What happens when two passionate hosts embark on an intimate journey, exploring the past, present, and future of their Brand/PodCast, Timeless Talk? With a heartfelt nod to our former third Co-Hosts, B Money$ & EQ, we're inviting you on a journey as we reminisce about the evolution of our podcast and unveil upcoming plans for our merchandise. All while a back & forth Q &A between Hosts AJ & SlideShow ensues so get ready to be part of our future, because this is all about you, our listeners.
During the Q & A we dive headfirst into personal territory, discussing the struggle of balancing career choices with personal passions. How do we navigate these murky waters? What does it take to keep the flame of ambition alive amidst life's challenges? Our conversations take us from grappling with grief to the lighter side of life - chatting about J Cole's influential music and our favorite vacation spots. On a more personal note, we open up about the aftermath of losing a loved one, the resilience it requires, and the various methods of coping and moving forward.
But we're not stopping there. We're setting sail toward future plans, sharing our hopes for the podcast and the growth of our clothing line, Timeless Empire. Finally, we're exploring the importance of character, the power of belief, and the influence we'd wield if given five minutes of undivided attention with the World. So tune in, join the conversation and walk away with a fresh perspective. We promise this is an episode of Timeless Talk that you won't want to miss.
*Supporting our PodCast & Timeless Empire Clothing
*Q&A Navigating Ambitions and Career Choices
*Q&A Influence and Inspiration
*Q&A Grieving & Defining Friendship
*Q&A Friendship & Favorite Vacation Spots
*Q&A Future Plans & Sharing Personal Beliefs
*Q&A Power of Belief in Jesus
*The Importance of Having Character
*Intro Beat Credit: Memnoc (Picasso)*
*Outro Beat Credit: JJ got Beatz*
What happens when two passionate hosts embark on an intimate journey, exploring the past, present, and future of their Brand/PodCast, Timeless Talk? With a heartfelt nod to our former third Co-Hosts, B Money$ & EQ, we're inviting you on a journey as we reminisce about the evolution of our podcast and unveil upcoming plans for our merchandise. All while a back & forth Q &A between Hosts AJ & SlideShow ensues so get ready to be part of our future, because this is all about you, our listeners.
During the Q & A we dive headfirst into personal territory, discussing the struggle of balancing career choices with personal passions. How do we navigate these murky waters? What does it take to keep the flame of ambition alive amidst life's challenges? Our conversations take us from grappling with grief to the lighter side of life - chatting about J Cole's influential music and our favorite vacation spots. On a more personal note, we open up about the aftermath of losing a loved one, the resilience it requires, and the various methods of coping and moving forward.
But we're not stopping there. We're setting sail toward future plans, sharing our hopes for the podcast and the growth of our clothing line, Timeless Empire. Finally, we're exploring the importance of character, the power of belief, and the influence we'd wield if given five minutes of undivided attention with the World. So tune in, join the conversation and walk away with a fresh perspective. We promise this is an episode of Timeless Talk that you won't want to miss.
*Supporting our PodCast & Timeless Empire Clothing
*Q&A Navigating Ambitions and Career Choices
*Q&A Influence and Inspiration
*Q&A Grieving & Defining Friendship
*Q&A Friendship & Favorite Vacation Spots
*Q&A Future Plans & Sharing Personal Beliefs
*Q&A Power of Belief in Jesus
*The Importance of Having Character
*Intro Beat Credit: Memnoc (Picasso)*
*Outro Beat Credit: JJ got Beatz*
Welcome back to. The conversation never ends. This is timeless talk. I'm your host, aj. To my right, as always, we have Slideshow my boy.
SlideShow:Hey, what can I say? Cancel, we cancel, but we ready, we ready, all right bro.
AJ:So this episode, you know what I'm saying. You got AJ and Slideshow back with y'all.
SlideShow:This episode, man it's just going to be us that's going to be a boys only episode right here.
AJ:You know, I'm not going to label it that because there's another podcast out there that calls it that. We got to design it, but what do you want to call it? Whenever, it's just you and me here talking bro, what kind of episode would you call that? I mean, we're just a regular host, we're the hosts, right? Yeah, whenever we have a third, it's a guest. Now there's no more official third spot anymore Anymore. Right? So we're down to the official two. I don't know. So we're down to the official two.
SlideShow:All of our thirds usually be red flags.
AJ:You do know that Respectful. I'm going to say you got to put that in there because our former thirds are going to take it as a diss or not take it up send us an email. They're going to think it's a diss.
SlideShow:Bro Lowkey, we only had two official thirds man, That'd be equally.
AJ:We only had two official thirds, we had a third and then we had a backup third and I also left.
SlideShow:No, no, no, I can't do that to the man. Honestly though real quick before we move forward.
AJ:I tend to give people a lot of praise on this show, Just kidding. What's up? Be money, Be money EQ. We appreciate everything you guys have brought to the show.
SlideShow:You know we're going to be doing a lot of things.
AJ:We're going to be doing a lot of things. We appreciate everything you guys have brought to the show. You know what I'm saying. He said be money. He said I said be money only. But anyway, moving on, this episode is going to be a little shorter than the average episode. Slycho and I decided to just take it a little easy on the topics and we're just going to ask each other some questions, give you all the opportunity to get to know us better, to get to know us better. You know what I'm saying. So we're going to ask each other a bunch of a series of questions and we're going to answer them truthfully, honestly and briefly. Right, so do you want to start a South Side Show, or should I?
SlideShow:Yeah, I'll start it off. Go ahead, brother. So we do know a bunch of podcasts. Time to talk. Yes, sir, we know about Time to Empire too, right.
AJ:Time to Empire. Yeah, that's right, we know a little bit about it, yeah, so I've talked about it briefly in the past.
SlideShow:So, for the viewers, what is your aspirations for it? As far as you see it going, you know what is it going to consist of and you know how soon can they. You know it. How won't be the word. How soon could they like look out for all of this, coming through all the merchandise and everything?
AJ:Okay, so there's two answers to that. Okay, so I'm glad you asked that question, slycho. So there's two answers to this question. Now, before I answer them, though, time to Talk is now also yours as well. Right, it's not just mine, it's yours as well. You're a part of this. We know it started way before this. It did. It started back with Armstrong, back in time. It was for sure 16. Okay, so I'm going to say seven or eight years ago yeah, you're right, but back then, that was back when I didn't have shit. I had no camera. I had a. We had one microphone, bro, one microphone that we put in the middle of the middle of the table. We had no camera, we had the shitty ass quality. I used GarageBand to edit it, no sound effects, didn't have no roadcaster pro and have none of that shit, man. So back in the primitive days, I'm actually thinking about reposting those old episodes, man, the first 10 episodes we ever did.
SlideShow:I saw a thing where they still look. I was. I was wondering if they're still up on YouTube too.
AJ:They got dog shit views, but that's a fact, bro. We didn't know what the fuck we were doing, man, those were truly growing pain days, man.
SlideShow:You got to start somewhere, though.
AJ:No, you do, you do. You got to start somewhere. So that's a fair point. I appreciate you bringing that up, but I do appreciate that you've been rocking with me with Time to Talk since the reboot day one, which is last April. So we've been around with the reboot since for about a year now. So shout out to us. You know what I'm saying.
AJ:Yeah, man, it's crazy time flies, huh yeah, but okay to answer your question, man. So merch for the for Timeless Talk. I'll talk about Time to Talk first. So merch for Timeless Talk. I want to get that out before the end of season four and about two months. That was it. That's two over a little over two months, about three months time. Okay, so within the next 14 weeks I would like to have, you know, some merch, at least the hats and t-shirts, out for you guys by then.
AJ:I'm not going to tell you guys what the design is going to be. It's going to be something simple that promotes the brand, probably quotes, probably quotes a couple quotes for sure, maybe for sure going to have the logo on there. You know what I'm saying. The logo is going to be on there, the logo is going to be on there. On the hats especially, the logo is going to just the hats are just going to be. I'm not going to cap, I'll just reveal to you guys what the caps are going to be. The caps first are going to be like adjustable. We'll eventually move into fittings when our revenue actually picks up and you actually donate.
