 Big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit. It's a unique hustle nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit. So big you gotta look back at it. I'll make another podcast like this. Hook up, burn it to the table. Boss top, who your girlfriend fav? Boss top, we gonna do it how you want it. Boss top, yeah, everybody on it. Boss top, it's a unique hustle. Big shit. Check it, check it, check it. This is Unique Hustle's your boy, E-CEO. And I'm here with the lovely official, Mr. Maker. What's going on? What's up, y'all? My wife, check it, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Check it, man. You're gonna cause an argument when I get home. Check it, man. You're gonna cause a whole argument. I'm saying right now, if I get home and my man don't look at me, if my man don't look at me the way you look at your wife, it's a whole problem when I get home. Hey, nigga, you better step your game up. You got her again. Check it, check it, check it. So, you know, when it come down to people that's in this city that I feel is a staple of the community, we just started this podcast. And to be honest with you, it was a few people we had to have on here before we could really say that we was really doing our thing. And I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm not like every other podcast because we different. We got this family oriented thing going to where we bring people on who mean something to the, who are pillars. And we felt that when we first discovered Vita Loka, you know what I'm talking about? All-Star Weekend, baby, I'll never forget it. You know what I'm saying? It was a night to remember, man. It's one of the realest people I've ever met. Man, I had about seven or eight people with me. And when they was with me, I was like, man, she come through. We could hear her if you couldn't see her. On a public shedically, that voice, that voice, you cannot hide that voice anywhere. You know what, that's funny that you say that because I remember a conversation I had with Steve Harvey, right? And, you know, because remember Steve Harvey was the morning show for 97.9 the beat way back. Yeah, he was. In the beginning. That's right, I remember. And he actually did it from the beat studios. He moved from LA and came out here. And I was on the, at this point, I had just got on, well, not just got on, but I've been on for a while, but you know, just one day a week. You know what I'm saying? Here and there. And I got an opportunity to be on his street team with Nephew Tommy. Nephew Tommy wasn't even in the studio yet. Really? He wasn't even allowed in the studio. He wasn't even a part of the inch studio show. He was on the streets. Like, so he would go out and be at like Crispy Cream and Duke Collins. And I was doing that with Nephew Tommy. And so one day I get to work and Steve was like, come here, come here for a second. I'm gonna talk to you. Swear to God. I said, oh man, this nigga smell weed on me. Oh no. Oh no. I'm gonna smell weed on me. I'm in trouble. Why does Steve Harvey wanna talk to me? Oh fuck, what did I do? Man. You know that I quickly went to, what the fuck did I, oh, he smelled weed on me. That's all I could think. He must smell the weed on me. He must smell the weed on me. Did you look guilty when you walked into him? Oh, I look scared. Steve Harvey is a man of stature and he commands a presence. He seems that way. He is a commander. He's a commander. Like when you look at him, you know, his entourage, he take his entourage everywhere he go. He comes, he's in there, fuck. I'm sorry. Really good. He does fucking four o'clock in the morning suited and moving. A real beast. Even if he got a jogging suit on, he got some fucking hard shoes. A real beast. A real beast. Girl. A real beast. Hello. He's a phenomenon. And so when he called me, I was like, oh fuck. They called me. Cause he's never even made eye contact with me. So why the fuck is he calling me in here? Clearly. I've been there. Clearly, he's been sweet on me. These jobs, hey, I'll let you know. So he said, you have a voice. He said, and your voice is bigger than you. That's real. That's real. And I didn't understand what he was saying. Oh, that's real. And he said, and it is crazy because it took me years to get what he said. Oh, I got it. He said, it's not what you say, it's how you sound. Yeah, it's the sound. And I'm thinking, oh, no, it gets what I say because I write down what I'm saying. I put a lot of effort into what I'm gonna say and I wanna be funny and I'm funny and I'm writing down my stuff. Don't tell me it's not what I say cause I put a lot of work in what I say. And he was like, you don't even need to be here. He said, you don't need to be here. You need to be in LA somewhere. And then he told me to go get two books. He said, go get the magic of thinking big and the power of positive thinking. That's good info. Y'all remember them books. The magic of thinking big and the power of positive thinking. He said, get these two books. And then he said, in the book, they're gonna have you write some stuff down. Don't share it with anybody. And if you wanna share it, share it with me. He said, because everybody's not gonna understand your vision. And they may try to keep you away from what discourages you. So he said, don't share any of the things that you write down with anybody. So he said, if you wanna talk about it, and then he told me, make the list cause in the book, you write shit down. And he said, when you write it down, show it to me, right? Show it to