Why Grown Men Need Checkups and Better Birthday Gifts | Grown Man Game Ep. 10

speaker-1: Get it together, Listen, we're have to, you thought I'm taking a bigger cut. We're have to cut your cut. We can't get it recorded, man. Jesus Christ. We're gonna have done the whole podcast. That's it, y'all. If y'all didn't hear it, we gotta go.

speaker-0: Alright, so...

speaker-1: No, ahead. got it. You're the big dog.

speaker-0: I mean, I thought I had it and then you cut me off, ⁓ What's up, y'all? We are back in the hazy. I am your brother, Mike. Back again with my brother.

speaker-1: Right.

speaker-0: And this is grown man game. We're here to give you some game for some grown man and get our lives together with you and have some good conversation in the meantime.

speaker-1: Yeah, we definitely grown because you said heezy. And he's with hair was still in two strand twists.

speaker-0: My... since the brats. This was written by chat GPT. don't know what she that's what they told me to It's off the easy for cheesy grown man.

speaker-1: Man. Yo, speaking of the brand, I'm gonna sidetrack us a little bit. Side note. Did she just have a baby?

speaker-0: Was the side note. I think her, her, yeah.

speaker-1: Did she have the baby or did her significant other have the baby? Also, I didn't know until recently. I don't know how I missed it. I didn't know until recently that the brat wasn't that she played on the same team that we played on. And then I realized it, but then she was pregnant. I'm like, what's going on here? Anyway, sorry, sorry.

speaker-0: I think she's It's called You know, she used to be with Helen Iverson too, so it was...

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what saying. didn't really know. I mean, she kind of gave off the vibe, right? But at the same time, I think that was just hip hop at that time, because everybody looked like that, dressed like that. Because you had to be hardcore to be a rapper. You couldn't be like these ladies today, or Lil Kim, guess, kind of set it off. was just naked rapping. Yeah, yeah, you could be a naked rapper. Everybody else had to be Lil M.A. Is that what it is? Young M.A.?

speaker-0: Yeah. in the Foxy. Who old now?

speaker-1: I'm just saying, Lil Young, some letters after that, NBA, FBI.

speaker-0: No sleep. Yeah, yeah, but we back up in this thing, man. What's going on with you, brother? What's happening?

speaker-1: Man, I'm feeling good, man. went to the doctor the other day or yesterday actually, you know, took the test passed. They got a 65. Chris Rock said, no, everything checked out well. I was a little dehydrated, so I got to fix that. But blood tests came back good. This is the old man conversation. Tell me, I'm going to the doctor. Everything checked out well. I remember going to the doctor as a.

speaker-0: grown man conversations.

speaker-1: as like a 20 year old and it was like, I just had to go cause I had to take a physical for work or something like that. Now it's like, I go in and after we take all the blood tests, I'm like, all right, please let everything be good. don't want no scares. don't want no, hey, can you come back into the office? I don't need that. I don't even want them to email me afterwards. I just want to take the test and be done with it. I don't even want them to tell me it's good. No news is good news. But yeah, everything checked out. It's been getting kind of throughout the day, getting notifications of tests coming back. It's so far so good. Other than, like I said, I was a little dehydrated. So it was like, you gotta get your water intake up, which I knew going into it. So, feeling good about it.

speaker-0: Sometimes if you actually aren't really saying nothing. Nah, nah, you get you more strides.

speaker-1: I'm the least ashy person that you know. I'm lubricated all the time. I be on my kids about it all the time. ⁓ days in a row. So we had softball practice on Tuesday and she came out, she had on pants at school. So she came to practice. had her change into shorts and she put on her shorts and her knees, her knees looked like she had been kneeling and flowering. And I couldn't say nothing because we're in the group of ⁓

speaker-0: time.

speaker-1: and I tried to draft a couple of black girls this year. So we got a couple of black girls on the team and I didn't want to embarrass her in front of our people. So I say nothing. ⁓ And then yesterday we ⁓ to go to batting cages and the same thing, bro, she had on shorts and her knees was ashy and I pulled her to the side. I'm like, man, you embarrassing this family. You get your knees together. And she's like, I know. She's like, I looked down. There was nothing I could do. It was too late. I'm like, man.

speaker-0: young black kids going to these white schools now. know what saying?

