Speaker 1: 0:14

All right, what's good y'all? Welcome back to another episode of Trench the Tropics Podcast. I'm your boy, ant. We are coming live from Mad Artist Studios and I'm with my people, monte Corleone and Unique Artistry.

Speaker 2: 0:27

What's up?

Speaker 1: 0:29

What's happening? What's happening, my boys? So today we're going to be breaking down what we call the five Ps. If you're asking yourself what that is, those are five areas that break down into how we reach success, right? So today we're going to break down prayer priorities, peace, positivity and patience, right, and how all these things play into how we go from our trenches to what we call our trophies nowadays. All right, well, let's have a conversation. Y'all, what y'all feel like it means to stay on your p's, like when we say some shit like stay on your P's or stay on your pivot. I hear shit like that all the time.

Speaker 2: 1:08

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:09

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 1:11

For me, that's exactly what it means is stay on your pivot. Mm-hmm, it's being aware of what's going on around you and just ready to adjust at a moment's notice. Yeah, uh, I feel like that's part of the mentality of staying dangerous. So just staying on your pivot is just being aware and, um, as like one of my partners say, faces up, so just being alert and being able to digest and whatever life throws at you. You know I'm saying yeah to me like that.

Speaker 3: 1:54

Staying on your pivot is one step ahead, you know. So all of these tie in with staying on your pivot. But when you stay one step ahead all of that prayer preparation, you know patience, everything it's gonna tie into that, you know. I mean, so most people, most people think that they should look the part when really your pocket should be looking the part. So that's what priorities will get you and that'll leave you one step ahead. That'll leave you thinking one step ahead because you already got the capital to start. You know paying for the things that you would be patient for, you know so.

Speaker 2: 2:43

So just you know, Educate me when y'all get these other P's from brothers.

Speaker 3: 2:50

Well, go ahead, bro. I mean, that Negro came up with all the P's. You know what I mean. I got the P's father. Come on father.

Speaker 1: 3:07

I think for me, when it come to all these, like to the p's, right, I think the like, an important part of the process, is, uh, like having steps. When you, when you chasing success, it's good to break shit down, right, it's good to like make it into smaller steps to be able to reach that level, like nobody who made it to the status like of like a superstar was like oh OK, let me just jump from my mama's basement to superstardom. Right, they had to take a journey to get there, and I think that that's part of the five P's, right. So, when we break down prayer, right, and you don't have to think of Christianity as the first thing, right. If you somebody who meditates or who turns inward to reflect on things going through your life, right, it's the same concept there.

Speaker 1: 3:47

When you look at your priorities, things that you uh put in place, make a checklist. That's really what it's saying. Make a checklist for your life. When you talk about your goals or things you want to accomplish, just put them in order on a sheet of paper and then check them off, right, which one are you going to do today? Which one are you going to get accomplished by next week? And just map it out like that, mapping out your piece, what make you feel good, right. Break it down into smaller, like chunks, make it digestible for you. Your positivity, again, that goes with your piece right.

Speaker 1: 4:14

Turning inward, understanding that everything is for your good at the end of the day, right. Everything, what they say, everything don't kill you. Make you stronger so you're able to adapt and learn from that shit. That goes into staying on your pivot, right. And now, when I think about pivot, it's crazy because when you pivot if you ever been like you played a sport and you had to like play on your pivot, or if you like danced or some shit like that where you had to pivot off of your foot you knew that when you took that step you couldn't take a regular step. It's hard to pivot off just like a normal throw your foot out there type of step. You had to be intentional about the way you put your foot out there, prepared to be able to turn or move a certain motherfucking direction. So that's what we're talking about. It's like when you're going through life, don't just be going willy nilly and throw yourself out there. Plan for it, understand that this may take some adjusting.

Speaker 1: 5:01

You know what I mean to be able to get where you trying to go, and then that that's going to hit you with that last p, and it's just patience. Understand that life is going to test you, it's going to challenge you, it's going to knock you down. The whole point is to get back up right. The whole point is to keep moving, keep, keep developing these p's over and over and over again. Some I'm going to change direction, be more important in certain areas of life, but the process to though.

Speaker 2: 5:23

so this, this I know there's some gems though. Yeah, yeah, preach those gems, brother.

Speaker 1: 5:28

Had to get on my it's Sunday. Had to get on my preacher.

Speaker 2: 5:33

But nah like so nowadays this is kind of off subject. What's that P stand for?

Speaker 1: 5:41

What you mean.

Speaker 2: 5:42

Like what, what gonna on that P p around I don't know what it stands.

Speaker 1: 5:48

I am not affiliated with gang culture, sir. I mean, I think when people say p, I think it's an understanding, that it's more of a cultural understanding, like like pressure or like you know what I'm saying, like somebody say oh, you do something crazy, and they be like better that ain't p yeah, but I like again, I would use the word like pressure. That ain't that ain't cool like that, ain't you know what I'm saying? Like that ain't they be thinking like that.

Speaker 3: 6:16

They be saying player well, same shit.

Speaker 1: 6:19

Like you know, I'm saying, I think same concept, yeah, but that's, that's the thing Like they taking.

Speaker 2: 6:24

That ain't okay. They taking Old lingo, yeah, they taking old lingo.

Speaker 1: 6:27

And remaking it.

Speaker 3: 6:28

Yeah, that's all, but that's what most niggas do, bro, ain't.

Speaker 1: 6:30

Nobody came up with Nothing new in a long ass time.

Speaker 2: 6:32

Did we do that? Nah, did we do that. Did we take something and remake it?

