Hosts Dave and Leonard open the episode with local updates and welcome guest Tammy Woods, founder of Touch of Tammy, who shares her journey creating natural rosemary-mint hair oil, candles, and shea butter, plus pricing and retail tips for entrepreneurs.
The show then discusses broader topics including challenges for Black entrepreneurs, a controversial moment when Representative Jasmine Crockett honored Chris Brown at a Texas concert, and a debate over a new Black woman statue unveiled in London. The episode closes with light-hearted "Would You Rather" questions and a Culture Check trivia segment.
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01:44 --> 01:48 everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National
01:48 --> 01:51 Black Guide, DelawareBlack.com, Culture Check,
01:52 --> 01:55 um, Black media expert. How's it going with you?
01:57 --> 02:00 Can't call it, man. It's, uh, you know, it's,
02:00 --> 02:04 it's the countdown to, to the end of the summer,
02:04 --> 02:07 man. It's coming real fast, right? No, it is coming real
02:08 --> 02:11 fast. Yeah. Um, Just about over. It's just
02:12 --> 02:15 about over, man. You know, it's kind of a— I don't
02:16 --> 02:19 know about you, but do you get a little depressed when you start seeing things
02:19 --> 02:23 start to change? Not really.
02:23 --> 02:26 Now maybe when it gets closer to like when it starts getting cold, because you
02:27 --> 02:30 know, at least now you can still go outside, t-shirt, shorts. But I,
02:30 --> 02:34 I feel like when it starts getting cold, it starts getting dark at 6
02:34 --> 02:38 o'clock, you know. That, that's when it probably hits
02:38 --> 02:42 me more than it hits me now. Right, right, right. But we can see it's
02:42 --> 02:45 going that way because it's starting to get dark earlier and already
02:45 --> 02:49 earlier now. And, and then, um, you can see
02:49 --> 02:53 like this week they said that the temperature probably won't go over 80
02:53 --> 02:56 this week. So yeah, they said it's gonna
02:56 --> 02:59 be in the mid-70s pretty much. So, and you know,
02:59 --> 03:02 so you got those cooler nights and them cooler mornings, you know.
03:02 --> 03:06 So, um, But, you know, I mean,
03:07 --> 03:10 you know, time just, just keep on rolling, man, you know.
03:10 --> 03:14 So, uh, what can you say?
03:14 --> 03:15 Um, do you got any, um,
03:17 --> 03:20 thing that went on over the weekend big for you or anything?
03:20 --> 03:23 No, not really. Um,
03:23 --> 03:27 Friday went to Rehoboth Beach just for a couple hours. And,
03:27 --> 03:30 and Dave, you know, I was actually surprised. I just knew we were gonna go
03:30 --> 03:33 down there and it was gonna be empty, the beach empty. There were a lot
03:34 --> 03:37 of people down there on Friday. Kids, adults. Yes, yes.
03:38 --> 03:41 I mean, they— I mean, I'm sure it's not like it is
03:41 --> 03:44 during the official summertime, but you know,
03:44 --> 03:48 I'm thinking onesies, twosies. There are probably hundreds of people out there on the
03:48 --> 03:51 beach. Yeah. And they were in the water and everything too? Yep, there are
03:52 --> 03:55 people in the water too. Yep. And they, you know, it was pretty warm.
03:55 --> 03:58 Even some of us, even some of us were in the water too,
03:58 --> 04:02 so So even some of the delegation was out
04:02 --> 04:05 there too? Yeah. Okay. All right.
04:05 --> 04:09 Well, hey, we're hoping there's a place for everybody
04:09 --> 04:12 these days. So, um,
04:13 --> 04:16 well, and of course, um, today is
04:16 --> 04:20 a very big day because, uh, today was, uh, you know,
04:21 --> 04:24 Election Day for the, you know, the primaries and everything.
04:27 --> 04:30 Um, um, I know we had the early voting going up until this,
04:30 --> 04:33 so I guess people are going in with,
04:33 --> 04:36 uh, voting to try to secure their $5 check.
04:37 --> 04:39 Yeah, hopefully.
04:40 --> 04:44 Did you try to— did you secure yours,
04:44 --> 04:47 man? Is that what you're saying? No, my, my, mine said access denied.
04:48 --> 04:52 Okay, all right. You know, because I'm
04:52 --> 04:55 sure, I'm sure there's a lot of people trying to get, trying to secure that
04:56 --> 05:00 5, you know, trying to get that 5 that Martin would say, you know.
05:01 --> 05:04 So, um, well, just make sure, guys, if you, if you
05:05 --> 05:08 got a chance to vote or whatever, just make sure you put your mind into
05:09 --> 05:12 it and not, you know, what's in your pockets, you know,
05:12 --> 05:15 trying to fill your pockets, because, uh, this is a very,
05:15 --> 05:18 very important election coming up.
05:19 --> 05:22 And, um, that's why that guy in DC is offering that
05:22 --> 05:25 $5, um, to try to,
05:26 --> 05:29 you know, try to play with your head, you know. So,
05:31 --> 05:34 um, so we need to make sure that that doesn't happen.
05:36 --> 05:39 All right, um, I'm trying to think anything else
05:40 --> 05:43 that we need to— I'm trying to think. I can't think of anything else that
05:43 --> 05:46 we need to do other than the fact that we,
05:47 --> 05:50 um, have a guest on with us today, and I'm gonna
05:51 --> 05:54 have Leonard go over, um, her bio and everything, and then we're
05:55 --> 05:57 going to bring her on and have a little chitchat with her.
05:57 --> 06:01 Okay. All right, sounds good, Dave. All right, so today
06:02 --> 06:06 we have Tammy Woods. She's the founder of Touch of Tammy,
06:06 --> 06:11 and she created this after her own natural hair products using
06:11 --> 06:14 rosemary I'm sorry, she created this using her own natural
06:15 --> 06:18 hair products using rosemary and mint grown in her yard.
06:19 --> 06:22 After seeing the moisturizing benefits and healthy
06:22 --> 06:25 shine her rosemary mint oil gave her locs,
06:26 --> 06:30 she began sharing it with others and quickly gaining her first customers.
06:31 --> 06:34 Today, Tammy hand makes her rosemary mint oil with
06:35 --> 06:39 a commitment to simple ingredients, quality, authenticity,
06:39 --> 06:44 with a growing— with a vision of growing Touch of Tammy into
06:44 --> 06:48 a worldwide brand. Touch of Tammy's motto is
06:48 --> 06:52 naturally rooted, the Touch of Tammy difference.
06:53 --> 06:56 So without further ado, I'd like to welcome the
06:57 --> 07:00 founder of Touch of Tammy, Tammy Woods. How are you today?
07:04 --> 07:06 Dave, you're supposed to be in the background clapping.
07:07 --> 07:10 Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm snapping my fingers
07:11 --> 07:13 at the moment. Okay, I'm good. All right,
07:14 --> 07:18 well, um, Tammy, we definitely want to welcome you to the show. And,
07:18 --> 07:22 um, you know, I think we— Dave and I always like to welcome people and
07:22 --> 07:26 congratulate them on their entrepreneur journey because we know this
07:27 --> 07:30 sugar honey iced tea is not always easy, right? And the
07:30 --> 07:33 people you think you can depend on the most are the people who support you
07:34 --> 07:37 the least. And sometimes the The strangers are the ones who,
07:37 --> 07:40 you know, are throwing your names around to everybody else.
07:41 --> 07:45 But so, um, even though I read your bio,
07:45 --> 07:48 for the people who are meeting you the first time,
07:49 --> 07:52 can you kind of tell us who is Tammy Woods and
07:52 --> 07:56 what is Touch of Tammy? Who is
07:56 --> 07:59 Tammy Woods and what is Touch of Tammy?
08:01 --> 08:04 Um, I, of course,
08:05 --> 08:07 I'm— I am Tammy Woods.
08:08 --> 08:12 I am the founder of Touch of Tammy. Um,
08:12 --> 08:17 Touch of Tammy is a
08:17 --> 08:21 natural, naturally rooted brand that
08:22 --> 08:24 I created. Um,
08:27 --> 08:31 yeah, a naturally rooted brand that, uh, I created.
08:32 --> 08:34 I was actually tired of,
08:35 --> 08:39 um, purchasing other people's brands and to
08:39 --> 08:44 do something myself. So I
08:44 --> 08:46 went and got some herbs and, um,
08:48 --> 08:51 started a garden and started making products myself.
08:53 --> 08:57 Gotcha. Now, um, out of curiosity, so Like, how did
08:57 --> 09:01 you know what herbs and, you know,
09:01 --> 09:04 ingredients to kind of put together? Was it trial and error?
09:05 --> 09:08 Um, so I mean, of course, I, I don't have a lot of hair,
09:08 --> 09:12 but whatever you use, we're gonna give it to Dave and see, see if
09:12 --> 09:15 his hair gets that healthy shine too. But, you know, as far as your ingredients,
09:15 --> 09:19 did you kind of have a game plan? Like, okay, I know that,
09:20 --> 09:23 um, rosemary does this, mint does this, or were you kind of
09:24 --> 09:27 just experimenting from, you know, base zero?
09:27 --> 09:31 So actually, my girlfriend and I, um,
09:34 --> 09:38 came up with the idea. We actually did
09:38 --> 09:42 go on YouTube to look at various
09:42 --> 09:46 ingredients, um, to mix up,
09:47 --> 09:50 um, and also to see how to put everything together.
09:52 --> 09:55 We went out, brought the products, um,
09:55 --> 09:58 followed some of the YouTube steps.
09:59 --> 10:01 Um, my girlfriend ended up not,
10:03 --> 10:06 uh, making her products. She actually brought all
10:06 --> 10:10 of her ingredients to me. And so,
10:10 --> 10:14 um, as I was mixing
10:15 --> 10:18 and following what I saw on YouTube, I was finding
10:19 --> 10:22 that that didn't— certain things
10:22 --> 10:26 didn't work. It didn't work right. I had to— it
10:26 --> 10:29 was trial and error, trial and error, um,
10:30 --> 10:33 making the products, making the product work. Um,
10:34 --> 10:38 so that's how I came up with the rosemary and
10:39 --> 10:42 mint together. And, um, I,
10:42 --> 10:46 I kind of condensed it out of the bio But,
10:46 --> 10:50 um, in the original bio you sent us, you said that there was a
10:50 --> 10:54 reunion with some former coworkers that played a
10:54 --> 10:57 big role in you getting your first customers. Yeah. Can,
10:58 --> 11:01 can you kind of explain what happened that day when you, uh,
11:01 --> 11:05 reunited with them? Um, they— I would just— I was getting a lot of compliments
11:05 --> 11:08 on my hair. I was getting a lot of compliments on my hair,
11:09 --> 11:13 uh, the smell of my hair, um, the shine on my hair.
11:14 --> 11:18 And so I just shared with them what I had been doing.
11:18 --> 11:22 I think that was on a Saturday, and that
11:22 --> 11:26 Monday, um, I, I had
11:27 --> 11:30 a handful of people on my lunch break coming to buy.
11:30 --> 11:34 They wanted to buy the product, right? And that, and that's how
11:34 --> 11:38 it started. And some of them, most of them are loyal customers
11:38 --> 11:42 today. Oh wow. Yeah. So speaking
11:42 --> 11:45 of that, how, how long ago was that? How long have you been, uh,
11:46 --> 11:49 uh, creating and, and selling your hair products?
