Digital Social Hour - Police Beatdown in London: My Shocking Story with Snoop Dogg! | Adam Plant DSH #587

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

🔴 Police Beatdown in London: My Shocking Story with Snoop Dogg! 🔴   Ever wondered what it's like to be in the middle of a wild showdown with the police, alongside none other than Snoop Dogg? 🚨 In this jaw-dropping episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, our guest spills the beans on a brutal police encounter in London that left them both shaken. Get ready for an eye-opening tale of unexpected chaos, raw emotions, and unwavering loyalty. 😱   But that's not all! We dive into the inspiring journey of building TastyTamika's Cheesecake empire, the dream of opening a spot on the Las Vegas Strip, and navigating life as a pro athlete turned celebrity bodyguard. From protecting icons like Floyd Mayweather and Shaquille O'Neal to serving up the world's best cheesecakes, this episode is packed with valuable insights and unforgettable stories.   Tune in now and join the conversation! Don't miss out on this explosive episode—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀   #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #SnoopDogg #PoliceEncounter #London #BodyguardLife #TastyTamikaCheesecake #EntrepreneurJourney #InspiringStories   #CelebrityBodyguard #PoliceAltercation #PoliceIncident #CelebrityExperiences #LondonPolice   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - How Tasty T's Cheesecakes Started 01:50 - Playing Football with Snoop Dogg 04:41 - Playing Football with LaVar Ball 06:02 - Your Son Going Pro 08:04 - Bishop Gorman High School 09:51 - Howie’s Cheesecake 13:48 - Las Vegas 18:26 - Scary Moment With Floyd Mayweather 21:10 - Having Security Is Always Good 23:31 - Did You Get Approached To Join A Gang Growing Up 24:40 - How Important is Athletics for Kids Growing Up in the Hood 28:18 - Advice for Entrepreneurs 30:45 - Where to Order TastyT's Cheesecakes 31:05 - Nothing Else to Promote   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Adam Plant  https://www.instagram.com/mradamplant https://tastytscheesecakes.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tastytscheesecakes   SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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they called the police the police came and then argument ensued while we were going to uh go get on the plane to you know continue our trip um the police tried to stop us and they did stop us. And unfortunately, we got a serious police butt whooping. Damn. Yeah. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe. It helps a lot with the algorithm. It helps us get bigger and better guests and it helps us grow the team. Truly means a lot. Thank you guys for supporting,

and here's the episode. All right, guys, we got the cheesecake legend in the building, Adam Plant. Thanks for coming on, man. Yes, sir. Thank you. How are you doing today? Good, dude. We just ate some cheesecakes, and my man, those are the best I've ever had. Well, let me start off by saying this. The legend is my wife, Tamika Plant, because it's her creation. So Tasty T stands for Tasty Tamika's Cheesecakes. So, you know, I'm going to always give props to where props are due. My wife, she is the queen. She's the maker.

She's the, you know, everything of Tasty T's. My thing is I get it out to the people, and I'm the one who, you know, promoted and everything. But, yeah, Tamika Plant, her creation, my wife, hey, she's changing the world. I love it. Give her her flowers, man. I love that.

It's a good duo because you got the connections. She's got the talent. Bringing that two together. And you just talked about physical location, possibly opening. That's exciting, man. Yeah, so with every sale, that's more money made.

And with more money made, obviously you're growing your bank account to be able to go ahead and make that, do what you want to do. So our dream is to be able to open up a location on the Strip in Las Vegas. And then from that point, the money we made, we furthermore open up more locations. I love that. And before this, you were a pro athlete, right? Pro athlete, yes. Started off playing football.

Ended up playing with the BC Lions in 2002. Got injured, and after that, I became a bodyguard. Oh, wow. Yeah, I became a bodyguard for Snoop Dogg, Floyd Mayweather, and Shaquille O'Neal, a bunch of other celebrities. And I still currently take care of a lot of big gamblers here in Vegas. But, yeah, in the bodyguard world, I set a good name for myself. Yeah?

Yes, sir. Any sticky situations there? Yeah, man, and, you know, everything with me is you can always go on YouTube and look up all these things. World star videos. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, one incident, of course, everybody who followed me for years knew the situation in London with Snoop Dogg.

