With The Perrys - Storytime with Preston Perry Part 2

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

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Hey, Saints, how are you? What's up with y'all? It's been such a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long. Since I left you. Time. Without a rhyme, I'm stuck to step two. Rheum. Rhinestone.

It's not that. But we're trying something new this time, first of all. Second of all, no, first of all, we had a baby. We have had a baby. Yeah, that's how we introduced, I'm tired, the last season, which was, oh, sorry, we ain't been here because we had a baby. We had another one. Yeah. In the meantime. We have a lot of babies. Now we have four. But we're done. So we're going to put a praise on it. Second of all, we tried something new this time. We're on YouTube. So you

might be listening to us or you might be looking at us. I don't know. But either way, I think it's kind of cool. Yeah, man. Only downside is I had to put on real clothes and makeup. But your face is Michael Jackson beat, though. It's not. It is. It's not. Yeah. It's not.

You got the little Prince of Persia eyes, fleek. It's not. But. You so beautiful. Anywho. One of our top rated podcasts of last season is a surprising one. Is it one of them or is it the top? The top.

Yes. I can't, you know, give it away this soon. I got to set it up. So we talked about church hurt. We've talked about. conflict and marriage. We've talked about pornography. We've talked about the black church.

We've talked about cancel culture. Entit of cancel culture means we talked about Bill Cosby now. Jesus in therapy. Him giving pills and quailutes to people and, you know, basically being a necrophiliac, but that's a whole other conversation altogether. You want to understand why I think that? You have to understand.

This is a strong, like, distraction, rabbit hole. but there is something particularly devious about an individual who only wants to have sex with you if you can't move yeah that's all i'm saying it's kind of sick yeah anyway she's not moving let's go that's so nasty it's so yeah you're mine not supposed to laugh at that so none of those are the number one the number one podcast of all three seasons is story time with Preston Perry. Why do you think people it is it is you're special you're popular you're loved why do why do you think that people are so impressed I guess by your stories because people love drama you think so yeah all my stories were like uh filled with drama no yeah they're mad dramatic yeah it's the light that I came from no no no more light work because like

Preston was like you should do a story time with Jackie and it's like I don't even have impressive stories no she thinks she doesn't y'all I grew up in the suburbs it doesn't matter no it does because most of your stories are because you grew up on the suburbs you are a hood baby no you grew up in the suburbs it was a black suburb let's be clear head is toes in the hood like this like a couple blocks away no like you can you can have a great day in your neighborhood or you can lose your life but like I went home and we ate dinner and like I didn't have a had your life. And so I feel like your life already comes with a world of stories. I ate dinner at my house. Did you? I went home and I ate dinner. Like how did it go home? I'm not saying

you didn't eat. I'm not saying you didn't like you starved. I'm just saying our contexts were different. It's a little different. Because hood people have a lot of stories. You know why? Because y'all don't be going home. That's the difference. Y'all be out in these streets all night. Ain't no like, because there ain't even a light. It's not for ever. It's not. There's not even a. a light to tell you to go home. That's not indicative to everybody who grew up in the hood. My situation was unique because my mom worked a lot. And so like she just taught me how to like, you know, fin for myself. You know what I'm saying? That's beautiful. So let's start. So what we want to talk about? So there's a story that begins in a basement. Oh, that's story. Okay.

See, every time I talk about these, these stories, why are you taking my coffee? Because the sound of the styrophone. Oh, my gosh. If it's bothering me. Jackie has this thing with sounds, everything irritates her. Sound matters. It doesn't irritate me. It's just,

ah. First of all, I want to just say, when I do storytime repressing, it's like I'm in the therapy session because I have to like relive trauma all the time, right? And so this first story is about when I was, I think I was 20, 19 to 20. I had this friend. His name was Larry, and I met Larry through rapping. Back in the day, I used to rap. I used to battle rap

And that's how I met Larry So me and Larry didn't grow up with one another I met him like later on in my life And so we kind of connected through like hip hop rapping He used to rap I used to rap So the funny thing is that you're looking at the camera When we are talking Oh I'm sorry

It's okay You thought you was on Bold TV for like 16 seconds Hey this is another episode of Bold TV You saw Kim and a camera What we live the left room But this is 30 minutes with the paris I'll look at you up Beautiful face.

