Coming to you from Crows
Nest Studios in the upper
room. We are two brothers from the DMV
that's gonna give you food for
thought with our topics being
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My brother, my brother,
man. How you doing, man?
Feeling good, bro. Feeling good.
Good. Feeling good tonight?
Good. I am too, man. I'm glad
to be back with you, man.
Glad to be back with you.
Yes. This is Ray Beats.
This is Reggie White.
And we are here giving you
something called Order Up,
as I did in the intro, as you know. Um,
we're gonna start out, uh, our, our,
our appetizer and, um, generally
we would do a current event.
Um, and what's really been
current is the season that we,
our families has been in. Um, and, um,
we had losses of our bros, both
of us lost two of our bros,
uh, in our family over the last month.
And we had back to back services over
the last two weeks. Right, Reggie?
Yep. Yep. Back to back.
Bro. Yeah. So we've been
dealing each with a week of,
of grieving and mourning and celebration
of life and everything that goes with
it. And, uh, you, um,
just to give a little
legacy on both of our roles,
I'm gonna let Reggie talk about his
briefly, and I'm gonna talk about mine,
but I'm gonna play some
music in the background,
some Gogo music in the background, cuz
where we from? Where we from? Reggie.
<Laugh>.
And, uh, this is, this is,
this is, this hasn't been,
this is circa 1983 Wow.
From Player's Choice Banding show,
which is who I know. Um, Okay.
And, uh, a group that I used
to be a part of, um, Wow.
And we were reminiscing.
The Fells got together this weekend
and we were reminiscing. Um,
and they brought over some tapes.
So we're just starting to
digitize that actually.
And we be putting out a
YouTube channel to, uh,
honor the group.
And because there's not a lot of
music out there that we did either,
cuz there was two versions of the,
um, the group started in 1983 and,
uh, it, um, it, it, it, uh,
evolved over the years.
Band members came and went and they
went through the nineties. So it,
it probably had a 10 to 15 year run.
And we opened, we opened for
all over the Mid-Atlantic,
all over the Mid-Atlantic.
We opened for groups like n e g Essence
eu, uh, and we, uh,
and we headlined as well. Um,
we played at LinkedIn University cuz
our Congo player Rumple still skin,
uh, was, uh,
attended Lincoln University and had it
on lock with the Kki crew drinking that
Kmart liquor, uh, uh, back
in the day before biz began.
Um, and, uh, so, uh,
go ahead, uh, Reg, and you
can talk about your bro first,
and then I do a little tricky to mine.
Yes, sir. Man, my bro,
Andre Ross, aka Bird Man.
That was my bro. We go
back about 30 years.
Um, and I actually, uh, met him on,
he was on the inside when I met
him. He's, um, he's a brother of,
um, my oldest daughter's mother. And, uh,
when I met him, I heard about a
thousand stories about him, um,
from them being on the streets. Right. Uh,
but I chose not to prejudge
him by those incidents.
I just, I judged him based off of
him and our personal interaction.
And I felt on the streets. He was
known as Bird man. But I felt,
when I met him on the inside, I
felt I met Andre Ross. And, uh,
Andre Ross was a wonderful
brother. He was a loving brother.
Loved.
His family. Above all, God's
current fearing brother, love Jesus,
would go to church, go to Bible study, um,
he would send inspirational text
messages to his family and friends
messages. We will wake up in the
morning and we may see a touch.
I would see like a text message that may
say something like, Good morning, grow.
God bless you and your family.
I pray that the Lord will bless
you to have a great day. Um,
God continue to protect you, keep
you, watch over you and your family.
I love you so much. Yo bro, Andre Ross.
And I would wake up almost every
day with text messages like that
and what would cause like
that. And, you know, we,
we had good fellowship,
wonderful fellowship. Um,
I think he loved and appreciate
me. He was older than me,
but he would call me big
bro. Okay. And, um, and in a,
a lot of ways he will make it seem
like he benefited from the relationship
just because, you know, my professional,
um, career and, and I guess my,
um, my maturity in Christ and
things of that nature. But I told,
I would always remind him, uh, the
relationship was not one sided.
It I benefited just as much as he did. I,
I knew every single day somebody
was praying for me. Right. Um,
that supersedes somebody that can give
me money or all of the other things
because, um,
he may not have been able to
contribute to me monetarily,
but he contributed to me in so many
ways that was much greater than
money or anything of that
nature. You know what I mean? Um.
Oh, absolutely.
And so, um, a wonderful brother, um,
ideally dearly miss him.
I still have his number,
my favorites mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
So every time I pull up my favorites,
I see his name. Right.
Um, but, um, I believe,
you know, I I I will believe
that he's with the Lord.
I believe he's in a better
penalty release. Um, and
so that gives some comfort.
Yeah. I totally get it. I had a little
technical difficulties and we might,
There it is. And, uh,
I'm just addressing it
again. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
So I re I I I started it off in,
uh, another, another application.
Okay. But yeah. So did you have
something else you wanted to say?
Oh man. Just good brother. Yeah. Um,
a lot of people came out to support
his funeral to the point they needed an
overflow room.
That's a blessing. So.
He, he.
He touched some lives.
Yeah. Yeah. We had an impact.
Yeah. Um, the brother that, uh,
that I lost his branding, Marcella's Ward,
uh, his first nickname probably was
BMW for his acronym of his name.
But, uh, that's him talking in
the background on this Golo tape.
Um, and we called him Eight Ball. Um,
he was, uh, he was, he was a
younger brother. He was, he was,
he was the baby, baby of
the crew. And, uh, but
you know, he, his big head was
big in stature, man, <laugh>, um,
he was a ride or die,
whatever you asked of him,
he would give, he had
a infectious smile and,
uh, uh,
a wit about him that would light up a
room. Wow. That wit was so quick. And,
you know, I, I, I had a temper.
Um.
And one of my.
Uh.
Nicknames by default cuz of my temper,
cuz I would always start the fights.
Uh.
Was incredible hope.
And even though I was small
and wore glasses, like, uh,
Bruce Banner <laugh>,
you ain't wanna see that other dude
from eighth and H Northeast. You.
Didn't want, they ain't
wanna see the green.
Guy. They ain't wanna see the.
Green guy.
My wife calls me big guy. We
got that running in joke. Um,
and I've got, uh, I've got, um,
I've got incredible halt
pictures, paintings,
posters all over, you know, my
studio and, and my part of the house,
uh, it's decorated, you know,
part of the La Marvel comics and the
majority of them incredible halt. But,
uh,
Brandon had a way of diffusing me.