speaker-1: That's exactly it. That was her defense. She was like, there's only three black kids in my class and we all be ashy. And I'm like, damn. on. Come on. You got to save us, kid. You got to take lotion to school from now on. But I guess that's one of the things. you know, moving to the suburbs and going to, you know, quote unquote, the good school or whatever, the better school. One, there's not a whole lot of black kids. Number one, there's diversity, but it's not like,

speaker-0: Y'all gotta represent us, bro.

speaker-1: Black diversity is like, there's a of Black kids, some Asian kids, some Indian kids, kids from all over the place, white kids, brown kids, right? So there's a lot of different colors, but there's not a lot of dark colors, right? And then I always was like, you don't want to be ashy because you can get talked about, right? But no, because nobody else uses lotion. So they don't care, like, know. They don't care that she's ashy, so they don't talk about her, right? Or like,

speaker-0: Clowning will get you.

speaker-1: One day Reagan's pants were flooding. I'm like, bro, I know that's a little bit of the style now. Y'all don't really care about that, but you can't be wearing them high water pants. Somebody gonna get on you. And nobody says anything. They be wrinkled. I'm like, man, you, I remember my mama used to be on me. You can't leave this house rough, dry, or wrinkled. You leave this house, you represent this family. You cannot leave the house like that. She would make me go back in and iron pants before we, we would be late to school ironing.

speaker-0: This is rough dry and a wrinkle. All right.

speaker-1: Yep. these kids are different these days, especially going. I wonder what it's like though, because we don't we don't go to the typical hood school, but like more black people, more brown people schools. So I wonder if these people still clowning each other. Right.

speaker-0: I think for sure, I think as they go into like say high school, there's gonna be more black people there.

speaker-1: going to Osos.

speaker-0: They're gonna find them people. It's gonna be there.

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. birds of a feather, right? But man, I'd be like, middle school was where, well, no, elementary school for me, like it's where you had to be on your game because we would talk about each other like dogs. And then all the way through, like Jones in or talking about people or whatever was like, it was a part of the culture. It was so big at one point. Remember MTV, your mama was a sh-

speaker-0: I was like, dang, they just stealing the culture.

speaker-1: Right? But now kids don't talk about each other like that no more. I guess. I don't know. I got suburban kids, so they don't talk about stuff like that.

speaker-0: Crazy man. I was in the suburbs and we was roasting, we was roasting. But it was junior high, yeah, junior high for sure, high school. I got a buddy, I think he turned to alcoholism because he was getting- Jesus. Roasted so bad.

speaker-1: And that's how it is, man, that's how it was.

speaker-0: Yeah, it's cold. cold. put the armor on, man. Put the armor of the Lord on before you go out here. You gotta get your game together.

speaker-1: Develop a thick skin or work on your comebacks. You gotta have something. I saw something on ⁓ social media. This dad was giving his daughter advice and he was like, you can say whatever you want to say about somebody as long as you finish it up with your raggedy ass. It makes it land better. He's like, say anything you want. That's why you gotta F with your raggedy It don't have to be a good one. If you finish it with your raggedy ass, you got him.

speaker-0: BLEH I had to guess.

speaker-1: And that's my advice to you. That's the grown man game. Tell your kids, know, when kids are talking about them, as long as they finish with yo raggedy ass, they win. That's one point for them.

speaker-0: Yeah. And if you owe somebody some money and they keep asking you about it, take your little funky $20.

speaker-1: Funky, yeah. It's gotta be funky. Or little, right? You gotta be little to the amount. Like you needed it, right? You needed it. When you needed it, it wasn't little. But now that you gotta give it back, it's funky. Or take your little $20. I don't need that no more.

speaker-0: funky 25 cent. $20. That in two hours, man. Play with me. Man. But yeah, man. I feel you on the going to the doctor. I haven't gone to the doctor in a hot minute. I mean, I had my checkup in September. Okay.

speaker-1: That check engine light. the cops to be. Oh, okay. Okay. Then it just sends you the sample thing? Oh, okay. And then was like come in.

speaker-0: Next week I did that. Oh, no, no, no. Everything was good. I had I scheduled it before I had did the sample. I was I'm just going to knock it out. Got you. You know, 45. I'm like, let me just let me just get in there and get it done. So y'all pray for me. Pray. But yeah, everything came back great with the sample. They call it occult blood. So there's no no blood, no nothing. Right. So I'm straight. But you know.

speaker-1: Come here!

speaker-0: I still want to get in there and make sure everything is official. Yeah, official tissue. I was looking at Kev on stage. I don't know if you saw the same post that he had on socials. But basically he was talking about, go to the doctor. to the doctor. What we push here on Girl Man Game all the time. And he was showing some of the comments and he was replying, you know,

speaker-1: The fish. present.

