Imperfect Scenarios Podcast
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Imperfect Scenarios Podcast
Laughter, Love, and Zombie Survival: A Journey Through Family Dynamics with Devin
*LOST EPISODE Date: January 2020*
Ever wondered what it’s like to be the center of attention wherever you go? Meet Devin, our lively guest from Allentown, Pennsylvania, whose charm and humor light up this episode. With a Puerto Rican dad and a Caucasian mom, Devin shares the fun side of his mixed heritage and how he seems to magnetize everyone, even straight men! Our banter takes us through hilarious tales from the neighborhoods of Lehigh Valley, where churches, Chinese restaurants, and liquor stores form the quirky "Holy Trinity" of every urban block.
Venture with us into some wild hypotheticals, as we debate survival strategies for a zombie apocalypse and weigh the tricky balance between parents and spouses in family dynamics. Can you really choose between money and happiness? We tackle these and more with a light-hearted spirit, sharing personal stories and unexpected insights. It’s a rollercoaster of laughter, candid moments, and thought-provoking conversations that challenge the way we view family ties and personal priorities.
Join us as we explore sibling relationships and the myriad ways families express love—often with playful insults and affectionate banter. Whether it's Mac's stories of band life with his brothers or the complex web of secrets and confessions in marriages, we look at how deeply intertwined our lives are with those of our closest kin. Through humor and heart, we examine the enduring bonds that pull us through, no matter how bizarre or challenging the scenario.
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Speaker 2:Yes sir, what up? What up? Have technical difficulties? Welcome back everybody. We have. My whole crew is here. We've been drinking a little bit but we got out a little late. Start we have a special guest tonight. We have my man, devin. Hey. Hey, what's good? Oh hey. So you know the tension's on you today. So I don't know if you like attention you have a lot of attention on you today Tell us a little about yourself, because the listeners don't know. Oh gosh, wait, you hear my voice. My voice sounds sexy, don't it?
Speaker 1:Who.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead. No, tell us about yourself.
Speaker 4:Tell us about yourself, um what do you want to know?
Speaker 5:my name's devon, how are you guys okay so how old are you?
Speaker 4:devon. I am 25. I'm gonna be 26 in may you're old. I know I'm like 80 in gay years.
Speaker 5:So you know, I wish that everybody could like if we had video, but I think that I might be staring at devon the entire time because he's so gorgeous.
Speaker 4:I think I just look so weird. That's what it is. It's the highway.
Speaker 5:I know I can spot a weirdo you guys, he's just like so pretty like I can't help myself is that my one time?
Speaker 2:you know my brother's like you know my brother's. Uh, he's predator, so I don't know, oh shit.
Speaker 5:He likes turning straight men gay.
Speaker 2:I don't do any. Excuse me, I don't do anything, I am myself.
Speaker 3:Now whatever happens happens.
Speaker 2:I can't help that.
Speaker 5:I wish you had predator music Right.
Speaker 2:You know what my next special effects is going. Wish you had predator music, right, I wish I. You know what my next, my next, my next special effects is going to be some predator music. So, devin, where are you from? I'm from Allentown, pennsylvania, born and raised Born and raised, born and raised Okay.
Speaker 4:I value my whole life tragically oh poor youth.
Speaker 2:Oh so okay, because it's not many people out there, so who?
Speaker 4:where are your? Where your parents are from, where your parents from? Uh, my dad's puerto rican, my mom's they're. He's from connecticut, but my mom's been from, like, the lehigh valley, my whole life too really okay, okay, and are they both puerto? Rican no, my mom is white, like yt white oh white, oh caucasian, I know, okay, I mean puerto ricans are like the white people of Spanish you think so.
Speaker 2:No, I think you guys are the Negroes of the Spanish.
Speaker 4:No, Dominicans are.
Speaker 3:No, there's definitely.
Speaker 5:Dominicans, puerto Ricans are some niggas.
Speaker 3:There are but more Dominicans, yeah, more Dominicans.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be honest with you All the Puerto Ricans I grew up with. They're straight Negroes, I know so, okay. Ringers I grow up with today is straight negro. I know, yeah, okay, so you're from allentown, I'm born and raised.
Speaker 4:Uh, what school. You went to allentown high school. No, um, for high school I moved to east end, which is still like the lehigh valley right same thing, because allentown was like ghetto, ghetto so eastern is ghetto too.
Speaker 2:Is that like the?
Speaker 4:pocono? You don't think so. Pocono is where he lives, his country yeah, that's country I'm.
Speaker 2:I live in a well water yeah, I have well water. Thank you, boo boo, exactly, I'm not drinking your. What is? What's the name of that town?
Speaker 5:um, the nasty, the nasty water town yeah, you know what I'm talking about New Orleans, flint.
Speaker 2:New Jersey. So you live in Flint, new Jersey.
Speaker 3:She's not even responding because she wants in on that apocalypse. I know she does listen. Do you think I can come to your house?
Speaker 5:that's what I'm saying I need to live off. Well, water has already cut me off so so what's good about lehigh valley?
Speaker 2:anything, anything nothing out, though they have a nice mall.
Speaker 4:The malls are really nice. Yeah, there's a casino lies. It's pretty, it's better than Newark Sorry.
Speaker 5:Shots fired. He said you live in the hood and there's shoot again every night.
Speaker 4:I parked my car and a homeless man asked me for a cheeseburger.
Speaker 2:I wasn't even out of my car. Wait, wait Time out. Where would you have pulled that from?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:I told you not to park. I told you to park on this block. Now, if you park on any other block, you're on your own.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, wait. Did a homeless man ask him for a cheeseburger?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:I could go for a cheeseburger. He parked on the next block.
Speaker 2:I told him to park on this block.
Speaker 3:Where did he think? The cheeseburger was coming from.
Speaker 1:He just got out of his car. Devin, you have to follow instructions when you come to Newark.
Speaker 5:I'm parked on car in the lane.
Speaker 2:He's on the next block. He has to cross the street to get his car. That's the next block where riff-raff happens. The police fill up their police cars here. Ain't nobody coming.
Speaker 4:I was like sir.
Speaker 2:I don't want no problems.
Speaker 4:I don't have no burgers.
Speaker 5:I'm just trying to walk down the block.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to go to my friend's house. I'm sorry. Well is, since when are they starting for cheeseburgers? No, there's a group home here. If he's probably coming from the group home probably.
Speaker 4:Cheeseburgers, though he had, like, a Chinese food bag, so I feel like he had Chinese food and he wanted a burger.
Speaker 5:You should have been like well, can you give me some Chinese food?
Speaker 3:You got an egg roll sir.
Speaker 2:Let me ask a question why is it a church, a Chinese restaurant and a liquor store in every corner in Newark?
Speaker 5:Because people need to pray about eating cheeseburgers. Oh bullshit. And Chinese food.
Speaker 2:That's a good question, right, think about it If you drive through Newark is a Chinese restaurant, is a church and is a liquor store on every block.
Speaker 4:It's like the Holy Trinity. That's all you need, I guess.
Speaker 3:You need, Jesus, a good egg roll and some vodka. No, but you need the vodka first. Right, and then you go to China. No the Chinese. Then you go to church, right, you pray it out. Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They know how to make money in the hood. Basically, you will always make money in the hood if you got those three establishments.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Period and I feel like any hood you go to it's not just Newark, but any hood you go to there is a holy trinity.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Jersey City too.
Speaker 1:Newark is just a microcosm of the rest of the hoods.
Speaker 3:You're using big words. That is a huge word. That's kind of sexy. Say it again that's your one word. Can you spell that for me, daddy?
