 Big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, it's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, huh, 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 Miss Jamaica. What's going on? Not my day of work, right? 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 here 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 who are gonna get mad at me for this, but I hear it. I hear it, man. That's dope, man. What the guana? So, man. Man, 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 how. 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. Pop Con. And in the interview, you know, I was like, yo, I was guana. He was like, no, no, no, don't do that. You know, I was like, don't do that. You know? It's like, you're good, just be yourself. But some people are good, though. Some people are very good at doing this. If you are, and like, you know, but even if they find out you're not. Right. And you just, it still can rub people the wrong way. So, I just threw a disclaimer before I said the what the guana. Man, you did a good job, man. For me, it was like one point. 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 like Florida. Yeah, Florida. A lot of people from New York move to Florida. 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. Right. It's very similar to the Jamaican. We love platanos. Yes. Oh my God. Plantains. Girl, like plantains. I be eating them. I love platanos. I don't say I'm like that. I can't even say I'm like that. I know, that's how we say that. So, man, let me ask you, man. How do you cook it? Uh-oh. I like it. Do you fry it? Yeah, I fry it. 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. Yeah. And you fry it because it's so sweet and mushy. That's how, that's how we do it, too. Right. But you can, 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, planted 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 or vegetable? Have you ever, do y'all boil it, too? We can boil it. That's when you mush it. It's kind of almost like a, like mashed potatoes, but not like mashed potatoes. Right. It's different. You be, don't tell me you be cooking like that. I do not cook. No. It sounds 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 what I was about to say? Yeah. She, so she knew how to keep me. I'm going to tell you something, man. Crazy. I lost my mom at a real 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 on to 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. Yeah. 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 on. You should try to surprise her one day and it's going to There we go. 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. You know what I'm saying? But or bring a 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. You can cook breakfast and meals. Yeah, I can do breakfast. I can do breakfast. I got to cook you breakfast here. I'm missing it. It's been a while. It's been some years. It ain't been no years. It's been a year. Ever since this podcast started, y'all ain't got no time. I got to do better. I got to do better. I bring the roses though. He does bring the roses. Marriage counseling talk 101. I'll get up and he'll be like, man, I was going to make you breakfast this morning. I was. How are you going to tell her what you were going to do? The disappointment is real. I'll be right seriously. I was going to spend 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 love y'all. 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, right? 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. I'm serious, right? 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 just get you ready for the next level and the next step. And then we also do guest hosts. You gotta come and help us. You gotta come back and be a guest host. Yeah, yeah, come on. That's the hard question. It depends on who we're interviewing. That's bad. He's gonna go, oh, I don't know. 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. Like that? Yeah. Oh, man. I love when Bubba Dub come on the show. For some reason, he love the show. He came on with Myron at one time. 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. 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. Like, man, you know, you, 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. They're gonna be like, God damn it. Bro, it was somebody that hugged you to get 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 gonna bring everybody that he trying to hang out with. And you showed up. I was laughing. I was the part of your vengeance. I was just a part of your evil plan. But she was dope. To destroy this dude who canceled on you. And I was just, I was a pawn. I was a pawn. He might know what he was. 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 until, and then he'd be like, oh, I didn't tell you? But now I do that. Man, you wanted them 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 gonna disrespect that. I'll be tripping like that. He does. Like I don't, I really take it serious. I appreciate that. And it's because I know that I'm not gonna 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. Right. 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. Everybody know that though. They're becoming on the show. If they can't, he's like, I'm gonna love you to death. You call me. I need you. I'm like, where are you at? Upcoming. No way I'm not coming. Right. So I know who to call when I get arrested. I promise you I'm gonna be there. He will be there. He will be there. That's my gift. Actually, I help everybody be locked up, right? That's 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. 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? YouTube is the way. That's dope. I look at YouTube as a new TV. It very much is. Look, so 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? Well, I think that's why. Brandon Morrison. Brandon Morrison. That's him. 