We were going over to Africa and London was the layover. And while we were there, we were walking around the airport and different things. And when we came back, the people at that particular airline had thought that Snoop was making some ruckus or whatever. And he wasn't because we were walking him around. So they called the police. The police came, and then argument ensued while we were going to go get on the plane to continue our trip. The police tried to stop us, and they did stop us,

and unfortunately we got a serious police butt whooping. Damn. Yeah, we got our ass toe up, man. But Snoop could tell you none of us ran. We all stood in there and took it. You couldn't fight back. Yeah, because in London, it's just a different set of rules, man. It's not like America where you might have a little leeway in trying to defend yourself.

But over there, it's like, nah. They took them sticks out and they toe us up man so holy crap part part of the um you know if you're a bodyguard it's part of the life that you live as a bodyguard you know yeah yeah how'd you meet snoop in the first place uh he he had a semi-pro football team that he had started in 2002 and he wanted guys who had played professional football that were like, you know, who had came home, what got cut or whatever, to play on the team. So a guy that I knew, that knew Snoop, had introduced both of us and had asked me to come play, and I was reluctant at first, but when I went out and seen that Snoop was actually playing

and I seen the team had about eight other guys who had played either NFL or CFL that I knew, I said, okay, I'll go ahead and get down. And so over that course of time, our first game was 2002. In 2003, we had like 10 other games, and we were just so dominant that, you know, me and Snoop's camaraderie, you know, as far as playing football with each other just grew. And he liked how I used to just dog people on the field.

And so his head of security asked me one day, he was like, hey, man, all that stuff you do on the field, can you really do in real life? I said, hell yeah. So eventually I got my job with him. Damn, I love that. You played football with LeVar Ball too, right? Yeah, Long Beach City College in 1993. It started off, funny story, I'm walking in the weight room

and I see a guy benching 4-5 ten times. I'm like, who the hell is that? I'm like, damn, they got people that strong in junior college. And so it was LeVar. He racked a bench and got up. If you're in need of quality new tires and have been searching the internet for a good deal, look no further than your local Big O Tires. For a limited time, when you buy three tires, you'll get the fourth free on select set of tires. And because we know that tires can be an unexpected expense, take advantage of no credit needed financing made easy. They work with multiple lending partners, so the financing is tailored to you. Remember that when you buy three tires,

you'll get the fourth free, only at your locally owned Big O Tires, the team you trust. Talking, talking mess, but LeVar was a um great help to me um that first year at lombe city in 93 maybe i was 17 he was like 25 so he would help me out like in a weight room you know help me get stronger and stuff like that and lavar was benching 405 lavar was like 500 he was he had he was repping 405 holy crap so all that talking he do he could back it everything lavar boy says as far as him being an athlete, I can vouch for. I've seen it.

People think he was crazy. No, that dude was, I mean, he would go from the football field, go on the basketball gym, we'd be playing, he'd be throwing it off the glass, damn near breaking a rim. Damn. Yeah, he was, LeVar was big. He was tall, big, and strong. Yeah.

I mean, look at his kids, man. Two out of three of them, NBA. You could tell a lot by a father, by their kids. Right, right, right. Because, you know, the story goes, well, the line goes, it takes a man to make a man. So a lot of times men who were athletes, that just transpires into their sons, you know, and their daughters.

Yeah. Yeah. I love that. And your son played professional too, right? Yeah, yeah. Adam Plann Jr., man. Yeah, so he was the first defensive end from UNLV in 21 years to go to the NFL. Damn.

So, yeah, man. He had a little journey, you know, coming out of Bishop Gorman in 2018. You know, he went to Arizona first and then transferred to TCU. Are you interested in coming on the Digital Social Hour podcast as a guest? Well, click the application link below in the description of this video. We are always looking for cool stories, cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life. Click the application link below. And here's the episode, guys. And played at TCU for a year in 2019, and then they had a coaching change. And so the coaches coming in, I didn't think they were really beneficial to him growing as an athlete.