Speaker 2:No spell it. I want you to explain what it is what.
Speaker 4:I want you to explain what it is what is that it was on his SAT Word of the Day app.
Speaker 5:It's one of those things where you don't need to explain it, you just have to keep saying it.
Speaker 2:But how we know it's a word though.
Speaker 5:It doesn't matter, say it slow.
Speaker 1:Okay, microcosm.
Speaker 5:No, like you did before.
Speaker 1:No sexily.
Speaker 5:Sexily.
Speaker 1:Sexily.
Speaker 3:Okay, good.
Speaker 1:That's not a word. He's like, I promise you Well so here's what I need to tell you about myself.
Speaker 3:I have my own dictionary of words. Did you say dick Shinary.
Speaker 2:Oh, shinary, yeah, but you paused on the dick question. You really did pause on the dick.
Speaker 3:You guys are such liars. Because you accused me of pausing before when statement I had to plug in my cell phone.
Speaker 2:No, you said I had to plug in. I had to plug. No, no, my cell phone, I did not pause.
Speaker 3:Nor did I pause in between my dick and shenary you just did it.
Speaker 2:Now I did. All right, guys, let me ask a question. I got a question for you. You know I always got this what if? Or these random questions, all right, so you, I need you guys to delete two things in your life. Right, you want to delete two things in life? I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a list of two things. I mean, I'm gonna give you a list and you got to pick two things to delete. Number one is alcohol, money, food friends, friends and sex bye friends, you know what?
Speaker 2:J Boog, I'm gonna go with you why do I have to start? So you got alcohol, money, friends and sex and two have to go two have to go. I feel like there was another option yeah, no, but it's five alcohol, money, foods and friends food and sex and well alcohol, money, food, friends and sex.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, yeah, sex so I also feel like bi friends spy friends, so jay boog is getting rid of her friends I love y'all, but I need sex and money word so you're getting rid of food and alcohol and I think I might get. I might getting rid of food and alcohol and I think I might get rid of alcohol and keep food and sex.
Speaker 2:So food and sex, yeah. So you just gonna eat and fuck. That's what.
Speaker 3:I'm going with.
Speaker 5:No, you have to eliminate two right.
Speaker 3:You have to eliminate two, so I have three.
Speaker 2:Right, so you getting rid of food and sex.
Speaker 3:Food and sex? No, no, no, she's keeping you. Keeping food insects what?
Speaker 2:the fuck, you're confusing me because you know you delete. You gotta get two out of your life, so I'm getting rid of friends and I'm getting rid of alcohol.
Speaker 3:Alcohol, okay, that's good so I'll stick with money, food and sex money, food and frecks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that is kind of boring very boring all right, devin, what are you getting rid of? I think mine's will be the same, but because I'm in a weird place in my life too, where most of my friends revolve around alcohol anyway.
Speaker 2:So you kill two birds with one stone.
Speaker 4:Yes, I'm gonna get a nice detox cleanse my skin and lose my bad friends.
Speaker 3:Honey, we're gonna be good so you're getting rid of your friends and alcohol but wait, I have a question if you get of sex, can you still have sex toys?
Speaker 2:No, Ooh, that's a good question, but I say no.
Speaker 1:Because, you can't cum.
Speaker 4:Exactly, but that's not sex. Having sex toys is not sex.
Speaker 1:Can you delete that, please? No.
Speaker 2:What is it? Is it?
Speaker 1:your alter ego.
Speaker 2:So wait, so no, sex is sex.
Speaker 4:Whether it's toys by yourself with someone. It's toys by yourself with someone. No, it's not how you figure. Everyone has different definitions of sex. Like to me, oral sex isn't really sex. That's bullshit.
Speaker 2:So like so then in that case, so you, so you. That's a sexual act. It's a sexual act. But oral sex is sex, because if you do it on to somebody else and you're not in a relationship with them, that's cheating right no, oh true, but there's a lot of things that you can do in relationships that would be considered cheating emotional yeah
Speaker 1:emotional here we go no, you cannot emotionally cheat on somebody I've been in emotional relationships before and with no sex.
Speaker 2:How is that cheating?
Speaker 5:that's that is cheating thinking about somebody else if yeah, if you do something else that you wouldn't want, but if you don't touch them.
Speaker 2:No, that's bullshit, that's like window shopping. So if you window shopping, are you really shopping?
Speaker 5:You're not spending no money If you talk to the mannequins.
Speaker 1:Why are you? Calling it shopping, then if you're not shopping, but wait, if you see a nice, like in my case, if I see a nice looking woman and I like no, seeing I said to myself oh my God, I would love to have that, but that's not emotional.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about emotional interaction, like talking, flirting, all that stuff. That's pretty dangerous, but is it cheating though? Is it different? I?
Speaker 3:feel like it is. I think it is cheating.
Speaker 2:Okay okay okay, now I need to uphold that. Well, anyway, let's get back to that. We'll get back to that, let's finish going on.
Speaker 4:Okay, okay, we're going to get back to it. I mean, don't speak of the.
Speaker 2:English. Okay, so peaches, what two are you getting rid of?
Speaker 5:The same.
Speaker 2:What money and friends.
Speaker 5:Or alcohol and friends.
Speaker 2:Alcohol and friends.
Speaker 5:I don't really drink that crazy anyway, so I could live without it and I could buy new friends word she got money like that okay I don't think I could
Speaker 3:ever be poor it's a rough life to live I could end up in newark or something would you ever ask for a cheeseburger? Right, I could be the one asking for the cheeseburger.
Speaker 5:I'd be like, can you have like pickles and ketchup on there please, Because I'm so hungry.
Speaker 2:Okay, mac, what are you doing? What?
Speaker 5:are you?
Speaker 3:getting rid of Alcohol money food. Well, he's clearly getting rid of sex, no.
Speaker 4:I was like I don't get that. Anyway, it's fine Wait no-transcript.
Speaker 5:You didn't break down the sex part no, sex is sex.
Speaker 2:I mean it's nothing to weigh around it. So food is kind of like weird because you you take away food you don't live. So it's kind of maybe they mean that's your choice. But maybe what they mean by food maybe they mean by like, like pleasure food.
Speaker 3:A pleasure food like? Oh, then I take my answer back no, I'm just saying I'm not.
Speaker 2:Don't take your answer back, I'm just saying I can live off of vegetables I can't, so I take I can totally live off of that so you know what. We're gonna put a clause on it. Okay, so the food when they talk about food, they're talking about because we need food regardless. Right, let's talk about pleasure food. So you got to have the basic nutrients it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 4:Give me my basic nutrients it's like pledging, give me alcohol so you'll keep food no, I would get rid of food get rid of food and get rid of friends, because actually so you're keeping alcohol, but just getting rid of food, I'm keeping alcohol so you would, so you would have.
Speaker 2:So you want to have alcohol, money, money and sex.
Speaker 3:No, I would have to say no, I agree.
Speaker 2:I agree with.
Speaker 3:Devin that alcohol and friends go together, so I think I keep my answers the same.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Mac, what about you?
Speaker 1:I'm getting rid of food and I'm getting rid of alcohol.
Speaker 3:Oh, so you think you want to have sex? Oh God, yes, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4:Yeah that's kind of of yeah, I don't know about that fly boy. What are you talking about? He's like I don't got friends anyways, exactly no friends, no friends.
Speaker 2:Uh, I have friends. I don't want to anyone that's listening you're my friend.
Speaker 5:I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. He's shaking his head right now, you guys behind behind the scenes, but I secretly don't have any friends and alcohol.