Um, and he was just an
engaging person. Right.
And, you know, I was joking
with his kids at the,
at the Repa. Um, I was like, you know,
if your dad saw you in that outfit,
he'd be saying, You look, somebody get
you Dan Silky Slim right there, Baby.
<Laugh>.
He come quick with stuff
like that, you know.
<Laugh>.
And, uh, good brother,
dedicated father and husband and friend,
Um, to the end. To the end. So I'm,
I'm so grateful that he was in my life.
And I'm sure you the same way
about, about Ross, you know? Yeah.
That we are better because of them.
Absolutely.
You know, and they are
in that brief moment before eternity
at resting at peace.
Right.
Right. Um,
I liken it to the fact that when you,
when you are in a deep sleep, I mean,
one of them good sleeps when you wake up
and you don't know what time of day it
is, where you at, that's
where they at right now.
In perfect peace.
Perfect peace.
Perfect peace. Because both of them
brothers, even though they had a past.
Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>, their future was in Jesus.
Yeah. Brothers.
Yes, indeed. And, um,
y'all gotta understand,
this thing is real here.
You only got so many times
to go around this sun,
and it ain't all about chuckles and fun.
Sometimes it's gonna be hard.
Sometimes there's gonna be
pain and sorrow because the
cup that we drink from is bitter.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's bitter dog. And, um,
but the beauty of it all,
the beauty of it all is,
you know, the creative said,
I ain't going for safety
and I'll be with you always,
even until the end and after the end.
That's right.
And we are morning and we are in pain.
But I take solace in the fact that
the last conversation that I had
with a was right around that subject that
I was like, Bro, even if
I don't see you again.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
But you know how much I love
you, who loves you more.
Right.
Lean into him. And he acknowledged,
he acknowledged his faith in Christ
in his last days. And he, he,
he stepped to it. Yeah.
And as a true soldier,
you know,
we call each other soldiers because of
what we went through on these streets,
but he was a true soldier man.
And fighting the good fighting.
Yeah. Yeah.
Where in my heart of hearts,
I feel unequivocally without a doubt,
he's going to hear well done.
And, you know, well done.
My good and faithful servant
when, when the time comes.
Man.
I just hope that we get it right.
That's right.
So we can be on that side with That's.
The goal. That's the.
Goal what I'm saying. Because his grace
is sufficient if we allow it to be.
And it's every day, folks, it's
every day. You gotta die daily.
That's right.
Know. And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm, I'm pleased that
we have these memories,
this music, his legacy.
He has beautiful children.
His, his youngest was over
here with me yesterday,
whipping my butt in
Nintendo <laugh>, uh, uh,
on the switch we playing Mario
cart. Um, he loves Mario,
you know, and, uh, you know,
he was just having a ball and, uh.
Mario card.
Okay. Mario. It was Super Mario.
Super Mario. Or one of Mario Card,
Super Mario card. But it was
all of Mario. So, you know,
I got all that stuff here in the house
for the grandkids. I don't play it, but,
you know, I know that he loved it.
So I made sure that it was up
to date with the latest games.
And we sat over here for about three,
four hours and just sat
there and played games, man.
Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>. Cause that's what it's
about. Yeah. Showing unconditional,
unequivocal love. When
you have the opportunity,
give people the flowers why they're here.
Why they here, why they
here believe in that.
Hey, hey, listen to my main
rumble still right here.
On.
That's my boy ball bringing it. All.
Right. All right. Now.
Yeah, man. So, yeah,
like I said, you know,
libations and honor and
praise to them brothers. Yeah.
Resting peace, our brothers.
Rest in peace, our brothers.
That's, uh, your advertiser for today.
It's.
Tough. Now. It's a, it's a great segue
because there's lessons in
everything. And what we've learned
as parents and
in this life is that parenting is
an awesome, exhilarating,
frightening, everlasting.
You got some more adjectives for me.
<Laugh>.
Uh, uh, uh.
It's a dichotomy with, with parenting
because it's bitter, it's sweet. Mm-hmm.
It's good. There's bad, there's,
it's a lot of size and
aspects and dimensions.
And, and some folks say
there's so many layers Yeah.
In the dimensions mm-hmm.
<affirmative>, um.
Because it goes through phases
too. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Parenting goes experience. It's the, it's,
I don't know. Even though I have memories,
like I said, all his memories with
the fellas and growing up and stuff,
I don't know if I had,
if I've ever experienced as much joy
in my life as the whole
spectrum of being a parent.
You know what I mean?
Yeah. I mean, the depths, I
know when I became a parent,
I understood a depth of love
that I didn't know existed
prior. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, and you,
you start getting on that level of agape,
you really have an
understanding of what agape
love is when you become a
parent. That, that, that
unwavering, I'm gonna make up a word here.
Sacrificial <laugh>.
Sacrificial.
Yeah. Sacrificial. Yeah. Uh, uh,
put it on the back burner
at all costs type of love
mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, that
you have when you're a parent.
And, um,
we're going to enter a series, um,
over the next several
weeks with an author and
a, uh,
subject matter expert on parenting.
Um, but today I want to speak from
the male side of the parenting
experience. Not only, you know,
from a macho standpoint, but just we're
fathers. I can't speak as a mother,
you know? Right. And a mother
can't speak as a father.
So all you women out there that,
that say how my father and a mother.
And a mother, Right.
That's bullshit. Right. You're a mother.
<Laugh>. Right. When you,
when you speak as a father,
you are only doing it philosophically.
You're not doing it by experience. Right.
Because you're not.
You.
Just vice, like you said,
we, we couldn't speak as.
Mothers. And I would,
I would never open my mouth to
say something of that nature,
um mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but that's
just how I'm cut. And what we say,
we gonna offend some people.
Right. We gonna offend some males.
We're gonna offend some female. We're
gonna offend some people that straight,
we're gonna offend some people that's
gay. We're gonna offend some Republicans.
We.
Offend some Democrats, Republicans,
greats. Yeah. Church. Church.
Non non-church. I just,
everybody, I just know that
the man and in the black community,
the strength of a father and
speaking from the parental,
uh, mantle of fatherhood
mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
which is the greatest honor.
Yes.
That can be dispo, be be
bestowed upon any man.
That's right.
And any man that takes that for
granted and makes babies for
the sake of making babies. Right.
And not being the
understanding the fullness that
we're gonna get into
in this series with Dr.
Boel on your responsibility.
