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Voices of Change Breaking Barriers and Fostering African American Success | Episode 5 | Ft Smart Guy
Each of us walks a unique path, carrying the weight of our past while reaching for a future bright with promise. Our latest episode features an extraordinary individual whose life story is a mosaic of struggle and strength, pain and purpose. He has emerged from the depths of childhood abuse, systemic oppression, and solitary confinement to become a beacon of hope and a voice for cultural empowerment and Black representation.
Our dialogue traverses the terrain of fostering values within the African American community, emphasizing the critical role parental guidance plays in shaping the social sphere and educational journey of our children. The guest sheds light on the transformative power of nutrition on mental health, the nurturing of a child's imagination, and the cultivation of a strong sense of self. He imparts the wisdom of his experiences, sharing how the principles of perseverance and the law of attraction have been instrumental in his continual rebirth.
As the conversation unfolds, we navigate the complex dynamics of family and the delicate dance of tough love. We unveil strategies that have the potential to revolutionize child development, discussing the merits of multilingualism, financial literacy, and the profound influence of positive affirmations. Our guest introduces the "No Labels" seminar series, designed as a vehicle to inspire and empower the upcoming generation. Through tales of personal triumph and thoughtful discourse, this episode is an invitation to join a journey of healing, growth, and legacy-building.
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I was abused by my mother. My father wasn't there. I was homeless. I was in and out of the system. I was in prison. You know I'm in group homes. I didn't see anything but a coffin. Thank God, calm as a bitch right, because I cut two people, so I cut somebody. I ended up doing over a year in a box. I get out the box, I get stabbed in the head in the fucking shower. We fighting. I'll give you an intro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm waiting on you.
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Speaker 1:However, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Parents on Cut. I am the co-host of these two lovely ladies, handsome Contreras, and.
Speaker 2:Jacks Jazz.
Speaker 1:And we are here with our special guest. Do I call you smart, smart, smart is good, all right. So, for those that don't know, we know who you are, well, they know, they know, listen, they know. Yeah, yeah, we see you, bro, yeah, everywhere. Yeah, well, movies you, speaker, community Activist, boxer, artist, revolutionary Pioneer and Black Reparations yeah, living, breathing Legend. It should call your real name. Yeah, oh, even though, because I heard Tupac's, your favorite artist, yeah, I heard the episode was ZO. Yeah, and that's one of my favorite.
Speaker 1:Poc is amazing, like in every field, because I see you're doing so many things and it's kind of like the Poc breed, right, like Poc was acting. Poc was an activist, he was rapping, he was doing poetry, writing books, right. So does that come, you think, from him or is that something that you took from, like why it's growing up? Well, I just think, like, I think that in general, in our culture it's the standard is set high, right, like you know. So, the more I know about who I am and the accomplishments of my people, you know, like you know, building the pyramids, creating science, creating mathematics, you know Hugh P Newton was also, you know, very powerful and influential at a young age.
Speaker 1:So was Malcolm X, so was Martin Luther King, calum Mohamed. I mean there's limitless amounts of examples of black men doing phenomenal things. I think Tupac was one of those, and the fact that he was in entertainment it was mass marketed, but there's so many unsung heroes. But definitely I think Tupac played a role in my inspiration. But this is who I naturally am. Right, I'm not trying to be Tupac, I can't right. I'm smart, right, I'm very pleased with myself and who I am, you know. Are you and were you an avid reader? Like, where did this?
Speaker 2:all come from it's still in, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean reading is important. I mean it's a shout to my grandfather. You know, when I was young he made me read Encyclopedias, right, so he didn't allow me to read, like you know, dr Sue's cat and hat bullshit. It was very advanced reading early on and I think that set the foundation for my reading and just being curious about knowledge and information. That's your mom's dad or your dad's mom's father, okay.
Speaker 3:So I saw one of the podcasts when you spoke about when your grandfather passed away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And how hard that was for you. So my father was the main father figure in my son's life. My son was nine when my father passed away, so it really affected him. How was your upbringing with your grandfather? I know your mom wasn't around. Was your grandfather always there?
Speaker 1:He was there, but then he wasn't there, right. So I mean, he tried his best. He didn't, you know, have a kind of big family and a grandfather. I mean he did the best he could, but I think he didn't really know how to, you know, raise a boy.
Speaker 1:And I was a handful, right, I was, you know, getting in trouble, I was in the system. You know I had a very, very, you know, dysfunctional start, you know, a lot of aggression, a lot of anger, and I didn't learn to value my grandfather or that relationship until later on, unfortunately, on the death bed, right. But I would say that my grandfather did set a good example, you know, for me, and at the time I think I was too young to understand it. So later on I was able to have a better appreciation for him. But I don't know if I'm answering your question, but yeah, I mean my grandfather was tough, I mean he loved me to death. But my grandfather, you know he didn't have a father, so he didn't really know, and he told me, you know, he told me some things later on in life that he was freestyling with me, right.
Speaker 3:More or less. That's how it is when you're parenting you just learn as you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think you know conversations like this is important. This is why I put together some notes in preparation for this this. You know, some studying, and I think we have to break that acceptance of, you know, african Americans and black people in our culture of oh we just going to figure it out. There needs to be some real institutions and real conversations and things where we can go to and source the information on how to be good parents, on how to, on how to parent, because everybody doesn't make it out like me. Everybody doesn't survive, everybody. Some people get murdered. I was in a lot of life and death situations growing up, right. Some kids, I mean shit. 12 years old, I was suicidal, right 14.
Speaker 1:I was alcoholic, right 14, right, and I think, are you the oldest? Yeah, I think it's very important to not accept, you know, inadequate parenting and I think it's important for families now to find the information that's going to be conducive to making a functional family and kind of, like, you know, breaking that generational curse, you know.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like so? We've all at least me and Jasmine we were young moms, right? I was 18 when I first got pregnant with my oldest son. My son is 29.