And so I just convinced him to think about coming to UNLV. And he was reluctant at first, but then when I broke it down to him, I was like, son, if you're trying to go to the NFL, if you come to UNLV, you're going to stick out like a sore thumb. And that's what happened. So 2022, he led him in sacks and had a good pro day and everything. Love it. Got signed as a free agent. Yeah, sometimes when you're on a stacked team, man, especially in basketball because there's only five spots, you don't stand up.

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah and you know uh me being a pro uh former pro athlete you know i knew for my son who i had groomed since he was a kid i just knew that the steps i i had told him to take would be beneficial to him because i had you know i had been through that and uh me not having a father just let me be a even better father to him because I knew anything that I had lacking, I was going to give it to him. Nice. Yeah. I love that, man. You got one kid or you got?

Three. Oh, three. So my oldest daughter, Ajane, she's currently getting her master's. She's working on a master's degree. She'll be 26 in June. She came out of Gorman in 2016. And then my youngest, Ashley Plant, she's at University of Arizona. So she graduated in 2023.

Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So all my kids man they uh we uh they all did good they all came out of gorman and uh me and my wife you know we worked our tail off to be able to provide for them uh you know just a opportunity in their life incredible yeah i moved here a few years ago but i always hear about gorman and how it's like the elite school in vegas right yeah i would I would tell anybody coming to Las Vegas,

Bishop Gorman will give your kids that complete high school experience as far as great education, great sports, and just a great environment. You know what I mean? Me and my wife grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so to have our kids be able to go to a school such as Gorman was just, I mean, it was magical. Incredible, man. Look at what you built for your family. That's so cool.

I have that belief that every generation should get better. Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely, man. So, you know, we definitely came here to Vegas and made it better for our kids. I love that, dude. Yeah, I don't have kids yet, but I got high expectations when I do, man. Sit on the Gorman, man.

If you're still here in Vegas, sit on the Gorman. That tuition must be crazy, though. Yeah, and you know what's funny? With each kid, it got higher and higher and higher you know i mean now gorman they will if if your kids have a certain gpa you will get a little bit off of your your tuition oh that's cool that yeah yeah yeah but yeah uh like my son man he he was flunking he wasn't flunking he's a smart guy but you know you have this thing with athletes. Sometimes when you're that good of an athlete, in some cases, you know, some of the kids, they think, like, I'm an athlete. And, you know, I'm just making up my athleticism.

And, you know, I really got to take school too serious. But he got it under wraps at the right time. So he was able to do his thing. It's hard to balance both, man, because when you're so athletic and you think that's the future, you just want to go all in on it. Yeah. Yeah, I feel that. I saw you with Stephen A. Smith the other day at Blue Wire. Yeah, yeah.

So Stephen A., me and him got to know each other when I was working with Floyd. And it was funny. I had my buddy Big Church who had worked with me with Mayweather and Snoop. He had called me and said Maurice Claret was up there to do their podcast with Cam and Mace. I knew Maurice when he played at

Ohio State when he was going to come out to the NFL. A guy I did security for was his mentor in LA. We already knew each other. He was going to the podcast. So I was coming up there to bring him some cheesecakes. And then lo and behold, Stephen A popped up. And when he seen me, he was like, hey, what's up?

So I was like, man, you could ask for better timing to for something to happen. So I had two dozens of cheesecakes that I bought from Morrison for Cam. Yeah. And so I just like, okay. Slid him one? Yeah, I slid him one. And I said, Stephen A., like I do with all celebrities and anybody I know, I just ask you, when I bring you the cheesecakes, just tell me the truth. So I said, Stephen A., man, can you taste our cheesecakes?

And so, you know, it ended up being a great commercial. Oh, he loved it? He said it was the best cheesecake he ever had. Just like you said. You probably heard it all the time, time man and and uh again that's what i tell people just tell me the truth don't don't you know lie because you know me or say because you know me when i bring knowing me as a man from whatever experience you've had uh with me as a bodyguard football player whatever it is know that i'm not going to tell you a lie when it comes to our product because it's my name and my wife's name.