Completely different platform. So, such a jerk. So, I forgot what I was saying. Yeah, so Larry, right? He was a friend that I met later on in my life. And when I met Larry, he used to always take me over people houses to like, like, let people hear me rap and stuff like that. And so if anybody know anything about Chicago, you know this about Chicago because you live there for smaller spell. Five, yes.

You don't go to people neighborhoods. You don't go to neighborhoods you don't know about You know what I'm saying? So if you're from the Rosen area You stay in Rosen If you're from Chatham, you stay in Chatham If you're from Englewood, you're from Englewood, you're from West Garfield Park, you stay in West Garfield Park

If you're from the project, stay in the project. Whole map. Right. And so he was from this neighborhood called Chatham, right? I don't know, nobody over there. But you go over there, I went over there because he was well-respecting in his neighborhood. So he took me over at his friend's house

and we go in his basement. The basement off-river, just janky. Right. And so we go in the basement, dark, can't really see nothing. We walk into the basement and we walk in the basement. We walk in his room and that's where the studio was at. His friend had a studio, right?

And the studio was like in this beat up looking closet, but they had like decent equipment. So I was like, okay, this is a real studio, I guess. Right. And so I guess Larry was trying to knock out two birds in one stone because he wanted his friends to him he rap, but he also wanted to meet this girl that was there, which he didn't tell me about. And so I get in there, he tells me all my friends are on their way, yada, yada, yada. They, at the stone, they're going to be here in a minute.

And so he starts, like, you know, caking with this girl. They sit down, talking or whatever. And then all of a sudden, him and this girl, they get up and they leave, leave out the room. And so I'm thinking to my mind, okay, he's probably going there and, you know, send. Yep. Right. Right. Right.

She said cake. And so I'm like, okay, whatever. So we in a room I'm in the room with one guy that I don't know He has not spoken to me because Dudes are typically rooted in him Right, right And so

All of a sudden two dudes walk in the room Where I'm at And they look at me With like this This like Don't I know you To the point where I literally thought They was gonna say

Like don't I know you from somewhere But he didn't say that He just kind of like looked at me And then walked out And then another dude came in as if like they went and told him that I was in there. He came in. He looked at me.

Same little head nod. I'm like, okay. Like, who are you? You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, maybe they're just looking at me because they don't know who I am. I'm in a-hood. I'm in their house. Larry's not here.

When Larry gets back, he's going to straighten this all out. Honestly, you shouldn't have trusted him just because his name is Larry and he was born in the 80s. What? Why they name me Larry and you born in 88? What a hat? That don't have nothing to do with nothing. That's reckless.

Might as well name him Rufus. Stop interrupting my story. You said Rufus. Go ahead. And so. Marvin. Right after that, all of these dudes come in and they're like, where are you from? Like, I'm like, I'm from South Side, yada yada yada, yada, came with Larry.

And like, ain't you such and such? And I'm like, no, I'm not him. And he was like, no, you look just like the dude who broke my friend arm. Supposedly they got into like a... Plot twist. Yeah. Supposedly they got into like this big gang fight. with some other dudes.

And I looked like a dude who broke one of their friend's arm, like with a bat. Like it was a big fight, I guess. And so I'm like, no, I'm not him. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know who y'all think I am. And one of the dudes walked up to me, he was like, no, you look exactly like that dude. And I'm like, no, I'm not him. You know, and then the pride of me wanted to get aggressive.

But I was like, they'd probably kill me. It's not the time. You know what I'm saying? So I might as well humble myself, you know what I'm saying? And so they walked out. They was like, okay, he owned his way. you know what I'm saying uh we'll see when they get here and so they coming in coming in or whatever they actually came in one time and then like looked at me again and then they left and

came back and they sat down and they literally started talking to each other about me as if I wasn't in the room like man like bro they're gonna man we're gonna dog walk this dude if that's really him like bro like and the other dude looked at me like you scared ain't you i'm just sitting there quiet like so where you scared Jesus the scared isn't the word frightened. I was kind of terrified. Because here's the thing. Here's the thing.