11:50 --> 11:53 So that was last year.
11:54 --> 11:58 Um, that was last year, uh, that, that happened.
11:59 --> 12:04 And I'ma say the past maybe
12:04 --> 12:07 8 months, I want to say 8 months Okay,
12:09 --> 12:12 uh, 8 months, 8, 6 to 8 months I've
12:13 --> 12:17 been, um, full throttle, uh, making and selling my,
12:17 --> 12:21 my products. The hair oil, I initially started out
12:21 --> 12:24 with hair oil, the rosemary mint oil.
12:24 --> 12:28 It's there, it's for your hair, skin, and beards.
12:29 --> 12:32 Okay, um, so I started with the
12:32 --> 12:35 oil Then I started making, um,
12:36 --> 12:38 shea butter. So now I do shea butter.
12:39 --> 12:44 Um, also that's rosemary and mint. Everything is based rosemary
12:44 --> 12:48 and mint base. What I tell people is to Google the
12:48 --> 12:51 benefits of rosemary. Um, so you
12:52 --> 12:54 could get an idea for yourself some of the benefits,
12:55 --> 12:57 you know, how it can help you.
12:58 --> 13:02 Um, oh, can y'all— okay,
13:03 --> 13:07 so yeah, so, and then I also just started Monday past,
13:07 --> 13:10 um, not this Monday, last Monday, um, candles.
13:10 --> 13:13 So I also do candles, rosemary and mint candles.
13:16 --> 13:19 Gotcha. I have the oil, the candles,
13:20 --> 13:22 and shea butter now.
13:23 --> 13:26 Um, so I guess 2 questions. One, What was
13:27 --> 13:30 it like when you got your first paying customers? Was there some added pressure?
13:30 --> 13:35 Because, you know, sometimes we can do, we can do things for ourselves
13:35 --> 13:39 and, you know, we may have our little inventions
13:39 --> 13:43 or products or services, but, you know, actually having other people
13:44 --> 13:47 kind of buy them,
13:47 --> 13:51 review them, use them. And it kind of made me think
13:51 --> 13:54 of something I was watching. There was this lady who has like a,
13:54 --> 13:58 um, a cooking show on Instagram, and she knows she loves to cook.
13:59 --> 14:02 And for the first time, she was like reading the reviews. And, you know,
14:02 --> 14:06 I, I feel like with food, you know, you're not going to please everybody,
14:06 --> 14:09 right? But, you know, and, and, and she was almost
14:10 --> 14:13 crying, you know, looking at some of the reviews. So, and, but I think that's
14:14 --> 14:17 just part of entrepreneur life. But when you first started selling the
14:18 --> 14:21 products Um, and you had people buying them who may
14:21 --> 14:23 have been friends, coworkers, family members.
14:24 --> 14:26 What was there some added pressure to,
14:27 --> 14:31 you know, for, I guess, for those products to be perfect?
14:31 --> 14:35 And was there a little bit of nervousness of, of how, you know, what their,
14:36 --> 14:38 um, results may, may have been?
14:39 --> 14:44 So honestly, I was cheating myself when
14:44 --> 14:49 I first started because it was just like a I
14:50 --> 14:53 want to say, uh, a hobby, just like a hot—
14:53 --> 14:57 like something to do. Um, and one
14:57 --> 15:00 of my customers, who's still a customer today,
15:01 --> 15:03 after her second purchase,
15:04 --> 15:07 she told me I needed to raise my prices. Oh wow.
15:08 --> 15:11 Well, so, so now with that said, what, what was, I guess,
15:11 --> 15:15 that original price, and what did you raise
15:15 --> 15:19 it to, or what did she suggest? So my original price,
15:19 --> 15:22 I was selling it for $10. Okay.
15:22 --> 15:26 So I wasn't really— I wasn't really making
15:26 --> 15:30 any— like, I wasn't making anything at all. Everything was going into the
15:30 --> 15:34 product. I was, I was, um,
15:34 --> 15:38 putting out more than I was getting in. Gotcha.
15:38 --> 15:40 So, um,
15:42 --> 15:46 Sandy, she actually told me, uh, she was buying
15:46 --> 15:48 a product, she was getting it offline,
15:50 --> 15:54 and she was paying way more than,
15:54 --> 15:58 um, what I was selling my product for. And my product was
15:58 --> 16:02 all natural, it didn't have all the ingredients,
16:02 --> 16:06 you know, it just had the 2, the 2 ingredients. And I guess she was
16:06 --> 16:09 comparing And so
16:09 --> 16:12 then I thought about it and I went to my oldest daughter,
16:12 --> 16:15 who she, she, um,
16:16 --> 16:20 she sells, she, she's an entrepreneur herself.
16:21 --> 16:24 And we went over everything and then I raised my prices. So now my
16:25 --> 16:27 bottles are $25. Okay,
16:28 --> 16:32 so my 2-ounce bottles are $25, then I have
16:32 --> 16:36 a 4-ounce bottle that's $40,
16:36 --> 16:39 um, and it's only the 2 ingredients in it.
16:39 --> 16:42 If you look at a lot of,
16:43 --> 16:46 uh, products and go, go to the back
16:46 --> 16:50 and look at the ingredients, you know, some people, they like
16:51 --> 16:54 the smell, they want the smell of it, or they— the size of the bottle,
16:54 --> 16:58 but it's what are you actually putting on
16:58 --> 17:02 your body, in your hair. Um, so that's
17:03 --> 17:06 one of the things I pride myself on too. I only use the 2 ingredients.
17:08 --> 17:12 And you, you know, it's funny that you, you started talking about the, um,
17:12 --> 17:15 the ingredients, um, and of course you only use the 2,
17:16 --> 17:19 but you know, Dave and I had talked a lot about, um,
17:19 --> 17:22 some of these, I guess, perm and relaxer,
17:23 --> 17:27 uh, products, how they are Um, causing serious
17:27 --> 17:31 damage specifically for Black women, um, on the inside
17:32 --> 17:36 and the outside. So, you know, I definitely think, you know, the all-natural
17:36 --> 17:39 route is, is definitely, you know, kind of like the way to go.
17:40 --> 17:43 Now, of course, I'm sure, you know,
17:43 --> 17:47 there's other people out there with possibly mint oil,
17:47 --> 17:50 rosemary oil. What would you say is the
17:51 --> 17:54 difference between your product that kind of makes it different from the
17:55 --> 17:58 other products on the market? Uh,
17:59 --> 18:02 the difference is my ingredients. Is the
18:02 --> 18:05 ingredients I stick to. I have the oil base,
18:06 --> 18:09 and then I stick to the rosemary and, and mint.
18:10 --> 18:13 That's it. I don't have 10 other
18:13 --> 18:17 ingredients in, in my, in my product. I don't need
18:17 --> 18:22 that to make my product work. So that's my difference is,
18:22 --> 18:26 um, I just use the 2 ingredients.
18:27 --> 18:30 That's my difference. Okay.
18:30 --> 18:34 And have you had— with, um, Touch of Tammy,
18:34 --> 18:37 have you had that moment where you're like, okay,
18:38 --> 18:41 this can be something big? You know, I got customers,
18:41 --> 18:45 I got a vision, you know. Um, have you kind of had
18:45 --> 18:49 that aha moment where you kind of felt like a breakthrough,
18:49 --> 18:53 or do you feel like you, you're, you're on the cusp of that breakthrough?
18:55 --> 18:58 Um, I, I get asked that question, how do
18:58 --> 19:03 I feel. I, I really don't. I just want to see where it goes.
19:04 --> 19:06 I want to see where it goes. Um,
19:07 --> 19:11 I don't want to change up anything. I don't want to do any
19:11 --> 19:14 shortcuts, right? And I just want to see,
19:14 --> 19:18 uh, where it leads me to. I am not
19:19 --> 19:21 a pressure seller. I'll give you,
19:22 --> 19:26 um, you know, what's in it. You ask me questions about the product,
19:27 --> 19:31 most of the time, like I said, I'll have someone to Google the benefits
19:31 --> 19:35 of rosemary oil so they can see for themselves. And I'm— it's not like I'm
19:35 --> 19:39 pitching my product. And, uh,
19:41 --> 19:45 You— most of the people who try it, they, they come back,
19:45 --> 19:49 they like it. Um, yeah, so I
19:49 --> 19:52 don't have, I don't have any expectations, if that makes sense.
19:53 --> 19:57 I don't have— I just want to see where it goes. Yep.
19:57 --> 20:00 And if there were some other entrepreneurs and,
20:01 --> 20:04 you know, let's say they also had some handmade products,
20:04 --> 20:09 maybe they're struggling, lacking direction What
20:09 --> 20:13 words of inspiration would you possibly give
20:13 --> 20:17 them to have them stick in the fight and
20:17 --> 20:21 try to make it to the finish line? I would say
20:21 --> 20:25 keep doing it until you get it right and
20:26 --> 20:30 just don't give up. And as my nephew Thomas
20:30 --> 20:34 Jackson says, keep it in their face. Keep it
20:35 --> 20:38 in their face. Yeah, that, that is true. Dave, you hear that?
20:39 --> 20:42 Yeah, yeah, I'm all with it. Yep. All right, um,
20:42 --> 20:45 Tammy, I'm, I'm gonna let Dave ask his questions because I,
20:45 --> 20:48 I see him— normally he tries to ask my question before
20:49 --> 20:52 I can ask him, but, oh, but, but luckily I'm going first
20:53 --> 20:56 so I can get all my questions out the way, and then, yeah, and then
20:56 --> 20:58 he, he, he can ask you about, um,
20:59 --> 21:03 Imitation of Life and, you know, all those type of things.
21:03 --> 21:06 So you're always trying to start stuff, man. You're always trying to start stuff.
21:06 --> 21:10 Anyway, uh, ignore him for now.
21:10 --> 21:13 Tammy, have you seen Imitation of Life? I have.
21:13 --> 21:17 That's one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he said we had—
21:17 --> 21:20 this goes back to a show that we did,
21:21 --> 21:24 um, oh, what was that, just before the summer started,
21:25 --> 21:28 I guess. Somewhere back there? No, I think it was last year. Oh, last year.
21:28 --> 21:31 Okay. So, and I asked,
21:32 --> 21:35 I asked him if he ever seen Imitation of Life. Of course he had never
21:36 --> 21:39 seen it. And then I kind of, you know, I, I did try
21:40 --> 21:44 to say to him, I said, I think it's an age thing. Like, most people
21:44 --> 21:47 who are over 50 years old have seen that movie. Mm-hmm.