me. And he did. No, that nigga didn't even look me in my eyes again. He got games. I know what he did. I know what he did. That's what you did though. You said anything to me. But you bought the books. I bought the books. And you did the work. And you did the work. That's how I flourished. And see, so he knew it would help you. Yeah. That's all. There's something about him. He never looked me in my eye again. Then he could purposely look the other way when he saw me coming. She wanna know about this book. She gonna tell you where that book. The bitch like, I said, I'll set you up to flourish. Now go. Now go. Go grasshopper. So I used to remember when Vita was on that, it was around midday. I'd be at work, you know. Oh, it was going down. And she had it going. And I was like, man, this is good. And then they, oh, well, she's switching to the morning show. And I said, damn, I don't know how I'm adjust. Especially with Ricky Smiley being moved off hell. I like Ricky Smiley. Why'd he put no on it? I ain't gonna lie to you. That's what I was saying. I was like, what the hell going on? Did Ricky come with a statement? Oh, well, y'all got embracing. Y'all say, okay, that's cool. Nigga, I hear you, but Nigga, you were doing a good job talking to Cory and all up. You know what I'm saying? Do you remember when I was on Ricky Smiley's morning show? I don't remember that. Yeah, for a whole year. Well, that girl, it was another girl there too. I'll never forget, I was doing, I was at nights, right? And well, the whole reason I got full-time, because I was part-time, I got pregnant. And with Dylan and my program director said, you gonna need health insurance. So I'm gonna find you a full-time spot. Thank God, his name is John Candilaria. The God got this thing going on with you, baby, that's all. I love Candy to death. He had his way, he was like, bitch, I don't love you that much. You got my wife high. You got my wife high. One time he called, he was like, did you get my wife wet? I was like, I just didn't do something to the nigga. I don't know why you didn't do anything to the nigga. But, you know, so he gave me the full-time job, and he put me on nights, and then there was an opportunity for me to do traffic. So Ricky had, you know, Ricky led a fire, motherfucker, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. He would do like 15 co-hosts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, one of the ones they let go, I'm in nights, and he lets Euro go, that's who I was thinking about, Euro. She got mad about that too. Yeah, he let her, but she's flourishing right now, and they have repaired their relationship. They repaired, that's good. Which is amazing. So, she was doing traffic, and one day Ricky was like, you know what, I don't even want her doing traffic, fuck that shit, fuck that shit, fuck that shit. She got to go. Because they weren't, they weren't, they weren't able to drive. They were bumping heads at that time. They didn't repair their relationship at that time. So, they, give me a call, and he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, back, back, back, back. They asked me to be on Ricky's show as a hip hop, like do a hip hop gossip segment. And not gossip, but you know, hip hop entertainment, right? I'm with it. They asked me to be on the show. Euro was still doing traffic. So, they asked me to be on the Ricky smiley in the morning doing hip hop entertainment, okay? So, I'm like, I'm happy. I'm like, this is the best shit ever, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I get there, excuse me. I get there, and then I'm not there three days, and he let Euro go. From doing traffic. Mm-hmm. So, then they say, yo, Vita, you gonna do traffic. Damn, that's a promotion. No. No, that's a demotion. That was to me, because see, I was like, I didn't know, this is the words again, I said, I ain't no motherfucker, Alicia Speeds. I am not the traffic lady. I am not the traffic lady. And I cried tears, I cried tears out of my eyes. What she say? I ain't no damn Alicia Speese. I ain't no fucking Alicia Speese. I don't know what he say. Alicia on every platform with that bull. What's going on with the top of every one? I ain't no motherfucking Air One. I don't want it. Girl, you crazy. I don't want it. I don't want it. So what did you do? So Ricky, oh, I love my brother. He brought me into a room and he talked to me and he said, Vita, this is what you have to do. Wow. This is what you have to do. And he said, and I said, but Ricky tears coming down my eyes. I'm upset. I'm talking crocodile tears because I had this whole vision of what it was supposed to be. Yeah. And so he sat me down. I never forget miss me and him in the office. And I'm crying tears out of my face. And he's like, Vita, you got to do this. Wow. And because you got to do this, you got to make it your own. He said, you're not. I said, but Ricky, I'm no Alicia Speese. And I'm not traffic lady. I don't want to do this damn traffic. I'm not traffic. And he said, but, you know, make it your own. Make it your own. Don't do traffic. Do you already while doing the traffic. And that's what I did. And I'm going to be very honest with you. The year that we I got on traffic, I made traffic funny. I said shit like, oh, you know, if I saw, you know, because you get the report right. And it's like, oh, there's debris. And there's debris on 35, right? I would be like, yo, there's a big rock on 35. And don't pull over because it ain't cracked. You know what I'm saying? Because I know there's a drought. You know