Speaker 1: 6:38

I think we did, we just gotta. But we was also like, if you consider us like 90s kids, right, so I think, so you know. I'm saying I feel like all that shit was recycled, this is from the 70s, and say you know, 80s, and you just add the shit together, it's kind of like it all go, yeah, it's all pieces of the same puzzle, like nigga, if, if you take water and lemons and sugar and you can add a million other things, it's lemonade, motherfucker, I don't care what you say. Like you know, I'm saying million other things, it's lemonade, motherfucker, I don't care what you say. Like you know, I'm saying like it's, it's lemonade, bro.

Speaker 1: 7:08

Like you can mix it up how you want to, it's the same shit, you know I'm saying it's lemonade a little tart like, like, it don't matter, that's your watery tart, sweet, it's lemonade, no matter how you speak like yeah bro, like niggas, niggas will be different, so bad they do, niggas gonna be Inventive, so bad, hey, but that that don't mean they.

Speaker 3: 7:31

That mean they ain't on their P's, bro, true, you know what I'm saying? Cause they trying to do something, they trying to be seen, anybody just trying to be seen. They really ain't On their P's, cause they not looking forward that's what I feel like people gonna misunderstand.

Speaker 1: 7:47

I think we're talking about the rapper. We just talking about people in general who steal shit from other niggas yeah, yeah, no, put it off, as some shit they created.

Speaker 3: 7:53

You know this isn't uh. We're not singling anybody out.

Speaker 1: 7:58

Look, gotta make sure that'd be the one clip they go viral like nah, they're talking about him, nah, nah, they're talking about him, nah, nah, nah.

Speaker 3: 8:05

Yeah, but if you want to make it like that we talking about him, you, you, if you feel some type of way, nah, I'm talking about you.

Speaker 1: 8:17

I'm hot. That's how it look. That's how it look. That's hella funny though.

Speaker 2: 8:20

With all the p's as y'all discussed. Yeah, yeah, what would be the hardest p to obtain?

Speaker 1: 8:26

who, for me personally, um patience right, for me personally, it's definitely patience, because it's hard, and you know what it is, though I'm gonna be honest, it's not necessarily the things that I can't control. It's the things that I can, because there's times where you have the ability to do something, but you shouldn't Right, it's too early, you shouldn't. You know what I mean, or you're not supposed to do it by yourself, and you know what I mean. You're supposed to include other people, but you go. You go off on your own Type of thing. I think it's a lot of like Knowing when to Execute some shit, and you know what I'm saying about the situation I was thinking about.

Speaker 3: 9:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:08

It didn't fit yeah.

Speaker 3: 9:09

You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 9:10

So have patience and sit back, let things play out.

Speaker 1: 9:15

Do what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 2: 9:15

You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 9:16

Stay focused, Stay focused. You know what I'm saying? What you got, Mate? Nah, it's patience for me too.

Speaker 2: 9:22

Nah, it's patience for me too. Damn, hey, look bro, I said patience too. That's crazy. That's crazy Look.

Speaker 3: 9:27

Hey, we on the same ship, Look though.

Speaker 3: 9:30

I feel, like it's common, bro, it's hard to wait on what you think you deserve right now. Yeah, you think I want this shit right now, but it's like that's going to fuck you up in the long run. Like, bro, I ain't even going to lie to you. Like the Blazer I could have, we could have got. Look, if I didn't get the Blazer, we would have been able to get that house that her friend wanted us to get. Yeah, yeah, you know she was selling. I don't think that was necessarily the house, necessarily the house for us. I I liked it, I loved the house. But when you think about, like, the future and what we could do right now, yeah, it's like, damn, we would have put our money into that motherfucker and been fucked, yep, but that's bruh, that's what you gotta think, because me, so me, and uh, me and my wife thought about that.

Speaker 1: 10:26

We was like we went from his hood apartment and then try to go get this extra luxurious apartment and then after that we realized we had to downsize to be able to get into the house. Looks like you gotta you if you just stay patient and and wait it no no, that, that, that right there.

Speaker 3: 10:46

That was just you not listening, because I told your ass in the beginning I said don't get that expensive ass apartment because you can get a house that's the same price bro, I was like man, you're like, I hear you, but we don't need all that space right now. I.

Speaker 2: 11:04

I'm like all right, Look. So refresh my memory real quick, Give me the P's again.

Speaker 1: 11:09

All right. So we got prayer priorities, peace, positivity and the one we all struggling with patience.

Speaker 2: 11:20

And so it's crazy because it shows you how much we all locked in, because I said, patience too. Like for real, like this is like we did a homework assignment. We all came back with the same answer TC gonna think we cheating, but nah, for real. I feel like it's patience, because we live in an instant gratification era.

Speaker 3: 11:40

Like.

Speaker 2: 11:42

Where people are able to get their fix For their advice At the drop of a dime. You know what I'm saying. And if they don't get that, what they need, they crashing out.

Speaker 1: 11:53

They showing no patience.

Speaker 2: 11:55

They showing lack of self-control TikTok.

Speaker 1: 11:59

Niggas is wildin' bro, crashing out, that's forever going to be a memory, though, bro.

Speaker 3: 12:05

Millions of people like oh my am I gonna do. I'm never gonna forget that, bro, because I just clicked on like like what the hell going on? The world ending? Oh my god, I mean, I do understand because it's some cash streamer income.

Speaker 1: 12:16

Because, even if like, let's be honest even if your job tell you, oh don't worry, we gonna get you right on your next check, you pissed for them two weeks.

Speaker 3: 12:24

They rocked you. They messed up your check bro you mad as hell.

Speaker 1: 12:27

You know your money coming. They already told you it's coming on this day. I got you locked in. It's gonna be a bigger check. We even gonna throw a hundred dollars on there for you. You still mad, bro, because you broke for them two weeks or whatever. You know I'm saying your money ain't right for them two weeks. Yeah, you pissed, bro. So I can understand from a tiktok standpoint. Even if they move over to instagram or facebook, there's a downturn in their shit. They gotta like adapt for a second you know what I'm saying and move shit over, so it's like I'll be like damn y'all fucking up my bread.