It's the truth. So when I bring it to you, just tell the truth. I love that, man, because too many people be capping about their wife's cooking or, like, their friend's cooking. You know, I take pride in my Instagram, man, that everything I post really happened. So I know it's hard for some people to believe that you know i'm 48 years old now but i've done a lot of things in 48 years you know going from the football to the bodyguard and

to now the cheesecakes and all the stories and and things that have happened you know all the while but i actually have this on video or people who were there who actually can attest that yeah he really did that or that really happened so when i post something it's like i'm giving you my real story you know and you know like like the youngsters say you know cap and i don't do none of that you know i don't even like to use that word i was like if it's a lie it's a lie yeah but i tell real facts of my my life and that's how it should be man when you're lying you get caught up in that shit man i used to lie all the time but i stopped honestly because you get so caught up in it and it's not worth lie all the time but i stopped honestly because you get so caught up in it and it's not worth it man because when you tell the first lie you got to tell another

lie to back up the first and then you got to remember all them yeah that's where it gets tricky yeah so it's just worth telling the truth man yeah i'm pretty honest with with cooking your cheesecakes man i gotta hear your top three flavors because i'd be ordering the same three but i'm curious if we got some alignment i love all 28 flavors that we every single one every single okay because there's some i don't like yeah and and we like that you know i'm saying because it's like we want you to have your favorite and we want you know we always want the truth you know i mean so like you might not like a pistachio or a blueberry or something like that but we have people who they want that their whole dozen to be all blueberry, all pistachio,

all whatever it is. So that's why my wife made the 28 flavors to give everybody something that they're going to like. And now if I had to just have a go-to as of today, it would be the pineapple, the peach cobbler, and the pecan. Damn, all right. So we align on pecan. I haven't tried the pineapple. Actually, I don't think I tried the cobbler, and the pecan. Damn. All right. So we align on pecan.

I haven't tried the pineapple. Yeah. Actually, I don't think I tried the cobbler either. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I got to try those. Man, them things are incredible. Dude, I could eat four of those.

You know, the hardest thing is like when I'm delivering is like when that aroma just hits the car. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, damn. But, you know, you can't get high on supplies i love that i love that man how long uh you've been out in vegas because you were in la before it yeah we're so me and my wife we're from south central los angeles and we uh we moved here uh at the end of 07 when i started working on mayweather so we've been here what's going on 16 17 years now damn you've seen a lot of change. Oh yeah. Yeah. But I've been coming to Vegas since 81.

Holy crap. Yeah, man. My mom, you know, my mom was a big slot player. So we, uh,

uh, growing up, um, in Rialto, California, which is, uh, about 50 miles East of LA,

uh, during that time, you know, my mom would always come up here. So that was like a two and a half, three hour drive. And then I would come up here, play the slots.

And sometimes we'd be, uh, you know know sitting in the car go playing that circus circus while she's playing and um i just always had a curiosity of watching her play the slots and so as i got you know when i would tell myself when i got older i was gonna play them slots because my mama would play and she would win and um yeah i've been pretty lucky she would win you said oh yeah yeah how yeah slots is like the worst game i heard well it just um i i won't say that there's a actual uh method to it but my mom i will see her like she would sit down for like maybe 10 15 minutes if that slot wasn't hitting she'd get on another machine she was quick with it yeah until she would get on one that would actually like start start hitting a little bit.

So I kind of follow that same motto. I have a few machines at the Orleans, at Sam's Town, at different casinos that I have won on before. So I'll usually just come back and play those same machines. So it's like the low-key hotels, not the main ones?

I've had more success with the low-key ones, yeah. That makes sense. All of the Boyd properties and all the station casinos. Their odds are probably better. I mean, you know, at the end of the day, it's all gambling. So you never know how it's going to turn out. But the thing I tell people is you can't win if you don't play. It's like the lotto.

Everybody say, I want to win the lottery. Well, damn, go drive down to the state line. I'm going to get you a ticket because when I leave here today, I'm going to go get me a ticket. You know what I mean? So, yeah. If you won the lottery, what would you do? Build a first taste of cheese today. I love that.

That would be the first. So, I mean, that's how passionate I am about our product. If I won the lottery, I still wouldn't be sitting at all. Yeah. Yeah. Because you bring so much happiness to people without. Yeah, man. And that's the thing we want, man.

