dedicated to you, dedicated to all the motherfuckers on fantasy that I'm about to take money from. Y'all, I will prevail and I will be a repeat. I am the reigning champion in one of my leagues and I almost won two. The motherfuckers.
Speaker 1:You just talking shit and then, and then also, of course, shout out to my co-host, dino. We've been doing this shit a season strong.
Speaker 3:He's still here. That's what's up. Don't a season? Yeah, yeah it over 50 episodes we won't keep going for you started, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Crazy.
Speaker 2:And now we here, we still here, we stick and I remember JT hair started getting like like on point because at a point of time his edge oh, that's another thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 2:Who could your hair now?
Speaker 1:Everybody, my hair, everybody's like hey, yo whoa.
Speaker 3:I need y'all to start telling y'all friends when they look and busted, I got a, he started. He just start coming to me and like me. He tells me this all the time, every time he come to the shop he's like bro, every time I get a haircut, everybody like man, yo new barber, he he did say he did something, he doing you right.
Speaker 1:He's like Come on because, like, look and, and this is why it's good to have a JT good, it's good to have a JT because I will give it to you, I'll tell you the real and I'll be like stop lying to that man. Tell them ye he fucking your head up.
Speaker 2:You may not know, like sometimes you don't know something was Better until you get better. Like you don't know something was good till you get great, until you walk by me With a fresh fade and this should be lasting like about a week, or the person himself. I'm saying they don't know, they don't know that.
Speaker 1:I feel like you're doing that on purpose and today got great. I feel like. I feel like you. You make it so perfect and so crisp that, like it only lasts about a week. I'm, I'm literally. I've been contemplating the past month about hair no. I mean yes, it grows.
Speaker 3:Especially since I'm using this Typically most people they have come like I have a lot of people they come in like they get a ball fade or like a Ball taper one week and the next week if their hair is growing in all.
Speaker 1:I just I've done the edge up with you before and I did not like it. It looks like a whole new no no, no, no, no, no now with me, because when I went in came in the next week. I did, I did, I did because I had a wedding coming up. Oh see, it's always a fucking wedding. That's why the fucking weddings. It's the fourth way. Bro, man, I've been, but listen that's a no.
Speaker 2:That's something to talk about with the next week. What?
Speaker 3:what, what?
Speaker 2:Well, at your age right now, you gonna you'd have been a four-way than the past two months. My negative, she crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm ready. I'm ready for the divorce is to start kicking it. I am fucking.
Speaker 2:Some of y'all need a fucking get.
Speaker 1:Some of y'all lying to each other. I know what was really going on behind closed doors, if I deli, Still in thievery stop all of that shit. Can't wait for y'all to start breaking up.
Speaker 3:I get married. You know what happened the voices thought what. So, man, let me, let me crash at the house for a couple days.
Speaker 2:We got an extra room to you know you finish, begins the episode of morning with cold.
Speaker 3:Hey yo.
Speaker 1:I got so many fucking friends that have been slept on so I'm not gonna out y'all but y'all know who y'all are.
Speaker 2:But you got a lot who get married to huh. Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1:And and I'm not gonna lie it on the spectrum like we done, we don't got into a whole nother pod on the spectrum though there are. There are people that are getting married, that they belong together, and it's like way overdue. Yeah then it's the people that like on the very opposite and it's like what the fuck y'all doing? Why are you getting married?
Speaker 2:I don't know a lot of those, though, do you?
Speaker 1:Yes, okay shit, I don't been like to five weddings already this year alone, and this is a light year.
Speaker 2:This is a light year so, of those five and we can end on this of those five, how many would you say? We're like Question oh, you want.
Speaker 1:You want me to tell the truth.
Speaker 2:I mean, you ain't gotta say who they are, we don't know. Right, probably no address now look, if you listen it.
Speaker 1:You are in the you know you on last and we got to and we got one more wedding, the big one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, courtney and Kendra, yeah, but he asked me about the ones that I've been to. I'm not talking about them, so what, I'm just going to give them a shout out. But the ones that I've been to, I believe in In three of the five. I believe in three of the five.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's good. Okay, so two of you think that's about that. That's you know what they all know that lines up with the divorce rate right now? Yeah, but it's also.
Speaker 1:It also could be because of the fact that I don't know the other person, right, oh?