Right.
As parenting. Yeah.
Right. I got something. Again,
this may may not rub people
something the right way.
I don't even remember the link
I sent you. But this, um, this,
uh, this lady said, and I
thought it was very profound.
She says,
The African American family is the only
ethnic group that doesn't acknowledge
the man as the backbone of
the family. African Americans say
women are the backbone of the family.
And and we're the only ethnic
group that, that, that does that.
That approaches the matriarchal, that.
Approaches. Yeah.
There's a lot that can be
said about that <laugh>.
There's a whole lot that
can be said about that.
And that's post circuit 1960
when the social programs ripped
the black man out of the home.
Probably, you know, let's start with,
let's start with that utopia theory
and social social science experiment.
Um, that was on the heels. And, uh, uh,
based on the foundation
of the Willie Lynch, uh,
letter in manifesto, um,
the man has a divine purpose in the
family unit as a parent and as the
yes priest. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative> of the family unit and home.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And us who understand the gospel,
the Quran, the, uh,
uh.
Well, let me give you a science
one for those who, for the,
for the non-faith folks,
every person on the face of this
planet takes the DNA from who.
The father.
From who?
The male the father. Mm. The male parent.
And Yeah. You know, it's diminished to
the point where they say sperm on it.
Right. <laugh>. Um.
Well, you know,
it's funny they say sperm donor because
they don't understand that life is in,
there's a difference between the
seed and the carrier of the seed.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And
you can see my facial expressions.
Y'all can't see it. We, we,
and that's another thing we're
gonna go to, uh, videos <laugh>,
so y'all can get the full experience
of our, of our, of our podcast.
But I'm Squinching and witting because
I'm a cussing Christian. <laugh>.
And, uh, the,
the reality is that
the,
the male parent has an awesome
responsibility and an accountability.
True.
That to the family unit.
Very account, very, very accountable.
See, when I was talking about my bro,
you know, he has,
he has five children,
two of which were adopted that
he took on from another man.
Wow. Now, I'm sorry. Six and two of those,
he took on from another man. And
that's, I mean, without
blinking mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And that's, that's a, that's
part of the well done,
my good and faithful servant. Right.
When you take on another
man's responsibility
and raise them in the way
<laugh> and,
and they honor you mm-hmm.
<affirmative>, excuse me. Um,
that's important. You know?
So from our perspective,
I know, and I'm not gonna speak for you,
but I know we share this value,
that it is an awesome
responsibility and an honor, and
we ain't take it lightly. Yeah.
I don't take it lightly with
my stepchildren. Mm-hmm.
They don't know how much I pray for 'em.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative> daily. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative>, you know,
and they came into my life as
adults mm-hmm. <affirmative>
daily. Yeah. You know, my wife,
you know, I'm, I'm, I'm more verbose here,
she would say in the podcast
than I am in the house.
I just choose my battles, folks.
You hear me? You hear me. Young man.
I choose my battles wisely comes
with wisdom. <laugh>. Yeah.
But I've never been the,
the touchy feely, you know,
I joke and I play and I hug and I kiss
my kids, you know, I gave them that.
But I'm not an affirmation,
super affirmation person.
I don't affirm people for what they
should be doing anyway. You know,
that ain't who I am. But I will affirm
you, um mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but,
you know, not constantly. Um,
and that's another thing as a
parent and where the male structure
is in parenting, from my perspective,
and you can chime in at any time,
Reggie, where I'm going with this,
we are tasked mm-hmm.
<affirmative> to teach our
children as people of color,
how to rise above the
institutionalized racism,
sexism. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>
and every other ism,
nationalism. Right. Immigrant
and everything else that they
are going to encounter as they
come out of that innocence into adulthood.
And too often I observe the
disservices that we
give our children in our
community
by allowing the Nintendo switches mm-hmm.
<affirmative> and the
500 channels on YouTube
TV or Verizon or Comcast. Right.
Or whatever carrier they have.
Right. Or every other
outside influence, TikTok,
social media, Twitter, everything.
Instagram to raise them and do
our jobs for them. Right. Uh, now, now
people say when this pandemic hit,
I heard a lot of women, and this
is where they gonna get mad at me,
Reggie <laugh>.
I heard a lot of women say love
the women. I heard, uh, you, you,
you, you can play Charles Bley. I'm
gonna be, I'm gonna be Ray Beats <laugh>.
Cause all the views and
comments on this show.
<laugh> are the comments and views of
this brothers of views. <laugh>. Yeah.
But no filters, no water down.
But during the pandemic,
I heard a lot of people white.
And then I heard the sisters follow suit,
you know, about teachers,
you know, and
I can't be doing this stuff. Teachers
are supposed to teach and parents parent.
Um, I can't be,
I can't all occur kept hearing
was, I can't do this. I gotta work,
I gotta do this. How do I do this?
My mother has six children. Mm.
We never missed a meal.
None of our homework ever
didn't go to school complete.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And she worked the night
shift as a nurse mm-hmm.
<affirmative> and still managed
to, to do all the other things.
She held the house down.
My father was a teacher.
So where was he rolling out
first thing in the morning?
He was driving from Northeast
all the way out to Shelton hand,
cuz he taught at Boys Village. He was,
he taught at a correctional facility.
So you understand the type of
disciplinarian and things that we had.
And my mother was the breadwinner.
They both had middle class job,
but she was the breadwinner.
Okay.
I never ever, ever, ever,
unless it was a super special occasion,
ate fast food or food out of a can.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
I ate many variations of some delicious
government cheese and powdered milk
and enjoyed it.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
My mother never made an
excuse. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
every cake was made from scratch.
Man, that generation.
I tell you, you understand,
they understood that they were the first
and only teacher that
mattered in our lives.
My mother never tell,
and my father never said,
and he was a teacher and he never said,
teachers teach and parents' parent.
Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>. And as Dr.
Bovell breaks it down to us,
you're gonna kind of see
the gap of where we are.
But it all starts with
where we are as a culture
in not stepping up
and like you said,
believing that the roles have reversed.
Even though my mom held it down.
She had respect.
She respected the man of the house.
The man of the house. Yeah.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
She might not agreed with
everything in the man of the house.
Right.
But she was, but she never cut
him off at the knees. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative> and my father
did some fucked up shit.
Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>, but she never
cut him off at the knees.
That was a precious generation.
That's a precious.
And that was what was attacked by society.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Because they were the
generation of the renaissance
of Harlem, Atlanta,
DC Watts, Compton,
the progressive movement mm-hmm.