We want people to see that our product is kid-friendly. It's people-friendly. It just makes people happy, you know what I mean? Because when you taste something so good, good food brings you joy. Oh, yeah. It just changes your whole spirit and your whole mindset, you know what I mean? For sure, man. I like to say if we can go get tasty teas to some of these places in the world they have more man maybe we didn't stop some of that shit

everybody would enjoy cheesecake it's like man let's talk about it you know so yeah um that that's one thing that we really aim to please all people with our product powerful has floyd tried them yet floyd I brought it to him. Let's just say, man. He's too healthy. Nah. He didn't choose to get none at that particular time. But his nephew, his sister, his mom, everybody loved him. So, you know, I know what our product is, and I would just hope that people would want to see us win.

Right. You know, sometimes one of the situations, man, where even when people know you have the best for whatever reason, you know, they might not want to support it as you would think they would. You can't please every single person in the world. Right, right. It's impossible. Who wins in a boxing match, you or Floyd Mayweather? Boxing, he wins. I'm not going to – I'm smart enough to know why I'm dumb.

I'll never say would I – I never talk in a fantasy lane. You know what I mean? I'm always a realist. You know what I mean? Floyd's a world-renowned boxer, so no matter. I've seen him spar against guys taller than me. Really? Tear their ass up.

What? Yeah. Because you're double his size and weight. Yeah. I'm 6'7", but he's sparred big guys. Holy crap. He's sparred heavyweights, you know what I mean? So I would never get in the ring with Floyd,

but I wouldn't expect him to get on the football field with me. Yeah. Now, he's an athlete, so his athlete side of him would, but – I actually – yo, if you're watching this, Floyd, I played in his celebrity basketball game. Oh, yeah, yeah. A couple years ago, and I diced him, bro. I had 20 points. Oh, what?

Yeah. Okay. So they had to double me. Well, I mean, you're tall, man. You got skill, too. No, but they knew I was a problem. Okay. That's all good.

Any security moments with him? Because he'd be riling up some stuff, right? Yeah, man. And, you know, I remember we were in Atlanta one time, man, and he did a party at a strip club, and they shut it down. And there was a guy out there that was mad that he couldn't get in, man. So he just started blasting at the building. Damn.

I'm hearing stuff. It sounded like a knock on the door, but it's like, da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, oh, no, that's a gunshot. So we both hit the floor, man, and I got myself in a position where, I mean, if something came his way, the was going, the bullet was going to hit me. Damn, you were ready to take your life, bro? I mean, it's like when you're a bodyguard, man, you always have to be in a mindset that

this could be the day you lose your life. And that's just the reality of that industry. Wow. And you always have to have the mindset that you're going to go at any point. Now, we try to prevent things from happening, but if it goes to that extreme, you have to be ready for it. So, yeah, there were a few situations, man, where I could have lost

my life, you know, protecting Snoop, Floyd, and Shaq. Holy crap. You know what I mean? People were after Shaq. He's such a nice guy. Nobody was after him, but like a situation that happened with me and him, we were in an establishment, and somebody was just being an obnoxious fan and they wouldn't stop. And then it just got physical and I had to get physical with him.

Wow. But it could have went way bad. But the thing with Snoop, Floyd, and Shaq, they can all say that as a bodyguard, Adam Plant did his job. They all seen me get down. And even another incident with Floyd that we had over in Mexico one time, we had gotten into a little situation, but that was handled. So they all seen me active.

And like I say, as a bodyguard, you do want to prevent things if you can, but if it has to go there, then you you know, you got to be ready for it. Floyd ran deep, though, right? He had like eight bodyguards or something. When I started with him, it was Big Mark, rest in peace, Big Church, who got me my job, and two other guys, JT and Stack. yeah, my Uso homies, yeah. So it was five of us at first. And then it went down to four of us, and then it would change here and there, and then it ended up being about eight of us.

Damn. But me and Big Church, we were the main guys. You were leading that. They used to call us the Great Wall. So when you would see us two come through the door, you knew Floyd was right in the middle of it. Yeah. Yeah, man.

I feel that. I hired bodyguard once. And the problem with me, dude, because I'm 6'6", so if I'm taller and bigger than my bodyguard, I'm like, why am I even paying you at this point? You know what I mean? Well, you need to bring that money to Adam Plant. That's how you go out.