Speaker 2:So and in that light, when you're a young parent, you really don't have those resources or no one is there to direct you to resources. Do you feel like it would be more conducive, in a community-based program or something for young parents to break that generational curse where now we have young parents and they have someone to go to, that used to be a young parent and went through life? Because we really did go through life not knowing I wasn't taught by my parents how to be a parent. I obviously getting pregnant so young I wasn't taught not to do a lot of the things that I did, so I learned along the way. So I feel like, as I had my children, that's where I started learning on my own. And so do you feel like there would be? It would be beneficial to have some sort of community where, hey, we have young mothers and young fathers coming in, let's direct them in the right path.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, you got micro, then you got macro. So micro is the car view. The car view is what you see in front of you, Macro is a helicopter view, the overall perspective. So we have to be able to understand there's a systems design to destroy us as a people. We have to get to the genesis of it. So you say, well, if you're a young mom, well, what was your sex education like? There was one. Why were you having sex at that age? Why were you having unprotected sex at that age? What was your awareness about sexuality? And a lot of times we grow up fast and both our coaches this is the elephant in the room, but a lot of, especially in the Black family and the Spanish family, the uncles is touching the little girls.
Speaker 1:And you guys are getting introduced to sex and things prematurely and then there's no one to filter it out. I had a baby sitter. She was like 16. I was fucking seven. She's touching on me and feeling on me. I'm getting molested, but as a boy that's supposed to be considered cool and it's not.
Speaker 2:It's still a molestation and many percent, so it's accepted.
Speaker 1:Then you go in over your cousin's house and the good things happen in both Spanish and Black. You get humped on by your cousin, he's humping on you. So now you're getting introduced to sexuality. Now, when your hormones start racing, now you have these feelings. And then when you indulge in these feelings, there's pleasure. Right, but you don't understand what that pleasure is because there's no sex education, there's no conversation to make you aware or privy to what you're internally feeling. And then now you're exploring your sexuality and then it leads the kids prematurely, right? So now you have to say, okay, well, this is why I had the kid. And then you have to begin to understand right, that's the macro version of it. Right, yes, it takes a village. Yes, we need institutions. Right, these kids don't give a fuck about that. The institutions is this conversation, this podcast, right, the content. So remember, you didn't have sex education, you didn't understand, right. So through this conversation, we can help a young female who's sexually active.
Speaker 2:Right, but also helping my children right. Maybe, I have boys right. So teaching my boys how they can't be out in the world the way I was out in the world with the boys I was out in the world with at that age, because you are going to meet girls out there and sometimes these girls are faster than the boys.
Speaker 1:Because they've been through things like that, right. But wisdom so it's kind of like a great pivot into some of my notes right, but I'm going to generalize before I get specific. Right, these conversations is important, right? Absolutely. Your wisdom, our wisdom, is irrelevant to them. It's not about wisdom, it's about information, right.
Speaker 1:So your information, the child, this young generation, they're toolbox, right, forget wisdom, our information that we have collected due to our experiences, which is wisdom. But they don't want to hear that shit, right, they need the information. Information becomes a tool that you put in a toolbox and then, when they're faced with a situation, they're going to react based upon what is in their toolbox, right. What do you program into them? How do you, what do you teach into them?
Speaker 1:So words like can't a trigger's for them, right, naturally, they're rebellious, you are rebellious. So we don't want to give a fuck about can't, we don't want to hit can't, right, we just want to hear what to do in every possible situation. Now, when we talk about parenting, right, you have to tell them what to do and how to do it and then get out the way, and then you have to develop habits that they internalize, right, which in turn becomes their value system right With information. So it's not about right and wrong. We know soda is not as good as water. They don't know and they don't care. So we have to just let you know that where is the water available, and then, when they make the mistake of drinking soda, they also have the option that's been ingrained and programmed into them to go get the water. So we're adding tools to their toolbox.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right. So you have to kind of like, allow them the trial and error right Period To learn how to properly use the tools. But then when they're young, you have to teach them how to use the tools. But it also depends on the age of the child, right? If you're developing a tool, it's, man, easier said than done, but easier early than later. So if they're older, then you have to. This is a whole other process in terms of developing that toolbox for them. It takes a village, but I think it's important for us, when we do podcasts and we create content, to give them information in a way that's applicable, right? So a child's learning curve is the shortest, from zero to seven.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Zero to seven. The problem is most parents don't know that, so they don't take advantage of that window. We baby them at that time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right Learning curve. So the child's learning curve is the shortest, meaning their ability to retain and their ability to retain new information and learn new things is their highest.
Speaker 3:That's where everything stays, stored in your subconscious mind.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Sponges.
Speaker 1:So systematic racism. The proof of that is the curriculum that kids get when they're the most strongest in their learning capabilities is beneath them. So, from zero to seven. If you say, okay, my child, from zero to seven, well, he's not even in school until what? Four, four. So you miss four years. Right, you miss four years. It's a gap there. Right, you're not really teaching them complex shit in a house. Well, you should be.
Speaker 1:But what I'm saying is right, but this is just not happening. So now, when they get to four or five, now you're giving them to someone else. Yeah, that's the system, yeah, the system. And then now what's happening is the system is not leveraging that zero to seven. They're not leveraging, they just A, b, c and making you dumb. They're strategically putting you behind in the world. And then when you get older, you don't even care about the opportunities, you don't even care about, like, school and shit like that, right. And then when you get older and you do care, your youth is gone. Yeah, even internalizing new information is a lot more difficult, a lot more difficult, right? So I think it's important for parents to understand that kids should be home school until about 16. And if you don't have the capabilities to home school a kid, then you shouldn't have a kid.
Speaker 3:What about the social aspect behind it? Like them not having that social interaction with other kids as?
Speaker 1:opposed to. That's bullshit, because at the end of the day, I don't want you to have a social interaction if you don't know who you are. I have to develop who you are first. A man is not supposed to be running in on man's butt. A female is not supposed to be having sex with no female. What the fuck are you teaching these kids in school, binary and vaping?
Speaker 3:all this stupid shit. We were just talking about all of that.
Speaker 1:So I'm not sending you. And then you got to think this is a conspiracy to destroy little black boys. I don't even see any black male teachers until after that window period. When you think of third grade teachers, it is white women and Indian women. So they know that If you go to school and look at kids, look at black kids, latinos, look at the teacher structure under 10. You don't see us there.
