Ladies and gentlemen, the National Anthropology and Peace have been no accident. They traced to a great degree to the solidarity and cooperation between the two peoples and the governments. When a build-up of intermediate-range missiles by our adversaries threatened the peace, our alliance was put to the test. The deployment, however, of weapons is not an end in itself. It is a means to a land. What we seek is the security of our countries, the freedom of our peoples and the peace of the world. In my recent meetings with General Secretary Gorbachev and subsequent events, there is, as I would explain, ample reason for optimism. But if a progress is made, it will be based on the solid foundation. German states are now seriously talking about reducing offensive weapons. This is a giant step forward from the time not so long ago and I say when, not if. It will not be the result of the weakness of the mediating of our Western nations. Instead, it will flow among strength, realism, our allies in the last few years, neither vulnerable nor subservient. The record of the European peoples is long and glorious in so many ways Europe is the cradle of our civilization. The indomitable spirit demonstrates on the side of the free. We in the West are now engaged in a great technological revolution in medicine, electronics, physics, and in so many fields of human endeavor. More has been discovered and that protection applies to the United States. Our allies, and yes, even our adversaries, give me the key. A purely defensive system makes these missiles ineffective and in effect also makes them eliminating the nuclear arsenals that now threaten all humanity. If a defensive system was not a viable option, the Soviet Union would not be committing so much of its own resources in developing and deploying strategic defenses of its own. Technology can open up new doors to peace and security. We in the West of the United States and we in the West of the United States strive for a free, secure, and prosperous world, a world of peace. And we do it together with our friends and allies, the German people. So it gives me great pleasure to welcome Chancellor... ...for this wonderful and so warm hearted reception in Washington. The reception is that I can return here and I think this wonderful flag is the symbol of its sunshine. All day with the sunshine is a very true symbol standing for the nature of the relationship between our two countries. A good friend of our country and a staying personal friend. And in and out... ...it is based on mutual trust. And it is a term of friendship and partnership underpinned by shared values, ideals, and enemies. Freedom in the human right. It is not the same with this alliance or with the partnership between the United States and the United States. Only the three of us are in the hearts of the United States. The very truth and the federal republic in the understanding of our country together with our truth. And they are welcome in our countries. And we know that we are in the hands of the United States. The President, you and your fellow citizens in this country should know that the vast majority of citizens of the federal republic of Germany are in favor of the presence of these truths and they regard them as their friends. We know that we can rely on each other. Your opposition would be far now less than each of you might have to command some of the title. The European Union, together with the United States, is now in a dynamic process of political and economic integration between the European Union and the United States. We also have the opinion that you can play together in the world of the Nordic. The European allies are ready for any more than 100 years of our common defense in which we can play a role in the moral of the world. In your speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in May 1995, the President knew well and appreciated this development. It will not be less than 12 lines, but it is going to strengthen it. It remains our goal if I know that I stand with you, Mr. President, to create peace and security with ever fewer weapons. And great debate thanks to your serious and consistent effort. You have understood an improvement of a relationship between Western East and we should take the Soviet Union at its word and sign out at the negotiation table where real progress could be made. My government is contributing actively with the efforts to promote dialogue and cooperation, confidence, understanding, and reconciliation. The world is looking, hopefully, to the two superpowers that the small and medium-sized states must work together. And I think it is important to the two superpowers that the small and medium-sized states must play their part and make their contributions as well. Mr. President, we must convince the young people, the young generation in the United States, in the Federal Republic of Germany, all over the world that it is worthwhile to stand up for our values of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law between our peoples. For that, I am grateful to you and we will discuss this subject further. Together, we shall create conditions under which even more young people from our two countries will have the chance to get together with one another. Mr. President, under your leadership the strong American self-confidence and leadership power has re-emerged. It is the characteristics of the great American nation that it is always possible to meet the challenges of the future successfully. Mr. President, under your leadership the United States of America has re-discovered self-confidence and regained the spirit of enterprise leadership. As in the past, these are the qualities that will enable the American nation to master the challenges of the future. The Federal Republic of Germany, with all its citizens, will be a loyal friend and partner to the United States of America as it goes about this time. Thank you very much.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this screen card. I have made a screen card before but this one's slightly different in the sense that all the pieces are separate and they're attached by just a small piece of card as opposed to one big piece and you just kind of score down through the middle. So I've made a little kind of envelope box for this. So I would say this is quite a special card maybe something for, it's almost like a bit of a mini album actually so you can definitely add photos to this because you've got both sides but it's also a great one for those big birthdays I think because you can add big numbers on it and all sorts. So this is how it looks, this is the back here so that's where you I would say you would write your little message because once it's open you'll kind of understand. I've got a pretty piece of lace here to tie it all together with my bow and then it basically opens up like this. It's a bit of a I guess a flip book but then the idea is is that the whole thing stands up like this so it's a screen. So you can have it like that you can have it with the, get rid of that, get rid of it, put the ribbon at the back there but you can have the screen it's probably better like that actually and that's what you would see. So I've used the beautiful paper boutique papers for this one and I'll show you those in a moment but you've like I said you know you don't have obviously I know quite a few of you do have this paper pack but if you didn't can you imagine all of these as different photos you could have maybe double photos you could have ones at the bottom here as well and then you have these three sections because this is your front cover so you could have lovely you know you could even write a nice little letter on the back there's so many ways to use this and you can add more onto it as well. I've just done the four panels but you can certainly add a lot more to it so yeah it's kind of in between a mini album and a card. I just sometimes I just sit down and just play around with things so I this wasn't really an intended make as such it's just something that's kind of evolved so it all ties up nicely there with your ribbon it's a nice kind of chunky piece as well which I like and then it fits into this little kind of gift box that I've made I'm going to probably change the way that I put the box together a little bit I think I'm going to do some ribbon coming right the way up through the middle rather than that piece there but I do still really like it so let me show you how to make it. So this is the papers it's the paper boutique and it's the magical forest and it is pretty much finished with now I have very very little left all of that is just the kind of carcass from all the toppers and then that's just all scraps I only have about four pieces of paper left one two three four and that's my front and back so I have you literally used 32 of the sheets so I think I've done well with that one and I still have these little sentiments here which I'll probably cut down and just pop in my little box and then this is everything here I'm going to do the box at the very end and give the measurements to them separate this is just for the screen card itself the paper I'm using today is the centura pearl and this is the lavender color and this is what I picked up from the works I think it was they seem to have the best price I think it was 249 but again I'll link below any other ones that I might find as well okay so this is a bigger card my screen pieces are four by eight and a quarter now you can certainly do this smaller you could do it so that they are three by six because the reason mine's so big is I centered it around these topper sizes so the width of them I needed something that was wide and then just in terms of proportion I just kind of doubled it which is what I've got four by eight and a quarter and the eight and a quarter is your default width of a four paper well here for us in the UK that's our width I think a lot of others will have eight and a half you just need to cut it down but yeah so this is four by eight and a quarter and you want four pieces that's that lovely lavender color then these are all the mats and layers so for the back I am sticking it directly on because on the back of this card it's white it's only coated on the front so I don't need to have a white frame whereas on the front panels I have a matte and a layer because I wanted that white frame so for the back pieces as if you've got a card like me and you want to do it that way these are three and three quarters by eight and you want four pieces so then my back panels then for the front panels you will want four pieces that are the same size as those ones so three and three quarters by eight in white card stop and then the pattern is dropped down again so this will be three and a half by seven and three quarters and again you'll want four pieces okay so what will happen is those four will go on to the back these are all going to stick on the top of each one of these so it's hard to pick up in the camera but that beautiful lavender color pulls out the