Here's the thing. I'm sure you couldn't. They couldn't see it though. Oh, no. Yeah. No. Because here's the thing. Here's the thing about being in somebody else's neighborhood when you know these dudes is about their life and you know that you can get beat up or you lose your life.

You can't really try to act super tough because people are going to test your toughness. Right. But you can't act like you're scared. You know what I'm saying? people going to take advantage of that as well. And so you kind of have to just be neutral. And so I told them that I wasn't him. You know what I'm saying?

And I prayed. I didn't even know the Lord at the time, but I prayed. And I was texting Larry like crazy. That's the thing. I text Larry probably like seven, eight times. You had a flip-on. No, I have a flip-form. I had one of them, um, well, sidekick.

Side kicks. Look at you. Yeah, man. Okay, you was advanced. You know what I'm saying? With a little slider. You know what I'm saying? I was like, Larry.

Like, what? Where are you, bro? Like, yo, yo, your homie's fin to hurt me. You're from to kill me. They think I'm somebody else. Larry, bro, bro. They called him. Called him.

They called him. Larry is not answering the phone. Supposedly, he went in another room, but he left the house. I thought he was in another room, but he left the house with this girl. And so I'm like, bro, like, bro, please call me back or whatever. And so all of a sudden, the dude who supposedly I broke his arm, he pull up. And when he pull up, you know, I said, I could kind of see his car, like, drive. coming in the driveway through the window in the basement or whatever and they like all such and such here you know what I'm saying like it's the moment of truth like if he you know what I mean like I wanted to do said I ain't gonna do nothing to you I'm just gonna let him dog walk you you know what I'm like oh my gosh these dudes is gonna kill me in here and so as soon as he walks in the house you hit a door you hit a door clothes all of them just leave out the room and I'm just in there by myself and I hear them talking in the basement and I'm sitting there like oh my gosh am I fin of die I'm gonna die I literally

head my head down and then I heard the door crack, crack open and this dude peek his head in the, in the door, he looked at me and I look at him and he go, that ain't him. And then he came from around the door with this huge AR-15 as if he was going to like put bullets in your body. Put bullets in my body, yeah. I'm sorry. And yeah, it was the scariest moment. Now, some people might be wondering, where's Larry? Probably like 10 minutes later, 10 minutes later, Larry text me. mean what's going on tell him i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna hit him hit him then i hear him call one of his homeboys like man that's my that's my that's my guy larry come back's like man man this is pressing woo-woo and i'm like bro i'm never going anywhere with you ever again no you shouldn't that's

i mean psalms one-one blessed are those who are not in the council of the wicked but look at you but i wasn't a christian either i get it i'm just saying that was a real life consequence of be you should have known when that dude told you his name and that his name was Larry. What is Larry? There was a problem. There was a spirit of confusion. What do you have against Larry's? A spirit of confusion on that man.

Girl, he was crazy. So you're alive. The Lord knew that Jackie Hill needs to meet Presbybury and have four babies. So praise God. Remember the time you knock me out, though? Sure. Do you remember it? Funny thing is, the title of this is story.

Storytime with Preston. So I think the assumption of everybody is that this is about you. But see, here's the thing, though. But you bring me up. This still is story time with Preston because it involved me. But tell the people how you've knocked me out. You tell them. Okay, so I was playing with Jackie because I like to play a lot.

Jackie don't like to play a lot. So we was play fighting. I think I was tugging at your shirt. I don't remember either. And Jackie goes, Jackie has this thing when you play with her. she has like a 30 or 40 second play period and then after the 30 second play period she gets extremely irritated

and she wants you to stop playing with her the way I'm set up I don't like to stop playing that quick I want to keep going and then the way I'm set up and then the thing the way I'm set up when you tell me to stop that kind of mean keep going

you're a child you know what I'm saying and so she was like I don't want to play no more Preston I don't want to play no more present I don't want to play no more pressing and so i'm like okay she's like no seriously right did she always got to do the the the like the final no for real i don't want to play no more because you don't get it apparently like it is finished like i'm supposed to listen to her yeah you know what i'm saying so i was like okay i see her getting irritated you know i'm saying like i just got to play with her one more time so i go

up to her i i i think i grabbed your shirt and pulled it real hard and you turned around and tried to hit me real fast and I dodged it and I turned around to run from you and I didn't see the door and I just run straight into the door boom but you have to be clear it wasn't like the flat part of the door it was the like the the side of the door with the hinges and so he basically hit his head on the on the corner yeah of the door but I'll tell this part so this is the thing you spend you spend it's spent it's spent yeah okay is it spent? is it spent? Spun? Oh man, I need a nap.