Speaker 1:So I run a big risk of sending this kid to school and I haven't developed that value system we talked about earlier. I haven't developed that toolbox we talked about earlier. I haven't poured into that child, like we talked about earlier. I haven't prepared them for things that they're going to be faced with and then, when they get to school, they're not prepared, right, and what you're talking about in terms of, like, interacting with other kids, it needs to be monitored, it needs to be controlled and it needs to be in the control setting that we control. So when, when, when, right, like I'm not gonna allow my child to experience Different relationships with other kids if I'm not there because I can't be the person tell them oh, no, that's not how it's supposed to go. I Got someone else telling them oh, this is how it's supposed to go. This kid is a boy, 13, going to school with a dress and the teachers like, oh, yes, yes, look at her.
Speaker 2:Because you got you need, some might you need an uncle like oh, that ain't her, that's him.
Speaker 1:Right, I, yeah, I could agree with that, because I'm that with my daughter yeah, right, like she goes to school, right. So when she comes back and says, oh, I see this now, I'm like, yeah, that's cool, but that's not natural like to me. It's not natural, right, and others may disagree with me, but I want to make sure my daughter understands life how I see it Right, just from what I've known and what it is right, that how things are going and not what they're trying to indoctrinate at this moment for sure. And and the fact that they have the, the ability to indoctrinate, is because we don't own our own schools, correct?
Speaker 1:right right, and I'm talking about To my black people right, and we have to own Institutions. So where we can control the narrative, we can control the. You know that's what he was talking about. Call you, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I'm just saying create your own system.
Speaker 1:I don't because of that, though. Yeah, yeah, listen, man. Yeah, I got a question for you afterward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but so, so the point, okay.
Speaker 1:So one of the things I wanted to write was important by kids, right, your future will be, your future will be determined by your mind, your health, your ability to learn and apply what you learn, then adapt Based upon that application. Okay, so, I'm, you're learning something, but then you're gonna have to be able to adapt once you apply what you've learned, because it's different from learning it from a book and then going outside and then applying it right. Right. So this is what children need to be taught now, that this is what their future. You know, you're going to school learning about history that is not applicable, right, and you're going to school, and what the fuck is Jim? Right, like you did, like, like there has to be a curriculum Created that really benefits that child, right, and then understanding, we say your future will be determined by your mind. Now Kids need to be taught neuroscience, how they brain works, the power of their thoughts, the power of affirmations, the power of mantras. How you think creates how you feel. How you feel becomes an emotion. That emotion becomes a vibration, that vibration becomes a magnet that attracts things to you. So, instead of teaching the kid ABCs, we're gonna teach them the law of attraction. We're gonna teach them how to think something, write it down and only focus on it and then bringing it into their lives. Because at that age, their magnet is the most Um, gravity, gravitational right, it has the most gravitational pull right, because they have the most Creativity, they did, the most biggest imagination, and if, with that imagination, you can architect that imagination and use it for visualization, to visualize Things that they need in their life, in the present and also in the future, so this is why I say that mind is going to be what Determines their success in the future. Second thing is the health right. Now, this is a, this is a very, very and I'm gonna get to your point, but I want to make sure we get this on camera too. Um, no, the, the, the, the health Right. So now this, chemicals right, there's chemicals in the food that affect Our emotional and mental state and we don't realize this right, and and this is this is something that is very Relevant in our culture.
Speaker 1:So a lot of kids, when they wake up in the morning. What are they eating? They eating sugar. They in pops off, they in cereal, right, so you got to understand. It's called aspartame. Aspartame, right, that's in cakes and cookies, right, causes depression, causes anxiety, right. Msg, that's all the Chinese food restaurants. Pop-ups, causes the anxiety, causes depression. Mercury, that's in all the fishbots, okay. Aluminum this is in pancakes, also in cereals, right, and this, this creates anxiety. You look to the face. This creates depression. Right Now, when the child, now, when you think about how to diet, you have different parts of your life. So now, a baby, the diet, the breast milk, the stuff you feed in the gurba, is the best thing to do. The breast milk, the stuff you feed in the gurba, the stuff you're feeding that baby, did those chemicals in that same thing, so that baby is developing ADHD, also, in certain extreme cases, severe cases, autism, right. The diet that we feed these kids, these babies.
Speaker 3:Children are basically getting what their mothers are in taking right.
Speaker 1:So, even if you so, even if you so, right so, and that's a great point, right? It's a great point because sometimes they bottom milk. That milk is no good and then the milk they think a water child Be safe with our breast feed, know, because the chemicals are being passed to that child through you because your diet is fucked up, right. So that's very important. These things create autism. Now, as a team, their diet, this now the chemicals, the effect on a child Evolves as they grow. That's why I said, you know, baby, child, right now teen.
Speaker 1:We're talking about bipolar bipolarism, depression, anger, aggression and schizophrenia. This is what, this is what that diet is doing to that teenager. Okay, now, as an adult, look at, this is crazy. As an adult, it creates dementia, arthritis, cancer, heart attack and diabetes. Now, dementia has to do with memory. I think about this for a second. The baby was was getting hit with ADHD, the dealt dementia. See how they're focusing on destroying the mind, right. And then you know, and, like teens, we talk about bipolarism, we talk about depression, we talk about anger. So now you expecting your child, your son or your daughter, to behave in school, but they can't because there's, it's a chemical reaction that they're having in. But you think they having a behavior problem. They have in the behavior problem but it's not. They don't have no control over themselves.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's normal. They're not teaching them, or or people are not researching for themselves and not seeing that this correlates to the diet that you Right, that's your feeding that kid.
Speaker 1:But but, but. The diet was created by the colonizer, the diet was created by the oppressor to Systemically destroy us and destroy us over time. And then now the mother is always in a principal office mad at the son and she think is it's the son, when it ain't the son. It's what's in that refrigerator?