speaker-0: on camera to the comments like, dang, because the comments is like, ⁓ what you just want to go get a finger in your. Like, yeah, leave black men go to the doctor, bro. It's like, ⁓ you got to go to the gym and work out right straight.

speaker-1: ⁓ I saw that. Right? He got finger now he telling us to go to.

speaker-0: I mean, they was in there having a good time, I ain't gonna lie. It was hilarious, but I was like, come on, man.

speaker-1: Yeah, man. You know what? I don't know what the fear is. I get it, right? Because you don't want to get bad news or you feel fine. you don't, you know, it's like, don't need to go because I feel good. But, man, it's so many of us, first of all, I think we might have touched on this before, right? Like talking about silent killers, right? And high blood pressure and hypertension, especially in the black community. ⁓ are the silent killers, but they affect us more often than other populations. And so while you feel good, that's cool and all, but there may be something underlying. And in most cases, you're already paying for insurance. You got a job, you're probably paying for insurance, so you might as well use it. There's not very many things that you pay for that you just be throwing your money away and not actually using it. So if you're paying for insurance, you might as well go ahead and get in there. Go to the doctor, make them work for what you pay for. Right? And in most cases, if you feel good, you're probably going to be good. So there's nothing to worry about. But on the off chance that you go and you find out something, it's better to know early and be able to do something to prevent it than, you know, find out the hard way and have to get rushed to the hospital. But yeah, as we get older, for sure, like ⁓ I used to go like every couple of years. Now I'm like every every now I was in September too.

speaker-0: Yeah. Say.

speaker-1: So when I went this time, I'm going because of my birthday. Like I try to go every year on my birthday. And he was like, ⁓ it's only been six months. You didn't really need to come in. I was like, man, the hell you talking about? Hey, listen, I'm going see you in six months, sir. I'll be right back. And then we can give me all the good tests again. And it's no big deal. I ain't mad at it. He's like, yeah, you really don't need to. He's like, you know, ⁓ what did I ask him about? The colonoscopy, he was like, you're still too young.

speaker-0: I

speaker-1: and then prostate cancer, Or getting your prostate checked. And I know these are the tests that people really don't want to do, but my dad has prostate cancer, so I'm like, I want to know ahead of time. He was like, well, how old was your dad when he got it? I'm like, it don't matter. Listen, he was like, well, it's not genetic. I'm like, I don't care. He didn't know. He just showed up to the doctor one day, and then he had to go through chemo. They're like, come on, man. Like, just, I'm not pushing to get the test, but like, is it time? Just let me, is it time? He's like, oh, you can probably wait till you're 50. I'm like, 10 years? I'm like, what if it was not 10 years, but I'm like, what if something happens between now and then? I'm just going to suffer until like I got it and there's nothing. Now we got to go through whatever extensive stuff to repair it or cure it. It's like, man, I'll be here in six months. See you soon.

speaker-0: LINE UP Yeah, stop playing. I mean, I did it, but I didn't do, I think, I don't know if it's a new way, but the way that my doctor did it, they were able to just do something with the blood. They took it from the blood. So it was just, boop, boop. It was like, ⁓ you're normal, Mr. Todd. I okay, cool. Let me get the colonoscopy next to that. Well, yeah, man. Gotta stay on top of it, man. Not playing.

speaker-1: Okay, that's even better then. Okay? Yeah, no matter how old you are too, right? Like obviously when you're younger, it's less likely that things are going to happen, but you want to have kind of a history or a trend, right? When you go to the doctor, they can look at trends. Like the last time you came was five years ago versus now, that trend is going to be all off, right? And so they can't really figure out like, is this a heightened level or is this a lower level? Because the levels are so far apart. Like you want to give a consistent trend. So just go get your checkup. Yearly, you know, at least yearly. ⁓ I, like I said, I'm going be a little extra about it because we pay. We both pay. I pay and my wife pays. We both got to pay for insurance. So I might as well get double checkups.

speaker-0: That was a comedian TK T to the monkey. Okay. He was like black man. need to go every six months. They say here go every six months. Hell go every four or three months. Whatever you want to do. I'm like, I feel you, bro.