You spunt around, or is it spun? You spun around. Thanks, Kim. I'm a biographer as teaching the people who's supposed to be good at words. That feels better. How to pronounce things. You spun around. This is what happens when you have a newborn.

Yeah. And you try to report. Yeah, because you're more tired than me. I can see it in your eyes. No, I'm exhausted. So you spun around. And then he fell on the ground. And originally, I think I thought, like, you hurt yourself, therefore you fail.

But I knew something was wrong because you fell and start snoring. And I was like, oh, he, he's like, went to sleep immediately. But it also comforted me. Night night. Because the fact you were snoring meant you were breathing. So all until it was, I got on the ground and I just rubbed your back until you woke up. That's another thing about Jackie, y'all. That's another thing about you, Jackie.

You can be dying and Jackie would just say, you need some water. That's not true You just need some water No that's not true I don't get emotional in high chaotic or situations I get logical

So to me Like because emotion Is not gonna help the situation Me being like No no no no No like I need to observe Oh he's breathing therefore I mean he's ignoring therefore

He's breathing therefore he's okay And I just have to rub his back Until he gets out of this And they give him some water When he wakes up and that's that That's that right I guess Like I'm the kind of person

That's save your life Because I ain't over there crying about the fact that you got hit by a car. I'm actually calling the ambulance. Okay. No. Anywho, so he woke up and then he was, he shook his, she shook, he shook, he shook, he shook, he shook,

you shook it off and you was like, uh, no, it's cool because I, I've been knocked out before. And I was just like, this is, this is a lot of like order. Yeah, because the thing, because you, to you, you, you actually look like you enjoyed it. It was fun. That's a problem. So here's the thing about getting knocked out. I tell people all the time, you shouldn't be afraid to find.

Because when you fight, your adrenaline is so high, you don't feel the punches anyways. And if you happen to, like, the worst case scenario is you get knocked out. The worst thing about getting knocked out is the embarrassment. But if you get over that embarrassment, you know you're going to win something, you're going to lose some. Like, it don't even hurt. You sleep. You can't even feel it. Do you now understand how being a hood baby frames all of your stories?

No, here's the thing. I'm just trying to encourage people out there who, who. To fight? I'm not trying to encourage the people to fight. That's not what I'm trying to say. I'm just saying if somebody attack you, you shouldn't be afraid to defend yourself because the worst case scenario is getting knocked out

and getting knocked out is not as bad as most people think it is. That's all I'm saying. You've got to feed the logic in that. I've been knocked out before. Got to see the logic in that. You're 72. Like what? Okay, go ahead.

What's the next door? I don't know. You tell me. So Preston, you're studying. used to work for ADT, correct? And he was a salesman where he would go door to door to sell people alarm systems.

I'm pretty sure that if you knocked on my door, I wouldn't buy it from you. I would prefer to go to Radio Shack or Best Buy or Amazon. You wouldn't buy nothing from anybody. I would not because you could be anybody. You could be out here with your little slacks on and your little t-shirt with your little pad talking about something.

I'm going to sell this to you when really you just want to take all my money. but that was what you was doing and it was working for you but one day you knocked on the door and uh that's why we can stand people like you that's okay uh you knocked on the door and and the dude that answered it was on some yeah yeah so just to get people context so i used to work for adet and i was a door-to-door salesman so you just said exactly what i said no but but i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna say some more stuff and so my job was to basically train people I was in the field two, but my job was to train people to knock on doors, to get in the house, to do a credit check over the phone. So they had to kind of not give me, they didn't have to give me that credit

score, but they had to put that credit score in the phone. And then I had to get them, I had to convince them to write me a $99 check and then leave. And so I got really good at it. And so they made me a team leader. And so what I did when I led my team out in the field was I told them, do not be afraid of the hood like because in the hood people need alarm systems and so we went to neighborhoods if you're familiar with chicago we was in inglewood we was in roseland we was in chathom we was in west garfield park we was in all of these neighborhoods that was that was bad or whatever and i'll tell people a lot of people in the hood don't have good credit it's just that's just a reality but you're going run into five or six people who do you're going to run into that lady who've been living there since the