AJ:You know what I'm saying? No, it's kidding, it's exactly. If you like the dad caps, so we're going to do adjustable dad caps but also snapbacks. Because me personally, if you guys have noticed every reason you follow me on the show, since we've had, since we've had visuals, you guys will notice I usually wear a snapback or a fitted hat. I'm not a big, big fan of dad hats, bro, I can't really pull them off like that.
SlideShow:They're cool. They're not my first.
AJ:I prefer the straps Exactly, but I know that strap. But I know some people, some people prefer the dad hats, bro. So we're going to have some variety for you guys. We're going to have snapbacks and adjustable dad hats, at first, just because it's more cost effective at the moment. And once that, obviously, you know, trans gets some revenue in, we can also flip it and make different types of hats. You know what I'm saying, for the bucket hats will look nice. That would look clean too. Some bucket hats will look nice, yeah, but they're going to be simple. They're just going to have the logo. The hats are going to have the logo on them. The time is talk logo.
SlideShow:The t-shirts, unless you want our faces on them.
AJ:I don't think they want that Put.
SlideShow:B money and Q tip on the hat for us.
AJ:Oh, he said, put B money and EQ on the hat for us. We might just do that. Do a t-shirt or a hat for EQ and B money, put their likenesses on it.
SlideShow:Ask for 90.
AJ:Oh shit, he said ask for 90. Oh shit, hey, he's supposed to come back on the show. Actually, you know, for those who have been following us since season one Damn, back in season one probably had an individual come on that was episode two. That was episode two. I think yeah, it was Episode two, season one. Episode two had one of EQ's guests, 90. So shout out to 90. If you still watch us, bro, come on the show. He's supposed to come back, but when B money's here, they want to discuss free masonry.
SlideShow:I'm going to call B money out on his crap too, because I've been watching a lot of free mason videos.
AJ:Oh, here you go.
SlideShow:They are Satanist, as I thought they are Satanist, they are.
AJ:They are Satanic.
SlideShow:Okay, so all those rituals and drinking, I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew I knew, save it for that episode.
AJ:Yeah, b money. He's Slyche was already calling your bluff.
SlideShow:Yeah, don't be a liar.
AJ:He's saying you fool the cat right now.
SlideShow:Yeah, so you're fully you know. We actually got one of those. We got one of the churches in Palmdale, hmm, one of the free mason churches.
AJ:I did see it.
SlideShow:I think a picture of it Right off the east side.
AJ:Yeah, yeah, right over there, you know what's funny right.
SlideShow:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
AJ:So on cue, there's also a church of Christ there, Did you see it?
SlideShow:Yeah, they're right across the street from each other.
AJ:That's so wild, bro, I'm like I'll be done, barbie.
SlideShow:Q said what's up?
AJ:Go leave that right there. That's a whole ass of the conversation, but you right.
SlideShow:Well, but the crazy thing is, don't nobody be at the Christian church, but you see a lot of churches parked over there across the street. I'll be like keep going, Keep moving.
AJ:That's facts bro, I don't know man, it's a little sus, though it's a little strange. I agree that they're that close proximity like that, but you know what happened, we digress. We digress back to the topic though. Yeah, man. So, aside from masonry and all that being possibly satanic, we'll come back to the topic with B money and 90 present. But yeah, back to the merch. And finishing answering your question, bro, so that's for the hats, for the t-shirts, because I'm not going to go crazy at first, because you know it's coming out of our pockets, always the first, the first runs going to be out of our pockets and then, when it sells, it'll pay for itself. You know what I mean. So, for the shirts, I'm debating Maybe you also give us a poll. I'll put a poll on Instagram next week. Actually, what do you guys prefer Long sleeves or short sleeves? I know we're getting into the fall, winter seasons coming up here now. What do you guys prefer? Short sleeves, long sleeves?
SlideShow:That, probably, that probably. My balance is so felt. You know what I'm saying, so let's figure that out. What kind of material, though? I like?
AJ:cotton, if we do more than one and if we do more than one design you and I are going to discuss this off the record It'll be a little more costly at first. So they say we do two shirts for them, right? One's going to be long sleeve, one's going to be short sleeve. That can be two different quotes, Like. One of them could be hashtag. Leave it in for one of the shirts. And then which? I'll just reveal the designs to you guys. One of them is going to be hashtag. Leave it in. That's one of the shirts. I'm going to tell you guys how the placement is going to be, but the logo is going to be on there and so is the quote. Sorry, you're saying a shout out to it.
SlideShow:Hey, one of the homies, they when I, when I was still working at the hospital it was funny, bro, I love you, feel like celebrity Um, he was like, he was like I, just I walked to ask him, I said what's up? And then, uh, like it was one of those things where, like you, don't stop me, just talking, keep walking, yeah. And then bro was like I didn't know what bro was talking about, but he, he said something oh now, homie, uh, mr Black, I'll call him Mr Black man, but it's Jacob. But he was like we're going to have them on the show too soon.
AJ:Yeah, I'm pretty sure, brandon, he was like he was like hashtag, leave it in. I was like he said that, yeah, you're watching the show. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, bro, that's what he fucks with us.
SlideShow:All right, Cool man, but I know we got to move on to another question, but uh, just to wrap it up, how can, how can the listener support you in your work?
AJ:Support me in my work. What do you mean, like what we do here? Well, I didn't finish before I, before I get to that one. Sorry, I didn't answer the question about time and simpire.
SlideShow:Oh, I almost forgot. Well, well, well, just incorporate that when you okay, how could they like support Cause? Honestly, yeah, I stick with you, but it's like all together, this is your dream. Yeah, that's true. So that's why I said how could they support you in your work? You're right, okay.
AJ:Well, so you know what, uh, you guys, if you guys, you guys can actually support us really easily and we'll put it on the screen right now. So we actually have two. I'm going to go put the links right here on the screen for you guys. And now we have one for through our PayPal account and another one through a buy me a coffee is what it's called. Right, yeah, so this is new. We just recently made these uh slide show new. Briefly about it, but I don't think he knew they were active right till right now. I think I didn't know. They're just there. So right now, we just actually starting today. I officially made these active about a week ago, but I'm promoting them to you guys now because I knew, so I chose and asked me this question. So it's on the screen now. Um, the links are also going to be in the description below. If you guys are watching us on YouTube or even you know, listening to us on the, on any platform, you guys don't listen to a Spotify Apple podcast, wherever it may be, we're going to have it in that description. The links are going to be there. You guys will be helping me promote that and push that forward a lot more with your donations, you guys. It's going to help me do a lot of things Accomplishment, as far as you know, equipment purchasing, better equipment for the show will help the podcast be a better production. It's also going to help me and slide show propel our you know, our, our aspirations for growing the clothing line a lot faster. For you guys. But basically your donations will literally just help push the show forward right In all aspects equipment wise, production wise, clothing line wise, all that stuff is going to help us promote and push everything forward and grow it to get some monetization coming in. We're not quite where we want to be yet for YouTube either, so that's unfortunately why we're kind of set back a little bit. Just, you know, your donations help a lot and I hope the show with everything to help propel my dream, as he put it. You know it's helping us get to the next level and he's a part of this now. So it's good to have you on board with me for my dream row to power forward.
AJ:No-transcript, my other dream, which was technically my first love before timeless talk, was even in a thing, because this is an accomplishment. Matter of fact, this, this, this podcast, has taken. I'm not allowed. He has taken the front seat now to what used to be the front seat, which was timeless empire. I had the idea for this way before I had the idea for this. So time is empire. You asked where that was at. So time is empire. You guys. That's actually taking a little bit longer, just because Not only has time is talk, taken the front seat and now that's unfortunately on the back burner back seat. That's coming out of my pocket. That's purely my, my, my, my, solo project, that slideshows not even involved it. I just wanted I.
AJ:The thing about this one is that I have so many, so many designs made for it, bro, so many, so much stuff ready to release. It's just, you know, life Expenses, things have set it back. Yeah, you know, I mean priorities have set it back. I'm not allowed you. I'm trying to make it a priority again so that I can have it. I'm not even a cap with you guys. I've unfortunately not given it enough attention. I have. But I will say this Timeless empire is trademarked, it is copy written, it is protected. I own the rights to this logo and to this name. So if anybody out there tries, they can't you lose in a court of law. I own the rights to this logo. I just haven't done anything with it yet that's just the reality.
