 Big shit, big shit, big shit, it's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, name another podcast like this, we're gonna bring it to the table, boss talk. Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle, it's your boy, E-C-E-O, and I'm here with the lovely, amazing, official, Ms. Jamaica. What's going on? Not my day of work, man. Man, we got a special guest back in the house today, man. I'm excited, man. This guy right here, don't need no introduction. Y'all hear him all the time. Been hearing him for years in Dallas, putting it down, like it's supposed to be done. Man, my boy Jay Cruz is in the building. You know, there's a lot of people gonna get mad at me for this, but I hear it. I hear it, man. That's dope, man. What the guana? So, man. And that's it, that's all I'm saying. That's all you got. I mean, a couple more, but I know a lot of Jamaica's sometimes get mad at that. Like, they don't, you know, like, yo. That's all. That's all. Because you don't say properly. That's what I'm saying, man. And I mean it in respect when I just did that. That's why I was like, some people are gonna get mad at me. I interviewed Pop Can, Pop Con one time. And in the interview, I did, you know, I was like, yo, I was good at it. He was like, no, no, no, don't do that. You know, I was like, don't do that. You know, I was like, you good. Just be yourself. But some people are good though. Some people are very good at doing it. If you are, and like, you know, but even if they find out you not. Right. And you just, it still can rub people the wrong way. So, I just threw a disclaimer before I said, Man, you did a good job, man. For me, it was like one point. Yeah. And I'm an East Coast boy too. So the culture, you know, Jamaican, you know, you just, you know. Yeah. The East Coast seem to have a Caribbean feel. Like they're everywhere, of course, but the East Coast, predominantly, I see there and in like Florida. Yeah. Florida. A lot of people from New York move to Florida. Like there's issues down in Florida sometimes, because New Yorkers be like trying to go to Florida. From what I hear, I'm not a, my mom lives in Miami. But yeah, it's a lot of Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, you know, the more Caribbean side of Latino is the whole. It's very similar to the Jamaican. We love platanos. Yes. Oh my God. Girl, like plantains. I'll be eating them. I love platanos. I don't say I'm like that. I can't even say I'm like that. That's how we say that. So, man, let me ask you, man, like, you've been- How do you cook it? Uh-oh. I like it. Do you fry it? Yeah, I fry it. Now, you know, we make mofongo, we make, like, there's different ways to make it, but I like it when it's almost rotten and you slice it and you fry it because it's so sweet and mushy. That's how we do it, too. Right, but you could, if you cut it when it's green and fry it, it's thicker. It's like- Well, we, yeah. Like, not a potato. Like, not a potato chips. That's what we use. Exactly, right, right. So it's just different texture, depending on when the, the, because is it a fruit? Have you ever, do y'all boil it, too? We can boil it. That's what I'm saying. That's when you mush it. Kind of almost like a, like, mashed potatoes, but not like mashed potatoes. It's different. You be, don't tell me you be cooking like that. I do not cook. No. So I'm like, you're done. Wifey, no, that's right. My mom's, you know, my mom's cooking and then wifey made, made it a point to learn my mom's dishes. Oh, is that how to say it? Yeah, she, so she knew how to keep me. I'm gonna tell you something, man. Crazy. I lost my mom at an early age and a lot of those, the taste buds, I, I had to figure it out at the end. I watched her cook and it's funny how it came to me. I was it, right? Like, I was able to grab all of those. He wasn't in the kitchen, but he'd be like trying to make it. He'd be like, okay, it's missing something. And I wouldn't do it. Yeah, I knew. I knew. But yeah, I don't, I don't. Like, if you be like, what's in there? I'd be like, I don't know, but it's good. I'm not going to be able to tell you like, oh yeah, there's rosemary in the air and there's like, I'm not going to be able to go out. You should try to surprise her one day and just go in the kitchen. There we go. I don't know. There we go. Instead of a surprise, that would be like a problem. That would be like, why did you do this? You spent a lot of money on this shit and it's terrible. Let's just go out to eat. Wow. You know what I'm saying? But, or bring his chef in or something. But no, I just, if I had, there's certain things I can make. I'm okay with breakfast. And like, you know, there's certain things I can do with that. Oh, so you can cook breakfast meals. Yeah, I can do breakfast. I can do breakfast. I gotta cook you breakfast here. I'm missing it. I haven't been a while. I know it's been some years. Look, I'm over here. It's been a year. It ain't been no years. It's been a year. Are you serious? Ever since this podcast started, Yeah, he does bring the roses. I was going to say marriage counseling, talk 101. I'll get up and he'd be like, man, I was going to make you breakfast this morning. How are you going to tell her what you were going to do? Because the disappointment is real. I'm like. I'd be right seriously wanting to do it. I was going to spend like a lot of money on your birthday, but instead I decided not to. No, no, no. Then he'll turn around and be like, okay, so baby, what you cooking me for breakfast? No, because she's better at it anyway. I love y'all though. I remember the first time I came here, I was so impressed with y'all. 20 years going on, man. Hey, man, God is good. No way y'all work together in here. Man, we've had some of the craziest instances. You left us over here. You should have came back like all the time and checked on us. I should have. I'm serious, man. How far you've come. You know, our stuff doesn't happen over here, man. Like in other places we've went, man. It's been a hell of a run. It's been a learning process. Yes, it has. I'm just getting you ready for the next level and the next step. And then we also do guest hosts. So sometimes. You gotta come and help us. You gotta come back and be a guest host. On that side, would you? Yeah, yeah, come on. That's the hard question. Yeah. The Charlemagne interview. That's bad there. He's gonna go hard on them. They do that. Your bars is trash. No, that's that. Hey, shout out to my boy, man. Bubba Dub. He come on here a lot. And talk like that. Yeah. But deep, bro. Honestly, that's your man. I love when Bubba Dub come on the show. He, for some reason, he love the show. And we guys are in favor of Bob. He came on with Myron at one time. That's the Bob to set up. Yeah, he was on here with Myron at one time. She asked Myron. It was dope, man. Them boys kicked it, man. Yeah, let me know. Invite me, man. I'm good. I'm good. Man, I just thank you, man, for just coming when nobody was here, right? I gotta say that, man. Like that's the part that I look back and some of the people that we reach out to and some of the things that we heard and you was one of the real ones. And it was like, man, you know, and I don't play about it either. Certain people that didn't come and I'm not mentioning no names. Listen, you wanted no more. You can all work that in a minute, right? They're going to be like, God damn it. I should've went on pause talk. Bro, it was somebody that hugged you that got you here. You don't even realize that. It's a dude that posted been here. He did a picture hugging you. We had put his picture up. He didn't come. And I seen you, he hugged you. I said, I'm going to bring everybody that he's trying to hang out with. And you showed up. I was laughing. I was the part of your vengeance. I was just the part of your evil plan. But you was dope. To destroy this dude who canceled all of you. And I was just, I was a pawn. I was a pawn. I know once he was there. He was