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 is cool, but you got to pay for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have HBO Max and you got to pay for it. And it's not free. YouTube's free. It's free. No, no. To a point. Internet isn't free. You have to pay for it. The only thing that's free is motherfucking rated. Hey, you said it last time. It's the only thing that's actually free though. You're right. You said that last time. It was all radio. Radio like... It's going to be around. I want to know how was it? I thought about this question. What do you mean you talked about? I was at Dennis' office getting murdered. I was a part of that. He was like, I see it in your face. I said it. He said to the dentist, see? Nobody fucking likes y'all. Nobody likes you motherfucking. And the reason I did that is because I hate him. My wife, she's like, you got to go. I'm like, okay. I hate going too. Yeah, that's what he said. It made me feel worse. Most men hate the doctors and hate the dentists. They hate anything that has to do with any check-ups. Yeah, that's not true. I don't necessarily hate the doctor as much, but the dentist, I just... Especially I. Oh, yeah. And you have to sit there forever. I can't. Yeah. But I got to ask you. 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're 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. Sure. Two different morning shows. Yeah. What is the difference? What's the big difference? The biggest difference is the DD in the morning show is a syndicated morning show. Okay. They're in 60 plus cities. That's a machine. Okay. 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? Which is a blessing. 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... Your crap. Yes. And not so much on editing the audio. Running this here, posting this, doing this, doing that, where it's more like, okay, 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. Yes. What happened? Just life, you know, just the way... Not for me on my part, 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 a... I took a risk on myself. I said, I'm gonna 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. 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. 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 of shit. That's what I was like. It's like, no, dad, no, no. They don't want to go. 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 the 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 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. I'm an East Coast dude, through and through talking about coming to Dallas. What? They took me out on there trying to do that action. I got this. I got this. I didn't hear long enough. Dallas or whatever. When I do Southern accents, it'd be everywhere. It'd be from Kentucky, Louisiana, because I can't remember. You and Terrence Howard, Terrence Howard on that movie, Hustling Flow. Hustling Flow, he was trying to get that Southern accent. 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. Louisiana's way different than Dallas, and then it's just all different. So how many different networks are in Dallas, as in radio? I think, well... You gotta look at it. You talking about what kind? Because I'm talking, because I know channels. Well, radio stations, so you know 97.9104, but are those... 94.5105.7? 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. Kiss kicked, yeah. The top 40 pop station they kill, and they're a 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, you 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 a clear channel, but anywhere in America. Oh, so you could stay here and then... Oh, yeah, yeah. But if you're a... 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, Swifts? Or Justin Bieber. Or Bebe's... I like dope. I like all music, man. Or 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... Chris Brown's pop, 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. He is like Michael a little bit though, bro. We 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. But people don't really understand. You know what I'm saying? You don't compare his... His journey? Maybe not his journey. Not his journey at all. He hasn't been... He's not as big, but like... 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. Not to say that... Michael had a lot of going through. To me, Chris was more like Usher to me. Usher to... No, I don't play with Usher either. I don't do that. No, I said... You know what I said? I don't do that. You know what I said? I don't do that. I think the weekend, his music reminds me of Michael. You said the weekend. The weekend. I used to think, what's that other boy name? The boy that can't take his head off. Neil. Neil 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, okay, so let's get off this. I said he's like Michael. Nobody's like Michael! Okay, I love Mike too, my G. I get it. I get it. It's hard to do it, because I'm not a new addition in all that. You can't play with Mike. No, you can. Mike is serious. Mike is 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 the studio. By himself. He could really do it all by himself. I know it. He wouldn't need another person in the room, because he could play the drums. He could do the guitar. He could do this. He could do the vocals. Yeah, but he didn't do the moonwalk. No. And his songs aren't as iconic. But you know what, though? Who was behind all that shit, though? 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... You tell my... Thriller. 25, yeah. Thriller? That's Quincy Jones behind a lot of that. 