Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 2: Unc & Ocho react to the cost of living back in 1985; Bun B joins; Unc's old gadgets

Episode Date: March 29, 2025

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson recap the best pop culture moments of the week Including the cost of living back in 1985, Bun B joins talks Houston sports teams & RodeoHouston, Unc talks about his old device gadgets & much more!04:21 - Cost of Living in 198511:17 - Spello-Cinco and Dunc on Unc18:13 - Bun B joins the show59:20 - Shannon’s old gadgets1:01:20 - Parents make kids pay bills(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-♪ Looking back at the cost of living 40 years ago in 1985, which one of these items surprises you the most? A new house cost $84,300. The average income was $23,600. Minimum wage was $335 an hour. Average rent $432 a month.

College tuition $4560. A spanking brand new car was less than 7700 dollars. Milk was 220 a gallon. Eggs was 85 cents a dozen. A loaf of bread cost 68 cents. A movie ticket was 355 and gas cost a dollar 12 a gallon. Now listen, one thing I want to say about this. I remember these days, huh? 1985. Yeah, I remember. I was a junior in high school. Yeah, hey listen, I was a freshman in high school. Now when I think about it, they always say history repeats itself.

No, that ain't happening. Wait, listen to me, stay with me now. If you look at some of the things going on, fashion, politics, some of the things that's going on in the world We're going back to the 60s and the 70s in certain areas and aspects in life If you actually pay attention to certain things Now we talked about history repeating itself at what point would we get back to this never You're never gonna buy a house for less than $100,000. Less is a row house. Less is a crack house. You ain't get no new car for no $7700, Ocho.

And gas ain't gonna ever be a $1.12 a gallon. Hey, um, eggs was 85 cents. Eggs was 85 cents per dozen? Yeah, I was, Ocho, I was. Eggs was 85 cents per dozen? Yeah, I was, I was seven feet, I remember it, yes. Oh my goodness. Yes, remember I told you, you used to get three loaves of bread for a dollar. I remember you used to get three loaves,

loaf of bread was 68 cents now, but I remember you can get three loaves of bread for a dollar. Yes, I remember this, I was 17. I remember this now I know nobody no new house the house we call probably we stayed in probably cause 15 hundred dollars But yeah, I remember this the funny thing about it is the price of everything keeps going up, right? Yeah around us it keeps going up the taking taking jobs away from people using technology, chat GPT and AI and all this other stuff, automated services. But minimum wage isn't going up the way it should.

No, I remember. To be able to offset the price of everything going up. So something's gonna happen here. Exact wages are going up. Average consumer hourly is not, because it's what, 7.30 a night? I work for $3.35 an hour, so I know. Ocho, but even back then,

Ocho, you look at that thing, damn, bro, my grandma called hell. Even at 85 cents, even at 68 cents for a loaf of bread, it was still hell on the Porter Sharpe household. Even at 68 cents for a loaf of bread, it was still hell on the border sharp household And you look at it in price night like damn yes, yeah, yes That's crazy gala gas was a dollar 12 a gallon and you weren't going nowhere unless you had two dollars to put put in my tank

So it wasn't no free ride ain't, come take, no, you got to pay. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that like yesterday. That's crazy. New car? But 7,000? Why do you know I paid 7,000 once?

Oh yeah, Magneto, I can imagine I could have my granny made 197 dollars every two weeks, so she made less than four thousand dollars a year So how the hell you gonna pay for a new car? Yeah, you're right and by law and by and by food Can you imagine if everybody rim was $430 still? Do you know how much money that was back then? Yeah, I already know. You got to tell me I was there.

What you're saying? I was there. You looking at today's money, you making today's money, and you looking at yesterday's prices. Right, right, right. Transport your ass back there. You know how your grandma, how your mama's pregnant struggle to pay $430 something. Boy, that was a full load of money. Yeah, I already know.

But just imagine. Hell, Granny made $500 a month. So how you gonna pay rent at $432 a month if she made $500? It's so funny, you notice how they made it work back then? They made a way? Yeah! No matter what, regardless of the circumstances.

You ate long chippings, you ate pig feet, you ate coon, you ate squirrel, you ate rabbit, you ate possum, yes, that's how. You ate trike, you ate mild noiseless, that's how you made it. You went and caught a mess of fish, and you ate, yes, that's how you made it work. You wouldn't eat no steak, no lamb chop, no lobster? No crab legs those lops no scallops. No or you're eating none of that, right? I

Never I had never heard of a person eating crab like oh, you know them Dungeness crab the blue crab But like them king crab legs the love that I never heard nobody no lobster Like them king crab legs with lobster. I ain't never heard nobody eat no lobster. I ain't heard nobody eat no lobster. Can we go get some, when we got in college like a senior and guy was talking, man, I'm gonna take old girl the red lobster, she want lobster. But you know, guys, when you got that work study money,

you know, you got that work study money, oh, you try to impress somebody, you think about eating something, man, please. Eating salmon croquette in a can, eating Viennese sausages, eating bologna. That tube bologna with the red, with the, you know, tube, the long tube of bologna, not the Oscar-mine with the slicer. You wasn't getting that. Right. You get that big-ass tube. Hold on, what you know, I bet you ain't had no beanies and weenies. Nah, we ain't eat that. We didn't have pork and beans though. Okay. No, yeah, pork and beans and pork and beans and you take the hot dogs and cut the hot dogs up in

the pork and beans? Yeah. Okay. And now we're talking. We got the hot dogs, the 50 came in a pack, but the hot dogs still had the casing on them. See they were pink. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah that what I'm talking about. Oh Joe you ain't get no you ain't get no good no Hebrew national, right? But I'm looking at me price I'm like if I look back in this now or Joe and I think Well, we were bad off. Oh Joe. I mean we might have been back worse than I previously thought right We might have been back worse than I previously thought. Right. Boy, there was some days there, boy. Boy, there was some days.

Oh, yeah. Hey, when life was simple. Oh, yeah, y'all get ready. It's time for Ocho's favorite segment. It's time for Spello Cinco. Where you at? Where you at, Ocho? Put your hat on. Hey, hey, hey, you know who got mad at me

and cut my head up a long time ago. That's why I stopped wearing it. Man, don't put that. You heard me? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, Ochocho I'm gonna start Let me lock in first. Let me lock you know, don't rush me

Don't rush me. Let me let me lock in and focus so I can I can chat. This is for y'all tonight It's for y'all chat. I'm telling you. I'm all right 1979 Devil to father give Ocho to strength to lock in and dispel these words, help him to focus, understand and as I enunciate these words correctly, just give Ocho the strength and the courage to spell these words with conviction. Yes, sir.

We ask all these things in your name, amen. Yes, sir. Let's go Ocho. Amen, amen, amen. Your first word. First word. Ubiquitous, ubiquitous. How you won't come out the gate simultaneously, ubiquitous.