Speaker 2: 12:56

I was more pissed off about cap cut at that point? Yeah, yeah, because I was using it for a purpose like to edit and all that it was entertainment and shit.

Speaker 3: 13:04

Yeah, it's back, but did you find something else in the meantime? I?

Speaker 1: 13:10

did, and I kept using it.

Speaker 3: 13:12

That's what I'm talking about, though it's like for them, it was like oh my God, we don't know what to do, bro, that's all you got they, just going to stop they just going to give up.

Speaker 1: 13:26

That's all you got, bro. Like that's to me bro.

Speaker 3: 13:27

Like nah, but like yeah, yeah but I agree with that, you know stop, that's different yeah, but like they crying, but like, oh my god, bro, go use something else bro he mad for real bro you know all the people who's downloading that like japanese app, that red note app cast was.

Speaker 1: 13:38

That's what cast. So the replacement was it's just like tiktok, but everything is in japanese so motherfuckers was on there learning japanese on some. Hey, fuck it, nigga. I can't read that shit, but I fucks with that shit.

Speaker 3: 13:50

I was like that's wild I can't eat cheese, niggas bro, I can't eat me is necessary, bro, I'm gonna, but that's what show you.

Speaker 1: 13:56

It show you how addicted the motherfucker is to scrolling on my phone.

Speaker 3: 13:58

I'm gonna get my fix, boy man bro.

Speaker 1: 14:01

So I was uh, I was talking to my wife about, look, staying on your p's right, so staying on this one gonna go under priorities. That's what. That's what we're gonna put this story under, bro, y'all remember growing up the rules that you had in the black household. So dude video was talking about how so many couldn't open up another box of cereal if one box of cereal was already open yeah why was we locked down like that, bro?

Speaker 1: 14:23

like think about that from a perspective of you was gonna get, you was gonna blow through the cereal anyway, because you also got yelled at for that, so you was gonna blow through all the cereal anyway. Why did it matter what order you open the damn cereal in, bro?

Speaker 2: 14:36

because, though, it was some kids that was gonna waste it, because they'll eat some of that, and then I'm gonna try this one. I don't like that one, right, nah, eat all of that. And then I'm going to try this one. I don't like that one. No, eat all of that first. Eat all that, captain Crunch, before you go to these Fruit Loops. Hey, don't eat none of that right now, man. They got that Red 40, that dial on there.

Speaker 1: 14:54

You know what I'm saying, don't eat that, don't eat that.

Speaker 3: 14:56

Bruh, think about all the mind games that we had to deal with. So, look, we had to deal with. That's what I'm saying, bruh. We be talking about. Oh, we had to be outside and shit like that. You know, we had to be outside Because they told us stop running in and out my motherfucking door. So if you can't, either you gonna stay in or you gonna go out. So we said, fuck it, we gonna go outside. You better make sure your ass home. But for them streetlights to come on, so it's like damn bro, that's straight mind game.

Speaker 1: 15:32

I got to find the comedian bro so I can shout him out, but the dude made a video about juice too. Him and his friend was sitting at the table. He was on his friend house. The friend mama came and refilled this juice.

Speaker 2: 15:41

And while he was at the table. You know what dude I'm talking about Ball head big dude.

Speaker 1: 15:46

His friend poured him some juice. So the friend was like wait you get more juice while you still eating your food Like bro. I remember that, bro, like you was, you had what you had in your cup, bro.

Speaker 2: 15:57

It was the fact, first, that he got juice at all, Like he wasn't even supposed to have no juice. You get juice when you done eating Bro.

Speaker 1: 16:06

Thirsty as hell. We out here, kids out here. Thick ass meal, bro Ain't got no beverage. Bro, it's dry Popeyes, biscuit and I ain't got nothing to drink.

Speaker 1: 16:17

Got the kids out here suffering, bro. Swallow your spit, bro. I heard choking Ain't no way, bro. But for real, if you think about it, bro, we had so many rules and regulations growing up Like you had to operate under this specific rule, bro, in this specific way. You couldn't have this, you couldn't have juice, you couldn't have that, I feel like. So me and my wife was talking about. I think we're going to try to like get out of that, because I feel like we was also talking about I definitely want y'all opinion on this, because I currently have kids. We was talking about, um, how you feed them and not pushing them to finish their meals, because what we're doing is we're pushing kids to obesity. We're making them eat more. We're making them like finish all their food when you should like. Learn that your kids appetite and feed them to like their content, but you shouldn't just like I think put a bunch of food on the plate like eat all the food.

Speaker 2: 17:09

You know what I'm saying I think my thing with that is the portion control yeah, like because I ain't gonna lie, I'm yeah, eat your food, man. Eat all that because I do. Portion like where I got a system in place with my kids where I feed them at this time at times of the day consistently.

Speaker 2: 17:31

You know what I'm saying, so I'm doing it to where, at this point in the day, you shouldn't be asking me for nothing else, because it's time to wind down, because then that's another thing. We be feeding our kids too late Like I don't know, that's just me, that's just my. We be feeding our kids Too late Like I don't know, that's just me, that's just my Opinion on that Is poison control, cause I'm still like Nah, eat all your food, because I gave it to you and you ain't, finna, waste my money.

Speaker 3: 17:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:54

What you got mind to say. What's your opinion on that?

Speaker 3: 17:56

Ah, that's I'm so. I've never told Any of my kids to finish all they stuff, unless I just gave them a little bit, and I know they ain't been eating so Now. So make that point. I've never told my kids to finish nothing, so I put whatever I have or whatever I prepare for them in front of them. Now it's my judgment whether my 2-year-old has eaten enough or my eight-year-old has eaten enough. I know the difference. Now my two-year-old she take two bites and think that she's done Like.