lavender in the flowers really nicely so it does tie together well so what you want to do is before you stick all of those mats and layers down we'll cut them to one side you will need your hinges to put the whole thing together so here I've got four pieces that are one and a half by four and along the one and a half inch side you want to score so I've already done mine so flip it the right way and turn it around so along the one and a half inch side you want to score it half an inch five eighths of an inch three quarters of an inch seven eighths of an inch and one inch so you'll have half an inch and half an inch on each side and then that middle half an inch will have a score line on every track okay so if I just bring that up and you can see there what I've done and that just gives you that nice effect so that it curves rather than just kind of folds with a bit of a you know an angle a point to it I just think it's much nicer to have that kind of arch so when you've done those four and those I've already done you just basically just want to burnish all of them and once you do that it will just naturally curve so I'm just going to do that one quickly okay so I've got my four largest pieces and these four ones and you want them so that they are this way up okay so it's a bit like a boat you want them rocking all right and you're going to stick every one you're going to stick on to the tops of these and then this will go over that so it conceals it inside just keeping everything nice and neat now it's entirely up to you where you have it I guess you can have them slightly higher or lower but I'm doing mine bang in the middle so again I'm using my grid here and I know it's eight and a quarter okay this whole piece so I want to come down four and one eighth of an inch so one two three four and then just over a bit that's the center so I want to sit this over there and make sure that it's obviously lines up now it's four inches long so it sits perfectly within these ones but if I just bring it down a little bit then I know that it's bang on but do I need to be that fussy probably not I'm just going to use the four inches here so these four squares and just make sure that that sits within them which it does and that's going to be my guide and then you're going to put glue do I want to use glue or do I want to yeah I'm going to use my tacky glue and I'm just going to add it onto that half okay and again use that as a guide and you're just going to stick the whole half inch piece on so that all of those little score lines in the middle are all exposed so we're going to stick this half inch piece on this one so you can see I've just stuck it right up to that first score line and then we'll add glue onto this half and you will stick it onto this one so again if you line this one up and just keep them nice and straight and then as long as you just make sure they stay the same there you can just pull this one over once you've got your glue on it and stick it down you basically will then want to stick it to so that this side here is in line with that last score line so again I'm just going to add some of the glue right and then just stick that one down so now when I turn it over you'll have that nice hinge exposed so now I'm going to move it along again keep this all nice and lined up bring along the next one the next hinge and do exactly the same thing again so okay so that's the last one I don't know why I said you need four you need three I think the reason was is I'd already prepped three so I kept one to show you how to do it so yeah you do only need three of those okay so now it will all fold up like so so next we're going to decorate all of the inside we'll do the outside afterwards so I have these ones I'd already stuck the layer the pattern layer on top but they're now going to go over and it just kind of conceals all of that because okay so now I'm just going to add some glue and stick these all down okay then I have my lovely gorgeous little animals here just think these are absolutely adorable um I'm maybe going to have that one there actually and then that one there I'm going to put foam adhesive on these because you do have the you know the option to have quite a bit of bulk inside because of this half inch side here so yeah you can do that now I've already gone ahead and that's my front decoration and then I have what I think I'm going to do differently with this one if I bring in this one here I had both of my sentiments in the middle but I think I might do sentiment plain sentiment plain so I'm just going to flip these two I think so I have fussy cut this here and I've got this one here but I didn't cut the edge off because I needed to check the size so I can check that off in a moment but I think I'm going to do yeah same with that one I need to trim it slightly but have that there on foam adhesive that will be on foam adhesive this one will be off foam and then I'm going to stamp some nice sentiments to go there and there and then I've got these bows and bits and pieces as well so I'm going to get this cut down and this all stuck down okay so I've decided I'm actually going to leave these blank because I'm going to give this to someone this is going to go in my my little kind of competition my giveaway pile and then that person can add you know whatever it is they want to do with them because they may want to keep this as a little like I said kind of album you can put photos there or something so next you want to decorate the back and you also want to add your ribbon okay so one of them it's going to go on the last panel this is where it with it flipped over because it's actually the first panel so if I go back this way that's your first panel second third fourth when you flip it over it becomes your last panel okay so this one is going to go here you're going to stick it in the middle of this outer piece and then this next one is going to go on the second one but on the left hand side sorry it's caught my glue gun so it's just got glue strings on it there we go like this and then I'm going to stick my pattern paper over the top like this and see that one will be there that one like so and that one like that and then I've got this really pretty owl which I'm going to still finish off on the bottom of that one there but again I'm going to leave the front blank because it can be used like I said again as a mini album or something so I'm going to stick these two down first and that one then I'm just going to add some glue just there that over the top if you want to add another mat onto this and add foam adhesive and stuff you can do but then I'm going to just again add my glue stick that over that and again the final one stick that one down there so and then this one I'm going to put some foam on the back just because everything else is flat and just look at my photos that I you know will pop in my blog for just a bit of inspiration again on how to decorate it now I'm going to show you how to make the box next of course you don't have to if you are making this for yourself and going down more of that mini album route then you know you don't necessarily need to have a box but now when you bring that around and fold those in bring that one over it will join up with these two sides here and I just think it looks so pretty I've probably got too much ribbon let's see what kind of bow that gives me yeah I'll take a little bit off like so isn't that lovely and then that's where on the back of this one again I bring this all around the back is where I put that message if you do want to do it it's like a gift album or you know just a nice birthday card then that's where I would say write your your message but yeah now let's pop this all to one side and make the little gift box envelope for it all okay so to make the box you want two pieces of cardstock that are five and five eighths of an inch by nine and a half okay and along the uh shorter sides the five and five eighths you want to score at three quarters of an inch and five and three eighths of an inch okay she should just have this little quarter of an inch piece here then rotate it so the three quarters of an inch pieces at the top and you want to again score it three quarters of an inch all the way down do that on both pieces and then we'll have these two here once we cut them and then just to decorate I've got a piece of that same lavender cardstock which is well mine's actually between four and one eighth of an inch and four and a quarter either so if I I would say four and a quarter will be fine I cut mine on my trimmer so I didn't actually really measure it I just used my pencil and it's by eight and a quarter and then the pattern paper on top I would then do four by eight okay then I have my last one left this is the last topper of that lovely paper pack and it's my favorite little fox so I've just he's they're pretty die cut you just pop them out and then I've just used one of my stitch circles there just to make my little fastening I am going to do it actually the same way that I've done the other box I tried putting the ribbon around I didn't really like it and then just to connect that little topper you want a piece that's one and a half by three along the three inch side you want to score every single marker so one eighth of an inch quarter of an inch three eighths half an inch five eighths three quarters seven eighths and an inch and do that all the way along so that you have that you're doing the same as what you did for the little screen card though it's kind of like a folio as well so I'm not sure what I'm going to call this yet but now if I just kind of roll it it kind of burnishes fold and burnish sorry it kind of just folds them for you just do the very end ones there but the whole thing will just kind of roll without actually folding you just get a much nicer little finish like so okay I just want to do a little bit of cutting so you will have your scoreline here your three quarters scoreline and your quarter inch scoreline and then your three quarters scoreline at the bottom along the bottom here you just want to cut up that first one where the square is and then just take a wedge off in fact probably fold and burnish before you do that just because it's a bit easier you can do it after it's not the end of the road but I do tend to do it before and then this little tiny little rectangle you'll have there just remove that completely and then just cut little wedges off of the ends there just so you don't see any of them okay so you want to do that on both pieces and then we're just going to stick them both together so this one will stick with that one so this is that quarter of an inch piece so I'm just going to grab some of my red tape here I'm just going to run that all the way along there and again on that one there take the backing off of this one first and you just want to lay that over the top I'd focus on the bottom scoreline here because you can always trim the top and then I'm going to just bring that all the way up like so and then flip it over like