 That's right, man. That's right. What do you... Then we're gonna app him, then we're gonna start with Dr. Pepper. He's a real man. That's why I brought me half of Dr. Pepper. Dad, I'm gonna dump... You just bring me the other half of the bottle, man. You think you're trying to look more at me, man? I ain't gonna give him all that. He has people in the bed. Say it when you spill it on yourself. Don't give... It's like somebody stopped. Don't give him all that drink. That's exactly how they used to do it. He was younger. Exactly. Put that drink down. Yeah. Nothing after eight. I believe my shit got flat as soon as I asked for the other half. What y'all been up to, man? Working. Trying to save lives. Trying to save lives. That's what we do. All right, well, on that note, I'll ring the bell. Did you know that? I did not know that. Not only do we have items for sale on the black market, but we're also getting into the life-saving business right now. Absolutely. Yes, sir. You think I'm playing, but I'm beard-ass serious. Don't mind what kind of pants you got on. This is serious business right here on the black market today. Got some very special guests with us. I am Jeep, an independent medical group, man, so y'all get him around and talk to me. First of all, for being independent, now give us a little background on what y'all got going on there. Look at them, one of those cameras. Introduce yourself. You second, because you're just wild. You be on that. My name is Steve Vicksomar. I'm the COO and co-founder of Independent Medical Group and Healthy MD. Okay, that. My name is Clifford Nights. I'm the CEO of Healthy MD and IMG. Okay, okay. How did this come about? We went to high school together. We threw parties in high school. Burned. Fast forward. The dude that owned the clubs that we threw parties at, he owned the pharmacy. HIV specialty pharmacy. HIV specialty pharmacy. Yeah, he asked us to come work with him. We see what he's doing in Miami. I've never seen an HIV specialty pharmacy. Yeah, you wouldn't see it though. Oh, it's, okay. Yeah, it's closed door. Oh, okay. Yeah. So he asked us to come work with him. We said no at first. He was like, just come check it out. We went and checked it out. We seen that he was saving lives. He was working in our community. We're from the underserved community. I'm from Boston. Steve's from Brooklyn. Boston ain't underserved. Dorchester is. Oh, hell no. All the way people up there, y'all got plenty resources in Boston. No, no. Downtown Boston. No, hell no. Dorchester. We've been to Boston downtown. We ain't seen no black people down there. Dorchester ain't there. No, I'm just messing with you. But I'm from Dorchester. So we're from the underserved community, and we just love that he was saving the community. Right. He was helping the community. He was delivering HIV medication to pediatrics, delivering to the women and to the black men in the community. So we said we wanted to be in that business. Okay, good. Right? So he was doing good by doing good. You know, he was able to feed his family, but he was also able to save lives. Right. And still have a night life and own a few clubs and all that. Absolutely, absolutely. That's the perfect thing to add to the portfolio. Absolutely. The crazy thing about that. You know, something that don't require you to do it all day. Yeah, the crazy thing about that is that the gentleman was an entrepreneur. He wasn't even a pharmacist. He wasn't a doctor. He was just a visionary. He saw a need and decided to fulfill that need. And that's kind of what got us into this medical space that we're in, because we're not doctors ourselves. Exactly. We're not with those pigs. No, we're not. So we're not doctors ourselves. We're just, I mean, by the grace of God, we were, you know, forced to kind of be in this situation. So fast forward to where we are today. Today we're in the pedometer group, as you just stated. We have, you know, 10 brick and mortar clinics all over the state of Florida. That's hard. And we have 15 mobile clinics. We actually have more mobile clinics than brick and mortar, because our whole model is, you know, bringing the services out to the community. Most of the people in our underserved community don't have the means for transportation and things of that sort. So our mission is to provide, you know, access and, you know, education. How long y'all been in the business? Shit, 25 years. Word? Yeah. Right out of high school. We threw parties when we was in high school to pay my Jetta car payment, my 94 Jetta car payment. That's what we started from. 94? Yeah, yeah. And you had a car payment? Yes. Man, they roughed the hell out of you, right? That's exactly why we got to step up our financial literacy, black people. There is no way you should have a car payment on a 1994 anything at this point. People should give you shit from 1994. This young man started out behind the eight ball. Who is the low down as person that put a high school student on a payment plan for 1994? I want him locked up, because he got to be out of car business. I agree, I agree, because the clutch was fucked up and everything. Come on in, it's a limit. It's a limit. We have to get around. We have to get around. Man, you probably got motherfuckers. Me, Sothi, Leoma, and nightmares. We ain't supposed to be in no car from 1994. Yeah, man. We had that car. Steve was like, yo, we should throw a party to pay the car payment. We started throwing parties. That was like, once 30 people showed up, the car was paid off. Oh, yeah. For sure. For sure. For sure. That was our first little business seeing this promotion's back in. But that's your real partner, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anybody who would ride in a 94 would shit. Y'all wasn't even born in 94. Shit. Shit is that, man. Shit, I was born in 79. I was born in 79. So really, you 60 years old. That's crazy. We don't care. Black don't crack. Yeah, yeah. So that's just mid-life crack. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, them young boys gonna roll show head down off. Got the level on done on your cool head. Word. Word. Word. Man, I had to make light of the situation. What y'all doing is so serious, man. No, we appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. Getting medicine to the people, you know, and saving lives, man. Everybody got that person in the family who'd be sick as hell with all kind of shit. Always gotta go to the doctor. Always needs an appeal. Yeah, unfortunately. Sick people don't mind telling you they sick. Ah, nephew, they say I gotta have another surgery. Oh, what? The surgery I had. They gotta fix the surgery. I gotta have surgery before the surgery so I can get the surgery. Right now. That's real. Damn. That's so true. We focus on sexual health, right? So STDs, HIV, hepatitis C, and prevention HIV care. Yeah. And we just started doing mental health like the end of last year as well. Yeah, cause you know, STDs and mental health, that's the same thing. Yeah. Cause your mental health can get fucked up. Nah, it's true. I mean, we joke about it, but we realize that a lot of people that deal with whether it's HIV, hepatitis C, or any STDs, you know, a lot of percent of the time they do have co-mobilities. They do have behavioral health issues, unfortunately. That shit is driving you crazy knowing that your sexual health ain't right. That's true. I mean, we do a lot of testing at a lot of colleges. This shit and things like that. We do a lot of testing at the colleges, and it's astounding if you hear the rates of these colleges, man. It's crazy. Yeah, it's astounding. That's why I don't be fucking at colleges. I only fuck women who graduate. Yeah. 20 million new STDs last year. 5 million came from colleges. Don't be on S3 and all that shit. Get the fuck out of me. We got to educate the people, man. I mean, that's kind of what we're charged with. You think the people don't know this? You know what? They don't, though. Thank you. You think so? Yes. So how old are you? 40. You're 40 years old. So you remember TLC with the condoms on the eye? You remember salt and pepper with let's talk about sex? Yes. All of that, right? Yes. Even kid in play where they had the condom and none of that shit now. You know what? It's all about fluid. People ain't gonna use them anyway. I don't know about that. You do know about that. I don't know about that. You know why? We're not educating our community. Our kids nowadays is all about having sex. I get very defensive when people talk about our community because they act like we the worst at everything. No. We're nothing. I don't think we're the worst at everything. The rates speak to it. It's not us speaking to it. It's the rates. 42% of new HIV cases in the Black and Brown community. Why? Because the other community is not reporting their numbers. That could be it too. Them motherfuckers outnumber us 12 to 1. You think we got more shit than them? The thing about them though is that they've been getting tested. They got insurance. They got insurance. They've been getting tested. They've been getting taken care of. You can't get this shit taken care of once you got it. You got it. No, actually you got it though, man. You got it. Listen, we've been in the space for a long time, right? So we came from the early ages where if you are HIV positive, you're probably on seven, eight different medication cocktails. Today, you could take one medication and after 60 days and 90 days, you'll be undetectable. You could live a very healthy life if you have HIV today. It's not like how it was when we were kids. And they actually have... What do you mean when we was kids? Man, that shit wasn't... You know what I'm saying? When we were younger, people thought that HIV was like a death sentence. It's not that way today. HIV... You see how they just throw you in the numbers when you black? That shit ain't got nothing to do with me. But it's definitely not what it used to be when we were kids. I mean, there actually is PrEP, which is a prevention drug that can prevent you from catching HIV if you do come in contact with somebody who has HIV. But look at what you said. According to your stats, in the next three years, everybody's gonna have it. You see what I'm saying? He said 42%. Next year, it'll be another 42%. That'll be 84%. If you say... Two and a half years, 100%. Everybody's gonna have this shit. I would hope not, man. According to your stats... New cases. But we're doing our job. So it's not gonna happen that way. Right? That's why I'm glad we locked in. Y'all leaving me some pills and shit over here so that everybody got it. 42%. 