Speaker 1:That's crazy Okay and then and right so, so, but this is why meal prepping for your child Is gonna be important. So when women, we said this conversation is powerful because somebody gonna watch this and say, well, damn you know what, how I want my child to be, that diet has to reflect that. Yeah, every food Dictates a personality trait in a child, good or bad. So when you start to say, well, how do I want my child to be, how do I want my child to to function? Right, a lot of mothers what they kids to do good in school, of course. So if you want your kid to do good in school, you have to make sure they're eating foods that will be conducive to them doing good in school.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's why I said you know, health is important, right. And then now the next thing is so we said, your mind, your health, now, your ability to learn and Apply what you've learned. So you have to put your, you have to put your child in scenarios where they can learn something and then apply it, because they don't have the pressure of Paying bills, they don't have the pressure of certain things. So that is that moment, that is that litmus test, that is that probation period where they should be just trying everything and then figuring out what they're passionate about and then mastering it. But it has to be able to generate money. It has to be able to add value, right? So your future will be determined by your mind, your health, your ability to learn. Apply what you've learned, then adapt based upon Application.
Speaker 1:Too many kids when they go to college that's what they even make it to college now they hit with real life. Now they realize everything they learned in eighth grade, ninth grade, tenth grade, 11th grade is fucking irrelevant. And then now they like oh my god, now they got all these expectations, bills, acquiring debt. They're not properly prepared for the future, right? So it's very important that parents start to become more knowledgeable. This is why this is more powerful. This conversation, your podcast, is going to do more for parents than any institution ever could, because that little girl, that little boy, is going to go on YouTube before he walks into a fucking building.
Speaker 3:So where did this all come from? Is this? Where did you? What made you get to this point?
Speaker 1:I never liked bullies. When I was young, I always, I always would reverse engineering, right, I would. I would take apart VCRs, take apart TVs, take apart toys and push it together. I was always curious with how things are made, yeah, right. And you know, I was abused by my mother. My father wasn't there. I was homeless. I was in and out of system. I was in prison. You know, I'm in group homes. I didn't see anything but a coffin, thank God.
Speaker 1:And I got to a point where I got tired, because naturally I'm a fighter. I got tired of not being in control. I got tired of feeling bad. I got tired of feeling sorry for myself. I got tired and tired, and tired and I was in. I was in.
Speaker 1:I was in South Pole box, Right, so calm as a bitch, right, cause I cut two people, so I cut somebody. I ended up doing over a year in a box. I get out the box, I get stabbed in the head in the fucking shower. We fighting, right. And so I refused to tell who stabbed me, right, so I get stitched up. I can't go to infirmary. The guy that stabbed me dropped a slip on me. I ended up going to the sergeant's office and they asked me like, hey, man, take your shirt off. I take my shirt off, what's these Cause? I got stabbed in the back too, right, I mean I was playing basketball, bullshit, man. They sent me to the box for 30 days unreported injuries, right.
Speaker 1:And I'm in the box and I'm just there and I'm just like I'm fucking looking at life, like yo, this is, this can't be, this can't be the end of the movie for me, right, you know. And there was a lot of reflecting and a lot of introspection, a lot of things about the past and say, well, damn, my mom, from from my earliest memory I was getting fucked over. My earliest memory was like yo, like I didn't man, I just wanted to be love. I was a kid, right. So I got tired of being the loser. So to say Right, and I said, well, okay, well, I got to fix this. I got, well, how well, how do I fix this? I'm praying, I'm, you know, building my relationship with God.
Speaker 1:And then I just became very interested in how the mind works. You know, parenting. That's how I found out about the child's learning curve from zero to seven, because I'm reading everything I can get on child psychology. Right, like I'm, I'm trying to heal myself, right, and and I did, or you were studying children to better understand yourself Hell, yeah, right, because you know I'm saying to myself well, I want to have confidence.
Speaker 1:See, a mother is the physical version, the tangible version of a boy's self-esteem. Whatever the mom tells the kid from the ages of zero to seven becomes ingrained in his subconscious mind. Then, when he becomes a man and he's facing a situation right, and he needs to have confidence, he's going to, he's going to like, go through his, his, his like, like, uh, like a, like a, like a, uh, netflix subscription. He's going to go through the movies and he's going to try to find a memory of his mom's telling him something Right, and then that is what gives him the confidence he's going to remember yeah, baby, you special, you smart, you know you got, I love you son, right, he's going to reflect on that.
Speaker 1:I didn't have that. So I said, okay, well, damn well, this is why, in this situation, I didn't have confidence. Or I said, okay, okay, I need to fucking go back in time and manually put that shit. So then I learned the power of meditating and having conversations with my, my younger self. So I would sit for fucking three hours, four hours, sometimes five hours, and close my eyes and try to envision the little black boy, the little version of myself, that little cute, innocent, fucking kid, right, and I would close my eyes and I would.
Speaker 1:I would envision myself right and I would vision everybody being around me, everybody being evil, and my, you know, my uncles and crackheads and fiends, and demons and spirits, and everybody's just trying to, everybody's just trying to destroy me. Right, but they had a party and they're so busy planning on destroying me that they don't even realize I'm in the back room by myself and me as my older self. Now I come, I come as my older self, strong, armed to the tee, weapons, upsies, machine guns, ready for war. I go into there, I go into that, I go into that room, I go into that room, I go into that room and I go get my younger self out of there and I say come on, man, come with me, come with me, come with me. This is the meditation, this is. I'm doing this as a meditation. You can try and travel, man. I was gonna ask you about meditation, you can time travel, man.
Speaker 1:And I went back in time and I told my younger self I said come on, come with me. And I took myself by the hand and we walked out of that motherfucker Right and we teleported to a fucking island, beautiful, nice summer breeze, and I just said you're gonna be good, you're gonna be great, you're special, I love you. I love you, and I hugged myself. I hugged myself. I gave myself to hug my mother should have gave me. I told myself the powerful things about myself that my father should have told me. And I felt it and it worked and it helped me. And then, when I got out of the meditation and I was, I said, oh, shit, okay.
Speaker 1:And then, when I felt, when I felt challenges in front of me, I started to hear a different voice. I started to hear my own voice talking to myself yeah, you got me, fuck that, you got this, you got this. How long did that take, by the way? Fucking years, man? I was gonna say, because that's not easy. I've tried what he said. You have to feel it to live it.
Speaker 2:You gotta start with like 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:But the answer question, that was the thing that you know what I mean. But yeah, I mean. But hey, listen, listen, man, when you look, I don't know no human being on fire. They ain't gonna stop dropping rule.
Speaker 3:For real.