21:49 --> 21:54 With the exceptions of people who are like that 40 to 50-year-old
21:54 --> 21:57 that maybe the parents might have been watching it and then you might
21:58 --> 22:01 have watched it or whatever, but he's never
22:02 --> 22:05 seen it. So he's, he, and he's up there saying,
22:05 --> 22:08 hey, ain't nobody see that movie or whatever. So we,
22:08 --> 22:12 you know, we did the, you know, so I go on Facebook. No, I know
22:12 --> 22:16 you didn't. Yeah, don't, don't say you did a poll because
22:16 --> 22:19 you didn't do a poll. Well, first of all, I went on Facebook. That's all
22:20 --> 22:23 I said so far. I went on Facebook and I put, has anybody ever seen
22:23 --> 22:27 this movie? And I put the original poster up from the movies when
22:27 --> 22:31 it came out. I said, and then I said, has anybody ever seen this movie,
22:31 --> 22:35 Invitation to Life? Majority, everybody that came on
22:35 --> 22:38 said yes. So he gets upset because he's
22:39 --> 22:42 got to prove his point. And he goes and he
22:43 --> 22:45 puts— he creates another poll that he puts on Instagram.
22:47 --> 22:51 And, you know, of course, you know, that's a whole different demographic
22:51 --> 22:54 on there. And of course, most of the people on there said they
22:54 --> 22:58 hadn't seen it. Okay. Because they're younger
22:59 --> 23:02 folk, you know what I mean? You know, so a lot of— but surprisingly,
23:02 --> 23:06 and you got to be honest, Leonard, more people saw it even on
23:06 --> 23:09 that poll than you thought, right? No.
23:10 --> 23:13 Oh, okay. Anyway. No, they didn't. They did not.
23:13 --> 23:17 OK, this is the kind of stuff I gotta put up with every week.
23:17 --> 23:20 So anyway, um, but I
23:20 --> 23:24 wanted to, I wanted to ask now, let me, you know, being an entrepreneur,
23:24 --> 23:28 you know, it's, it's one thing I always laugh at with
23:28 --> 23:32 the whole thing with entrepreneurship because we got, we got
23:33 --> 23:37 entrepreneurs that are them and then
23:37 --> 23:41 we got entrepreneurs that are us. You know, and you
23:42 --> 23:45 know, it's a big difference between being a Black entrepreneur and a
23:46 --> 23:50 white one, you know. And now Leonard happens to
23:50 --> 23:55 be one of Delaware's
23:55 --> 23:59 most successful ones. He's been— oh God, on paper.
23:59 --> 24:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, well, yeah, well,
24:03 --> 24:06 on paper is what matters, right? I mean, you know, we're all rich on paper.
24:07 --> 24:10 You know, so, you know, so, um, but Leonard's
24:10 --> 24:13 been doing this a long time. He's been an entrepreneur for a long time,
24:13 --> 24:16 and, um, and he's, um, he's been very
24:16 --> 24:20 successful with it. The thing about being an entrepreneur
24:20 --> 24:24 though is you have to be dedicated, and you got to be dedicated
24:24 --> 24:27 to what it is that you want people to buy or what you're selling.
24:28 --> 24:31 So what have you learned about yourself since you
24:31 --> 24:35 went into business to do what you're doing
24:35 --> 24:39 with A Touch of Tammy. What have you learned about yourself
24:40 --> 24:44 as far as entrepreneurship, when it comes to entrepreneurship?
24:46 --> 24:48 Um, hmm.
24:50 --> 24:51 I've learned,
24:54 --> 24:57 um, read the room.
24:58 --> 24:59 Okay, that's a good one.
25:02 --> 25:06 Um, don't be in a hurry. And,
25:07 --> 25:10 uh, yeah, read the room.
25:10 --> 25:15 Don't be in a hurry. And just
25:16 --> 25:20 take my time. Take my time. Don't be
25:20 --> 25:23 in a hurry. That's pretty much like the same. Yeah.
25:25 --> 25:30 And stay up on my products. Stay very important.
25:30 --> 25:33 Stay up on everything. Um,
25:34 --> 25:38 I was sup— I don't know what, uh,
25:38 --> 25:40 if you call it, um, oh, what is it called?
25:42 --> 25:45 Oh, what is the word? I was just
25:46 --> 25:49 ready. I was ready. What is that called? Um,
25:50 --> 25:53 I said discernment. Discernment. Oh,
25:53 --> 25:56 discernment, right. It's something said— it said
25:57 --> 26:01 get like, have, uh, 100 bottles ready.
26:01 --> 26:05 Have bottles ready. And,
26:05 --> 26:09 um, I went into a store,
26:10 --> 26:14 um, I approached one of the managers at a store and
26:14 --> 26:16 he tested the product, liked the product.
26:17 --> 26:21 And he actually said, do you have 100
26:22 --> 26:25 bottles? And like,
26:26 --> 26:30 okay, it just blew my mind. So, um, I, I had the 100 bottles,
26:30 --> 26:33 took the 100 bottles back, we did our deal,
26:33 --> 26:36 and that was it. So now it's always, always be
26:37 --> 26:40 prepared, always be ready. Okay,
26:40 --> 26:44 that's, that's important. Now, now with that story
26:44 --> 26:47 you just told right there, so that's a, that's a good story
26:47 --> 26:50 as far as those people that maybe listen that are
26:51 --> 26:54 about who want to take the leap of faith but scared
26:54 --> 26:58 to take that first step. Here's an opportunity that
26:58 --> 27:01 was made for you with, you know, going into the store and
27:01 --> 27:04 talking to the person and, and then,
27:05 --> 27:08 you know, he asked if you had 100 bottles, you had 100 bottles ready.
27:08 --> 27:12 So, you know, So now, are you— let me ask, are you still putting stuff
27:12 --> 27:15 in that store? Um,
27:16 --> 27:20 yes. Okay, she gave
27:21 --> 27:23 me a one-word answer, folks. Okay, all right, okay.
27:26 --> 27:30 Um, I'm not gonna ask her to elaborate because
27:30 --> 27:33 she gave me everything she wanted me to have just then. Okay.
27:35 --> 27:39 Um, with that being said though, have you, have you been able to get your
27:39 --> 27:42 products in other stores? Um,
27:43 --> 27:46 not yet. So I've had it in, um,
27:48 --> 27:51 one of the stores let me display. Um,
27:51 --> 27:54 so it's just 2 different stores, but the difference
27:55 --> 27:59 is one, one store buys wholesale and
27:59 --> 28:02 then the other one just lets me display my product.
28:02 --> 28:06 So it's a difference. Every— it's, it's, it's just a difference.
28:08 --> 28:12 Um, and that's something within itself in dealing with different
28:13 --> 28:15 people that own stores. Um,
28:16 --> 28:19 if they want to, you know, work with you,
28:19 --> 28:23 or it's just everybody is different.
28:24 --> 28:28 So like, I'll, I'll, uh, fill the room feel
28:29 --> 28:33 the vibe before I start my communication with,
28:33 --> 28:36 um, a storefront owner,
28:38 --> 28:42 if that. Okay, well, one thing, one thing nowadays
28:42 --> 28:46 with social media being basically
28:46 --> 28:50 our online store
28:50 --> 28:53 these days, I mean, you know, because basically that's everybody is
28:53 --> 28:56 selling products on social media. So,
28:56 --> 29:00 you know, it's, you know, you don't— a lot of people don't want to take
29:01 --> 29:04 the time to deal with brick and mortars anymore. You know, they want to
29:04 --> 29:08 go on social media, peddle their products the way that they want
29:08 --> 29:13 to do it. Of course, you know, you can go on there, do commercials,
29:13 --> 29:16 do your own commercials, and then you can set up your own store.
29:17 --> 29:21 I mean, they have it so easy for you to be able to sell products.
29:21 --> 29:25 Now, have you explored all of the options to sell
29:25 --> 29:29 products online? And to— have you approached
29:29 --> 29:32 some of the stores like TikTok and, you know, going on
29:33 --> 29:37 some of the, you know, Facebook has a marketplace. So have
29:37 --> 29:40 you gone through those processes to be able to market
29:41 --> 29:44 your product that way? I'm actually in the process of doing that
29:45 --> 29:47 now. I'm in the process.
29:49 --> 29:53 I have a young lady that's helping me, um,
29:54 --> 29:57 with, with that process. So I, I am in the process of
29:59 --> 30:01 putting it on TikTok, um,
30:02 --> 30:06 TikTok, Amazon. I've actually
30:06 --> 30:10 started putting together my own website.
30:10 --> 30:13 A lot of things I'm doing myself and I'm learning for the first
30:14 --> 30:17 time. Um, I do have
30:18 --> 30:20 2 young women who are, uh,
30:21 --> 30:24 entrepreneurs, and they've been working for a while,
30:25 --> 30:29 um, and they have been graciously, uh,
30:29 --> 30:32 just giving me information,
30:33 --> 30:36 um, which I'm very appreciative of that,
30:37 --> 30:41 which one has, um We're
30:42 --> 30:45 in different realms, but business is business.
30:46 --> 30:49 So somebody keeps trying to click in. Yes,
30:49 --> 30:54 I'm sorry, I lost— yeah,
30:54 --> 30:57 you were saying you're in different realms and business is business.
30:58 --> 31:00 Yes. Okay, so yeah, because one of them, uh,
31:03 --> 31:07 has a cleaning business, which is kind of different, and then one has
31:07 --> 31:12 a, um Um,
31:12 --> 31:15 what is it called with the, with the, the inflatable,
31:16 --> 31:20 like a party? The bouncy, the bouncy party. Yes.
31:20 --> 31:24 Yeah. Okay. So they're doing— but they still— but all with the business
31:24 --> 31:28 and how to promote business, um, they helped me
31:28 --> 31:32 with that. Okay. Yeah, because that's the whole key
31:32 --> 31:35 to everything. Like Leonard and I are both Um,
31:36 --> 31:39 people that have done marketing and so forth.
31:39 --> 31:42 And the marketing is the key to everything.
31:43 --> 31:47 Um, if you look at it, you know, because when you look at TV and
31:47 --> 31:51 everything and you look at the, the over the
31:51 --> 31:55 last, what, 15, 20 years, I guess you could say the,
31:56 --> 31:59 the commercials that have stuck out
32:00 --> 32:03 the most or have the most presence And the most memorable
32:03 --> 32:07 characters are the insurance commercials. You got Allstate,
32:07 --> 32:12 you got, you got, um, you got, um, Liberty Mutual,
32:13 --> 32:18 uh, State Farm. And all of them have one
32:18 --> 32:21 thing in common. They all figured out that
32:21 --> 32:26 you got to have a memorable character or something involved
32:26 --> 32:30 in, in the commercial for it to to be successful.
32:30 --> 32:33 GEICO was the king of it with the caveman and then the gecko.
32:34 --> 32:37 Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, you know, I mean, you know,
32:38 --> 32:41 um, so, you know, you, you forget about,
32:41 --> 32:45 you know, everything that they've done, but this is how they've been able to sell
32:46 --> 32:49 their products because they get memorable characters.
32:49 --> 32:53 You got memorable catchphrases, you know, Nationwide is
32:53 --> 32:56 on your side and those type of
32:57 --> 33:00 things, you know. So when you, when you look at marketing your products, you just
33:00 --> 33:04 got to find something that's going to hold their attention and make
33:05 --> 33:08 them, you know, make them want to use the product
33:08 --> 33:12 or, or at least research the product. You know
33:12 --> 33:15 what the big gimmick is nowadays on like
33:16 --> 33:19 TikTok and even on Instagram and Facebook
33:20 --> 33:22 too? You know, we got a lot of these people that go out to the
33:23 --> 33:25 restaurants and so forth and do— and, and do the, uh,
33:26 --> 33:30 they go out and they do the, um, reviews of the food that
33:30 --> 33:34 a lot of the restaurants have. I'm sure— I know you've seen that on online
33:35 --> 33:38 or whatever, and people are— people
33:38 --> 33:42 are, are holding a lot of weight to what these people are saying.