AJ:I said, this is taking the front seat, so I haven't given as much passion and love as I should be. But now that I've been working the hours I've been working, getting the extra cash that I've been getting, I'm hoping that now I can finally put something into this to also get you guys some product for timeless empire, because that is deeply my up. My True love that I've been wanting to have is my own clothing line for a very long time.
AJ:But as far as that goes, man, that's really just on me. I have I put on the backburn, I've been giving it the love that it deserves, but it's definitely still a goal of mine, something I do want to accomplish. I feel passionate about the name and the yeah and the logo, you know saying under design itself. It's like it kind of is what helped me name, name, timeless talk was, so these two can actually tie into each other. Yeah, yeah that was original intention. I hope I answered your question.
SlideShow:Cuz that's. That's a thorough answer for them.
AJ:Yeah, you know, for you guys as well. Yeah, cuz I know I'm so. I so knew some of that already, I'm sure. But you know, thomas empires needs some more TLC man. Yeah, cuz I must talk wouldn't exist if it wasn't for this. Yes, that was you know.
AJ:I'm saying this came kind of like a spin-off. Yeah, honestly, the podcast, you guys, was just a better way originally. And I'll say this one last thing the podcast was originally supposed to promote this. Originally, it was supposed to promote this, it really was. So what you does, but you did, still does. I mean, it's all over the background, you know I'm saying, but I've had people ask me what the fuck is. Time is Empire? Don't worry, it's under wraps. It's gonna be something, but I need to finally just bring it to the light.
SlideShow:It's kind of like this is the the show part of it and this is like the the clothing part of it.
AJ:Yeah, like clothing and people are like what about the merch? Why do you have separate merch? Well, because there's money. Mean timeless talk is its own entity as well. You know what I mean? Yeah, but even though, like you said, like it's an extension of time, this empire, there's two ways to bank on it. You know? Say why not I'm saying you could easily make a clothing line culture, which is time, is Empire. And then you have time, this talk, which is the podcast.
SlideShow:I don't know which. It kind of kind of just suits it better, business wise. You think so like you got his own Clothing brand name. Yeah, it does suit exactly.
AJ:Yeah, you know. So you know I'm trying to say it is the same thing, but it just it's better for marketing, it's exactly, to have its own entity, have its own name. You know I'm saying like all right, so it's my turn, right? Yeah, all right. Slide show. So from my question for you, I'm gonna start off with something simple and then I'm again the deeper question yeah, how are you doing for real, like really, how are you doing right now in your life? You don't gotta give any personal answers that you don't want to put on the record, but how are you truly doing Right now in your life as a person?
SlideShow:I would say, man, you know, somebody told me when you hit the age of 25, it's kind of like you figure out. How did they say it? They said you know what you want to do, but you just don't know how to do it. You know, kind of like I see, kind of like a school, when you know you had that math question where they give you the answer but they're like Do the problem solving to get to this answer? Yeah, yeah. So it's like, so I'm kind of that. I kind of see what they're talking about. I'm at that phase.
SlideShow:So I would say right now is just like a challenging time, just because, you know, I'm constantly trying to remember or remind myself, like To let go of the past failures. You know, the past mistakes. You know Kind of eat the meat, spit out the bones, yeah, I, it's kind of like I could see, I could see a dream, I can see a vision, but it's like, okay, now how we gonna get there. So it's like Like, for example, like you know, just as, as you know, like I'm going for LAPD Of course and.
SlideShow:I have the, I have the background, like I just like I told you, I completed the background information, so you know, cool for you putting that out there.
AJ:You see, I wasn't gonna mention, I was in wait till he said something about it. But hey, yeah, man, congratulations to you. Slideshow is going out for LAPD. So for y'all that didn't, that didn't know.
SlideShow:You know, I should have put that out there but you can't go well Fucking.
AJ:Let haters be haters, man, that's what it is. I'm supportive of what you're trying to do, bro.
SlideShow:Not yet. Bro, appreciate that, by the way. Um, so yeah, I just I have things I'm trying to do. I want to get closer to God, but you know, a lot of these things, there's a there's, there's for for a lot of, for a lot of. It's like how can I say it? For a lot of things you want to do. The bigger, the higher you want to go, you know, the more you'll run across obstacles, right?
SlideShow:Yeah so, like right now, I just I just feel like it's that point in time where it's like, you know, I feel like Life is challenging you. Or you can say, I don't know, I think God is like sometimes, god, allow you to go through the storm, but to strengthen your faith, you know, yeah, just like I don't know, I don't know anybody that's ever had like no type of ambitions and got to where they wanted to get to. You know.
AJ:I'm saying that's a fair point. Yeah, I know what you're saying, because it's like, if you don't have an ambition as a drive, right, how are you gonna get there? You're not, that's like, that's like. But then you should be fair, though that's, I had the ambition for this. I mean, this is still an accomplishment, right? Clearly what we're doing is still an accomplishment, step in the right direction, of course, but I'm a lot of you man. My own compliance and laziness is the reason why I'm just being real, myself, myself and y'all.
SlideShow:Well, that's the reason why I started, you said those setbacks. You know, you know. You got priorities, yeah, you got to, you got to remember like the like, the same goes. You know, rome wasn't built in one day. Right, that's true.
AJ:But as long as you can have that says but it was destroyed in one.
SlideShow:Yeah, so it's like I feel as long as, like, as long as the ambition is there, they're still out, the driver's still there I, even even if it's just a spark you know a spark can light up a whole forest right? Yes, thanks. So I feel like, as long as that's still there, like you haven't given up, it's still here. That's true. It's like I appreciate that, bro. Yeah, of course it's like you said. Maybe that's not at the forefront, maybe this is in the driver's seat, but that's not passenger seat.
AJ:Yeah, you know yeah, you know, I like that better actually. Well, you put that that's in the passenger seat, not the driver seat, or not the back? Seat, I mean it's sorry, it was it again. I like how you put that. It's in the put it's in the passenger seat, not the back seat, that's back seat. Means you forgot about it I?
SlideShow:mean yeah, you can't, yeah, you can't, you know, you can't. You can't accept one and then cancel the other, you know.
AJ:They're together.
SlideShow:No, that's true, it's one business.
AJ:That's true, but no, but, like you know. Back to what you were saying, though. So you're that's what you want to do and you, you're passionate about that, right? Is that really what you are, you following your true aspirations, which is driving you to? Yeah? Well, because the reason why I ask and if you don't mind me sharing this, yeah, you know, did you want to be? Because you said doctor at first. Remember that. Yeah, you did talk about that. You were gonna be, remember when you were going to school back in, I think, season two season three.
AJ:They remember you left a couple episodes early because you were going to school. For that, yeah, did your passion change just because you're like this is not for me after all, or what? What? What made you want to change course? You know there's being a doctor to.
SlideShow:There was a lot of things that play behind that man. I did think it was cool man, but you know, I did my research. You know, as you know, we know some people in the medical field. Oh yeah, I got a couple opinions. I even spoke to some doctors. Okay, the one thing about a doctor which I didn't mind is you know, I like, I like customer service, I like jobs where you, you know how people too.
AJ:Yeah, You're working with.
SlideShow:Yeah or you see people, you know, give people a whole type stuff.
SlideShow:And it's rewarding that it is and it makes you, it makes you feel good internally, and money can't buy that. Nope, that's true. So it's like one of the things that made me change my mind about that is one. There's a saying that says, if you want to be a doctor, you can't have a family. Like you got a, you got a pick and chew. No, you know, you want a family, which, um, which I mean which, I guess it's just the same because you can. You obviously can't have a family, right, but it's like your own, call, yeah, your own call and you had to go.
AJ:You drop what you're doing and go straight over there. Right, so it's like.
SlideShow:So it's not like, oh, I got saturday and sunday off. It's like, if they call me I got to go in, gotta go.