like, I remember that. I did. You remember that? Damn. You didn't know? No, I didn't know. Oh, I'm tripping though. I knew it happened. He's doing things and then don't tell me about it. And then he'd be like, oh, I didn't tell you? But no, I knew that. Man, you wanted the ones though, man. Like I said, when I say things, man, I might invite somebody and I'll be like, God didn't give me him, but he gave me Jay Cruz. And I'm never going to disrespect that. I'll be tripping like that. He does. Like I don't, I really take it serious. I appreciate it. And it's because I know that I'm not going to dumb it down. You didn't have to do that. And then for somebody else to give us flag, it ain't meant for them to come. No disrespect to them. Still love them. Still love what they're doing. But I know it's different with me and you. And I ain't playing with that. That's the way I think, bro. You're, everybody know that though. They're becoming on the show. If they can't, it's like, I'm going to love you to death. You call me, it's an E. I need you. I'm like, where you at? Upcoming. Right, right, right, right. No way I'm not coming. Right. So I know who to call when I get arrested. I promise you I'm going to be there. He'll be there. He will be there. That's my gift. Actually, I help everybody be locked up. Right. That's who a lot of people. I had a guy on here and I hadn't put it out yet. I met him in the parking lot. And he did like 25 years in prison. I brought him right in here and interviewed him. Him and his friend came in here. I don't care. That's one thing good about podcasting is you can do kind of what you want to do. Oh, yeah. No, that's the freedom of him. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Look at LeBron. LeBron just took his show off HBO. You know, he had that show. Yeah. He just took it off HBO to put it on YouTube. Really? Mm-hmm. YouTube is the way. That's dope. What you think? You think YouTube is the way? I look at YouTube as a new TV. It very much is. Look, so who's there's another player that has a YouTube show. I can't remember his name. Which one? Like, it is that guy with the braids, right? You got braids kind of. But I think that's why. Huh? Brandon Marshall. Brandon Marshall. And I think that's one of the reasons LeBron is doing this. He's seeing that on YouTube, he can have more freedom, more control, and HBO's cool, but you got to pay for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have HBO Max and you got to pay for it. Yeah. And it's not free. YouTube's free. It's free. No, no. Let me rephrase that. To a point. No, no, no. Internet isn't free. You have to pay for it. The only thing that's free is motherfucking rated. Hey, you said that last time. It's the only thing that's actually free, though. Yeah, you right. You said that last time. There's all radio. Radio, radio, that's going to be around. I want to know how was it? I had to. I thought about this question. What do you mean you talking about? I was at Dennis's office getting murdered. And I was a part of that. He was like, I see it in your face. I said it. And he said to the dentist, see? Nobody fucking likes y'all. Nobody likes you. And the reason I did that, because I hate him, but my wife, she's like, you got to go. I'm like, OK. I hate going too. Yeah, that's what he said. It made me feel he was. Most men hate the doctors and hate the dentists. They hate anything that has to do with any check-ups. Yeah, I don't necessarily hate the doctor as much, but the dentist, I just especially, oh. Oh, yeah. And you have to sit there forever. Oh, I can't. Yeah. I got to ask you that. Make sure you put on some chapstick before you go. Yeah, too. Yeah, you be lips, be crackin', and sometimes they're really rough. They were rough. I'm like, are you angry today? Like, I'm going to need you to calm the fuck down. So let me ask you, man. So going from 97.9 to K-104, two different morning shows. What is the difference? What's the big difference? The biggest difference is the DD in the morning show is a syndicated morning show. OK. They're in 60 plus cities. That's a machine. OK. It's a machine. It's different. Like, the way it works is real different. With Vita, we were all first timers, and it was way more of a learning experience and more hands-on. Like, we had to do everything. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? And it was great. Which is a blessing, because then you get to know more. Yeah, you learn so much. That kind of pressure pushes you to another limit. Exactly. But also working on a machine like DD, I get to focus on. You're crap. Yes. And not so much on editing the audio, running this here, posting this, doing this, doing that, where it's more like, OK, I can just focus. Like, you know, it was almost like... I would say that's the biggest difference. It's not more relaxing, but more I can zone in on just being on air. You know what I mean? A personality instead of like doing a whole lot more. How long was your break? Because first you told me it would be about six months. And it was more like a year. It seemed like a year. Yes. What happened? Just life. You know, just not for me on my point, just as far as like things weren't ready, things didn't fall into place. First I had the six months period. You know, I left... Can I remember you told us that the last time when you were there? Yeah, I left a beat on... I took a risk on myself. I said, I'm going to leave because I need to be a free agent and see what other opportunities I can get. And you know, I had to wait to six months anyway. So I had to wait six months. Six months came up. I started, you know, really pushing my shit. Because in the meantime, I was sending my shit out, you know. But only here in Dallas. No, Dallas was not my only option. Okay. So you were willing to move? No, absolutely. This is the radio world. If this to Dallas, if New York City or Cali were like, Hey, I'm a go. I'm a go experience. Yeah, don't look at me like that. Don't look at me like that. I'm Texas, right? Like what? Or a TV opportunity. Like, you know, if you... Because those are the bigger markets. New York... Yeah, the bigger markets for sure. And Dallas is an amazing market. I'll live and die here happily. No issues. And it's done so much for me. But I'm also not scared of opportunity or to move. I moved my whole life. I tell my mom, Mom, you set me up for success to be in this line of work. Because I'll go where the job is. I have not attached too much to a place. But does the children feel the same way? Oh, absolutely not. They scared the shit. That's what I was like. It's like, no, dad, not, not. They don't want to go. But I remember going to, excuse me, six different elementary schools. I remember moving from Pittsburgh, I mean, from New York to Pittsburgh, different countries too. Like from country to country to New York to Pittsburgh. But did you love it? At first, no. Right? As a kid. But then I got used to being a new kid in school. I got used to starting over. One thing that it set me up for, I'm not scared to move. When I had an opportunity and it came to me when I was in Pittsburgh and, you know, that station sold and we all lost our jobs. And then it was six months, seven months, I got a phone call about, hey, come to Dallas. You know, I'm an East Coast dude, like through and through talking about coming to Dallas. What? They trip me out when they try to do that action. I got this. I got this. I've been here long enough. Dad, Dallas or whatever. When I do Southern accents, it be everywhere. It be from like Kentucky, Louisiana, because I can't remember. You and Terrence Howard, Terrence Howard on that movie, Hustling Flow. He was trying to get that Southern accent down. Man. Well, that's what it is. And then you meet so many Southerners from different places and the accents are all different. All different. Like Louisiana's way different than Dallas. And then, you know, it's just all different. So how many different