33:43 --> 33:47 And you could tell, uh, a friend of mine brother
33:48 --> 33:51 has a sandwich shop downstate in Milford area,
33:53 --> 33:56 and one of the guys, one of the more popular guys,
33:57 --> 34:01 um, was down that way and reviewed the sandwich shop
34:01 --> 34:05 there and gave them a good review. And they
34:05 --> 34:09 did okay prior to that guy coming there and doing the review,
34:10 --> 34:14 but his business picked up 40% the day after,
34:15 --> 34:18 the guy was there. Oh, I saw the guy on TikTok and he was talking
34:18 --> 34:22 about your food, so we came in. You know, there was one guy
34:22 --> 34:26 that said that drove from Wilmington down to Milford just to get a sandwich.
34:26 --> 34:29 Wow. You know, so this is the whole key.
34:30 --> 34:33 So, you know, for— and, and this
34:34 --> 34:37 will be my last question to ask you— to take a touch
34:37 --> 34:41 to Tammy Well, first of all, first of all, I got a 2-part—
34:41 --> 34:42 it's a 2-part question.
34:45 --> 34:47 What is your, what is your,
34:50 --> 34:53 your vision for A Touch of Tammy as far
34:54 --> 34:57 as the products that you have and how far you want to take
34:58 --> 35:01 it? And then give us an idea as
35:01 --> 35:05 to, um, How do you plan
35:06 --> 35:06 to make that happen?
35:09 --> 35:13 So can I— I want to touch on— can I go back to when you're
35:13 --> 35:17 saying, um, go ahead, go ahead. My product
35:18 --> 35:23 right now, a lot of my customers are coming from word
35:23 --> 35:27 of mouth. Okay. Um, that's the best advertisement in the
35:27 --> 35:31 world is referrals. Yes. I've actually Um,
35:32 --> 35:36 someone I used to work with. I hadn't seen him in
35:37 --> 35:40 years, years. And matter of fact,
35:41 --> 35:44 I've been retired for 5 and a half years.
35:45 --> 35:48 Okay. Oh, it's been longer than that. I haven't, I haven't
35:48 --> 35:52 laid eyes on him, and I got a call and he wanted to try
35:53 --> 35:57 my product, so I was
35:57 --> 36:00 like, wow, okay. So it's a lot of calls
36:00 --> 36:04 like that I get, but that one was— it stood out
36:04 --> 36:07 because I, I haven't seen this person in years.
36:08 --> 36:11 Okay. Um, now I'm going to
36:11 --> 36:12 what you, you did.
36:16 --> 36:18 Can you repeat it again? I knew you're gonna say that.
36:20 --> 36:23 Okay. Um, My question was,
36:24 --> 36:27 uh, what is the vision that you have for, for,
36:28 --> 36:31 um, your, um, your business as
36:31 --> 36:34 far as the Touch of Tammy, and how do you plan to make it happen?
36:37 --> 36:40 Hmm. So my vision for Touch of Tammy,
36:41 --> 36:44 I would like for it to be worldwide.
36:47 --> 36:49 I would like for it to be worldwide. Um,
36:50 --> 36:50 and how,
36:54 --> 36:57 uh, how can I make that happen?
36:59 --> 37:03 Um, pushing the product, getting it
37:03 --> 37:05 into different, um, onto different,
37:07 --> 37:09 into different, um, stores.
37:14 --> 37:16 A lot I'm, I'm learning as I go.
37:17 --> 37:20 Um, and I'm pushing myself. Uh,
37:24 --> 37:28 I'm amazing myself even with me this
37:28 --> 37:31 far within my business and this product.
37:33 --> 37:37 So, um, I just—
37:37 --> 37:40 I want my product to go to be all over worldwide.
37:42 --> 37:45 Okay. All right. Well,
37:46 --> 37:50 well, I get it. And of course, that's, that's something
37:50 --> 37:53 that we all, you know, if you're an entrepreneur, you definitely want
37:54 --> 37:57 to try to do. And it's possible because you got kids that
37:58 --> 38:01 are like 10 years old that have become millionaires just
38:02 --> 38:05 because of, you know, something that they've created or something
38:05 --> 38:09 that they pushed at the right time in the right place.
38:10 --> 38:13 Anything can happen. We're in this— we're in an age that anybody
38:13 --> 38:17 could become successful at a moment's notice just
38:17 --> 38:19 based on making a,
38:20 --> 38:23 making a move left or making
38:24 --> 38:27 a move right that just happens to work out for you. And it could,
38:27 --> 38:30 it could mean the world to you. So, um,
38:31 --> 38:34 well, do me a favor, give everybody
38:34 --> 38:38 your contact information, the way to get a hold of you,
38:38 --> 38:41 where they could find your products if you have Um,
38:42 --> 38:45 have, um, you know, social media pages and everything.
38:46 --> 38:49 And how, if they wanted to purchase something from you, how would they be able
38:50 --> 38:54 to do that? I, I want to say too, I forgot to mention that I
38:54 --> 38:58 also sell wholesale. So if someone wanted to be a
38:58 --> 39:02 reseller, they could be a reseller, but they had— they
39:02 --> 39:05 would have to have their monies up front, and it is, um,
39:05 --> 39:09 some paperwork that they would have to sign. To be a wholesaler
39:09 --> 39:13 for Touch of Tammy. Okay. Um,
39:13 --> 39:15 so I can be found on, um,
39:17 --> 39:20 Instagram, uh, and it's Touch of Tammy
39:21 --> 39:24 underscore underscore. Um,
39:24 --> 39:28 I also, um, can be found—
39:28 --> 39:32 my email address also is Touch of
39:32 --> 39:41 Tammy with 2 Y's @gmail.com.
39:41 --> 39:48 Um, also my Touch of Tammy number is 302-588-8360.
39:50 --> 39:54 I also have a Facebook which is under Tammy
39:54 --> 39:58 Woods. I get a lot of orders there. Message me
39:59 --> 40:00 for orders.
40:01 --> 40:04 Okay. All right.
40:04 --> 40:08 Um, now, do you— you say you're in the process of
40:08 --> 40:12 putting together a website? Uh, you're working on that? I was going
40:13 --> 40:16 to say, my partner here is very good with websites too. So,
40:16 --> 40:20 um, if you should ever need any help, I'm sure Mr.
40:20 --> 40:23 Leonard Young can help you, right, Leonard? Uh, yes,
40:23 --> 40:26 consulting. Yes. Yeah, there you
40:26 --> 40:29 go. Okay, um, but yeah,
40:29 --> 40:32 so, um, definitely, um,
40:33 --> 40:36 um, everyone, here's a young lady out here
40:37 --> 40:41 doing some great things. She developed a product out of her backyard.
40:41 --> 40:44 I mean, you know, think about it, you know, she went to her yard
40:45 --> 40:48 and came up with something special. So you can't ask for anything
40:48 --> 40:52 better, especially with everything they're talking about with all the preservatives and
40:53 --> 40:57 stuff that they're putting in food and all the stuff, the additives, the different
40:57 --> 41:01 things that we've always used over the years. Well, here's something completely natural
41:02 --> 41:05 that's working, that, um, people are
41:05 --> 41:09 using and, and not having any issues with. And, you know,
41:09 --> 41:12 Leonard mentioned earlier, of all the shows that we've talked about with the stuff that,
41:13 --> 41:17 uh, especially women have been putting in their hair that has been getting
41:17 --> 41:21 them sick and so forth, here's something that's natural that you
41:21 --> 41:25 should not have that problem with. So if you get
41:25 --> 41:29 a chance, go out there and check Tammy Woods
41:30 --> 41:33 out, aka her business A Touch of Tammy,
41:33 --> 41:37 and, um, just check out her products. And, you know,
41:37 --> 41:40 you know, not only does she have the oils,
41:40 --> 41:43 but she has candles now. And, you know,
41:44 --> 41:47 I'm sure, uh, shea butter, and I'm sure
41:48 --> 41:51 she's gonna add some other stuff in there. Too. I'm almost positive. So,
41:51 --> 41:55 so, but this is, uh, this is an opportunity to
41:55 --> 41:59 check something that could be very, very good for you and,
41:59 --> 42:02 um, definitely, um, of God's green
42:03 --> 42:06 earth, you know. So we want to take the time to thank you,
42:06 --> 42:09 Tammy, for coming on the show and hanging out with us today.
42:10 --> 42:13 Thank you both. We really appreciate it. And,
42:13 --> 42:16 and I have to say, um, and thank you for reaching out to me,
42:16 --> 42:20 um, Tammy Leonard, uh, Tammy actually reached out to me about coming on
42:20 --> 42:24 the show, and I'm glad that you did that. So we always like
42:24 --> 42:28 to highlight entrepreneurs especially, and for
42:28 --> 42:32 those, for those of us that are coming out and taking that
42:32 --> 42:36 leap of faith and doing something big, especially in the community as
42:36 --> 42:39 well. So thank you for taking the time to reach out to me, and I'm
42:39 --> 42:43 glad that we got a chance to connect with you.
42:44 --> 42:48 And we appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
42:48 --> 42:51 And thank you for your time. Have a good evening. You also. Okay.
42:54 --> 42:57 All right. That's great, um, um, that she
42:58 --> 43:01 was able to come on and hang out with us. And hopefully, guys, you get
43:02 --> 43:05 a chance to check out her product, uh, all of her products that she has.
43:05 --> 43:08 I'm sure that you will be very impressed. I think I might try
43:09 --> 43:11 it. I, you know, you were kidding. I think I might try it later.
43:12 --> 43:15 You know, so we'll see, see what happens. I'm going to reach out
43:16 --> 43:16 to her and talk to her about it.
43:19 --> 43:20 Okay, so,
43:22 --> 43:26 um, I actually had a couple things that I wanted
43:26 --> 43:29 to talk about before we signed off tonight,
43:29 --> 43:32 and one of them is in line with what we were just talking about
43:33 --> 43:35 as far as being an entrepreneur.
43:37 --> 43:41 So I came up with this story that says, so you want to be an
43:41 --> 43:45 entrepreneur, a Black entrepreneur? Because like I said
43:45 --> 43:49 earlier, we have the other ones, but you know, we're talking about being
43:49 --> 43:53 Black because that when once you put— once Black
43:53 --> 43:56 is put in front of it, it changes the whole dynamic of everything, right?
43:58 --> 44:01 It does, definitely. Yeah, that's right. You're right.
44:02 --> 44:05 So these are the things that said, what do I need to know? So I
44:06 --> 44:10 came across this article and I thought this was pretty informative, and I
44:10 --> 44:13 hope Tammy gets a chance to listen to this later.
44:14 --> 44:17 It says starting a business as a Black entrepreneur gives you a
44:18 --> 44:21 path to personal freedom and wealth creation.
44:22 --> 44:25 Oh, and that, that for those people that are white that wants
44:26 --> 44:29 to start a Black entrepreneurship, no,
44:29 --> 44:33 that's not what we're talking about. So don't try to do it, people. OK.
44:33 --> 44:35 You're not Black, you can't do this.