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. I'm going to be right to you, Mike. All right, we got to be done. So, listen, man. I was going to ask you, like, is this the longest you ever stayed in a location? Um... Because I thought about that, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is my longest radio run. That's what I thought. In Dallas, for sure. Because we the dopest. Listen, I love... I love it, man. I love it, man. Everything. At the base of 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 were like, you ain't from here. What are you from? Um... But you're from East Coast, but which pizza's better, again, New York or Chicago? Chicago. Yeah, if you like... Chicago. Which one is it? I like this. Crust and shit like that. I do. I like Chicago style pizza, but I'm a thin slice bent it in the middle. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's what we do. I told you. I like the thick... I know. Crust. I love all of that. I got it. Yeah, you like pepperoni. You like anchovies. You like mushroom. I like all of the meat. You want tree bark. You want... I wish. You want... What is it? Anchovy. And that's in the jalapeños. You got everything on there. I know, I get it. Pineapple? Pineapple. I know you all aren't fans of... Puttin' pineapple on it. ...Hamb & pineapple pizza and I love it. I love it, see? I love it, girl. I will order ham & pineapple. What's the thing in Pittsburgh? What's the food that sticks out there? The Polish culture is pretty big. So they got like haluski and they got like pierogis. Okay, don't know what the hell that is. They're like... It's 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. Come on, we gotta go to Pittsburgh, we never been. Pittsburgh's cool. We ain't even been through there. We gonna go. I'm real nosy. I'll 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 Ohio. No, but that's way upstate. You be it. But if you go to Pittsburgh, we don't wanna go get Hotlink. Is it? Hotlink? No, that's Pittsburgh, Texas. Don't do that. We got Kabase. Don't do that. Yeah, that's Pittsburgh, Texas. Don't do that. We got Kabase. He's a hulushki, you know, again, like the Polish culture's 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. 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 too. Did you like it? Well, I was out that week in DC, bro. I'd never seen hookers on the corner just flashing their titties. Like, oh, what the fuck? Hey, baby, what's up? Come on in. 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. Cause it was when me and my brother was rapping 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. Cause 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'm a go. So I went stay with her. She was real cool, but we had a club one time and we ended VIP. So I'm standing at the edge like I'm over here. And there's like a little bit of room over here. I'm just standing there, you know, chilling cause there's like some celebrities I ended up seeing like Tyreece and Cisco quick, blah, blah, blah. But before I saw them, I was standing right here sitting and I look like I did like a take. I went like this cause I could tell somebody was next to me and they were really tall. Fucking Michael Jordan cause swear to God, right? So how was that? Well, here's I'm going to show you cause I can't forget meeting Michael. I'm standing there and I kind of like, cause I can see that somebody tall had come next to me and I went like you do that double take, right? And 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, got them up and that was it. Wow. That was great though. Because in what I've done. That was kind of the same shit. Right, nah, it was a gap up. I was like, man, nice to meet you. Like, you all right. And then as soon as that happened, the people realized that he was there and then they just started throwing it. And I kind of just like, I just moved over because I'm not going to crush 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. As you should. As you should. I sure would. I'd have had this picture on a while. Selfie days. Didn't have selfie days, did it? Yeah, it wasn't that easy to just pull. 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. I did my, that's what I did Michael Irvin. 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 going to say whatever. And he was laughing like, this dude crazy. So my people, I tell my people, nigga, go and take the picture. He talking right now. Get it. That ain't why we talking. We don't have to be like this. Let's take the fucking picture. They will be right here. And then he said, man, you see what you start, people start trying to come take pictures. You see, that's the reason why they don't do it. Because he had no security with him or 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 the Steelers. Yeah, I'm about to talk to you about football. We ain't going to be the Steelers. Just stay with you guys. 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, he's taking a picture with some blondes. And I'm like. 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 see him taking pictures with these blondes. Because you was too nice. You should have been like, no. You weren't cute enough. Yeah. Well, you know, he been being kind of aggressive with the women I already heard about. 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. Wait. 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, cause you could get so people try to cancel you so. They can't handle you. 50, like he'll say what he wants. And like there is no, like some people will say, 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 still will hop online. And say whatever. And troll the shit out of you. Yeah, no, I already got it. Like bitch give him my money. And that's him. And I'll be like, mm-hmm. Right. 