Yeah, for real. But, I mean, I would tell people it's always good to have security than not because you just never know when something's going to happen, man. You never know. You never know. Especially in L.A.? Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

I'm from South Central, so I can attest. You know. Yeah. I grew up in the gang era. I don't go there alone anymore, for real. Yeah, so everybody who came from my era, we know how the streets can get. And the thing is, I would tell anybody, it's good to know people in every city. It's good to know people, man, because you always want to have allies.

You always want to have people that you can call in case things go left. That's wise. That's great that's just, that's wise. That's great advice, man. That's wise. Because too many people put all their eggs in one city and then they go to the West Coast or something. Yeah, because, you know, everybody thinks that they hood is harder than the next. And I'm here to tell you it's not. You know, now the gang banging did originate in Los Angeles as far as colors being attached to a gang. That did come from L.A., but every city got a hood.

Everybody got shooters and killers everywhere all over the world. For sure. I mean, I've traveled the world, so I know this for a fact. And I'm going to tell you, some of the most gangster shit I've ever seen was in Africa. Africa? So I was in Africa with Snoop Dogg. This was 2006. He did a concert over there with him and Jay-Z and I think it was Mary J.

Blige, Busta Rhymes, a couple of other people. Man, they had security going through the crowd with hyenas and machetes. No way. Get out of the way. I mean, I mean i was like damn i'm on stage like hyenas and machetes damn i said no i ain't no i ain't seen no shit in america like that yeah so so you know again when people think that just their neighborhood is the only hood out now i'm here to tell you player player, everybody got a hood. Everybody got them guys everywhere you go.

So respect everybody's neighborhood and their block where they're from. Absolutely. Did you get approached growing up to join a gang or group of people? I did. I grew up in the Crip area, and all of my brother, a lot of my homies was, you know, banging and stuff like that. But graduating from Dorsey High School where it was mostly Bloods in that area, I got to know a lot of them. So I know some of everybody, Crip, Blood, SA, whatever it is. And my thing is I'm Adam Plant.

You know, I represent myself as a man. So I deal with everybody. So I'm not, you know i represent myself as a man so i deal with everybody so i'm not i don't single myself out to any one group i like to be able to bring people together you know me and the the growth in life is especially from a man is that you have to grow up you know you could be where you're from and and um love your neighborhood and the people you grow up with but you have to elevate as a human being. You know, if I'll be 50 years old next year, it's like how would I look trying to bang on somebody?

I'm like, dude, what the hell did you get out of life? So grow, mentally grow, physically grow, and be who you're supposed to be as a human being. I love that. And you seem to have that mindset at an early age. Yeah, man, because with me, athletics was the things that, you know, I always wanted to be a football player. You know, I loved playing basketball.

And then coming up, I did track. I was good at shot put and disc. I actually won the gold medal in both. Damn. In the Junior Olympics in Southern California at Chafee College. This was the early 80s. I won the gold and disc, gold and shot put. Played soccer.

Sports always kept me busy. And just seeing the realities of what happened in the hood, looking at my brother and some of the older homies and what they was doing and stuff like that, I knew that's not what I wanted to become. So I'm glad that athletics, you know, sports kept me out of a lot of stuff, a lot of nonsense. Absolutely. And that's the path for a lot of athletes that grew up in rough neighborhoods, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's tough, man. Because it's like one thing, you know, it could say it could be like five guys, you guys all grow up. Four of them end up being gang members. You're the athlete. Now, you still affiliated with them guys because they're your homies. You grew up with them. They're like your brothers.

But you took a different path. Your path was like, no, I want to go play football, basketball, baseball, whatever it is. I'm still your homeboy. But I know the route you guys are going, that's not constructive to what I want to become. So even though I'm going to do my thing, I'm going to still show loyalty because we grew up together, but people just go different paths.

Absolutely. You saw that happen with John Morant. Yeah, yeah. I seen that way before John Morant, just with me and different other people I grew up with, there were some extremely great athletes where I grew up in South Central. You know what I mean? But for whatever reason, a lot of guys made bad decisions, so the world never got to see them.