60s her credit scores 800 you're going to run into them so i'm like right and so if you knock on a hundred doors If 90 people say no 10 people say yes If only five of those people have to have good credit And if you get five sales a week You can make a lot of money Look at you Right

And so that was my That was Bowel TV before Bowel TV Absolutely and so that was That was my thing You know what I'm saying You go to other neighborhoods They won't even open the dough But in the hood

They might open the door to talk to you Or they might try to shoot at you That's just the risk Got it we had to take right And so And so I went to this one house Right And we was in this neighborhood

called Englewood. I knocked on this door and the dude opened the door like as soon as I knocked on the door that's what's crazy. I was like, would you buy the door? Would you just walk and pass? And so as soon as I knocked on the door, he opened the door and he didn't even like look at me. He kind of like looked past me. So I was like, you know,

but I'm so friendly to get in the house because that's 50% of the battle and so I knock on the door, he opens the door and I go, my whole spill. Hi, sir. Have you heard about the break-ins in the neighborhood? We're here giving away free alarm systems, yada, yada, yada. And he goes, come in. And that's the first thing he said. So I'm thinking, okay, he must really want this alarm system.

You know what I'm said? And so I come in. And as soon as I come in, I'm not even exaggerating, Jack. As soon as I come in, he closes the door. And he locks all nine of his locks. Okay. Like, ch-ch-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-. So I think to myself...

That's intense. this dude is like really safe like he's just you've probably been doing this for a long time so I'm like okay whatever so I sit down and as soon as I sit down I smell this I smell this really strong pee smell okay does he have a cat I didn't see no cat but it smelled like pee pee he's grown-up pee pee and so I'm like the house was kind of like organized and so I'm like maybe somebody just pee maybe he had like a little cousin or something

just up on the couch or whatever you know what I'm saying and I'm like okay so I go on to my spill and I'm telling him like you know all the free things that he can get

I'm telling him about his door chime that he can get for free and a little you know what I'm saying the little ADT sticker and all it is and like man we can get something for the back door the front door

the windows you'd be all covered whatever so after I get done with my spill he literally doesn't say anything okay he's just sitting there but is he looking at you

no he's not looking his head is down. That's a good question. His head is down like this the whole time. And so I go, sir, would you like to try one of alarm systems out today? You know what I'm saying? And then nothing. He says nothing.

Okay, hold on. Wait. How tall is he? He's like six, three. Oh, he's tall. He's tall. How much you weigh? He's a big dude.

He's probably like, he was one of those like those, he wasn't extremely big. He was one of those semi- slim dudes with a belly. Okay. So he had a stomach. How old was he? He had to be like in his late 40s. Okay. And what do you have on?

A wife beat her, some pajama pants and some flip-flops. Okay. Don't this help? Don't give us some type of like, you know, picture. With a grungy black and white beard. Okay. You can tell he hasn't had a haircut in like. A minute.

A minute. That's where the piecemeal was. Look like Frederick Doug is a little brother. Okay. You know what I'm saying? And so I go again. I say, sir, would you like to trouble in our alarm systems? You want a sticker?

Sir, he goes, you kill my mom in 78. And I go, huh? He goes, you don't want to kill my mom in 78. You don't want to kill my mom in 78. You don't want to kill my mom in 78. You don't want to kill my mom in 78. Wait, don't make me laugh. I want to stay in character.

You don't want to kill my mom in 78. You kill my mom in 78 So he kept saying it Yes And so I say sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sir What happened You don't want to kill my mom in 78 man And I go sir

I was born in 1986 I did not kill your mama But I want to know what happened So I'm trying to like Get him on my side Get him on my side No no you kill my mom in 78 And like he's literally like pointed at me

And so I say sir I don't know who killed your mama But it wasn't me I can show you you my ID. No, no, you killed my mama. And I go, sir, I say you having a bad time. I'm just get up.

I'm just go. And I'm just leave. I'm just go. As soon as I get up, he goes, sit down. Did he really drag it out? Or you're just putting all that. No, I'm not even exaggerating. Sit up.