speaker-1: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? You go and they're like, hey, you're OK. Right. Right. All right. You know what I was thinking about just kind of recently, I think, is is as I get older, little stuff just starts to nag. So on I think it was on Tiktok. This is dude, he's asking like ex football players. He's like, right now, if you had to go back. and do the, what do they call it, morning running or spring ball workout. Like if you could go back right now at your age, the health level that you're at, could you survive a day? And I was like, man, hell no. And I'm in good shape. And he was like, you can make one day. And I'm like, yeah, I can make one day, but the next two weeks of my life are gonna be terrible. It's like, I'm not even worried about the day. Yes, I can survive the day. I'm gonna throw up and make it through, right? It's not the worst possible thing that can happen. But the next two weeks of my life are gonna be treacherous, right? The soreness, the stuff that I haven't used in forever is all of a sudden now like, what the hell is this? What muscle was that that we did? I'm like, nah, man, it'd take me forever to recover. Like when I was in my 20s, I could go through a hard workout, be good by the next day or the day after with a little bit of soreness. Now, man, I do something that I haven't done in a while. I slept wrong on my shoulder and it still hurts. It's been like two weeks and I'm still like everywhere. Every once in a while I got to pause and do one of these. Like come on. Like I'm asking my doctor like yo what should I do? He was like man you just sleep differently. That's it right you can just go to sleep and get hurt.

speaker-0: Oil it. Damn. It's real. It is so real. I was helping out at the job and I was driving a forklift and I usually, you know, I'm usually just moving around, but sitting down for so long on a forklift, it was like about a week long. I was getting all kinds of pains in my legs. I'm like, how am I getting pains in my leg? I wasn't working out, I sitting down for a long time, I'm like, this is crazy, but like you said, we got that insurance, so I went to the chiropractor. He was like, ⁓ this is your preformance muscle, and this is all you have to do. And he got me right. Now I do that stretch. I don't be on a forklift much anymore, but now I know I can just do that right stretch.

speaker-1: Impressive pedals.

speaker-0: Which is another thing that sounds crazy, but you got to stretch when you wake up when you're getting grown, man. You got to stretch, Stretch.

speaker-1: Yeah, the day itself is a workout, right? You gotta warm up to start the

speaker-0: Warm up man, gotta get that engine.

speaker-1: Yeah, man. Yeah, you turn it on and let the car sit for a little while.

speaker-0: Yeah, ⁓ man, did you see that on socials? They were talking about, I'm gonna call it young chicks. They were saying young hoes, but I'm gonna say young chicks. No, But they were like, know, young chicks don't even start the engine up before they go to work. They just jump in the car and turn it on and go to work. It's like young hoes, they don't even, damn, I said it again. I'm sorry, y'all. Young chicks don't even... ⁓

speaker-1: You just said it now. ⁓ See?

speaker-0: They don't thaw out the chicken in cold water. They just put it under hot water and just turn it on.

speaker-1: ⁓ man, the germs, the bacteria is on. The bacteria is like, yes! ⁓ here we go, baby.

speaker-0: like young chicks, man, they just be filling up the washing, man. They don't put it to the halfway. They just keep filling it up. It'd be so overfilled. And it was funny, a funny joke, but it did kind of make me think like, okay, well.

speaker-1: Why? I can tell you why. What immediately came to my mind when you started talking about that. I don't know if it's accurate, but I'm going to say this. Grandmas are younger. Right? Grandmas are getting younger and younger. You got grandmas in like their mid forties. Right? And grandma, like a young grandma, ain't teaching her daughter or her granddaughter or really anybody in the family that she's still out moving and grooving. Like imagine, let's say 50, let's say 50, because we're not that far away from it.

speaker-0: Break it down. crazy

speaker-1: We can be 50 and be grandparents, right? We still listening to the same music our kids listening to. Matter fact, our grandkids listening to the same, we all doing the same stuff. So I'm not teaching you like those kinds of things, right? Or that stuff isn't getting passed down like it used to, right? Cause like your grandma, your big mama or your mom, even your mom was older, right? And so she had stuff that she would make you do or there's just ways that you do stuff. But now like, you know, when you and your mom is 16 years apart, like. We just, we ain't got time for that. We ain't got time to be teaching you that. Throwing out the chicken used to be a thing, right? I'm sorry. Folks ain't even washing the chicken no more. It's just, that's crazy. Just get to work. Just get to cooking. And don't listen to what they say. Don't listen. Cause first all, the white people be talking about don't wash your chicken cause it spreads bacteria, it spreads germs. Who gets salmonella more often?

speaker-0: Wash your chicken.