Oh, how you come out the gate with something like that? OK, it's going to get easy. Er. OK,iquitous. Okay, we start with that. You say it again. Ubiquitous. Ubiquitous.

Now, I'm assuming it's UB. Let's start there. Ubic, ubic. Now, ubic lighter is B-I-C. So I'm gonna go U-B-I-C. Ubic, is BIC. So I'm gonna go UBIQ. UBIQ. UBIQ. T-I-S-T.

U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S. Ubiquitous. Now you knew I wasn't gonna get that. Now the chance. I thought you would get that, but I thought that was a chance what okay how about this one oh Joe this one and you've heard of this one a demigod a who a demigod. A who? A demigod.

Wait, you mean a demigod. A demigod. Demigod is a leader exploiting emotions to gain power. A demigod. Man, are these words even, excuse me, are these words even in the source? I've never heard that before. Demi, say it one more time. I bet you I get it right. Are these words even in thesaurus? I've never heard of that before. Ademigod.

Say it one more time. I bet you I get it right. Ademigod. A-D-E-M-I. Ademigod. G-O-D? Where the hell you get an A from? I said demigod.

Oh, you said Ademigod. I thought you said undemigog. No, but you're wrong. D-E-M-A-G-O-G-U-E. Demigog. Oh my goodness, Unc. Hey, Unc. And not only do I not know these words, the chat don't know them either. And I hope nobody in the chat is laughing at me because I know y'all not going to see and pretend that y'all know some of the words Unc talk about because I know you're not gonna see and pretend that y'all know some Of the words I'm talking about because I ain't never heard of the last one and I definitely don't know how to spell the first one We did

How about this paradigm? paradigm oh p-a-r-a-d-i-g-n No What? p-a-r-a-d-i-g-m That's what I just said. Sound like you said N. Chad, what y'all see?

I said M. Do you see how fast I spelled it? Because I knew how to spell it. I said M. We're running back. We'll give you that one. How about this one? Let's go.

Stop playing with me. What you talking about? Antidote. Huh? Antidote. Antidote. Antidote. A-A-A-N-T-I...antidote. A-N-A-N-T-I-D-O-T-E. Antidote.

A-N-E-C-D-O-T-E. Antidote. God dog it man! Jesus! God dog it man. Jesus. Elucidate. What? To clarify, explain clearly. Elucidate. Elucidate? Elucidate. To clarify or explain clearly. Elucidate Elusa so elusive elusive

Elusive is EL so elucidate would probably be EL as well You s elucidate ID a te elucidate El UC ID Elucidate. E-L-U-C-I-D-A-T-E, elucidate. So that's not what I just spelled? No. Hey, hey boy, I'm on a bad one. This will be the easiest one.

If you don't get this one. I'm on a bad one. Abore. Abore. To detest, strongly dislike, I abore you. Abore to detest strongly dislike. I abore you. Abore. Oh my goodness. Abore.

I mean, it could be a bore like A-B-O-R-A. I mean, my bad. A-B-O-A-R, but it could be A-B-O-R-E. What word are you going with? A-B-O-A-R, but it could be A-B-O-R-E. Well, where are you going with? Or a bore, A-B-O-R. Which one of the three is it? That's, I mean, I didn't go to Harvard. I went to Glendale High School.

That's far as I'm particularly. You gotta understand, I went to Harvard for one semester. Okay, that should be enough to help spell these words. I mean, that's when they saw my application and knew it was fake and that's when they got thrown out. So what what are you going with? Abore? Abore. A-B-H-O-R. A-B-H-O-R. Abore Okay, I got it right. No, you didn't know I said the H is silent. No They almost oh you did who I got what I want for four one for five Well, listen about if I played baseball, I'd be a Hall of Famer

No, actually you wouldn't yes Yes. That's below the windowsill line there. You gotta be at least 250, I can work with you. 300, you're in the ballpark. Okay, Ocho, this is Dunk on Unc, NCAA oops. Okay, here we go, here we go. Here's the juice up. Here's the juice up. Hey, I gotta go back in, I gotta study my thesaurus This is your son.

Hey, I gotta go back and I gotta study my thesaurus or something, man, cause Jesus Christ. Hey chat, I apologize chat. I'm glad this wasn't a life or death situation because y'all would be planning my funeral. My goodness, that was abysmal, that was horrible. Yeah, that was, that was. God. Hey, them some crazy wordsmal. That was horrible. Yeah, that was, that was. Yeah. Hey, them some crazy words though.

Okay. Here we go. Dunk on Dunk NCAA hoops. Riddle edition. Okay. He played for the Kentucky Wildcats. He won the 2012 NCAA national championship known for his elite defense and shot blocking, went number one overall in the... Anthony Davis.

Well, God, can I finish? Nah, I ain't gonna hold you. Okay, you got that one. You got that one. Okay, here we go. Here we go. He played for the UConn Huskies, went 4-4-4 in the NCAA Championship 2013 to 2016, never lost the NCAA Tournament game, one of the greatest women's college basketball players ever.

Who am I? She, she wear 4-4-4, oh, oh, Stewie, Brianna Stewart. God damn it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, you two, you two for two. Okay, okay. You know, you know your stuff, huh? A little bit. Okay, here we go. Coach for the Duke Blue Devils won five NCAA championships, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010. Coach K.

Damn! Okay, okay, okay. Hey, boy, you on a roll today, huh? Mm-hmm. I'm gonna ask you for the numbers for the lotto after this. Okay, here we go. Legendary culture, the Tennessee Lady Balls, 1-8, NCAA. Pat Summit. Actually, her middle name is Pat Head Summit. She married the guy's last name was Summer. Her actual maiden name is Pat Head. She married the guy's last name was Summer.

She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer.

She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summer. She married the guy's last name was Summit. She married the guy's last name was Summer. Her actual maiden name is Pat Head. Well, you try to- Did you know the story? She got beat in the tournament game and she was about to give

birth to her son and they said they wanted to land the plane in Virginia and she say no I'm not having my son in Virginia. Hey boy you showing off the nighting from the company huh? Okay okay here we go here we go let me put my glasses back on. He played for the blue he played for the Duke Blue Devils scored 41 points in the 1992 Elite 8 game vs. Kentucky. He was perfect from the floor, Christian Leightner. He didn't miss a single shot or a free throw. He hit the buzzer beater, yep. Remember like yesterday.

Caught the pass from Grant Hill at the top of the key, turned around, bam. Ball game. You remember that game, bam, ball game. You remember that game, Ocho? Oh, Hey man, come on, man. Hell nah. Okay. Here we go.

Last one. All right. You ain't going to get this one. Played for the Iowa Hawkeyes, known for the triple doubles and record breaker performances, one of the top scorers in NCAA history. Revolutionized women's basketball not Caitlin Clark go Joe hey I want to know who briefed you before this I thought you go give me like well who won the 1975 national championship in the men? I thought you were going to ask me something like that.