that so you have this piece take the backing off and then fold that one over and it should all line up like so okay and then you can decide which you want to be your front or your back and then the bottom here you'll be folding one of the long ones two side ones and then the other one so if this is my front I'll fold down the front one last just so you get that nice kind of finish there so I'm just going to grab a little bit of my wet glue here for the base and just pop a little bit on the edges there and that one there take that last one down and then if you just go in the top with a ruler or got a paintbrush here at hand just so you can really make sure that that is all stuck okay and then we just need to decorate it so I'm going to stick that one on the front and then this one we can stick down last because that's just going to stick onto the back piece okay and then with this one I'm going to pop some glue about half an inch covering the bottom there because you've got the little score lines it's easy for you to see and then you just want to stick it behind this so whatever you've got make sure it's obviously facing up right I'm just going to stick that down there and then I've just got some velcro dots these are the 16 mil no these are less actually tell a complete light these are 10 mil so I've got 10 16 and 20 and then I'm going to kind of roughly wrap that around you want to make sure it does stick to the back there but I'm going to just sit that about that looks about right stick that right down yep that's all stuck and then don't lift it off yet stick this back piece down so again I'm going to cover about half an inch and then just stick that over keeping it all nice and straight I'm just holding it there for a second and if you want to cover the back as well you can do I don't really feel there's a need to do it I just want to add I'm going to add that little bow at the top there and a little bead onto the back a few people have been asking how I'm getting on with the glue gun I love it this doesn't drip or anything and just to the left I have a little holster for it as well which comes with it and it's the Sizzix one so yeah I'm definitely glad I chose that one I'm just going to sit that there and it's got that precision nozzle as well I really like it I'll take a picture and put it in the the blog so you can see it and there you have it so now you can take that off just make sure that that is all nice and stuck down which it is yeah I do prefer this I don't know I thought at first I thought oh I'll have the ribbon wrapping right around with a big bow but maybe my ribbon this didn't maybe it looked a bit lost I guess if you've got a nice big thick say like one inch ribbon all the way around that could look good but there you have it so now that will fit perfectly inside even with the lace on there as well just tuck that in a little bit and then just seal it up I think that's a really cute either keepsake for yourself like I said it can work great as a mini album a little folio thing you could you could add little note papers into it if you wanted to but I think it does make a really special card as well and then again this one here which is using the mirrored card so again I always like to do maybe two different styles because I know there's a lot of people out there that don't really like to use the mirrored card so that just shows you how you can make it with that more like pearlized and then again bring this one out just so you've got that inspiration of how to decorate it or how I've chose to decorate this one anyway but this is a birthday card and I think it's going to look lovely displayed on the mantle like so I think it's lovely so yeah so I hope you've enjoyed this folio album birthday card I'm not entirely sure but nonetheless I think it is a really sweet little project I've loved using these papers that's pretty much it now like I said I just have a few sheets left but all my toppers are gone and used up this one you some of you may notice well is slightly bigger that's because it didn't need to be that big so I just reduced it down this is the right size that you want to use but I still like this one so yeah there you have it guys I hope you've enjoyed it 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What's up everybody? Jason here for jazby's casebreaks.com 2020 Hanyini origins football a box half case break packaging number three just sold out. We had a little Rnb for a couple of these teams here So everybody else bought in straight up And here are the customers that got into the R&B. This is for the Packers Lions bills Rams Patriots and Giants and Broncos So Cascade with nine and Michael just So we'll do a randomizer for all the unnumbered cards at the end of this break for that remember this case right here will be the same inner as Numbers three and four so number four will have the second eight boxes from the case Yeah, no problem, man. I'm gonna use some stuff so far. Hopefully some more to come All right, so again left or right One two three for the left four five six for the right Two one two three All right guys good luck oh tons of hotness Joe you missed the first case tons How about you watch the video Joey, and then you tell me drew lock Michael Thomas so Saints Barring craft Broncos that'll be an R&B. That's 87 so spot seven going to cascade Zeke Russell Wilson and some more Jalen Hertz three color patch That's eight out of 25 Yeah, with that one other slide zero zero Yeah, dude, uh sicto Sanchez and Darvish have been just dealing Jerry Judy Where was this Darvish every? Yeah? Broncos with that one that's R&B so again not numbered guys so everyone's gonna have a shot at this and we'll put this right here to the side So everybody in the random number block. It's gonna have a shot at that And Anthony McFarland jr. For the Pittsburgh Steel is gonna make a goal with you I didn't realize those sicto Sanchez throwing like a hundred miles an hour like every pitch Yeah, he was he would remember he was in like Bowman stuff as a Philly back in the day. Yeah, then they traded him all sorts of things happen and then now it's just like Now it's just like dealing Khalil Mack and Drew Brees Kirk cousins and the one to park Gandy Gold Loviska Jaguar's it's going to Patrick.  Well, there you go. Yeah, how about a Jalen Hertz 72 out of? 72 out of 75 four-color patch Four-color patch just slight slight little chipper. They're very slight though, but very nice still Eagles Any a I know man. It's about time, but hey Better late than never Alright next box guys Bobby Wagner Joe Mixon Austin Ackler Chris Godwin Kyla Murray little relic there Sam with the Cardinals Michael Pittman jr For the Colts Let's check out the redemption guys. Good luck rookie autographs card number 32 and it's Lynn Bowden jr. Which I'm assuming Lynn is still a raider Although I know he's not there anymore, but let me double check Come on Pino crooked and stuff Card number 32. Yes, Las Vegas Raiders Raiders going to Robert. All right guys after this box right here. We'll be halfway through What was just the bulbs? I had two stairs Can you imagine how weird those little bulbs are? Austin Ackler And Jamal Adams. It's number to 25 Julio Jones and Adam Theland Justin Jefferson Little two-co other packs 16 out of 25 Dolphins going to or sorry the Vikings going to Rhea. Hey, what's up, Bill? How's it going man? Another redemption And another Michael Pittman jr. This time it's numbered It is 33 out of 99 Another one for the Colts and that's going to Tom And let's see the redemption. That's right man another day rookie autographs card number 21 Clyde Edwards Allaire Kansas City Chiefs going to Kang very nice All right, next four. No problem. Yeah, it's all good man Beautiful thing of the DVR effect and of course you can always watch the replay Like when I'm watching if I'm at home if Joe's breaking Shawn whoever's breaking Like if I'm looking at a chat and everyone's like, oh wow. Wow. I'm like, all right. What did I miss? What did I miss? So I would just like to rewind back Drew Locke Austin Hooper So that Broncos actually is going to be part of the R&B. That's 155 so five going to Cascade And Brown's going to Jose AJ Green and Gardner Minchu Oh Miami's going to score another run Marlon's going to sweep the Cubs Culk man To the Marlins man, they're the ones that got the COVID first They got that COVID strength now Oh, they're invincible. They're invincible now. They're your blood gets stronger afterwards.  That was a one-on-one.  They said like you're good Zach Moss one-on-one for the bills and that's part of the random number block spot one going to Cascade, which is last spot mojo Wow, there you go. How about that? I didn't even notice the one-on-one. So I was putting a top loader Boom very nice.  I think he's little bit. Well, I think single tears Yeah, I think I think he's a little bit better than single tear But it's not like he's just on a practice squad. No, no, he's good. Yeah I think a lot of people a lot of people like that's good like him. Henry rugs Little single color patch and auto 13 out of 49 a couple off the jersey number Is he I might have to take him out of my mind a little bit. Yeah Brian Edwards, definitely banged up. It's all right. You got Nelson Aguilore That's all you need like jungler. So we're confident. We're a Henry rugs long shot So it's gonna happen to the same thing right here. Your Tennessee Titans are gonna make the Super Bowl win at all Yeah, they're gonna do it. They're gonna be stronger. They've got They're gonna be stronger. I think we got another book We got another book well it gets stronger afterwards. I know how our bodies get stronger. It's like X-men mutation. All right, we've got our second book guys Zeke And josh Allen So bill's another round of number block zero going to cascade I know that's the side effect your team is unbeatable. It's like rough times for a little bit It's like they're hitting COVID out of the ballpark All right guys, the first book we got today was a six-way auto of all the run top running backs Let's see if we can get the six-way auto of all the top quarterbacks Whoa All right, i'm tonia gandy golden a little jumbo patch Hurt with that one Joshua Kelly That's little four color patch to 49 And auto I know he's actually playing. I mean he's splitting time with Echler pretty much Uh charge is going to bruce And the booklet I think is actually just one single team One single team booklet. Good luck ready and look at that Well ahead KC Clyde's adwords lair number to 49 Look at that very nice three color patch and the on book auto chiefs I went to kang nice break Put that in a little slider box as well. All right guys two more times two more uh two more boxes Craig kimbrill I do this the wrong I think after hurts to our herbert and burrow would probably be jordan love Would probably be the the outman out Then you'd probably put easton stick or from after that probably I think so Hopkins and then you'll start going to like, you know Nate stanley and like all these other guys I'd assume Cardinals and rams rams would be 82. It's another one there for cascade Trevisky and jamal adams Chase young little patch 145 out of 199 You know, it's crazy. These could actually be collectible cards because You know chase chase young will never wear this helmet Yeah, you think about it Like that's he's never gonna wear that. Yeah, although rookie chase young It's michael piven jr. Yeah, I think Colt's going to tom and quiche on va a nice little five color patch. That's no numbering Bucks going to john. Here you go. Last box guys. Good luck Did you really max that's cool, man? All right guys, so again joe be taking over after this He'll probably go through some orders do his intro and if if anything else is sold out He'll be bringing that next Appreciate you guys selling out the first couple with me.  