AJ:So I mean you can't get a vacation, or yeah, that's a little, I think you can, and I think that's why a lot of doctors walk around like they could do whatever the fuck they want. I feel like, to a degree you can do whatever the fuck you want, but it comes with limitations. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, like it's like it's like you can do whatever you want because you can move, because you're a doctor. Right, you put in the they flight, they like to put their chest out, because you know they put all the years of schooling in. You know I'm saying and then all this stuff, Yep.
SlideShow:And then I figured as much.
AJ:I figured that's what it was too. I heard that was. I figured that would be an another issue for you. But they flaunt, you know their years, their college degree and all that whatever, because they earn it. And you know Nothing to take away from doctors because that's true, they earned. You know I'm saying the right to be a certain way, but I feel like you can still be humble about it, like I do know a couple doctors that are humble. They're still cool, you know I'm saying, but they move in ways that they want. So, as far as vacation time, I think that they have more pulled in certain other health care workers just because the doctors I just because they're doctors.
SlideShow:I think nurses got a better schedule 312.
AJ:Oh, I agree, no, no, scheduling wise. But I'm saying, I'm saying like they might have better pull Vacation wise. What I'm trying to say, because you're talking about, can I do I get a vacation? I think you get a vacation, yeah.
SlideShow:I'm pretty sure you can get one, but it's like.
AJ:I'm saying they they probably get better pulled than nurses. You don't think so. Just because they are quote-unquote doctors, they do more quote-unquote important jobs.
SlideShow:I mean they get paid more, but it's like that's why I do that, when you do nursing for five years, that's true, and you still making a lot of money anyways. True, I ain't going for nursing, by the way, but I'm putting that out there. But um, another one was. There was a bible verse man it said uh, it was saying something along the lines of like, I forgot, I'm gonna have to find that bible verse.
SlideShow:But it was basically saying I'm paraphrased because I don't remember exactly- what it says but it was saying like you know why, why put so much I don't know if it says so much time into schooling to get a big job? And you know, at the end of the day you're just gonna die, just like the homeless person. Like why waste your time? Just get a normal job? Yeah, that's true. And when I read that man I was like I don't like low key, cause I'm gonna go stress myself out with all this schooling and then I don't know. And then they say the competition for that is extremely.
AJ:I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's a club at the top.
SlideShow:I'm like yeah, nah, maybe I was thinking at first, maybe I'm in over my head, but I'm like nah, there's other jobs where I could still serve, and and you found one, and you found one, you know what I'm saying and hopefully that's that that this one is fulfilling you. But the thing is is, this is one that I tried out for in 2020 and it didn't. It just didn't fall through, but yeah, so I just went back to that one.
AJ:Well, way to try to complete it now and see.
SlideShow:Yeah, so so I no actually actually cause I still have the emails. That's the crazy part.
AJ:That's why that's motivation, bro, Bro. That's the reason motivation Low key, bro.
SlideShow:I have the email that says unfortunately you missed the written exam by five points and you I still got that email.
AJ:You could post them, bitches, right next to each other when you get approved, bro, you know what I'm saying. I would. Why not? I mean you be like you could put some shit on there.
SlideShow:Like perseverance pays off or some shit, you know what I mean. Like you persevere through the trials. My boy yeah.
AJ:You didn't say get at me, cause now I carry one legally motherfucker, I can see how to carry, can see how to carry, and I can do it lawfully motherfucker. No, but anyway, okay. So that that thoroughly answered it, bro. For my next question for you, man, we'll move back to you asking me something yeah, what superpower do you wish you had, any superpower? If you could have a superpower, bro, anything, anything what would you wish you had?
SlideShow:I think. I think just the power to fly, bro, I'll be straight with that. That's it Fly.
AJ:That's a good one. Just one, right, that's interesting. Just one, only one. That's a cool one, bro. I actually liked that one. I'm really careful.
SlideShow:That's the latest.
AJ:Fuck bro, I'd be flying to work every day, saving so much gas. Or imagine I'd be flying with a backpack full of my shit. This is nice. Bro just give me a hug, no a brisk. That she would be.
SlideShow:bro Wake your ass up in the morning, bro. Get ready to act, bro 5 am. Bro, my ass is flying, you just walk out the door and not even go down the steps.
AJ:That'd be badass bro. Just run or jump and then fly the fucking just fly off. That'd be cool, bro. Honestly, there we go. All right, man, your turn, you want to ask me something Uh-uh. You want to ask you two questions, or one, two on.
SlideShow:You want to do two of the talk.
AJ:That's what we're doing, right, you started it that way, ok all right, yeah, sure Sure. Yeah bro, what you got for me bro.
SlideShow:OK, so what? Or let's see no, who has made the most influence in your life? I already know who you're going to say, but you go ahead. I know you can do a celebrity and then be more realistic.
AJ:OK, Celebrity wise, I think you know. I think you know the answer to this man.
SlideShow:Oh right, why didn't I even ask that?
AJ:Man celebrity. Wait, let me, let me. What do you be considered a celebrity, though? If he's a music artist, I mean, it's going to be a cold world man.
SlideShow:He's followed by millions.
AJ:J Cole. You already knew who it was. He's followed by millions J Cole man. That's just because I look, even though I don't know the guy, and obviously you know you only put out in the world when you, when you put in the shit in the light, even you were guilty of this, right? You only put stuff out that you want people to know, right? Yeah, so I do feel like a lot of that is from the soul.
AJ:A lot of his music I like him. I like at least I like what he portrays. I should put it that way. I don't hang out with him on a daily, I don't know him, but what I will say is that his music, I feel like through his music man, he's been an inspiration, he's been an, he's been an influence in that way, because a lot of his music, if you really pay attention to lyrics, it's relatable. A lot of it is.
AJ:I mean, don't get me wrong he obviously has the occasional track where he's just busting on somebody or showing off. You know I mean flexing, flexing his. You know his knowledge about, you know phrases and words and how he uses his word usage Exactly and how, how. You know how he is work, play. You know saying that obviously, just the songs where he's just flexing and stunting on people and shit with his good work play, but then there's deeper tracks. Those are the ones that I'm talking about, where he reaches out, bro, and like love, yours is a classic. In my opinion, man. That's one of the realest songs he ever wrote, bro.
AJ:What was it for the album, though? That's tough man, man, bro, it would have to be my favorite J Co album of all time, would have to be between 2014,. Four Seals, Drive and Maybe his first album, which is Sightline Story, Cold World, the Sightline Story, that one, that's the first. This is the first album ever. That one is pretty good, bro. Just because you can hear the hunger, bro, in his voice and the fucking fire and his in his, in his flow and the beads, bro, we're fucking epic man. I almost want to play Rise and Shine for you all, man. That song, that's shit, oh, you hear that.
SlideShow:Listen to that one.
AJ:It's a good song. Listen to Rise and Shine off of Sightline Story. That's. That's one of my favorite tracks on this album. On that album particular, I think mine was KOD KOD really Really and I was his most different too. That was like his most actually have that on vinyl signed.
SlideShow:Hey, it was because I got assigned in vinyl bro, it was because didn't he drop it on 420? He did, and it's like instead of, instead of like, kill our demons. He went, he went right, he went against 420.
AJ:He did. There's something where you're right because you really pay attention to the album. That's what slapped me, bro. That whole album is against drugs, bro. Exactly. That's what's making fun of that shit. He's like he's targeting it and like not really making fun of it, but he's like bringing light to a dark subject.
SlideShow:Bro, that's, that's, that's what made it my favorite, bro.
AJ:I'll get a good choice. I remember I was in the bus stop bro.
SlideShow:Like man, like man. I was like I know my way from more than drugs, but let me listen. And I was like, bro, I listen and not. There was a one song on that album that didn't snap to me, so it's like I was like yeah, that's got to be the one man man, bro, honestly.
AJ:And then as far as, like, I have a favorite mixtape of his too. By the way, that should have been an album. I'm going to say the warmup. You read the one.
SlideShow:Oh, okay, that's the warmup and Friday Night Lights.
AJ:That was a hard choice right now to make. I'm going to have to say it's between Ah man, I don't know, bro, because Friday Night Lights was really good too. That's a close second though, man, I'm going to go with the come up. Oh sorry, the warmup.