Speaker 1: 18:43

I know the difference.

Speaker 3: 18:44

You know what I'm saying Whether they're two big bites or two small bites, I know the difference All done. Yeah, my eight-year-old, like I'm going to know, like when she leave Playing around, I'm going to know when she leave Playing around.

Speaker 3: 18:55

Yeah, I know when she playing around, but I also know when she leave a little it look like a lot but it really ain't. I know she ate a lot. You know what I mean. I know she ate a large portion of it. So you just got to know your kids. My son, he going to eat everything. He just going to eat the whole. He going to eat that.

Speaker 2: 19:15

Yeah. Shit, my son he gonna eat everything, like he just gonna eat the whole, he gonna eat that and shit. But I don't think Like what I was saying or what you were saying. It was a wrong way to parent, you know what I'm saying or have a different place. That's one of them things when it's gonna work for you and your household. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 19:30

I always think about that, though, cause, like we don't realize how, like, as adults, we make decisions that if they don't affect us immediately.

Speaker 3: 19:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 19:39

They affect our kids and our grandkids.

Speaker 3: 19:41

You know what I'm saying Because of the life that we create.

Speaker 1: 19:42

So it was a scenario, this story, where a dude, like his kid came home and the kid was like, oh, I found this girl. She was so pretty. It was amazing Da-da-da-da-da right Now, not as being a dude, came from the old school background. He asked him, like you know who, what's her name? You know what I mean, so I can, I can know who she is, see, if I know her, her family. He said the little girl name and his dad was like, oh no, you can't like her, that's your sister.

Speaker 1: 20:09

But because we got so many broken homes with kids who live in different areas and parts of town, they don't, and if they don't, they're not raised next to each other, they don't see each other. That's what you run into. So we making choices and decisions as adults where now the kid has to feel those repercussions. You know I'm saying because we say, oh, we're strange, or I don't deal with them. And you know I took them. I took my son and she took the daughter and dad, they move and don't nobody talk to each other like that's crazy, bro, because then when you come back around now you got people dating each other, cousins and stuff, right, random, like that, bro, like it's crazy yeah, you gotta be mindful.

Speaker 1: 20:44

You know what I'm saying. So that's why I had brought it up, because just because it's different, it'd be random stuff bro random stuff that come up, but I guess they come back to stand on your peas. You know, I'm saying if you yeah, if you happen to be praying and keeping your priorities straight. Things like that Don't necessarily happen, right Woo?

Speaker 2: 21:00

My bad, I didn't mean for that To be a mic drop moment.

Speaker 1: 21:02

I just wanted to do a segue.

Speaker 3: 21:03

You know what?

Speaker 1: 21:05

Just trying to bring it back in, you know.

Speaker 3: 21:07

Hey, shit that I'm learning about, like I don't know what P to call it, though, what you mean. So like with the parenting thing, mm-hmm. So I usually am the lenient parent, and now my daughter got to get a whole bunch of dental work because I always let her eat candy, because I eat candy.

Speaker 3: 21:34

So it's like you know what I'm saying Dang bro eat candy, because I eat candy. So it's like you know what I'm saying. I think it's a. I think my priorities wasn't straight. You know what I'm saying? You was gonna be a kid. Yeah, but, bro, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 21:50

I guess you're trying to learn from it.

Speaker 3: 21:52

Yeah, because now I'm buying nothing but fruit.

Speaker 2: 21:55

I don't want you to yeah I don't want you to, like you know, bash yourself about it.

Speaker 3: 22:00

You know what I'm saying oh no, I'm not, I ain't. I mean, it's something to learn it's just.

Speaker 3: 22:05

It's just because you don't do it with the baby, because I ain't really tripping like because she not you know kids candy, so she don't listen when I say, you know, don't eat that or go brush your teeth, you know. So it's I ain't saying I ain't tripping because, but it's not on me, you know it's on her at this point and so she gotta, she gotta live through these things and understand. You know, like I told, I told her I was like my teeth ain't the greatest, like I just I had to really kind of take care of my teeth.

Speaker 1: 22:42

What you finna do it. Nah, so I. And it's funny because, hey, because I at this point all the dental like bro.

Speaker 2: 22:55

First, first of all, I just hate going to the dentist.

Speaker 1: 22:58

I got good enough insurance now. I think I spent like $50 last time I went in there and got some work done but like, yeah, but y'all ass staying awake. I'm going to sleep, yeah, and that's I ain't. Nah, I'm good, i'ma go ahead and handle that, but for my kid bruh, nah, i'ma do the same thing. It's so many fruit alternatives that if you start your kids On that early enough, they alright. It's just once you Introduce sugar, it's hard to get them off of it.

Speaker 1: 23:20

You know, what I'm saying so that's kind of the problem, so like the goal is To start her off as Good as possible. But See mine, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 23:30

Mine. That's one thing, I guess me and my, me and their mom we we been good with that. Yeah, like.

Speaker 3: 23:36

I always have though.

Speaker 2: 23:38

Yeah Right, I remember, I remember. I always said, when the Mios came out man, my kid finna be drinking Mios.

Speaker 3: 23:45

They can be drinking water and I'm gonna just squirt the Mio juice in there, hey, but that shit, I heard that shit turned out to be bad though. Well, it don't taste right. It tastes like.

Speaker 2: 23:56

Artificial Everything artificial man but that's the thing we live in.

Speaker 1: 23:58

America bro so many people say they go live abroad and they lose weight and they don't eat different. They just go and eat the same thing they would eat here. Yeah, my diet. Like I said when I was overseas.

Speaker 2: 24:08

My diet was A1. Bro, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 24:13

It's different when you got nothing but natural ingredients. When I came back, when I smelt the burger.