Speaker 4:I don't drink as much as you do so, you're getting rid of friends and alcohol.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't really drink as much as I used to and I don't hang out with the people it's associated with drinking. I used to go out and drink and party with people, but I don't really do that anymore.
Speaker 1:What are you doing? Tase Okay.
Speaker 5:Wait, let us answer for you.
Speaker 2:This is your guess. This is your guess, guess mine money this is correct and friends no no, no not true, wait.
Speaker 5:So what are the options?
Speaker 2:alcohol, money, food, friends and sex he ain't giving up sex?
Speaker 4:no, no, I damn sure ain't giving up sex you can hang that shit up food
Speaker 1:giving up yeah, food and alcohol food no, no.
Speaker 2:Food first and then alcohol well, he had a problem with the scale, so he's giving up food I will give up money I will give up. Okay, so I will give up food and alcohol.
Speaker 3:Yeah no wait, no, no, no. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5:You said you were giving up sex no, I'm not that's I damn sure he said it's food food and food and money.
Speaker 2:Food and money I would give up.
Speaker 4:I would give up food and money what would you do in life without money?
Speaker 2:you need money I don't need money, I really like just how are you gonna pay your rent honestly, honestly I would say fuck the rent. To be honest, I live with my mother.
Speaker 3:I'll be all I'm okay you're gonna. Money is not never.
Speaker 2:It's like I don't know money never been a thing to me like it I did. I like money to get the things that I want, but other than that I don't really don't want no money. Like you need money to get things that you want, but I really don't want much.
Speaker 4:You can live off the land but like excessive money. I understand not wanting, but you need money. You do need money but I see some of the Not necessarily.
Speaker 2:You can live off the land, so you're going to be a farmer, I will farm.
Speaker 5:Oh, I would love that you have the land for it.
Speaker 2:I will farm the shit out of something and the dirt.
Speaker 3:I to get my nails dirty.
Speaker 2:Oh, here you go, the dirt underneath the nails.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you guys are so shallow.
Speaker 3:I'm a city girl.
Speaker 2:I'm not a New Brunswick is not city.
Speaker 3:Bullshit. New Brunswick is a city.
Speaker 2:Well, they call it Concrete jungle. Yeah, concrete jungle, it is a city and I have never had to farm anything. They call that little new york you know that.
Speaker 3:Well, it's a city sir, okay. Well, I mean, and frankly, I'm a city girl and I have my nails and my toes done and I don't want dirt and under them.
Speaker 4:I'm there with you so you work. Love living together, right yeah, with our money down to it. I just want to make it on the record that I would be able to like farm or do something like that. She's still trying to get on the apocalypse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a lie.
Speaker 5:You done fucked up with the apocalypse if y'all do want to accept me about the apocalypse if you do want to accept me and your apocalypse crew.
Speaker 3:I can make a mean pot of rice well what?
Speaker 5:yes, I can cook too, excuse me, we were very clear we wanted doctors when the doctors you needed a chef.
Speaker 3:Well, um, what about procreate? Don't you need to rebuild?
Speaker 5:I can make babies we have wombs that's true. I have a baby.
Speaker 2:Everybody kept sex in this group, so there'll be a lot of fucking in this group okay, maybe not but I can make you some mean babies like on the outside the group we'll be like.
Speaker 4:So if we were in a zombie apocalypse, what would be your thing like? What would you contribute?
Speaker 1:Oh we already said that we actually had that on our last cast.
Speaker 2:But we can bring it back up. We can bring it back up. Fuck it why not.
Speaker 1:So I'm the connoisseur here, right, Because I study this Like I'm all about the underground bunker. I'm the doomsday prepper. The underground bumper. I got 14 cases of water stashed away. Oh, because that makes you a doomsday driver. Water, kind of the water I got, water, I'm good, but I'm the architect, so I'm, I'm an architect, so I'm, I'm planning for our. You know everything that we do as a group together, I'm responsible. Okay, so I'm the alpha male. Oh, okay, oh wow.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, oh alpha male Wow.
Speaker 2:You know we're going to discuss alpha male and beta males and omega males soon, Not in this podcast, but it's going to be a really good one, but okay. But I think in a doomsday apocalypse I'm more of a maybe I'd be the person that makes sure that the human race lives on. I'll do a lot.
Speaker 4:of sperm lives on I'll do a lot of probably I'll do a lot of uh sperm sharing I'll do a lot of sperm sharing.
Speaker 2:That's my maybe, that's my, that's that's my job. I'm gonna make sure that the human, the human population, lives on. So you count me in on that one let's see what special skills do I have.
Speaker 4:I'm a great conversationalist, oh shit girl bye, she would make beautiful babies though. Well, thank you. Well, I can offer my womb. I'm a great conversationalist. Oh shit, girl bye, she would make beautiful babies though.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you. Well, I can offer my womb Mm-hmm and I can make a mean pot of rice.
Speaker 2:Well, your womb will be used three times a day, five days a week.
Speaker 3:I feel like this is like the handmaid's tale.
Speaker 1:Handmaid's tale, I was just about to say that God only rested one day, so it would be six days a week.
Speaker 5:So that's basically life, basically.
Speaker 4:So do women get a free pass in the apocalypse for their wombs?
Speaker 2:I feel like we should.
Speaker 4:I think you should. How else are you going to repopulate?
Speaker 5:I mean, I could do that. I can also like cook, I can organize everyone like make sure everyone stays in line. I don't have to do the who do you, unless you would like me to like every once in a while, but I can make sure this shit runs properly because you need a woman can you say? You know what I mean. You say absolutely useful I also. Yes, my womb is amazing. What do you?
Speaker 2:say wouldn't me.
Speaker 5:You got amazing I can give you a kid, probably a drop of a dime we can certainly repopulate the earth right we can repopulate because you know that we you know I got beautiful children, so we know they're not gonna be ugly well, yeah.
Speaker 2:So what does? Does that mean something? Yeah, what?
Speaker 5:no, I said it and it works like right. So I could give you, give some more. So repopulation, right so?
Speaker 1:anyone that's ever watched the Walking Dead know that there's a lady on the Walking Dead called Nashawn. Oh she's that girl, she's that girl. You like that, you and my crew immediately.
Speaker 5:So are you going to rethink this whole? Letting me in your crew.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably not.
Speaker 5:I'm not that's fine, if you don't want me to be in your crew, I can just say it now.
Speaker 2:Now, is that what you're saying? It's about survival with me.
Speaker 1:Let me hear your hooty-hoo real quick.
Speaker 2:Hooty-hoo, do you guys hear airplanes?
Speaker 5:Those are the police choppers. Oh shit, Because we're in Newark.
Speaker 2:All right, whatever Heartbeaches we need to spill out this uh topic. What's going on?
Speaker 5:okay, let's start. Um, so we'll start off with the topic about the parents. So, in light of you know, rest in peace. Kobe and his daughter and they had the whole uh tribute on tv and I know a lot of the talk has been something like the parents. Kobe's parents weren't acknowledged during the tribute, so it made us think. So in what situation would you choose your parents over your spouse? Because I know the whole backstory to that has something along the lines to do with the parents weren't too supportive of their marriage just from the beginning. They, you know, publicly kind of just didn't support it. So in that situation maybe they weren't mentioned in the you know the tribute. So it made us think in what situation would you choose your parents over your spouse? So it appears that you know Kobe chose his spouse over his parents, right? He chose to be married and live and have his children and kind of put his parents on the back burner. So what do you think? Is there ever a situation where you would choose your parents over your spouse?