AJ:The warmup, because the come up is his first mixtape, and he made the warmup. And then he made Friday Night Lights OK, and then he dropped his first album. So, mixtape wise, my favorite J Cole mixtape probably have to be the warmup. And as tough as that was to decide between that and Friday Night Lights because Friday Night Lights slaps, bro, I'm going to say I'm going to say the warmup, and then, because there's so many classic songs on there, if y'all haven't listened to the warmup, you are sleeping, man. That is a good hip hop right there. But anyway, he's the biggest influence on me, the biggest influence on me Celebrity wise I guess we want to put that category. He's the biggest influence, the biggest influence on me personally. In my personal life he's no longer with us, unfortunately.
SlideShow:I knew I knew those are going to be your two people bro you already knew it. I asked you these questions for them I already know.
AJ:I appreciate that, bro. Yeah, no, no see, he's right Sideshow knows me. That's how I know, that's why he's my boy, my brother, right here man.
AJ:I know, you know. You know you're my brother from another mother man, but it's like he knows these things. I'm sure you have questions that Slideshow already knew. The second one, which is my personal influence on my life, is my father man. He had the biggest influence because he knew the most about me. You know what I'm saying. I shared the most intimate conversations with him other than Slideshow, of course and my girlfriend. My pops are probably the only other person. No shade on my mother or anything. I love her too, of course. I still have her with us, thank God, but it's like she's still with us, but it's like you know the relationship I had with my pops, though, man, that was something different, you know what.
AJ:I'm saying that was not only my biggest influence, but my hero, my mentor, man, all right, and I let him down my fair share of time, protected for sure, bro, and he was someone that he gave me the best example. Even though I didn't follow his example all the time, I do, I do like. I know that he told me that I made him proud, though in every other aspect, man, like the way I'm being a father, you know what I'm saying, even though he's like you tell me, son, you got to correct it. He's telling me, son, you got, you did it backwards, you had the family first before getting married, but you know he knows I'm going to make it right for God, and God, like correction, out of love, exactly.
SlideShow:It was a correction.
AJ:Every time he would correct me it was to be out of love, but he would always remember. He would make sure he let me know what he was proud of me for. You know what I'm saying? It was never a lecture, always with oh he ain't doing this right, it's right, this right, and never tell me what I am doing right now. He would make sure he always added in what I was, what I was doing right and I've seen it too.
SlideShow:I know you witnessed it, you witnessed it before he passed. Yeah, man, so you know he.
AJ:Just I'm glad that you got to meet him. Know the time that you did meet him, bro. It was better late than never.
SlideShow:You know what I'm saying? Better late than never, but he's still even. Even then, he's still. I still seen a lot yeah.
AJ:Even in that small amount of time, yeah, yeah, and it was only nine months. Nine, 10 months, I only know them. Yeah, just under a year. Huh, yeah, because I think. Yeah, slideshow met him back.
SlideShow:But I thought it was longer than that.
AJ:It might. It felt like it might have been 10 or 11 months, bro, Because the first time you went to the house was in season one. I think it was only nine months bro. Because you met him. That first time you met him was when we shot that episode in the backyard.
SlideShow:Yeah, remember that it was like episode seven, so we'd have to go back and look at that date, the actual months yeah, to see the date that was recorded. Back then, bro, I did the math, it was only nine months, but the way, the way I'd see him act with you guys, yeah, and just the vibe and the I want to say just the radiance he gave off. Yeah, just his impact, bro, it kind of felt like it was longer man.
AJ:It did it did right Because he's just so impactful. Yeah, man. Man bro, Rest in peace. Yeah, rest in peace, my pops man. I love you. Dad. You know we have a whole episode. In case you guys didn't know, if you're new, this is your first episode ever watching the last bonus episode of the off season. Right Before we started season four, episode one, we did a whole tribute to my dad, yeah. So if you guys want to know, we want to give some time. It's a more heavier episode.
SlideShow:You know what I'm saying For sure.
AJ:The topics are definitely heavier, but it's a good episode. You know I put a little bit of his service in there as well. So if you guys want to check that out, you know it'll be. It'll be the reference at the end of the episode. You know you'll see it on the screen, it'll pop up. But anyway, aside from that man, that was my, you know, biggest personal influence was my dad. So losing my mentor and best friend and you know, best example of how to live my life it was. It's been a really tough adjustment because he's only been gone five months. Yeah, you know what I mean. It's literally you know what I'm saying. So it's just, it's just been rough, man. You know it's been a bit, as I said, bittersweet year, for sure you know. But anyway, that that was a good, heavy question, bro Dang man, that was, that's good.
SlideShow:I got one more for you right. Yeah, that was the first one you asked me right, yeah. Yeah, go ahead. So this question is a follow up from you. Know the one you just answered, which is uh, would you say that this is the hardest thing you've had to overcome throughout your life up to this point?
AJ:I would say yeah to this point. That's definitely it's been the toughest to overcome, I feel if I can answer that that way, you know what I mean. Like it's been, it's taking an adjustment that I don't know if I'm adjusting it correctly, because what. I'm not doing is I'm not really. I'm talking to people about it but I'm not going to any grieving classes. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It's one of those things to answer your question, I'm sorry.
SlideShow:I wanna answer your question.
AJ:So it's like I feel like me personally, man, I'm trying to grieve with it in my own way. Maybe I should do what my mom is doing, cause she's the one that's going to grieving classes. She's getting professional. Quote unquote professional help, is it?
AJ:helping. I feel like it is. She's doing a lot better than a lot of us expected her to be doing. Man, honestly, she's still very sad and you see it, bro, like well, you know, things will constantly remind her about my dad, like in this. I know it's tearing her up inside, but she's actually been a lot stronger than I expected her to be about it and I don't want everybody to take it like, oh, does she act, like she doesn't?
SlideShow:care, and it's not like that.
AJ:It's not how I mean it, like she's surprising us on how strong she's been taking it. You know she has the tears right. Everything, all everything. The emotions are all there, but she's going through her day to day, gooding up, going to work. You know what I'm saying. She's doing what she has to do, and a lot stronger than we expected her to. You know what I'm saying. That's what I mean by it, cause as far as it showing no, bro, that still shows very much. So she still breaks out on a random cry a lot. You know what I mean and certain things will bring her attention. Like I remember we got on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. We got off, she was in tears.
SlideShow:Oh yeah.
AJ:Cause she has a lot of fond memories with my pops on that ride, cause you know it's a slope. For those of you that know, pirates of the Caribbean is a ride where you're on a boat the whole time. You know what I'm saying. It gives you time to talk to your partner, there's a lot going on, you're watching the scenes or whatever, but it's like a five minute ride or so.
AJ:So you have a good amount of time to you know, shoot the breeze with your partner, talk about memories. You know what would you do next? So she has a lot of memories, a lot of fond memories of conversations with my dad on that ride. So she was just brought the tears when she wrote it.
SlideShow:Without him, you know what I'm saying. They've been on that ride together before. Oh yeah, cause Disneyland has been around since 55.
AJ:So they must have gone there before I was even a thought. You know what I'm saying. I'm sure they went when they were young kids, bro, and then they went again when they had their kids. So it's like a lot of memories, yeah man. A lot. Who knows what kind of conversations happened on that ride, you know what I'm saying. Deep or not, you know. But yeah, man, that's as far as you know answering your question. That's how that goes bro.
AJ:I've been. I feel like I've been doing a decent job, you know. But who knows, Maybe I should try to seek some professional help.
SlideShow:Maybe there's something deep down that I haven't tackled, yet you know what I mean Grief wise.
AJ:But I feel like I'm griefing with it decently. You know what I'm saying. It's not. It still affects me randomly, like I'll just cry in the car, and that just pretty much figures it being related to my passion and, more than likely, when you know, you know yeah she knows and we discuss it, but anyway, that's my answer to that brother, but are you ready for your questions? Yeah, what do you think friendship means? How do you think a healthy friendship should look?
SlideShow:I think friendship, despite what social media the picture they try to portray I don't think it's always peaches and cream and if it is it's probably not real. Yeah, exactly, we've even run, ran into a few road bumps.