speaker-1: white people are black. So I'm just saying, facts over feelings, people, facts over feelings. No, I don't know if those are facts. mean, those are black. Those are snapple facts. But yeah, wash your chicken and teach your grandbabies to wash their chicken. But again, I don't know if that's the real reason, but I think that happens a lot. It's like, if there isn't a big enough age gap, there isn't enough knowledge passed down.

speaker-0: Not us. ⁓ Come on. don't know either, but that's good enough.

speaker-1: because there isn't enough lived experience, right? Like you're just trying to figure it out. I think too, you just have bigger families, so there'd be a bigger gap amongst the kids. so like by the time that last seventh or ninth kid was had, like there was so much experience that mom and dad have had that there was just ways that we did stuff in the house, right? And so everybody learned it. Or too, everybody's so spread out now. My whole family lived in the same four block radius. We was at my grandma's house, we was at my auntie's house, and my oldest aunt is like 17 years older than my mom. And so she was old, you know what I mean? So it was like all these people that you had to learn from or that you got experiences from. Now, your mom lives four cities away from you, or she might live in another state, and your nearest relative might be in another. So you don't have that community anymore. where everybody's learning these things that are kind of passed down generationally, they get lost in the sauce because there aren't those connection points anymore. And then there's just some ignorance on top of that, right? Just like, yo, I don't need to, I got a brand new car. That's them old cars. You don't need to do that no more. I don't need to warm up my cars. 2026, if they make a car, they make a car in 2026 that I need to warm up, something's wrong. Like, come on, man. They haven't got better? Like, come on, man.

speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah, it's wild.

speaker-1: You got cars that don't run on gas and I still got to warm up my car? Come on. Get it together, Man, I didn't have to warm up my battery when I turned this phone. I just turned it on and got to work.

speaker-0: And listen, I'm warming my neck right now. sure. And that's true. I had a whole different other. My mic is getting on my nerves. What you doing, playa? Stay up. That's what I try to tell my people all the time. Stay up.

speaker-1: Yeah. You got them heavy mics, bro. Let me see. Can we get something? We say something. Sure. Sure. The SM7B is a fire mic. The sound is fire. Right. I really like the clarity. I love it. But it's heavy. Can we get a lighter version of the mic? If y'all listening.

speaker-0: We need this tool. can test the mouse.

speaker-1: A and

speaker-0: So I went the whole opposite way. I like what you were talking about. Cause I remember I knew back in my young days, I was like 19 and I ⁓ hanging out with some lady friends and we in Inglewood at her house. And I walk in, she was attractive and she introduced me to her mama and her mama was fine. And she was like, and this is my grandma and her grandmama was fine. I said, God.

speaker-1: And they was all going to the same school. It was ⁓ all at Long Beach City College trying to get their cosmetology. ⁓ You know what mean? Like everybody's the same age. ⁓

speaker-0: But so my idea was like there's so many older dudes dating younger women that were like, ⁓ these young chicks don't do this. It's like, yeah, cause she never learned, bro. And she young, the ones that know are older. So you, you 35, 40 years old dating a 20 year old talking about how come she don't know how to bust down a chicken. It's like, cause she's a kid. That's why sir, she wants She don't want Boston baked beans. That's disgusting to her. She wants, I don't know, watermelon Sour Patch Kids. know what saying? I don't know, man. You need to get some snicker aged women, some payday aged, atomic fireball, all right? You your 40s. Yes, I'm talking to you.

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what though? This is something that I've kind of, I was talking to a younger dude about, is I think now with social media and everybody's connection to everybody, right? Everybody's locked in everybody and we're aware of the things that could be had. And this maybe has always happened, right? Women mature faster than men, or at least they say, right? Emotionally or mentally or however you wanna put it. saw, actually I posted this. You do a Google search and ask when men, reach maturity, it says 43. And that's emotional maturity, but 43 years old is pretty late. But I'm saying all that to say like, it takes us some time to get our stuff together, to like grow through our career, get our money right, get houses and car. Like when we're young, just do what we have to do to survive, right? You get about 35, 40, you start to get established, you moved up a little bit in your company, you got a little money, you got a little nice car, little apartment or a house or something like that. Women now, when they become adults, that's what they're looking for right away. So the 20 year old dude don't have that, right? He got a little bucket, little scraper thing that he put together so he can get to and from. He might be renting the room somewhere. He might still stay with his mom, but they don't want him, right? They want somebody that already got, Mr. James got, know, he got his own car. He got a house. He can provide that, right? So the old dude ends up with the young girl because what she's looking for is what he has already, right? But. He might be physically looking for a younger girl, right? Like she's still young and perky and she looks good and all that stuff that he now desires visually, but she don't have the intangibles, right? She don't know how to cook. She don't know how to clean up. She a little immature. She talk about stuff that you don't talk about. She don't use the same slang. And so, all I do is complain about that stuff, but you were right. That's the girl that you're seeking out. Right? The other part of that is the lady that's your age, right? The lady that wants to eat the Boston baked beans, she ain't gonna go for your foolishness. Right? Like she's not so easily persuaded by the ignorance, right? And so y'all don't mesh in that way. So the young girl is immature enough to still be biting the bull when you be talking about something that don't make sense. well, I guess I could see that in the old lady. She'll put you in your place.