Speaker 2:Okay, who wants tag on that?
Speaker 3:first, let's unpack this now can the married people speak first?
Speaker 2:okay, that's fine. Um well, since I guess I'm the only two, there's only two of us here.
Speaker 3:But okay, it's very difficult to consider, I guess, as a as a single person. I'm not, I'm not married'm not there, and it's very hard for me to consider that aspect because right now my parents to me are the closest friends bond that I have and I don't. I don't have like another bond to say I'm going to put you guys to the side to take this right now and and I imagine, I guess as a single person, that once you make the decision to be married, your life kind of transitions and your I mean your family is your family and who you were raised with becomes your family but your immediate household your spouse and your children.
Speaker 3:that is your primary concern and that is your family.
Speaker 5:And so it's you basically forsake all others.
Speaker 3:Right. So it's just difficult for me to consider that at this point, because to me my closest bond are my parents. I'm I'm the reliable one, I'm there to make sure that I take care of them. If my dad lands in the hospital, I'm the one making sure everything is there. But I I imagine being married it would. I would still have those roles, but I can't imagine a circumstance right now wait, so you want.
Speaker 2:You can imagine a circumstance where you choose your spouse over your parents because I'm not like I'm not married. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I can imagine as as a single person again your, your spouse, your children. That becomes your immediate family and they are of most importance and everything else is kind of forsaken.
Speaker 5:But I, I just, I guess I can't visualize it right now, right, well, I don't know the story behind his parents, right well I think that's basically just pretty much the surface, like they just weren't, and it had something to do with like maybe he met her like at a video shoot or something, so they were assuming, so they didn't like her. Yeah, like the worst of her kind of, and they just never supported it from the beginning and it was publicly, like it was. In public it wasn't, like you know. So that was. You know that.
Speaker 4:So you, that was, you know that, so it, you know, led us to say something oh yeah, I I think it just there has to be something more to that, though. You know what I mean. There has to be a backstory, because if you're close with your parents, like you are, um, and you get married, like even if your parents disapprove of them, like your parents would still play a big part, vital role in your life.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. You wouldn't just kind of not disown them, but like separate yourself from them just for something so little as being married with someone well, that's.
Speaker 2:I definitely think it's something more to it there has to be more because they had like how many kids they got together, like four, three, four like five, no four.
Speaker 2:They had four they had four kids together and they just had one and it still seemed like whatever was going on between it was still going on. So usually when you, when grandkids come in, involved things, whatever issues, you had kind of go away, but they seem like they still had the issues. So, whatever it is, it had to be more than this. I mean, it's probably something that we probably never know maybe money money.
Speaker 2:Could have been money, maybe had nothing, maybe possible maybe they know something about the, about her, that they didn't like. I don't know, but do I think it's a point where you pick your spouse over your parents?
Speaker 5:I do think it is a point where you, oh, of course your parents have your spouse, which way right or vice versa.
Speaker 2:In my situation, I probably would pick my spouse over my parents or my mom.
Speaker 4:I should say it must be easier, because you're you choose your spouse you don't necessarily choose your parents, right you know what I mean, as much as we're groomed to be like oh, that's your mom and dad, you have to love them, right? You don't have to love your spouse right, exactly so you choose that person to love you know, what I mean.
Speaker 4:So they kind of should hold a special place in your heart right versus your parents, where you're kind of for lack of better term, you're obligated to kind of love them. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:This is true so no, don't get me wrong, I love my mother to death. But it just seems like. It just seemed like when, when they bring you into the world, just like my kids, when I bring you to the world, I bring you out to be, I want you to be in a relationship, I want you to find love and I don't want you to choose me over your spouse. And and to me, you know, even with my mom, I love my mom to death. But I mean, my spouse is like who I'm. I said my vows, I'm supposed to protect her. I'm supposed to protect her and the kids. So I can't like listen, I'm pushing you to the side, I'm going with my mom, because then it just defeats the purpose of being married. So, yeah, my mom brought me in this world, of course, yes, but she brought me into the world to be something and and I'm the natural leader of my house, so I would have to pick my spouse and you know, or my mom.
Speaker 4:Unfortunately she lived a life. I gotta live my life, and you know. And as a parent, don't you think that's kind of being a successful parent is raising your child to go and raise their own family? And yes, definitely kind of do their own thing. You know what I?
Speaker 1:mean, but I, I would say, being somewhat of the devil's advocate, I would say it's really situational right.
Speaker 4:Oh, I agree 100%.
Speaker 1:Because if your spouse is doing something that's really detrimental to either your family or your broader family or extended family, and you know it's detrimental and your parents are upset about that, then they're always going to like your parents, are always gonna have this, this affection for you being their child, to always want to see what's best for you, right, and if you both recognize that your spouse is doing something detrimental to that, then it's kind of hard to just automatically take your spouse aside just because she's your spouse, because they're wrong.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they're wrong, you know right and vice versa, like it could work either way.
Speaker 4:So I think it's more situational, but in the grand scheme, right if everybody's sort of equally right or equally wrong, or it's a big gray area, then I agree with you guys, you should always so but circling back to kind of the question what would, what could, what could your spouse possibly do that would be detrimental to your family? Oh man, finances. The biggest thing is probably finances.
Speaker 1:Right, if she's if she's the type of young lady that is not sustaining the household financially and bringing you guys down, or just lavishly spending, not concerned with the greater good for the children or whatever.
Speaker 5:Those are the kind of things that parents can get involved with right, because they see that sort of thing, so I know that happens quite a bit, but wouldn't that be a situation where you also would deal directly with your spouse, like your parents shouldn't be involved in your marriage but wait, what happens if you're going to your parents?
Speaker 4:for help but you shouldn't, but. I'm just saying this is an extension of that issue, If they have a relationship with their family they might go to their parents, like what do I do?
Speaker 5:but in that situation you you're, when you say your vows, you're saying that your spouse is the end-all, be-all, so you shouldn't be going to anybody else outside of your relationship for anything else.
Speaker 1:So but listen to this. What happens so your?
Speaker 5:spouse could be like hey, you're going outside of our relationship to go talk to your parents about this, so your mortgage is due marriage counseling yes, your spouses, you guys have overspent let's say you have a budget, your spouse is due.
Speaker 1:Marriage counseling your spouses. You guys have overspent. Let's say you have a budget, your spouse has overspent which he does frequently, and your mortgage is due and you and the kids are about to be thrown out, so you have to go to your parents to get money to sustain. You have no other choice I'm making this up.
Speaker 1:Let's say that's the type of situation that happens consistently. That happens consistently. Your parents eventually are going to say wait a minute, what are you guys doing? And then you're going to have to admit I talked to my wife over and over again, but she's not living up to her part of the financial picture I get as to why you would go, but that initial conversation and the remedy for that needs to happen with the spouse right.
Speaker 4:So I have a friend and a friend of mine. So she's been married. They have two kids. They've been together a long time. Her husband ended up losing his job. He lost his job or he quit, I don't remember. One of the two lost his job and was pretending to still go to work for like a full for like a full year still paying for child care, not pretending to go to work. Didn't have a job where was he going was racking up these, those, I don't know.
Speaker 1:God only knows where he was going?
Speaker 4:yeah, I don't even know, but like so that's that situation that you're kind of speaking about. Yeah, the debt that she was and she still she stayed with him.
Speaker 5:God, I don't know how you don't even talk to nobody. You talk to your parents. You can talk to him anyway. I'm out right if you lie like that for a whole straight up year.
Speaker 4:There's no conversation right, I mean not with saying normal people like no no, I'm not gonna pay.