networks are in Dallas as in radio? I think we'll... Well, you got to look at it. Is it you talking about what time? Because I'm talking, because I know channels. Well, radio stations, you know, 974 and 904. But are those, are those are the two? 904.5, 105.7. The biggest ones? Yeah, so as far as like, well, no, because, you know, KISS. Yeah. KISS is like the number one. Oh, it is. Like KISS kicked, yeah, the top 40 pop station they kill. And they're Clear Channel. They're owned. So it's more about companies. And that's here in Dallas. They're everywhere. Clear Channel owns a lot of shit. Okay. So I don't know. Yeah, no, that's okay. I Heart. You know, I Heart. Yeah, I know, I Heart. So you have big players that own radio stations, TV stations, and that shit's across the country. So you could work for Clear Channel, but anywhere in America. Oh, yeah, yeah. But if you're, it depends on your personality, right? I don't really want to work at a pop station. Yeah. I just, no, not that I don't like Katy Perry. Or fucking Taylor Swift. What's up, Swift? Or Justin Bieber. Or Biebs. Biebs is, I like them. I like all music, man. Oh, Chris Brown. Except for like country. Chris Brown, pop too. I love country. Chris Brown's pop too. He is. Yeah, I just want to make sure. But he's also R&B. He can do whatever. It's like Michael. Yeah, not like Michael. Like, I said like, I didn't say he. Don't do that. That was a big thing on her show. Listen, that's been a big thing. That was a big thing. We had guys that had to educate people on not playing with Michael Jackson on this show. Because Michael Jackson, that first phase, and you start seeing what happened. I didn't say he's equal to Michael. I know, but people don't really understand. But some people were saying that. You know what I'm saying? You don't compare his journey. Maybe not his journey. Not his journey at all. No, he hasn't been, he's not as big. But he didn't stay consistent as long. Yeah, well, there you are. And he had other. He's still got to live some more. Right, for sure. But there's other shit happening with him that I think gets in the way of him just being an artist. Like, we're talking about his cases and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's different. Not to say that. Michael had a lot of going to. To me, Michael has more like usher to me. Usher to usher. No, I don't play with usher either. Don't do that. No, I said the other day. You know what I said? No, I said the other day. You know what I said? You know what I said? You know what I said? You know what I said? You know what I said? Do that. I think the weekend, his music reminds me of Michael. You said the weekend. The weekend. I ain't a lot. I used to think, what's that other boy name? The boy that can't take his head off. Neal. Neal sounded like Michael to me. He has certain songs where I hear Michael. His tone, maybe? Yeah. And he writes a lot of music. He's a talented dude. Yeah, he is. But again, all right, so let's get off this. I said like. I said he's like Michael. Nobody's like Michael. Okay, I love Mike too, my G. I get it. I get it. I get you. It's hard to do it. Because I thought my new addition and all that, like you can't play with Mike. No, you can. Mike was something different. But what about Prince? Prince was dope, but he wasn't like. Prince was dope. Prince played. Twenty-seven. Twenty-seven instruments. Because there were songs that he put out that he played every single sound, including the singing and the whole song. Because he could do a whole album by himself. This is a hell of a situation. In a studio. He could really do it all by himself. He wouldn't need another person in a room. I know it. Because he could play the drums. He could do the guitar. He could do this. He could do the vocals. But he didn't do the move on. No, he and his songs aren't as iconic. But you know what though? Who was behind all that shit though? Behind Mike? Who was behind all that? Quincy Jones, because. A lot of it. It was some phases of Mike, man. It's the whole thing. I understand, but that first album. With that first album, right? You're talking about more than 25, yeah. Thriller? That's Quincy Jones behind a lot of that, right? Yeah, but you got, that's just a phase. And it was a phase, and he has other stuff. Like, okay, we got to stop talking about Mike. We got to hear what you want. All right, we got to start. So listen, man, I was going to ask you, like, is this the longest you ever stayed in a location? Because I thought about that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is my longest radio run in Dallas, for sure. Because we the dopest. Listen, I love, it's giving me everything. At the base, the best decision I ever made in my life was coming to Dallas. I say that all the time. I say it all the time. I love where I'm from. I love my culture. Up north, you know, I'm an East Coast boy, and you can still see that it's still in me. You know, people was like, you ain't from here? But you from East Coast, but which pizza's better, again, New York or Chicago? Yeah, if you like, thick ass. Which one is it? I like this crust, and shit like that. Chicago style pizza. I love it. I like Chicago style pizza, but I'm a thin slice bent it in the middle. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's what we do. Well, I told you. I like the thick crust. I love all of that. I got it. You like pepperoni. You like anchovies. You like mushroom. I like all of the meat. You want tree bark. You want, what is it? Put everything on it. That's in the jalapeños. You got everything on there. I know, I get it. Pineapples? Pineapple. Not, okay, a lot of people aren't fans of ham and pineapple pizza, and I love it. I love it, see? I love it, girl. I will order ham and pineapple. What's the thing from in Pittsburgh that what's the food that sticks out there? The Polish culture is pretty big, so they got like haluski, and they got like pierogies. Okay, I don't know what the hell that is. It's like a, almost like a, not a pastry, but it's like a dough, and it's stuffed with either like mashed potatoes and cheese, or just mashed potatoes, or I think other stuff sometimes. But Italian cultures, you know, Italian food, you know, trying to think of some other stuff. Oh, we got this place called Permani Brothers. Okay. It's, they make these sandwiches that are super bomb because there's coleslaw and french fries on the sandwich, and you can get whatever kind of thing on it, like anything, but they're called, you can look them up sometimes, Permani Brothers. Come on, we gotta go to Pittsburgh, we never been. Pittsburgh's cool. Have we been through there? We haven't even been through there. No. We gonna go. Yeah, check it out. I'm real nosy, I be trying to figure it out. It's got a lot of history and shit, but it's also very industrial. Like, it just, I don't know if you've ever been to Ohio. No. That's way upstate. You be it. But wait, if you go to Pittsburgh, we don't wanna go get Hotlink. Is it Pittsburgh? Yeah, Hotlink. Well, they have a... That's Pittsburgh, Texas. Don't do that. We got Kibossi. Don't do that. Yeah, that's Pittsburgh, Texas. Don't do that. We got Kibossi. That's Huluski. You know, again, like the Polish culture is really big in the Berg. But yeah, like, but the food's cool. It's different. It's different. Have you ever did like Detroit or DC? DC, I spent some time in DC because my mom... What's that sauce they eat out there? What was he eating out there? Oh, I couldn't tell you. Mumbo. Mumbo sauce. I spent like a week and a half in DC. We had my mom's boyfriend's uncle or cousin lived out there. He was a party comedy show promoter. Okay. He flew us out to... Did you like it? Bro, we was wildin' out that week in DC, bro. I'd never seen hookers on the corner or just flashing the titty. He's like, oh, what the fuck? Hey, baby, what's up? Come over here. Where was this? I saw a lot of players wear cowboy boots. Yeah, yeah. I saw that, like