 We're gonna have to have a tow truck on deck. Tell me, you got the theme music on deck? That don't sound plant-based right there. Is that plant-based? Let me see, hold on. All right, okay, that might be. You know what I gotta do though, right? Welcome to the black market. 85 Self Show presents. And today, we got a very special guest with us. People keep asking me about, you know what am I gonna do for the health conscious community? Well this, today I'm doing my part. We got the owners of the plant-based piece of red. And introduce yourself to the 85%ers. My name is Paul. And this is my guy, Blizz. That sound like some robbers right there. Paul and Blizz red up in their guns, Blizz. And we are the owners of the plant-based piece of red. That's dope. How did y'all come up with that concept? It really started off, my mother had passed from cancer. And throughout her struggle, I learned of Dr. Sabi. And just watching a lot of his YouTube's and things, I realized that a lot of the foods are causing cancer. So I really got on the research, trying to heal her naturally. Then I actually moved from Indianapolis down here once she passed. And just got on the search for actual location, a plant-based style restaurant. That's dope. Piece of what was one of the thoughts that we didn't have. You know, a lot of places you go get pizza, you have to take the cheese off and can't really get no meats because a lot of the places don't carry the little vegan meats. So I figured we needed to create our own thing. I love it. We're taking over all industries from the top to the bottom. Plant-based, just going back naturally, man. So how's this journey been? It's going to go great, man. The first day we had a line and it's been nine stops. Since the first day, we opened back in January of 2019. It's definitely life-changing, though. For me, I tore my meniscus after playing ball and I sat around ordering a bunch of bad food for months, gained like 25, 30 pounds. And then I went vegan, dropped it all, felt like I was 10 years younger. It definitely changed your life. In the beginning, you tried to find what's good and what's not good. I wasted a lot of money, threw a lot of stuff away. But then along the journey, I found what was right, as far as the cheese and the meats and stuff like that. It definitely changed my life. Life-changing. What's your favorite plant-based pizza setup? Like, if you had to pull one out of the menu, what's your... That I could eat every day? Yeah. Say the Georgia Peach. What's on that? Peaches. I'm sorry. It's got peaches, jalapenos, or roasted peaches, jalapenos, red onions, and the beyond sausage. These names still going to take some getting used to. Yeah. We should have brought one with us, but we'd definitely swing back down on you with a couple of them. So you haven't tried it at all? I didn't give you unbasted pain. Yeah? Yeah. It's your fault, though, because you know where I'm at. You know where I've been. You know I'm in here late night. I need food. We got you. Come on, man. So you left. You should have then slipped that on me like, oh, that's the one. Oh, that's the vegan one. I didn't even know. We definitely get a lot of people that aren't plant-based and they can't even tell the difference. Hey, man, that means you got a good product. Yeah. What's up? So it's like, this is the whole lifestyle, right? It is. A whole plant-based. Definitely a lifestyle. And then people ask, well, do you have a cheat day? How can you have a cheat day of being vegan? I could see if I was just on a regular diet and said, hey, I'm just not going to eat beef for a while or whatever, but if you're vegan, I'm only cheating myself. Like, if I go and drink some milk or I do what I, you know, I'm not doing that. Yeah, you're going to definitely regret that shit if you do. Definitely. Whole stomach tore up. Whole body. Feet might swell up. Ain't no telling me. Yeah, it's been five years strong, so. Five years. Five years. Damn. You wish you would have did the shit earlier? Thanks. Definitely do. Paul, you plant-based too, man? Since 2015. Committed. What was the hardest food to give up? The hardest food? I'll probably say pork, bacon. But that bacon can't do no wrong. Bacon's serious. For me, it was chicken. Like, jerk chicken. That was the hardest. That's what I miss the most. You eating plant-based chicken now? Yeah. Is it hitting the same? No. I keep it real. No, it is not. It's good. Don't get me wrong. It's good. It took a minute to get used to it, and I definitely wouldn't go back to eating chicken, like I said, but it doesn't hit, like, real chicken. Well, you got out early then, because it's the chicken's shortest right now. Might have to all be plant-based in a minute. That'd be a good thing. Yeah, your business is going to be booming, man, especially like in Atlanta. Who knew that the plant-based food would look like