Speaker 5:It would depend on you. She might be staying for different reasons.
Speaker 2:See, that's a class that d must be good dick, dickmatized.
Speaker 5:He's like bitch, I don't have a job, but let me give you some pipe.
Speaker 4:No, but like the duke is better, like if you don't have a job, like if someone tells me they don't have a job I'm like ooh baby come stay at my house.
Speaker 5:I know you fucking lying.
Speaker 3:They know what they doing. They got time.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, what is happening right?
Speaker 2:now. Yeah, we just we done went off track again. Sorry, let the best the D, the D but.
Speaker 2:I mean it's just kind of weird because you know you have. I mean you say your vows you're in love, especially when kids are involved. When kids are involved it's kind of hard, no matter. I tend to believe okay, you have your spouse and your spouse is whatever. Let's just say your spouse is ratchet. I believe that you should keep everything in the household. So when your parents get involved, they're involved because you made them involved and I don't believe that they should be involved because what goes on in your household should stay in your household. So some, a lot of times, you know you have these situations where you get the. You know the man and woman they confide in, their mother, their father, and then they get involved into and then then the whole family don't like you right and they become not.
Speaker 5:They're not neutral anymore like they're completely. Everything you do is wrong from that point on, like it causes a rift in the relationship where it didn't need to be right.
Speaker 2:So I'm just in my opinion. That is a lot of times. I just believe when things happen you should supposed to keep your family outside of it. Um, just because you don't get to the point where you know people don't like each other and you know, especially when you're ready to lead the person, then you done gave it everybody in your family, your business. So they sitting around talking about like why is she still with him?
Speaker 4:you know that type of thing, and then it's weird when you bring them around, because your parents have a negative opinion about someone, even though it's not. They don't really, they shouldn't, because they wouldn't have known the things that you're saying, right exactly exactly but let's be honest and I'm not married.
Speaker 1:but let's be honest, especially to married people Tell me that when things go south with your mate, I mean depending on it it can't be just a regular argument that your mom or your dad or your closest confidant doesn't know something about it.
Speaker 4:Because everybody needs somebody to talk to outside of that.
Speaker 1:And so just by doing that, that's the outlet that most people need just for their own emotional sanity like you need that outlet. So I mean many times it wouldn't be the mother or father, but maybe it is. If you have a really close relationship it could be the best friend, it could be whatever, but either way you're tainting that person's opinion of that other spouse. That's correct regardless.
Speaker 2:I think when, at least in my case, if I intentionally tell my mom something, then I, I basically the relationship is over, because my mom would never let it go. So I mean honestly, when I have situations, I, if I confide in somebody, I confide in other people and I wouldn't confide in my mom because yeah, my mom, she gets a hold of it, she does not let it go so judgmental.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she yeah, I would never tell anything. So, but I mean, it's to each his own, but I would never tell my mom anything, because that's just into my relationship now, because every time something happened, like you sure, oh, I don't know what you're gonna do, but she was with this person and you know. You know she probably won't do it again, like I don't want to hear that for the rest of my life. So if if I do confide in somebody's probably won't be my mom, at least I don't know what you guys.
Speaker 3:You know, I wonder if that's a guy thing, because like I could go to my parents house and my mom could take one look at me and she could be like what's wrong?
Speaker 1:what's wrong?
Speaker 3:something is wrong and I could be like no, mom, I'm good, everything's okay, and she's like you're lying to me, something is wrong. Like she can read me my mom knows me yeah now my mother.
Speaker 2:I don't think she's oblivious to that. Do you think it's because we meet males, or do you think it would like? I don't know, I feel like it's different from my brother.
Speaker 3:Like he, I feel like my mom can probe him and he's just like ma, leave me alone. I don't want to talk about it, but my mom can probe me and it's like I start like she knows exactly what buttons to push for me to just be like. You know what this is, what's going on. I don't talk about it, but you know what I mean. Like back off a little bit, I don't want to talk about it, but you know it might be.
Speaker 2:It might be situational because we're not my family's not really affectionate. We're not affectionate. Are we affectionate? No, we're not like affectionate. We're not like affectionate type of we. Our affection is is a little different. We crack jokes. That's our affection. Like I would you know, we we crack with each other. We we say jokes about you. That's our affection yeah.
Speaker 4:So I remember when I first met your family, it was like y'all could not have a single conversation without it being like what you doing? Bum, yeah, right, it's like bitch, yeah, literally nigga you're like.
Speaker 2:It's just like it's like. So that's our affection. Our affection is, I like we we kind of like crack jokes. We crack jokes my, you know, my sister talks shit about my mother every day every day I'm talking shit. I'm like why are you sitting here being fucking lazy? But that's our way. So if we stop saying that, then you's like okay something's going on, right because we, we, just, we just never.
Speaker 4:I don't think we really hug, we don't really hug her yeah, when I met, when I went met antoine for the first time, I was like I don't think your sister likes you, like she real mean. And oh, my sister learned, like that's, that's, that's how they are exactly that's my sister.
Speaker 2:My sister, her way of showing how she feels about um, I guess the wolf of us she's, she might. She used to smack me in my head and just do. Really, she beat me to a broom. One time she's gonna get mad.
Speaker 2:I'm telling the story she beats you but she, like, is lovingly loving it right, she used to watch me um all the time my sister, me and my sister, eight years apart. So she, she was always in charge. I was 16, she was eight, um, she used to beat me with the broom. What else she used to do to me? She used to um like I would look under her door. She'd be in her room under listening to like um elder barge or the debar.
Speaker 2:And she would stick a broom under the door and hit me in the face with the broom.
Speaker 4:Just like weird stuff like that. She's like love you, yeah, well, you're going to meet my sister.
Speaker 2:Well, this is a text I sent her yesterday. I said, hey, stupid bitch, what was the name of the store you told me about she's like it's called at home, you little dumbass. So that's our way of showing that we not care. That's the second part of our topic.
Speaker 5:Wait, so your sister is eight years older than you. My sister is eight years, so she's 60?
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, that's a low blow. No, no, boo-boo, my sister's not 60 years old.
Speaker 4:Because you're like 52.
Speaker 5:Huh, you're 52. No, I'm not 52.
Speaker 2:I'm like Peter Pan, so you're like 52. Huh, you're 52. No, I'm not 52. I'm like Peter Pan.
Speaker 3:So you're like 100. Yeah, no.
Speaker 5:Yeah, kind of sort of Whatever.
Speaker 2:He's middle-aged. Whatever it's fine, it's fine. Whatever it's fine. You look good for 52, boo, whatever, okay, it's nice.
Speaker 4:Whatever it's like nice, wait till I get the shape up. Y'all bitches gonna be hating. You're right, they're gonna hate you boom, get the blackout.
Speaker 2:So what is the second part of the topic, the siblings?
Speaker 5:oh so, if you could make $3,000 a week. Now you said $5,000 no, it's $5,000, oh shit okay, $5,000 a week, I'll do it for three years for the next 15 years, would you stop talking or associating with a sibling Word, a sibling or all of them?
Speaker 2:All of them I got seven. All of them. No, all of them, all of them.
Speaker 3:So check, sign the check.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, I could not, would you do it?
Speaker 5:No, I just can't live without my brother. I can't, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2:Oh, you as a bastard, because I was going to say no.
Speaker 5:Oh shit, no new friends.
Speaker 2:He lying, he lying his ass off. He say that now he would still have us.
Speaker 5:We can pretend Basically.
Speaker 2:He lying.
Speaker 5:See, I'm like so me and my siblings.
Speaker 3:We're close but we don't even check in with each other.