the cowboy hats in the club and shit. Oh, and like, cool story, right? So I went to DC to go stay with this girl that works for a label because it was when me and my brother was rappin' Mono Imano back in the day. So I was with my brother Sosa Smooth. And she had come to the radio station in Pittsburgh. I wasn't even on radio yet. And she showed interest in me. So she was like, oh, come stay with me in Chicago. Well, I didn't have sex with her or anything because it wasn't happening, but I had to take one for the team. My brother was like, you better go. So I was like, all right, I'mma go. So I went, stayed with her. She was real cool, but we had a club one time and we in the VIP. So I'm standin' at the edge, like I'm over here. And there's like a little bit of room over here. I'm just standin' there, you know, chillin' because there's like some celebrities. I ended up seein' like Tyrese and Cisco. Like, real quick, blah, blah, blah. But before I saw them, I was standin' right here sittin' and I look like, I did like a take, I went like this because I could tell somebody was next to me and they were really tall. Fuckin' Michael Jordan cuss. Swear to God, right? So how was that? How was that? Well, here, I'mma show you because I can't forget meeting Michael. I'm standin' there and I kind of like, because I could see that somebody tall had come next to me and I went, like you did that double take, right? I went, what? And when I did the, the second time I looked, he looked too, like, and he knew like he smiled and he was like, oh shit, you know, dot them up. And that was it. Yeah, that was great though. That's what I done. You're a conversation. Right, nah, it was a dap up. I was like, man, nice to meet you. Like, he was like, all right. And then as soon as that happened, people realized that he was there and then they just started. Throwin' me. And I kind of just like, I just moved over because I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna crushed in this whole thing. I don't want to be in it. I don't want to be in it. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was too much. But that was, you know, that's like the one, you know, he don't remember that shit, but I do. And as you should. As you should. I sure would. I'd have had his picture on the wall. Selfie days. This wasn't. Didn't have selfie days, did it? Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't that easy to just quote, you know what I mean? It wasn't those days. Like, now people be mad at you. Man, don't do that. I don't want to take a picture, man. I don't care. Shhh. I did, that's what I did with Michael Irving. I ain't even got that picture. I was like, he's like, I had my camera people with me. I was like, man, we taking a picture, bro. I mean, I never see you again. He's like, no, we didn't. I didn't come here for that. I was like, well, I don't care, nigga, we couldn't take a picture. You know, I'm crazy. I'm gonna say whatever. And he was laughing like, this dude crazy. Yeah, he was aggressive about it. I'm telling my people, nigga, I don't take the picture. He talking right now. Get it. Man, take what he's talking. We don't have to be like this. No, I won't. Let's take the fucking picture. But he went right here. And then he said, man, you see what you start. Everybody didn't know. You see, that's the reason why they don't do it. Because he had no security money, man. Nothing. He was with me and him. Ben Rothlisberger came to my birthday party in Pittsburgh. That's dope. And he walked up into the VIP, whatever. You know, me and Santonio Holmes would always hang out like in the VIP section at clubs when I was, because that was my era. When I was on there, that's when we were like, we want Super Bowls and shit and all that. Because you know, we're stillers. Yeah, I'm about to talk to you about football. But we ain't stillers. Yeah, we're stillers. Just stay on, stay with you guys. So I told him, I was like, hey, can we take a picture? He's like, hey, you know, I'm not really doing that tonight. And I was like, okay, whatever. Like he came to the birthday party, he's hanging out in the VIP, I'm good, fuck it. Five minutes later, you're taking a picture with some blondes. And I'm like. Oh. That's the way they do it. You didn't get your picture? No, I didn't get it. It's fine. Because you weren't a girl. It's fine. And then I think my mom was there too. And I had asked like, you know, my mom is like, no, I ain't really taking no pictures. And like I said, like five, 10 minutes later, I seen him taking pictures with these blondes. Because you was too nice. You should have been like now. You weren't cute enough. You take the pictures, nigga. Yeah. Well, you know, Ben, being kind of aggressive with the women, I already heard about it. That's what I'm saying. How did you like the Superbowl halftime show? That was dope. That was wonderful to see hip-hop on stage like that. 50 came up, you know, 50 came up, you know. Is that what you're trying to say? Because you was holding your belly when you said that. You know, he was like, go, he was supposed to come up. Like, he didn't get to come up. He kind of just got down. I mean, he's, look, that man has, listen, that dude is a machine. Like as far as like what he has accomplished and people, and he's mean, he's mean too. Like sometimes I wonder, like he's, you know, because you could get so, people try to cancel you so. They can't handle you. 50, like he'll say what he wants. Yeah. There is no, like some people will, man, you need to cancel him. I can't believe he said that. And this guy, like it never gets support. It never, it's never supported. Like it's, and he's like executive producer. Like he's putting out shows. But he's, he'll hop online. And say, what happened? And troll the shit out of you. Yeah, no, I already got it. Like, bitch, give him my money. And that's him. I'd be like, mm-hmm. Right. So it's like a, I admire him. And then sometimes he might say something where I disagree with him. Like, man, that's fucked up that he said that, you know what I'm saying? But, you know, it's life. I got friends that I don't like everything they do. And that's his opinion. And that's his opinion. You see my boy Dre getting down up there. He don't usually come out. Dre to hold on. That was dope. I like how the, and they said, you know, they said he spent like 7 million of his own money in the show. Wow. Yes. Dre put, he didn't get paid. He put money into it for the production from what I gather. Really? Yeah, yeah. He put his own money into it. Snoop did it. Snoop put his in the death row, getting death row. Snoop put it in the weed. He was smoking. This boy was over there like this. I like what he was smoking. He's like, oh. They got table him hitting the joint before he stepped out there. I believe he doesn't get high anymore. Can't get high no more. He threw up gang signs on the stage. Like he was throwing up, you know, he's kicking it. He's kicking it. I ain't no curve. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just stowed it real smooth. Well, you know how to do it. The culture's there. Well, we were, yeah, we was bloods where I grew up though. Okay. Yeah, yeah. That brings up a story, did you? I know you seen the viral moment on here, didn't you? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Well, the OGs came down. The ones who originally started the grips. Oh, here in Dallas? Yeah, uh-uh. In LA, I brought them down. Oh, oh, shit. And they got with one of the guests, Charleston White, that we have here. That was on this show. Oh, shit. You watched it. I know everybody's seen that. You didn't know. You didn't realize that was here? I probably did. It's just whatever. He got too much going on. Yeah, yeah. But that just won't go out with you. I'm not going to forget shit. But do you think that the grips in the Bloods that are outside of LA are the same magnitude? We used to argue that in LA. In Pittsburgh, where I grew up, because like for a while, like, you know, I'm from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, that's where I make McKeesport. And you know, they were mostly bloods. Me and my, we threw a party when we was young, when we first moved to the Burg. My sister had made friends with some Crips, and I made some friends with some Bloods, and we invited them both to the party. Listen to what I tell you. They started fighting. The one dude put out a gun. He didn't shoot it, but he pulled it out on the downstairs of the basement. I'm talking about this is like a, this is a teen, like a 15, 16-year-old kid. That's what that's like. They started fighting. He pulled out the gun. People were running. The cops came. They shot guns. They, they ran up in the house. To the, to the dudes ran. Nobody got shot. Sorry. Boy, the next day, we were the most popular motherfuckers ever. Because everybody was like, dude, dude, you go to this party that day. Oh man, like me and my sister were sitting like, I guess we did the right thing. Like, you know, nobody got hurt. Nobody got shot. But we were so, like it was the people, to this day people were like, do you remember that party when the cops people were shooting the blood and cribs and we were like, you know, we're from New York. So we crazy. Man, y'all good people, man. They's good people everywhere, right? Yeah, bro. They's good people. So, so how's the hoods up there though? The hood is hood, man. Come on. It's every, it's the hood is hood. This culture's a little different, you know, because it's more like in the middle, like there's, there's East Coast influence and there's down south influence in Pittsburgh. It's a little bit of both, you know, and then they got their own sound. I mean, Shasta was Khalifa, Mac Miller, two of the biggest to come, and myself. Hey, hey, you didn't hear that? Hey, that's what's up. But yeah, you know. How's the spins different from over at K-104 and 90 cents for the music, how the plays go, the playlists different or, because I know y'all play a lot of the same music because I used to get mad about it. I was gonna say. I mean, I just heard that over here. I was. There's times where we're playing the same exact song at the same time. Yeah, it is. You already knew that though. Yeah, absolutely. Going into the situation. The music's not very different. No, because whenever I used to listen to radio, because I haven't listened to radio in years, and I just have to, but I'm just saying. You don't invite me on the show and say that shit. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm not a biker. I am honest. I am totally kidding. Listen, no. No, because what I'm saying is that what I did. You know what you just said though, is the perfect example of when people ask me, why do we play the same shit a lot, right? That's why, because your average person doesn't listen for hours at a time. So when you tune into the station, you're better off playing a familiar song. That makes sense. Than some new shit that nobody's heard, or some underground hip hop shit that's hot in the streets or online. Because it's just a different world. It's not necessarily the same. So they, if there's 60 slots for 60 songs, Beyonce and Drake are going to have them. Instead of like some new guy who's just getting hot and people are talking about. You know what I mean? Which is cool eventually. But at night, during the mixes, is when they have the more freedom where they can spice it up a little bit. But during the early hours and during the midday and pretty much till probably about seven o'clock, they're going to keep it very safe. Because it's safer to play familiar music than it is to try to play something that if you tune in and you ain't never heard it, you're going to go to the other station or somewhere else to hear something. Yeah, because I'll be flipping through. And I hate when I go on another channel, I'm hearing like the same song. And I'm like. And it happens. And in my mind, the first thing I'm like, okay, are they owned by the same people? No, no, no, mom. It's just when Drake's got a single out. It's going down. They're going to play it when Beyonce drops something. It's going down. It's going to play anybody. It doesn't matter. They're going to play. And that's what they need to do. The playlist, and I don't do them. Obviously there's some differences. Program directors or mixers or whatever they have. They do the things uniquely their own way. So you'll hear some differences. But overall, it's the same music. Do you have to get up earlier for this morning? Absolutely, yeah. This is a little more early. This syndication shit is crazy. It's crazy because it's a 38 minute drive from me in the morning. But we get to do right now until this week it'll start. We're all in there physically. Because before it was one day on, one day off. So I was doing, excuse me, I was doing the show from home too. Okay. Like certain days, right? But I got to get up at 3 o'clock every single day. Wow. 3 a.m. I'd do that anyway. For what? Just for the hell of it. To edit all your videos? Yes, that's what he'd be doing. I've been doing it. I got to be one this morning. Yeah, but what time do you sleep? I slept last night from about 11 to 1, didn't I? And then got up at 8. So you got, okay. And then she got back to bed. My 5 or 6, 5 to 6. That's fine. No, it's cool. That's okay. But with me is like because I have to be up by 3, I can't push really after 10. Like I'm in bed now. No, no, that's dope. Go to sleep at 8.30, 9 o'clock is weird as fuck. Now I got used to that shit with Vita for two years. You know what I'm saying? So it's not brand new to me. You got to train your body again. But then I was off for a whole year staying up every night till 4. Doing whatever, watching movies. Like whatever, like I'm a night owl by nature. What is really caught you by surprise that you did not expect going over to K-104? Something that you can talk about because it may be. Yeah, yeah, no, no, that's cool. Something that caught you by surprise. You never would have thought like, what the heck? We find the funny in everything on D-Day in the morning. We really are the show that makes you laugh. Like no matter how serious the shit is, like obviously we're tasteful, we're not totally, but like we don't indulge too much and too much like serious shit. Like there's, you know, CNN, you got CNN, you got this. So we're not going to spend a few minutes talking about Ukraine or something really, really sad and try to dig into like a serious, try to dig into like a serious topic where just, you know, we're not about that. And coming from where I did a lot of news, cruise news over at the beat, I used to like really like indulge in being like a broadcaster in some sense. Cause like, yeah, yesterday at the, Ukraine invaded, like having like stating facts and shit like that. We're over at, we don't do that. We leave that for, you know what I'm saying? So that's probably been the biggest eye-opener to me where I don't have to be as prolific or serious with my news and delivery about it. Cause we, hey, oh, so this Ukraine thing is, oh man, that's terrible. All right y'all, let's talk about this monkey who just fell off a roof. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, and I'm just, whatever, we find the funny. It's more about the funny. And I thought about it the other day. I was like, you need that sometimes. Like there's so many channels that you could go get the serious. Show me somewhere where I know they're not going to get too serious. It's just going to be more fun. And that's what they are. Man, and that's dope that you get to laugh. You get to smile. Yeah, for sure. Every day we laugh and cuss. Like it's great. Every day. Yes, it's great. It's hard, my cheeks hurt sometimes. I'm like, man, we just funny. Go check that out, Trey. Funny and laughing all the time, you know? So that would be the biggest surprise to me. If you really, like I said, if you look at it, man, for you to be in Dallas and hit 979, K-104, you know what I mean? Do you still talk to Vita? Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. 104 and I think 104 and 105 are like partner stations. They're owned by the same company. That's what I thought. 105.9 and 104. Just like... 105.7, yeah, 105.7, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's my channels and 105.7. No, I like 105.7, that's cool. See, I'm old, so... You're not old, girl, I'm probably... 979 and 94.5 is also owned by... Okay, that's dope. Yeah, that's radio one. They own both channels. It's a competition. I took somebody out, right, to pop up DFW, you remember, we was all out there, and some girl said, you from 979? She said, no, not from 979. You don't remember, this happened. You got to know who there was to did it. She was really aggressive like that. She didn't play that. It might've been the drinks kicking in too. I was buying drinks. It's also a small community and you don't burn your bridges either. Like I left the beat on good terms. They was good to me. They didn't do anything wrong. There was no, I left on good terms because never know, radio one's across the country. I might move one day or move, go somewhere, have to go and maybe want a job in that market and I got to go back to radio one. So there's no bad blood, but it is competitive, right? Yeah. Like yeah, we had competition. Did you get some congratulations or anything from that from another station? Yeah, almost every single person at the beat has congratulated me. Okay, so when you reached out to all these different companies everywhere, even not here in Texas. Right, right, right. After you got this job, because what I hate after you get a job, did another job try to like contact you and be like, hey. No, so we was like, yeah, no. I was super happy that this one, and my goal was to stay here. My ultimate goal was here, but I also, like I said, you leave your, you put your, throw your stuff out everywhere. You know what I'm saying? I suppose if LA had called you after you got an hour. I might not be here. No, I'm not. They come see your boy. We gotta keep you, but I come out there a lot too. Absolutely, absolutely. And again, it's not a personal thing. That's why to me, it's business, it's jobs, right? Like the NFL, right? Like players have no loyalty. They don't have, they don't have to have any loyalty to a team. Correct. Except from Dallas. Girl, if you don't stop, except for if you play for the M.A.V.s or the Cowboys, you can't have no way. Cowboys, and I'm not, and I'm not a Cowboys, just big time, you know. But, I don't see a lot of things. Something when you put that star on is something different. They just be, they just be so dedicated to the Cowboys. Yeah, they're so dedicated to the Cowboys. Sure. You better not say that. There's so much you can say. I love it. There's so much you can say. I wanna use LeBron as an example, right? LeBron, cause they be asking, you know LeBron has moved around so much and shit, he might go to another team if he wants to. But to me, like, teams, if you get hurt, they drop you. If you don't work out, they leave you. If you don't something, they find somebody else. They will replace you in a heartbeat. So let, as far as a player, replace them in a heartbeat. Didn't Shaq say something about that the other day about LeBron, like, if they ever let LeBron go off of this team, they're dead. Oh, I don't, you know, I think the Lakers of the Lakers, they're a strong franchise and they could probably, you know, bounce back. I mean, look at all these young players, man. The game is faster, stronger, there shouldn't be threes from half court. It's different, it's evolved, these boys. Who is a new basketball player that we should look out for that you think that? To be honest with you, I'm not that proficient, like, I'm not like a... Into that. I'm not. I don't watch ESPN. See, I don't, I'm not. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. I got homies who be like, man, you're weird as fuck. Like, I don't really turn on ESPN. I watch highlights. I like, you know, stuff like that. If some, you know, on social media, I follow like CBS sports and stuff like that. We're all NBA. So I'll see though, but I'm not a guy who sits at home and watches full games. Okay. Football, yes, but not all the games either. Okay. I'm not, I'm just, I'd rather... I'm more into like a movie. I'd rather watch a movie. Me, yeah, I'm saying. That's not what I mean. No, I love sports. I love playing sports, but I'm just not super big on, and I don't be knowing like where the, where he from or what college he be, you know what college he play for? No. Some people follow the whole history of the thing. Yeah, no, no, no, that's what my son, my son who plays basketball loves basketball. I feel like I might be able to set him up as a sports caster in life if he ever decides to do this, get him into this world because he just be knowing where they're from and this dad, you know, he did this and that and meh, meh, meh, meh. And I'd be like, well, watch this movie. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was like, I don't know. What's your favorite movie of all time since you talking about movies? I think that's an unfair question. I'm gonna tell you what it is I got. I'm more genre. Okay, Frank. Before he answers that. That's a good, that's a better, horror is my favorite. Oh, I'm not gonna be a damn one. See, you can't answer that. You know what? Oh my God, you're from Texas, you people, we all know. We like it in horror. I love possession, safe, anything like with the devil and all that, I love horror. Okay, now you're scaring me now. Okay, okay, okay. Since you love horror, cause I don't watch horror a lot, you know. Girl, I've seen it all. But one thing I've seen about horror. Really? Okay. Watching old time horror, back in the days when you were a kid, compared to horror today, is horror today more weak? No, here's the thing, okay? Because the older I get, the, I actually don't believe in ghosts, like me personally. I really don't believe in that whole, you know, like I don't. So back in the day, they had, they used less graphics like special effects to scare you. They used actual like mood and like camera tricks or whatever to scare you where newer movies, they're like, you know, they'll CGI the ghost or something. And at that point, you lose me, right? There's a movie called Hereditary that came out a couple of years ago, right? It's a possession film, not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it's, I don't think any of them are actually like scary. Where I'm like, oh my God, like where I gotta turn the TV off. Like I don't ever get that scared. I remember when I was younger, like I could not watch, I remember Chucky, I remember Gremlins, I remember, I hated, but I was scared, I had nightmares over those movies when I was a kid. But then, so I never ever watched those. You ever see Pet Sematary the first one? No. Are you over here watching? Freddy Krueger, all of that. I like Freddy, I like Freddy. You know, I watched all of that, or Carrie. Carrie was good. Carrie was good. You know, so, but I remember. At least you watched that. At least you watched that. After all of that. You know what I watch? Chucky. After all of that. Chucky silly. I was like, let me tell you, I had a doll at home that was that tall. That saw to look like Chucky, I'm scared. You were sleeping, oh God, that thing is right there. Cause every time you wake up, it looked like she was looking, it was a girl, she was looking at you. We had this clown picture growing up and we swear that thing used to move in that picture, man, that clown picture. It used to fall off the wall and stuff. What was that clown horror movie that? Oh, Clowns From Out Of Space, remember that one? Oh God. That was real stupid. Yeah, I was tripping, man. Clowns From Out Of Space. Are you scared of clowns over there? All of