Speaker 2: 24:17

I got sick. You know what I'm saying. That's what I'm trying to get back to boy.

Speaker 3: 24:22

I told y'all, man, when I ate pork bro it was.

Speaker 1: 24:26

Everybody get their passports.

Speaker 2: 24:27

I need to get on my P's, but she's baking cool food bro.

Speaker 1: 24:33

That last P is passport man. I said that money said the last p is passport. No, pass pro bro though no, no, no, that's different. Who ain't got no passport? No, he said he ain't gonna be no passport bro. Oh no, I was like, yeah, nah, that's, that's some new, that's some new cat stuff. I ain't got time, I'm a little too old for to be a passport bro a passport you locked in.

Speaker 1: 24:53

Now, nigga, you can't be no, that's what I'm saying, but they it's these cats ain't got time for that, uh, but like, all right, so let's talk about peace. I feel like that's one we ain't really talked about too much. Like we talked about patience, right, but I feel like a lot, a lot of that has to do with, like, finding peace in certain shit. So, finding peace and turmoil, you know, I'm saying finding peace at the gig, gig, find a piece at the crib, find a piece with your lady, if you got one, or ladies, if you living like neo out here. You know what I'm saying. Neo got whole girlfriend. Bro, that popped up on my news feed. I'm like bro, he got a lot of peace, uh, but I ain't never paid attention to that boy for real bro bro, it's hilarious man.

Speaker 1: 25:33

He been In the news for like the last Cause he went Another P, polyamorous or polygamous.

Speaker 3: 25:42

Or however, you, you go about it, but that was After the what, the second divorce.

Speaker 1: 25:48

I can't remember.

Speaker 3: 25:49

Yeah, see, I can't remember.

Speaker 1: 25:51

I know it was after a divorce, but I don't know if it was His second one or not.

Speaker 3: 25:54

Last five, six years, bro, he been in the news.

Speaker 1: 25:56

Bru was after a divorce, but I don't know if it was his second one or not. Last five, six years baby. Yeah, bruh's on a lot of p's not necessarily what we talking about um but he got his stuff going on.

Speaker 1: 26:02

But what y'all dealing with you know I'm saying I definitely would challenge people now not just my co-hosts, but everybody who's listening to think about your life, think about the things that are bringing you peace and think about the things that's taking it away. You know what I'm saying. Are you spending your life fighting for peace, trying to find your, your downtime, or do you have a regimen and a schedule to where you know exactly when you get to relax and kind of unwind?

Speaker 3: 26:26

you know, that for me, peace is just xing out anything negative. So that's not me being on some. I'm trying to be super positive. No, I just want to protect my peace in my household because, like I said before I don't know if I said it on the pod or with y'all in general but I was like my kids don't deserve that energy. My kids don't deserve anything I got to give somebody else. So I'm just x-ing out those negative uh, the negative energy, the negative people, but I don't feel like I'm going to be at peace. I feel like there's always going to be something that not I'm chasing, but a goal that I'm trying to reach. So I don't necessarily want to be at peace at certain things. Yeah, peace in my household. Yes, of course I want to make sure that everybody's okay. Peace with my friends, my brothers, my mom, you know all my family members.

Speaker 2: 27:39

So what are you doing to make sure you obtain that peace in your household?

Speaker 3: 27:45

That's a good question. I mean time, time. So now I just told Aunt earlier I'm going to do some more personal things after my children go to sleep.

Speaker 2: 28:01

So when I usually do, so you're going to sacrifice time, yeah.

Speaker 3: 28:06

Yeah. So you know, sometimes, like I got, I want to continue going to the gym. I want to work out at least four days a week. I don't want to. I want to give myself some time to rest gym. I want to work out at least four days a week. I don't want. I want to give myself some time to rest. So I want to at least do that. But I want to split that time with my family, because I spend most of my time at work, you know. So, um, I want to make sure that I I spend the time that I get home from the gym, which which will be around like four, 35 o'clock, and then the kids go to sleep around seven, 30, the two year old, seven 30, a year old, eight 30.

Speaker 2: 28:49

So I think and to hear you talking about it. Um, it just popped in my head. I think what it is is that if you just stand productive and you're busy and you're doing something that you like to do, you're gonna have your peace.

Speaker 1: 29:07

Yeah, you know, that can be your piece, so yeah right.

Speaker 2: 29:10

I think it is because everybody think just not doing nothing and just sitting at the crib, that can be peaceful to some, but not for everybody, I think, like even with me because we're all similar in that respect, Like if I'm productive, even though I'm doing something, I'm moving around, I'm at peace. You know what I'm saying. This is what I like to do.

Speaker 1: 29:30

I feel like I earned it. Yeah, yeah, for sure, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 29:32

Because I'm doing what I like to do, mm-hmm, you know.

Speaker 3: 29:35

That's always good bro.

Speaker 2: 29:37

You have to identify what you value.

Speaker 3: 29:38

You know what I'm saying In your life, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 29:40

And I've always valued money growing up. You know what I'm saying Above everything. And then, once I end up having a family and I was gone, I end up valuing time more than money.

Speaker 1: 30:03

So I sacrificed making that money to create more time.

Speaker 2: 30:04

Now I'm to the point where I have the time and I can do what I want to do. Now I'm valuing peace, yeah, over my time. So because I need to be in the headspace to where I can be overall better man. Father, you know I'm saying brother, cousin, you know I'm saying homie, that to everybody if I'm at peace. You know I'm saying I can't do that if I'm not at peace. So I that's why I'm valuing that peace of everything.

Speaker 1: 30:39

That's lit and the people is escaping me right now. But I see this old video in my head, this couple talking and the lady was pretty much letting the dude know. Like when he come home from fighting the world, he bringing home like his worst parts you know what I'm saying Like he been beat up all day, so now mad he depressed, he, he moving slow, he don't want to do nothing, he won't be bothered, right yeah uh, and this and this is an old telling of like how our grandpas and shit would come home drink alcohol.