speaker-0: Get out of here.

speaker-1: Necro, please.

speaker-0: We used to say that back in high school, ⁓ you know, you're younger, freshman, sophomore, junior, you don't got a car yet. And then here come these super seniors just pulling up in the car and the girls is like, ⁓ it's like, mm-hmm, you got a car, huh, homie, huh? You a sucker, man, you a lame, all right? I'm grown now, I'm still angry about y'all old dudes coming up, taking. taking our girls to the prime, He was 22 years old, bruh.

speaker-1: That was a wild time. That was a real thing. It used to happen all the time. think at every school in America, there was some old dude that was picking up a high school girl. I couldn't imagine, I'm a year older than Ari, but I don't think I ever picked her up from school. And obviously I'm a year older. I was at the same school she was at. So me coming back is not a big deal. But it would be a full blown adult coming to pick up these young girls.

speaker-0: 240sx Yeah, wow. That crazy

speaker-1: And like everybody knew, I don't think like the admin didn't know, the teachers didn't know, but every kid knew like, yo, so and so, that dude is 24. Like he ain't, he not in college, but he should be. And he's coming to pick up this sophomore. like, and the girls was all like, oh, yeah, like it was so cool. And we was all hating, right? Of course, yes, we still hating. We was all hating. Like, come on, man. Like it's already hard enough for us to get girls at school. Now here you come with your little $20 chain. Right. Whipping in the parking lot. Yes.

speaker-0: trip tired of y'all man. Go get somebody your own age. No game having rusty

speaker-1: But Yeah. You know what though? think too, along with age, You got to get somebody on your maturity level. Yeah. Right? Because they're, I hate to say that because there's some young girls that are mature or at least think they are. But they don't have no concept of the world yet. So y'all can take that back. Get somebody on your maturity level. She should be around your age. If she don't ⁓ know who her sweet love is, if she start talking about Kendrick, then we got problems. If you think Luther is in reference to Kendrick and not Luther Vandross, we got problems, bruh. She ain't the one for you. She's not the one, If she don't clean up on Sundays to Anita Baker, she ain't the one for you.

speaker-0: ⁓ She don't know what that is. Tripping bro.

speaker-1: Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

speaker-0: It's all good, man. What we got going on in the group chat, man? I know we had something nice and spicy. You know, it was Valentine's Day a while back, but you know what saying?

speaker-1: Yeah, so I want to talk about that, So gifts, right? We talk about giving gifts and this don't have to be Valentine's Day. It could be your birthday. It could be Christmas. I think Christmas might be the exception. Yeah, think Christmas might be the exception, but any other holiday, Father's Day, your birthday, Valentine's Day. Why is it that women think sex is a gift? Like, okay, so if I can get this on a Tuesday, on a random Tuesday,

speaker-0: I'd better say that's treacherous if you can get that.

speaker-1: When this national holiday comes around, you're like, here, take that. Right? No, don't get me wrong. I totally fully enjoy it. It's Fully enjoy it. Amazing. It's one of my favorite pastimes, right? In all versions. But as a gift? Nah, bro. Because I can't give you the same gift. Right? I can't be like, all right, here you go. Here's your birthday.

speaker-0: You can get this again. And what was it Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live back in the day? I put my dick in the box.

speaker-1: And that's it, that's what you get. Yeah, that's your gift. Like, can you imagine your wife's birthday? You go through the whole day and she's waiting for the gift, waiting for the gift, waiting for the gift. And at some point she gets mad because like, hey, look, it's 10 o'clock and you ain't gave me nothing yet. Like, not a gift at all. And then you come in the room with the silk boxers on, all oiled up. Like, here you go, baby. Happy birthday to you. No, sir. And she's not going to accept the gift.