Who won the national championship in 1975? For the men? Yeah. I think NC State. Cause 76 was Indiana, 77 was Marquette, 78 was Kentucky, 79 was Michigan state, 77 was Marquette, 78 was Kentucky, 79 was Michigan State, 80 was Louisville, 81 was Indiana again, 82 was Michael George year, 83 was NC State, 84 was Georgetown. God damn. 75 would be CLA.

You CLA what? So when did David Thompson win, 74? Hey, I got a problem. Thompson wins 74? Hey, I got a problem We got a whole court, especially with the chat. We all got a whole court There's a small discrepancy in the level of difficulty in my questions when it's time to spell and the questions that you get on Dunkin' Donuts.

I thought you was gonna ask me some like some NCAA stuff like, you know, who won the 96 national championship. Right. Or tell me, ask me something about Sheryl Swoops. Right. Lynette Woodard. Right. I mean, you can't ask me something about Coach K. Right.

Okay. Don't worry about it. I got you. Listen, next time I got you. I got you. I'm going to take the degree of difficulty to the maximum the way you do with my words. Yeah. Ask me where Oscar Robinson played or something like that.

Right. Okay. You know Jerry West played the Ohio State, so don't ask me that. Now you played at West Virginia. Now you played at Ohio State, didn't you? I was there. Me and Jerry had class. Jerry might have been at West Virginia. Jerry Lucas played at Ohio State.

Damn. Boy, I had a bad night at night for it. Yeah, West Virginia with Jerry, because that's where he's from. Jerry Lucas. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild-haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hell-bent effort to sabotage a war. J. Edgar Hoover was furious somebody violated the FBI and he wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees.

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I speak with California Governor Gavin Newsom. I watch Fox. I pay attention to Newsmax, One American News. I don't turn my back to the critics, but there is a sort of California derangement syndrome out there that is just sort of ridiculous This notion that this is the only state that has challenges. It's just comedic, but it's damaging We record-breaking tourism last year. We have a surplus again. We have a state with population growing again. You wouldn't know that that's not prevalent It's not part of the discussion engulfed by the fires. It's been engulfed in the fires It's you know, it's not part of the discussion. It's been engulfed by the fires. It's been engulfed by the fires, it's a failed state, California, but for me, it's a pride for me, again, as a guy who lives here, who cares about the state, is to make a case anew

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It's time to welcome. His birthday was yesterday. He's celebrated, so happy belated birthday. He's the owner. He's the co-owner of the iconic smash burger joint trail burger And if I follow him and I think he just opened up another one trail burger Bun B what it do hey. Hey, what's going on gentlemen? What's going on? Thanks for having no man

I see your child see shining over there. Listen man, you know, I got a, baby? What's good? I see you, old char. I see you shining over there. Man, what's up, man? You know I got a little lotion on. That's all it is, little lotion. See? Bun, let me ask you this. Let's kick it off with this.

Bun, when did you come up with the idea to start Trill Burger? I didn't come up with the idea. The idea was brought to me by two mutual friends of mine. Okay. One that I knew in a previous career as a clothing line designer. And the other I knew in a previous career as a podcaster for the Texans. They both moved into new paths.

One becoming a restaurateur, the other becoming a marketing and promotions manager of restaurants. So the restaurateur Andy Wynn came up with an idea for a Smashburger, but the Smashburger phenomenon was already moving on the West Coast. He's from California. He saw the trend starting to move east and he was like, if I don't catch it by Texas, I'm gonna miss the whole Smashburger trend, but I don't have a stronger brand out there. I need someone to partner with.

And my other friend, Nick Scherfield, was like, well, I know Bun has had a food blog for many years called YouGottaEatThis.com, go check us out. And he was like, I know Bun's been looking for an entry point into the culinary space. I didn't want to do a full restaurant because there's so many different menu items and there's so many different ingredients that you have to stock and a lot of things you lose if people don't,

if people don't come in and buy that shrimp in a day or two, that shrimp starts to go bad by day three and you lose it. A lot of stuff is lost. You know what I'm saying? So, but this was a very refined, very simple concept. I went and met up with him, I tried the burger, and I thought not only was it one of the best burgers

I'd ever had, I thought it was one of the best meals I'd ever had. The flavor combination is incredible. Anybody that's ever had it will tell you they may have had good burgers, but no one has ever done with a hamburger what we've done. And what I mean by what we've done is we care about it more than I think other people care about a burger.

Most burgers are afterthoughts. You know, something like, I got 30 minutes for lunch. Where can I go and get something real quick? Or, man, I left this club. I'm full of this liquor. I got to try to soak it up with something. You know what I'm saying? You got to absorb that thing.

Got to absorb it, bud. You know, but we found a real sweet spot, man. You know, we found a way to not only introduce a better product into the public, but also, for me personally, a way to transition my cultural equity that I built up in the entertainment industry into the culinary industry in a way that I could capitalize off of it a lot better than I could in the music industry because of the contractual agreements that I signed at a very young age. And with this, I was able to own everything outright with my partners.

There was no investors as everything outright with my partners. There was no investors as it was with the record company where you take that advance up front. We did all of this out of pocket. We continue to do it out of pocket. We don't take any money out of the company so that the company can grow, be self-sustained, so we don't need investors.

We don't need finances from anybody. And we just try to build something that we believe will last longer than we will. I like that. Wow. I want to go back with it being your birthday, you know, you turn a young, you're getting younger, you know. Your recent birthday bonanza at Houston Rodeo, obviously it featured a diverse lineup, man. You had Keith Sweatt, Don Toliver, Yolanda Adams. What inspired you to blend hip hop, R&B, and gospel for this event? You know, we've done a lot of different lineups

with my shows at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Last year was the first year that they'd ever had two full rap nights. One was my night and one was with 50 Cent and his tour. And it kind of started to get away from what the Houston livestock show rodeo, as far as Black Heritage Day, has always been. And that's been a very inclusive evening that was always family friendly. And with some of this rap music,

it could get away from being a family friendly environment very quickly. And so the rodeo was like, well, we would love to reset the bar. Like we appreciate what your hip hop contributions and all of the talent that you brought to the stage have done for the rodeo. But we think we need to reset the bar because if we don't, we're going to lose the demographic. And that was the problem with the rodeo before was that the rodeo had aged itself out.

The rodeo did not bring in hip hop and younger music in a timely manner. So they started to age people away from the rodeo. Younger people, and when I say younger, this may sound crazy, but when I say younger, I mean like 50 and under. Right, right? There was nothing that was catering to them.