Speaker 1: 31:06

Chill out, don't want to be bothered, don't want to be stressed out, leave him alone let him, let him do what he need to do, right and like.

Speaker 1: 31:11

It's this mindset of like we work ourselves all day and then we bring our family shit, and I feel like we got to be able to design a life for ourselves that allows us to be at peace with the amount of work we got to put in for our family you know I'm saying I think that's where I'm at, at a level where I'm like I I'm contributing a certain amount of hours or a certain amount of work to my job, right.

Speaker 1: 31:33

So now I have to be mindful when I come home. I got to get the same amount of energy to my wife and it's crazy, even with my dog bro, he literally wait for me to get home. They could be standing with his toy like all right, let's, let's get busy, right. So it's like damn, I didn't like. I gotta remember like I'm finna have a, I'm finna have a kid. So I gotta like my energy. I gotta learn how to get my energy back up when I get home from whatever just drained the hell out of me you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 31:57

I've been in this, this workshop, all day long talking and moving around. Now I gotta talk and move around when I get to the crib. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 32:06

So it's just like and that's the struggle for me that's why I'm making this change, because I want to make sure that I'm spending that time, or giving myself time to work with my kids. You know what I'm saying. Like they deserve that undivided attention. Yeah, yeah, you know, and both of them, they just want it, so I'm going to have to just spend that time.

Speaker 1: 32:35

It's a beautiful thing, though, yeah.

Speaker 3: 32:36

That's why I ain't tripping. I'm like y'all going to get to just spend that time. It's a beautiful thing though. Yeah, that's why I ain't tripping. I'm like y'all going to get it. Don't worry, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 32:41

I think that's the part of finding your peace, too, that I want people to remember to do. It's like, even though you have a lot of responsibilities, understand that it's a beautiful thing that you get to have kids or you get to be in a space where you got that job, you do get.

Speaker 1: 32:56

You got a car where you can drive to the other side of the city, you know what I'm saying like we have to remember the positive parts of the things that we got to deal with day to day, and I think that's gonna come with getting your p's in order, yeah, but prioritizing your peace, understanding like everything ain't gotta be stressful yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 33:13

Like we tell y'all all the time, like, take your trophies and celebrate. Like peace is something to celebrate. Like bro over here, like unique he, he celebrate that, like the goal is peace. And when you get there, you like man, this man, this shit, so peaceful, like what. You know, and that's what we searching for in a home. We searching for peace. You know, that's what everybody's searching for in a home that they, that they're looking for, that they're looking to own, they're looking for peace.

Speaker 2: 33:52

They want to damn man. I just want to know real quick. I don't know, maybe because I'm in deep thought or something. Is being at peace the same thing as being happy?

Speaker 1: 34:05

I don't think so. I think peace is a state of mind. I think peace is how you respond to stress and animosity. I think happiness or positivity is that's the other P. That's why they separate Right. I think that positivity and being happy is more of a decision. I think peace is a state of mind where you kind of like you almost got like a shield up right where you let the shit bounce up off you, and positivity is you choosing to be happy throughout the midst of that shit we're saying, we're gonna.

Speaker 3: 34:35

We're gonna say the same thing, but I'm gonna just wrap it up in a nutshell yeah, peace is one of the keys to happiness. So there's a few keys that I feel like unlocks overall happiness. But I feel, I feel like overall happiness, be them people, those are those people that's like the hippies and shit. Yeah, that's other world, but without they behavior right.

Speaker 1: 35:07

The mindset is what the fuck you want? You want shit to hit you and be like man. I don't know.

Speaker 3: 35:14

I'm just gonna handle that shit, but see, that's what I'm saying, though how many people have we ever Ran across in our lifetime that's been just like that? Probably a few, yeah, a few. That's been like. It's been like, you know they normally older.

Speaker 1: 35:32

That's the crazy part. They normally didn't got it. They got some years behind them, so they got to a point.

Speaker 1: 35:36

Yeah, they was like, uh, yeah, I'm finna, chill out, like I'm finna, I'm finna, relax. You know what I'm saying, because I that's what I'm saying. Like, like, for me it's not, it's like everybody got problems. You know, you're gonna forever have something going on somebody gonna be sick, somebody gonna die, somebody gonna need some money from you, whatever the case is right. But what do you focus on? Do you focus on what you can do or do you sit there trying to fix all that? Everybody problems, and I think that's that's the perspective. Right, like, as long as you focusing on what you can do and not trying to operate outside your comfort zone, or or you know what your capacity is, you straight.

Speaker 2: 36:09

But if you stress out yourself. Yeah, that's the thing, because we be, we be in and I'm, I'm gonna keep it. A book like I'm, I'm a person who can, um, attest that I've done this. Like you over, exert yourself to help others. You know I'm saying it's to your detriment.

Speaker 3: 36:26

Yeah, yeah so that's a little more energy into that shit.

Speaker 2: 36:30

Huh, you put more energy into that shit, way more so we got to learn it and the only way you gonna really learn if you go through it like you, gotta humble you, bro you gotta you gots to go.

Speaker 3: 36:42

I just, I just frowned when I said that shit, bro, you put more energy in that shit. Like I was thinking about some shit. Yeah, like he was upset, he felt it.

Speaker 1: 36:54

These motherfuckers but I rock with. I rock with that perspective, though cause it, it show up differently with everybody right, like so your job, relationships, friendships and dating relationships, right, especially if you got kids, it's tenfold because now you're dealing with your partner in the crib, so how they interact with the kids and how you interact with the kids, so it's a lot of collaboration that got to go on. You know what I'm saying. So you really got to have your stuff in order, which, of course, that deals with the last thing that we all struggling with.