20 million motherfuckers in there. Hell, it ain't even 20 million niggas in a minute. And why they mixed us in with the brown folks? Brown folks don't be round us. When do they make black folks and brown folks the same folks? Hell no. Split us back up. Split us back up. They got our numbers fucked up on every stat. Every stat they see. Black and brown folks, it was a ridiculous number. I don't want to cut us back out. Black, separate, dead brown, because I don't even know about this shit. What the brown community say about this? Ain't nobody heard nothing from the brown community. Do they know they've been included with us? Brown community, get back to me. Let me know something. I don't like these numbers. We got the fuck safer because they land on us. Trust me, I believe the other folks. That's the truth. We got to be safe. We got to be safe. What's their numbers? What they do last year? Who's they? You dug up ones who other than black and brown. Aw, man. What they do? What type of numbers they put up? What place they in? Listen, if we a cap for 42%, they only send the black and brown numbers. You don't know? We do. We focus on our community and the reason why we got to catch up. What's the gap? Are we down six or 60? What we doing? You know, that's a great question. That's a great question. They got all the numbers ain't nobody compared. That is a great question because we don't even pay attention to the other community other than ours. And I'm going to tell you why is because what we do with taking our mobile clinics and going into the rural and underserved community, we do testing and treatment and we was at a black college. I'm going to say what college it was and 20 new HIV cases at this black college. Let's go to a white one. Yeah, we actually let's go to a white one. We go to other colleges as well. Let's go to all white ones. Let's go to Alabama or something. Let's see what they do. Let's do it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. We do that today. We do that today in Florida as well. I love that fucking Florida State. See what they got. We're there. Yeah. We're there. I bet they got at least five new cases. Yeah, they do. They do. As much as they drink after each other and shit. They absolutely do. They be kissing in the mouth. No, they got some shit on with that one. I'm just fucking with y'all. Nah, nah, nah. This shit too heavy. We don't want nobody sad watching this shit wondering if they got it. But you have to go get tested. You gotta go get tested though, man. We take it for granted unfortunately, man. Who? Who? Us in our community. We don't, none of us here go to the doctor. How many people, how many, this is a lot of people. Black people, please go to the doctor so you can get that. How many of us have to go get checked? Unless it's broken or bleeding, we're not going to the doctor. Exactly. Then you don't know what's wrong with you. That's why we bring our mobile clinics out in the community to actually test people because people do need to get medical treatment unfortunately. And typically, that's not a high percentage of people who have to go to the doctor. They're like, can I have the issues that's priority for us? It's free. It's free. We test it. Boy, that's some scary shit. You take a free HIV test and have that shit for free. At least charge $20. Don't nobody want to find that they got this shit for free. Man, but again, that's one of the challenges to healthcare because access and having insurance or having the cash should be able to pay it. So we don't want that we do HIV and STD testing. Our mobile clinics safe for healthcare screening. It should be free if you got it. Unfortunately, we can't do that. Oh, well, shit. Unfortunately, we can't do that. That's a good way to have it. Just wasted your time. Nah, but we rather people know they're satisfied. Prevention care too because if you're living a riskier lifestyle and you're having unprotected sex with several women or men, then you want to be on prevention so you don't get it. We're taking this very seriously and we're going to get with y'all and we're going to ride around all the white schools and see what they get. I'll pay for the gas. I don't want just the stats on the black and brown people. I want stats on the pink people, yellow people. I want all the numbers. With the stats on everybody. Especially in the college world. That's a fact though. Exactly. We don't want this shit to be selfish. We want to make sure we get all the communities even the people who can afford it. We can charge them $20. Yes sir. Because they serve. Yes sir. They should have been new they had. They got insurance. They got insurance. Yes sir. They could have went and got an annual check up. Ain't doubt checking my blood out. Most people are afraid to know. Most people are afraid to find out. They should be. On the college campus you got STD clinics. On every main college campus you got STD clinic. Why they don't