speaker-0: Fireman Yeah, she's gonna be like, no thanks.

speaker-1: Yeah, no, I'm not even, I'm in the mood. So why is that? So I'll tell you what Ari said, because we've been talking about this going back and forth for a while now. She fully believes it's a gift because she thinks, one, that's all we think about. And then two, we don't really ask for gifts, right? That's the one thing that they can connect to like that we want is sex in some version of it, whether it be head or whatever, right? The full blown Monty, right?

speaker-0: Mm. Hey, hey, hey,

speaker-1: And she's like, well, we give you hints, we tell you the stuff we want, we talk about the stuff we want all the time, and you guys don't, right? Like when I ask you what do you want for Christmas or for your birthday, you always be like, I don't know, or I don't need anything. And that's partially true, because if I need something, I just go get it. I think that's a man problem, right? It's like, we need something, we'll just go take care of it. Right? Like I'm not creating a list of things that I want people to get from me. I'll just go out and get it myself, right? Or if it's something that's... right around that time, like my birthday's coming up and I thought of something that I want, I might say, hey, this is what I was gonna go get for myself, you can get it for me for my birthday. But otherwise, we don't really tell them. So I get her point. And they're constantly telling us the stuff they want. But damn it, listen. That is holiday prostitution, right? At no other point.

speaker-0: you Be careful.

speaker-1: I'm just saying at no other point would it be okay to exchange sex as a gift. Right? Like at no other point, like if I were to give you money for sex, you would be offended. So like giving me sex for a gift is, man, I don't want it. I don't want it. I'll take it, but I don't want it. No, I don't, I really don't ever want you to be giving it to me because you feel like you have to or it's an obligation.

speaker-0: Yeah, that makes it whack anyway.

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. Your heart ain't in it. Yeah, it's it's not no passion. You just, you just sitting ⁓ there. yeah. It's yours. That's right. Yeah, no, I don't want that. Get that out. No thank you. You feel the same way?

speaker-0: Thank you. I feel 100 % the same way, 200%. Hey, Tiff, I would like a computer for my birthday, okay? I need a new computer.

speaker-1: Right? I need a new camera, actually. ⁓ Not a new camera, I need a camera. So I'm about there every month. You know, if you listen to, she says she's gonna listen to this episode. So if you're listening, this would be an optimal time to go ahead and invest in a Sony camera. ⁓

speaker-0: Well, they're not paying us yet.

speaker-1: Sorry, sorry, no names. In a good camera.

speaker-0: good camera, DSLR, mirror, an air camera, whatever.

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder though, like what everybody else thinks about that. Like, because I know it's like a thing, right? Like guys expect on their birthday to get some birthday sex or expect, you know, for Valentine's Day, there's gonna be some sex had, ⁓ whatever other holiday, Father's Day, you can get some sex for Father's Day. That's wild. I don't know if that is like causation or correlation, right? Like we are getting it because that's the gift we want. or we're getting it because societally that's the gift that they give, right? And like we're all conditioned to accept that.

speaker-0: feel like it's number two,

speaker-1: Cause look man, I'm sure there's some, we don't want more socks. We don't want more ties. We don't want some underwear. Like granted, we might need those things, but we don't really want them. Cause if we wanted them, we would just go get them before that day. Right? Or we would just say, Hey, can you pick up some socks for me? Right? Like on a very informal, Hey, you going to Walmart? Cool. I need some underwear. Can you grab me a pack? Right. Right. But we not like, ⁓ you going to Walmart? All right, cool. When you get back, need some hip. Like, you know, that's not happening. Not on the same level.

speaker-0: Please.

speaker-1: Yeah, not on the same level. So I need, I need women to be better. Please. And don't say this because we don't ask for anything because y'all don't always ask for stuff. We have to be thoughtful. We to paying attention because those are the gifts that really matter. It's like, you, ⁓ you got me that thing. Yeah, I heard you talking about it. Like, you know, and I you needed it or I noticed that you, right. And then y'all be all in love and then y'all get with some for that. Right.

speaker-0: Me better. Then we get some residual.

speaker-1: Right. But but but not man. No. If you feel like we've been talking about it and that's the thing that you're to just give it to us when you give it to it for it. me give it to me the day before and don't say nothing about the holiday. Just just let the holiday come and go. I'd rather you not give me anything than to be like, all right, it's your birthday. Here you go.