Speaker 1:So shit, when the pain, when the pain is is, is excruciating enough, Right, yeah, you gonna, you gonna, man, you don't care how long it takes If you hungry, if you hungry, you listen man, you ain't gonna never stop searching for food. If you in the desert looking for water, you gonna die before you stop looking for water. You ever see the movies that people looking for water, that they died dehydration, right, because they ain't in the desert. Or the people in the desert they look at it and look at it and eventually they find it. They find the oasis.
Speaker 3:What they think they do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a mirage, right, but that mirage was good enough to keep them alive long enough to make it to the real thing, right? So what I'm saying is is we're in a microwave kind of generation, right? So I always tell people don't worry about how long it takes, just get going. Just get going, because you're going to start to feel better during the process. Right, you're gonna feel better. So don't don't wait A lot of times, you know, because everybody hates delayed gratification, right, but nothing in life comes instantaneously. Nothing good, yeah, but we're having Well, that's gonna last.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm gonna say that yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:I feel like I learned that way too late in life. Well, not too late, because you know I'm still living. But you know, you learn that and you, you look back on your, on your younger self, and you're like so you're prepared for when you do have children.
Speaker 3:Now, the question that I have is you don't have children currently, right yeah, but I know that you helped raise your siblings, correct?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So can you tell us about that?
Speaker 1:How many siblings, by the way? Eight brothers. It was tough, like you know. It's kind of like on and off, right? I mean, I realize it now. That's what I was doing. Right, because everything I did when I was younger, they just followed behind me, right? So before I was more directly raising them, I was always indirectly raising them, because everything I did they did right.
Speaker 2:What did for?
Speaker 1:them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, well, they were following what you were doing.
Speaker 1:I was doing fucked up shit. Right, I'm selling drugs and you know they all do music. I do music right. So, like everything I did, they did right. And then when I got out of prison, it became more of a father's role because I had to keep order. You know, I'm taking care of them. I'm giving them money, buying them clothes, doing things for me, and I'm not saying that and I hate that. I have to say that. You know, those are my brothers, right, I gotta do that. So I get them shit because I want them having the best shit. I love them motherfuckers to death, right, I love my brothers, but me wanting the best for them has put a strain on the relationship. Right, because I'm not gonna bend. I know what they need, I know what they're supposed to be doing, I know what's wrong, I know what's right. I've never been with them. I don't bend and it becomes a conflict with them all the time.
Speaker 3:You want to give them that tough love.
Speaker 1:I give what. I fucked them up in a minute. I just punched my little brother in the mouth the other day. Fuck, you know what I'm saying? Literally punched him in the mouth. But the good thing about it is they always come back. They always come back like damn man. You know, you was right. You was right, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba right.
Speaker 1:So I'm learning now to be patient with the relationship, or the development of the relationship, because I gotta be this way with them and it's unfortunate because our parents should have been that way with us, right? So, yeah, yeah, my brother Justin, you know, shout out to him Like yo he smoking cigarettes in the house, you ain't smoking those. First of all, I take the cigarettes out of. You know I smack a cigarette. So he suck my dick. What Boo-boo-boo-boo. You feel me, you know. And it's unfortunate because in our situation I'm like the enforcer of it, like I ain't cosigning. They bullshitting. I'm not saying, fuck that you doing this and they hate me for it, but they love me for it at the same time. So have you seen a shift, though, like, especially the older ones kind of understand it.
Speaker 2:They all getting better man.
Speaker 1:They all getting better, but again it puts a strain on the relationship. But I have to have the emotional maturity which I'm working on right, In terms of wanting to have that relationship with them. But no one, I gotta say something Right, Right, I'm like damn.
Speaker 2:Also, I guess not taking certain things personal at that point, yeah for sure, but motherfucker, you wrong, you wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, nobody wants to take accountability, right? This is the lack of accountability error. I'm holding you accountable. Fuck out of here. I don't give a fuck. And they get mad from me. They hate me for that, right, but it's I. Rather you hate me than go to jail. I, rather you hate me than get killed. Rather you hate me than be broke. You know so. But they're getting better and they all, you know, they all entrepreneurs. Now they're starting little businesses and shit like that. So you know, I don't get no credit for it. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, right, I don't get invited to the little functions. You know what I mean. Have you put anything on to like those meditative practices, like that little replacement therapy?
Speaker 2:Or try to.
Speaker 1:That's why they with it at Got it. It's my brothers, like you know what I mean Like I'm on them about this right, like this is why you think you look, man, you think a kid want to hear that shit. No, I'm cool with my brothers right now. I'm cool with my brothers right now, blackez.
Speaker 3:How old is your youngest brother?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the range?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a lot. Any of them in their teens she's like 18, then. Okay, yeah, that's what they hard headed Cause.
Speaker 1:Now they all hard headed, they think they know everything. Listen, listen you can't tell them all fucking. You can't tell, listen, we're going right now. You can't tell them nothing, man. I mean what you gotta Yo, what's up, man, what's going on? What you doing? What you doing Recording. What you recording? No, just practicing Recording. Oh, you practicing, huh, yeah, nice, though, yeah, you getting nice, huh, what's the mantra? What's the mantra? Yeah, when you get overwhelmed, think about what you overcame. How you think, preach how you feel. How you feel becomes an emotion.
Speaker 3:An emotion becomes a vibration. That vibration becomes a magnet that attracts, you.
Speaker 2:All right, man, bye, man, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 1:What you say I guess not 100%. You say, yeah, I mean, but I ingrained it in them, right? And the thing that put the strain on their relationship, because you see, that wasn't planned, you see how he was calling them. That's another mantra I told them. When you feel overwhelmed, think about what you overcame.
Speaker 3:I like that yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel the breath of frustration.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 1:I took a deep breath when you said that. So again, that's the frustration part right, but you got to be selfless. Right In terms of like big brother or parenting, or you have to be selfless because you want that. Like you know, you're giving them something that you didn't get and you kind of well for me per se, right, I had to learn how to not be bitter about it. I'm like you, ungrateful little motherfucker, nobody did this for me.