Nothing in popular music was catering to them. Nothing in popular culture was catering to them. Nothing in popular music was catering to them. Nothing in popular culture was catering to them. And so there became a concerted effort to try to make sure that the people on stage reflected the diversity of the city of Houston, which is arguably the most diverse city in America right now. There's over a hundred spoken languages and so many different cross-culture things

happening in the city. And so we did a good job of diversifying it, but at the same time, you don't want to leave people out. And I could tell that if we did one more show that was rap-centric, my mama wasn't going to want to come no more. And my mama's people, I was like, we're going to want to come no more. Because it can be a little much, the way people dance to it. I get it. There's an energy and we want to bring energy and entertainment But we don't want to do that and make sure that other people don't isolate others Absolutely, you know my mother comes to the rodeo my siblings my wife's siblings our children our nieces and nephews and now our

Grandchildren all come so I got it I wanted to make sure that I got something there for my mama and my wife's mother that they can relate to Things that we can relate for my mama and my wife's mother, that they can relate to things that we can relate to, my children and my grandchildren. So that's why you get a Keep Sweat for us. You get a Yolanda Adams for the older, more Christian grandmothers and aunties and whatnot. And you get a Don Toliver for a younger artist, Coco Jones for a younger artist, you know what I'm saying?

And then of course, for my base, you know, Luda T.I., you know, we hit them right in the chest with that hip hop. So we wanna make sure that when people come down, cause now it's become a tourist attraction. There's literally thousands of people that come down for this thing now. And I wanna make sure that they get something. And what, look, anytime you know the Triple OG Bun B

is on it, you know it's gonna be big. And you know he gonna do right. He gonna do right by H-Town, cause the H-Town down. He born and bred, he believe in that. And I love that, but I love the fact that the rodeo came to you and said, we really appreciate it.

But let's not get too far away from what we intended the rodeo to be. Because while we're bringing in one demo, we're losing another demo. How can we blend these demos together and grow it? So they still come, more of you guys still come. And guess what? We expand this thing.

And a lot of people didn't really understand it because, you know, I don't tell everybody who's coming. I typically keep about two or three surprises to entertain people on the spot. So when I was saying, hey, I got Don Toliver and I got Keith Sweatt and I got Coco Jones and I got Yolanda Adams, people don't see how that mixes in the room. People don't see how those genres blend together

and people really didn't understand the vision. We knew what we were doing the whole time. Yolanda Adams was specifically brought in to be a part of the M-Memorial program where we honored all of the legends that had fallen in. And then we thought it was good to have some praise in the room. I feel very blessed to have this opportunity. I've done this four times. I've sold over 300,000 tickets in just four shows.

We're averaging 74,000 people every time we've done this. So it's been a beautiful opportunity, not just for me, for my family, for my business. I've been able to pass it on to other people that grew up in Houston, dreaming of doing the rodeo. Now they've actually been able to do it. I grew up at a time where, you know, you didn't even think that somebody that did hip hop music would even be on this stage.

And now we exist where I live as an example to the next generation. Maybe one day I can do the rodeo like Bun B. You know what I'm saying? So we understand how deeply this thing resonates with so many different people and we don't want to let people down. Especially right now, I don't want to seem like I'm leaving people out of something because this world is so divisive right now and things are not really as inclusive. And I don't think people understand, no culture is more inclusive as black people. Because black people understand what it's like

to be left out. So we don't want people left out of a good time. You know what I'm saying? And we know that you don't need a bunch of money to have a good time. So we try to make entertainment as authentic and realistic and approachable as possible for people. And I think we've been able to do that with Dorotea.

Hey boy, you know we've been making stuff out of nothing with no money for the longest time. We don't need no money. So when I get $5, there's a party for it. And for sure, hey, we had one of those hood parties, $20. Hey, we got the block lit. You know what I'm saying? Boy, let me ask you this, boy.

When you were growing up, did you go to the rodeo when you were growing up? Yeah, that was my first concert ever. That's a big inside joke about it. The first concert I ever went to was Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn when I was 10 years old. I feel like I'm just calling it Twitty. The funniest story-

The cold bottle's going to Loretta Lynn. Yeah, my mom had gotten a car wreck and a man had hit her, and she was very nervous because this was in the 70s. You know what I'm saying? She's a black woman by herself in an accident with a white man. She just knew for example, that she would be at fault.

But the police came, he told the police, it was my fault, she did nothing. He took care of everything. And then he asked her, would you like some tickets to go to the rodeo when the rodeo come? And she said, sure. She gave him my information and address

and she never thought nothing of it. And a couple of weeks later, the ticket showed up. And so they took the family to the rodeo and that was my first concert, my first time ever being in the Astrodome, you know what I'm saying? And it left a lasting memory on me. Like one of my first musical memories is the Houston livestock show and rodeo concert. And just, you know, over the years going every different time, my wife shares these kinds of memories. My wife saw Michael Jackson for the first time at the rodeo.

You know, a lot of people have, you know, you can basically, you know, have a timeline of your life based on different experiences at the rodeo. The first time you went as a youngster, the first time your parents dropped you off, because it's literally the safest environment you can be in at the rodeo. So there was a time when you get 15 to 16,

your mama would drop you off at the rodeo. So there was a time when you get 15 to 16, your mama would drop you off at the rodeo during spring break, and you and your friends could hang out all night and then get picked up later because it was a safe thing, you know what I'm saying? So it's been a part of many people's lives over the years. And now people actually have a real time experience at the rodeo, and not just when I perform.

We have like a 9,000 square foot installation foot installation called trail town where we do the burgers. We do our trail tenders. We have merged trail lemonade. We have a bar, you know, basketball golf where people play little games, win hats, win merchandise. So we've made it something that everybody that celebrates Houston culture can come in and feel comfortable. I know that there are people from other races that feel funny trying to celebrate other cultures and mix company because they're not allowed to be as free as they would like to

be amongst some of their own people. We provide a night where everybody can come and be who they want to be and nobody's going to look at you sideways because in order to enjoy it, you got to leave your prejudice at the door. If you don't like white folks, you can't come because white folks going to be having a good time. If you don't like white folks, you can't come because white folks gonna be there having a good time. You don't like black folks, you can't come because black folks gonna be there having a good time. Straight folks, gay folks, Mexicans, Asians, everybody comes out and they all having a good time.

So the only way you can enjoy it is leave your bull, your bull stuff at the door. And hopefully we believe that if people have a good enough time with other people of other cultures and make friends and learn things that maybe they won't pick it up when they leave and they can leave their prejudices outside forever. That's a lie, man. Listen, when you're talking, I can hear the passion, enthusiasm in your voice, the way you're explaining everything.

Listen, you've always- It's a new life, old choc. It's a new life for me. Listen, you've always been vocal about social issues. You've engaged in various, various community initiatives in Houston. Man, what drives you still, you know, and your commitment to always give back to the community? And do you have any upcoming projects

that you're excited about that you can tell us? Well, me and Houston is entertainers, athletes, what have you, we have a different relationship with the public as other places do. I believe that there are lines that are drawn, cultural lines, neighborhood lines, other things that come into play in other major cities in America,

where people can't really bond in the way that we bond. Right, like LA has cultural lines, it has neighborhood lines that some people can't cross, so that city can very, very seldom come together and unite. Same thing with New York. Some people might be from Queens or Brooklyn or whatever. In Houston, we had division maybe 25, 30 years ago between the North Side and the South Side.