And I could truly say this. Everybody that made it to the nfl the nba or the mlb weren't always the best athlete there were guys that were better than them and they know it but the guys who did made it made better decisions wow you know i'm saying that's crazy to think about right yeah because like every every professional league, they do consist of great athletes. But, again, they weren't always the best one. They might have had two or three guys they grew up with that they know could jump higher, that were faster, would have been a better linebacker or runbacker or old line, deep lineman, whatever.

But for whatever reason, they made bad decisions so they didn't get as far as this guy got. So at the end of the day, man, it comes down to making great choices, and that's why it was important to me to be a great dad to my kid because especially my son playing ball, I wanted him to make good choices. You know what I mean? And sometimes you need a father figure to help direct those choices in your life yeah you know father figure is crucial man yeah yeah because there's a lot of single parents right now but it's tough i would tell any woman who says oh you know i don't need

no man no no no millions of women have done it by themselves you know my mom was a single mom but you know to have a man in your child's life, especially their dad, for a young man and for a young woman, they need that. They need that father. I grew up single mother too, but I didn't know how to do a lot of shit growing up, for real. I didn't have that father figure.

It's crucial. What would your advice be to people starting up entrepreneurship coming from your background? Know that it's going to be a hard road. Know that it's going to take a lot of sacrifice. Know that you can't sleep eight hours a day and think you're going to be a successful person. It's no way possible. If I get three to four hours of sleep, I'm getting a lot.

If I get that a day, I'm getting a lot. I know we got the best tasting cheesecakes, right? But I need the world to know that. So if it takes me going out to Southern California, Arizona, Utah, all over Vegas, driving to Dallas, driving to New York, you know, if you're taking it. You drove to New York? I haven't yet, but I plan on doing so.

I mean, I drove my son to Williamsburg, Virginia back in the day from Vegas for a football camp. So if I did that for him for a camp, you think I ain't going to do that for my own product? Damn right. So my advice would be be willing to do whatever it takes to get your product out there. It's like rappers have been doing it for years.

Yes, sir. Sir. There it is. Taste your cheese, man. Hey, best cheesecakes in the world, man. Best cheesecakes in the world best cheesecakes in the world guys and i've had a lot of cheesecakes too yeah so you you know i know i'm from jersey that's the home of yeah yeah so so uh to to finish answering the question be uh again just be willing to go and do whatever it takes to get your product whatever it is is, out into the world. So that's the answer to that. Now, to talk about this, the reason I can also tell people that these are the best cheesecakes

in the world is because of this. As a bodyguard, I've traveled the world. Last year alone in 2023, I was in New Zealand and Australia with Snoop Dogg on a tour with him. And then I came back here to Vegas for like five days. Floyd had contacted me and asked me to go to Dubai with him. While I was in Australia and New Zealand and Dubai, I tried cheesecakes in all the cities I was in, right?

And nothing close. Nothing even close. I love it. And then prior to that, back in the day when I was traveling with Snoop in London, had cheesecake there. I've been to every state in America going on tour with Snoop and different places with Floyd and Shaq. Had cheesecake everywhere.

You know, New York, Chicago, all that. And like I say, there's no ever a diss to anybody else. You know, you can make cheesecake all you want. We're just saying that nobody tastes like ours. I'll vouch for that. Where can people order those, man?

You can order your Tasty Tease Cheesecakes if you're in Las Vegas at www.tastyteascheesecakes.com or you can just text me directly at 702-443-8769. I prefer people to text me because I like to be one-on-one with every customer. Your phone's about to blow up, man. I love it. Anything else you want to promote, man? I just with every customer, you know what I mean? Your phone's about to blow up, man. Yeah. I love it.

Anything else you want to promote, man? Well, I just want to say thank you to you, man, for having me on this platform because this is big, man. I've been watching your show for a while now on Instagram, and I'm like, damn, I was thinking about it not too long ago. I said, man, I hope I can do that podcast one day. Oh, yeah. So I appreciate it. Thank you for that opportunity and again just tell everybody if you want the best tasting cheesecakes

in the world Tasty T's Cheesecake is the number one tasting cheesecake in the world nothing even close bars alright thanks for coming on brother

thank you sir absolutely thanks for watching guys order some cheesecakes see you next time Tasty T's