Speaker 1:Personal side, I understand, right, you can't. Right, so you have to. It's a selfless job, right. So this is why. But it shouldn't be selfless job, right, it should be. Well, I could go to the grandmother, I can go to the grandfather. This is why family is important, right, because when I'm frustrated that I had to teach this motherfucker or give him something, right, and nobody, nobody never seeds, nobody never sees the survivor side of it. Right, the person that broke the chain, the person that you know, got in that position to help everybody. So it took years, right, it wasn't that, wasn't, that was a. You just seen years of work, though. Right, like, okay, he's working in the studio. He got his own studio. Now he's an engineer, he's making money, he ain't getting high, no more. He not smoking, he not driving, got him reading books. You know, that's not an overnight shit, right?
Speaker 2:And how old is he?
Speaker 1:Mine is. I don't know if you can put me in. I don't put him out there like that, but he in his 20s, okay.
Speaker 3:He's so young? Yeah, he's a 20, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I don't you know what I mean. I don't you know what I mean. You know what I mean, but yeah, so, but it was a lot of work, right, it was a lot of a lot of arguments, a lot of conversations, a lot of hanging up the phone, a lot of him blocking me and me fucking driving in the middle of the night, finding him and grabbing him out, going into this project and it's a fuck out of getting the car right. Yeah, you ain't doing this. You ain't going to be like these guys, no disrespect, but you ain't going to be like these guys, right, it's true. And being forceful, right, being a forceful aspect. I ain't trying to be cool. I'm your big brother, I ain't your bro. I got in a fight with one of my other brothers. I ain't going to say his name, but I punched him in the face about that shit too. You hanging around, you tell my yo, that's my bro, I ain't your, I'm your brother. Yeah, that's blood here, right, so you got to teach them that too, because a lot of times they place more value on the stupid shit. And I said look, I said work At the time he was going through shit.
Speaker 1:You know, homeless by choice, though, right. So now I got him back living with me and I said yo call your friends, call your bro, and ask them yo, bro, you know I'm fucked up. And I made them do that, right, I said put them on speaker. But mind you, this is I'm teaching them a lesson, but I got a. You know what I mean. I'm like. You know, I got a bully in my little bit, right, you got to make them realize I got to make them right. I had to make them get them on phone, like, like, like, like, grab them by the neck. Type man call this motherfucker right now. And he called them put them on speaker, right. And it's like I got the gun on his rib and the teleprompter read the fucking script motherfucker, you know what I'm saying. And he like, he like yo, bro, you know I got kicked out. Man, I'm fucked up right now. Can I go stay with you? The person laughed at him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 1:He laughed at him man, you can fuck out of him, you ain't, you ain't. Come on, man, stop the bullshit. He like nah, man, I'm really fucked up. And I seen his eyes like he didn't think that he was going to get that response right, the confusion Right. And the person said yo bro, yo, yo, I'm, I'm, I'm going to hit you back. And he hung up on them. I said now call him back. He said I'm a voicemail, right, and this is what I told him.
Speaker 1:And right after I said look, motherfucker, you thought, because you thought this person was your friend, you thought, because they had a hundred umbrellas in their closet, when it rained, they would give you one. You just, man, yeah, it's my bro, baby, but it never rained. So you know what I taught you to do. I said listen, you're going to take this little magic ball, put it on a drone and fly it into the clouds and we may get it rained today, baby. And then, when it rains, you're going to ask this motherfucker for umbrella.
Speaker 1:See, and a lot of times, people don't test the friendship, you don't test the people that surround you. That's a fact. So you just assume that this, this person, is going to be there for you and I learned that the hard way. So that's what I had to teach him. Motherfuckers ain't friends, they're associates, man. Friends have to be tested and vetted. I'm there for you, you there for me. Friends ain't I mean. That's what a friend is right. It's not just when things are all good, we smoke a weed, drinking, hanging out, when I'm down on my last. Can I come to you? Can I call you? Can you get it? I get a hug, motherfuck. You know what I mean. So I think for him that was just like. That was just a. I opened an experience for him.
Speaker 1:And I think sometimes, when you want somebody that you, that you, that you that you raise and all you, you grooming in a good way, you got to be forceful, with certain wisdom, because they not going to hear that shit, they not going to see that shit. You got to make a motherfucker see it. You got to make a motherfucker hear it. And if you in a position to do so, then do so and understand that no matter how much they they, they scratch, they claw, they kick, they bite, they need that shit. They need that shit. And that's one of the hardest things to do when you didn't get it and you know how valuable what you're trying to give them is right you give. You know that shit, they about to die.
Speaker 1:You went into the fields and got the, got all the vitamins and made it for them and you put it in a soup. Hey, I've got the fuck, this soup man, and they smack the soup in the floor. You got to go back and do it again and then make them time to the bed. Hey, did you see that? See what? Hit them in the head with a hammer.
Speaker 1:Knock them out. You know what I mean. And when they wake up, they soup all over their face and they live. That's how you know it's real, yeah man, my friend did that to me.
Speaker 3:Fuck man. Yeah, they force fed me that liquid IV when I was down and out that day.
Speaker 2:They forced they made me swallow that shit, if I got a, if I got a white pass, if it. And I've had to do a lot of things.
Speaker 3:Listen, I know she's my real friend. Though we go bow, I absolutely will do it.
Speaker 1:Right. But that's important, that's important on, but that's important also to teach children how to cultivate those relationships Exactly. And what you said earlier about like okay, the, the, maybe the concern of that kid not having a social experience due to being in homeschool If they don't have certain confidence, certain self-esteem, certain standards for themselves when they do engage socially, they may not associate with the right people or the people that's right for them. So you have to make sure that they have those standards for themselves, that they have them values, like they know. This is how I got to be treated, because this is how I treat myself.
Speaker 2:Yes, that reminds me of my 12 year old. He goes to school and sometimes he comes home and he's like man, my friends are always talking about how short I am and they always talking about how you know I can't do this and I'm like that's not your friends. Why are they talking to you like that? Why your friends, why your friends are making fun of you like that? Why they not lifting you up? Why you a lot? No, I say that to them, or say that to him, mostly because he's the one who is a little bit more impressionable in that way where I'm like nope, that's not your friend, you need to stay away from those kids. They won't.