That doesn't exist anymore. Everybody sees themselves as Houstonians, no matter who you are and where you come from in the city. So we've been able to build a connection with people that's different. People see us in the grocery store, people see us in the mall, people see us in restaurants and car washes, in the gym. We're very visible and we're very approachable and very personable. So people feel like when they buy our music, they're not just investing in music, they're

investing in people, they're investing in neighborhoods neighborhoods and they look at us as cultural exports Like we don't say like when you come to Houston, we don't brag about who the best Biggie Jay-Z and Nas we brag about who the best slim thug Kiki or a bun B. You know, so a scarf a yeah Those are the kind of we have a lot of pride, you know, Texas has always been a self-sustained entity. It was his own country So it's so we didn't ever always been a self-sustained entity. It was his own country. And so we didn't ever feel fully embraced until very recently. Everything we wanted, we had to make it on our own. Entertainment-wise, if you wanted to be a recording artist,

you know, a New York label or LA label was probably not gonna sign. So you had to go out, you had to make relationships with wholesalers and distributors and record stores and radio stations and club owners and all of that and make your way. And we all had to do it. So there's a common respect that we all have for each other because we all kind of had to progress that particular path in order to make it.

But it's the people, it's not just the artists, it's the people of Houston who don't look at us in that way. Yeah, there may be somebody that's never seen me before and might be excited to get a picture. But if you roll with me through Houston for 12, 14 hours, you hear a lot of what's up OG? Hey, what's up B? What's up? Oh, it's not a lot of oh my God. Oh wow. We don't put those kind of walls with people. And that's why the relationship with us is a lot different. You know what I'm saying? As far as projects, we are opening the second store probably within the next seven days, as projects we are opening the second store Probably within the next seven days seven to ten days the second location at Trill burger be open in spring, Texas We'll have two more locations

But by the end of the year, and I'm currently in Dallas right now with the wife Mainly let you know so my anniversary my birthday is four days in point so I would never forget my anniversary You know say so that was up so we spent the daytime So my anniversary, my birthday is four days in point, so I would never forget my anniversary. You know what I'm saying? So that was up. So we spent the daytime, we're on the anniversary, letting our shop. We spent nighttime with me going to my favorite restaurant. There's a Carbone here.

It's the closest Carbone I can get to in Houston. That's my favorite restaurant. So we drove up here, we did a little shopping, went did some dinner with a good friend of mine. And, you know, probably look at some with a good friend of mine, and probably look at some locations tomorrow, ride around Fresno and Plano and a couple of different spots, looking for a location, but we hope to be in Dallas

and Austin by summer next year if luck. Hey, Bon Chay, what you think about Nightcap at the rodeo? I think there's room to possibly do it at my activation. Yeah. I like that. Because you have to understand, I don't think many people understand what the rodeo is. The rodeo is a 21 day event.

Yeah, I'm only one night of 21 nights of concerts that take place in the NRG stadium, the football stadium. They average about 65, 66,000 people a night. Easy. Wow. And so it's arguably the biggest music festival in the world that isn't promoted as a music festival. Could be talking about 21 concerts,

day after day after day in a football stadium. You know what I'm saying? It's a huge undertaking. Now that being said, my space, my wife thought of the idea of bringing in a DJ and a DJ booth and some space up there. So there is a stage now next year we can make it a little bit bigger. OK, well, hey, we can make it bigger. That way we can have a y'all up there.

Yes, absolutely. Right. What do you think about nightcap at Trill Time? Two thumbs up. Ray, what you think about Nightcap at Trill Time? Two thumbs up. Yeah, they done. That's what I'm talking about. I appreciate that. Oh, we gon' hey, we gon' hey, hey, hey, oh gee, you know, we gon' circle back on this night.

We real talk now. No, I'm open to it because I want to make it a bigger weekend for people. We realize now that, and you know, you look at the music, boots on the ground, and all this other soul that's blowing up right now, that black cowboy country western lifestyle has always existed, is now in the forefront. And my weekend at the rodeo is becoming a big proponent of that, you know what I'm saying?

It gives a place that's big enough for everybody. Because a lot of black rodeos, unfortunately, are still smaller, they're still growing, and they got a lot of momentum and energy, unfortunately, are still smaller, they're still growing, and they got a lot of momentum and energy, but they're still growing, they're still smaller. My rodeo is the largest rodeo in the world. You know what I'm saying? So you wouldn't have a larger audience to cater to

with that type of movement and motion. My wife brought in DJ Payne from South Carolina. He's the biggest line dance and Southern Soul DJ in the country. And we had people, Allspace couldn't even hold how many people wanted to dance. They were dancing in the street. You know what I'm saying? It's just such a great way for people to come together and commune. That's what music has always been for people of color. It's always been a reason for us to get together and commune. That, dominoes, playing cards,

barbecue, crawfish, those are all excuses for us as a culture to come together and spend time together. We don't even like each other, but if so and so, who doing the barbecue? Trey doing the barbecue. All right, I'll come. Who cooking the potato salad? Meece is doing the potato salad. All right, I'll show up. It's an excuse for us to get together. And so I'm looking at that we built something that now gives people an entry point. If you don't know about it, you haven't had any experience, this is a very easy entry point into this cultural representation. But for those of us that know, oh, it's the bat signal. It's the bat signal.

When you talk about this, man, I'm thinking about your plate, but your plate is full, man. Your plate is full, man. Your plate is full, man. Listen, your role as a musician, an entrepreneur, you're a community leader. Man, how the hell you balance all these different facets of your career and what keep you motivated, baby? Because just listen to it, this is a lot. It's a little- It is, it is, but I think everybody on this knows

that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. You just gotta figure out how to handle it, right? Yes. I have an amazing support system. I have a beautiful, strong black woman as a wife in my corner. And the reason I've gotten this far is not because I know it all or I can do it all. My wife refuses to settle for a lesser version of me. So when she know I'm not going all the way in and I give her my 100%, she'll hold me accountable.

She'll be like, you know you can do better than that. You know you're supposed to be doing more than that. So there'd be a lot of times I want to phone it in or I'd be like, man, I just want to stay home. Now, why would you do that knowing you told them people you was gonna come? You know, my wife, I can't do it. My wife knows, my wife believes,

has always believed in my greatness. And when I don't live up to it, because she talks about it, she holds me accountable. So I go out and do the rodeo and all that, and the next day I gotta come home and put the trash out. I gotta pick up stuff in the garage. I gotta make sure I don't leave the kitchen light on. All those days.