Speaker 5:We all kind of like live lives basically that's what I'm saying each other, we see each other and it's okay.
Speaker 2:So I feel like you take it for granted. Show me the money. You didn't have them.
Speaker 1:He's full of shit my brother's full of shit you're going back to it, you're circling back? I think so he's full of shit I think he's a little upset are you mad sir.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not mad, but he's full of shit tell him why you're mad.
Speaker 3:No, I think. No, I think it's full of shit.
Speaker 2:Trust me, my brother, he needs he. He needs us just as much as we need him. He's full of shit.
Speaker 3:He's full of shit. Give your brother a hug. He was like still right behind.
Speaker 5:Chuck, I'll still take the money you said.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not a money guy, I'm not a money guy, so I'd rather have my brother than money. I'm a loner, so I'm good with the money.
Speaker 4:He says he's a loner.
Speaker 2:He's not a loner, he, I'm a loner, so I'm good with the money. I'll be by myself. He says he's a loner. He's not a loner. He likes to believe he's a loner, I'm a loner, loner of how, when I have two roommates, they be sitting here. They be like watch TV with us.
Speaker 5:Beeline to the room. Close the door.
Speaker 2:So you think you could live without your siblings, Me and.
Speaker 4:Jamal, you full of shit.
Speaker 2:I'll be fine 15 years Because it's 15 years, right, yeah, that's fine, I'll see you in 15 years.
Speaker 4:No, he full of shit 15 years without your siblings 15 years without your siblings.
Speaker 2:I'm still a spring chicken, I'll be fine. Well you're almost 40 years old.
Speaker 3:You'll be okay.
Speaker 2:That's quite alright and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 5:I couldn't do that I'm gonna just go to them for some money. Listen, this boy right here, because they're getting five thousand.
Speaker 2:This boy who needs to go to them for five thousand a week?
Speaker 5:shit, what the fuck this boy, this boy right here, he could buy new siblings. He needs. He needs us trust me new siblings. He needs us he looks so hurt. Right now I need you to like say something.
Speaker 2:I'm not hurt, I just know he's full of shit can you guys have a brotherly hug no, he's full of shit. Can you do?
Speaker 5:something that makes you like, even just like a brotherly dab dab it out 15, it's just not.
Speaker 2:15 years is not worth. I'm not a money guy, so 15 years is just not worth it.
Speaker 4:I haven't spoken to one of my brothers in like five years, so I'm good on that. My other brother I haven't spoken to him in who knows how long either, so the rest of them, we're gonna be good if I'm making the money they're gonna come to you.
Speaker 2:Be like hey, remember us but but money, but think about I think kind of caught the concept of money, though money is, money is good, everybody needs it. If you don't have it, you want it.
Speaker 4:But just think about as much as you like to say you don't like, you don't care about money, money rules the world. What you gonna do without money?
Speaker 2:it does rule the world, but I know but I don't money, don't bring me happiness all the things, because all the things that I have, that I want, it doesn't involve money right, but you know what makes you, what makes me happy when my bills is paid.
Speaker 4:You know what pays my bills, bills, money.
Speaker 2:Has your bill ever went over? Have it been late? Have you been discharged? Let it discharge. Let it go into foreclosure. Foreclosure no listen, let your car get repoed.
Speaker 5:He was like you talk a basic bitch language.
Speaker 2:Think about it. If it has been done to you, did you survive it? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:He's like I want you on the corner asking for cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2:But think about it, I mean maybe just me.
Speaker 4:I was always so crazy as a kid Like I never grew up with money. I didn't have money at all. Growing up, we lived off government assistance, like we were going to to like food banks to get food. You know what I mean. So I think that's why I have such a crazy relationship with money. But at the same time it's like I'm so crazy now where it's like I have to make sure all my bills are paid. I'm good way in advance. I could never be that person. We're like oh, my bill's overdue, now I have to spend another $75? I don't know, I'm just too crazy.
Speaker 2:But think about it he was at zero. At one point he was at zero. Was it miserable being at zero?
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, but I was also a kid well, so that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Like it's not that miserable being at zero so, guys, let me, let me offer this right. So I think you guys are looking at money the wrong way. If you look at money selfishly, money won't mean as much. But if you look at money as an opportunity to, to leave a legacy for your children, or to give, to give away to, to give to other people in need, if you look at money more broadly, then it should become a lot more important to you. Because, first and foremost, most people try to leave a legacy for their kids, right? They try to leave. I don't care if it's real estate or whatever, just something that their kids, so their kids don't have to struggle like they did, right? And so if you look at it inwardly and say I could have the finest car, the finest clothes, blah, blah, blah, then you may like it for that or you may not like it for that, but that, that is a very inward kind of view of money not even having nice clothes are nice things.
Speaker 4:So for you, he's talking about his bills. Exactly so for you, like for me, I have serious anxiety about not having my bills paid. You know what I mean. Like I couldn't imagine. Like not having a place to live, not having a place to sleep, not having food, you know what I mean? Those are just basic necessities that I couldn't imagine living without. And you're saying go without paying those bills for a little bit, it'll be fine, it's cute. I do it all the time.
Speaker 2:No, I don't do that.
Speaker 4:But okay, so do you personally know what it's like to not have to like miss out on your mortgage payment.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:And you're okay with living that life.
Speaker 2:I'm not okay. Like I was, I didn't feel like I was dying. I didn't like to not have it. It's just honestly I had. There's been times I didn't have it and then this time I had too much of it and I didn't see the difference. It didn't. To me, there was no different. Like you, make your own happiness If you, if you poor, you make the best even matter. If I have it, I'm happy, but if I don't have it, I'm also happy.
Speaker 5:There's no fun in being poor.
Speaker 2:No To you maybe I'm just saying to me it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5:There's fun times when you're poor, but overall you're like fuck this shit.
Speaker 4:Making the best of a situation is one thing, but glorifying being poor.
Speaker 2:I never said glorifying being poor, no, I'm. No.
Speaker 5:I never said glorifying, I'm just saying I don't see, like if I, if I was, poor and I've been poor and I've been poor and I don't want to ever do that again.
Speaker 4:Exactly right that's exactly so we work so hard, because it's like I don't want to be in that point where it's like my credit sucks, I can't afford food. I have to live off food. You know, nobody wants to live now.
Speaker 2:I feel like you're a slave to that situation. I don't want to be asleep. I don't like to be a slave to anything, I think. What do you mean?
Speaker 5:gmac was on point with what he said. It's all about what's coming after you, right? So it's about being able to set something up for your children. Take your kids away. Take your kids away I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm talking, I'm basing it off of just me, just me, me being me, and I'm not talking about kids, because kids I'm definitely like I'm not trying to be poor, because my kids are not gonna be poor. I'm saying if it was just me and I was had no money, I think I would be okay. I'm really like five thousand a week, please, that's a nigga right there, what's no money to you?
Speaker 4:because you're saying if you had no money you'll be fine. What is no money? No, money is um like living on the corner no money, or just barely scraping by no money, because that's too.
Speaker 2:Living check to check is no money to me, that's not no money, though.
Speaker 4:If your bills are paid, you got money.
Speaker 2:No living check to check. I'm talking about living check to Meaning that if I mess up a check, then I'm done. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about like you work in, your check comes in and once the check comes in, you have nothing else like, so you basically just live in the world just living the work everyone right struggle I'm not trying that.
Speaker 2:That's okay to me. I'm now y'all talking about poor, poor, when I, when I say poor and I don't, I'm not trying to be that poor I'm not trying to be like you don't have nothing, like I'm panhandling, type of thing. I'm just talking about like I don't need excess money.