Like his veins is popping out of his neck jacket. And he hit that little vein in his forehead. I don't know if you ever saw Samuel O. Jackson in the movie Jungle Fever when he was like, I'm a crackhead. You got to look at that movie. He looked just like it. And so me not knowing what to do and him saying is so authoritative. So I sat down, right? And so at this point, I started to think, Preston, you have to go into survival mode.

You got to go. Or you're going to die just like all the other people did. in his house because at that point you couldn't convince me that he didn't have bodies buried under his kitchen and so I start to like look around the house about what I can do to you know defend myself and so I was like man like I'm I see a set of knives in the kitchen I'm going to run so I'm run to the knives you know all his doors is locked I was like man maybe I can you know in in Inglewood a lot of the houses they had big windows in the front of the house or whatever and so I was like man, maybe I'm just going to just go ahead first, shoulder first out of the window and break

his window to get out. And so I started to try to rationalize it again. I'm like, sir, like, do you want to talk about it? Do you want to talk about it? And he goes a second time. No, you kill my mom in 78. You kill my mom in 78. But this time, he's like crying and lamenting over his mom.

Uh-huh. No, you kill my, you was one of the moes who killed my mom in 78. Explain to the people what a mo is. So a mo is a gang, right? This is a gang called Blackstone. They used to call Blackstone Rangers back in the 60s and 70s. But for short now, all the kids and all the people in Chicago called him Moles. So apparently some Moles killed his mama in 78.

And so I say, sir, it wasn't me. I'm so sorry. Do you want me to pray for you? You know what I'm saying? He was like, no. And all he can say was I killed his mom in 78. And so like he's literally, he's weeping. He's weeping on the couch crying.

And so I'm like, man, this is my chance to try to like make my chance to try to like make my second exit. And so I get up and I saw like tiptoeing towards the door. And as soon as I get up, he'd do the same thing. So, I was like his head shaking. I'm like this dude is crazy. This time I didn't listen. I was like, I got to try to make a run for it. And so I said, sir, I have to go. I have to go. So I started walking towards the door real, real fast. And as I I started walking towards the door, he started to come at me, like, walk towards me, like, really fast. And Jackie, I cannot make this up when I tell you, with all of my body, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't

even think to do it. It was kind of just instinct. I rammed his torso with my whole body, like everything that I had in me, boom, and flipped him over the couch. And when I tell you, when I ran to the door, I unlocked every single lock. I could have won a war for, like, the fastest unlocker. I literally I literally locked

Every single lock Open the door And in his house had a screen door And it had one of the mesh nets You know what I'm saying That you can see out of I see you You know your materials

I didn't I didn't want to I didn't want to like Unlock the screen door too Because it looked confusing I just literally broke the net So the door was in place I literally went through the net And like made a run for it down the screen

The veil was removed Right Basically Yeah And I ran down the street. I saw my team manager at the end of the block and I'm telling him like, yo, this man just tried to kill me. He said, I killed his mama. He's like, what, what, what, what?

And so I'm like, yeah, this man tried to kill me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm going to take you back to the house. He's like, you know, on the phone about to call the police. As soon as we kind of get by the man house again, one of the neighbors was like, oh, I said, you ran into such and such. He is harmless. He ain't never did nothing. Nobody.

He ain't never laid a hand on nobody. I'm like, why are he talking about I killed his mama? He said, somebody did kill his mom. in 78. That is a true story and he went crazy. You know what I'm saying? And he's been in his house ever since then. He used to live. His aunt used to be his caretaker, but she died. And so he has a caretaker who comes to the house sometimes. Sometimes she doesn't. He was like, well, basically they told me that his caretaker had like abandoned him. And so that's the reason why his house he'd be smelling like, you know, pee and heavy urine. But they said he literally did lose

his mind. And so, like, he just lives there and, you know, and, you know, and taking care of with a caretaker. But I didn't know that. I thought he was going to kill me. Do you realize that the average individual doesn't have these kinds of stories? Everybody who sold ADT and inner city Chicago has these stories. Okay. So, not the average person.