AJ:You know what I'm saying. I consider you my best friend, so you know, having you like that, bro, and running into situations, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's, we don't have many right. We're pretty much on the same page about a lot of things, but we're not going to agree about everything either. Right, you know what I'm saying, right, and I try to and I try to get it out of them to tell me when he doesn't agree with me on something, because that's okay, because man to man, we usually always find a pretty decent resolution.
SlideShow:I was about to say like me, I'm somebody, man, I'd, I'd, I'd picture, I'd picture an idea, and if you don't agree, we just have to find somebody to make it work. You know, I think friendship isn't. I think friendship just to just to keep it brief is the fact that, no matter what I do of course you're not going to want to try to do your friend wrong, right, of course not. But no matter what happens, like no matter, like the friendship is still lasting through, you know, yeah, high, high waters. You know, through hell, like I know there's somebody I could depend on, like if my life depended on it, yeah, like, like I don't, it's, like I don't know. Like, if you're in trouble, that first person that comes to your mind, like I'm, like everybody got to at least have one person that comes to their mind, like if I'm, if I call you at three in, I know you'll be there on the dime.
SlideShow:You know like you're like, yeah, like, like you. Just, you just have my back. I know you have my back. Like is it? I don't know, man, it's cause it's it's. It's really hard to explain, cause it's not, it's it's. It's like it's kind of like I said, man, if you know, you know, yeah, if somebody comes to your, your head, your mind could tell you off the mat, like we trust them.
AJ:You know we don't Like that's a friend or though that's a foe.
SlideShow:Like, yeah, like your intuition, you know he got to let you know like that's a friend right there.
AJ:Oh yeah, facts, and he'll show you through those signs and through you know. Hey look, this is really but that's the thing.
SlideShow:It's like we said, though, like it's not that patches won't come or disagreements won't come, but it's that, at the end of the day, it could always come back together. You feel me? I think that's what a friend is. And then, as far as the second half of the question, what was it?
AJ:How do you think a healthy friendship should look Like? What are red flags in a real inner friendship? You know what I'm saying. What are the red flags and what? What?
SlideShow:does a healthy one look like. I think man, it's just like a two-parter.
AJ:I guess you know.
SlideShow:When it comes to friendship, man, I don't see how you know you got the basics loyalty. You know just telling truth to each other, keeping it real, having each other's back and letting your actions match your words right.
AJ:That for sure, cause I feel like a red flag. If I don't mean to cut you off, but it's like what?
SlideShow:No, no, no no.
AJ:A red flag to me would be someone that's just constantly using the friendship You're, using you in the friendships that makes sense, like only going to you when they need something. You know what I'm saying. Or they take forever to pay you back or whatever the fuck. You know what I mean. Yeah, it could be a lot of things, but I feel like a few, just to name a few. That would be definitely one of them. You gotta watch out to see if you're being used or only being called upon when you need something.
SlideShow:Yeah. You know what? I'm saying To keep it, yeah, to keep it light, I'd say.
AJ:Cause it can go deep right? That's a loaded question, man.
SlideShow:Hey, but the Bible? The Bible will tell you how to do all that man.
AJ:That's true.
SlideShow:Treat somebody how you want to be treated. Man Make it simple, hey man, even if you're not friends, we can still be friends.
AJ:Just treat me how you want to be treated. No thanks.
SlideShow:Thanks, and if you have your dog, come poop on my porch and say that you don't mind. You know like be real.
AJ:He said be real, you doggy shit on my porch.
SlideShow:Just treat me how you want to be treated. That's all man.
AJ:I don't want to self-explanatory. No well, it's pretty self-explanatory. All right, your turn, brother.
SlideShow:That was two. Yeah, that was two. Right, let's see when is your favorite spot to vacation at.
AJ:That I've gone to or that I want to go to Both. Ok, so favorite that I've ever gone to would probably have to be I want to say Florida, man, because I feel like when I went to Miami that was legit, bro. Like I feel like I was not only amongst my people. People are going to laugh oh, he's Cuban. He said Miami. No, I just feel like I like it because you know, it's the vibe. That's cool, man, cuyo chose dope bro. A lot of Cubans walking around.
AJ:The authentic Cuban food is good, you know what I'm saying Made by Cubans. No offense to the ones that are Cuban restaurants and spots that I tried out here. They're pretty decent. My shout out to Mamos are pretty good, but anyway, for the most part, authentic Cuban, made Cuban foods out there. A lot of people are out there.
AJ:The vibe, the South Beach, is cool, man, you know what I'm saying. You got the whole strip there with the clubs and bars and then you got the beach. If you're single, you got the women. See, I noticed I put that in there. If you're single, you got the women. You know what I'm saying. There's a lot of cool aspects to it, man, you know what I'm saying. It's a good vibe and when I had gone to visit there I was single at the time, so I'm not going to disclose what I did there, but I had a good time. Far as places to visit that I want to go, want to say somewhere maybe Italy, italy or Hawaii, that's nice. Hawaii is beautiful, bro, because it's like similar. You know I'm saying it's tropical, it's, it's it's out in the ocean. You know I'm saying it's. I'm an islander, technically, background is island Cuba, you know. So I think, visiting with there, even visiting Cuba or Hawaii, somewhere tropical, nice, like that, you know I'm saying mm-hmm or somewhere a little more.
AJ:It's a little different, but Italy's, italy's beautiful too, but for different, for serene, you know, displays of like the world that God created, though. Yeah, the grounds, and mountains and the animals, and the Italy looks beautiful man, maybe even Greece, you know. So, those places of all I would, I would like to visit, you know saying no, sir.
SlideShow:And the second one would be where do you see yourself five years from now?
AJ:Five years from now, I can see myself being a father, trying to adjust to my daughter getting older and not really knowing how that's gonna, you know, saying our house gonna go, or how am I? Am I gonna do it correctly? Yeah, am I gonna be a good dad? Those things I'm wondering about. Well, I know I'm gonna for sure be there, but as far as how I'm gonna be, where I'm gonna be, else, elsewhere, I mean in my, in the rest of my life, I would like to see this podcast grow. Yeah, hoping that in five years time the work that we put in doesn't seem like it was over.
AJ:Yeah, exactly that doesn't seem like I don't want to say those words cuz that's like putting in existence it's all say it differently Pays off. Like you said, that it, you know it gives us what we are hoping that it'll bring us and, at the same time, being content with the process and being happy with where it's at. You know I'm saying yeah, I'm hoping that in five years I'm pushing for in five years that the clothing line will be self-sustained, times Empire will finally be something with a good, with a nice little catalog with it. You know I'm saying meeting a website. You know I'm saying some, maybe not necessarily a place. I feel like nowadays you make more money with a website than you would an actual place to buy shit.
AJ:You know I'm saying let's be real, I think people buy more shit online nowadays and they do go into like those. You know I'm saying I remember back in the day man shout out, off topic, but it's another clothing line that I used to look up to that inspired time of the Empire, the hundreds man. You ever heard of them?
SlideShow:It's a clothing. Yeah, brother, I remember still it.
AJ:Yeah, man, they're still a brand they hit because they're not as popular as they used to be.
SlideShow:let's be honest, they kind of fell off a little bit. I just showed my age for y'all, the hundreds man Go back in the file cabinet a little bomb logo. You remember the bomb logo?
AJ:and shit atom bomb. They fell off, for sure they're not. They're not really in the spotlight like they used to be added, but they still make their money. They, they got, they got it. They remember they had, they had a place on Melrose, they still do in LA.
AJ:I remember going there, bro, when I was in high school and when I graduated in the first year at a high school, bro, we went there and stayed there like after for Black Friday sale. Yeah, me and my boy Thomas shout to tea. Not that, not that tea, a different tea. Anyway, I, thomas, we used to go there, man, and then go to those sales Late at night. We wait in line, bro, so that 5 am Come in, you go in there, and he's that warehouse sales. Yeah, we have all this dope gear on on sale and shit, all the streetwear. That's why I used to rock back in there. I still rock a little bit now, but streetwear was my shit man. So that was the inspiration for this guy right here for time of empire them.
