 I see you've been following me a lot. Yeah man, I've seen that they broke in your shit at the protest and all that. And you still came right back and with a check and don't man, come on. Real niggas do real things. For real, for sure. We know what's going on. I show people, you know what I'm saying, coming from the streets, you can do something. And that's exactly what it's all, that's what we're doing. Yeah, for sure. That's why I respected it, you know what I'm saying, because people, you know everybody got a platform don't want to, you know, help the Lord go out. But when I got my own platform, I said I'm going to do everything that's possible for many people, you know, transpiring to the next level. I've seen when you had the first by then you moved to downtown. Yeah. Man, I've been keeping up. Yeah, I grew that joint, like the gas station dude. That's what I'm saying, I've been seeing what's going on. Yeah, for sure. We'll be ready in T-minus three. I'll be over here directing this shit. You're going to be seeing me Chico. What I'm when I'm directing my name is Carlos Pierre Poitierre. I'm a French nigga that I turned into a whole French nigga when I'm directing. Yeah, watch this shit. I know all the lingo. Can I get a filter on to him? Yeah, I feel like the light is popping. Where's my ad? Where's my ad? Let me see. Yeah, Dave, Dave, Dave is a shadow on Dave. Yeah, let's get the shadow off Dave. Yeah, let's get the shadow off Dave. Yeah, see that's what happened in the midst of the Pat LeBat. In the Pat LeBat, you right? Yeah, Pierre Poitierre. Poitierre. It's Poitierre. Poitierre. I am. Once I finish this blunt, I just didn't want to get no more crumbs on my lap. Yeah, where's Chad Oubre? Is Oubre here? Yo, Oubre. Can I get that follow-up call on that Carlos Bernard? Yeah, let's see what that is. I don't know if you know Big Dave, but I got my own liquor that's about to touch people's lips. Yeah. I'm going to get them tow up off that Carlos Bernard, then I'm going to send them down to your spot. I got it. Oh, this is about to be good. I hope you know. It's my man over at Chico Bean, man. Community service warrior. You know what that nigga might do, man? That nigga's a great person. He be doing all kind of shit. The nigga got this foundation. Well, he read Brill to Blind Strippers. That's a good ass idea. That nigga right there, man. Blind Strip Club thing? You know them bitches bad at the Blind Strip Club. Everybody bad at them all, fuck it, dawg. It's a Blind Strip around here, though. You ain't see a world star? Nah. She bad, too. Blind? Yeah. They already got one in Houston. A drive-thru one? Yeah. You can't touch them, so you got to just pull up and do it like an outside movie drink. Yeah, that's how they go. It's a video online. The Blind Stripper beat up the other strip about some money. Somebody, research department, pull up the Blind Stripper fight. You think I'm making this up? I got to see it. I missed that one. The Blind Stripper fight. I got to see it. I'll be here all weekend, folks. That's why I'm the comedian. I like that shit. This sound like some new, like if Desperado was black, Antonio Benegres. Somebody had this shit, but they said name a random NBA player. When y'all started to do that? Did you find it? 20 years. That guy is on it. Show it to Chico Bean. He ain't seen it. Hell yeah. Show it to him. The Blind Stripper showed up at our house, bro. So she up in the ass blind? Yeah. She fucked up. Well, they say when you lose one instinct, the other one's as good, because her sense of feel is great, because now you see she losing it. She don't know what to punch no more. Yeah, she hit now. How you know the person breaking it up ain't somebody trying to help? Come on. Y'all gonna get enough of calling me a liar, though. Man, that's crazy. That's crazy. Anybody else want to fuck with Hollywood Coke? I ain't even gonna tell y'all about that documentary they got about that monkey that's a human, but whatever, man, because I don't appreciate y'all. Say what? That shit is the most disturbing shit in the world, ain't it? You talking about Cud, you put me on that shit. That monkey, that monkey man? Yeah, uh-huh. If you want to see it, it's a documentary about this monkey called Oliver. Oliver. Yeah, Oliver, look at that. It's a humanoid monkey, man. His mother fucking walked around on two feet, he had no hair, nigga, strong as a bitch. They had to get rid of him because he wanted to fuck for real. The lady who was keeping him had to get rid of him because he kept trying to fuck. That's real, so that's true shit. I made you go watch the whole shit, because as soon as you see it, you can be like, What the fuck? No, I don't know what it was. It was a humanoid monkey, nigga. He was walking around upright, everything. Yeah. They called him a human pansy. Welcome back to another edition of the H5 South Show. We're going to call this right here, this is one of our black, excellent spotlights. You know what I'm saying? I know you see this strapping young man, we got up on the couch right here today. Big Dave from Big Dave Cheese Stakes. Yeah. What's happening? I got a bad little bitch from the town, like the freak, late, pull up to her house with one of Big Dave Cheese Stakes. Big Dave, what's happening, man? And they fire you if you're asking, if you give her one of these, you get the cat-like curl baskets, nigga. Woo-hoo-hoo! I'm going to try one of these motherfuckers. Alright, man, kill that Antonio Bandettis. Big Dave, man, give us a dope ass intro, let us know what it is, man. What you representing today? My name is Derek, I dedicated my business to my father. It was Big Dave, he died from lung cancer in 2009. I moved from here from Philly and I wanted to change my life. Philly in the building. What part? Born and raised. So I just wanted to come down here, start my life over. Throughout the whole time of me building this brand, I've seen that it was bigger than food. So I started seeing that I wanted to be involved in the community to help the young brothers out. So that's what I'm doing right now. What made you pick Atlanta? My grandparents actually moved from