Speaker 1: 37:26

Uh, that's that patience piece right, like that's the, that's the part that's like hardest to get by. And I think it's because life is still going right and I feel like there's so much in life that you, you focus on completing. When you, when you a kid, they like go to school, finish school right, graduate, go to college, it's all these things where you're getting to the finish line of something. And I think the patience part is like fuck that, if I got the opportunity or I got the ability to go do it, I'm finna go do it, but realizing that, man, life is a game, bro, map that out when you, when you look at the checkerboard, when you look at the chessboard. Do you sit there and you move one by one, or do you map out the board and you try to figure out what the best course of action is?

Speaker 1: 38:06

you know what I'm saying, so you're telling me to trust the process I'm telling you to trust the process, but also I'm telling you to be intentional. I'm telling you to go through life and not just like move because that's what you like to do, but because you know that that's going to create like we said, create happiness for yourself. Understand that, like, if you make these decisions, it's going to fulfill you.

Speaker 2: 38:27

I wish you would tell that to a Philadelphia 76ers fan With Joel Embiid, trust the process.

Speaker 1: 38:37

I feel like Cass is disappointed every year, bro, Every time some trades happen, every time their team ain't going the way. They want everybody disappointed.

Speaker 2: 38:44

And then some upsets happen. He should have another surgery, bro, and be done for this year again. But a lot of these athletes.

Speaker 1: 38:49

bro, Look, I'm going to be quiet. I was going to get back on AD.

Speaker 3: 38:53

I don't know.

Speaker 1: 38:53

Speak your mind brother, I was going to get back on AD and this cat Speak your mind. This cat said I got you All three quarters.

Speaker 3: 39:04

This cat be killing me bro.

Speaker 2: 39:06

Nah, I like it. But now I agree with that, you gotta trust the process. But that goes back into what I said earlier. Man, this era that we are in, bro, they want that instant gratification, man.

Speaker 1: 39:19

So it's hard to come back, bro, because y'all see that video. Uh, dude was giving like some game to the young bulls and he pretty much was like nigga, this, it is not necessary to have your, your whole life together at 19, right? How do you need to have a crib, a car and all this, nigga?

Speaker 2: 39:35

you're 19, bro, like damn but it's because they saying that, they saying after streamers and all that and people getting that bread at a young age and they getting the females right because men don't look at the same thing as women men, so a.

Speaker 1: 39:47

So a 25-year-old streamer who got millions of dollars. He going to be able to get the 18-year-old. He also going to be able to get the 30-some-year-old, so his net is wider.

Speaker 3: 39:56

So he's casting young trying to compete. Bro, let's talk about it, bro. These were the five Ps, because there's this kid that we know that, like I know that he don't know his self and he's looking for his self in everybody and everything and it's disturbing. Dog, yeah, no direction. None dog. Yeah, no direction, none man.

Speaker 2: 40:30

So look with you identifying that, like, do you feel like there's something that me, I ain't even saying us me, I need to be stepping up more, Nope, and helping him out?

Speaker 3: 40:45

Nope, because I'm going to just tell you from experience that's going to piss you off when he continues to do this dumb shit that he's doing and it's not going to change. So I wouldn't want you because we just talked about it. It's going to take too much time, effort and energy for you to put into him and he ain't even going to listen.

Speaker 2: 41:08

And look there I go Over exerting myself.

Speaker 1: 41:12

Yeah, I was Waiting on the break in the conversation to say something Especially.

Speaker 2: 41:18

I always sneak it in the bushes trying to uppercut him.

Speaker 3: 41:20

Look your sniper. Get over here.

Speaker 1: 41:25

Scorpion Nah, but for real, like when you think about it, especially if that dude he got a father already, he got people in his life.

Speaker 3: 41:34

That can influence them, but that's.

Speaker 1: 41:36

That's what you gotta understand, bruh. It's not our place To step in. Your job is to influence him From the direction, from the position that you can, and move on, bruh. Like I did the same thing With my nephews, I took on responsibility. Like dang, I didn't help them with this, I wasn't doing this, they was like nigga, they got. They got dads. Like you know what I'm saying, they got stuff going on. That ain't nothing you need to necessarily concern yourself with. So I think we, as men, we take on extra weight when we don't have to. That's not something, but we gotta pick up like understand, you can acknowledge it.

Speaker 2: 42:04

You know what I'm saying, but look, I don't want that that to be spent into a negative, because that's a positive trait.

Speaker 1: 42:12

Yeah for sure, you know what I'm saying, that's honorable. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2: 42:15

That us three men in here you know what I'm saying are willing to look at other people and say I want to help them out in this area. You know what I'm saying. And other people will look at that and they gonna take advantage of that or that flaw.

Speaker 3: 42:34

You flawed. To give y'all a picture, it's me, unique and Ant and we about to get over the fence, but we say, nah, we gonna reach back and try to help somebody else. But as soon as we try to help them and they grab on like 15 other motherfuckers, grab on to them and make it so hard for us to pull them up that we can't help them. Bruh, that's what happened every time, bruh. And then we bougie and shit, I ain't even going to. I walked right into that shit, bro.

Speaker 1: 43:09

And then we bougie and shit, I ain't even gonna go into it. I walks right into that shit though, like bro. Hey, because you can't tell me where I came from or where. I grew up or who I was affiliated with no shit like that. I live what I live. So you damn right I'm bougie as a motherfucker right now nigga, I start buying nicer shit.

Speaker 2: 43:26

I moved into a nicer house Y'all don I started buying nicer shit, I moved into a nicer house.

Speaker 3: 43:29

You don't call me no more, bro.

Speaker 1: 43:30

I sure don't. You can talk on Facebook.