We have moments where we are very blessed, and we get to see the world and travel the world and do all of that But every other day man, we are family trying to exist making sure our children our grandchildren are okay And we got a good home that's comfortable for us to live in You know, all I got to do is give her a house and she gonna make a home You already just say huh, you see I'm talking about yeah what I've been telling you now But I'm trying to get him to settle down, but I'm trying I'm trying to get him to find my wife because listen the way you talking the way you explaining things

It shouldn't be hard at the end what you just said But she got to keep up with him though. That's the thing Yeah, I keep up with him. He got to find a woman that's so busy. He get jealous. Hey, listen, we found from what? Hey, but we found one farm. He interviewed her not too long ago. Wait till she ain't got no time for him. We gonna find out what he's saying. He gonna try to spend that money sitting there playing, playing that vacation, anything he can

and spend time with that woman. When he start, Ocho, when he start disregarding things he don't normally discard, and them assistants start having to do things that he normally going to do. Yeah, he got stuff on his mind. Yeah, he got it on, huh? He got stuff on his mind.

I got one more question. I got one more question. This is going, I'm sure a lot of people in the chat would love to hear this answer. Because I definitely want to hear it. Who are your top five Houston rappers? Your top five. Oh man. Who's in Mount Rushmore? Now I'm just adding the fifth. I'm gonna Your top five. Oh man.

You can't rush more. Now I'm just adding the fifth. I'm gonna make it five instead of four. Okay. We gonna start with K Reno. K Reno is the OG of Houston rappers. He's the height, he's the epitome of what Houston rap foundation should have been built on.

So we had the right OGs to start it off for us. Obviously, Scarface, not just one of the best writers and rappers in Houston, but just, I mean, arguably the best we tell her that hip hop has ever had, ever. Very few people, I think only Tupac can really evade, convey emotion through words on a rap song in the way that Scarface does. When Scarface talks about death,

you feel that loss when he talks about friends. You know, the phrase has a song called Suicide. And I'm talking about, I had never heard a song about somebody delving into the psyche of somebody that they thought was okay, but wasn't okay. And then you start to question, making sure you're okay. So the depth of scar faces of writing talents and mentality, man, have been criminally underrated in the world of hip hop. I think number three, you got to go Willie D. Oh, Willie D. He's been about Willie D is the prototype. Like,

Willie D is the type of person that when you think of a Houston rapper meeting one in a dark alley, Willie D is who you project better. You know, that's somebody that, you know, has stood on all 10 toes constantly, consistently, and still does. The fun thing about watching Willie D, one, he loved the culture just as much as he always had, had and to he bout that just as much as he's always been

There's certain things that you could you can count on and Willie D being about that life is absolutely one of them He's still leads by example He still makes us proud to be from Houston and knowing that you know, whatever you say in this world You better stand on it. But with some people it might be a fight with it Right, you know say number four No before I might have to go out on a limb here man, I may have to go out on a limb with this one Um, I don't know how everybody's gonna feel about this but um, I

Think gangsta nip and maybe one of the best rappers from Houston. And I'll tell you why. The only reason that people really didn't get into Gangsta Nip is because of the subject matter. He did a lot of horror. You know, he rose up for Bushwick and a lot of his stuff. A lot of his music existed in this... in this world of horror and gore and all of that type of stuff. Friday the 13th, Jason, all of that type of stuff. That... But his flow in the mid-90s, the early 90s,

I mean, it's some of the best rapping I've ever seen and done in my life. And number five, I'm not gonna put Pimp here because I feel like Pimp supersedes a lot of things in this argument. I'm gonna go with Killa Khalil. I don't think anybody wants to be the best rapper in Houston more than him. I don't think anybody takes the art of lyricism as serious as he does.

Now we got people that got a lot of motion. Max O got motion. Megan has got motion. Travis, OT, Walker. There's a lot of people from Houston, young artists of becoming talent that got art, that have motion and have fan bases and, and, and I'm really making major moves. But when we talk about just rap, rapping, like rapping and like looking in the motherfucking face and meaning what you say when you rap this stuff,

I don't think anybody conveys that more than Killer Cali-O. I think Killer Cali-O could potentially be the best lyricist to ever come out of the city of Houston. He just got a, the problem is he got too much respect for his predecessors and I feel like in some form of fashion as a competitor, at some point you can respect the GOAT and still want to beat the GOAT at the same time. I like it. I like it. We're going to get you out of here on this one.

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I don't turn my back to the critics, but there is a sort of California derangement syndrome out there that is just sort of ridiculous. This notion that this is the only state that has challenges. It's just comedic, but it's damaging. We record-breaking tourism last year. We have a surplus again. We have a state with population growing again. You wouldn't know that.

That's not prevalent. It's not part of the discussion. It's been engulfed by the fires. It's been engulfed by the fires. It's a failed state, California. But for me, it's a pride for me. Again, as a guy who lives here, who cares about the state, is to make a case anew for it.

And I'm a little clintony about it. There's nothing wrong with it. It can't be fixed by what's right with it. Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bun, we're going to get you out of here on this one. Which Houston team are you most excited about this year? Your Cougars, your Rockets,

your Texans, or your Astros? Now that's a great question. That is a great question. It's always easy to be excited about the Cougars because at this point that's a program that does this. That men's basketball team does this at this point. They've gone into the last four Marches being heavily favored. They made it to the eight, at least two, three times. I know the last two years for sure. I think they got a great chance of going all the way this season. But at this point with that program, that's to be expected. These Astros are going through transition.

We lost Brakeman. That was a hometown hero. We love Alex Brakeman as we lost Correa, we lost a couple of other guys, but we're bringing in, we always bring in young talent. That's been a great thing about Disastro's organization that the Cranes have always brought in and nurtured young talent. They draft well and they build talent up. They don't look to just go out and try to buy a player.

They're about winning several. They're not about winning this year. They want to win several years. They tasted it. They know what it takes to get there and they believe they can do it. But they're still in a little bit of rebuilding right now. Lost a couple of pitchers, got McCullis back.

So we're going to figure it out. They're perennial playoff team, right? But it's going to take more this year to get to that final step than I think it has over the last two or three seasons. The Rockets, I mean, my goodness, look at this young team. You talk about- Young and talented. You talk about a talented young team. Tillman has done a great job of being like,

you know what, we just got to start over. We're not one or two players away, we're a team away. Right. But I mean, he put this team on his shoulders a green Jalen is an amazing talent. I think he's a great leader. I think Thompson is a problem. I Think he's a beast on that team We got the promise with that young boy. Yeah, bro, he for real. I understand that he grew up in the game of fundamentals,

right, but he playing with some dogs. I watched another day try to do a behind the back pass. He almost had, they teaching him that blacktop ball, right? They don't have to teach him fundamentals. He know how to pass and all that. They teachin' him Blacktop no look passes in the paint. When he finds that step, that boy is gonna be a real problem. But I say all that to say this team has everything in the,

and man, you dope her. Woo, that was a steal. He's the right coach for the J-Team. I understand why he couldn't stay where he was, but I'm so glad he's where he is. Brachetta. I'm so anxious. That's a triple.

And the city love him because they get to see me every night then, so the city love that. Yeah. But them Texans, man, man, them Texans. I think in two, three years, man, I think they gonna be the ones to beat, man. It could happen in the next two years.