this? We'd look like we'd be doing numbers like this. That's crazy. Like you said, we have people that come in that aren't even vegan, and they love it. Right. Because we have a lot more than just pizza. You know, we have the tacos, the burgers, we do the soul food sundaes, the mac and cheese, the… Vegan soul food. Yeah, vegan soul food. Mm-hmm. Damn. Meatloaf, everything. Meatloaf. You come out to the Sandy Springs location for a soul food sundae. I'm telling you, bring everybody. We got breakfast, spelt pancakes, eggs, scrambled eggs. For y'all playing, bro. Nah. That's the one thing I don't get about vegan people. Y'all want to eat plant-based food, but all the food you wanted to look like meat. Which one is it? Because that's what we was brought up for. Man, it got the sausage. That ain't sausage. Well, don't eat it. Nah, have your shit. Yeah. I'm going to come out there and check y'all out, man. I was waiting on my personal invite. You just got it. Pull up on a Sunday morning. Y'all come here off slow, though. Because I'm still going to be eating my regular shit, too, now. I'm not converting. That's okay. I'm just coming out there to support y'all. Take it slow. Take it slow. Yeah. But then when you convert, you'll thank us, though. I'm just saying. It'll all come back to this date. Take me slow. I ain't ready for nothing yet. I'm good. I don't eat but a handful of foods anyway. So just bring you a plain cheese. Grilled cheese, me out first. Nah, a piece of cheese. Just a plain cheese pizza. All right, bet. All right. All right. Okay. That'll work. Then we can start walking up through there. The different toppings. Yeah. What are some of the other options that you get up there? Like you was talking about the soul food and all that. Yeah, the soul food Sundays. You know, we have the Beyond Burger. We just, we're about to introduce the Impossible Burger. We have chicken sandwiches, the tacos. We do pasta, baked spaghetti, baked mac and cheese. We do the collard greens, which that's universal. But we definitely get into the whole aspect of everything. We don't want to offer just one thing. We really want to just kind of cater to everybody. If you're not, we want people who are vegan, vegetarian, for whatever it is. If you want to eat healthy, then come check us out. Healthy, better, all that. We want to be the one stop shop for everybody. That's what's up, man. What's the IG and all that? Plant-based pizzeria. And where y'all located at? We got one in Midtown right off of Ponce De Leon in Barnett Street. It's a great spot for it. Yeah, it's a carry out only. And then we have our full dining in location and Sandy Springs off of Roswell Road. Y'all expanding at all? Ah, yeah. Franchise is all kind of stuff coming soon. We have a vegan lounge coming up. What is it? What is it? What's at the vegan lounge? It's on the way. It'll be done in probably 90 days or less. Yeah, there's going to be lounging around on, like, There are a lot of vegan lounges in Atlanta that I know of. I ain't never even heard of that. What is a vegan lounge? Just a lounge that where people can come and you can eat healthy, but you can still smoke a hookah. You can still get your drinks. You can still chill. Y'all not about to have plant-based clubbing in this room? Yeah. Y'all taking shit too far, man. Y'all taking this way too far. All the way, as far as we can. Definitely. I can dig it, though. She's going to eat a lot of stuff. I think she's vegan, too. Vegan? Vegan-ish. Okay. Yeah, she be doing her thing. She be on there cooking late night. You feel better? Yeah. Yeah, it's really calmed her mood. She used to be crazy as hell. She still is, but now it's more like non-verbal. You know what I'm saying? Just the looks. Yeah. Those are the ones you've got to watch out for. Hell, it's the verbal. You know what's coming. Right. Yeah. Originally? Yeah. I grew up in New Jersey. Puerto Rico. I moved here when I was seven. What part of Puerto Rico? San Juan. Well, actually, I was born in Old San Juan, which is right next door. I've been there. I've been to San Juan, man. I love it. Somebody in your presence probably stayed at Condado Beach, right? I was on that beach. I know you were. I watched the dope ass thunderstorm on the beach. Yeah. It was just like... It was known for that. It was just right there. It didn't even really... Yeah. I was drunk, though. I didn't know. I just got drunk as hell in Puerto Rico at the strip club. Yeah. And walked around all the places I shouldn't have been walking around to. Best places to go? Yeah, man. And then I was... I guess I'm just so ignorant from being in America so long. You see a lot of regular-looking black people like you think they tourist. Like you and then you go talk to them. They were like, what? Puerto Rico. Yeah. That's how it is. Felt like an outside. I was all in Burger King pouring in my shit. That's