what I'm saying? It's not cold in the road. Don't pull over for that rock. It's another rock. I know it's a drought, but keep it moving. You know, I would be like, there's two dogs stuck on 75. Somebody bring some water. You know, you know, I just, I, he told me to make it my own. So I went and I would write down funny things to say in the traffic. That's what's up. And so I made traffic me. And I know for a fact, cause God, as God is my witness, I know that that traffic helped Ricky get to the number one spot because Ricky is a beast and he's a phenomenon in the show. But then when you break it off to traffic, that's normally when people just be like, you know, you die down, but I kept traffic, I kept it up. Did traffic run you into the spot doing that noon day show? Well, no, well, what happened, what had happened was Ricky got to the number one spot that year. We put, we put K-104, the Skit Murphy out of business. Oh really? That year. We put them out of business that year. And so when that happened, Ricky wanted to move to Atlanta. I remember that. And so he had already promised Ebony his, cause him and Ebony worked together in Birmingham. So he had, she was under contract in Birmingham. So he told her when her contract is over, that she could come to his show. So it just so happened when we're blowing up and everything is popping, her contract ended and it was time for her to come to Ricky's show. And it wasn't enough room for all of us. And plus they're not gonna take me to Atlanta to do traffic, you know what I'm saying? And I did more than traffic. You know, it got to be a different, you know, I did the traffic, but I got to interject in different places. But you know, it just, it wasn't time, it wasn't for me. And so my boss was like, I'm a create, cause I was like, Ricky was like, well you can just be a producer on the show, right? And my boss was like, well no, you're bigger than a producer, we need your voice. So I'm gonna create a position for you. I'm gonna open something up. It will live too. Thank you so much. And I'm gonna open John Candelary. No, no, no, thank you. Candy. No, no, no, thank you. Oh, me or candy? No, you. You thank candy. You thank candy. You thank candy. No, no, I'm just loving the fact that it happened. It's like I tell people, man, like those times get us through phases. Like I'm at work stressing like hell. Like I'm gonna do something to it. Oh yeah, I thought, I was salty. I was salty cause I was like, y'all leaving me. And I knew I played a position in that. I knew I brought something to the table and y'all are leaving me here. And I was hurt. I see you, you love hard in anything you do. And I see the whole of your emotions and everything you do. And when you get let down, you can't help, but just like. Because you put everything into it. That's simple. You know, you said you did her. I had got the dibs on you. Do you know Clarissa? A salon by the Clarissa on. Yeah, you know about a Clarissa? This nigga told me this. And you know, I told him, I said, when I met TI, I asked you, I asked the nigga some stuff that wasn't right. Now when I asked her, she says, you don't know the nigga. I'm gonna tell you about yourself. Greg was like, ask about Clarissa, the beauty salon in a park, Maryland, St. Mary. Legend and boy. Stop playing. It's not Clarissa, it's Larissa. Larissa, that's what he said. Larissa, I say, nah, he say just ask about it. Larissa, yes. So I say, what the hell? I don't know nothing about that. Yeah, oh my God, oh my God, Larissa. Clarissa, that's what I thought he was gonna say. Yeah, yeah, I worked at her beauty salon when I was in the St. Mary. That was before all of this. Oh yeah, yeah. Well, you know, all of this has always been this. Like I was always the ghetto superstar. Okay, okay. Even as a child? Even, could you really do some damn hair or you just play? Oh, I made a lot of money doing hair. Oh, so you were good at it then. Here's what I was good at, people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was good at people. Yes, I was good at doing hair, but people loved my energy. Your energy. And that's how I made the transition because I was like, man, people were, you know, I'd have clients coming to get their hair done that didn't need their hair done. Just to hang out. Just to hang out with me. Just to be around me. It's a gift. Just to hear me talk about my life, what I did, or who I did. Yeah, whatever, it was good too. Yeah, who or what it was. Yeah, so I'm always transparent. So you know, I'm back here and I'm just doing hair and I'm just talking and I'm doing this and that and that. And it was a mood, it was a whole mood. And so, and Larissa, I worked at Larissa. She still around? Yes, she's still in Pleasanton Park, Maryland. She's got a shop. She's a couple of shops. She's a boss. Okay, okay. Boss talk. Boss, I want a one. Big shit. Ooh, I like that. You know how I get when they do that. So big you gotta turn back and look at it. Already. That's some big shit. You ain't never stood up and turn back and see what you did. Hey, yo. This girl crazy. Let me ask you something. So, you know, we was hurt because you left 97.9 the beat that crucial morning. Okay. And I asked the other guy. I asked Cruz when he was on there, I was like, look, man, we was hurt that morning. He said, oh yeah, it was a thing where everybody, they go through something and I said, yeah, but nigga, but you was the only one left. Didn't I tell him that? The chaotic was still there. No, no, I'm talking about Forrest for me. What I