<affirmative> that we were in a black
America in the forties and the fifties
where we had homes sixties and seventies,
but they got eroded during the sixties
and seventies to where they are now.
And no role was more
important than the other,
but there was a hierarchy
and a respect. Exactly. Yeah.
In being parents and being in a accord.
I
don't remember in my family,
too many of my father's generations
of people that were divorced.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, they, they, they,
they wasn't doing it at least
officially. Even if they weren't even.
If even if.
Together, together, so to speak, even
if they probably live across town,
they still wouldn't divorce.
They wasn't.
Divorced.
Papa would show for the birthday parties
and she still would be honored and
respected.
I had an uncle who had two families,
you know what I'm saying? I had two
sets of cousins mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
we know that story.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
But they never, ever
lost fact,
lost sight of the fact that their
responsibility in raising children.
Right. And, you know,
doing the hard work and
being the providers and being
responsible for every
action that they created
as a parent.
Right.
Even if they stepped out of their marial
vows and made another family or had
mm-hmm. <affirmative>, what they call a
bash child or whatever. Right. You know,
the act was a sin. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative> not the child.
Right.
That's what I used to hear growing up.
Right. Don't punish the child.
Yep.
The child didn't have anything to do.
And the siege that we are under
as a family unit in our community
that's been over several
generations in our lifetimes,
the erosion that we've
seen in our lifetime
is disheartening. But you know, It is,
they're real brothers
behind the scenes that
ain't looking for the glory.
We're just trying to let you know John
Q Public and listeners all over the
world, um,
that they're real brothers
out here still behind the
scenes more often than not,
even though it's, you know, a
trifling situation in our community.
Right. Um, when you people speak
up and say stuff like that,
they just open their mouth and remove
all doubt mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um,
that, uh, we are
stepping up to the plate and we are doing
our things in an honorable Christian
manner for the children in
the seeds that we created
that are our legacy right
now are some not. Yeah.
But guess what?
There's some not in white communities
and Hispanic communities and Asian
communities and African
communities too, you know, and we.
Always highlight the knot. They always
highlight the bads in our community.
In our community.
You know,
I know a ton of solid
African American fathers and
men, a ton of 'em. I can reel off
a ton of names. That's Reggie.
But those who don't believe
that they exist, who,
who's bought into because of their
bad experience or the negativity
of what they may have heard
or seen and think that good
black fathers don't exist. I can
assure you that is not the case.
I have a ton of friends that
are good, black, strong fathers,
one of which I'm talking with. Um,
Mr. Ray, you beats himself. So.
I appreciate that. And vice versa.
<Laugh> appreciate.
That. You know, and I, you know, when
people say stuff like that Right.
And I'm engaging with other cultures,
you know what my rebut is.
What's.
That? How many, you know, cause I,
and then I go into the soliloquy that you
just did. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Cause
I can run off 40, 50
names right now. Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly. To one or two to one or two.
To one or two. Yeah.
And that about, but, but yeah.
But.
You know, the child support system mm-hmm.
<affirmative> ain't upside down because
of black men. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
I'm gonna say that
again. <laugh>. <laugh>.
So you gonna shock some people.
The child support system ain't upside
down because of black men Take it
from somebody who went through it for
10 years mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative> never missed a
payment, couldn't miss a payment.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Cause if
I did, what would happen? Reggie,
my black ass will lose my license,
get locked up and everything else.
And.
Everything else. And I prided
myself on never being locked up.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. But unfortunately
the black woman that I married
the first time chose to put me
in that system. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And guess what? I stood up to the cause.
You stood up to the cause and
because you not may not mention this,
but because I know you personally,
I know the sacrifices you
made personally for the sake
of your children's education
and their wellbeing.
And there's a lot of black fathers that
have done the same. Similar, same, same.
Um, so this notion.
Done and doing.
<Laugh> done and doing. Cause when we
went, we spoke about our Vegas trip.
Every last brother that was in,
we were in Vegas with I know
every last one of y'all.
And every last one of y'all
are strong black followers.
Yep.
Of the, of the highest quality.
Yep.
And that's important in parenting for
any race.
But I just wanna highlight what I know
when people put stuff across the
airways. Well this dude, well,
you, you didn't know Moy
well no, I didn't know Moy.
<Laugh>. Right, right. But some of,
some of the mos of today's
generation have been impacted.
What,
what what you talked about leading into
the discussion of how this society is
operating today and the
role reversals mm-hmm.
<affirmative> and all of these things.
A lot of things have impacted, um,
some of, some of our younger. Cause.
If you look at successful children,
whether they're in a
divorce relationship or not,
and they're in a, uh, uh,
functional family unit,
what's the constant in the
success in, in, in the,
in the guys with the successful children,
the parent involvement of the father.
Mm. Say that one more time, bro. <laugh>.
If you look at successful children,
whether they're in a divorce family
or a intact functional
family unit with their little
dysfunction, the key factor
that you see in their success
is because of the involvement
of a father figure
and their father figure. Wow.
Not that being superman,
not buying them every tour that they
asked for. Right, Right. But being there.
Right.
Being provider.
Right.
Showing a, a work ethic.
Right. Being a counselor.
Yeah.
Being long suffering. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative> being the
lord of the household.
Right.
Under the Lord of the universe.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
that's when we talk about that
priest and high priest thing,
when for those of you have that
are in the Christian Church,
when you read your Bible,
when you, when you,
when you talk about those things
that attributed to their success.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
If you look at the flip side,
the father's absent.
Hmm.
The father's absent. And
I'm not talking about,
I'm talking about when I say success,
remember, remember way, way back when,
when our first episode success
don't mean that they got straight
A's in high school and took AP classes
and had put on a persona and did
all this for that and the
other. And no success.
Meaning that you taught them to live
to and embrace and maximize therefore
potential as a productive
citizen in society no matter what
situation they were in. If they was
doing a bit in the cut adjusted.
Yeah. Or if they was
preaching from a pu pit.
Right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Because this life in a blink of an eye
could take you to either one of those
paths.
<Laugh> True.
That and our.
Community In a moment. In a moment in.
Our community. I'm just
talking about the dmv.
I'm just talking from a brother being
from Northeast and a brother living in
Capital Heights and in
Forestville, if you will.
Yeah. <laugh>.
So what we wanted to do in this series,
and we wanted to give you
some food for thought in this,
uh, entree from our perspective
that what we feel is,
and, and, and, and we're
not diminishing the,
the woman who carry
and board our children.