This team is building a strong structure. Demico knows exactly what he wants. The organization isn't scared to spend the money to give him what he wants. And they're so embraceable of the local culture. They do collaborations with local artists and they bring in different talent to perform at the games. They allow me to bring my burgers into the stadium. They're doing everything they can to be as Houston centric an organization as they can

be. They're putting the money where it needs to go. They're trying to strengthen that O line. I know everybody wasn't crazy about losing tonsil, but I can understand organizationally why they feel they needed to go in another direction. I hear there were locker room problems There were a lot a ton of penalties right a lot of things going on and I just think they were growing in a different direction I think that they supplemented the defense

Absolutely, they're probably gonna have to draft a little more to tighten up that whole line Because they got to protect CJ. They got to protect CJ by all means. I like the Kirk signing I like bringing Christian Kirk in these are fast young players got some good talent He definitely got hands and CJ can hit him and drive, you know Cuz I knew we weren't gonna probably weren't gonna keep digs another season I don't think we were gonna keep him another season. So they had to start thinking receiver receiver receiver tank had his surgery He's a young guy. I think he'll recover quickly.

I honestly think Tank will be ready by game one of a 25, 26 season. But I think the Texans are a team that everybody has got to circle their calendar dates when they play that team. Their defense is only getting better. I'm curious to see what the new OC is gonna do. I think that's gonna be the big test. Right. Is what the new OC is gonna be able to create with CJ,

but at least they won't be as predictable in year two as they were in year three, as they were in year two. Cause year one was a lot of surprises. Year two, they pretty much tried to replicate the playbook and people saw it a mile away. With a new OC, I think there's gonna be a new approach. I think he's gonna find a better way of working with these new offensive lines.

I feel positive about what we're doing as a team. So I would put it in that order. I would say Cougs, Astros, Rockets, and Texans, four to one. Hey, OOG, Bun B, bro, thank you for joining us. Congratulations on everything, the Trill Burger franchisesises the the rodeo your big staple in the community What you do to uplift your community? We appreciate you. We salute you here at night cap. Thanks for joining us We'll see you down the road. Absolutely. Thank you all for doing that drop for the rodeo for me last year, too

You know that we all find some space to put y'all in Bring that night Not only that let me in a real time. I'll bring that night Let me perform, you know, I can sing that I think we break it up That's the original that's the OG like triple OG bun B Thank you, bro Well, I told y'all had that right back That's the original that's the og like triple og bun B That's the triple og high pond. That's lab That's the number two version this one holds 10,000 songs this one holds a thousand song Y'all remember the iPad Touch? iPod Touch?

Damn. And check this out. That stuff might be worth something. Don't worry about it. It's supposed to be worth something with this plus 5200. Wait, come again? It's supposed to be this plus 5200. All your stuff is in good condition.

Like, in mint condition, like, mint condition, you could probably get a good price for it. Look at this, OG. You know what this is, OG? That's the iPhone 9. No, that's the original one. I thought it started with number nine, or am I trippin'?

Man, it started with number one. Or did it? I hear you talk like that. Y'all remember that? That was crazy. Hey, and you know what you do? Put Saran wrap back in and pretend like it's brand new. No, I ain't getting rid of it.

Oh, you know how much money you can get for that? The original iPhone? I mean, somebody's probably giving me like five grand for it because it's the original. I know. It ain't never been active. It ain't never been turned on. It never had no phone number. Ain't never had nothing. How ain't never been turned on. Ain't never had no phone number.

Ain't never had nothing. How much you said they can give you for it? About five dollars. You can go, you go ahead and sell that one. I owe you 200. No, they ain't got no, dude, your voice is mine. Y'all remember the Samsung? Samsung?

That's a joy. I ain't never had no Android. That's a Samsung phone. Look at that. Yeah, I ain't never had no joy. That's a Galaxy Note right there. Oh, Galaxy Note. never had no joy. Galaxy Note right there. Oh Galaxy Note. Hey listen, I tell you one thing.

You ever text me in the turn green, I'm going to block you. Yeah, I'm going to block you. I got a little stuff. I got to show you all my phones. I got about 17, 18 phones. Damn. Yeah, 18 phones. Damn. Yeah, cause I keep them. Oh Joe, a debate went viral on Twitter asking,

should parents make their kids pay bills if they work a job? And the response went viral saying, I'm just gonna say it, this is a big problem in the black community and we have to stop it. A lot of parents need help with their bills, so they take the money from their kids and disguise it as teaching them responsibility.

And it's actually pretty effing ridiculous. Ocho, what do you think? Ah, you gotta teach your kids responsibility at some point. You have to. I think if they're staying with you after the age of 18, now if they're saving up, I wouldn't make my kids, my kids, if they need to stay with me after the age of 18 are you saving up to get yourself a place you have to have some sense of responsibility I'm not always be around

so you're gonna you're gonna have to be able to be able to fend for yourself I can teach you how to fish I can teach you how to fish so you know how to do it when I'm not around now if I do everything for you and still coddle you and have you up on the roof and you're not having any type of responsibilities and you go out there in the real world, you're gonna be lost. When we can't have that, when we can't have that.

We got to have some type of structure and discipline and method on how things are to go as a grown adult. You'd have to, but being under my roof and making sure you allow you to save your money and get yourself together until you're ready to go on on your own and be an adult, start a family, whatever it may be, I'm all for that. I'm all for that. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, I helped my grandmother with bills, but she didn't ask me to. I just felt it was the right thing to do because I saw my grandmother struggling. I but she didn't ask me to, I just felt it was the right thing to do. Cause I saw my grandmother struggling,

I'm making money, and so what? I'm gonna continue to watch her struggle? Now she's struggling trying to put food on the table for us. She's struggling trying to put food, get clues on our back. So here I am, I got a job, and I'm not making a whole lot of money, but $10 was a lot of money back in the 70s.

$20 was a lot of money back in the 70s. So you know, I'm working two jobs. Hey, I mean, the first time I got a job, I was five years old, I was walking behind the tobacco picker in the back of the field. 1973, 1974. And from that time, I started from walking behind the back of the picker to carrying a row,

to doing that, so I'm working 10, 12 hours a day doing that. Come home, shower with me and my cousin. We play basketball and then go catch chickens for another three, four hours. The chicken was a dollar a thousand chicken, right? A dollar a thousand. So we catching eight to 12,000 a night. That's $12.

Now you only count chicken between Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because Friday was the last day. There is nothing going on on Saturday. So you started so you have, so they were going to be there. I'm not actually, Thursday was the last day. Thursday was the last day. You didn't catch on Friday because they were off on Saturday and Sunday.