Speaker 5:I don't need extra money.
Speaker 3:I don't need that 5,000 a week is a lot do you?
Speaker 2:do the math 5,000 a week times 52 weeks that's not a lot.
Speaker 5:That's a quarter of a million a year you can do so many investments.
Speaker 2:You can do so much good with that. I can give the guy on the corner a cheeseburger $5,000 a week is what is that? That's $20,000 a month.
Speaker 5:It's $260,000 a year, that's not really a lot of money.
Speaker 3:That's not a lot of money it's really not, not today.
Speaker 2:It's great, at least five of us in here is not making $200,000 a year.
Speaker 4:No One day.
Speaker 3:I mean y'all need to do better than us. I'm just saying we're not. So, that's a lot.
Speaker 4:You're right, we're not making it, but it would be nice. I want to know which one is. So I'll take that $5,000.
Speaker 2:Maybe Mac making that, I'm not making that. Well, yeah, I'm not making that.
Speaker 1:I'm here doing podcasts, that's what software engineering will do for you.
Speaker 5:That's what coronavirus will not do for you, so back to your siblings, then you guys are willing to give up. I said I would not do that, I wouldn't give up my siblings.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I stand by my answer.
Speaker 1:I changed my mind For 15 years, I wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do it. I have two older brothers and there's no way I would do that. Wait. So how?
Speaker 4:many siblings do we have? She's like I wouldn't give up my sibling. She probably has like one sibling.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:No, do you only have one sibling Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And you. So you got seven at you. Bye, oh shit. He's giving, he's throwing up the deuces.
Speaker 5:And so so, jay bull you saying you won't give up because you have I mean you have two siblings.
Speaker 3:Wait, you said yes first, but now you're no I said yes at first because I know that we, we kind of all live our lives. We barely talk now but for 15 years now that's that's not worth it it's not it'll go by like that yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And then I'm like hey, guys want to go to Paris, so think about it. How old are you now? You say you're 25? 25.
Speaker 4:15 years, I'll be what 40.
Speaker 2:So take away 15 years. Do you remember when you was doing it, when you was at 15? You was 15 years old, right?
Speaker 4:That's they were doing at 10 years old.
Speaker 2:I remember nobody I know I remember, so that's what I'm saying. So 15 is a long time.
Speaker 4:15 years is a long time.
Speaker 2:I'm okay with that but you might not okay, how's your relationship with your siblings?
Speaker 4:I don't really. I mean, I love my siblings, we get along but, I we like I haven't spoke to my brother in years.
Speaker 2:My sister okay, so it's easy for you to get rid of, exactly like when we see each other, it's like we can catch up know what I mean, but it's not like we have that relationship where we talk every day. You know what I mean. Same here, I'll be fine. So Mac, so Mac. What about you? You're pretty close to your brothers.
Speaker 1:Very close. Can you give up 15 years? Absolutely not. I mean, we play in a band together. They're musicians.
Speaker 2:He does everything. Whack-ass brother would give up his. He would give up me and my two sisters and me and my brother.
Speaker 1:I'm ashamed of you.
Speaker 2:I'm ashamed of one of you Not me, because I'm good. I wouldn't give him up.
Speaker 5:I think that you have to be nicer to him maybe, than he wouldn't give you up. I'm nicer to my brother.
Speaker 2:I was about to move to Florida and my sister would not allow me. She got on the phone and started it's them, it ain't me. I'm good, I was moving to Florida. She gets on the phone, you can't do this. Blah, blah, blah. I was like I'm still going. She hangs up on me, calls him, makes him call me to try to talk me out of it. Also, I'm good, I can walk the fuck away. He can give us up, but we can't give him up.
Speaker 2:He don't explain that you know anything, he gets in trouble, I make sure. For $5,000 a month, I'll be good. I won't need you, I'm not even talking about financially, Like I'm always like if somebody's messing with him, I'm like right there, $5,000 a month, I'll hire somebody.
Speaker 4:He's such a liar we need to deep dive into this. Okay, beat twice because, of him.
Speaker 5:He did not. I believe it. Huh, I believe it, he did not Okay.
Speaker 1:He had a situation, he got in a fight once. For me he wouldn't lie about that, twice.
Speaker 2:Twice, twice.
Speaker 5:What was the second time?
Speaker 2:Recently Was it last year.
Speaker 5:Oh shit, Last year you got your ass beat. What was?
Speaker 2:it Bethlehem I bath.
Speaker 4:Okay, see, I got so twice, so twice. Who beat you up in bath? There ain't nothing but like three people in the bath. Nobody beat me up in my ass, so what?
Speaker 2:happened was.
Speaker 5:You want me to bring it up? No wait, I want to know.
Speaker 2:We can talk about it all. So I've been in two fights because of him.
Speaker 5:You got your ass beat both times.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:I didn't get my ass beat I can't even picture you fighting.
Speaker 3:I didn't get my ass beat, he's middle aged, he doesn't fight anymore so one guy I beat.
Speaker 2:He's a felon.
Speaker 4:I had to fight a felon is he a felon?
Speaker 3:he's a felon. He did time. No, I don't think he did. He didn't do no time behind it, so it was one guy.
Speaker 2:I got in a situation, then it was another time. Shit, it was like a year ago. I got in a situation.
Speaker 5:That was a long time ago, though that was a long time ago, oh no, not a year ago.
Speaker 2:I was drunk, so I called him, of course, and I came. I was home with my family. I'm 40 years old.
Speaker 5:That's a good brother. I'm 40 years old.
Speaker 2:That had to be like 10 years old. Well, my other brother's in North Carolina, I can't call him. So I'm 40 years old and I had to come out my you know I came all the way. I had to drive what 35 minutes to come up there.
Speaker 4:Girl. About 35 minutes Was not that long.
Speaker 2:It's not that long, but my son, my son helped me too. My son had to come with me. No you?
Speaker 3:didn't. Oh my god, yes, my son, he had a broken foot and I did it with a broken foot. He had a broken foot. He was in a boot and I was in a boot and I fought him in a boot. You can't even listen, I can't even see you fighting.
Speaker 5:I have a whole new respect for you.
Speaker 3:I can't see this you should re-see her would.
Speaker 2:Believe it or not. I'm not who you think I am. Would you tell him I don't got a bad like. My temper is kind of bad.
Speaker 1:Okay, wait, I have personally seen Tyson in a fight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my temper is I'm not who you think I am, so you're an angry elf, he can bring it. I could go high. He's mean to me sometimes at work, no, I go kind of high sometimes. He can bring it me. Sometimes at work, no, I go kind of high sometimes.
Speaker 3:He can bring it, so you're an angry elf.
Speaker 2:No, my mom used to say she think I got an anger issue, but over the years since I had kids, I've been able to calm it down.
Speaker 3:I think that should be your new name. What Instead of Perfect Scenario?
Speaker 2:But I didn't call you when I beat that guy's ass in Miami in the hotel room Because he's not going to driving to Miami. That's the only thing.
Speaker 5:That's why I'm serious right now.
Speaker 4:He is he real mad he's so proud.
Speaker 5:He's like I didn't call you that time.
Speaker 2:No, but all I'm trying to say is- $5,000 a week, I'll be fine.
Speaker 4:For 15 years. When it comes to my siblings I won't get into any trouble.
Speaker 2:When it comes to my siblings, I'm there when they Miami.
Speaker 4:I wasn't coming to Miami. I had to fend for myself. I wasn't coming to Miami.