No, not the average. Because the average person also doesn't sell alarm system. To this day, that was my high. highest paying nine to five job to this day okay why you quit poetry no it is because you went to radio shack mm-mm yeah that was before when we were married you were working at radio oh yeah i quit now now I remember I quit because uh my sister's boyfriend was my manager uh and he started hating on me oh and then and then we um our boss boss he had like an independent like uh contract with ADT and he lost it and I didn't want to work for nobody else and it just kind of like

failed to the grass. Okay. We're getting in the woods now. So we need one more story because this is 30 minutes with the period, it's not 42. So I'm going to tell the story about you now. Wow. Because so it started off with me, then you, then me, now you. Let's talk about the time you rejected me the first time I bought you a gift. Go ahead. Okay. So Jackie's very mean, right? And so You say I'm paying the picture for the people That's ridiculous I'm not No no

I'm just frank No no you you aren't mean But you were very very honest And I feel like when we Transition into like a romantic relationship I felt like I kind of handled it better than you You was no no It was kind of weird for you

It wasn't weird for me God made it painfully obvious That you was my wife That's ridiculous It's not ridiculous To think that you handled it better Because you handled it differently I'm talking about not

I'm talking about better in the context. You mean the transition? Yes. Sure. But the problem is you didn't read the room. So this is the context. What?

We were friends. We were friends for three years, right? Friends, literally. I'm giving you advice about your girlfriend's or your wannabe girlfriend and all the things. Jackie always look at key head wisdom. Appreciate it. I gave you that props on that when he was meeting. I would pay for your meals sometimes.

You would pay for my meal. Like it was super copacetic. Then the Lord moves on both of our hearts individually to be like. like, hey, this might be, you know, a relationship worth pursuing and, you know, doing it all the things. And so, you was crushing on me. Listen. Tell the people.

Listen. Listen. Listen. When you said, hey, I feel like the Lord has put it on my heart to pursue you, I'm like, cool, whatever. A month later, I come to Chicago for a poetry event, the switch hadn't switched to me. Because we still are like friends. And so we literally talked on the phone and we was like.

But it's not like we was we was we was caking. We was kind of caking. No, we were not. I am not even a caker. No, no. I've been married to you eight years and I still don't cake. I remember when we first, when we first established, you literally call me. So are we talking now?

Yeah, it's not caking. That's kind of caking. That's establishing where we are. I read your smile through the phone. When you said that, you were smiling. Wow. You was like, all right. And then when I said, yeah, I, like, in my heart, I knew you was smiling.

You're literally imagining things. You like it. Too bad. There was no FaceTime. So what I'm saying is when you introduce the idea of saying, or not the idea, but the reality that you have bought me a gift, I already get anxiety when people get me gifts because I usually won't like them. And I have to tell you that I don't like it. So but here's the thing. Because I don't want to lie to you. Okay. So it's my turn to talk right now. Because here's the thing. When I gave you the gift, you would have thought that I was proposing to you the way you. the way you responded. That's my only argument.

And so, okay, I'm going to be fair. Maybe I shouldn't get you a gift that early. It was somebody's, you know, idea. I'm not going to say his name, Kevin. It's somebody but the spirit. Kevin. Kevin told me, he was like, yo, y'all talking now. You need to let her know, you know what I'm saying?

Like, you really into her. She likes chains. She always wearing these little funky chains. You know what I'm saying? And these little cool chains to match her outfit. Buy her chain. So I didn't have a lot of money. So I didn't go to Zills.

I went to Zara. Not even. You probably went to Charlotte Ruse. No. No, that wasn't Zara. That wasn't Zara. That wasn't H&M. Wait, the way you just threw me under the bus that fast?

That was too fast. Like, you didn't have to go there. Because Zara? Zara had $18 chains. You didn't go to Zara. You didn't even walk in Zara. And so I bought you a coat from Zara in 2016. Gosh, your memory's so good.

Like, let's be clear. It wasn't Charlotte Ruse because I didn't, look, listen, I don't know. Clares? I don't know. Nothing about a roost. I never went to a roost. Claire. First of all, it was H&M, something.

It was one of those. It was one of those. Okay. Go ahead. And I don't go on Clares either. You know you got some earrings from Clares. I never wore earrings. Okay.