The chicken that you caught Sunday, they were there for the crew. The plant was operational Monday through Friday. So you call Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And so, you know, hey, I'm bringing home $5 a day plus half a day on Saturday, $27.50, plus we catch $8,000 to $12,000 four nights a week. So I'm making maybe $60, I'm working a butt ass load out. Hey listen, back then you know how far you can stretch sixty dollars back then? Yeah! Man stop playing. So even if I didn't help oh yeah guess what I bought my own school clothes. Yeah. There ain't a whole lot of

eight nine ten year old eleven yearolds buying their own school clothes. Well, who else was gonna get them? What the hell I was working for? Hang on. I'm working to hold my money. I'm gonna hold my money in my pocket. I'm watching my grandma struggle. I got a question. Say please. What kind of clothes you wore back then? Like, Jordache? Uh, nah, nah, you know, uh, you know, Sears and Roe, what? Sears and Roe? Okay, okay, okay. You know, uh, so you know, season one was season one.

Okay, okay, okay. I know, I know. We had them tough, tough skins, but hey, then I, as I got older, Lee jeans were in. Okay. Yeah. You had Sergio Rigoletto. You did have him. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You had Levi's and stuff like, I've on, you had Polo, you had Dark Side. Did you ever have a pair of rules? Please tell me you had rules with the zipper on the side. I didn't. You know rules are, right, Kangaroos? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we had none of them? Please. I didn't have any rules. No, we had Chuck Taylor. Okay, okay, okay. You know, back then, Ocho, the Chuck Taylor was white. You had the hides and you had the lows, but you had them in all different colors. They came in black. They came in red They gave it blue. They came in green

So, you know you got mainly only had the white had the hides in the lows and I got a blue blue Hey, you know what's funny when they go with everything It don't matter. You know, you wear the black pay you to what the white pair they go with everything Yes You put on, you wear the black pair, you wear the white pair, they go with everything. Yes. Yes. And so that happened, like I said, for me, and I get it. I mean, I can see her point, trying to teach responsibility, but I was teaching myself responsibility. Because my whole purpose, like, man, I see my grandma struggling. She working that job, making $197 every two weeks. And she's, you know, working in a nursing nursing home the very nursing home that she ended up living her final day the last two years of her life No, man, I couldn't good conscience

I could not in good conscience have money in my pocket and then have my grandma worried about well Oh, well boy, I don't know how I'm gonna pay this bill this I don't know You know the phone I don't know about the gas. I don't know about the lights man, please So me I took it upon myself and that is still my responsibility to this day is to make sure my family is taking care of But you know, hey, I've done my kids and their moms have done a great job helping them understand That's your daddy money Now if he chooses to give you some that's on him But y'all know I owe you an education

And I gave you the best education because all of you for the most part you didn't stay But you started out in private school and you had college paid for you got a car you left college with no With no debt no student loans. No car loans Same Now anything I do after that that's out of the kindness of my heart, but I don't owe you anything now Now, anything I do after that, that's out of the kindness of my heart, but I don't owe you anything. Now, hopefully, you learned a lot from your mom and from your dad to be self-sufficient. Now, I'm not going to let you drown. Nah, never that. Or at least, you know, you might think you're drowning.

Matter of fact, hey, you know... I might let you take on some water. Matter of fact, you know, my baby, remember I told you my daughter at Prairie A&M, she graduated May 16th, wait, May 16th to May 17th. Remember what I told you she wanted for graduation, huh? Yeah. That G-Wagon, so we had a conversation when I was with all the kids.

I told her, I said, listen, she done made the Dean's List, the honor roll, she done made everything. I'm like, listen, now what you want? Now you say you wanted a Mercedes, what is it? So I'm thinking she's gonna say G-Wagon. And she say, no daddy, you know, I don't really want no G-Wagon. I say, what happened?

What made you change your mind? He say, I think it's too much, the maintenance. I just think I just want a starter. Just give me a C300. I say, now we talking. Now we talking. just want a starter. Just give me a c300. I say now we talking Now we talking you wanna you want a white one? I could tell that I could tell them to make you your your interior pink You know with the aka sister and you see it in all that Jo what happened when she got to get rid of it. You better hope she's selling to another a

I Want somebody but I do well, you know where we come to hold your back there guy used to get the headline to get Gucci Oh, yeah, I say well you better. Yeah. Yeah, I say well you better. Hey get they to get their mission Black I say you better hope you find another dude named black. I want to buy it cuz I promise you You go back get the great named Black that want to buy it. Because I promise you, you go back and get the great Krumpster Coles trying to sell it. Syracuse football head coach Fran Brown has a policy that his players must save 40% of their NIL checks. There's no way as a coach that I'm going to pay you a lot of money and then you're going to walk away from here with no money. Says during the upbringing in Camden, New Jersey, it could have been an

ill difference in paying rent, keeping the lights on, buying food for his siblings. What'd you think? You like that? I like that because at some point, especially when you're that young, you know, kids, kids these days don't understand financial literacy. They get the money, they spend the money, they have this mindset that that worth and value is based on aesthetics and the accessories that you purchase. That makes you feel like you are greater than and make you worth or it makes you feel special. I want kids to understand, especially people in the chat, that a lot of players and athletes today,

regardless of sport that they play, they feel that they have to live way above their means based on the type of money they're making. People in the chat, players that see this, there is nothing, I guarantee you and I promise you, there is nothing you can buy that holds more weight or value than your name alone. Nothing. No. Nothing than the name that's on that birth certificate. Cause when you take off all that designer, all the jewelry, all the watches, that in itself is the value. It is. Your car, your

Lamborghinis and your Rolls Royce and your iced out watts and your chains and all, man, that shit don't mean nothing, man. Nothing. The true value, can you get the same reaction without the car, without the clothes, without the jewelry? Can you still pull the same chicks? That's your value. That's your real worth. Can you still do the same things you do

with all the accessories and aesthetics on when you don't have it on? Yeah, come on, man. Stop playing, man. Oh Joe, see, the thing is with me, people like, I don't like money, I like freedom. Freedom is what you get when you have money. They're all two different things.

Some people just want money. I want freedom. Hey, financial freedom is a beautiful thing. A lot of people, we look at all the numbers, we look at these huge, gargantuan contracts, you know? Still to this day, money keeps going up, right? And one thing that is strange, when you look up the statistically, the same amount of players are still going broke, two years removed from the game, even though the money continues to rise.

But all that's still to be. Yeah, that's what's funny. The fact that nothing is changing from a financial standpoint, because there's no structure and discipline when it comes to spinning because our mindset is, well, if you give me more, I won't go broke. Yeah. But if you ain't got no financial discipline, it don't matter how much I give you because

you just going to keep on spinning. Exactly. The more you make, the more you'll spin because you're like, oh man I got this, I got this now I can do this. It goes so fast, man. It goes so fast before you look up you got an entourage, you got an entourage, you the golden goose. You got to feed everybody else. You go shopping now you got to buy everybody else something. You go to the club, you spending $40,000 in the section buying bottles. You got a bunch of chicks, you know, trying to impress them.

For what? For what? They done Googled how much you making. You ain't got to do nothing. Your name alone going to get you the woman you want anyway. They going to deal with you based off your name alone. You don't, man, what are we going? Man, stop playing. Hey all you women's hoops fans, and folks who just don't know yet that they're women's

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