44:38 --> 44:43 OK. But you must prepare for unique financial and systemic—
44:43 --> 44:46 I can't even talk right— systemic hurdles.
44:47 --> 44:51 Understanding financial realities. It says
44:51 --> 44:55 capital gaps. Black founders receive a very
44:55 --> 44:58 small fraction of
44:58 --> 45:02 venture capital and face harder paths to
45:02 --> 45:04 securing traditional bank loans.
45:05 --> 45:08 And we know that to be a fact, don't we, Leonard? Right up.
45:09 --> 45:12 Yeah. So, and of course, you've had to do— you've
45:12 --> 45:15 had to deal with that on a couple different occasions for different things that you
45:16 --> 45:19 do, and it's not easy, right? Yeah. And I, I mean,
45:19 --> 45:22 they, they definitely make you jump through hoops for sure.
45:23 --> 45:26 Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. Yep.
45:26 --> 45:29 So it says alternative funding. Many Black
45:30 --> 45:33 business owners start by using personal savings,
45:34 --> 45:36 credit cards, and microloans.
45:38 --> 45:41 Have you ever done a microloan? To be honest, I don't even know what
45:41 --> 45:45 the definition of microloan is, because in my
45:45 --> 45:48 mind, it's either free or it's a loan.
45:50 --> 45:52 No. OK. All right. OK.
45:55 --> 45:58 But I mean, I, I would be guessing a microloan would probably
45:59 --> 46:02 be like a loan between, you know, $10 and $50,
46:03 --> 46:06 like a smaller loan. And I know,
46:07 --> 46:10 and that's, that's always funny when I hear that type of numbers being thrown
46:11 --> 46:13 around, a small loan, $10 to $15. Uh, well,
46:14 --> 46:18 $50, yeah, $10 is not that big, but $50
46:18 --> 46:21 is still a lot of Black people, that's still a lot of money.
46:24 --> 46:27 But let me see, I'm, I'm gonna give everybody—
46:27 --> 46:29 for those that don't know, I'm gonna give everybody the definition.
46:31 --> 46:31 Let's see.
46:35 --> 46:39 That is, it says it's
46:39 --> 46:43 a small short-term business loan, typically under $50. So you
46:43 --> 46:47 were right, designed for startups
46:47 --> 46:51 entrepreneurs, and underserved borrowers who cannot qualify for
46:51 --> 46:55 traditional bank financing. The average microloan
46:55 --> 46:56 is around $13.
46:59 --> 47:21 So Target
47:21 --> 47:22 minority.
47:57 --> 48:01 Okay, sorry folks, we had a little
48:01 --> 48:05 technical difficulty there, but we're back. So I
48:06 --> 48:11 was talking about the, you know, as far as the
48:12 --> 48:15 entrepreneur and what we needed to know being
48:16 --> 48:19 a Black entrepreneur, we just talked about alternative
48:19 --> 48:23 funding. Then I started talking about resourcefulness.
48:24 --> 48:28 And so I just mentioned that you need to look for specialized
48:28 --> 48:31 grants with pitch competitions and community development
48:32 --> 48:35 financial institutions. That target minority-owned businesses.
48:35 --> 48:39 And I was asking Leonard, have you ever had to try
48:39 --> 48:43 to gain— well, I know, I know, I know you got at least
48:43 --> 48:46 $1, right? Yeah, we did.
48:47 --> 48:50 OK, how about any of the community development financial
48:50 --> 48:54 institutions? Have you guys targeted— I mean, were you— did
48:55 --> 48:58 you guys get any money from them as
48:59 --> 49:02 far as the minority-owned businesses? Uh, not yet.
49:03 --> 49:06 Not yet. Okay. But you're open to it, I'm sure.
49:06 --> 49:10 Of course. Yeah. It said building
49:10 --> 49:14 a support system, finding community. Do not try
49:14 --> 49:17 building to build company, your company alone.
49:17 --> 49:20 Surround yourself with mentors, peers,
49:20 --> 49:24 and advisors who understand your journey.
49:25 --> 49:29 It says prioritize self-care. The stress of scaling a
49:29 --> 49:33 business can lead to fast burnout. Review the self-care
49:33 --> 49:37 tips on Bounce Black to
49:37 --> 49:41 protect yourself mentally and set clear
49:41 --> 49:45 work boundaries. Uh, because of course, you know,
49:45 --> 49:49 you could find yourself stressing yourself a lot, especially when your business doesn't
49:49 --> 49:52 take off right away, right? Or things that you're trying to do,
49:52 --> 49:55 and of course, you know, you're thinking about the first thing you say, did I
49:56 --> 50:00 just make a big mistake? Or You know, that type of thing. So learn
50:01 --> 50:05 from others, read proven advice and strategies compiled by Network
50:06 --> 50:08 Solutions to help guide your daily business decisions.
50:11 --> 50:14 Um, it's a navigation industry realities. It says
50:14 --> 50:17 systemic roadblocks. Here we go.
50:18 --> 50:24 Understand that the corporate and funding ecosystem often features
50:24 --> 50:27 entry blockages rather than a
50:27 --> 50:32 lack of talent. Read perspectives on entrepreneurs
50:32 --> 50:36 regarding how to navigate these systemic,
50:36 --> 50:39 systemic barriers. Focus on value.
50:40 --> 50:44 Solve a real problem for your customers and let the quality
50:44 --> 50:47 of your product or service drive your growth.
50:48 --> 50:52 And the last thing it says, embrace resilience. Expect a tougher
50:52 --> 50:56 climb in a certain traditional— in certain
50:56 --> 50:59 traditional sectors and stay adaptable as market
50:59 --> 51:04 continues to shift. Now, one thing, one caveat to
51:04 --> 51:07 the article it was talking about, find something that
51:08 --> 51:09 works for you, you know,
51:12 --> 51:16 and that goes back to the whole gimmick thing and the marketing
51:16 --> 51:19 that these companies, especially the insurance companies, because I mean,
51:20 --> 51:23 really, I guess over the last 15 to 20 years
51:24 --> 51:28 maybe, nobody markets the way the insurance companies
51:28 --> 51:31 do, right? I mean, they've taken
51:32 --> 51:35 over the whole marketing, um, thing now, you know.
51:35 --> 51:38 And even you got the— what is it, uh, NJM,
51:39 --> 51:42 that one particular one that says we don't use mascots?
51:43 --> 51:46 But they use the— they, they, they,
51:46 --> 51:49 they like to say they don't use mascots,
51:49 --> 51:53 but yet they're— they got a gimmick going talking about, you know,
51:53 --> 51:56 because everybody else has some type of mascot or spokesperson, you know,
51:57 --> 52:01 in the insurance game. So, so it's pretty— it's
52:01 --> 52:01 pretty interesting.
52:04 --> 52:07 You know, you're a person who's been doing this for a long time.
52:10 --> 52:14 Hey, I'm gonna stick with it versus I'm gonna go out here and get
52:14 --> 52:18 a job, this is too hard? Um, you know, I think it's— so
52:18 --> 52:21 I think one thing is just kind of belief in myself. So,
52:22 --> 52:26 you know, not to know I can always get to the promised land, but I
52:26 --> 52:31 feel like the ideas I've had and the stuff I wanted to do were legitimate
52:31 --> 52:34 businesses that could make money and, and support.
52:34 --> 52:38 Now, I might not always— I might not I might not have gotten out
52:38 --> 52:42 the concept phase, but, you know, I think too, you know,
52:42 --> 52:45 DeBonte, I think just trying a lot of stuff and failing
52:45 --> 52:49 at a lot of stuff. I was listening to something today and
52:49 --> 52:52 they, they're— they had your boy Kevin Samuels.
52:53 --> 52:56 He was like, the difference between high-achieving men
52:57 --> 53:00 and non-high-achieving men is high-achieving
53:00 --> 53:04 men have failed more times. And, and I like to kind of make Well,
53:04 --> 53:08 I like to think that makes sense because, you know, to get
53:09 --> 53:12 anywhere you have to try, and anytime, anytime you try, you run
53:13 --> 53:16 the risk of failing. So, you know, the people who keep
53:16 --> 53:18 on trying after failing,
53:20 --> 53:22 um, those are the people who are going to make it through.
53:24 --> 53:27 That's true. You definitely can't have a quitter spirit. I mean,
53:27 --> 53:31 you definitely have to keep pushing. Um, it's like being
53:31 --> 53:35 an athlete, you know. Um, if you have one tough
53:35 --> 53:38 game and nothing goes right,
53:39 --> 53:42 are you gonna not play in the next game, or are you going to go
53:43 --> 53:46 back out there and try to be better? And that's what— that's what it's all
53:46 --> 53:49 about, is trying to be better each and every time you, you put yourself out
53:49 --> 53:52 there for the products that you have out there.
53:53 --> 53:56 Yeah. So, all right, well, I mean,
53:56 --> 53:59 you know Thank God you didn't quit, man. Look who you are.
53:59 --> 54:02 Yeah, I knew you're
54:03 --> 54:05 gonna say that. So, but anyway, um,
54:06 --> 54:09 we're gonna move on to the next story. And,
54:09 --> 54:13 um, I saw this and I was like,
54:13 --> 54:16 what are you doing? You know, I said, I, I,
54:16 --> 54:20 you know, we got her, we got her, uh, girl Jasmine Crockett
54:20 --> 54:24 out there in the streets, man. You know what I mean? So it said—
54:24 --> 54:27 the story says, what you— what you on, gang?
54:28 --> 54:31 Uh, Representative, uh, Jasmine Hackett takes a ma—
54:32 --> 54:35 takes major heat for honoring Chris Brown during a Texas
54:35 --> 54:39 tour stop. I was wondering, I was like, what— what made her do this?
54:39 --> 54:43 I don't understand. But anyway, for those of you who might been under
54:43 --> 54:47 a rock and didn't hear this story, our favorite representative,
54:47 --> 54:50 Miss Jasmine Crockett, Um,
54:50 --> 54:52 apparently looked at Chris Brown's long,
54:54 --> 54:57 uh, messy history and decided,
54:58 --> 55:01 you know what this needs? A congressional
55:02 --> 55:05 record is what it needs. A congressional record.
55:06 --> 55:10 The Texas Democrat is catching serious backlash after
55:10 --> 55:13 honoring Chris Brown during his recent R&B tour stop at
55:14 --> 55:18 an AT&T Stadium Excuse
55:18 --> 55:20 me, at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington,
55:20 --> 55:25 Texas, where the singer performed alongside his co-headliner
55:25 --> 55:28 Usher. Rockett, joined by Texas
55:29 --> 55:33 State Representative Benton Jones and producer Rockstar,
55:35 --> 55:38 presented Brown and Usher with congressional recognition celebrating
55:38 --> 55:42 their contributions to music and culture. And while we
55:42 --> 55:46 can all recognize Usher is
55:46 --> 55:49 hardly a controversial or problematic,
55:50 --> 55:53 problematic person, the decision to give
55:53 --> 55:58 Brown an official congressional nod has people understandably
55:58 --> 56:00 asking what exactly Crockett was thinking.
56:02 --> 56:06 We get it. The 2 are on a joint tour together,
56:06 --> 56:10 and it might be socially awkward to honor Usher and exclude Breezy.