AJ:And then you got 10, 10 deep. You got crooks and castles. And then you got another favorite my Johnny cupcakes. You remember that brand? It's a cupcake with crossbones. No, you're seeing that logo? You never seen it? Damn, I'm really showing my age. No, let's leave that right there. Anyway, yeah, man, these old streetwear brands inspired me to hopefully make this something, something, and I know that Fashion has changed a lot, yeah, since then. So now I gotta redo my research. And this is kind of a good thing, though, because now it gives me a chance to re see what everybody's wearing nowadays. You know saying what a because, with the targeted audience for time of empire, I Want it to be like young adults, younger folk, but I don't want little kids wearing it. You know I'm saying I don't.
SlideShow:I mean it fucking if it was a probably my regardless.
AJ:But eventually at some point when that's fine. Whatever it is, what it is, yeah, at least high schoolers, young adults, that's kind of what I'm targeting not anybody older than that.
AJ:Except, like, after that point, no one really wears graphic teeth. Yeah, that's past a certain age, you know I'm saying so that's really what I'm going for it. I do graphic design and you gotta make graphic design. You know t-shirts and hats and all that. So that's my targeted audience. But I do want to see that in five years be somewhere in a good space where it's self-sustaining and no longer coming out of my pocket. I'm saying just letting, letting the revenue pay for itself, for itself and eventually become profit. You know, say flip things in the time of empire, hopefully pay the bills one day. Mm-hmm, I willing that's what's happening in five years, cuz I know damn well I don't want to work where the fuck I'm at right now.
SlideShow:It's possible for five years, it is very possible.
AJ:It's got to make it more of a priority, that's all right. I'm glad I revisited this, because that's really the main thing that I'm getting from it for me personally. My message to myself right now Is to make this more of a priority. Man, yeah, so yeah, that's, that's where I see myself in five years. But all right, that was good one. Bro, if you had the attention of the whole world for five minutes, what would you say? Yeah, bro, yo, that's a good one too. Five minutes, five minutes. Everybody's undivided, undistracted attention. Sir, I'll just say you want me to preach for five minutes.
AJ:They're gonna listen. You actually had their attention, my boy. Whoo yeah man.
SlideShow:Man, I would man out there probably. I probably have everybody seated in. Mm-hmm, you know, I'll probably just tell them honestly. I Just told them what the Lord did for me. That's cool, I like that, honestly, I'd tell them how good he is. I like that answer.
AJ:That's cool and just hopefully that they get something from it right, because you have something relatable to say. I'm sure, man, that's the thing about man, bro, a lot of our, a lot of our stuff is relatable right, and there's humans like we have. We can have relatable situations and you know, events happen and things in our lives that are relatable, right Dang, I wish I knew he's gonna ask me. I was thinking about saving it too, just because you know that was a loaded question. We can ask you different one, we ask you a. No, I like that, but it was a lot In the deaf five minutes.
SlideShow:Okay, I'm like a pinnacle and everybody could just yeah, bro, or however you want it, or they're all on TV, or it could be the one.
AJ:Do you want to be? You just be us right. Or could be just you and a camera like it is right now. I don't like that. Or or you pick the scenario so they see that this is a scenario one either either in front of a camera like you are right now, okay, right, but so the only difference is it's alive, I'm not feet the entire world, okay, and everyone, no matter what they're doing. I actually stopped what they're doing. So imagine you had a whole full bar of people and I just Just look at the screen yeah, probably have a Malcolm X.
SlideShow:I don't have to say something, let me smite.
AJ:Yes, I was like this is my show. They're all fucking just into you, bro, watching you in the night. So there's that scenario. Or you are on a podium Front of a massive crowd matter of fact, fuck that. Let's add that to what you are on a podium so you can feel the energy around you but you're also on every TV in the country for those that are not in the present space. So, if you know, for the ones that are not actually there, they can still see you through the TV. That's all livestream. Whoo, what are you saying, my boy? You have them for five minutes. Five minutes on, that's a long time, bro. You think about it without any, any distractions.
SlideShow:Hello she bro. You know what I would do. I mean, you could say, you could say Jesus Christ is Lord and leave it at that. You already I.
AJ:But you know you might want you to go into depth.
SlideShow:That, though, exactly which is why I would say you always see Lord. Let's me ask you I'd start from my birth, man.
AJ:I'd start from our birth in five minutes though, so you gotta make it quick then.
SlideShow:No I mean I mean yeah, you know yeah, but it's like you got at first. You know you start off slow, yeah, short and simple. You know go through all the trials you know you had to face. You know talk about pops hiding me, how he didn't failed you on stuff like that. You know how these people came and went and you know, like you said earlier, you said there was times where you know, or the, the dude you referenced, you said how he said there was times where I was down and out, didn't nobody want to help.
SlideShow:Mm-hmm, but as soon as I call upon the name of the Lord, yeah, just somehow there was a way out of my situation All of a sudden. Every time I got cornered out, I just said that name and a door open.
AJ:And that's not a coincidence, bro, it's not. It's not in that situations like that and really you think enough evidence to prove anything right because you get cornered Against the wall and then you start getting to the.
SlideShow:I dare you to call upon the name of the Lord and see if you don't come through for you like he came through for me. He took me out to Mary clay and yeah, and he just. You start opening up about the Lord man, you gonna see you gonna see a little red light start flashing on you. Lord, you might see that, yeah it's okay and you know what you do. When you get it when that happened you start cranking it up more and you say pull the trigger.
AJ:I know where I'm going. Yeah, you see. You see that light coming and you like.
SlideShow:There was a dude in the Bible by the name of Stephen. You know Stephen he was. He was talking to the I believe was the Pharisees. He's talking to a group of people, man, because when he said that it kind of put me, but you talking to a group of people. And then he started opening up about Jesus Christ, this Jesus Christ that they tried to. The Bible says he was so full of the spirit, yeah, and he was spitting so much knowledge on them. Not only did they get confused, but they got angry and he said. He said, and when that happened, he started spending more and then he embarrassed them. He said they got embarrassed and then he said they drug them outside. They started, and as soon as they started picking up the rocks, he, as he was talking, the heavens opened up and he seemed Jesus sitting at the right hand of the father. That's why I was man. I see any Could, you could?
AJ:you come out in the middle of your speech from Imagine, you Imagine.
SlideShow:Imagine people lined up right here. You see them picking up their rocks and they like this. And as soon as you see them like this, you just see the heavens open up. Yo, you see God. You see God right there. You see him. You see him. Just clap before you like you saw most time. Yeah, you got, you got, you got to go through this last part, but you come with me in a second and as they throw a rock that you pop, boot, you know they, they piece you up in there and he stood. You still see God, and Last thing you say is Father, forgive me, they don't know what they do.
AJ:No, but then again. But you don't even know that conversation. In that way, though they might end in a positive note, but that means for the unbelievers that's probably more realistic and end up like that because they they treated the Christ that way. So there you go.
SlideShow:No man, because then you look at you look at the two prophets that's supposed to come in revelations. Hey, they were. They were killed. They would. All there was telling them to do is repent and they got killed.
AJ:That's the same thing I'm saying you know that's true, and they got killed, then they need to get killed for it too. That's because those Each and every single one of them, did too. They all died for something different. Much, but they all, but no, no, no, they all died differently. I'm sorry. They all died for the same person, but they all died differently.
SlideShow:You know, it's crazy bro so all these people have one thing in common they believe in God but not Jesus. Like they don't have a problem believing in God, they just want to believe in Jesus. Hmm.
AJ:They don't. They don't want it. I think a lot of this because accountability, they don't want to be held accountable for their actions. No, no, I just you know they go.
SlideShow:No, because they still believed in God the father. That's true. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you talking about? Exactly Like they believe in God, you know God the father's on the spirit. Who do you believe? In who.
AJ:Everybody. We talk about people in general.
SlideShow:Yeah, okay, I'm gonna make sure cuz they were talking about general audience, you know the people that killed Jesus. They didn't have a problem believing in God, they just believe in Jesus. But then, you know, jesus said I'm the way, the truth in the light. Yeah, and nobody gets life, life, these life, yeah, but I mean either way, he's both, but I mean you know.