here, but they moved back down here in like 1996. I used to come down in the summertime. So when my dad passed away, I was like, you know, I'm going to move out the city. I promised him, actually, I was in the streets before, you know what I'm saying? I was going down the wrong road. And when he died, you know what I'm saying? I gave him that promise, so that's what keeps me focused right now. How does a street nigger know that he is fire with the cheese thing? Well, I'm from Philly, bro. And the thing is, like all my family, you know what I'm saying? We cook a lot, but my grandfather, he taught me how to make seasoning. So I was like, shit, I got to take something and, you know, take my gift and run with it. I used to play basketball. They ain't work out for me. I got in trouble. So, you know what I'm saying? I took the food and just took it to the next level. It's like he alive again. So it's like, you know what I'm saying? You strive for something more than just, you know, being successful. Let me ask you this. You know, Philly, they take the cheese thing very, very, very seriously. Oh, yeah. What separates yours from all the rest of the competition? To be honest with you, like I just told you, I'll not make seasoning. Like, I feel like... You got the seasoning. I caught that. I guess what you're saying. I really feel like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it ain't too many people in the world right now can make seasoning better than me. Like, right now on paper, I'm top 10 in the world in sandwiches and I did it on a barbecue grill in Alabama, you know what I'm saying? 2018. So, it's people that went to school for this. It's people that took this seriously their whole life. I just got a gift. You know what I'm saying? You got to use that gift and when you special with something you give it to the people. So right now my gift is the food was the start of it and now it's connected me to, you know, people that might be lost or I might be able to tell another entrepreneur something I learned, you know what I'm saying, going through the game. So, for me it's information. So, it's bigger than everything. So, did you have to find all the information about being an entrepreneur? Well, I'll tell you this. I moved to Atlanta 2014. I had over a million dollars cash. I blew it in 14 months. Did Atlanta do that? Yeah. Same shit happened to me. Shit, man. That's very impressive though. Ain't nobody going to get in your business before a black man have that amount of money. I took my last 200,000. Shit, my accountant called me. I met out with him. I was going broke. I took my dream and just dumped it all in. You know what I'm saying? I was like, it ain't no going back. It ain't no going back, it was for me. Anybody who ain't see this dream and see this vision they going to watch it on TV. I used to tell people that early on get with me, invest with me, believe in me. Now you got to watch it. I built my own platform. I don't really need nobody. I'm just keep on being there for the people who are there for me. Without the community, I wouldn't be nothing. As long as I'm there for them and they know I got they back, that's all I need. How do you stay focused through the process though? You said you had that amount of money coming down, hit cash. That means you already had some type of hustle in you. What kept you from going back to what you knew work that got you that and still applying yourself to making the business work? Well, for one, I come from a family of hustlers. What I mean by that is like my grandfather, he was a farmer for a big construction company. My father worked for it. So all my family actually worked together. So I see men actually take care of families throughout my whole life. So I ain't never, be honest, I ain't never seen a deadbeat in my life and all I know is how to be a man, you know what I'm saying? Step up to the plate. So on my father died, it was like he told me like flat out, I raised you to stand on your own two feet. You're going to be ours. So I take those words every day and stand on my own two feet as no man for nothing. And that's how I got to where I'm at right now. Because at the end of the day, we don't stick together as a whole as black people. Like I've been around, you know, other races and it's not our fault because we get tricked out and we might have something special and then we ain't never seen this type of money before and we get offered something and we sell off when you got a billion dollars in the plane, you know what I'm saying? But we don't have the right platform to say alright, this big brother right here, he already successful. He already got money. They get together and help somebody out. We gotta protect our own. So let's start with us first before we start going against everybody else. So I'm learning that. So with my platform right now that I built in Atlanta with my platform, and I'm around with it the way I know to run with it. And I can't be accountable for nobody else, you know what I'm saying? But right now, I'm working on a lot of big things. Like with Rashad Brooks, I had partnered up with Slutty Vegan and we had, you know, did the whole life insurance thing, the car, the scholarships. And right now, we're working on pitting life insurance on 25,000 black men in Atlanta right now. So you got two restaurants that's trying to empower the community any way possible. And right now, it's just like, I'm just going forward with what I could do, what I built. Because I built the multi-million dollar company in six years for my last. Let me ask you this because I know that didn't your shop get vandalized doing all the protests and stuff like that? Tell these people how you responded to that. Yeah, so basically, when my windows got broke out, I was upset because throughout the pandemic I fed over 40 hospitals. Every day, man, I was going to different hospitals, walking up hospitals, and even before that I gave out a thousand mils to the community just having people pull up in line. So honestly, it was like, you know, I was kind of hurt, but of course, you know, a black man lost his life, a human lost his life, it was bigger