56:12 --> 56:16 However, as author Tanisha
56:16 --> 56:20 Coates is now virally famously saying,
56:20 --> 56:22 was silence not an option?
56:23 --> 56:27 Um, Brown's history
56:27 --> 56:31 is not some obscure footnote buried on page 47
56:31 --> 56:35 of the Wikipedia entry. He pleaded guilty
56:35 --> 56:38 to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.
56:39 --> 56:43 And since that time, his rap sheet has continued to grow in most disturbing
56:43 --> 56:47 and, um, heinous ways, many of the—
56:47 --> 56:50 of which is again targeting women.
56:51 --> 56:53 Yet Crockett stood on stage grinning,
56:55 --> 56:59 embarrassingly embracing Brown, and enthusiastically
56:59 --> 57:03 declaring that the crowd was experiencing
57:03 --> 57:05 Black joy at the highest level.
57:06 --> 57:10 She also called Brown a real one before
57:10 --> 57:13 presenting him with the honor, and therein lies the
57:14 --> 57:17 bewilderment. Black joy is real.
57:18 --> 57:22 Black artistry is worth— is worthy of celebration, but surely
57:22 --> 57:25 there were approximately 14 billion other ways
57:26 --> 57:29 to celebrate Black culture without handing a congressional
57:29 --> 57:33 honor to a man whose history of violence against women is front
57:33 --> 57:36 and center. Whenever his name is brought up.
57:38 --> 57:42 The backlash was as fast as Florence Joyner,
57:43 --> 57:46 or as we know as Flo-Jo, in the 100-meter dash,
57:48 --> 57:51 with critics accusing Crockett of platforming an abuser
57:51 --> 57:55 and questioning why Brown's record apparently wasn't enough
57:56 --> 58:00 to give her pause. Others argued that Representative
58:00 --> 58:03 Crockett was doing her job by meeting people where they are and introducing them to
58:03 --> 58:08 important down to the importance
58:08 --> 58:12 of down-ballot candidates with whom they might
58:12 --> 58:16 be unfamiliar with, like Representative Vinton Jones,
58:17 --> 58:20 who is openly gay, surviving HIV,
58:21 --> 58:25 and fighting for at-risk members of
58:25 --> 58:30 the LBG— uh, I mean LGBTQ
58:30 --> 58:33 community. Jasmine Crockett is doing
58:33 --> 58:38 everything she can to help down-ballot races in Texas.
58:39 --> 58:43 And even though I'm not a Chris Brown fan, it's not all about
58:43 --> 58:45 him. It's about getting people to the polls.
58:47 --> 58:50 So apparently, you know, she did all of
58:50 --> 58:54 this for a reason, to try to bring people
58:55 --> 58:59 in supposedly and get them to to
58:59 --> 59:03 show how cool it was and maybe
59:03 --> 59:06 to get some of these people who probably don't vote to vote.
59:10 --> 59:13 Uh, what's your thoughts about all this? Did she— did she— did she mess up?
59:15 --> 59:19 I mean, I'm— my thoughts is she just wanted a free ticket to the concert.
59:23 --> 59:25 Was she trying to get— was she trying to get on the couch, man?
59:25 --> 59:29 Was she? Is that what she was trying to do, you think? No,
59:29 --> 59:31 no, I mean, I think she just wanted to be backstage and, you know,
59:31 --> 59:32 she did what she had to do.
59:35 --> 59:38 Okay, so you just think that's what it was? That simple,
59:39 --> 59:42 huh? Yeah, yeah. Let her say yep, yep.
59:43 --> 59:45 Okay, all right, well, um,
59:46 --> 59:50 you don't think that she her agenda about trying to
59:51 --> 59:54 get people to, to look at
59:54 --> 59:58 voting. I mean, well, of all the people she could have brought with her
59:58 --> 01:00:01 though, I mean, it's fine to have that person who's running
01:00:01 --> 01:00:05 for office, but why not have other people, worthy candidates
01:00:05 --> 01:00:09 from Texas? Because especially when, you know, the people who are
01:00:09 --> 01:00:13 Democrats and whatever, why not have all of them with
01:00:13 --> 01:00:17 her, right? I mean, she, she may not be friends with all of
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19 them, Dave. You, you already know how it is.
01:00:20 --> 01:00:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I guess a lot of
01:00:24 --> 01:00:27 them, you know, a lot of them might have said, hey, you know, you've been
01:00:27 --> 01:00:30 having the spotlight for the last couple years and let her— it's our time to
01:00:31 --> 01:00:35 shine, you know. So, um, but what's
01:00:35 --> 01:00:39 your thoughts on her honoring Chris Brown though? I mean, Usher is one thing,
01:00:39 --> 01:00:42 but why do you think, uh What do you think about
01:00:43 --> 01:00:45 her choosing to honor him?
01:00:46 --> 01:00:50 I mean, I mean, really no thoughts. I mean, I, you know,
01:00:50 --> 01:00:54 at the end of the day, you know, Chris Brown is a, uh,
01:00:55 --> 01:00:59 you know, terrific act— I mean, not actor, terrific artist.
01:00:59 --> 01:01:02 And, you know, I think she just want to recognize him. Now,
01:01:03 --> 01:01:06 he might not have been the ideal artist,
01:01:07 --> 01:01:10 but I mean, you know, we already, we already know his accomplishments
01:01:11 --> 01:01:15 go deep. And, um, you know, I'm sure— look, we already
01:01:15 --> 01:01:18 know the people in that stadium didn't have a problem with it, I'm sure,
01:01:18 --> 01:01:22 because they were there, you know what I mean? Yeah. So,
01:01:23 --> 01:01:26 um, it's just interesting. I mean, you know,
01:01:26 --> 01:01:28 it's one thing you go to the concert,
01:01:29 --> 01:01:33 you know, but when you're giving out congressional honors
01:01:34 --> 01:01:37 That's a whole different story. Yeah, well, I mean,
01:01:37 --> 01:01:40 apparently she can't give it out on her own, so somebody had to like
01:01:41 --> 01:01:44 sign off on it. So even though we're giving her the flack,
01:01:44 --> 01:01:46 I'm sure it had to go through certain channels.
01:01:48 --> 01:01:51 Yeah, well, yeah, but unfortunately,
01:01:52 --> 01:01:55 if that was the case, let's say it was,
01:01:55 --> 01:01:59 it was somebody, you know, uh, one of— oh yeah.
01:01:59 --> 01:02:02 Jasmine, I think this is a great idea. You should go ahead and present it
01:02:03 --> 01:02:06 to him and let everybody see you present it to him and so forth.
01:02:07 --> 01:02:09 Yeah, you just do that. You could take all the credit for this, by the
01:02:09 --> 01:02:12 way, too. Okay, then, you know,
01:02:13 --> 01:02:16 so her face is all over it now. Yeah, I mean,
01:02:17 --> 01:02:19 they, you know, she got the big— she got the— she probably has the bigger
01:02:19 --> 01:02:23 name than all of them down here too. Yeah, so I mean, I didn't,
01:02:23 --> 01:02:26 I didn't, I didn't necessarily see anything wrong with it. I didn't think he was
01:02:27 --> 01:02:30 the most deserving, but you know, at the end of the day, he's a superstar,
01:02:30 --> 01:02:33 and superstars get special stuff all the time. So yeah,
01:02:34 --> 01:02:37 that's true. Yeah, that is true. Yeah,
01:02:37 --> 01:02:41 well, I guess, uh, we'll find out if this, uh,
01:02:42 --> 01:02:45 hurts her image any, you know, when people,
01:02:45 --> 01:02:49 you know, because I mean, they said that she got a lot of backlash,
01:02:49 --> 01:02:52 but I wonder if it hurts her career in politics
01:02:53 --> 01:02:56 any. So I guess we'll find that out. So,
01:02:57 --> 01:03:01 all right, um, I guess we got one other
01:03:01 --> 01:03:04 story. And it's funny, I'm, I'm glad to see that you're doing the story because
01:03:05 --> 01:03:08 I was trying— I did an Eeny Meeny Miny Moe. That was my other story
01:03:08 --> 01:03:11 that I was going to do. So I'm glad, Dave. You know, you say this
01:03:11 --> 01:03:15 every time, babe. Well, that, that's a compliment. That's a compliment, man.
01:03:15 --> 01:03:19 That means that we the right way. Maybe. Ain't no
01:03:20 --> 01:03:23 maybe. Go ahead, do the story, man. Dave, I say, you know, it may be
01:03:24 --> 01:03:26 a compliment to you and an insult to me. Who knows? Oh Lord. Okay.
01:03:27 --> 01:03:30 All right. Anyway, go ahead, go ahead. Yep.
01:03:30 --> 01:03:33 So for my next story, and I thought this was really interesting,
01:03:34 --> 01:03:37 there is a new statue that went up in London.
01:03:38 --> 01:03:41 And the statue— and you know, they— it's actually
01:03:42 --> 01:03:45 nothing like a statue I've ever seen before. Yeah, it's definitely
01:03:46 --> 01:03:50 unique. Yeah. So the statue is a Black
01:03:50 --> 01:03:53 woman wearing a blue dress. Now,
01:03:54 --> 01:03:57 the, um, the Black woman portion of
01:03:57 --> 01:04:00 the statue, it almost looks like black marble.
01:04:00 --> 01:04:04 So I mean, it's, it's, it's black, black, you know, with a little
01:04:04 --> 01:04:07 bit of shine on it. And then the,
01:04:08 --> 01:04:11 the dress that she is wearing is almost like a,
01:04:12 --> 01:04:15 a baby blue, light blue dress.
01:04:16 --> 01:04:19 So I mean, the, the contrasting of the colors are
01:04:20 --> 01:04:23 are superior for the statue. And I'm just
01:04:24 --> 01:04:27 going to read, you know, some of the overall comments—
01:04:27 --> 01:04:31 not the comments, but the overall issue regarding the
01:04:31 --> 01:04:35 statue, which probably made it go more viral than the
01:04:35 --> 01:04:39 statue itself. So as I said,
01:04:39 --> 01:04:42 there was a new statue that was unveiled
01:04:43 --> 01:04:46 in London's Trafalgar
01:04:47 --> 01:04:49 I know that the internet's gonna kill me on that one,
01:04:50 --> 01:04:53 but— and believe me,
01:04:53 --> 01:04:57 it's a hard name to pronounce, by the way. I want to
01:04:57 --> 01:05:01 say it one more time. I was saying, folks, he's not kidding,
01:05:01 --> 01:05:03 it's a hard name to pronounce. I saw that name. Yeah,
01:05:04 --> 01:05:08 so, um, and it's drawing controversy because Restore
01:05:08 --> 01:05:12 Britain's leader— and when I, when I hear Restore Britain,
01:05:12 --> 01:05:14 I almost think of our version of MAGA.
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17 But their leader, Rupert Lowe,
01:05:19 --> 01:05:23 called the statue filth and suggested
01:05:23 --> 01:05:27 tearing it down. Um, yeah,
01:05:27 --> 01:05:28 tearing it down.