Speaker 1:They won't for a while, but that's important in home education aspect, because even if your kids go into school, they still got to learn shit at home. Oh, absolutely Right. And you can role play, right. Like, you can role play, you can do skits, you can do things, you can put them in different scenarios. Child's learning curve is the shortest, from zero to seven.
Speaker 1:Right Point thing to do is develop a library for that kid, for that child, right Early. Fill with self-help books. Reading is important. Reading will never go out of style, right, so you develop in a library filled with self-help books. Second thing is the dictionary and the mastery of it, making sure, every day they're learning two to three words, right. So when they and the purpose of that is so when they're reading these books, they get the full impact of the knowledge because they understand what they're reading, because they know and understand the definitions of the words that they're reading.
Speaker 1:Next thing is 12 languages. Right, they need to learn a minimum of 12 different languages. Okay, because your network is your net worth, right, and you able to expand your network if you understand language. Right, so even though you don't understand the language, that child can learn better than you, better than you, better than you, better than me. So we don't limit them because we feel like we're limited, because they're unlimited at that age. So language is important. Second thing is domestication, life skills, cooking. A lot of times, women make the mistake of raising their daughter and loving their son. Okay, like you're raising your daughter, but you're loving your son. Like you're raising your daughter, you're showing, you're raising her. You're raising her, right, you're teaching her how to sew, how to cook, how to clean. But the son oh, I'll just go play.
Speaker 2:Not me.
Speaker 1:Right. So those domestication skills are important, right. How to pay bills, how to save money, how to allocate accounting teaching them little things and how to save their money, like life skills, how to make a bed, how to iron, how to brush their teeth You'd be surprised how many kids cannot iron, make a bed and don't correctly brush their teeth. So when you're teaching them how to brush their teeth, okay. So, each side right. So you got, you got. You got left, left upstairs, left downstairs, right upstairs, right downstairs and centerline right. So let's start with left upstairs. You got the outside of the teeth right. Take the toothbrush you're teaching, right. Then you got the bottom, like underneath circle of motion. There Now the inside circle of motion. They should be spending at least a minute on each section. So that's one, two, three. You already did three minutes right here. So not literally three minutes, but have them count to 60 seconds, right. One, two, three, four. They count fast, right. And then you got the top, upper left, bottom, left, right. Same thing Outside, top part inside. Same thing for the upper right, same thing for the bottom right. Then the centerline right, top, bottom, inside. Boom right. You teaching the kid how to brush their teeth. You'd be surprised how many kids don't know how to brush their teeth, don't know how to properly wash their ass right, and brush your tongue and brush the rim, the rim of your mouth right, and then, and then you know and then rinse right, so I'm not brushing my teeth. Oh the fuck, you don't be surprised how many kids brush my like whoa, you know what I'm saying In the morning, right? So that's important, Demestrication skills.
Speaker 1:Next thing is teaching them meditation and mantras, right? One of the mantras I live and die by man how you think creates how you feel. How you feel becomes an emotion. That emotion becomes a vibration. That vibration becomes a magnet that attracts things to you. So you're creating mantras and teaching them the power of I am, because everything you add to I am becomes added to you.
Speaker 1:So when your kid, daughter, son is in a mirror in the morning before they go to school, they need at least two minutes of I am, I am blessed, I am smart, I am special, I am beautiful, I am loved, I am loving, right? Next thing is the diet and the discipline to maintain it. Teaching them we talked about that earlier right, how the chemicals in the food that they're not supposed to eat creates emotional disorders, so we need to have a better understanding of nutritional, the nutritional value of foods. Okay, then the last point is teaching them about God and how to establish their own individual, personal relationship with God, and the best way to do that is to tell them look up and ask whatever the fuck you want. Treat God like Siri on a curious day. Hey God, what are you?
Speaker 3:Yes, my son.
Speaker 1:You won't learn until you grow. You won't grow unless you go. When you go, you will fail. When you fail, you will learn. When you learn, you will grow. Now, when you go, you will win. So get up and go. That's the new little mantra I'm working on, right, I like that. I don't got a damn pat yet, so I got to read it off the book, like when a rapper you know, when a rapper don't know he got to be in it. Yo, I said, because you're the flow, he got to read it off the phone, right, but eventually I'm going to get this down. I mean. But I think that's important, right, and teaching them that you know they got to fail, but fail faster, right, and you have to make mistakes. You can't pass that fear. But when you fail, you learn. Then you go back at it again, what you know. So now you're going at it differently, but you're still going at the same thing. So it's the same thing, just a different approach. Are you creating a course or like a curriculum behind this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what the process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's what the no Labors tour is about. Okay, so you know it's a seminar series I'm about to relaunch. I had two more shows and then I was going to do a different, like a different tour, but, man, it's like the message has circulated more now. Yeah, it's a seminar. So teaching mindset, teaching confidence, teaching self-esteem, teaching you know how to be successful and basically how to make money, and creating a place where you can go to hear a conversation and get information about how to be successful. And that's what my seminar is about. And once I finish the seminar, it's done like a course, though, right, you know, it's like you're going to get a master's degree on life once you leave out this little school. Pretty much, yeah, because it's all about mindset and you look at some and what makes when I'm doing so different is it's real, I'm the real deal, and I'm not just saying that because I'm me right. I'm the real deal and I get to the real information and I watch so many fake people out there. Yo, you do this, make money in Bitcoin and Amazon, and yo, you know, I made my first. Look, man, that's bullshit. Everything about making money is about mindset. The universe don't give a fuck about none of that shit. Only thing the universe cares about is how you think.
Speaker 1:So, on my seminar course, whatever Cricket and I teach is how to tap into your mind. Everybody's brain is different, right. God made us different. Everybody in this room right now looks different, right? So how does your mind work? What motivates you and how can we create affirmations tailored specifically to you, your interests, and how can you consistently apply those to your life to create the life that you want to live?
Speaker 1:That's what we teach, okay, and there's no scam, there's no gimmick, there's nothing. And I'm passionate about that because I man, I want to help people, but do helping people. I found that I helped myself. In order to keep it, you got to give it away. So the more and more that I teach and I learn and I study and I build, it's affecting me, it's improving me, right, like just the other day, I had to do a podcast and I'm learning more about neuroscience and that's how I found out about the foods. I said, oh shit, because some days I was feeling I was like man. I got to do my mantra a little longer today, like, why do I feel this way? Oh, that fucking honey bun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cause you start craving it more and more and more Fucking honey bun.
