 Big shit, it's a unique hustle nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, name another podcast like this Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle, it's your boy E.C.O. and I'm here with the lovely, amazing, official Mr. Mako, what's going on? None of you know my day, I walk fine Man, hey man, we landed, we just landed man, downtown Dallas man, hey man, we got to come on this set with this, hey man, this dude here is something else man This dude them fed me man, you know, when people feed me, I feel like just moving in with him Say man, my boy Ricky Boogers, you know, building appreciate y'all, appreciate y'all That's how I got him, just fed him and he moved in Hey, he's clean, so I let him move in too, cause he's clean, he's decent, he's smell fresh all the time, fresh, he's all right with me So what, so we see what's going on here man, what's going, what makes you tick, how did you end up saying, hey man, I'm gonna put this together, we're gonna start, you know, we're gonna start broadcasting on TV Yeah, because the last time we spoke, he wasn't doing this, last time he spoke But we talked about it briefly because he invited us, so he knew it was coming, but I think it wasn't in this location and there was some more stuff going on So talk to us a little bit about it What happened was, you know, when you first open up a business, you build the marketing and promotion around it, you know, it's almost kind of like some hype So, you know, you always look at it one, just kind of like having a hit record When the hype is gone, what do you do next? So before the hype go away, I wanted to have an outlet to promote the food, promote Breakfast Brothers So we came up with the name in the kitchen with the Breakfast Brothers to keep the food going And have people come on and eat and talk a little bit. That's all there was about it Can and and The thing that what happened from that, I started getting guests You basically built this hype up around the business to say, hey man, uh, it's coming, it's coming full of Fledge And the last time we hadn't went over there and ate when you came on the show But when I went over there and ate and I ate those red velvet waffles, man And you you bought he had my red Because he ordered the regular red belt the regular waffles and mine was so I didn't even want to give him any of That's how is that good. Yeah. Wow. So so just give us the spill of how you just basically walked up into being putting it on A network where you could see it the tv show is dope. I've watched it man. It's a success How do you feel about how hard is it to do it because not everybody people have visions to do this thing But nobody knows how to do it like you see it on tv like not that's unattainable for a lot of people that think it is Well, I on the way I tapped in I fed cw 33 they when we first opened up they reached out And interviewed me. So I fed them and they ate live on the they called a morning Morning after shows and talk show kind of like Kelly and Regis. I forget the two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So when I fed them They loved the food and they was eating live on tv Well, and this was round Pandemic was still in in place. So we was doing it on the zoom So they had me and I did it from our office and they were on their set when they got through eating About a week later the producer came to to the to the restaurant and ate too because she didn't get to get any other food So we that's when the the dialogue started. Hey, man, I got this ideal for this show Y'all ever want somebody to cook this and then so she took it back To cw 33 and they loved the ideal and we got together and got our crew and got volunteers And here we are and like I say, I wanted to promote it for the food to keep breakfast brothers going But when I we was inviting guests on Being that I was on the entertainment side of it when we was inviting guests It started becoming real interesting to me to where these guests, you know, we had doctors Lawyers city councilman. That's that's our color. So I was like, well, man And let's do this more to the point where it began promoting breakfast brothers But I started promoting them to show that you you got primary care doctors. That's out here. That's our color You got Dennis female Dennis. That's our color. You don't see that a lot. You don't see you got physical therapists All these people that's our color that's right here in Dallas. You got big time producers artists that lives right here So I started getting more involved in that and bringing everybody on the show and it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger The guests that we bring on they eat breakfast brothers and we talk about breakfast brothers in the kitchen But the main platform is give us Able 30 that 30 minutes that you can watch it on on on cw33 they find out that is a doctor and see the hill That's black But what I wanted to know though You talk about the people that are coming on here are getting bigger and bigger But how are your ratings compared to when you first start compared to now? What are your ratings now right when the people are not getting bigger and bigger But the show is getting bigger and bigger because people are getting interested in dialing in and tuning in So we're doing any word it's averaging three thousand to thirty five hundred viewers That's actually tuning in turning that tv every single week every single week Man, you know the thing I like about it is I see a lot of black business owners That's coming through a lot of black entrepreneurs And so when I see them linking up with you and I see the movement It kind of gives us a sound of what's going on in Dallas. What's going on in the black community? And I think that's dope too, man So it's a look that really it was a spot that was empty that needed to be filled So I just think you know what you're doing is providing also a place where people can can be noticed Right, you know what I'm saying that we talk about your show all the time Everybody's they've never heard about it. Y'all need to tune in you tell them all the time about it Definitely and so um, so and I know you're gonna come back and talk with us a little bit I know we got to keep things because producers are starting to make correct. What are you doing? We're gonna get started. Yeah. Yeah, but what I want to do is I want we're gonna sit with you for a little while If that's okay, that's just check out how you guys move man And uh, we if you'll come back and set with us. Absolutely. Thank you so much, man Thank you. Yes, sir. We're gonna go back into it in just a little bit. Okay How how difficult are you used to it now? Well, uh, I never get used to it But I tell you my day how it goes every Monday that we shoot I get up at 6 a.m. In the morning. I get to the restaurant I prepare myself. I get all