01:05:30 --> 01:05:34 And it's kind of been getting a lot of backlash. So of course, the statue,
01:05:34 --> 01:05:38 um, was, uh, sculpted by an African
01:05:39 --> 01:05:42 American. Um, I think they said she's from New York,
01:05:42 --> 01:05:46 Brooklyn, or something like that. And I mean, really, the statue
01:05:46 --> 01:05:50 is a work of art. So it's kind of like whether you are racist
01:05:50 --> 01:05:53 or not, you know, if you can be subjective,
01:05:54 --> 01:05:58 you know, the statue is definitely a work of art. The issue that
01:05:58 --> 01:06:02 they're having is the statue being Black.
01:06:02 --> 01:06:06 And for anybody who hasn't seen it, you know, it's not
01:06:07 --> 01:06:10 like you know, our Rosa Parks statue where it's a—
01:06:10 --> 01:06:13 I was about to say a homely looking woman,
01:06:13 --> 01:06:17 but I only say that because, you know, Rosa Parks has a trench coat and
01:06:17 --> 01:06:21 wearing glasses and she got a bucket hat on. This statue
01:06:21 --> 01:06:24 is of— and I, I'll use Dave's words because
01:06:25 --> 01:06:29 I don't even speak like this— but this is a statue of a voluptuous
01:06:30 --> 01:06:35 Black woman who looks like she's in mid-stride And
01:06:35 --> 01:06:38 it looks like her hair has braids that are kind
01:06:39 --> 01:06:41 of put up in a bun. So I mean, you know,
01:06:42 --> 01:06:46 this definitely represents Blackness in every sense of the
01:06:46 --> 01:06:49 word. But, you know, of course there's still some people who,
01:06:50 --> 01:06:54 you know, won't like it and will wish for it
01:06:54 --> 01:06:58 to be torn down just because of that same Blackness.
01:06:59 --> 01:07:03 So, Dave, You saw the statue, you probably read some of the comments.
01:07:03 --> 01:07:07 What are your thoughts on everything from the artwork
01:07:08 --> 01:07:10 of the statue to the negative comments about it?
01:07:11 --> 01:07:15 Um, well, it's going to be negative comments because,
01:07:16 --> 01:07:20 um, because the, the main, the main story
01:07:21 --> 01:07:23 is she's Black. It's a Black woman.
01:07:24 --> 01:07:28 And, you know, and, you know, keep in mind this statue is
01:07:28 --> 01:07:31 in in, in the, um,
01:07:32 --> 01:07:37 it's, uh, I think it's Trafalgar Square
01:07:37 --> 01:07:41 there. And this is, you know, she kind of looks
01:07:42 --> 01:07:45 sort of have African-like features, you know. She kind of looks
01:07:45 --> 01:07:50 like a thicker, a real thick version of, uh, Lupita Nyong'o.
01:07:51 --> 01:07:54 Of who? Lupita Nyong'o.
01:07:57 --> 01:07:59 David, we got to take your black card away.
01:08:01 --> 01:08:04 Why'd you say that? The statue looks nothing
01:08:04 --> 01:08:08 like— I mean, my— I'm saying, I'm talking about as
01:08:08 --> 01:08:11 far as her skin, her skin is, um,
01:08:12 --> 01:08:16 and, and the way they had the hair, you know,
01:08:16 --> 01:08:20 on top of her head. You could definitely tell this woman has
01:08:20 --> 01:08:24 African features. Yeah, yeah, but I'm, I'm— it's
01:08:24 --> 01:08:26 not giving Lupita, at least for me.
01:08:28 --> 01:08:32 Okay, all right, you always feel like— but, you know, um, and,
01:08:32 --> 01:08:35 you know, she has on a higher heel shoe that has, uh,
01:08:36 --> 01:08:39 light blue in it and everything. I mean, you know,
01:08:39 --> 01:08:42 it's daring. It definitely is daring. I mean,
01:08:44 --> 01:08:47 this almost looks like something you would expect to see in a square in Atlanta
01:08:48 --> 01:08:51 though, right? Or Houston, you know. So, uh, you know,
01:08:51 --> 01:08:55 because people, people would— it would not— it would fit right in in Atlanta,
01:08:55 --> 01:08:58 I can tell you that for sure. It would fit right in. Um,
01:08:58 --> 01:09:02 but because it's over there in London, I think that's where they're having the
01:09:02 --> 01:09:06 issue. But then we have so many Black people, but then, I mean,
01:09:06 --> 01:09:10 you know, they're from other countries, a lot of the Blacks that
01:09:10 --> 01:09:13 are over there, or they've been, you know, uh,
01:09:14 --> 01:09:18 or, you know they come because of the service, you know,
01:09:18 --> 01:09:22 people being in the military or whatever over there. But, you know,
01:09:22 --> 01:09:26 she definitely is not like a Black
01:09:26 --> 01:09:29 woman you probably would see there, you know, that's from there, you know what I
01:09:30 --> 01:09:34 mean? She looks more like somebody from here or somebody from
01:09:34 --> 01:09:38 Africa or whatever. I think
01:09:38 --> 01:09:40 it was very well done because it definitely is going to catch your attention.
01:09:41 --> 01:09:44 You cannot walk past the statue. Yeah, you cannot walk past this
01:09:45 --> 01:09:48 statue. You know, you know how you'd be looking at TikTok and some
01:09:49 --> 01:09:52 of the reels and so forth, and even Facebook, and you
01:09:53 --> 01:09:55 know, things would be going on, people would be dancing, people would be singing,
01:09:55 --> 01:09:59 and people would be walking like that person not on the street, you know.
01:09:59 --> 01:10:02 Or, you know, there's a statue— this statue, you just can't walk by without looking
01:10:03 --> 01:10:06 at it. You definitely can't. Um, and the
01:10:07 --> 01:10:09 artist, um, did you, did you get the lady's name?
01:10:11 --> 01:10:15 Uh, yes, her name is— you
01:10:15 --> 01:10:18 know, I'm not even going to pronounce it because it's a lot of— it's a
01:10:18 --> 01:10:22 lot of vowels in it, but her last name is Self.
01:10:23 --> 01:10:27 S-E-L-F. Oh, you took the easy— you took the easy road.
01:10:28 --> 01:10:31 Yes. Okay, what would they— her first name is spelled T-S-C-H-A
01:10:35 --> 01:10:39 I know, I saw. I'm going to— I think it says to,
01:10:39 --> 01:10:43 uh, to chat. Don't even try.
01:10:43 --> 01:10:45 Don't even try. Yeah,
01:10:47 --> 01:10:50 but look, that, that is definitely—
01:10:52 --> 01:10:53 that's got to be African.
01:10:55 --> 01:10:59 Oh, it said American artist though. I bet you she got some
01:10:59 --> 01:11:01 African descent though. Yeah, probably.
01:11:02 --> 01:11:05 Or unless that's her pen name. Yeah,
01:11:05 --> 01:11:08 but for those of you that have not seen it, please Google it
01:11:08 --> 01:11:12 and take a look at it. There's a couple videos that kind of give you
01:11:12 --> 01:11:16 like a surround look of it, you know, uh, kind of
01:11:16 --> 01:11:19 give you all the options and so forth to take a good look at the
01:11:19 --> 01:11:22 statue. But it's, it's a beautiful piece though. I mean,
01:11:23 --> 01:11:26 they definitely, they definitely, um, you knew,
01:11:27 --> 01:11:29 you know what she was trying to do with it. Yeah, and this woman is
01:11:29 --> 01:11:33 walking proudly, by the way. She's not walking with her head down or
01:11:33 --> 01:11:38 anything like that. She is stepping. Okay, so definitely
01:11:38 --> 01:11:41 if you guys get a chance to check this statue out, it is definitely,
01:11:42 --> 01:11:46 you know, it's definitely, um, something that, uh, it's a
01:11:46 --> 01:11:49 work of art. I hope they don't do anything to it. I'm— I hope we're
01:11:49 --> 01:11:53 not doing a story later on about it being defiled or something like
01:11:54 --> 01:11:57 that, you know. Or somebody to put words on the dress,
01:11:57 --> 01:12:01 because the dress definitely, it is paintable, you know what I mean? It is spray
01:12:01 --> 01:12:04 paintable, definitely, you know. So, um,
01:12:05 --> 01:12:08 so hopefully nobody does anything like that to it. And,
01:12:08 --> 01:12:12 and, um, you know, that we are able
01:12:12 --> 01:12:15 to have the— thank God it's not in DC,
01:12:16 --> 01:12:19 even though that's where it would be perfect. It would be perfect in DC too,
01:12:19 --> 01:12:22 because, you know, DC is Chocolate City, you know what I mean?
01:12:22 --> 01:12:25 So But we got that guy in DC that would
01:12:26 --> 01:12:31 probably do something to it. Yeah, so all right,
01:12:33 --> 01:12:36 that brings us to Leonard's favorite part of the show, which is Dave's
01:12:37 --> 01:12:41 Corner. Everybody knows this is his part of the show, so I'm
01:12:41 --> 01:12:44 just gonna give him what he's always expecting— something good for him to
01:12:45 --> 01:12:49 ponder. So I
01:12:49 --> 01:12:52 got a couple things for you.
01:12:53 --> 01:12:56 What would you rather questions? That's what
01:12:56 --> 01:12:58 this is. What would you rather questions?
01:13:01 --> 01:13:05 Would you rather travel 100 years into the past
01:13:06 --> 01:13:08 or 100 years into the future?
01:13:09 --> 01:13:11 100 years into the future.
01:13:13 --> 01:13:17 Okay, and what's your reason for that? Well, shoot, I mean,
01:13:17 --> 01:13:22 100 years in the past puts us in heavy
01:13:22 --> 01:13:24 racism, civil rights,
01:13:25 --> 01:13:28 slavery, indenturedness, the KKK.
01:13:29 --> 01:13:31 Yeah, but you look— you would be in the house though, man.
01:13:32 --> 01:13:35 Yeah, but I mean, shoot, I mean, I, I still got to leave the house
01:13:35 --> 01:13:39 at some point. Yes, I mean, I, I would definitely be,
01:13:39 --> 01:13:43 um, willing to go
01:13:43 --> 01:13:45 for the unknown rather than the known.
01:13:47 --> 01:13:51 Okay. All right. Yeah, well, let me see, 100 years— 100 years ago,
01:13:51 --> 01:13:53 that would be what, 1926? Yeah. Yeah,
01:13:55 --> 01:13:57 that's, that's a rough time there.
01:13:57 --> 01:14:01 Definitely. Yeah, definitely a
01:14:01 --> 01:14:04 rough time. So, um, what about you?
01:14:05 --> 01:14:09 Well, yeah, it'd be nice to go 100 years into the future to see See
01:14:10 --> 01:14:14 how we fly. Look, we probably wouldn't even need cars. We'd probably have our own
01:14:14 --> 01:14:17 jet packs and everything. Yeah, you know, to take it.
01:14:18 --> 01:14:20 But that would solve a lot of the— well, I don't know,
01:14:21 --> 01:14:24 that might make things even more congested in the skies. Who knows?
01:14:26 --> 01:14:29 Between us flying around and trains— I mean, not trains,
01:14:29 --> 01:14:32 but planes and so forth. Yeah, I don't
01:14:32 --> 01:14:35 know. Or Dave, you may mess around, go 100 years in the future, and,
01:14:35 --> 01:14:39 uh, humans may not be around. Yeah,
01:14:39 --> 01:14:43 well, according to, you know, that you heard these stories about,
01:14:43 --> 01:14:46 they're predicting that AI is going to get rid of all of us.