So I think it was H&M. So anyways, I borrowed this chain, right? And so we had this event downtown Chicago. We were both doing poetry. And I'm obviously. So I say, Jackie, come to the car room with me real quick. I want to give you something. And so she comes away.

whatever, we sit in the car. And we in my car and I'm like, I pull it out. I'm like, I wanted to give you this to just let you know that I was thinking about you. I give it to her and like, no, before I gave it to her, she goes, when I say, Jackie, I gave you a gift. She goes, why? And I'm like, that's an excellent question. I just wanted to give you a gift. And so as soon as I pulled it out, I pulled it out and I gave it to her, she just looked at it like it was diseased.

No. Yeah, you did. You was like, you took a quick look at it and you was like, oh, this is getting weird. This is getting weird. Listen, listen, listen. And I'm like, Jackie, listen. Emotionally, it was too much. It's like, wait.

We were just friends four weeks ago. Secondly, aesthetically, it was too much. Why? Because it was silver. You've never seen me wear silver anything. They didn't have gold. So just don't do it. Just don't even buy it.

give me a Starbucks gift card like something like that Snickers I don't know I'll enjoy anything and so the fact that you gave me a silver bracelet it was also offensive because it's like I already don't want the gift then it's a gift that somebody would get that hasn't even been paying attention to what I like and what I wear and so all of this together is just not it's just not that hurt you no you're good now I'm really good I'll be giving you bomb gifts you're better the shade no it's the shade because it's springtime and you're not you're throwing a all the shade in springtime. But anyways, you go, you, you, you go, ugh, she do this little thing with our arms.

Ugh, this is getting, this is getting weird. And then she just opens my car door and starts to walk back to the venue. She don't say bye, she don't say see you later, she don't say, I hope you have a good performance tonight. She don't say none of that. She just starts walking back towards the venue. And then you get weird again. Go ahead. I don't, I don't get weird.

No, you do. No, I get Preston. What did you say? I get Preston. What did you say? I said with a real. G supposed to say. Okay.

Watch your language. Watch my language. I knew what it was going to come out. Go ahead. I said what a real G is supposed to say when somebody is avoiding them. I walked up to you. I got you before you hit the dough. I grabbed your arm and I said, Jackie, I don't care what you do.

I'm not going to stop pursuing you. Yeah, I did. She had to know. I don't play with me. You don't think that's weird? No, that's not weird. You don't think that's extra? That's not weird.

You don't think that's intense. Because I felt like you. Awkward. Too much. I felt like you. Unnecessary? I felt like you were trying to push me away when I clearly heard God say, that's my wife. Wow.

That's your wife. We thank God for wisdom and growth because you wouldn't even do it. You would actually counsel men not to do that now. No, but see, here's the thing. You would say read the room. See, here's the thing. I had good discipleship back then because my disciples, my disciple that told me not to tell you that I felt like you were my wife. But I knew you were my wife.

And so all I said, I could have said, you're my wife, girl. It ain't got nothing to do with a bracelet. Nothing. But what I'm saying, you said, you said, was there something wrong with me stopping you and telling you? Yeah. What was wrong with that? That's weird. That's not weird.

Because you already see that I'm, like, I have, I'm emotionally distressed. Yeah, I was going to let you. And so you add to the distress by saying, oh, I ain't, I ain't going to stop. It's like, wait. It was just one last thing. I was going to leave you alone after that. You just had to know. I'm dealing with fatherless.

Like, I was fatherless and sexually abused. This is triggering to me. that I said I'm never going to stop pursuing you? Yeah. Have I stopped pursuing you since then? No. So I told the truth. Why is that a big deal?

You know what I'm saying? So that concludes this. No, no, no, I got some. Because I know we're going on 45 minutes. We are? And Kim's arm is tired. Okay. So here's the thing.

Everybody, all my friends was intimidated by Jackie. And I told everybody, I was like, no, this is my wife. And I don't care how much she rejects me. I'm not going to stop. persona. So I kept my word. So that concludes this episode of Storytime with Preston Perry. I really hope you all

were encouraged and inspired to do what? I have no idea. But you should pray for him because I would think that all of these stories, when you add them all up, they have to work together to give you PTSD on some level. And pray for you too. Yeah, because I'm with you.

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