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. He's entitled to it. Did you see my boy Dre getting down up there? He don't usually come out. Dre, the whole nine, I was dope. I like how the, and they said, you know, they said he spent like seven million of his own money in the show. Wow. Yes. Dre put, he didn't get paid. He put money into it to, 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 there. Snoop smoked, put it in the weed, he was smoking. This boy was over there like this. He was smoking, he's like, oh. How you, they got a table. He was hitting the joint before he stepped on stage. I believe he doesn't get high anymore. He threw a gang signs on the stage. Like he was throwing them, you know? He's kicking it. He's kicking it. I ain't no curve. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just stowed it real smooth. I said, 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? Oh yeah, well, the OGs came down. The ones originally started the grips and. 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 had before. 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. I just wanna go out with you. I like the configuration. 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, cause like for a while, like, you know, from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, that's what made 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 Berg. 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 in 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 the age. They started fighting. He pulled out the gun, people were running, the cops came, they shot guns, they ran up in the house, stood up to the dudes, ran. Nobody got shot, right? Boy, the next day, we were the most popular motherfuckers ever. Cause everybody was like, dude, dude, you go to this party that night. 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 Bloods 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 how's the hoods up there though? The hood is hood, man. Come on, it's the hood is hood. This culture is a little different, you know? Cause it's more like in the middle, like this, 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, Charleston was Khalifa, Mac Miller, two of the biggest to come. And myself. Hey, hey, hey, 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, cause I know y'all play a lot of the same music cause I used to get mad about it. I was gonna say this. I mean, I just heard that over here, I was. There's times where we're playing the same as like songs at the same time. Yeah, yeah. 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 cause I haven't listened to radio in years and I just have to. But I'm the same. You don't invite me on the show and say that shit. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not. I'm 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 and I'm hearing like the same song and I'm like. And it happens. But 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 gonna play it when Beyonce drops something. It's going down. It's gonna play anybody. It doesn't matter. They're gonna play. And that's what they need to do. The playlist, and I don't do them. You know, obviously there's slight, there's some differences. Program directors or mixers or whatever they have, you know, 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, shot another? Yeah, this is a- This a little more early? This indication shit is crazy. It's crazy because, because you know, I got, it's a, it's a 38 minute drive from me in the morning. So, but we get to do right now until this week it'll start. We're all in there physically. Cause 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 three 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 one, didn't I? And then got up and- Y'all, so you got- Okay. And then I came back, my five or six, five to six. That's fine. No, that's cool. That's okay. But with me is like, because I have to be up by three, I can't push really after 10. Like I'm in bed now, like- No, no, no, that's dope. Go to sleep at 8.30, nine 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 four. 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've thought like, what the heck? We find the funny in everything indeed 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, seeing that, you got seeing that, you got this. So we're not going to spend few minutes talking about Ukraine or something really, really sad and try to dig into like a serious topic where it just, you know, we're not about that. 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, but 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. They get to laugh. You get to smile. Sure, every day, every day we laugh and cuss. Like it's crazy. Every day. Yes, it's crazy. It's hard. My cheeks hurt sometimes. I'm like, man, we just funny. Go check that out, Troy. 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, do you still talk to Vita? Absolutely, yeah, 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 channel. It's a 105.7. No, I like 105.7. That's cool. See, I'm old, so, you know. You're not old, girl. Stop it. 979 and 94.5 is also owned by, 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 you, 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 have been the drinks kicking in too. You're, I was buying drinks. It's also a small community and you don't burn your bridges either. Yeah. Like I left the beat on good terms. They was good to me. They didn't do anything wrong. Like there was no, you know, I left on good terms because never know radio ones 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, there's no bad blood, but it is competitive, right? Yeah. Like, yeah, like we had competition. Did you get some congratulations or anything from another station? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 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, cause what I hate after you get a job, did another job try to like contact you and be like, hey. No. So 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 know, you put your, throw your stuff out everywhere. You know what I'm saying? Cause I suppose if LA had called you after you got an hour. I might not be here. No. They're gonna come see you 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 me. Except from, except for if you play for the M.A.V.S. with cowboys, you can't have no way. And I'm not, and I'm not a cowboy, 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 made it. I heard that. Something different. They just made it so dedicated to the cowboy. Yeah, they're so dedicated to the cowboys. Sure. You better not say that. There's so much he can say. I love it, I love it. There's so much he can say. I wanna use LeBron as an example, right? LeBron, cause they be asking, you know LeBron has moved around so much, and 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, this, 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 could. 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. It's all CISO, 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 he from or what college you play for. You know what college you play for? No. Some people follow the whole history of these things. Yeah, no, no, no, no. 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'd just be knowing where they're from and this dad, you know, he did this and that and meh, 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. 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 it. You know what genre. Okay, Frank, before he answers that. That's a good, that's a better, horror is my favorite. Oh, I'm not going to be able to answer that. See, you can't answer that. Oh, you know what? Oh my God, well, you're from Texas. If you, we all don't be liking the horror. I love possession, safety, anything like with the devil and all that. I love horror. Are you scaring me now? Okay, okay, okay. Since you love horror, because I don't watch horror a lot, you know. Girl, I've seen it all. But one thing I've seen about horror, 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 anyone, 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. You were naming kiddie movies. But I was scared. I had nightmares over those movies. I get it, I get it. When I was a kid. But then, so I never ever watched those. You ever see Pet Cemetery, the first one? No. No, you haven't. You over here watching. Freddy Krueger, all of them. Oh, 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 watched? 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 sort of looked like Chucky. Scared her. You was always sleeping, oh God. That thing is right there. Cause every time you wake up, it looked like she was looking, it was a girl though, she was looking at you. It was a girl doll. We had this clown picture growing up and we swear that thing used to move in that picture, man. That clown picture. You used to fall off the wall and stuff. What was that clown horror movie that? Oh, Clowns From Out Of Space. Remember that one? That's the whole one. That was real stupid. Y'all 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 a crossbeast. With a crossbeast. 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 goes around. Yeah, well, that's Exorcist where her head completely turns around. And she says like nasty. She's like, eat my cut. Oh, Lord. I don't remember that part. Yeah, no, she's possessed by the devil. He'd be saying like, you know, imagine if the devil did it. You know, he'd be saying like rude shit. What was that one that that used to come through the TV? Poltergeist. That one. You know what I'm saying? 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 cause, 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. Did any of those movies ever give you nightmares? Yeah, that's funny. I brought a pet cemetery. Okay, so there's a, there's a, in the main characters, there's this girl, this woman, the 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 getting 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, Sure they're watching documentaries and shit afterwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. After watching it, I'd be like, okay, that was just makeup. It's just makeup. It's just makeup. I watch, okay, so I watch Carrie movies with some of my kids too. And they're young. Wow. But that's how we watch them. I explained 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. You get caught up into the movie. But I, 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. Yeah. You know, scenes where like people are in a coffin. I know how they're made. They're literally open, but you know, 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 like everything, special effect, I just, I want to get it. You look at movies totally different from the like, when you're actually have some experience in that. When in that world, exactly. Are you still at the CW? Yeah. What? Yeah, for sure. Entertainment news with J Cruz. Yeah, it is. The whole year I was off, that's what was keeping me going with the TV. I remember that. I remember. And then now they, 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, J Cruz. No, no, let me say that again. I'm hosting the St. Patrick's Day Parade on live TV. I didn't acknowledge it. I was wrong. I'm trying to go to this. You just went over to it. She moved. She doing something over there. You don't be playing. Now she can't make a little bit of noise. Jesus. We got 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 that. Oh, okay. Well, let's go back to it. 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 Lord Reveal. Yes, on TV live. What are you going to do different this time than you did last time? I'm going to be with a different host last time I was with Vida. Wow. But it's the same thing. That's on the same setup. And then we walked down the street like thousands of people there. That's dope, man. Because every year you try to upstage yourself and do something different. It's funny because the year I did it, I had a beard and I like not dieted 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 going to get like a DD in the morning, a green shirt made to rep the team. That's dope, man. I like it. I got some ideas. I don't even know you're going to bring it. You have to do the same thing that she does. Yolanda is going to be my host. No, no. I'm going to do my thing. They're going to have green on them. Yeah, green coming. We're going to do green. Say you don't get pinched. Oh, I see you do it with the 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 you. 