Right. Their great contribution
to the lives of our children.
<Laugh> ama, there,
there's no diminishing,
We're just speaking on the, the, the,
I'm just giving you the
receipts and the facts.
Right.
That bear to be spoken truthfully.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Cause we need to have honest
conversations cuz every woman that get up
on TV and start going say head
side to side and talking about
how bad men were and are. Right.
Or I'm gonna just say this one.
The, uh, I don't need a man,
how did you get here? Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>.
For, for every, and again.
Cause I'm gonna tell you Go ahead.
We, we are not on the
offensive against anybody,
but we are just addressing some
of the things that have been said
from, for those that say, for those
females that say, you don't need a man.
Well how did you get here?
Because I need a woman.
<Laugh>. I need a woman too. <laugh>.
And I ain't saying.
You, you, you, I love the way you said it,
but I I need a woman because I I wouldn't
have got here. Yeah, exactly. As Robin
Harris said, I wasn't no test two baby.
Right. You know, um,
I need a woman to show me
nurturing and affection.
Right. You know, and to show me a
kind of gender way to approach things.
Um, and,
and be in touch with who
I am as a person and,
and be introspective. Okay.
I need a woman to love.
Yeah. When I wanna
procreate. That's right.
Cause if I'm gay, you can't procreate.
I can't procreate. I can
adopt, I can do income,
you know mm-hmm.
<affirmative> in the
L g B two Q x y, Z way
and adopt a child. But I
can't procreate. Okay. Right.
That's just facts. Yeah.
Not judging just facts.
So me being a heterosexual straight man
child,
I need a woman to make
me a better man. Yeah.
I'm gonna bring it home that
when you leave your parents
and you look to build a
union in a relationship
and organically create
a family because like,
like Prince says, should have known
when the rocket strip explodes,
<laugh> and everybody still
wanna fly. You can, you can,
you can make a family.
Absolutely. But organically,
we speaking organically. Okay.
When you leave your parents
and you clinging unto your wife
to make that union to become
parents mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Because what happens when grown people
who are married don't stay on their side
of the bed, Generally nine months later,
nine months later, come a baby or sooner
<laugh>. Yeah. Some preemies, you know,
some action. Yeah. <laugh>.
So when that action happens, you gotta,
you gotta step up to the plate.
That's, and you gotta responsibility,
accountability.
What we're going to lead into in
this wonderful series coming up
by Dr.
Ka Bove who talks about the four Rs of
parenting.
And when I tell you tune in over
the next four episodes. Yes.
Don't wanna miss this and hear
this wisdom imparted by this
beautiful woman, mother, grandmother,
mentor, friend, sister
who has the accolades piled high and deep
from around the world.
Speak to what we're,
what what we gave a preamble to
from our perspective. Cuz we,
we only have our perspective, uh, you
know, public. Right. John Q Public,
John Jane and Jane Q Public,
we only have our perspective.
I'm not gonna speak from any other
perspective than what I got receipts for.
Right.
That's how we say it from the streets.
Yeah. We don't speak
on what we don't know.
Yeah. And I ain't trying to write a
check that my behind can cash. Right.
And and,
and here's the other thing about
parenting that I can say as a
father that Reggie so
eloquently stated that
sacrifice and did everything for his kids.
It's a 50 50 shot if they
turn out right Or not.
Even if you do everything right.
Yeah. Even if you do everything
right. Yeah. <laugh>,
that's real talk. It's real talk.
Because
even though they have the innate
things that you put in them, ethics,
responsibility, morals,
values, spiritual and release.
Whether it's Judaism, Islam,
Christianity, Buddhism,
Daoism, uh, uh, uh, belief in
a higher power, spiritualism,
whatever it is.
Yeah.
When they leave the
protection of your home
Right. And your structure.
It's on them now.
Willingly or by force.
Right. <laugh>.
Let's just keep it real
willingly owned by force. Yeah.
They're open to so much Yeah.
That they have to figure out and
hopefully they figure it out.
And what I'm learning in this
season is that usually when they hit
27, 28,
if they take the long way around.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And they don't take the council,
that's so pivotal at the age of 17 to
23 when your trajectory can
change quickly.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
By the moves you make in getting the
education or not getting an education,
smoking weed or not smoking weed,
doing drugs or not doing heavy drugs.
Making babies or not making babies.
Right.
Cause those are the things in my
community that we can't seem to
get over.
I'm the only one out of six
siblings that didn't have a
child by age 19.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
I'm gonna say that again. Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>, I got.
Six siblings, I got five old sisters.
I'm the only one that
waited till they were 29.
To have a child.
To have a child. Yeah. Well I fall in the,
I fall in the, the first category <laugh>.
I was a dad in 19 <laugh>. But.
You understand what I'm
saying in this community.
Yes, yes, yes.
You know, and it changes the trajectory.
Yes, it does. Yeah.
Yeah. And
my level of maturity as a
father was probably totally
different than it would've
been at 19. Cause I know what
I was doing in 19. Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I was in Player's choice at 19. The the.
Music you was used to <laugh>.
It was hit and run. Lots of fun. Yeah.
Lots of fun. You gets none <laugh>.
Yeah. So yeah. You know.
Jail going up the hill, you.
Better believe it.
Have a little.
Fun on the way they met the Godfather.
<Laugh>. That's all about the one.
On one. About the one on
one. But, but you know,
in all candor folks, it's important to,
to really understand
and we wanna, we want,
we hope that we get people to tune into
this podcast for this series. I mean,
we've, we've grown and um,
I'm excited about the growth that we're
heading to Reggie and the things that
we've got upcoming on
the podcast, um, on our,
on our YouTube channel that's gonna
be coming by the end of the year.
And the commercials.
Exciting things.
And our,
our guests line up and the serious
topics we will be handling,
uh, around.
Yeah. Call, call us, get ready.
Yep. And we'll have the call in lines.
We we're just not going to, um, you know,
be here, you know, sp espousing
stuff and think that that,
that we can't defend
our topics. We will. Um,
and we will have callers calling in. Um,
but it's an evolution just like anything
else. Yeah. And we are evolving. Um,
we are, you know, so, um, that is
the entree for today, <laugh>.
And like I said, the series,
uh, is gonna be on the
four R's of parenting.
I'm not gonna release
what the four Rs are yet.
I will do that in our
upcoming shows. But, um,
so that means you gotta
stay tuned. That's kind,
that's kind of called like a
tease in industry, right? It.