could see as a, I'm a fan of yours, who hosting the morning show. I'm being real. Right. It just happened like that, man. We was all hurt. You asked Cruz why they got asked him and not me. I asked Cruz why they got rid of you. And not him. Yeah. And I asked him that. He tried to dodge me. I asked him twice then. I said, well, I'm gonna get on the show. I'm being real. I wanted to know. Cause we feel like we a part of what's going on. That's how needed we be in the situation. Am I right? No, no, we are family. Yeah. So we feel like. I raised my son on that radio. You know, so I, I, I, I brought. Everybody knew everything to the, to the table. And I'm never backed away from, you know, because, you know, it's like, how can you, you know, as, as, as personalities as you, you know, you sit down and you interview people and you ask them questions, right? Well, I always said, how dare I sit down and ask people questions, but not give my life. Right. You know what I'm saying? How can I sit here and talk about what Lil Wayne doing or what T.I. doing and not tell you what I'm doing. No, that's real. And you need to know what I'm doing. Because you need to know the source needs to be your friend. You know, not just your, I'm not a provider. I'm your friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That provides information. Not only that, just heal people. See, that's what we do. That's the whole thing about this is that we know that what goes through these things right here, these mics are powerful. And so it's therapeutic to healing people. They can hear it in your voice. And so it helps people. We know that. That's what this whole platform about. It helps to educate and to help. You got a voice, man. That's amazing. You said that. No, it's real. I said that in my affirmations. Really? My affirmations in the morning are I'm favored by the universe and everything works out for me. I'm a leader and I'm a healer. I'm love and I'm light and I vibrate high. I'm a magnet for positive energy and I'm a money magnet. Money flows to me freely. I'm an ATM machine. I am consistent, I'm persistent and I get the job done. I am funny and I am creative and I am the number one radio personality in Dallas, Texas and I have a nationally syndicated show and I'm a motivational speaker. I'm confident and I'm a fucking multi-millionaire and I say that to myself every morning. I get up at six o'clock in the morning just to say that to myself. Is that me? How long is it? I'm reading the letter on the wall. A while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A while. It's not about memorizing it. It's about being not afraid to say it. Yeah, yeah. Not afraid to say it. Because a lot of times you gotta say it and even in your disbelief. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta keep saying it even when you don't believe. I believe it. You gotta keep saying it until you believe. That's it. And so I purposely get up every morning just to say it out my mouth to myself just to let myself know, bitch. You are these things. That's right. And are they activated right now? Maybe not. But they will become because I believe it and I say it and I speak it. And when you say it, do you say it loud enough that Dylan can hear you as well? Ooh, child. Girl, yes. I got Dylan so I had created this accountability group. So I work out at seven o'clock in the morning every morning. I see it. I get the notification that you go live and I see it. Every morning I work out at 7 a.m. And I say affirmations the whole time, right? So I wake Dylan up at seven to go to school. He had to be there at 7.30. I wake him up at 7 and then we do our workout and we scream. I scream these affirmations. Well, Dylan will come out the room sometimes and be like, yeah, I am confident. I am powerful. That's hot. I am successful. I'm trying to get the little niggas you gave me to do the same damn thing. The little niggas won't do it. I done that. I done that. I done that. We done Red Rich Dad po-dad. We done did all this stuff with these kids. Now they need to step up. You hear this woman? She's talking about kids that's coming out amped up about it. Really being fucking with me? You know, my mind be like, daddy, that's a boring book. Or we don't like the audio. They be, they real fly. Let me ask you a question. How do you wake your kids up in the morning? How do we wake these bad kids? They straight A students though. Shout out to my kids. They the best. Okay, my son, he wakes up. He's like his daddy. I understand. He's like his daddy. I don't have no problem with my daughter now. I'll wake her up. I'll be like, okay, come on. She been up to four in the damn morning. That's why. Time to get up. On the phone. Yeah. Yeah. Her and her little clique. They all got a little group thing. And sometimes she, I walk off and I'll come back again cause you always have to check. Cause they'll be like, yeah, I'm getting up and then go right back in there. She ain't trying to hear you. Yeah. And I always warn her. I tell her I'm going with, I'm going to throw a bucket of water on you. My daddy used to do that too. I don't really forget. My daddy brought the garden hose through the house and wet me up. Oh yeah. Yeah. My daddy used to do some crazy. I love my daddy. I threw water on her once. But she still does it. If she got to go somewhere though and she got some plans, she got her own look. Right. She be G-Ride. And she'll jump up and be like, I got something to do. But other than that, and she been up all night. She act like we had to wake