Speaker 3: 43:31

Hey communication, go both ways.

Speaker 2: 43:36

And for me. Look bro, you got to understand this. You in a well-off situation. You should be calling me though man.

Speaker 1: 43:38

Nah, bro, and there's a lot of cats I invited that didn't come with me. You know I ain't doing good hey look All right.

Speaker 3: 43:48

so for me, like all right. So I'm going to just keep it a buck With everybody the fans, my family, everybody that listen to the podcast. I be talking a lot of shit on this motherfucker, about the niggas and shit like that. I'll just be playing but at the same time, I ain't helping no motherfucking body that ain't trying to help they self. You feel me? That's how I am For anybody that think I'm bougie, for anybody that think don't trust me or anything like that. You got the game twisted because, nigga, I'm helping everybody at one time. I don't want to bring everybody through this motherfucking beat and make me fucked up.

Speaker 2: 44:31

He don't want no mass exodus.

Speaker 3: 44:34

Yeah, bro. But to be honest, like I said, I ain't helping nobody. That ain't trying to do for they self like for real, and for motherfuckers to say anything about me is crazy.

Speaker 1: 44:47

Let cats keep they perspective, bro, likeize this. The great Christopher Maurice Brown said how you hating from outside the club Bruh and you can't even get in.

Speaker 3: 44:59

Can't get in this, motherfucker bro. I'm looking through the window, nigga, like damn is that your way to get in?

Speaker 1: 45:04

Bruh these cats? And that's the thing, bruh, especially as we navigate, we may not get poppin' For another three years. Shout out to our listeners On the podcast that's rockin' with us.

Speaker 3: 45:11

On me. I love y'all.

Speaker 1: 45:13

Bro, we rocks with y'all.

Speaker 3: 45:14

Thanks for listening. But at the same time, bro, we do this for us, we do this this is our perspectives, this is our experiences.

Speaker 1: 45:19

You know what I'm sayin'. Like we, love everybody. Who. It's nothing for nobody else. You know what I'm saying. We are who we are. You can hate, you can think we bougie, like I said, I very much am.

Speaker 3: 45:30

I don't care what you think, hey, but look, it's a lot of people that's going to feel my bad bro, but it's a lot of people that's going to feel the same way we feeling, bro, yeah, I mean even if it ain't.

Speaker 2: 45:49

Respect it time. I want us to not us, but at least me to let people know that we also learning. It's a learning process, right, because even with me I speak on that. I said something to the community that I had to get a little bit of education on you know I'm saying the uh, the LGBTQ you know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying okay, plus, but there you go, he learning yeah so you know, shout out, like I said, it ain't no smoke but we learning.

Speaker 2: 46:17

But at the end of the day I'm gonna say what I say. It's all love yeah and apologies.

Speaker 3: 46:24

we all learning apologiesologies if anybody takes offense to anything that we say. I mean we just being like no, it's some things you know what I'm saying Like things that people get offended about and we didn't mean.

Speaker 1: 46:42

It's a discussion, misspeaking and stuff like that, apologies and shit like that, but hey staying on your motherfucking peas, though.

Speaker 3: 46:49

I stand on what I say, apologies and shit like that. But hey, that's staying on your motherfucking peas though you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 46:52

If you feel a way, go about it. You can reach out to us, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 46:56

For sure, hit up that hip on that. Hit us up in the DM.

Speaker 3: 46:58

You know what I'm saying educate us, don't don't bash us. You know like reach, reach out, try to educate us or have a conversation with us some type of way, and we could turn it into a debate if it need to go that way. Yeah, yeah, shout out to y'all.

Speaker 2: 47:12

Nah for real.

Speaker 1: 47:14

Let's get to the gems, because I want to make sure that we drop something off on them before we wrap up. You know what I'm saying. But I want y'all to just remember, just coming from Ant, remember them. P's man, however you process it, whatever your prayer life look like, get your priorities in order. You know what I'm saying. Like. Figure out whatever is your piece, whether it's your kids, whether it's you know what I'm saying. You got a hustle that contributes to your peace. Niggas, like knitting or something nowadays. You know what I mean. Like. And then keep it positive. Whenever life do smack you in the face, you know what I'm saying. Like, understand that there's a way to respond to it. You don't always have to get booked, you don't always have to wild out and crash out. You know what I mean. And then contribute to that patience. Like we said, this ain't nothing we all have mastered, but this is a great way for you to keep it in line.

Speaker 2: 48:00

Me like slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Like Nip says it's a marathon. Hey, shout out, shout out Psy Collective. Y. Like Nips say it's a marathon. Hey, shout out, shout out Psy Collective. Y'all can't see it. I got that on them Forever Nips. Psy Collective shoes.

Speaker 3: 48:13

You know what I'm saying, but it's a marathon, you know hey, black on brand, black on brand.

Speaker 2: 48:19

Hey, i'ma say that Cause it's a black on brand. We DEI You're, but nah, nah, but like Nah, it's a marathon. So don't down yourself. If you don't feel like you're at a place where you need to be, just go up and go through life and figure out what do you value, because that can change. It's changed for me, yeah. So that's going to create and it's going to cultivate an environment for you to succeed.

Speaker 3: 48:45

So determine what you value, go from there for you to succeed, so determine what you value. Go from there. For me, priorities are the key to success. Take these peas and wrap them up with each other and use them all like. You can't just take one and practice that. You need to practice all of them. You know what I'm saying. And stay on your pivot One step ahead. That'll get you where you need to be in life. Hey, yeah, like that.

Speaker 2: 49:17

Get the peas fam.

Speaker 1: 49:19

Get the peas. I appreciate y'all tuning in with us Until next time. Stay focused, stay hungry and, most importantly, stay on your peas. We out? Yeah, no more. You.