crazy. I had a ball over there, though. Yeah. But what was it like transitioning down here to Atlanta since y'all both transplants from other places? Man, the weather? Definitely. The whole experience. Like the atmosphere of Atlanta. I always ask people who are not from Atlanta like who live here. I think it was... What was the attraction? We've been coming since like Freakney days. Oh, hell. Like the Great Memories here. Yeah. It was like every other weekend-type trip for us from Naptown. Yeah. It was like an eight-hour drive, so we always used to bring the cars now, hang out. I tell people all the time, but every black man in America over a certain age has... I lived in Atlanta story. I mean, there's no place like it, especially when it comes to business. Yeah. For minorities. I've never been to a lot of places and I've never seen a place like Atlanta. It's where you can be black and be so successful and have so many people around you that are successful. I mean, we all know it comes with the bullshit. Right. But there's things that you can do in Atlanta that you can't pull off. Should you see Atlanta? You'll never see. You see the fire truck pull out the firehouse. 12 black firefighters jump off that bitch. You're not seeing that anywhere else? Hell no. No. Definitely not. I love it here. I've been here for 16 years. Okay. 17 almost. Yeah. Let's go. I ain't never leaving. I'm right with you. This is it. I'll go explore. I'm coming back. Anywhere I go, longer than three days, I'm ready to get back to Atlanta. Three days is my limit. Yeah. It seems like all those weekends you're not here. Those would be the best weekend. Everybody go outside. Yeah. Beautiful weather. That's the biggest thing too, just the weather. Just a little snowstorm that was supposed to shut the city down a couple days ago. I'm looking at it like where I come from. That shit is up to your knees. You've got to shovel your car out of shit. And we're still going out. But Atlanta, they don't move. If it's raining, they're not coming. You've got to show it's definitely going to kill your ticket sales if it's raining. If it's too cold, it cancels on school. I remember going to school and you couldn't see the bus until they got right where the light is at. Damn. But here, they cancel school for anything. They cancel school if they hear it's going to snow. It could be a rumor. You remember those panic games days? Man, it's supposed to snow. Man, these motherfuckers were empty a Walmart of a rumor. They did it last week. You remember when they left the cars on 400 a few years ago? State of emergency. They have no choice. This much snow on the ground. They were not set up for this, bro. Crazy. It was like an apocalypse. I'm looking on the news in this car, abandoning cars everywhere. People actually died in that. That's crazy. Does it sit in their car too long? Yes. Motherfucker froze. That's crazy. I don't remember that though. I don't remember that though. Hey man, come get me. Where am I? Where are you? I'm up 400. In traffic? Yeah, in traffic still fucked up, man. They come walk down to the exit. I can get you. It's crazy, man. It is. But you being from Jersey, you know how to handle that, man. All day. I wouldn't make so much money with my truck. I've been pulling people out. Yeah. I would have, but I wasn't here. I missed it. That's the game though. It is. But look, man, we wish y'all much success with the plant-based piece of reel. Definitely appreciate you having us on. So food Sunday. Yeah. Burgers and all that taco. Drop the social media one more time, man. Let them know where to find y'all at. Plant-based piece of reel. Well, look, this y'all first time here, but don't let it be the last time. Well, we're going to definitely pull up with them pieces for you. Ryan, let's throw a plant-based piece of party, man. Y'all. Y'all. Y'all. All right, bet. We'll get some vegan strippers. We got a few. They come into the spot over here with the basis. Really? Yeah. Yeah. They come in for the burgers and everything. Like, I'm like, wait a minute. I saw you in. Ah, okay. Well, I know my guy Ryan. He's a freak when they're of y'all food, man. He all along the page and everything. You're smiling. He's a big foodie. He used to be fat. Talking about you like that, right? He got that gastric bypass. I feel like you still should be able to call me and fat. Say, what are the issues? Yeah. What are the issues there? Females? No, no. I mean, it's rude to call a lady fat, but you can call the dude fat. Especially if he's like a, like every neighborhood got like the fat dude. Oh, every single one. And there's always big somebody. Hey, man, go get big kid, big puncture. Go get big Steve. Go get big black. Yeah. Yeah. We'll be Pauling. Hell, yeah. Oh, shit. We appreciate y'all stopping through here, man, and letting everybody know that the black market is still up for sale.