her up sometime. But she still, and then what do you say to her? Is she in all gifted class and make straight A's? No. Number this in the 10th grade. Just a whip at it. The only reason I asked, how do you wake your babies up? Because I want to have a serious talk with our, cause we're parents, you know. Yeah. Straight up. And I realized that I had to start waking my son up because when you wake up, it's the most important party, the most important part of your day. That decides how your day's going to be, right? And so, you know, you wake up, you either wake up in uncertainty or you wake up like certain about what's going to happen that day. So I wake Dylan up and I make him say, today is my day. I say, say it out your mouth. Today is my day. Today is my day. Today is my day. It makes sense. You know what I thought about? I say, this is helpful than why it's coming to America. You wasn't waiting for him to wake up. Dylan, get up and let the bathers, bath your penis. You would be so happy. Come on. Where's your royal penis at Dylan? Bring it out and let these girls know where it works. That's the way that show starts, you know, to wake up, you know what I'm saying? The royal penis is ready. No, but that's important. I think you're right though, but let me get back to this question about how you left the day on radio stations. I wasn't diverting. Did you do, did you pull one on me? No, I wasn't diverting. Okay, she never do that. I was ready for it. So what was the morning like? And you was caught off guard. I know you was caught off guard. No, I wasn't. Well, you played us. We thought you was caught off guard. Let me give you the tea. Let me give you the tea. Please do. Mr. Pookie. Did y'all know Pookie was in the building right here? Did y'all know Pookie, the man Pookie was in the building right here? I know y'all just did an interview with him. Oh man, we love him, man. I felt his energy is here and I felt like saying his name. Hey, Pookie. What up, boy? You did this thing. Triple D in his bitch. Already. Okay, July 27th. After my birthday, one day after my birthday, this one, it went down. July 27th, 2019, excuse me, my allergies, my nose is running. It's not coke anymore. Do you want to see a paper towel? A tissue or something, yeah. You used to be coke when that happened. Oh, that's all good. Now it's just real sinus problems. I love your energy, man. You know what I'm saying? That's really my sinuses. I cannot play with you. I am so excited about you. It used to be, oh, that's just my sinuses. Bitches just started a whole eight ball last night. Bitches, not your sinuses, it's the coke. Girl, you something else. Thank God. I'm six years clean, so I'm good. Shout out to six years clean. That's a whole accomplishment. A whole accomplishment. And but shout out to be a radio, though. But the radio thing messed me up. I'm away for your wife to get back. You don't have to. She gonna hear it anyway in the living room while I'm at it. Here's the go. Here it goes. Here it goes. My nose would run after I got clean, and I would think that everybody thought that I was still on coke. Well, you know. It was a very self-conscious thing. I think it, I can imagine, I can imagine. Every time my nose ran, I would be, oh, they think I'm back. You ever think it was just God reminding you so you could stay humble? Well, you know, God, I think, shut up, look at Pookie. No, you didn't have to drink to that. You did not have to pick up your drink and drink to that. Okay. It'll keep you humble. It will keep you humble. Okay, so you said that you thought that it took me by surprise. Okay, here's the deal. On July 27th, 2019, my general manager came to me. Her name is Tammy Honesty. She came to me at my birthday party. Wow. And she said, Vita, they wanna get rid of you. Damn. They wanna get rid of the show. They got, you know, Ricky's retiring. He's, Ricky's taking over for Tom and they got this new young morning show that they're putting together, The Morning Hustle. And they wanna use the morning hustle everywhere. Wow. So she said, you know, you gotta get your numbers up and you gotta beat DeeDee. If you're not beating DeeDee, they're gonna let you go. Wow. So that's July 27th, 2019. That's almost six months. Yeah. Six months. Right. Because I got let go January of 2020. So it was just a, it was a, it was a, it was a something in the air saying it could happen. Oh. That was just pressure, pressure, pressure. It was bitch. Get it together. Get it together. Get your shit together. Get, get everything together because shit is not going the way it should be. Yeah. And you're gonna be replaced. If your shit is not right. You know, and some people might have been like, well, fuck it then. I'm just gonna go in here and not give a fuck. What was your favorite mind after you heard that? Try. Just try. Try. That dog and you're gonna make you go good. Don't give up. Yeah. Just try the hardest you can. Rally your team. Just try to get everybody on the same record. Just keep trying. You know, I tried all the way up until the day they let me go. I never gave up on myself. I never said, okay, fuck it. I never said, okay, fuck it. I always believed that I could save it. But you was working with the individuals that replaced you. You mean head cracking them? Yeah. When they replaced the show, like Jay Cruz and them was on your show. Well, no, Jay Cruz didn't replace me. Jay Cruz is not on the morning show now. He came on after the morning show. They spared, they gave him a position. Okay. So who all was on that