I mean he's a he's a current duck. Nice. I'm gonna have to Look out for that. Maddie sanders and delvin cook AJ dillon for the packers That's r&b 26 out of 75 Six fun to cascade Oh, what happened froze. All right. Give me one second. 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I like I like how it's Henry rugs the third and it's three stripes right there They knew what they were doing Very nice Raiders going to rob a runkel Out of 10 sweet And there you go guys that was the break so let me quickly just randomize Just jerry judy and it looks like erin not erin donald. I think it was just a jerry judy actually I don't think there's any other unnumbered space cards, but if there is This was just a more significant one So someone's going to win that in the random number block And again some other nice stuff here nice booklet So let's quickly switch scenes Really quick So it's going to be nine cascades against one michael All right, let's roll it and we got ourselves a two and a three for five times five times one two three four five Cascade there you go You can also get all the unnumbered cards included that jerry judy autograph So appreciate it man. Appreciate it guys. 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Are back rooms entities even real?  Back room shower thoughts. Who puts almond water around the back rooms? Is there like a simulation master that controls it? Or does someone just put it there? Or does it all appear randomly? Or are you literally imagining it in your brain? Are back rooms levels even in our earth? Or are they only accessed through lucid dreaming? Do you feel pain in the back rooms?  I guess that's a hard question to answer. That's why these things are called shower thoughts though.


name another podcast like Check it check it check it. It's a unique hustle.  We got some guys here today y'all they don't need no introduction I've been knowing them a long time guys these guys right here. You know, this is a clothing store we actually broadcast out of a clothing store and Who better to talk to us about the clothing and apparel industry than these two guys here man We got Q and Dre man.   So man. How y'all doing man awesome man A little bit tired been on the road eight days eight days. Yeah eight is enough. Oh man. We got one more to go, man What a guy is that the longest y'all ever been on the road to do something like this? No, probably 1010 probably the longest. Yeah, man We got to go back down through there though. No, yes, okay So tell us about where you were raised you're bringing all of that. Let's start with Q first I'm from the Bronx. I was born born in Brooklyn raised in the Bronx I moved out of New York About four years so I live in a Charlotte, North Carolina now. Do you miss it to live? No, why? What's bad about New York? Now that I'm older. It's like I get you get more for your money You know and to be honest the gun laws First You just can't Okay, because I know it's dangerous in New York depends on what part right? They still carry guns regardless.  Well, the thing is all the criminals have them but the average, you know They still be sneaking and I don't have not the not the non-criminal can't the non-criminal because if you got one you automatically a criminal You get pulled over you go in the jail. Ain't that what happened to Jairu?  Even if you have it in your car and don't take it out of the car with you Don't matter. You cannot have a gun on you. Really?  You can't even have a handgun. Really? Yeah, man Well, let's carry a shotgun everywhere. So Brooklyn coming up as a kid man. Like I'm oh you from I mean I was born in Brooklyn, but I was raised in the wrong. You was born in Brooklyn raised in the brook Yeah, yeah, ain't that where? Fat Joe from yeah Which one's better cuz I always heard about Brooklyn Bronx and Queens be careful them three careful So which one's the best? It's not that one's better. They all different. They totally different Harlem's different You know man, he's from Mount Vernon, which is like right outside of the borough. My mom Vernon is like rich area, right? We basically boarded the board of the Bronx on three sides Yeah Yeah, it actually used to be a part of the city like I think back in the 60s and then It separated and became part of Westchester County. Yeah, I don't ever hear about I hear about my Vernon But not like I hear about Brooklyn Bronx or Queens. It's like in all the movies and all the everything That's all you hear people talk about That's all you gotta say is then he's part Jamaican Well, you know a lot of Jamaicans in Queens, too. Yeah, yeah, actually You know, they tried to take over Dallas The thing went down in Dallas whether Jamaicans tried to come down here and do some things and we had to have a meeting Okay, we weren't talking about a couple of restaurants and that's it Yeah, yeah, we said we got a few but we got a limit on how many we let One of my best friends actually left my Vernon and came to Dallas what about 20 years ago. Okay. He's still here. I'm still here What was it like growing up in that area for you was it like dangerous for you or I Mean, you know a lot of the Bronx is you know is the hood But I was raised in co-op city, which is um, it's a middle-class. Maybe my mom was a nurse My dad was a cop. So, you know, I don't have one of those stories to whereas we didn't grow up having anything I had and have a lot, but we had what we needed. You know what I mean? So I had a I had a good a good childhood. I would say, you know, of course we dealt with the crime We dealt with the shootings. We deal with all of that stuff, but I just you know I can't say that we were we grew up poor or anything like that. You say he was raised with your mom and your dad My dad was there up until I think it was about 10 or 11 years old, but I still saw him after that You know, they just split up. Oh, yeah, they split. They saw him like weekends and yeah. Yeah So you own a child. Oh, no, I got a brother and I got three sisters. You know this I'm the youngest youngest you the baby boy and the baby. So all of that split probably affected you the most Yeah, I would say so You know what is is that was certain things that my parents never Explained me see right.  Never they never cursed in front of me So it's like me is heard it because I went through that Well, I didn't understand it right when they was like why you I don't even know I didn't understand it. But to be honest it didn't really like totally stress me out You know, I just I don't know.  I grew up raised by my mother money I ain't my own friend when you're in the mountain Let's get it. It's mystery. It's mystery But um, yeah, you know raised by my mom's um pops nose moving around doing this thing Why is that such a thing is like I'm well I can tell you why let me just break that And women it's a difference, you know Sometimes you stay there, you know, the Bible says that a nagging woman is like a leaky faucet So, you know, there's some things that that that are being said to where All I'm saying is patience is a virtue it is definitely a virtue But all I'm saying is there's gonna be issues the one thing we got to understand guys is that at the end of the day With with God all things are possible. I ended like that because you know, whether he was whether they was together where they Wasn't together. I think God puts things back together in his own way. Anyway, you know what I mean You guys are here a lot of guys crashed out that didn't even make it to be our ages your ages and y'all still here Come on, man, that says some y'all one Y'all don't hear me You can think of people that are not here no more because they crashed out lots of and it was friends of y'all Yeah, and you still here, you know, I mean, so God has a way of working it out No matter what you're upbringing is is like I mean, I think well my situation I think my posture is just he was just hustling doing this thing and you know He was getting getting getting money, you know, illegally, you know saying back then and he was just moving around and he just Found himself, you know kind of doing them thing doing this thing with like, you know multiple women It's six of us actually so was he ever there for you? Like I'm not gonna just monetarily, but actually there to talk to you and not that way either Like he just wasn't he just wasn't involved.  You know, you know, what you know what to be honest You I think I think my family did a good job of um kind of like kind of shielding us You know from from from that part of our life, you know I was raised like not only my mother my grandparents as well And um, they they they created a solid house, you know for a solid on family environment home environment You know what we pretty much had you know what we needed again?  