Speaker 2:No, it's just a chemical.
Speaker 1:The hunt because, remember, these foods, certain food foods create disorders, they create anxiety, they create depression. So I'm eating this food and I'm feeling this way, but I don't know. It's the food. I don't know. The food is the culprit, the food is the villain. I'm looking for everything else, but that fucking honey bun on the table. Oh, I stopped eating the honey bun. Wow, I'm feeling different.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, I got a. Okay, I got it. I just got a juicer. So now yo carrots and apples man, if you get a juicer, you put some cap. Yo you get some serious, get the green apple.
Speaker 3:I'm not telling you.
Speaker 2:She's allergic to everything, but that might be a parasite.
Speaker 1:You get the green apple, you get the green apple and the carrot. That shit tastes like better than Snapple. So the more I'm learning, I'm like, oh okay, I'm benefiting from this. I'm a little I'm about 120 years old man, so you know, this knowledge is important. So, again, I'm so happy to be here, but I'm happy to have this seminar. My website is nolabelstourcom n-o-l-a-b-e-l-s-t-o-u-rcom. My Instagram is the smart guy. I mean, you know that the smart guy underscore T-h-e. Smart guy T-h-e-s-m-a-r-t-g-u-i underscore. My number is 917-907-3687. So feel free to call me anytime. I'll pick up and we can talk.
Speaker 3:That's what's up though that is, though. Yeah, for sure, don't be spam calling him either, though.
Speaker 1:No, call me, man, spam, call me Because, listen, I'm going to tell you why I never got a chance to talk to Tupac, right? Fuck Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan's a piece of shit. He not like. We made Michael Jordan. Who the fuck he is In terms of financing? Nobody buy a ticket, nobody buy a sneaker. He don't even sign autographs. He doesn't stop for people, right? Fuck these people.
Speaker 1:A lot of people that you see on the internet that talk this conscious shit when that camera goes off, they funny as fuck. I'm accessible. It takes communities. I'm really like I'm this way all the time, right? And when people meet me in the street, they go damn, wow, you really like.
Speaker 1:I take pride in that, and I've met people that inspired me and I was mad. I met them Really Like just jump back in the phone, man, because who the fuck you a dickhead, I'm ready to slap shit, right? So we all listen, we all God's children, right? And when we start to understand that God created a unique individual purpose for us all, and when we start to serve that purpose, we start to have true peace, true happiness, true love, true family, true utopia, almost heaven on earth type shit, right? So it's important for us to be accessible, not have ego, not feel like I'm better than you because I got followers or I got this call or this jury, whatever the fuck that is right. You breathing like me. You madder, not madder. And if I could tell you something that's going to change your life, why wouldn't I tell you? And if you have something that you could tell me, I'm going to ask you except you to tell me, but I'm going to ask your ass.
Speaker 3:Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 3:Definitely gave me some insight, also as a parallel.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying, like there's certain things I obviously I got two daughters, I got an eight year old and I got an eight month old. And there's things that he said that I noticed when Columbia was probably like four or five. Like damn, I dropped the ball there. I should have been doing this.
Speaker 1:And now, obviously, with the new one, I get new chances. But no, don't do that shit, because that's the poison. Talk to me as they get older, they need more people. Oh, I'm going to stop. No, I'm just saying because people, people, that is terms of poison, right, yeah, not attacking you, I'm just saying like in general, we hear that, oh yeah, you know, you learn better, as you know.
Speaker 3:Second time around.
Speaker 1:Fuck that. This is the first time around that motherfucking still matter. But you have to tailor whatever that is relevant to each one Correct, right, so you learn more cool. I'm going right back to the first one, to the source. Everybody got to get this smoke. Everybody got to benefit, right? So I think that's important. And then understanding how to have the confidence to just be decisive, jump right into it.
Speaker 1:I think that was was a tough challenge for me too. Right, like I get the information. I know this food is doing this. I'm changing that's it. Apply it immediately, right, you know. So, I think I think you know. You know that's what I want more parents in our culture to do. Once you get this new information, just apply, just immediately, put in emotion. How can you homeschool them? How can you get them out of this bullshit ass school system? Because you want their future to be better. So if you want their future to be better, then you got to do things to make sure their future is secured. Yeah, I think, as parents as well, you have to have more conviction in. You know there's two of us, but if I know something, they get in it. Yeah, right, because it's sometimes oh, what is the. What's the girl going to think? What's my man going to think? Yada, yada, yada, whereas if y'all got it right now, let's go.
Speaker 1:Yeah fuck that. That's why I'm building. I'm building generational wealth for my family. I do it for my family, but I don't do it for my family, meaning like they're going to benefit from it, but I don't give a fuck about their opinions on what the fuck I'm doing.
Speaker 3:I mean like Definitely want to have you back.
Speaker 1:For sure we got to do part two, you know definitely got to do part two. This was good, though. You got a lot of, you got some, you got a lot of little little rules, whatever that shit is. You got some, you got some, you got some shit on it.
Speaker 2:You jammed it up. There was a lot of a lot of gems, a lot of gems.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the food one is going to be a dope one for y'all you got to put carrots in the drink. That shit's important.
Speaker 2:Apples and carrots.
Speaker 1:Because I see it even like, if you start reading about Red Die, like number four and all this shit that they put, if you look at the generations going from, like the seventies and eighties to now. That's why a lot of us have certain things fucked up with us and it's just getting worse.
Speaker 2:That's why all these little, but the ounces are all. That's why, like when I'm on TikTok, those are the things that I'm looking at no they are, though, because and then I'm start I started looking at things and like okay, what is this having it? Is this good for you? You know, I start seeing the way my kids are reacting to things. So, no, I get it. But yes, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you for coming on. We hope to see you back soon.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Feliz Navidad. Yo, I know I'm amazing. Where are we going? Puerto Rico, puerto Rican and Dominican?
Speaker 3:here. Oh, I'm half Dominican, so you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Next time I'm going to bring you guys some Brugal, the Mamawana Yo there's a book. I don't know if you read it, because you were talking about how like time is always happening in terms of traffic.