show? Cause I didn't listen to it no more after that. I'm being real with you. I shut it down after that. I'm with you. You leave, I leave. We together like y'all do, you know, the homegirls do. You shut it down too. Yeah, like we, yeah, we leaving together. Yeah. Pookie just want to put this on record. Pookie said he shut it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had to shut it down. We had to shut it down. I can't rock. So he shut it down. He just said it. It's on the show. Okay. You're asking me why. I'm just trying to figure out, you work with these same individuals that kind of, then they come in right after you or they got new people to do the morning show. No, it was new people. Okay. It was new people to do the morning show. Okay. Some people out of Atlanta, they're out of Atlanta. Okay, okay. They're in Atlanta. Okay. So it's a syndicate. What make them better than you? They just wanted, it's newer, younger and they felt like that this was their breakfast club type of situation. Did they bring the numbers up? I don't know. Oh, they're still there? They're still there, yeah. Okay, well I don't know, because I'm with you. This was their baby. But look, God had this happen to me. I'm gonna say one more. So God had that happen to me. And it was crazy because I was depressed before I got let go. Because I was stressed. I saw it coming. I wake up in the morning crying. That's a lie, not to help you. When somebody's gonna tell you that in any day you don't know what day it's gonna be, but at any day somebody's gonna come to you and say, it's done, you're done. It's over. And I didn't know the day. So I was like, and I'm trying though, but I'll be, and I don't blame anything. I don't blame anyone for what happened besides myself. You know, I could have been a better leader. I could have did things differently because first and foremost, that was my vision. My vision. I'm the one that visualized Morning Show. I manifested the Morning Show. I manifested that TV show on the CW33. I was even on satellite radio. I got let go from satellite radio and didn't even, and I didn't even say anything about it because it hurt so much because I manifested satellite radio for years and years. People was like, what do you want to do next? I'm like, I want to be on satellite radio. I want to be on Serious XM. And then I fucking got my chance. I was on Shade 45 for three years. No, five years. On, well, that's the coke. She was the brain cells. Might have been three, might have been three. But anyways, you know, so I was doing Core DJs. Shout out to Tony Neal with Core DJs and Shade 45. He's an amazing man. And he gave me an opportunity to be on Shade 45 for years on Friday nights with Core DJs. And then, so that dropped first. And then, so the television show that dropped second and then the radio show dropped. Well, you still don't tell, you're not doing that anymore? No, no, no. Because the television was complacent, was a part of the morning show. So they were filming us live every morning and you would see us on TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. I think Sean was telling me about that. Yeah, and honestly what I think happened was when TV, we were too new of a morning show to be on TV. Yeah, I hear you. We really were. We were one year in, having an amazing year, getting to know each other. Cause yeah, me and Cruz knew each other. And passing of, you know, hey, I'm coming on, you're leaving, or you're coming on, I'm leaving, you know? And we hang out sometimes. But see, we, was it now when you're working with somebody for six hours straight? Six hours straight, we didn't know each other like that. So we had to learn each other. So the first year was amazing cause it's new. That's like a marriage. The first year is amazing, it's new. They always say the second year is some bullshit. Yeah, it's some tough. The second year is tough. The second year, the newness wore off. Yeah, yeah. Now we gotta like really dig down. Dig deep and figure out what we're doing. But in our second year, they added television to our second year. So now we're not even concentrating on radio anymore. We're trying to get TV time. Yeah, yeah. We're trying to see who gonna get a segment on TV. It went from, some people forgot about radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, fuck it, I'm a TV star now. Oh, really? I wanna be a TV star. I'm TV. Big dollars. And that TV killed the radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say that. That TV show killed our radio show. Yeah, yeah, your morning show. It killed the morning show. Wow. Everybody just went, you know, different directions, different patterns, mindsets. Yeah, with no unity like it was. And I'm not blaming them because I wasn't the leader to bring it back where it needed to be. So I'm learning, you know, to be a better leader because clearly I didn't lead that shit. No, no, no, no. But the TV, I will say killed the radio. And... I never watched a TV show. Oh yeah. It was on, it was on, it was on in CW 33 every morning. But I knew about it because of Sean and he would always show it on his deal and he would be in there with you and Cruz and all y'all. Yeah. I'll say it looked fun. But people don't, people don't watch TV like that no more. They're on YouTube and all kind of stuff. It's so many different options. Well, it's different from mornings. Because see, in the morning, a lot of people turn to TV to see what's the weather going to be. The weather for sure. Where's the traffic at? Is there anything