Yeah Yeah, let's talk about that for me just cause they in the house don't mean that the house is perfect There's still a big yellow elephant in the room that nobody talks about when somebody knock on the door you got to act in Order to make sure people feel like you guys are represented correctly when you're faking So quit don't don't try to come to me with the the dad ain't there and the dad is there and the mom is there and the mom Ain't there I seen better people who didn't have no parents I've seen partners of mine who was brought up in orphanages. I just talked to one yesterday And then the twin brothers who came up with our parents who? Hell got books doing better than a bunch niggas can't even write Yeah, but I see a lot of people But I see a lot of people who go through life and thinking that it doesn't affect them, you know, because he's never been there Whatever till you get older when you realize The reason why you took certain steps or you made certain choices was because of that Unknowingly, you know what I mean sometimes as we get older we reflect because when you're younger you don't see certain traits You don't see the reason why we do certain things but as you get older and you reflect you realize Oh, you know what that's probably the reason why I don't know, you know, you know it to your point I would say um, you know when I when I came of age and I understood, you know, you know What he was what he was really all about and his upbringing, you know, um, I understood that you know growing up for him He actually um, he was kind of he was actually a banding You know when he was younger and I understood that it all made sense because it was like he he never learned love You know, he was raised by other family members, but his mother, which is my grandmother. God rest us all and also God rest his soul He actually passed away from COVID Yeah, um, but but you know, I never I never held any of that, you know against him because I was actually raised in a very Loving way, you know saying on for my grandparents my mother And other family members being there, but but but I understood for him that um, that uh, that uh, yeah He never he never knew love, you know, sorry He felt he felt he felt abandoned and um He he could never he could never commit, you know himself to anything, you know for a long period of time Were you ever able to build a relationship with him before he passed? Oh, no, we know each other We are known very well, you know, I mean, it's just it's just that he was always moving around He would travel back and forth between, you know, the u.s. And Jamaica, you know, I figured that's a Jamaican side You're talking about don't don't don't don't even do that. Don't do that. Actually, I mean both my parents are Jamaican Okay And I think I think part of what help, you know me have a solid upbringing to my mom's like she grew up in the hood in Jamaica, you know me, so it's like she's wrong Kingston. Yeah, she grew up in Kingston.    I'm the younger one. It's a both of y'all baby boys.  I was I was where I started hitting weights at 14, right? But I started even I was doing pushes push-ups at like seven years old Yeah, it was like it's my life. I think I think I remember watching the movie rocky to with my dad Okay on TV and that's what started and I literally worked out forever. That was like seven years old I never stopped working up. It just came seven years old as soon as I turned 14, which was still too early I started hitting heavy weights. I started doing like Competitions like local about this about this affect you when you start to early 14 is a little early to lift weights like calisthenics is okay, which I do a lot of but um weights What do you do? You should do about 17 But what does it do to you when you start too early? You said too early? I mean they say it's done your growth a little bit But you know, it's hard on the joints because you're not fully grown your growth place and now you're not all the way grown yet So you need to get to that point to where did you see that kid on social media? It was a young kid and he was like Yeah, yeah, I mean me if I would have waited to 17 I probably would have some of the injuries I have now, but I'm still good. You know, I just I started earlier It was just some love and plus I was always short. I'm only five eight So I was always the short kid. So I was like, I'm gonna be the shortest guy. I'm gonna be the strongest Anybody ever just I think y'all that cuz he be I mean sure you get it.  All right, you can walk away. You got it. Oh, yeah, no problem But then the point is if I give you all these chances to to stand down after that then it's called a police It's you know, then it's not stopped because then I'm just gonna dive on you Chances is like, you know, sir, please, you know me and just relax man. We here to have fun. It's okay Just you know, yeah, but they say some guys are big for nothing Like's not every guy who is big can fight or can do anything I was taking a little bit of martial arts when I was like 11 years old, you know My dad so my dad was in the military very early, right? He did he did 17 years in the army.  Wow. He was This is your biological father. Oh, yeah, okay.  No, not live with him. No, I wouldn't want to live with him Because my dad was cool.  Yeah, he was he was serious with it But not with me necessarily, you know, here's um How did you get in because for the height you are, you know models normally be like way taller Yeah, I see on your social media that you actually rip the runway. Yeah, so I'm like, how did that happen? I started with car cannot like that's my og so um in 1995 I started doing some modeling I think I caught the eyes of some of car can eyes people and they reached out to me and we started doing fashion shows in New York There's a TV show called video music box from Ralph McDaniels and he's like, you know He was like before BT before empty before all of those was playing videos and hip-hop and all that he was playing That so he started doing a fashion show called fat fashions When I first did that that's like if you're on that show you pretty much a celebrity almost wow So I had got on there and we just started doing all car canine fashion shows And you know, I was kind of known as like a car canine model even though I wasn't signed But I was just doing anything car canine and then one day after a fashion show I just came up to call, you know, and I didn't really know him known But we high and by kind of thing and I was just like cost it is my other thing is cool But um, you know, I'm looking for something in the company something long-term. He kind of looked at me like Yeah, you know, he was like nobody ever said that he's like I cool And then he had a guy named brother Arthur, which you probably never bought the brother out They used to be at the show yeah in the days. Yeah, he was kind of like a big brother to me He was in a nation Islam and he was like man. Just come to the office So I would show up to the office like what you need and we'll coffee what you need Yeah, in turn call was living in LA. Yeah, but he was like cutie again like He said so one day he called me he was like He called office and he was like I got something for Q to do So he was like he said call wake up in the morning about like four or five in the morning every morning, right? He was like he watches the time was like Good morning America or whatever that show is they have yeah.   This is like he this is like six seven one.  Yeah, I went down there for like two weeks Had to sign up boom. He be on TV. Oh And then so then one time Al Roka actually came up to me Yeah, he was like what's this sign right here I said, yo, you know, it's a clothing line.   You know, I watch it man. Don't do this.   Then I started working. I became a rep They gave me a certain territory and in the territory was like new england territory Which is like five states in new england, which is like it was nothing up there at the time and I went out there And I just started opening the counts. I would go to the club Like, yo, where you get your outfit from?  I'm like, yo, car can I be like, car can I I was looking for this bone I opened up like 35 accounts in a year in the territory that we didn't I think we had five accounts in the whole territory Man, and that's how you know it kind of started and then I worked for call as a rep for five years And then I left there and then I started working for fat farm Yeah Well, you know who that is Then when um when I started when I left there me and call just became titan. So today he's still one of my best friends Yeah, yeah, yeah, I seen y'all together. I've seen y'all together a lot a few times So I left there and I was working for fat farm and I was on the footwear side the footwear license I was there for eight years Then from there went to rock aware. I was there um on the footwear side. You work with uh, how long I work with oody on the footwear side Okay, you're on footwear side on footwear side. So this was um, it's licensed. So, you know apparel is different It's a different company, you know, I mean it's still under the rockaway umbrella But it's a different company same thing with fat farm. So I did that. Yeah Drey, what was you doing just hanging out in vegas when I seen you Didn't I see you work you work for a cool and some old people didn't you Y'all worked for a cool for a pay to time. How you was a model. I seen you in some models Yeah, yeah I've seen you in a few of them fix don't play. I'll pull them up Pull them up. I was modeling, but I was like you was in the mix Rocking and rocking and joints with um, yeah, man. Yeah, those how'd you get into it? Wow. So I started I started in the business about um, yeah, man It's just like 2000 like around 2000 I was um going to school time I was in college and I was working at macy's and um while I was there, you know, um me me and a partner on mine Who worked there with me? He was like, man, you know, we kind of we kind of getting tired of this man Let's go it was cutting the hours and stuff like that. We was like, we gotta figure out how to get some bread So we was like, man, let's start our own t-shirt brand up So we just decided to get up one day and like, you know, take the train down on down to down to manhattan You know, we went to macy's at harrow square. Okay. I know where you at and uh, you know, we was like strolling Actually, before that we went down to 28th street. This is they said like Broadway. Yeah, yeah They said had these little like warehouses in the buildings when you go and they just be selling blanks like Yeah, yeah, so we was going in and we was like pricing out teas and whatnot and they was trying to get us on the price We was like, damn, this is expensive. You know what I mean? So anyway on the way back, we stopped at macy's Like, you know, let me just walk through here, man I ain't been here in a minute and we went up to on the young men's floor and they had just put in A sean john shop. Okay. So we seen this dude over there He had like dreads and he was kind of like folding the clothes and all of that He was rocking sean johns.  Dada He's like, all right. How is it? He's like, yeah, I love it so far. He's like, all right. Cool. Cool. Anyway That happened. We just went you know, we just walked through went back home You know saying about a week later. He shows up at the macy's store I was working at in white planes him and his boss And um, they came to do a shopping store. He was like, yo, we met you like about a week ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah What's going on? Anyway, um, they got to they got to setting up the shop and you know putting out the merchandise and we pretty much Helped them the entire time and you know, you know got got them whatever they needed and um And uh pretty much by the by the end of the day when they was getting ready to leave Uh, uh, his boss offered me a opportunity to intern, you know, okay. Okay. I'm like me. I'm like, I'm like I'm like Sean John. I'm like what I got to lose. You know what I'm saying? Big at the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was huge You know, it was it was getting big actually. It was really getting big. It's probably like it's like 2000. So anyway, um He was like, I bet this is probably like on a thursday. He was like, you'll meet me on saturday morning uh On for them road in the Bronx. I'm gonna pick you up there and we're gonna drive to brooklyn Fulling street We're gonna go to king's plaza and we're gonna go to green acres more Um, and we're gonna and we're gonna set these shops up. So saturday morning.  