Speaker 2:I come 35 minutes away. I initiated the fight, so I shouldn't even say I had to fend for myself. I initiated it. You slow walked somebody again yeah someone sat on the bed and I was tired of him talking so I hit him in the eye.
Speaker 3:Oh, Jesus Lord have mercy.
Speaker 1:What's happening right now?
Speaker 2:He ain't never going gonna listen to this podcast, but I was in in miami okay we got, we gotta start this is. This is another flyboy story, so everybody listen up. Let's hear your story. Okay, what happened?
Speaker 2:I was in miami with jay and some other friends don't name drop, go ahead, they don't know who the fuck he is. Uh, I was with another friend, a straight friend, and it was a bunch of gays, and this particular person was, I guess, jealous of the relationship, the friendship that me and my friend had, that I came down with us so he was trying to push up on my friend and my friend was like I ain't trying to hear none of that gay shit. Right.
Speaker 1:Wait the straight, I'm losing the straight guy. I can't say names, Okay let me.
Speaker 5:Make up names, make up names, make up names. Kyle, kyle. So Kyle came down.
Speaker 3:Is.
Speaker 2:Kyle the straight guy.
Speaker 3:Kyle is my straight friend.
Speaker 5:I need.
Speaker 2:Raul, well, before you start the story, you said there's a bunch of gays this is your quote Bunch of gays. And then you have a straight friend.
Speaker 3:Kyle is a straight friend.
Speaker 2:Kyle came with me down to Miami. He's my best friend, so Kyle's straight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's my best friend. I never heard of Kyle, we just made up that name. He's my best friend. Oh, I forgot never. I never heard.
Speaker 2:I never heard, no he's my, he's made up that name.
Speaker 5:He's my best friend oh, I forgot, it's a made up name.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, so continue I have straight friends so they are cool with me being gay, like it's okay. I mean, I get that.
Speaker 3:But okay yeah, okay, all right, y'all are going off on attention. We got kyle, who is straight, and then we got Larry Curly and Moe.
Speaker 2:Well, anyway, some dude was there. Okay, he was a friend of a friend of a friend.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:I didn't know this motherfucker.
Speaker 3:Was he straight or gay?
Speaker 4:He was gay.
Speaker 2:Okay, he said gay.
Speaker 4:We'll call him Billy Billy.
Speaker 2:Billy the badass. So well, billy the badass, the whole freaking trip that we were down. This was during Hurricane Sandy and we got stranded down there and stuff like that. The whole trip. He was just talking shit.
Speaker 5:Like what kind of shit?
Speaker 2:Just talking shit, underhanded shit, just talking shit to me. So I brushed it off. Because I was invited to the trip, this is their trip and shit like. Because I was invited to the trip, this is their trip and shit like that I was invited in. So I brushed it off. I didn't want no problems, I'm like whatever, whatever, whatever. So one day we went to the club. I was drinking. I had Hennessy, you know Hennessy.
Speaker 5:He tears you up, you know makes you a little angry.
Speaker 2:You know he comes in the room talking shit. Had nerve to sit on the bed next to me.
Speaker 3:We're talking about Billy. You're talking about Billy, or?
Speaker 2:Billy sat on the bed next to me, okay, or Kyle, no.
Speaker 4:Billy.
Speaker 2:Billy okay. Kyle came in with Billy. They were out running the streets and stuff like that, and you know, billy comes in and starts talking shit I'm, I'm drunk, I'm tired, I I want to sleep. He comes, sits next to me, still talking shit, so all I did was sit up and he fell off the fucking bed and hit the nightstand and hit his face all up and then we started tussling and then kyle had to come and break us up and shit like that and pushed billy into the bathroom.
Speaker 2:It was just a, it was just a whole mess. And then billy shoots out of the bathroom and grabs the iron and takes the iron and, yes, throws the. I'm blind. I didn't have my contacts in nothing.
Speaker 3:So you didn't see any of that.
Speaker 2:I saw him grab something and I saw something coming towards me so I went this way and the iron went like that. I said, oh no, this motherfucker didn't Blah, blah, blah. I'm like I said I hit him with my fist and he going to throw a fucking iron. So I get up and try to push my way into the bathroom and Kyle wasn't letting me get into the bathroom. He was like yo, chill, chill, chill. I said no, I was like how? You fucking defending him, you, my motherfucking best friend, because he knew I was going to whoop his motherfucking ass again.
Speaker 5:And that's what it was I think Billy was jealous of. He liked Kyle, Maybe. So what was the issue? No, he did like.
Speaker 2:Kyle? No, we all knew he liked Kyle. Kyle knew Billy liked him. Wait, kyle was straight though. What's that have to do with Billy liking? Him, I just want to follow the story. Okay, so Kyle was straight. I didn't say nothing about Kyle liking him back, so Billy.
Speaker 4:Why was Kyle hanging out with?
Speaker 2:him. Kyle is a. Kyle went to go find girls. Now Billy decided to follow him because Billy was crushing. Kyle didn't give a fuck. He was like, well, I don't give a fuck, but I'm going to go find some bitches.
Speaker 3:That's just what it is. All of these details are irrelevant.
Speaker 5:What is relevant is that he fucked Billy up.
Speaker 2:Because clearly straight people can't hang with gay people. I don't know, I guess that's what it is. It's just for us.
Speaker 1:We're just trying to process how that works. I think G-Max is uncomfortable.
Speaker 5:You know what it is. You know what it is.
Speaker 2:Whether you believe it or not, we just Us. I mean because I'm straight, because sometimes it's just funny you find out like okay, most straight guys, just don't hang with it.
Speaker 3:I mean maybe I'm his best friend what the fuck is that it?
Speaker 2:might be different. That might be different yeah, I mean, I could see that we had our own room, like we had our own room but him running around with billy no, no, billy was running around following him like a little puppy dog oh, I need to know who tyler is, or whoever he's talking about kyle, it's kyle, well after after we, after we turn off the mic.
Speaker 4:So, kyle, likes Billy.
Speaker 3:No, Billy likes Kyle Billy.
Speaker 2:Badass is the one I fucked up, yeah.
Speaker 4:Billy Badass.
Speaker 2:Because he was talking shit to me the whole time he was jealous of the friendship me and Kyle had. Keep up. Are you still with him? I mean, do you still chill with him? I don't understand. Yeah, I can been here and there. I'm talking about Billy Badass. Billy is who I fucked up.
Speaker 4:I don't know him. I don't know the motherfucker.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying but do you still see him? Oh, I haven't seen him in years. He's not my friend, he was a friend of a friend, you know so. You and your stories. You know what we're going to have a segment. We're going to have a. So your nephew started calling me Sharkisha. Wait, my nephew who Tarek.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought we were name dropping Well he ain't saying nothing bad about him.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I wasn't saying nothing bad about anybody.
Speaker 2:But I mean because this is just your side of the story I don't want allegedly Right. Well, I said a name and y'all were like oh, don't name drop. I didn't say nothing bad about my roommate. Oh my God, we're going to have a segment where it's just going to be your stories. Ask my roommate, he was there. He'll tell you the whole story. Okay, you're going to have a whole segment of your little stories. So I guess the point of the story is when you love your siblings to me you would feel like you do, I would fight for my brother as well.
Speaker 2:No, you just said you would give up $15,000. I mean $5,000. I would do that too, but if I didn't have that option and I had to fight for you, I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight for you. But, you not talk to me for 15 years? Yeah, that's fine too, but you would still fight for him not talk to me for 15 years. Yeah, that's fine too, but you would still fight for him, oh for sure, okay, oh my god, this shit don't make no sense.