I need to know before I go out the door? It's more of a getting information in the morning. Not just watching, but getting information. And to be honest with you, our TV show was the highest, was rated very high on CW 33. We did very well on CW 33, but we was sucking on the radio. It's still going on because Cruz said he's still working with that TV. Well, it's a different show. It's a totally different show. But it's the same network. Same network, but it's a different... It's not the same. It's not a radio show on there. It's just Cruz working doing those things. I just say y'all both got distinct voices. You can tell y'all put a lot into what you do. You can tell, it's very obvious. And I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah, y'all make another day. Y'all voices is good. God and bless y'all with a gift. Yeah, I don't know if I could have done it. I'm not just saying it. It's not known. For me and Vita, it's not only the voice. It's the fact that she makes me laugh. Oh, yeah, she funny as hell. No matter if you're having a bad day, she's going to say something real funny. And you just be like... Yeah, okay. I just can't wait to get hit from behind. You forget all about it. You know what I mean? That getting hit from behind thing. Oh my God, that's Michael U Valley. Yeah, I'm like, damn, I don't care now. It was real. I don't even know what the hell you was talking about. Yo, part of it, I be like, damn, I can't get her to do something unique fashion like that. I said, I ain't doing nothing. We had about four stores at the time. I said, babe, we need to get into that, don't you? I said, these folks look, even if nigga wasn't going over there, it seemed like everybody was going over there the way you were talking. But I said, how much them drops you think yours? I said, I never could figure that out. I was like, and I worked doing that. I worked in communication. So usually when you work in communication, not really good at communication. I know that's right. I know that's right. For real. Yeah, so I get it, but I really, really enjoy it, Joe. You do that still, anything with those tops? Well, I'm back with Mint Dentistry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, you are. Yeah, I'm back with Mint Dentistry. And you know, it's coming. I'm actually, tomorrow is my first day back full time again. Really? Yeah, so now I'm full time on Magic 945. 945, in the same slot? No. Where you going now? From 12 in the afternoon till three, so 12. That's my, I'm back. We should, baby. That's good. Yeah, there it is. We're out of three. In the afternoon, Monday through Friday. Okay. Oh, we can ride. Daytime. Daytime, yeah. Yeah, she back doing what she was doing a little bit before, count her. Because now you're 12 to six. No, no, no, no, because I was. Six to 12, right now. I'm at night now. Yeah, from six. Six to 12. And then to 12. 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday I was, but starting tomorrow is gonna change from 12 to three in the afternoon, Monday through Friday, and then Saturdays, six to 12 still at night. You're a hustler. She a hustler. Because I saw those hours, I'm like, you know, the radio from six o'clock in p.m. to, I'm like, that's a lot of time to be talking. Well, it's a mix. So I'm not doing a lot of talking, but, you know, for the most part is it was weird because that's how I started. Can I have a cup? Stop playing. You know, when I started 97 on the beat, I started weekends. And so when I got to let go, you know, morning show is the pinnacle. Morning show is the Tom Brady. It's the, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause that's the time when I used to listen to the radio. You're the quarterback. Driving to work. Yeah, that's why you had a quarterback. You turned the radio on. That's why you do it. So it's the mornings and afternoons. It's the drive to work and the drive home. Those are the two most important positions in radio. So my dream was to embody both positions. Okay. And that's what I do. Let me ask you this. What's the difference between working the, I know it's the same company, 97, 90, 94. The only difference is the music. Okay, cool. You know. But everything else is the same kind. Well, I can't be, you know, I can't be as raunchy. As you want to be. Yeah. Cause you want to be. I am. I heard you. I heard you at a few places. Say, hey, man, I come in and nigga, it was lit. I see you made a nigga throw his money and everything. Just, I lost it all. You know, you ripped the covers off and somebody naked, you know, damn. She said, do it. I got to do it. She got the money. I did it. I can't be, I cannot, I cannot be, you know, but that's not, I have evolved. You go hard. I've evolved though. That was a long time ago too. Yeah. I'm telling you that was, I'm going to say that was, that was 10, 12 years ago. Yeah. Now I'm being real. Girl, I mean, my favorite thing to say in the club was who's fucking tonight? Oh God, it was throw. Who's fucking tonight? Say, it was throw. Pull the dick out. You know, I was saying shit like, pull your dick out. Damn. So shit, then pull your dick and put it on the bar. I was like, I was like, damn, what is this? It ain't never been like this, you know. How you look at throwing my little money, you know, and be cool with it? I was saying what I was working in the strip club too. Oh yeah, that was cold. Oh my God. Wait a minute, the strippers used to hate me. Oh my God, it was all over. Wait a minute, the strippers did not like me. They're like, I had to have like