We set up the shop out there Um, and after we finish we set up that shop went to go have lunch at juniors Which you know, those who know, you know, full and street where macy's is in brooklyn There's a juniors that they're into the block that um, that goes like just like at the intersection of like, uh Fulton and flat bush somewhere around it And um, we had lunch and he pretty much offered me a job Like what? I'm like, I'm like, hell yeah, I gotta take this thing. So um, so yeah, so so anyway We are the day went on and we did the other two installs We went to uh, king's plaza. We went to green acres did that and um, yeah, man He hit me up the next week and was like, yo, then I want everything Yeah, and so so, you know, I interned for about four months And then um after that after those four months like I was up in the office like often So I was going to school in the evenings and early in the day I would I would I would go there, you know what I mean? And um, just pretty much help out and I was going in so much similar to what q said like you I was going in so much like people started asking me. I was like, like, yo, did it hide yet? I'm like, no So, you know what I mean? But I was there and it was like, it was like, yo, it was like, yo, you're good, man Like we need to get you on the team Anyway, uh, you know after those that four month period, you know, I got I got I got I got called into the office You know with the with the big big boss and um, he's pretty much like, oh, we want to offer you opportunities to come and assist You know The the the person who Was an intern So I was like, sure, you know what I mean? And um, and you know, uh, uh, it pretty much started right there Man, you know, I mean and that's how I got in the business.  Like what brought you to the magic?  What made you what made you go? I wanted your story then I wanted your story When I first got there, right? So who invited you don't die when I first got there No, so I I signed on the call kanai, right? So I was 20 years old Okay at this time when I finally got the job, right my first magic Of course, this is vegas. I turned 21. So magic was february My birthday's in january So I'm just able to get in and be in the casinos and all that So this is like crazy and then it was february. So I'm thinking this vegas is hot.  And then it's you got to keep in mind you got to keep in mind. This is 1997 now Yeah, so There's hardly no black reps, right? So every any streetwear Well, really they called it urban back then right any urban brand. There was no black reps Right. So like 1997, right? It was caulk and I this was like just before fooboo. This was like Yeah, yeah, you know me this was before most of them Yeah, I think Maurice Malone was there. Yeah. Yeah, other ones was there at the time So we get there and it's the whole sale staff for caulk and I was black So I'm just like man, this feels good.  So this was like almost the new era of Was cross colors and was this yeah, so yeah cross colors. Yeah, of course, you know cross colors, um I'm trying to think of these brands, man. Yeah at the time because then at the time So like the the the the shone johns the fat farms the rubles they started to come They wasn't there yet. Right. So they started to come about right time of here picking them back then Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course Yeah, yeah, no, you weren't rocking with y'all at all. Right. So, you know, they look at you bad, didn't you? You could just see I'm young. I'm 21 too. So, you know, but they still don't look at you like they just want you in certain places now Like it was like crazy. Yeah, it was it was crazy. So then Yeah, because I you know car can I really brought the party to vegas because that's when he started this was before now You know after that it was a party. There was 10 parties every night But caught it was the car can I was the only party in vegas during magic to go to it was a car can I party That was it until all of the other brands started coming in and everybody would do a party. Yeah, because we like to party Yeah, we we got it. But that would bring excitement. So then after a while I got people from new york like are we going to base for magic? I'm like for what? Like you ain't in the business. What you going for? We going to party. I'm like this is going to party This is getting crazy. But the first time y'all went did he had a party set up that first time or the first time? No The first time. No, he had to feel it out first. I mean, I'm that was his your first time and his first time was together No, no, no call was he was he had already been doing it already better. Yeah But when you got there, you get there are you kicking it? There was a party the first time you got there No, I think probably the second the second probably by the second time I think I wonder what popped him to did he ever tell you what popped him to do a party No, I don't know I mean it was just a lot of hype around the brand and all the celebrities were wearing it and Carl was close with like snooping all these guys. So it was just like it just made sense. Yeah, it just made sense to do it You know, what was the first um black brand ever?  You had walk aware I know but the first first black Brand I maybe say cross colors. Yeah, also the guy's only name was called as well. I think call it was cross colors and call Yeah, yeah, but call actually signed on so there was no brand before that call from cross colors And then he got into his own thing But he actually originally was was uh called brought him in I gotta I yeah, because two poc love that they calling now. He's wet at calling. Yeah, I tell you start with that I'm gonna make sure you get called on the show one day too, man.  I met two poc but not through call. I met two poc in new york, actually Yeah, I met him in the tunnel. Yeah, you was Did you walk up to him and say something to him? No, my cousin was uh, my cousin was a rapper.  He's out of new york and he I was he's just I was amazed. He knew everybody. I'll tell you in the same night I met two poc easy e met the man biggie same night same club in the tunnel same night And I was that was the night that um the last night that easy e He was in the club and I think he passed away a couple weeks after that. Wow Did you look see, huh? Not at all not at all. Did you talk to any of them? When you say you met them mean like hey, my name is such and such. Did you meet them like that? He was really close with two poc So he he would have like long conversations with two poc But he just always made sure my cousin always made sure like that I that I shook hands He was like if you ever if I ever introduced you and you shake hands with somebody I love He's like I'm only going to introduce you to killers and somebody I love So if you shake their hands because I love them or they're killer Because these enemies that's a real that's real. Yeah, so so yeah, so I met a lot of them Back then but call man.  He really is because like I said when I seen him out there When I seen him out there, he was uh, he just you and him strolling along Who's that drills one night? Yeah, I seen y'all y'all's kicking it. I said look at them boys, man They got it going on man. That boy right there is pinnacle, man I'm talking about the clothing man. I just I used to wear a car could not like before all this when I was in the street So I really I loved his brand like I remember the last one I had was that brown You remember stayed in the closet You don't know what the longest I don't I think I finally gave away, but I'm gonna have to give me some You had you had the sandals to go with it too. They used to work Yeah, yeah, I love that car. Can I man? I used to love it. That was a huge deal. He did with sketches actually Yeah, I rocked it man. That was it was no deal like that. He had a big deal with sketches Man, so I heard y'all talking earlier about the the blocks the streets man.   He's like I sell bags I've been on this block for 30 years.  Yeah, I'm serious. He was serious about that block So for you to leave new york, that's a big deal. You know to go you live niggas down this block forever Am I right? So, you know what that's the that's the beauty of being in this business and um having the opportunity to travel You know saying like I mean other things. Yeah. Yeah, I could say I could say this They might be like maybe nine ten states that I haven't That haven't been to you know saying you gotta tell me your first magic though Don't try to get out of my first magic. I mean first magic. I was I was I was wet man behind the edge You know me like I didn't even I didn't even expect it to happen when it happened literally happened Like I left like two days before I knew I was going Oh, um, because because my boss who actually brought me in at the time He left the company So I kind of like had to like fill his shoes Until they found somebody to replace him So it's like they didn't have anybody else to kind of you know represent that department at the show So it was like yo, we need you to go and at that time I'm dealing with like I was dealing with department stores at that time I wasn't even on the sales side. Yeah, yeah, yeah You know I used to be um involved with like merchandising shop development stuff like that So I'm working with like department store, you know presidents and gmm's and dmm's and region This one it was all together like it is now just at that one building. Yeah. Yeah It was solid, but it was more people way more people Yeah, right So um, so yeah, man, it's like, you know, I had to deal with like all of those guys and you know So my first show like basically the way the way shanjha was set up, you know for that particular time I don't know how long it went on because because I wasn't there for you know for I love the thing like two years later, but um, we had to go to go to vegas in suits Or or or the days of the show was we actually had to wear suits and at that time it was the show was four days It's a four day show So I think like the first day of color was like black second day was gray tan And then you had navy and I I I didn't have any suits You know what I mean? So so so you know the big boys the company um gave his assistant a credit card And it was like yo, you gotta take him out shopping This is like when I touched down and he was like, yo, we're going to the mall We're going to caesar's palace. We got to go shopping. Oh, you can you loving it with you loving it They took care of me. You know why they size you up and everything right? Yeah And this this is this is all done in like one afternoon Going into the evening. Yeah, and um, and then and then I was straight. Yeah, but um Give me that first drunk night when you got drunk and fell out. Oh man What happened in vegas?  