uh menu for what we're gonna have on the show that day I go see what's going on back I try to get out the restaurant by noon or one to get home to shave and relax And get ready for it, but what I did when I first we first started I was terrible because I didn't like cameras or being in front of cameras So I started watching podcasts talk shows and then I started Going through my own shows and doing the editing. So I started watching what I was What you were doing wrong and what you're doing, right? And how many words I was saying the same and being repetitive So I started fixing it myself. It's kind of like watching film when you in when you in sports If you're serious about it, it's boring sometimes watching yourself. Oh my god He's always said do you ever watch the shows over again? I'm like Sometimes not really because it's like I'm already here. So I know everything that happens But when you're editing and stuff like that, you have to watch Well, I love it, you know, I'm saying I love I love to get into it I love to see what we done what we can do to create and make it better, you know So I just love that part, man, you know So, um, I mean, how long do you plan to do this? Long enough to tap into Dallas, Fort Worth to where people are starting to call and ask to be on the show I want everybody to have the opportunity that I'm having and even come to the point now The employees get off work and they go around to local areas and they have their breakfast brothers merchandise on and people know it they asking them questions and they feel good about Now it's becoming breakfast brothers to work. There's becoming It's a good thing to come work there now people like being at breakfast brothers We have a good time there before it was a lot of work But now it's it's just because it's almost like being famous you and I want to do this to To we can't do it anymore and I'm and I don't want to do it to where if it got Bigger and bigger and I stopped because I got had enough No, I want to be able to do it one day to where I passed the throne on over to Lush is a Past just thrown where I start having I have special guests Maybe you be the host that day and you talk to sit down and talk to the special guests We still eating breakfast brothers food. We any kitchen the breakfast brothers, you know, I I started it. We're gonna finish that race. You know, it's almost like passing baton at a four by four relay I did have a question because I'm like If I missed your show last week And I wanted to see that episode or that three episodes before that. How can I go back and see that? Do y'all um put anything like on youtube or on a website where I can just go back and be like How can we actually you can actually stream it on hulu too? But we have a youtube channel called any kitchen with the breakfast brothers You can go all the way to episode one when I first did it was with deedy from the morning team And I dig dairy james, which is ej's trainer boxing trainer. So you can go all the way up to that. I think we're now We're like today. We're filming episode 30 31. We got 52 episodes How long does it take to come out like when you film because the film I want to know the process when you film and how long does it take to edit and how long does it take to air Right now we have three shows in front of this one So it takes we takes a week to edit and we I go over all the edits and I have to turn it into cw33 by wednesday So uh now where we at with three shows. So we're proud this one today is probably four weeks out So this one run to four weeks and sometimes If i'm ahead of it, I pay attention to what we're talking about like if somebody's gonna release a song And I know this and I said well Let's talk about the song already out because by the time we air it the song's already gonna be out That's kind of the same thing we we do as well But sometimes we push things around so say sometimes can you like call cw and say okay This episode right here needs to come out next week because of xyz. Can you shift around episodes? Yeah, you can but what happens is it goes in sequence So because when we get done when I get through checking the edits in it Once we have approval through all the production team I sent it to a closed caption company called lab caption you sent it to them They closed caption and then they sent it to cw33 and that may be episode 28 So I turn around and say let's run episode 29. What it does it confuses the apps actual network because then That happened already. So that's how I know we end up showing They showed aired one show three times in a row. They said well, that was episode done I said, whoa, wait a minute. So I had to call closed caption call You can get with the on my camera my production team that was shooting and get with the editor and say Okay, we need the number this show this and and if something goes wrong with the closed caption They do the same show if it's 28 at the first time and I send it back now. They make it 29 But it's actually the same show but I had to fix that too as well So you kind of got to figure out and be careful So you got to have a team that's paying attention to the number At all 30 somebody shows what which one sticks out the most to you I think the one me personally and this don't have nothing against what anybody Is is the one with our idea with big bink? And why why is that? I think some of the shows to where I don't necessarily have to learn about something if I know somebody the The conversation is more interesting because I I know his background. He know mine And we talked a little bit more about a lot of things that people didn't know that being where he came from from Chicago The college he went to in Oklahoma City So those things and then in bc too because when I personally know you those conversations of people I can tune into those a little bit more instead of learning it off the cue card 30 minutes before the show Before we start filming Do you ever see yourself doing a documentary? One time, you know Ovid media which is uh, which is shine y'all know shine me and him started that Probably three four years ago. So he's got footage. I just hadn't game got back with him We actually started a documentary from the time from okema okema city times when I lost my sister in the bombing So I took him to okema city where he was filming he interviewed a lot of people from the ricky barbie era and all those things So he we started that maybe four years ago now, but we never finished it. Do you intend to yeah? Yeah, and shine now. He's so busy and I talked to him one time. He just had to go back to his old What you call those things sd car sd car terabytes, right and find that word the episodes are in hard drives Right, yeah, I just like I said when I see what you've done and and see where you come from being you come from A music management background Business