than my windows. So what I decided to do was start helping the community right then and there. As soon as I had to the next day the community stood behind me for one. And I just want to say I appreciate everybody who heard my story, who wanted to help me out and everything that was going on. On the next day, I got a call, Karen Sivill, Russ shot out the Russ in Schoolboy Q. Russ donated $20,000, Schoolboy Q donated $10,000. And honestly, it was like a blessing to me because I didn't need the money, you know, the community, honestly, my business lined up black every day, so, you know, when they go find me, when I found out what they raised, it was like $26,000. I found every black business in the community that was a part of the community and I gave them that money back. You know what I'm saying? I didn't need it. So, you know, it was me helping them. And right now, all I'm trying to do is build something every day to help the black community, to help our business strive better because we are geniuses, man. We're brilliant. We just got to understand that because every day, you don't see nothing but they say black on black crime, you know, we fall for the whole victimized thing. We got to stop killing ourselves, bro. That's just all to it. That's like you just said earlier. All we know is that. But now it's time for the people who got platforms to get to the youth, to talk to them because they're not going to respect it from nobody else. They're only going to respect it from the higher-ups. They're going to respect it from the people they've seen, make it. That's like me telling you how to make a billion dollars. I don't have a billion dollars, but I got to plan how to get a billion dollars. So, you'll have a conversation with me about it. You know what I'm saying? So, me and you both don't see nothing in common. How can we see eye to eye? So, that's how I feel about it. How did you get to that point? Hold on. You got to drop the address again. Just so they can know where to pull up there. So, the best cheesesteak in the world right now is 57 Fourth Side Street. Atlanta, Georgia, 303. 303-03. Cross Street from Georgia State. I promise you it's not a better cheesesteak in the world. How did you get that buzz, though? You say, man, your business lines up and down the block every day. How did you get it? Don't start like that. And a lot of people see business owners and see the success and think that they're going to walk right into lines down the block. So, how did you get to that point? So, to be honest with you, bro, just like you just said, I thought I was going to invest this money and I was going to have lines. Well, it took me years to get these lines, but I will say that it took me to be the cashier. It took me to be the cook. It took me to be the investor. It took me to be anything that I needed to run my company inventory. I used to put food in the back of my car. And all this stuff I did to grind to not be a failure to what I wanted to be in life of my father. If you honor something to somebody you respect, you're going to go hard as you can go at it. Refuse rules. So, I would tell anybody that's right now and out there that's no striving to be great, you can't listen to nobody. You only know what you built up, you and God. Nobody else knows. You could be around a homeboy every day. You don't know if it's loyalty and you didn't tell y'all both get bigger. One of y'all get big. You can't see if you're going to clap for me and root for me like I would have did it for you. So, that's our problem. We got to clap and root for our people just like we want to clap and root for ourselves. And we'll all be successful. But we got to understand that what starts with us first. And that's just how I feel about it. Man, that's what's up. The best cheese steaks. Yeah, for sure, bro. That's cheese steaks in the world right here. Big Dave Cheese Steaks, a black man, young entrepreneur black man you know, your motivation for young niggas. You niggas in there cooking all their meals and shit for business you trying to fuck. Niggas put some money behind it. You know what I'm saying? Real life, that's how I know what you just said. Listen, that salmon that y'all just eating. Listen, I'm telling y'all a true story, man. So, I got a couple homings that's in the industry and the salmon egg roll, I started making the salmon for Uzi. So, he a pepaterian, he don't eat meat. So, we put that together in the farm and you know, it just was me just working on it over the years. I was in the gas station so I had one fryer so I couldn't I couldn't use it in the gas station so when I moved downtown, I was like I'm coming out with the salmon egg rolls. I already knew they was going to be a hit because I already know how people reacted off of it in them studios, you know, people that I gave them to but I work on some. I don't really eat my food. I go off for you or you or whatever say thing, you know, and then I brainwashed myself to love my stuff. I like the people, you know, let the people speak for that. That's like an artist when you be like, oh, I'm hot, I could rap. Like, and then, no, let the people say that. Let the people say that you can do that. You know what I'm saying? I've been in that, I'm working on stuff, you know what I'm saying? I got a family that's in the music industry. I got people that's around me that I want to see blossom. How bad they want to go at their craft. My cousin, Dame, he coming with some heat, you know what I'm saying, producing. I just feel like everybody around me right now, we got a tight bind and we going at everything hard, you know what I'm saying? Drop the social media, man. Hey man, at Big Dave Cheesesteaks, follow me. Come get the best cheesesteaks. The lines is long, but we're working on, you know, better production to get the time for and all that. But that's what we're working on. And I got more stories coming. I got a surprise actually coming in two weeks. I can't let it out right now, but it's going to be on the ground. Hey man, we're just going to fuck with you. That was nice. Definitely. And we out this bitch. Good shit, big dog. Going Big Dave's door filled.