You know, yeah, you stay in this. I'm gonna go I don't remember what hotel you were staying in but I know it had like two floors in there The tv came up out of like a little chest in front of the bed and and it was it was fly You know what I mean? Like it was like, yo, yeah, this is real. Yo, you know So so so so we left that and um, we were everybody's like driving back to the hotel and um Um, no director marketing was like, yo, yo, what you doing? I'm like, I'm just going nothing I'm just going back to the hotel. He's like, yo, you want to come out with us? I'm like, all right. And um, they took me a crazy horse. I don't know if you know Oh, yeah, I know I'm crazy. Yeah took me a crazy horse. That was my first time going to an establishment like that establishment Yo, it's crazy and and we probably got there like maybe 10 o'clock at night they left at about I mean what be my first my first uh dance And um, they left it about maybe two o'clock in the morning. I didn't leave till like 5 30 You know and you had to be at the booth and I had to be at the booth So I just went back to the little shower and and came back.   I was his that was his thing. You had a parish or a niche Oh, I'm a scheme.  I'm saying right right right and and and that was that was that back then Today's customer really has no loyalty to any brands and there's so many more options Out there, you know what I mean at that time there was really like limited options You know what I mean, but now it's like trends trends move so fast You know what I mean that it's like it's it it's hard to get to really get a solid um A solid grab on the younger customer now, you know, the older customer is still the same He hasn't changed, you know, he's just he's just you know more advanced in life now yet You know, he's likely it got a family. He's got a solid job. He's holding now He's got a house. He's got he's taking care of responsibilities and but but but he's still attached to that era You know I'm saying that was his fit probably his favorite era, you know So he's like, yo, I still want this type of look, you know for my for my fashion Is that the same thing you're seeing? Yeah, I mean he said it. Well, it's really an item driven business now So it's not they're not supporting the brands, right? So they're not they're not saying I need this one brand They like you got stacked denim, right? I need stacked denim. You got an oversized tea. I need oversized tea They just you know, they'll get it from another brand. They don't necessarily necessarily have to have it from Whatever the trends are as long as you you have the look they're gonna buy the look whoever has it When I first got into these clothes and in this store been here for 16 years. I had another store Like four stores at one time, but These pictures I would put on each wall at each store Just so people would know that these brands were coming from a real genuine place Because of coming to a mom and pop they don't have that sense of security to say oh, is this real? And there you'll get that in these mom and pops and so You know, uh, I put those, you know situations up there How big of a part do the artists play now and I ask you this In helping those brands to to move is it still the same driven space with this internet world We live in or is it now you have to be looking at it from a different perspective? Well, it's a little easier, you know, because social media is free, right? Like before to promote We asked us we have to used to have to spend $10,000 for a page in the source magazine You know $20,000 for a page in a five magazine Now you can literally have one million followers and you post it and now you just reached one million people So it's much easier that way But there's still licensee deals which a lot of people don't know they think that sometimes You know, if a guy has a brand that automatically he's the owner and that's not necessarily the case You know, he might own the name, but if you're signing a licensee deal, then he's getting a royalty Right and the company is really doing most of the work, but he's the face of the brand Wow Any question? I'll say You sure? Is there anything that you can think of in this clothing world? Because you know, you are clothes and uh uh Want to say she picked a lot of stuff We know What we can do is we can tell you the brands that are hot right now that we're selling, you know as independent salesmen Just came out What you got For your audience is watching, you know We got things like smugglers moon premium denim You know some of the illest denim you're gonna find in the market beautiful washes You know comes with you know all the cool bells and whistles that you want to see You know stash pockets on the legs and you know, just really really good quality denim He also has a denim line on called doctrine. Okay.  Yeah. Yeah streets is watching my boy. Y'all know that boy Black When you're talking about all these brands one thing I've always seen when you go to the magic show Is that um depends on what's in style a lot of these brands replicate each other Um, whether it be off brands or you know premium brands or whatever because it's whatever is trending Is what a lot of these brands go with except from their core styles You know their core styles stay the same because people buy it all year round But whereas like fashion and trend, you know, because it comes in and goes out Why would people want to spend the money to buy the premium Name brand stuff rather than to go buy something else that is similar You know within used to be the way to whereas if you wanted You know Fat farm you going to get fat farm. You know what I mean? It's a little bit different They're just not supporting the brands anymore. They'll take the look and and you know Personally a part of me brain blames the retailers, right? Because before You had to have let's say the top five whatever it is the fat farms the caulk in eyes Whatever you had to have that right what the retailers started doing is they would buy You know The guy that looks like fat farm, right? So you're actually training your customer to now Be able to buy the other stuff. So instead of having the top five guys He would have you know, two of them and then sprinkle in all this other stuff That was non-named who just took from the top guys and just put it in at a lesser price But now you're training your customer because he's like damn this looks like that Is $50 less. Let me just get that. So then you train them. He's like, you know what? I don't get this so it started pushing brands in the way So if you look now there's not really that many collections left There's brands, but there's like a t-shirt here t-shirt there It's not really collections back then if you will look at you know Rockerware this whole wall will be rock aware, right? You get the jackets You get the sneakers you get the shoes you get everything you can think of will be that one brand I don't know if I can blame the um the retailer because for the main fact that You know being in this business for 15 years We had clients who come in and you know, they would want the rock aware from head to toe You could not even try even if you did try to say hey You can you know wear this other shirt with that it matches this rock aware. Yeah, you know This looks good with this but I'm out of this size And that's the reason why somebody might try to sell them a shirt from a different brand because they're out of this size You were a large, but I already sold a large here. Let me sell you a large in this other brand But The dedicated people would be like no, I ain't going who who mixes brands that was back in the days But now it's like oh no I get a rock aware pants and put on a Sean John shirt and as long as it matches Who's gonna look inside my tag or who's gonna look because brands are not labeling And this is where the clothing brand could say that they're at fault They're not labeling their outfits where people know that okay. Oh, you were in a rock aware pants with a Sean John shirt They're having these small tags on here. So nobody can tell the state of the business change exactly Things are not as gaudy. Like you don't want any brand And that's what's allowing the buyers to mix and match because of that main fact It became a price thing to be honest with you like back then, right? Let's just be honest for a second Drugs drugs drove the business right, right? You had just stole how many years? The whole time But we had those dope boys who used to come in and buy a lot of stores and stuff like that literally tell me right This could be a tuesday, right? They They're top dope boys that come to the store and be like i'ma i'ma close my door Nobody could come in these three guys shop, right? They all spend three thousand dollars each Maybe i'll close for the rest of the day. Maybe not, right? It really drove the business. So back then You can you know, there was no there was money tuesday was there's no day where you're not making thousands of dollars Now i can go and go into a store and sit and talk to a guy for an hour Not one person to come in here or three people could come in and nobody bought nothing I gotta I gotta say this man because I hear all this spiel You know a lot of knowledge in here a lot of knowledge like respect big respect But I think there's a thing that's going on also with the marketing strategy I feel like they're not putting it out the way they should with the way the resources we got now It could be done in a way that strategically Placed in a place where you have to like you said that million subscribers There are places man, whether it be uh bigger platforms than this one. You got the breakfast club. You got uh You got all these different not only podcast you got a pot joe rogan The my Mike Tyson even got one you have to start thinking outside of the box, right? Everybody watching certain things I think people are not hustling hard enough. I'm being real. I'm maybe I'm maybe I'm tripping I mean like if you get to these people and say hey, man, you do this, man I'm gonna do this I'm pretty sure they would do it but people not thinking like that no more They just basically just sitting back cold made a lot of niggas lazy, bro Like it's a lot of things that you could be doing because there's a new you got you got different people that are These these viral moments going into these people who are making them happen There are these people out there But if we marketed on that level to what's catered to what's going on today, right? What do you think would happen?  What's that brands? No, no, it wasn't no big brand like that No, the one where they would come on they would get these clothes to these people and they was on the internet It was it was a Cardi B all of the different celebrities.  Oh, yeah Fashion over get hard in the middle That's what I'm telling you But hold on let's not get used to get confused fashion over pretty little thing or paying these people This is don't don't think that they're giving me stuff. I know that I know that they are paying these people to do this Like, you know, why don't these big brands pay? That's what I was saying as well. Well Not saying that they don't because you know what I'm gonna do the nature of the business has definitely changed But you see where I'm coming from right, right, right My thing is like to a certain extent like where we came from right call Was on the ground doing this himself, right hit the way that tupac water stuff It was basically set up. He went to go meet tupac, right In a room tupac is in there reading a script. He's not really paying call.  