Is. It is. It's a cause.
What are the four R's or cliff
hanger or what are the four R's?
Yay. Yay. You gotta
find out. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>, who wants you
to, You gotta find out too then.
So what I want to talk
about as our dessert
is, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm, I'm a beat this dead man.
It's not a sweet one. It's a so one.
It's a so one, but I'm a beat this dead
horse <laugh>. I'm going back to it.
I'm going back to, you know what I'm
going back to. Right? Reggie going.
Back. Yes indeed. Fools gold.
Fools. Go. I apologize.
I apologize for my preseason
time mile before this season
prediction. I dunno what in
the world I was thinking about.
Now.
Was FS Gold?
Yep. Now was now was Ross, uh, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, Washington fan?
No. Ross. Oh yeah. He was a
die. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Yeah. So was able, so
was a ball. Yeah. And uh,
the Washington commanders
once again, as this fools go.
I was living the dream things.
It just ain't true. They ain't no team.
They the commodos cuz they get
beat easy like Sunday morning.
Easy like Sunday morning.
<laugh> just fool. Go.
They fools.
Go. Fools go. Fools go. Yeah man.
Yeah brother.
So I'm not going keep
looping it this time,
but I just wanted to give that intro
to our, our delectable dessert,
which is about the debacle of this
Fran. Mm-hmm <affirmative> one in,
one in four.
One in four on the season and on
the season with with really no.
It ain't gonna get no easier.
<Laugh> don't look like a, don't look
like light at the end of the tunnel.
Now Des.
We are the basement of
the nfc. Yeah. Period.
Not NFC coming. NFC.
Coming. A laughing stock.
Do you know that the entire
NFC outside of the commanders,
the rest of the NFC have
only lost two games.
Nfcs, everybody's at least 500
or above. No, they're above 500.
Everybody in the NFC lease is above.
502 Losses combined with the other
three teams. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And we are one and four.
Yep.
And there are no words
that anybody out of that
organization can say there are no words.
Cuz it starts with the
coaches. Cuz the coach has
Ron Rivera. I haven't looked at the news.
I didn't watch the post game.
I kind of fell asleep on it.
I did something interesting
last night. I watched that,
I watched that game up the
street, up, up, up, up 95, 95.
North.
95 North. And I saw the difference. Yeah.
And a dude who's playing
without a contract.
Right.
Balling out.
Balling out.
And a dude, I don't even
know what number, uh,
or uh.
11, number 11.
He was <laugh>.
You talking about.
I'm not No, no, I'm not, I'm not,
I'm not talking about he who will not be
named <laugh> be 11. I'm talking about,
uh, the quarterback for Baltimore. Um,
I can't call the ball his name right
now. I'm looking right at his face. Um,
what's the quarterback's
name for Baltimore?
Uh, jam. Um, now look at that. You.
Don having a seen moment.
Yeah. Yeah. Lamar's, Lamar.
Lamar Jackson, Lamar
Jackson, Lamar Jackson.
I don't know what he was draft pick wise.
They wanted to make him
a receiver coming into
the nfl.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
All he does is ball dog.
So he does.
His mental aptitude. You know,
he look like a country bumping.
With the.
Brave and everything. But he's wild.
E coyote super genius when
it comes to that playbook,
into that scheme and
that system and uh, uh,
playing smart and taking what
the defense give you. Right.
Oh, he cut him up last night.
It was a tight four game,
but he cut him up last night.
Yeah. He's, he's he's exciting tv.
Yeah. He who will not be named.
In Washington.
In Washington is damaged
goods. First of all,
I don't know why Rivera isn't fired.
Well, I mean that's probably, uh,
getting close there.
But the unfortunate thing about to it
to me is that won't fix our problem.
Mm-hmm. I'm not saying.
It won't fix our problem.
Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I'm not, I'm
not saying that it's not warranted.
I'm not saying that it's not justified.
Cause cause cause Jackson, well
not Jacksonville, but Carolina,
his former Carolina, his former,
uh, employer, <laugh>. Right.
They pulled the trigger
at one in four, didn't he?
Yep. He's unemployed. He,
he got, he got fired today.
The head coach of the Carolina
Panthers, he was terminated today.
And um Yep. Matt rule.
I just think that, I think that, um,
if you don't perform
and you putting out now, see
it's a difference between
putting out.
Not performing, not performing,
making $25,000 a year is
different than not performing.
Making 12 million.
Making 12 million a year
and the product has been so bad.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
I didn't even go.
Say on that team.
I didn't even go to,
I didn't even go to the
fan appreciation stuff. Oh.
And it was local.
Huh. True transparency. I didn't even,
I probably saw three minutes
of the game Sunday. Yeah.
When the highlight of the game
in this dysfunctional
organization is talking about,
and I'm not throwing any
shade on this young man,
but when the highlight of the game
and the highest level of energy is
when the running back that got shot six
weeks ago comes back on the field and
plays.
Oh, he played.
He played yesterday
though. Wow. And did Okay.
Okay.
But
you got this offensive coordinator
that can't get out his own goddamn
way when you got 19 to 25 seconds
left in the game and you on
the one yard line, maybe two,
but I believe it was the one yard line.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
And you've been running all over
these people at will all game.
Right.
Why you going have four
passes into the end zone?
Well, you know, my displeasure with um,
Scott Turner. Yeah.
Fire somebody please <laugh>,
if you're not gonna fire the
heads coach far as Scott Turner.
And,
and and and what if I've always
complained about Scott Turner to me is,
is a little bit similar in his father. Um.
Well, it's only by, I mean the
apple never falls far from the tree.
I believe they have this
philosophy of outsmarting defenses
showing I'm, I'm gonna outsmart
you right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
um, rather than saying I'm
out physical, you, it doesn't,
you know, I'm going run it, but that, but,
but what does that really mean if
you can't do anything about it?
Reggie,
every time they put the ball in the
hands of the rookie running back and they
needed two yards
throughout the whole game,
he gave it to him.
Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative> the whole game every
time he was in. And he had, he he had,
he had a, they had, they had
him on a pitch count mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>.
And rightfully so he got
shot in the knee and hip.
Yeah. <laugh> and uh, but.
Whoever else came in gave everybody
to y'all. Even, even even,
you know, Antonio Gibson. Right.
If you needed two, three yards,
they gave it to you. Right.
Right.
The line was blowing off.
They were blowing off the line when
it came to run gang hitting it blocks.
Yeah. Well they.
Put the game in. Carson win's.
It's his hands to say probably.