Speaker 2:Because I think there's married in when you know them huh Like, do you know? I've hung around them. You can know a couple what I know and the significant.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So out of the five, I Three the ones that I believe in. So happens. No, no, two of the three that I believe in that are gonna work for the long term I knew both of them in College or high school yeah, long term and stuff. And then, out of the five, there are three that I only know one, but I knew of the person that they're getting married to, or I've been around them and hung around them and yeah but of those three, only one of them, I think that it's gonna work long term, and the other two, I'm like the next five years y'all will be divorced.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's absolutely. But anyways, um, hey, but it's okay. It's not gonna always work out and we get married. Almost as Ideally right historically, you're supposed to get married once you know right A different day and age, but now marriage is like hey, let's try it and if it doesn't work out, then cool, we're going to separate.
Speaker 1:You know, joe Jonas and uh and and and Sansa from Game of Thrones, the redhead, she plays a dark Phoenix. Yeah, they're getting a divorce, but it's amicable. Amicable, right Meaning they both wanted it right, but they got two or however many kids together.
Speaker 3:Huh, they met on the show right on what show on Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1:No, Joe Jonas wouldn't know. This is one of Jonas brothers, bro. Oh, I'm thinking.
Speaker 3:Because this I want to say it's too active so Jon Snow or no? No, no way I want to say it's too active from the show that they end up meeting on the show and like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I couldn't tell you. I Season two. Shame, I know. Um, alright, but back to the toast, and the talking was that everything. Did you have any last words before we get to the toast? Alright, cool, alright. Well, this is to you, brother. Thank you for being our special guest. We can't wait to have you back on. And then let me get the button yet boom right there and then Shout out to our listeners man, we are halfway through the season and we hope that you enjoyed this episode. Let's get this toast going. Hmm, here we go.
Speaker 1:Hey, oh, I forgot, is me. No, you know.
Speaker 2:That's not bad, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I just forgot to pour some lime and do it.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I do like a little line. Yeah, but that was, that was smooth.
Speaker 1:All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all that we have for this episode. We hope y'all had a great Labor Day weekend last week and we definitely had a great time. Hey, follow the partners on all social media platforms, starting with G.
Speaker 2:You don't know your fucking.
Speaker 3:Know you know, what you know.
Speaker 1:I normally ask. Because I just assume he don't even know shit.
Speaker 3:So can you look at it right quick.
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Speaker 3:G-leader bar but I Instagram and G little Bob on the cut out top to on the cut app and don't be mad if he booked up a month in advance.
Speaker 2:That just mean he poppy you gotta. Just you know yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of died down. This is now like about a week in advance, oh yeah but yeah, when I went. So that's G Lee, the barber.
Speaker 3:Right no, dot no underscore no nothing, that leader Bob.
Speaker 1:G dot Lee, the barber. All right, yeah, I am not gatekeeping anymore. I brought my barber on the show. Yeah, he's put his app out and he told you the app to where to book him. So if y'all motherfuckers complain about me gatekeeping again which do you know? Oh shit, oh shit. This is what I wanted to get on your ass about. You talked about me gatekeeping, in which I love like this whole. Now you've been doing it back and forth between us.
Speaker 2:I love this right.
Speaker 1:You on last episode. You said I was gatekeeping the apparel, the anime apparel. Facts, yes, what? And I sent you with the latest pictures, I sent you of my latest apparel that came in you did were the spider-man same.
Speaker 2:Remy, correct, right, yes.
Speaker 1:I told you that the last drop, yes, is active right now and it's going to be the last restock that he does. If you don't cop that much, that's on you, nigger. Yes, mm-hmm, and you got like Tim and his left, yeah.
Speaker 2:So now that's cool. I mean, if that's like you trying to like make up for you gatekeeper for years and years and years.
Speaker 1:No, I hadn't been here.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I appreciate you looking at this.
Speaker 1:All right, he's been gatekeeper.
Speaker 2:I need the world to know he be gay.
Speaker 1:Keep about three to five years, he'd be collecting these guys listen, if I think you're, you're notable and you're worthy of the merchandise.
Speaker 2:So the plug I will Tommy here to collaboration. Mickey Mouse drew that with Tommy, he'll figure him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is a Tommy Hill figure Disney collab exclusive and they're not. They're about to not sell this anymore. So and and it's on sale right now. So if you don't go get it, that's on you.
Speaker 3:I'm not gonna tell you where to shop for it.
Speaker 1:But I told you to two sources. So look it up and good luck. All right, and I'll see y'all in Disney World. All right, I'm gonna be there, and in Christmas that's the best time to go.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, why did it close it down? Because of the hurricane? Fuck that, nigga man. Hey, man, hey. Follow G dot Lee, the barber, on the cut app if you want to. I agree on the north side or you're in Houston. You want to book through him and then follow him on Instagram at the same hashtag. What is your or your ad name? What is your ad name? Do?
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