That was pox statement. That's B. So think about that, right? Like you want to come up, you know You my brother. I'm trying to help you out. Like yeah, once you get big. Yeah pay me. But guess what? You want to come up just like I am let's help each other, right? He started wearing this stuff You see where it took, you know where it took call So that's what I'm saying. Like it doesn't always have to be about money, right?  I just think the marketing got to be on that level We got a marketer because even on the rap music all this stuff is mentally being pushed to you Market wise i'm telling you I think we got to be on top of that if we're gonna keep these brands On another yeah, because you're right because that's sorry but when when you think about premium brands Premium brands used to do placement on rappers and actors actresses, whatever So but now it's become a thing where who's hot brand ambassadors the internet, whatever And you never saw them switch and did that except from as like he said the fashion overs and stuff like that But where the premium brands are concerned you hardly saw them doing that and that's what we're saying That's about it. Why not why didn't they switch with the curve? And and jump on that lane to line but I like to come back with the question to you, right? No, no, and this is this is real because think about it. Like why is it that? Gucci doesn't have to do it, but we should right? It's like you're asking the question right now I'm not saying you right. This is the question that gets asked all the time, right? So, you know, same thing we're called. They used to ask call. Why are you expensive? Your clothes are so expensive. All right. If I was a white man, would you be asking me that? So why are you asking me that? I'm black. I can't make expensive clothing You know what I'm saying?  Like, that's a question. Like, who can answer that for me? You know what I'm saying? Like, you want to look cool because you're going to buy the European stuff. Why not buy your own? Why not support your own? You know what I mean? Because they honestly don't care about you. No, it's true. You know what I'm saying? Like, we care about you. But, you know, how many people come in this store and do this show and a lot of them, but we know the ones that like Mike Jones and even Rainwater, like it's certain ones that they're not going to come in here. They're going to come buy something.   Right. They're not for to play with that because it's been guys drive over here just because of this show. I'm like, man, I just got to buy some guys here yesterday. I just got to buy some man cause at the end of the day, you know, y'all show love and y'all black and this is, this is a real thing. Another example is sorry to cut you off, but like, all right, if you're going into the Gucci store, you asking for a discount? No. No, right? So why should you go into the brother man store and ask for a discount? But when you think about that, you know, when we were talking, I thought about one other person. Um, I think it's more, I'm not going to say yes, it has to do with black and white, but it also has to do with, you know, status of the brand because look at Yeezys. Yeezys is a, it's Kanye, but they're not going into those stores or and be like, Hey, I need a discount on this or whatever store you're going to ask for a discount. You know what I'm saying? If you go into Adidas to get Yeezys, you're not asking for a discount. He knows that too. You know what I'm saying? Right? He knows that. But how many Yeezys are in black owned stores? Oh, that's a lot.  You go to Chicago to these partners store, I guarantee some Yeezys in there. You know what I mean? Cause it's out here. We all have to be a pardoning. I'm not saying, you know, retail. I'm not saying, you know, us, but just we all have to be a part of that. Like we gotta support each other. I don't mind. Like, yeah, I got Gucci, you know what I'm saying? But you know, I want to be able to support, you know, I want to be able to support us and we all should be supporting us. Right? Alrighty. Well, hey, man, let me see.   I respect all of y'all, man, cause y'all, y'all worked so much. Lisa who called me last week. I was so happy to hear from her cause I hadn't heard from her, but just different stuff. Like they're like, like, like, like you guys are those guys, man. So everybody just watching the show, gotta understand who these guys are, man. These guys are the guys that, who they just playing the self to be, man. Cock or not. Sean, John, these guys been in the game for a long time. So at the end of the day, just give me a spill on how can a person really link up, which if they trying to do something, they own a store, how can they, how can they get it? So we, you know, we learned the business, right? And what the business has taught us is that we have to have our own as well. So even though we're representing these brands, we now have our own business, right? So he has his business, which is called Green Room Sales. Okay. You know, I have Mines, which is Qualified Sales. It's a sales agency. So now, instead of working for one brand specifically, we contract multiple brands. And we put the brands in stores. So that's what we do. So, you know, for me, Mines is Qualified Sales. You can easily DM me on Instagram. It's at Qualified113. That's Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-E-D-1-1-3 on Instagram. Cool. Yep. And the easiest way to get a hold of me is by email. You can email me at greenroom sales number one at gmail.com. Again, that's greenroom sales number one at gmail.com. Well, man, hey, man, did we get everything? Did we turn everything upside down? Yes, sir. I just want to say I'm proud of you, man. I love you. Man, hey, man, hey, man, hey. I've been a subscriber already for a while, man. Boss talk all the way, baby. Listen, man, I love it. I love the progress, man. I love it. Man, you know, we always hustle and try to figure it out. You know, this Black Love thing, man, I haven't seen it for many years. Man, it been going on. People think it's, they don't, they think it's just boss talk. They like, you know, as soon as I started showing up, they never say, oh, here, she's going to leave him. I'm like, what? Damn, cut the camera off. Yeah. She a boss too. You know what I mean? Y'all locked in. Y'all locked in. It been 20 years, man, and we've been hanging in all this time, bro. So we just trying to do what's right. You know, we got kids. We got family. We try to be, we try to be family to the people that come on this panel too. So it's been a lot of people, like I always say, God put us here for a reason. This is my ministry. I get to talk to a lot of these young people, uh, people that are sitting in those seats, uh, three this year, died, got killed. One, two got killed. One died. One died from natural. And it was all young. Yeah. 22. You know what? 21. That's something. I pray for the youth. But when you, when you get a chance to speak to them like I get, so you have to give them something that's going to take them somewhere. This ain't just, this ain't just your average running a meal show. That's a fact. This is a show that get to speak to young brothers who may have some music who may not make it to next year. Yes, sir. I get a chance to talk to them. Right. And you mentioned earlier, you know, we, we, we are, we, we not saying that we up there in age, but we getting up there. Come on now. It's something to celebrate. It's something to celebrate. You can't, you can't see us in the stream and be like, oh, you better pray you make it to that age. You remember you say that to us when we were young. You didn't even think, no one there was talking about it.  You better pray you get to my age. I heard people say that now I'm that guy. I think about it sometimes. I'm like, I can't believe man. 40s man. We got kids and all of that. That's a blessing.  Like the lowest hanging fruit, try to pour into them so that they could, they could go out and when they interact with others, they'll kind of take that same energy that we're pouring into them and pour it into their friends and you know what I'm saying? They create a more positive environment around them and that's, that's what we're doing in favor man. I gotta read this because you were talking about the three people that passed away. So I had the other day we interviewed LD, which is she's the manager of one of the guys who had gotten killed. And we had a group of kids behind her. Some of them were, was his brother and some of them was cousins and friends. So I just got a message from the mother of two of the kids that were here and she said, hi, my name is, and I'm the mother of AK and Jacobi, two of the kids that were at the interview with LD about strap. I just wanted to say thank you so much for talking to my kids about God. It was like, God answered my prayers because I've been praying that my kids would have a closer relationship with God, especially after losing strap. So thank you so much and God bless you. That's awesome. I, you know, that's what it's about. Mentoring is something that, you know, we do as well and please, you know, even her feel free man.  Please reach out to me. You know, something I love to do. That's like my passion. Me and him are, you know, we're men of God. Man, you know, we serve on a regular basis. So please mentoring is, is, is close to my heart. So if you guys got, you know, kids, anybody listening that we got some young men that need to just have a big brother figure, please reach out to me. Man, what's your, what's your handle again? Qualified 113 on Instagram. Yeah. I have a, you can email me as well, qualified sales at Gmail. Man, if it's anything we can do, same thing. We hear boss talk here. We in the city. We are here in Dallas, man. We are here doing our thing, man. But really God got us in these seats to be an example, to be mentors, to be a ministers, to help these people, man, to help not only the kids, but also the grownups. I got to say that because so many people say, uh-huh, man, but I read a book where you don't, you don't say I'm going to help this and I ain't going to help that one. Matter of fact, you got to help whoever God put in those seats or in your life because you might say something to that person that can erupt change in that person life just by you speaking, changing to them because there's power in words. So what you say matters. And if you speak positivity into somebody, it don't matter what age they are, they can change, man. That's a fact. Hey man, check it, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk, one over and one with a boss that's talking. And we out.