Not. We.
Believe in you Carson.
Which I would not have done out.
And guess what he did?
He disappointed mightily.
Yeah. Let's look at the last
three plays of the game.
First in goal at the Tennessee.
Two y'all line 18 seconds left.
Incomplete pass,
left second in Goal
Tennessee. Two y'all line 13
seconds left. Incomplete pass,
middle of the field to McKissick,
third in goal at the two yard line
crossing wind stairs down,
McKissick throws into traffic.
Triple interception, triple
coverage, interception, ballgame.
And he could have walked
Essent in. He could have.
Walked essentially, he
could have walked in.
So essentially you have a first
in goal at the two yard line with
18 seconds.
You got all the momentum,
they're on their heels.
All the momentum, they're on
their heels and, and you can't.
And, and you got a stud for a
running back. Who's a rookie?
You gotta stud in his, uh,
junior and third year as a back.
You got full backs. You mean
you ain't got a jumbo package,
you ain't got a two point convers package.
But a jumbo. It's not about,
it's not about jumbo physical, uh,
smash mouth with Scott Turner.
I'm going to outsmart you,
I'm going to fool you, but
I'm going to outsmart you.
I'm going to trick you. I'm
going to out clever you.
That's not what football's about.
Yeah, I know. And that's why he
is not successful at what he does.
And won't be.
<Laugh>.
I want you, I mean I know you said
you only watched a couple plays every,
every play that that rookie ran, number
eight ran. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh,
uh, Rob, uh, Brown. Right.
Uh, Robinson, right?
Robinson. Yeah.
Robinson. That's the thing. And that's
the other thing that I'm gonna get to.
Yeah. He had nine carries.
He had nine carries for
30 something yards. Right.
Well, 29 carries for 22.
Yards. 22 yards. I'm sorry.
But they were good yards man.
They were critical yards.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Alright.
When, when
we talk about
players making bad
decisions and bad plays,
Johnson in that cornerback, he
didn't even get in the game.
Carson went, stunk up the game.
I'd have bought Heine again. Heineke.
He would've either made
the right pass or ran it
in.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
It's fool's gold man. It's fool's gold.
It's fool's gold. But you know,
the sad part is potentially
you'll have a, you know,
maybe in the off season you'll
probably have a coaching change.
You'll have a staff change. Offensive
coordinator, maybe defense coordinator,
maybe everybody will be gone. Right.
Yeah. But what we gonna do with that
pick, but number one pick you come back.
What we gonna do with that
number one pick. Well.
But, but here's, here's the, here's the
big problem that most commander fans,
um, don't seem to get. You
change out. Ra Ron Rivera,
Scott Turner on down the line.
You change all of them out.
That's somebody that you're not changing.
<Laugh>.
And I and I and I believe
that is he he is the
biggest. He's a bigger,
in my personal opinion,
he's a bigger problem than Ron Rivera.
He's a bigger problem than
Scott Turner in my opinion.
Yeah.
He's the biggest problem
of the whole thing.
Franchise. Yes. Yes. It.
Starts, but unfortunately,
unfortunately we can't change him out.
Yeah. And the league looks like.
Doesn't.
The league looks like
they're not gonna do it. The.
League looks like they're
not gonna do it. I.
Don't know what else he could
do. I mean Yeah, I don't,
I guess if he got up there and said,
Nigga nigger, nigger nigger. Ni ni nigga.
No, no, no. Not in the nfl.
Now you know the Phoenix son's owner,
they making him sell mm-hmm. NBA
NBA's a little bit different.
Right.
Cause you know,
Phoenix son's owner got himself
in some trouble racially mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>.
Uh, and what happened? He, he needs
forcing, He forcing him to sell.
Yeah.
This guy.
<Laugh>, he was pimping.
On. I was just saying, I'm gonna
say what I wanted. I ain't going,
I'm not felt it. I'm gonna say this guy
smacking women on the behind. Right.
Smacking women on behind. Having,
having the cheerleaders do topless,
give topless displays to some of the,
I guess vi p club people or
whatever and all these other
accusations that was, that's
flying like ping pong balls.
In unhealthy organiz.
In in an unhealthy
organization. Work, workplace.
Any other workplace? Any other workplace.
Any other workplace. Yeah. You outta
it. Any other workplace you out it.
And then on of that
allegedly financial transgressions with,
with the money.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Not refunding season ticket
holders and withholding,
uh, revenue to the league,
which impacts the rest of the
owners of the league. Mm-hmm.
<Affirmative>.
That's all this. But.
That's sad man.
It's still seated.
That's sad man.
So it doesn't give me much hope
knowing that the biggest problem
ain't ain't getting swapped out.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
So I can't get excited really,
to be honest the way I feel.
I can't get excited if Ron Rivera and
Scott Turner and all those other guys are
gone. I can't get excited
because the biggest problem, he,
he is not gone. Right.
And.
To me, we're never, we're never
going to win. We never going to.
Win when it starts like that. Even
though I don't believe in curses,
<laugh> Karma is a mother.
I do not believe we
will win with him there.
Yeah. I mean what's the best predictor
of the future? The past. The.
Past.
Your history.
Past performance is not
a guarantee of future.
But it is a.
Good barometer.
A good barometer to help, to
help, to help predict future.
You know what I mean? It's just
like, has has has any, like,
would would,
would somebody make a prediction that a
running back is going to run for a have
a 5,000 yard season? No, no one
would make that kind of prediction.
Why? Because that no running back
has even had a 3000 yard season.
Right.
There's only a few in history
that have gone over is a handful,
maybe five or six that might
have went over 2000 yards. So.
2200 That tops.
Right? Tops. Yeah. So we know from past
somebody sets the bar of 5,000.
We know that's ridiculous.
Right.
So we use the past to try to,
to try to gain some rational
idea what future can do. Well.
Yeah. Look, this.
Guy <laugh>, we the six,
um, since he took over,
I believe it's,
I believe we the sixth
losing is, if that's a word,
losing this. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
we, we we are, we have lost
uh, we're sixth in losing
since he's take taken over.
And climbing.
Probably. And climbing um, the stadium.
Oh.
Out of the stadiums that was rated in
the NFL were stadium was rated worst.
And they tried to put glamour shot in
there of the club level in the game
yesterday. CBS, the Joe
Gibbs level. It was empty.
I remember when that first stadium first
opened that that Joe Gibbs level was
packed.
It's not a club level for real. I
mean we went to a real club level.
<Laugh>.