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. This has been going crazy, though. And it got you in the state. I'm trying to make up here. You know what I'm talking about? Got my name? Yeah, yeah, both of them, actually. So I just customized. Is this a jacket? Yeah. Open it up. Look at this. That way, 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, bro. Hey, man, it's all good. I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm typing right, typing right. They type right, push-ups, 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 mean, what else would a man in his push-up? I could knock out 50 if I have to. Woo-hoo-hoo. Shay, I'm going to be tired, though. I don't know, maybe. She was worried about that fitting you. Let's see what happens here. I'm going to, I'm going to. Yeah. Come on, now, let's just go and fit like a black. I'm ready to tell his perfect size. Stop playing. That's it. Oh, yeah, now that boy fizzing with like a wrappery with a whistle, right? How I look. Say, man, shout out. Man, I got to get my phone out. Y'all stop playing, man. And as a hoodie. Yeah, man, we love hard over here when we love. Stop playing, man. There it is. That thing is, man, good quality too. Man, aw, man. 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, no, don't come yet. You're like, don't come yet. We got to be ready for you, man. This time. That's why you said that. Yeah. Hold on, man. You're going to have to come next week. Yeah, I got 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, you got to give me this video once it's all done. Yeah, I promise you. OK. So we just fall 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 not going to say what my real name is. We're working on that plan. I was searching everywhere for it. And it's not out there. You could find it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You could find it. You could find it. I could not say it. And today we should be able to find it. I was everywhere. You sure? 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 each other. 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 to be giving out Blacks, right? Giving you roses while you're in here. Giving you roses while we'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, you don't see it. 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 I'm here. So y'all doing it. Man, thank you, man. No, no, 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 support each other. Everybody out, when we do give out the Plex, it'd 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 close to him. Oh man, he was in love with it. 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 gotta try to make sure we don't leave nobody out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, show appreciation. Man, we love you guys, man, but I show. 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. Especially when we see your work, we see what you've been doing. Because yes, you're on air, but when I see you on social media that you're at a lot of these. Man, he helped 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, sometimes people who 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. No, don't get me wrong, I talk that shit. No, but you don't, man. I can't be trippin'. Well, I have. I mean, they're not gettin'. I'll remind them, motherfucker, what I've accomplished when you try, if you attempt to downgrade 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. You're helpless. No, 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 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 there to boss talk, man. That podcast, that dope. That's what it's all about. You said that before. Yeah. A lot of people flying in, though. I love it. I ain't gonna lie. We get calls and emails and DMs and stuff on lot. And it's getting 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, like the team. Like, it's y'all too, she's setting the shit up. Like, it's just personality. That wasn't like that at first. You took that from me, bro. The first month, it wasn't like that. But then every since then. 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 gotta, we can do it right now. No, because, no, no. The team, no one can do it alone. Yeah, because he was like, come on, let me show it. Cause in the beginning, he was 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 wanna 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 don't know. I'm about to get emotional, right? Let's go. Let's do this, man. We're so much history here. Hey! I'd 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 and disc jockey 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 really means a lot. We love it. I really appreciate y'all both of them. Even our 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 with this help. That's right. Rest in peace, Tika. That's right. Rest in peace. 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 podcast here, I mean, and I want to say Dallas, but y'all travel, y'all put here. Well, y'all travel, y'all pick up the show, so it's everywhere. You guys are definitely making moves and people are seeing that. That's why y'all following ringing. Crazy. Yo, Ricky, this is what I'm talking about. I got a award this man. I gotta throw it on here. Check it man. This is J. Cruz, he here man. J. Cruz is in the building, man. We got him man. For a second time as well. And he got a award. It's poppin.