owner club owner Just all the things that you're doing man. Uh, are you do you are you comfortable with where you at? I know you probably never get comfortable, but do you feel like you were you supposed to be no and And it's almost kind of like I I had a radio raheem on the show. Okay, the neighbors thing never satisfied. So, you know, we was talking I'm one of the ones that's never satisfied. So his theme of what he's saying is one is good So I never get comfortable Yeah, sometimes when you get comfortable that just that happens in sports. You make mistakes And then now I think I'm in a position to where a lot of people rely on me, you know Me and my business partner we want to have Errors where we bring our club entertainment clubs back and help breakfast brothers To where people have jobs and even come to the point where the people started the foundation with us in Arlington maybe one day the franchise start we offer those individuals first And then I think I can get comfortable then But that's the one thing I was looking at the other day Yesterday we went to a restaurant in houston And when I walked in the thing that I was most impressed about is how many people they employed They had and I was only on that shift so I can imagine how many people they really have And I was like wow, I need a lot of young people Us people Everywhere and I was just amazed at that. I'm gonna tell you what my gm did my gm We got a qr code that um that we had done by dream media To where when you scan the qr code you can go straight straight to the To google reviews review. So dame said, you know what we got this offer and we have plenty of people coming to the restaurant They love doing what they love our food and they need to talk about it And y'all need to start having to scan the qr cards explain to them So the girls started and dame said the first girl to get 10 reviews with their name in the reviews I'm gonna get their nails done So they started doing it and one girl won and I said, you know what I'm gonna take it farther than that We're gonna. I'm gonna surprise y'all y'all keep doing it. So in two days. I think we got 56 reviews all five stars Wow, that's great. Hold on the girls nails done Is there a cap on how much you pay for them nails to be done because that can get that can get It wasn't a cap. So I took it all the way to another thing. So this what I did is I said, okay Dane got one girl. So I'm gonna take all seven new girls So I went over to spa castle and got all of them spa days So they do they spa days tomorrow on tuesday because we closed the restaurant Wow That's why that boy on boss talk is he talking that talk that real bosses talk. Yeah, yeah, everybody get to go You get a car Oprah where for type thing What's your side to that because that's the thing you keep looking at. Okay. Okay went to the spa like What what are the treats coming down the line? Okay. I'm gonna tell you now I know That the qr code can get reviews now. It's a routine. That's part of the customer service job So we did it to make to show them that it can work can work But then they got a gift out of it. So now that's suspected man That's dope man. So man. Hey man. Thank you man. We we appreciate you for inviting us in Man, um, how can people get a hold of you if they're trying to uh, you know, link up with you And when does it show air and all of that the shirt? We on cw33 at 10 30 every Saturday Morning, okay, cw33 you if you want to see me at the restaurant And I'm at the restaurant six days a week because we close on tuesday address 130s Barton Road, Alton, texas 7 a.m. To 7 p.m. Wow, you want anything else and want to book our food truck book event catering Go to breakfastbrothers.com for careers click the link if you want to get in line and don't want to wait Click the link say get in line before you leave your house So you can get in line before you get there check in and then we'll text you and let you know your table is ready How far will the truck drive if they wanted to book you? Do you go out of state? No, I hadn't got to the point I had an idea to do a pop-up out of state But what you have to do is each state as you go to you got to make sure you get with the city and find out what type of Permit that's it You gotta have your permit right before you go because you'll get a rude awakening going in some of these small Counties down in oklahoma. You can't just pull up in paul's valley or enid or muskogee Or you can't pull up down in tree port and go in the cooper road nico You got to have everything together. You know what i'm saying if you ain't got it all together They will run you out. They ran me out one time. Yeah, I didn't have my peddlers for me I was sitting clothes. I don't want to go there, but it was very anti-climatic. You know, I'm talking about so man Thank you for coming on the show man. Appreciate y'all. Hey man. We love the place man I did want to get into a little bit of how you ended up here doing this show because that's that's to be Beautiful location. It's dope. The thing is about it real quick because I know I got to get back on set But well, we were looking for other locations because we was in Plano and you know, he was pretty expensive And you know, we always want to get back to us But when I found this one was pretty close to where I live And I instead of calling them I came over here and talk to them told me what we was trying to do And the lady said we'll try to give you a trial run. That's how much it cost She said we're not going to charge you anything the owner said dad was fine as a german company So we did a trial run and they loved that the attitude about what it was But I was cooking live here at first but the smell was too much for him So I had to start doing the pre cooking and bringing it in right and and when they said dad We can do it. We do it every other Monday and we do it for free And then they they got to the point where they love us and trusted so much they gave us keys to the place They're not even here. Thank god Yeah You know, I go to tripping when god do something great like that. There's all that's all him. I'd have none Exactly We're the right things to say when I came up here to visit them Man and it just it's like I said man to be a brother that Accomplish what you have accomplished man. I commend you There's our people that look like us man. It's just it's it's not often that you see people doing you are you are in a small Ramam who does what you're doing? I just don't take the answer from I don't take the answer for no Somebody tell me here. No, I'm gonna go figure that and that's what happened This is you look at this of being out showroom. These are these are displays that people buy for they mentioned Say nothing to play with man. So check it man. Hey, man It's been another great segment of boss talk 101 what a bosses talk and we out