go to the STD clinic? You want the school? No. Nobody wants to go to the STD clinic because it says it's a STD clinic. So they don't want to go into it. Our mobile clinic says free medical care. So everybody comes to our mobile clinic and say they're getting a blood check. They're getting a high blood pressure. Whatever the case may be then they can get the STD. So now when they get in there with the white coat they could have a real conversation versus walking into a STD clinic covering their face and going in there. So that's the value of the mobility. Where? Where I hooded with a hat and some glasses. It kind of looked like you but it'd be hard to tell it was you. From far away. Yeah. No matter what the weather is, where hooded. I should put me on the team. I got some great ideas. I agree. We'll do you better than they do Zoom calls, trust me. Oh please. I'm through with Zoom calls. I'm gonna have to hire my brother to start doing them shit. Fuck them. I got to do the black mark. This is why you think I'm still in here. Yes sir. On a Monday. And we appreciate you having us too. Drop in the info you want the people to have how they can get in touch with you. How you could pull up to if somebody got a spot they want y'all to pull up. Y'all in Florida right? Yeah we're in Florida. We got a gang of people from Florida. We're in Florida but we just launched our nationwide platform HealthyMD where you could order the test kits from home to your home and you could test yourself, ship it back, get a telehealth visit and get your medication shipped to your home. Yeah you do a telehealth visit, do a video camera. It's kind of like Zoom unfortunately. Oh y'all got to Zoom too. I knew it. I knew it. But we try to make it convenient and try to give access to people man. That's really what the whole mission is about right. From when we started back in high school you know in the pharmacy days realizing that our community don't necessarily have the right to get it. So trying to be able to articulate that and get it into a platform and a message where people can palatable and they can understand and they can not necessarily be afraid of what the outcomes may be. Like you said people get ready for the surgeries after the surgeries but until you get to a certain age when it's broken and bleeding is when we start going to the doctor. So we're trying to make it cool for people to take care of their health. There's a lot of things we're trying to do for everybody. I'm going to call you at 11 I'm great at this job I don't even have to look. Y'all thought we was going to get through the whole episode and I wasn't going to say shit about these shiny pink ass nails. And I really thought y'all just going to come up on my show glossy and shiny nails shiny like ain't it was going to be cool. I don't give a damn how long you been married. Trying to fix his wife on the marriage 16 years. And she don't like your shiny pink nails. I don't give a damn how long you been married. My girl's been shot, I stay clean. Come on here, take that shiny shit off. We got man hands over here. We rollin' blunts and gettin' dirty. Come on here with these pants and pant nails. Imagine if you went to a clinic, you went to a doctor, your doctor rolled up with dirty nails and you're providing somebody. You gon' have the same results. Yeah, you got some beautiful nails, but your liver's failing. Shut up. Yeah, try to flip that shit on me. Look at all the men over there. Look what you gon' have shiny pink nails. We outside couldn't grab. I'm 16 years, I got two baby girls. We go as a family. Shut up. What's your old excuse? He got four boys, he ain't got no excuse. You got four sons, we gon' see that damn. I'm doing good by doing good, man. That's what I'm doing. Man, this is my business part when we talk to each other like that, man. But I appreciate y'all, man. I appreciate y'all doing what y'all doing for the community. I appreciate you, too. Black men love to get your nails done for you, too. My shit ain't gon' be shiny. When that lady say you want jail, you're supposed to say no. You ain't men. What the hell's wrong with you, man? You can't do that. You can't do that. Oh, man. You be like, yo, please me and my baby girls want... Let's say my 13-year-old and my 15-year-old play ball. They play ball heavy. Word. And they get their nails done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You like, get out and get your ass out there and cut your grass. I'm from Boston. Yeah, so you ain't used to having no yard anyway. No. Exactly. You ain't did it. I did cut grass in Florida. Oh, shit. I cut grass in Florida. That's right there. But all at the same time, I get my nails done because I like to be clean. You do? Yes, sir. All right. Keep doing your thing. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. No, man. Y'all welcome anytime on the black market, whatever y'all got going on. Thank you for having us. When y'all launched the International Joint. Congratulations on going nationwide and keep doing what you're doing. You always welcome on the black market. The black market is over, man. Independent, military, bro. That's right. Thank you. I appreciate you. Thank y'all.