that. Okay, back in the days, which one was the best horror movie back in the days? I'm gonna go with probably like Exorcist. Remember Exorcist? Have you ever seen that? Exorcist, that's intense, that's an intense movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like she, there's a scene where she stabs her vagina with the cross piece. No, no, no, no, back in the day, the most horrific it was when, you know, they're looking at you and then the neck turn and the head go around. Yeah, well that's Exorcist, where her head completely turns around. And she says like nasty, she's like, eat my cut. Oh no. I don't remember that part. Yeah, no, she's possessed by the devil. If you say like, you know, imagine if the devil did it. You know, he'd be saying like, rude shit. What's that one that used to come through the TV? Poltergeist. That one. Girl, I told you, I've seen, I'm a horror. Oh, I remember, I remember why that. I love being in the complete darkness. No. I want, like, I don't want to see no light because, and I'm just sitting there. And I want the feeling of like, oh, should you see that? Like, I love that shit, I love it a lot. Did any of those movies ever give you nightmares? Yeah, it's funny, I brought up Pet Cemetery. Okay, so there's this, in the main characters, there's this girl, this woman, this other mother who had a sick sister, who had this disease where her backbone, like her, your spine was really like prevalent, like you could see it. And she, I think her name was Carrie. I'm just gonna, I can't remember what her name was, but she used to be like, Carrie, your back's gonna get twisted like mine. Like, you know, she had like this, oh my God, and I remember like, literally having like nightmares and shit. Like, I used to be like, wait, come on, fuck. And you'd go back and watch it again. Absolutely. Wow, I would watch the next Carrie movie that came out. But I've seen every big time, like every major scary movie that's come out in the past 10 years I've seen it. I did when I was younger, I would watch it, but I used to, this is how I'd trade my mind. I'd watch a scary movie, then I'd have to watch like five good movies after that. To get it all out. To get it out of my mind. So I wouldn't have a nightmare. Or I'd watch documentaries and shit afterwards. Or after watching it, I'd be like, okay, that was just makeup, it's just makeup. It's just makeup. I watch, okay, I watch a movie with some of my kids too, and they're young. But that's how we watch them. I explain to them, this is all special, none of it's real, it's all special effect. There's a person, like the only reason why you're seeing it is because there's a cameraman behind them, but we forget you get caught up into the movie. But I, in general, I had some TV acting experience and also obviously I work with the CW, so I'm used to being behind the camera. So when I watch movies, I watch them on like that too. Scenes where people are in a coffin, I know how they're made. They're literally open, but you got the camera, you zoom in on it, and it's a tight spot, and you feel like you can't breathe, but actually you know it's this big ass room, right? So everything, special effect, I just, I want to get it. You look at movies totally different from when you're actually have some experience in that field. In that world, exactly. Were you still at the CW? Yeah, what? Yeah, for sure. Entertainment News with Jay Cruz. There it is. The whole year I was off, that's what was keeping me going with the TV, remember? And then now they're doing it a little differently where we're not doing live anymore, now I go in on Mondays and I pre-record my segments. Bro, they got me hosting the St. Patrick's Day parade this Sunday. Yeah, but we want to definitely tell you we love you, Jay Cruz. No, no, let me say that again. I'm hosting the St. Patrick's Day parade on live TV. And I didn't acknowledge it. I was wrong. I'm trying to go to this. You guys just went over to it. She moved. She's doing something over there. Yeah, I love that. Boy, you don't be playing. Now she can't make a little bit of noise. No! Jesus, get over there. We are a professional. No, no, it's not that. We just got a special thing that we wanted to give you and I thought she was going for it, so I was going to try it. Oh, okay. Well, let's go back there. I'm hosting the St. Patrick's Day parade for the second time. It's hosting the St. Patrick's Day parade for the second time on the CW. Yes, on TV live. What are you gonna do different this time than you did last time? I'm gonna be with a different host last time I was with Vida. Wow. But it's the same thing. They got us on the same setup and then we walked down the street, like, man, there's thousands of people there, man. That's dope, man. Cause every year you try to upstage yourself and do something different. It's funny, cause the year I did it, I had a beard and I like, not diet it, but I bought this gel. The whole thing was green. Green. Yeah, it was like this big green beard. So I might just do the goatee this year, but I'm gonna get like a Diddy in the morning, a green shirt made to rep the team. That's dope, man. So I like it. I got some ideas. Imagine again, you have to do the same thing that she does. Yolanda is gonna be my host. No, no. I'm gonna do my- They're gonna have green on them. Yeah, you're doing green coming. We're gonna do green. Say don't get pinched. Oh, I see you do it with a green. Yeah, yeah, pinch me. I'm Irish. So we got a couple of goodies for you. My wife is pulling it out. Uh-oh. We got your- Oh, it's been a whole year. I know it. I looked at the text message. I was like, man, this dude asked me for my size a year. I know it. I'm sorry, man. So. You're going crazy though. You got your ball stopped there. And it got you to stay- I'm trying to make up here. You know what I'm talking about? You got my name? Yep, yep. Both of them, actually. So I just customized- Is this a jacket? Yes. Open it up. Look at this. That way you'll always- Hey, you'll always remember us, man, no matter where you're at. Right? Come on, man. This is crazy. I'll make fun of my little shirt, bruh. Hey, man, it's all good. Man, I'm gonna shave them tight. Keep them tight and right, tight and right. Push-ups and pull-ups, shit. Oh, yeah, yeah. On the pull-up and push-up, boss. How many push-ups can you do? Not many, these guys. Not that guy. Oh, oh. I'll never mess with a man in his push-up. I could knock out 50 if I have to. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo. I'm gonna be tired, though. I don't know, baby. See, he was worried about that fitting you. Let's see what happens here. I'm gonna- Yeah. Come on, now. This shit gonna fit like a Glock. I'm ready to tell his perfect size. Stop playing. That's it. Yay. With the Jane Crews. Everything cruising, baby. Oh, yeah. Now that boy fishing with a wrappery with a whistle, right? How I look. Say, man, shout out. Man, I gotta get my phone out. Y'all stop playing, man. This is a hoodie. And that's a hoodie. Yeah, man. We love hard over here when we love. Stop playing, man. There it is. That thing is mean. Good quality, too. Man, aw, man. Ha-ha-ha-ha. They cruising the building, man. It's going down, man. I really appreciate it. Nah, man, come on, man. It's going down more. And when we change up stuff, we start locking in. We got to get them to say our name. So we're getting new designs all the time. Correct, man. We thank you for coming on the show, man. You're a dope dude, man. That's why we did it. I was like, nah, don't come yet. You're right. I'm like, don't come yet. We got to be ready for you, man, this time. Oh, that's why you said that. Yeah. Hold on, man. You're going to have to come next week. Yeah, you're going to have to do something. Check it, man. Hey, man. Say, man, check it, man. We got some, man. We love you. You know we love you, bro. So you've been on a lot of podcasts, right? We would like to present you with an award. Yeah. Y'all got to give me this video once it's all done. Yeah, I'll be asking you. OK. So we spoil all over here. You ain't going to get out of this one. This is presented to J Cruz, because I could not figure out what J stands. I search everywhere for J. Came my real initials, RJK, and J Cruz is not my real name. It's a made-up radio name. OK, OK. But I'm going to say what my real name is. We were searching everywhere for it. And it's not out there. You could find it. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. You could find it. I could not find it. And today we should be able to find it. I was everywhere. Nice. Go ahead. But it is presented to Mr. J Cruz in recognition of being an outstanding on-air personality devoted to radio and this jacket industry for over 15 years, making a change through media. Shut up. Look at John. Say, man, we love you, bro. We love you. Got to show up to the camera. We love you, bro. That's it, man. J Cruz in the building. Y'all stop playing, man. I got to get my camera back up here, too. Man, this is so dope, y'all. I really appreciate this. Say, man, so we the podcast have been given out. Giving roses while you're here. Giving roses while you're here. Yeah. That's what we believe in. Because I hate when they, you know, you're gone and they just want to present it to the family and to this and to that. Yeah, like any person's gone already. So let me say that I respect this podcast. You guys impressed me the first time I was here, and you impressed me the second time over here. So y'all doing it. Man, thank you, man. No, not like, like, I think, you know, and we know that when all said and done, we did everything we could with the moments that we had to spend with you guys, man. And that's important, right? Yeah, and we supported each other. Everybody out when we do give out the plaques to be like, I'm never, Darrell was like, I never got a plaque from a podcast. It's the first one. I take this very serious. They did not play about that. He snapped it and everything closed it in. Oh, man, he was in love with Post Office. Because at the end of the day, you know, it's just we know already that in the time we are now podcasting is something new. And I was like, how can we be different? This has been going on ever since we started. So it ain't like we just started it. It was like, we had to find, like, okay, if you come quick, like you came like, oh, okay, we didn't get to do him. We gonna get him back. It's certain ones like, and I ain't gonna say the name, but they coming back and they don't realize why they coming back. It's because of stuff like this. We got to try to make sure we don't leave nobody out. Show appreciation. Man, we love you guys, man, without y'all. You remember that shit, man. That shit sticks, you know what I'm saying? Like, definitely, man. Little extra attention to detail, doing something like going above and beyond, that shit. Especially when we see your work. We see what you've been doing. Oh, you work like a man. Because yes, you're on air, but you know, when I see you on social media that you're at a lot of these... Man, he help everybody. If he can. Yes, these cases that come up that you're trying to shed light on certain situations and you're out here trying to, you know, let people know what's going on and how we can help and stuff like that. It's commendable. And just showing, like I, like, sometimes people are, they tell me they're surprised how down-to-earth I am. Oh, you are. They are, they're like, yo, man, Cruz, I just thought you'd be more. Now don't get me wrong, I talk that shit. No, but you dope, though. I have, I mean, they're not getting. I'll remind them, motherfucker, what I've accomplished when you, if you attempt to downplay me or you attempt to, like, act like I couldn't if I wanted to. But no, I just, people are always like, man, it's just, you know, you're just so... You are. You don't get it. Welcoming and accepting. No, you help others. I'll listen to somebody, like, you know, I'll give you a chance, I'll go to your shit. You know, I try to do as much community shit as I can. And I also have reasonable prices, like when I charge people for shit, you know, I try not to, I know where I live, I know where I am, and every circumstance is different. Like, you know, you've got these young rappers out here who barely got $500, but, you know, you taxing them $1,000 for something because, and it's like, to me, it's not fair. It don't make sense. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. This is not your last time. We will have you back. We're phasing you in, like, right? Like, it may be, yeah, we gotta do the guest host thing. We gotta make sure we bring it. When people come to Dallas, they gotta be able to say, man, we can go over to the boss talk, man. That podcast, that dope. That's what it's all about. You said that before. Yeah. A lot of people find in, though. I love it. I ain't gonna lie. We get calls and emails and DMs and stuff on lot. Like, boom, boom, boom, boom. More and more prevalent that way. Yeah, no, no, no. People are calling. I think it's also that it's you guys, I gotta give it to you guys, the team. Like, it's Yachty, she's setting the shit up. Like, it's just the person out. That wasn't like that at first. She took that from me, bro. Like, the first month, it wasn't like that, I remember when I was here the first time, you were setting the stuff up. She ain't playing. No, we were both doing it back then. Oh, okay, okay. But she took it. Like, but the editing is something, we got a, we can do it. No, no, no, no. That's what I'm saying, it's the team. I can take, nobody can do it alone. No, I'm doing it alone. He's like, come on, let me show it, because in the beginning, he's like, come on, let me show you how to do this editing. You know how when you know your husband or you know your spouse, and you know that once he says that and then you get it, then most of the work is gonna be on you? Yeah, I'm like, no, no, no, baby, you got it. You got it. You go ahead and keep that editing. Go ahead. I wouldn't be where I'm at without wifey. This is me neither, man. Thank you so much, man. I want to say thank you, man. We love you. And it's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. What a boss's talk. And we out. Okay, J. Crews, we hear Boss Talk podcast 101. Don't start crying. I know, I'm about to get emotional, right? Skull, let's do this, man. There's so much history here. Hey! I would love to present you with this award. It says presented to Mr. J. Crews in recognition of being an outstanding on-air radio personality devoted to radio industry for over 15 years, making a change through media 2022. I don't know what to say. I really appreciate this right here. Like, and I mean this, like a lot of times the things you do, you feel like they're not acknowledged, and when people go out of their way to remind you that they see your efforts and appreciate what you do, it really means a lot. So this, this really means a lot. We love you, too. I really appreciate y'all both talking. Given how roses, why do you hear them? That's right. And my dog died the other day, so I'm a little emotional right now. So this helps. That's why he put his hands on. Rest in peace, Tika. That's right. We keep the hands on. Rest in peace, Tika. Tika. No, but all jokes aside, I really appreciate this. I respect what y'all do here. Boss Talk 101, one of the most professional dopest podcasts in here. I mean, and I want to say Dallas, but y'all travel, y'all pick up the show, so it's everywhere. You guys are definitely making moves and people are seeing it. That's why y'all following right now. Crazy. Yo, man, get us on the podcast. I gotta get on the podcast. I gotta get on the podcast, man. You don't throw them on here. I don't know what to do. Check it, man. This is J Cruz. You hear a man. J Cruz is in the building, man. We got him, man. For a second time as well. Any got an award, it's poppin'.