meetings in the back like, look Vita, you gotta be nicer to the strippers. You know what I'm saying? You gotta be nicer to the strippers because, you know, they're coming to us and saying, we don't like her, you know. And not that they don't like me, but, you know, my thing was, bitch, if you go home broke tonight, it's your fucking fault. Damn. I was gonna say things like, you know, like, bitch, get up, what are you doing? Get up, get up. You been here too long. Move around, bitch. You need to lose a couple pounds. All right, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. DG. Let's go, let's go, let's go. I was at DG's with them. Oh my God. Oh, I used to be over there. Yeah, the strippers would file complaints on me. Really? Vita, Vita's hard to work with. Wow. I'ma tell y'all. Vita's hard to work with. People come through here because I don't go no more like I used to. I used to frequent them. You know, all the DJ's been here. That's when you know you've been in the strip club too much. Every DJ, fresh, frost, everybody been on the show. I said, I'ma bring who I know. You know what I'm saying? Right, cause that's where you be. That's where I know how it's gonna be organic. That's what they're doing. Is this the strip club podcast? Hey man, we kicked it though. But the thing I can say, I know it coming handed cause I had Shannon Briggs on there last week. Let's go champs guy. And he was like, where can I go? I like it right. I was like, okay, you need to go over here to this one, yeah. Then I called the DJ, nigga, which one hot? Cause you don't even know that. I don't know, I ain't been. It's been probably about seven years, six years. What? Y'all gonna be rocking like, I mean, what I need to for that. I woke up, I had a- But do y'all go as a couple? We used to. We used to. But things kind of slowed down. Like you, we evolved. People evolved, but the thing I love about you is that you are ready to expose what you've been through and I think that helps people. Like for you to say what you said, you know, about the cold, Wendy Williams, she should bite on that. Like, okay, if Vita did it, then I can do it. I know it, but that's what I'm saying. Like that's the thing. Like when you, when you're able to say stuff, it helps people and people don't realize how much it helps people. I don't believe, but it helps people. Like I told you about going through my day, this is real life. Like certain things people have to get into mentally to try to make their day better. Mental health is real. Real. Straight real. Real, real. So it definitely helps me and thank you. I'm gonna say that right now. Thank you on there. Thank you. Keep doing your thing. Right? I didn't do it on my cutting up. You got a question for Ms. Vita Loker. You ain't got any more questions on you? No, no, no. I ain't got nothing else. I just had that. I didn't have much. You know what I'm saying? You know, y'all intimidating me a little bit. Cause I said, these niggas, they, I say, J crew, then I tell it. I said, nigga, I'm gonna practice on this nigga tonight. Well, how did J crew's intimidate you? No, just the fact that you guys do this daily on the mic. Like, I talked. And you know, and I just want to big up to my brother, Jay. Cause, you know. He loved you. He was like, no, she showed me, she invited me and, you know, I talk. I'm like, he did a good, he really big up to you. Like big sister type deal to me. Like that's what it felt. And I am, and I am his big sister. And, and he, he chose to leave his position. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He told me that. He told me that. He chose to leave. He couldn't deal with it. Cause he just doesn't, didn't feel right to him. Didn't feel the same. It didn't feel the same to him. He said that on him. And that's a big move. Matter of fact, this was the first place that he let people know that I'm not there anymore. Yeah. That's a, that's a big, big deal. You know, something when you've been attached to something for so long and you not forced to go, but you have to make a decision to go. That's right. And that decision is hard for people to make. You know, that's just like making the decision that will affect the rest of your life. Some people like to wait and let life happen instead of making life happen. You are a leader. And to add to that, you know, the thing that people don't realize is that middle illness can be happening at this very moment with a person. They could be going through it right now, whether it be J Cruz or anybody who go through a situation like that and now have to face the fact of change after all them years. I think I've been on my job for 22 years. I wouldn't even know how I would feel to. I really don't. I was on, I was on, I was that radio one for 20, for 20 years. See, and then you change. And once you change that place. Some people don't like change and everything. Cause I've met people who like things a certain way. When you go to their house, they eat the same food every day. They do the same route every day. And not realizing that they're succumbing themselves to being a certain way. And you can't be that way because then when change come, cause change will come any day, you can't handle it. Some people have a nervous breakdown. Some people, I mean, reacting so many different ways, but you have to, as a person, create change in your life daily because change is gross. You can make it be a positive or you can make it be a negative, but do something different every day so that you're training your mind to accept change.