There you go. It's gonna.
It's not, I mean it's really
not a club level. It's just.
To, I listen to it game to, to, I
listen. It's a little bit, I'm sorry.
Do you see the wound? I
open it up with this topic.
Today <laugh>.
And he, he only watched
three minutes of the game.
It's just a little bit. I mean
club level experience at, at,
at FedEx is just a little
bit better food. That's it.
It's just a tad. It's
warm. Look, it's not.
It's warm instead of cold,
it's warm instead of cold.
<Laugh>. It's not really club
level. If you compare it to.
So far.
Stadium that got a real club level.
Oh my god. We taking a trip out
to sofa this year, next year.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm not, you.
Know, we're taking a guy's.
Trip uh, you know, kept.
Anybody want to go with
us, we going, we going,
we gonna create an event
for us to go out to SoFi.
Cuz that's the only like
killer stadium we ain't go to.
And the reason he's on that tip of the
club level cuz we went to that Raider
stadium and that.
That was a club level.
And we was on the club
level <laugh>, I did not.
Leave previous.
The bar and the club level level
until four minutes left in the game.
<laugh>.
And now for those of you saying,
oh Reggie, you getting on,
Well Ray used to work at
FedEx doing the Redskin game.
So he is certified to comment the,
the difference between the two.
Yeah.
Yeah. <laugh>.
Trust and believe.
<Laugh>.
FedEx feels some bullshit.
<Laugh> <laugh>.
But it could be better. It could be
better. It could be better. I wouldn't,
I wouldn't go to Asper. I blow that
Joan up just like they did uh, Atlanta.
Yep. And make it and.
Make it dome. Cause you got the
infrastructure right there Schneider.
But see you a stupid some bitch
that wouldn't do nothing like that.
Yep.
You could have really you put it back in
DC location which would've been really
nice.
But you still got a good
one out here in land over.
Land over there. Cause you.
Own the land.
Cause you own the land. Yeah.
Well I can tell you right now,
if they go out to Ashburn,
I'm not going to no games.
Yeah.
And especially.
I heard they was making mortgage
payments for people yesterday giving away
tickets.
<Laugh>.
That's how empty the
stadium was man. Yeah.
They was guaranteeing one month
mortgage payments <laugh>.
Yeah. Well attendance has been
abysmal. It's really been abysmal.
Yeah. And it should be do.
And I know you guys are listening but
yeah we saying all this stuff cuz we keep
it 100. Yeah. That don't get it.
But don't get it twisted. We, we,
we will never become a fan of another.
I will will never be no
a fan of another team.
I'm stuck with the commanders. I ride
with the commanders but I on the same,
on the same sense I keep in 100.
Yep. I'm not gonna be a delusional.
Um, anything's possible.
Season And that's where we apologizing
for anything you can be hopeful in the
preseason cuz everything's on paper.
But what we've seen outta five games.
Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean and we,
well when we know about week two mm-hmm
<affirmative> what's going on, you know,
the last couple of weeks probably what's
going on the rest of the season ain
ain't gonna be a real surprise.
Yeah man. And, and look we
got Thursday night football.
Yeah we do. We.
Playing the.
Best. I match. I don't
know how we got on there.
We playing there, we, we playing
how two games in five days?
Think they ready <laugh>.
Oh. What D story make?
Oh boy. So that was our
delectable dessert. I hope,
I hope everybody got a good
laugh out about pain. Pain.
And this is, this is pain
that we're not vested.
So you can imagine the fanatics that
live here in DC that call into the talk
radio on nine 80 and all
these other stations and yeah.
These.
Jokers was hurting.
Yeah, they are.
They are. Oh man. I can make,
I can make fun of this abysmal
and talk about this abysmal, uh,
dumpster fire of a team.
But you know, it's my team.
It's my team. I have the, and I
know I got, I gotta laugh to keep.
I wear, I wear the colors every Monday.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative> every Monday.
Except today, if you saw me today, but
I had on some red skin stuff earlier.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I literally,
literally red skin stuff. Um, and, and,
and I wore red skin stuff this weekend
cuz my boy Brandon was a skin fan to
the Repa. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh.
They still, our team good.
I mean we keeping the 100 and
what all I can't get on the 95
north bandwagon. I respect the.
I respect them. I respect them. They doing
great things. I, I, I like good play.
Like I said, I watched the game last
night. I, I was half falling asleep on it,
but I watched it and guess,
guess how I watched it, Reggie,
guess how I watched it? I
watched it in the Oculus.
Oh, sweet. <laugh>.
I pulled up.
You know, that wasn't, that wasn't,
I had Oculus years ago and it wasn't
prime time. Really? Yeah. But, um,
Oh.
Man. But you can watch YouTube
TV and the Oculus. Yeah. And,
and that's all I have. I cut the cord, so.
That's nice, man.
And my, cuz my wife was
watching note and I, you know,
it was bedtime, like that.
Movie.
Yeah. Yeah. And I was like,
let me put my headphones on and
just go grab the oculus and plug in.
And I, I laid up in bed for probably
about 90 minutes and the headphones,
the headless head, uh,
wireless headphones that I had,
the batteries died Right when
she was getting in the bed.
It was probably like five,
10 minutes left in the game.
But before that it was
all quiet. Mm. You know,
and I was just laying in the bed
on my back, not moving and Nice.
Then the, then the thing kicked in
and the, uh, sound started coming out.
She was like, Why'd you turn it up?
I was like, the, the headphones died.
<laugh> and I, I turned
it down and watched, uh,
the field goal kicker make that field
goal at the end after Lamar brought them
down.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Balled out, made all the
right decisions. Mm-hmm.
Decisions played within himself. Played
within the moment, got out of his head,
got out of his own way and
just played, just balled.
He who shall not be named with
the number 11 on the other team
down 95 did the exact opposite.
Mm.
Did the exact opposite. The.
Whole, we wish we could
switch those QBs for.
I wish we could take their back up.
<Laugh>.
Cause that's how good an
organization they are of 95.
Yeah. Yeah. A respected organization.
The owner is highly respected
versus the commanders owner.
Oh yeah. Yep. Well man, we almost at, uh,
hour and 20 minutes, so I'm about to fade
us the black for real brother because,
uh, yeah, we, we had to come
back strong on our first episode.
Back off hiatus y'all.
Yeah. Yeah. Good to be.
Back. It's great to be
back and like I said,
look forward to the, uh,
series we had with Dr coming up our next,
next four episodes and
more things to come here
on order.