AJ:No, no, no, you're right, you're right, and I think that I Don't know. Man, I feel like that's. When you have that kind of mount, that's a manable truth in front of you. Man Like you can only receive it one way, in my opinion, but non-believers always try to receive it the opposite, would you agree?
SlideShow:Oh, you get out of no man. I like that Bible verse. I told you earlier, man, the Bible says it's a privilege to believe in, in. God in the faith and you can't believe in the faith of God. Doesn't enable you to know I agree, and you know you have to think about well what, what. What makes this person you know More acceptable than this person to you know, like? Why would I make you believe and not make them believe you know? Good point, but God knows your heart and in the day.
AJ:Maybe that's what it is, you guys, because you start to think then if that's true, Then this will get us. No, I can't say this is gonna get us into a deep debate. Conversation. I'm not debate, because you and I believe the same thing, so there's no real debate there, but questioning Okay, well, what was it Then? There's no free will. And if there is free will notice, free will, no, no, sorry, what I meant to say was I free will then what's the point of evangelizing? That's what. That's what it might lead them to think about it. If God only allowed a certain amount of people to believe in them. Think about that. Yeah, why evangelize in? Why, quote-unquote try to save this non-believer? It's never that doesn't have the privilege or the allowance to believe in God.
SlideShow:No, no, no, see the thing you're saying well you're talking about if he's all knowing.
AJ:No, no, no, I'm saying like because you're saying that it's a privilege to believe in God, right, like, you believe that and you believe that that means that only certain people are allowed to believe in them, right? Well, the Bible says no. Does the Bible say alright, only some people are allowed to believe in God, like many are called through a chosen.
AJ:Yeah is that what that is then? So no, with him, with him, but then. But then they say within, the Bible says that anybody can be saved, right, if they just choose to believe in God. And 16 forgot, so so then then maybe you're wrong about that, then you're wrong about no, no, no, not that I mean like wrong about Only some people being allowed to, are being able to believe.
SlideShow:What does the Bible say about Judas? Judas, that's all Jesus. Yeah, the Bible says he was picked to do what he did Okay, see, so then.
AJ:So then that's back to my question.
SlideShow:Then so do you think evangelizing is pointless, you know, because it's kind of it's kind of like Pharaoh, the one that was. You know Moses, you know, mind you, he's still believing the same thing.
AJ:You know that. Right, I'm not contemplating, but I'm with you on this, I'm with you. I'm just asking up, I'm asking a question that I have a feeling someone else you know I'm saying someone else that doesn't believe would challenge you with, because I've been challenged with that before. I did ask them and asked that you know, like oldest, maybe not those words exactly, but someone has asked me, like y'all, do you if it's really a privilege? And then no one really had not. Everybody has a chance there, right?
SlideShow:Nobody has a chance but God knows your heart.
AJ:Yeah, so bottom line, bottom line. He knows who's gonna. It's like, yeah, I see what you're saying.
SlideShow:Just to finish that off, like, for example, it's you know, you know how God knows that end from the beginning, right, yeah, okay, so just picture this, judas, the one that Later on so Jesus, like the Bible says, before all that happened, he stole money from. You know all the money that they collected, whether it was from donations or you know whatever it is. He was the one that you know like he held the money and he actually stole money out of it. Hmm, and it's all about this. The guy that went with Jesus to do miracles, you know, preach, or whatever the case may be, yeah, so it's like God knows your heart.
SlideShow:So it's like if you evil, why don't I choose you to do this task? Yes, you go, you know, you're right, you're right. So it's like God just know when you know you know, yeah.
AJ:When you know you know, yeah, that's true. All right, yeah. So so for my last question for you sliding, you got two more from me. What is your spiciest opinion that most people disagree with?
SlideShow:I don't believe women should have power over man. Okay, and that could be.
AJ:That is a spicy thing yes, right, yeah, I don't think. Yeah, they shouldn't have power.
SlideShow:Man, I agree, no, and that could be that could go for as far as like.
AJ:Alpha, alpha females. That's yeah, that's the eagle thing man, it's not even that.
SlideShow:It's against the natural order. Yeah, I just say that it's against the natural order. I don't even disagree, feminists especially I. Be wanting to talk about. Just go back and forth? That's crazy, man. Um, all right, bro, what you got for me, then we'll wrap this episode up, man, these are closing questions here.
AJ:So okay, I, I, what is, what would? What is one of your favorite quotes?
SlideShow:That's a good one, man. I actually I don't. I'm gonna say this is my quote, because I don't.
AJ:I don't remember it coming from anyone else, so I'm gonna say what I, what I do when I go by one of my favorite quotes that sound egotistical, that I'm choosing my own shit. No, man, my quote would probably be you Um, it'd be my favorite, just like came up with it and I and I live by it. I Live by it. Is a man without character is just a shell of a person. Hmm, a man without character is a shell of a person. I actually put that on my letterman jacket, bro. Why could you?
AJ:explain to them with any so what that means y'all I mean cuz obviously you know like that to me, bro, is like it's very I feel like it's straightforward, but for those that don't understand it, I'll explain it further. I Feel like what it means to me, what I, what I intended to mean is that if you're a person that doesn't have any accountability, right, you don't have a role, character to your person, of who you are and you're just a show. And what I meant, what I mean by that, is that you're a shell of a person, as in, you're just a shell that encases. You grab whatever show that's free. You follow whatever trend there is without having a real idea, without having a real identity. Yeah, because a person with character is a person with identity.
AJ:Yeah right, stand for himself, Exactly so if you don't have your own individual identity, then you're constantly just switching out shells made of males, exactly. Oh, he said made of males. Cancel them, that they're the ones that are shells of men, and that's the shell drop for you.
SlideShow:I think that's their wife calling you.
AJ:Yeah, bro, and that's what it means, and that's right. That's my favorite quote and that's what I, you know I'm saying, cuz it's true. You know what? You're? A man without character. I like a person.
SlideShow:That's right for a beta male.
AJ:Can help it. Just in general. You know, you gotta have something you stand on, bro. You gotta have some type of characterization to yourself, or you're just a clone.
SlideShow:Yes, I stay at home.
AJ:Yep, that's a good it, yeah, and you're just a person that we look at the. It was a camera like yeah, there's some husbands out there, you know a few.
SlideShow:Wait, do you, I do that washes it.
AJ:I don't edit that out, bro, whatever. No, leave that hashtag Hashtag leaving it.
SlideShow:That's right. I'm trying to help you get back on your feet. Yo, it's for you that are watching. You know who you are. Take that skirt off.
AJ:It's you. You see, all that don't get enough when you're at the house all day. Those two, those two, but anyway, um, yeah, man, so that's that's my favorite quote. I came up with that one not to sound like I'm stroking my own horn too much or stroking my own stick, or Not to sound like I'm stroking my own ego.
SlideShow:That's what I was trying to say that's gotta be the most phenomenal quote. That must be your favorite. Oh, okay, which one, the second one or no, they're in your stick or whatever.
AJ:Oh, that's not a quote. What's your next question, man?
SlideShow:Last one is yeah. Is there anything else you want to mention about any of the topics we spoke about?
AJ:As far as anything I want to touch back on.
AJ:I didn't already say already, man, it's we appreciate, you guys is a and this is probably closer to time to what I had to say last, but you guys, you know, we appreciate everything.
AJ:You guys you know, as far as attention, and we appreciate all your attention for those that are paying attention, you know, I'm saying those that are listening and those that are watching we just to guess that if the donations would help a lot honestly, that's probably what I want to touch base on that would help power what we're trying to do a lot faster than just him and I doing it by ourselves, because we, basically, you know, we, we feel if you fuck with us, you know why not, you got a little extra cash. You don't mind helping out the show. You know I'm saying help us create some inventory for you guys to purchase and that also helps support the show when they start buying the merch Right? Yeah, that's what I want to touch base on back, it's just that real quick, you know. Yeah, that's all I got, man. Well, I will throw it back to you real quick before we put the outro on, when you need last tidbits or thoughts you want to play out there, bro, before we see them next week?
SlideShow:Don't be a beta male and the alpha female unless you a single mother, then you pop off what that's how it's gonna be.
AJ:Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, all right. All right, guys. With that being said, this has been timeless talk. We appreciate you, guys. We'll see you next week.