01:14:46 --> 01:14:49 Mm-hmm. Be that I, Robot stuff
01:14:50 --> 01:14:53 going on, you know. Yeah. So, all right,
01:14:53 --> 01:14:56 number— I got another one for you. Would you rather always
01:14:57 --> 01:15:01 be 30 minutes early or 30 minutes late? 30 minutes
01:15:01 --> 01:15:04 early. Yeah, but you'd never 30 minutes early.
01:15:05 --> 01:15:09 I mean, I, I try not to be. I'm always 30
01:15:09 --> 01:15:12 minutes early. I try to be early all the time. Yeah,
01:15:13 --> 01:15:16 but, uh, at 30 minutes late, man, that drives me crazy
01:15:17 --> 01:15:21 if I'm late. So, um, next one:
01:15:21 --> 01:15:25 would you rather have a personal chef or
01:15:25 --> 01:15:28 a personal driver? Driver,
01:15:29 --> 01:15:32 no doubt. Oh really? Yeah.
01:15:33 --> 01:15:36 Okay, so you wouldn't— you wouldn't want to have
01:15:36 --> 01:15:40 somebody that would make sure you have meals every day and
01:15:40 --> 01:15:43 different meals every day? Nope. Okay,
01:15:44 --> 01:15:46 well then, you know, I go to the campground every day, so I, I need
01:15:47 --> 01:15:51 something that drives. Yeah, so you can take a nap on your way
01:15:51 --> 01:15:55 down and all that stuff. Yeah, and, and especially if there's any times I
01:15:55 --> 01:15:58 enjoy libations, I can be Yeah,
01:15:59 --> 01:16:03 I get it, I get it. All right,
01:16:03 --> 01:16:06 um, I got 2 more for you. I would take— I
01:16:07 --> 01:16:10 would take the— you
01:16:10 --> 01:16:13 know what, I, I guess I ain't mad at you. I think I would do
01:16:13 --> 01:16:16 the driver too, even though every now and then I would still want to drive
01:16:17 --> 01:16:19 every now and then. But, um,
01:16:20 --> 01:16:24 but yeah, I'm— especially as you get older, you definitely don't feel like
01:16:25 --> 01:16:26 doing all that driving. So, right, yeah.
01:16:28 --> 01:16:33 Um, next one: would you rather read minds or
01:16:33 --> 01:16:34 see the future?
01:16:37 --> 01:16:41 Uh, I think I'd rather see the future. And, and I
01:16:42 --> 01:16:45 just say because already we can't read minds, so I'm not going to be
01:16:45 --> 01:16:48 missing anything. But yeah, I'll see the future.
01:16:50 --> 01:16:52 I think I'd rather read minds. Would you?
01:16:54 --> 01:16:57 Yeah, because if I catch the right person reading somebody,
01:16:57 --> 01:17:01 if I catch the right mind and, and, um,
01:17:01 --> 01:17:05 somebody— let's say somebody just locked up their money in there and
01:17:05 --> 01:17:09 they're safe, you know, just, you know, just remember all of a sudden had
01:17:09 --> 01:17:12 the, the what you call them in their head. I said, oh, I can go
01:17:12 --> 01:17:16 get a couple dollars, you know, that type of thing. So basically
01:17:16 --> 01:17:20 you're gonna using your powers for evil. Yeah, what can I say? What can I
01:17:20 --> 01:17:23 say? You know, so, um, but no,
01:17:24 --> 01:17:27 um, yeah, I think I would like to—
01:17:28 --> 01:17:32 well, I don't know, reading minds could be pretty, pretty crazy
01:17:33 --> 01:17:35 too because you might find out stuff you don't want to know. So I don't
01:17:37 --> 01:17:40 know. Um, but anyway,
01:17:40 --> 01:17:45 um, and the last one Would
01:17:45 --> 01:17:49 you rather always tell the truth or
01:17:50 --> 01:17:51 always hear the truth?
01:18:01 --> 01:18:04 I say probably hear the truth. It'd probably be
01:18:04 --> 01:18:04 mine.
01:18:08 --> 01:18:11 What about you? I don't know,
01:18:11 --> 01:18:12 I'm thinking about this one.
01:18:15 --> 01:18:16 Tell the truth or hear the truth?
01:18:21 --> 01:18:24 Well, I do that, I do that now, so no.
01:18:26 --> 01:18:29 Uh-oh, that's a great set. Uh, I don't know, I might
01:18:30 --> 01:18:33 want to— I don't know,
01:18:33 --> 01:18:37 hearing the truth though, man, you might hit— you might you might hear too
01:18:37 --> 01:18:40 much of the truth, you know. Like somebody come to you and say, I never
01:18:40 --> 01:18:44 liked you. You know why I never liked you? Because you do this, this,
01:18:44 --> 01:18:47 this, and this. And I was like, gosh, I didn't need to know why you
01:18:48 --> 01:18:51 didn't like me, okay? You know. But I
01:18:52 --> 01:18:53 don't know, I guess hearing the truth.
01:18:58 --> 01:19:01 Yeah, I don't know. I, I don't know.
01:19:01 --> 01:19:04 That's a toss-up for me. I think maybe tell the truth. I think I'd rather
01:19:05 --> 01:19:08 tell the truth, you know. And,
01:19:08 --> 01:19:12 you know, that's what they say about a lot of, um,
01:19:12 --> 01:19:15 you ever hear this, you know, how they say a lot of people that are
01:19:15 --> 01:19:18 on the spectrum or autistic, how they,
01:19:18 --> 01:19:23 how they usually tell the truth because
01:19:23 --> 01:19:26 they don't know, you know, a lot, their brain works
01:19:27 --> 01:19:30 differently and they, you know, find it hard.
01:19:30 --> 01:19:33 It's hard for them to lie. Gotcha.
01:19:34 --> 01:19:38 You ever know— you ever hear that? No, that's my first time hearing it.
01:19:41 --> 01:19:44 Yeah, yeah, it's pretty well known out there in that
01:19:45 --> 01:19:47 community as far as, you know, that they,
01:19:48 --> 01:19:51 they have a hard time lying. And normally, if,
01:19:51 --> 01:19:54 if you don't want something told or if you don't want something to be known,
01:19:54 --> 01:19:58 don't do it in front of somebody that's autistic, because they— if
01:19:58 --> 01:20:01 somebody says, what did you see, or did you see them doing this, they're going
01:20:01 --> 01:20:02 to probably tell the truth.
01:20:05 --> 01:20:07 Yeah. So, um,
01:20:09 --> 01:20:13 well, there you have it, folks. That's everything that I got for you
01:20:13 --> 01:20:16 today as far as— hold up, Dave. Hold up, Dave. No, here we
01:20:16 --> 01:20:20 go. Here we go. Here we— this your favorite part of the show.
01:20:20 --> 01:20:23 Yeah, here we go. Okay, we have the culture check
01:20:24 --> 01:20:26 question. Oh yeah, okay, question of the day.
01:20:27 --> 01:20:30 Look, I was trying to sneak off. I knew you were
01:20:31 --> 01:20:34 gonna do it. I'm trying to sneak off. Yeah, because, um, I don't
01:20:35 --> 01:20:38 know if you remember, you failed miserably last— I got this, I got this one
01:20:38 --> 01:20:41 though. I got this one. Okay, I'm ready. All right,
01:20:44 --> 01:20:48 Dr. Charles Drew is best known
01:20:48 --> 01:20:51 for his work in which medical field?
01:20:53 --> 01:20:56 You want me to give you the options, or you already— Go ahead, go ahead.
01:20:56 --> 01:20:58 Since you said which medical field, you might as well go ahead and finish.
01:20:59 --> 01:21:00 Yep. Neurology,
01:21:02 --> 01:21:03 cardiology,
01:21:05 --> 01:21:06 oncology,
01:21:09 --> 01:21:13 or blood banking. And say
01:21:13 --> 01:21:16 that again, you broke up a little bit. Uh, which one?
01:21:19 --> 01:21:20 The last one. Blood banking.
01:21:28 --> 01:21:29 Blood banking.
01:21:32 --> 01:21:34 Are you sure that's your final answer?
01:21:35 --> 01:21:39 That's my final answer. Okay,
01:21:39 --> 01:21:42 that is correct. He was in the field of blood banking.
01:21:44 --> 01:21:47 Okay, Dave, you, you won one. I told you I was going to
01:21:48 --> 01:21:50 get this one. I, I told you I was going to get it this week.
01:21:50 --> 01:21:54 No question about it. Okay, I know who Dr. Charles Drew is.
01:21:56 --> 01:21:59 Huh? I said you're half Black. Now if you look,
01:21:59 --> 01:22:03 look, if, if you said Dr. Charles Jones,
01:22:03 --> 01:22:06 that would have been something different, you know, so You
01:22:07 --> 01:22:10 know, but yeah, look, I remember reading,
01:22:10 --> 01:22:14 I remember reading about him in elementary school, so I
01:22:14 --> 01:22:18 better know about that one. So yeah, so all
01:22:19 --> 01:22:22 right, all right. He tried to get me, folks, but I didn't let him get
01:22:22 --> 01:22:26 me this time. So, okay. All right. So don't
01:22:27 --> 01:22:30 forget to check out Culture Check. Um, you know, Leonard gets
01:22:31 --> 01:22:34 all his great questions from. Uh, did, did you find my other,
01:22:34 --> 01:22:36 um, my other, um,
01:22:38 --> 01:22:40 test I did last week? No, which one was it?
01:22:41 --> 01:22:43 You remember? I think it was number— huh?
01:22:46 --> 01:22:50 So say it again. I said, remember I told you I did that other test
01:22:50 --> 01:22:53 last week? I know. What, what, what pack?
01:23:00 --> 01:23:01 I think it was movies.
01:23:04 --> 01:23:07 All right, here, I'll, I'll, I'll go through and look and see which ones you
01:23:08 --> 01:23:10 did and good and manually adjust your scores.
01:23:13 --> 01:23:16 Okay, I know you will. Okay. All right. Okay.
01:23:16 --> 01:23:20 But folks, please go in there and do, do some culture checking
01:23:20 --> 01:23:23 for yourself. Okay. And let's see how well you do.
01:23:23 --> 01:23:27 Okay. All right, I guess that's everything
01:23:27 --> 01:23:30 we got for you. Oh, you got something else? Yeah, I'm,
01:23:30 --> 01:23:32 I'm waiting for you to do the Culture Check 100,
01:23:33 --> 01:23:37 which is really the ultimate test of Black culture, so we can really
01:23:37 --> 01:23:41 see how Black you are. It's, uh, 100 questions,
01:23:41 --> 01:23:45 18 minutes. So if you get
01:23:45 --> 01:23:49 a chance, go on there tonight so we can really know. And how
01:23:49 --> 01:23:52 many, how many did you do? How many did I get
01:23:53 --> 01:23:56 right? Yes, I'll, I'll let you know after you finish
01:23:57 --> 01:24:00 yours. Okay. All right, I'll,
01:24:00 --> 01:24:04 I'll check it out. Okay. All right.
01:24:04 --> 01:24:08 All right, folks, that's everything we got for you tonight.
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