speaker-0: Stop hitting us with those tricks

speaker-1: Nah, you can meet me with the tricks. I'll take the tricks. Oh, okay, all right. I was gonna you can keep the vanilla. Little sprinkles on mine, homie.

speaker-0: Nah, not them kind of tricks. We enjoyed those kind of tricks. Nah, I'm saying, so I mean, I know we're talking about all holidays, but Valentine's Day one year, Tiff was like, we not, don't, mean, Valentine's is every day. You love me every day. I love you every day. We don't need to do all of that. Let's not even worry about it. I'm like, oh, you sure? Yeah. Okay, cool. That's what's up. She pulled the trick on me. So, you know, Valentine's Day hits. I call her, hey, happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. I'm like, what's going on? You okay? What's going on at the job? Everybody's getting flowers and candy and teddy bears, except for me. I'm the only one. No one got me anything. I'm like, cause you said you didn't want nothing. I know that's what I said, but I didn't think you were actually weren't gonna give me a little something. I said,

speaker-1: Got him. Yeah, don't believe them. Women are liars. Even when they say they don't want nothing, they just mean like they don't want you to. No, you know what? I don't even want to say that. They say they don't want nothing because they mean it when they say it as in like, you know, all those things you said, you love me every day, every day. feels like all that's true. Right. But we need it. They need a grand gesture. Yeah. It don't have to be grand. Like you ain't got to show up with 100 roses and have a limo pick them up. But they want to

speaker-0: You me man! No more.

speaker-1: bigger gesture on that day, right? And maybe that's what they think. And maybe, I just thought about that. Maybe that's the thing. So on a regular Tuesday, we have sex and it's just regular sex, right? But then like on my birthday, she gonna go all in and that's like her grand gesture, right? Cause she loved me every day, but on that day, right? Like we can have sex every day, but on that day, she gonna pull out all the stops. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The whole thing. Like, okay, all right.

speaker-0: For roll-up is coming up. Yeah We get it still.

speaker-1: Nah, nah, nah, me the fruit oil up on Tuesday. Yeah. You know, they come, they come like 12 in a pack. So you got plenty, you have plenty of opportunities. We're not going to the liquor store and buying them with the singles. Go get the 12 pack. Break that, break your boy off. It's not crazy, is it? No. Is that too much to ask?

speaker-0: It's not at all because if I come home and I say, know, Merry Christmas, I got a roast. Picked up this roast, thought about you. ⁓ because you'll be a problem.

speaker-1: There you go. Yeah, you make that fire roast too. I know how much you love to make, because you be talking about it like that. Oh yeah, my roast is fire. How was it, babe? Oh, it was good. Oh yeah, you get all excited. So I was thinking about you and they had it sale down at Stata Brothers. got you covered. Matter of fact, I got you pots and pans because I know how much you were saying that the bottom of that pot was sticking a little bit. So I got you some pans because I was- being thoughtful, would go left.

speaker-0: Super. Do you think this was thoughtful? Take your mama some pants. Take your mama.

speaker-1: Man. Yeah, listen, you just told me the other day that the vacuum cleaner was messed up and so I went and got a vacuum cleaner. That's what you had told me.

speaker-0: I'm gonna vacuum clean the f*** for your birthday, because I love you. Right. And I'll think about you.

speaker-1: trying to make your life easier, because that's what you would said, you know, you had to end up sweeping because the vacuum wasn't. But I guess I was wrong.

speaker-0: I'm sorry. I got you the dice and everything, but...

speaker-1: Yeah, that was expensive. It was expensive. had to go and like and but no, no. OK. All right.

speaker-0: I tried to get Tiff a radio for her car. Her car radio was jacked up. Bought her a car radio. Put it in, but it took me a while. But it only took me a while because when I was like, you know, just kind of hinting, like, I know you need a radio, your birthday coming up. She said, absolutely not. Absolutely not. I don't want a radio for my birthday. But I'm like, you've been complaining about your radio been out for like six months. got. Wouldn't a radio be good? Absolutely not.

speaker-1: Mm-hmm. You put it in. And you can't even really spice that up. I was just thinking as you were saying it, what if you had got the radio, you put it in and you had bought her favorite song or you made a mix, throwback, right? You made a mix CD, popped it in there with all of her favorite songs or just some love songs. You know what I'm You're producer, put your own little first track was like, hey baby, in your deep voice, right? That still will get cut.

speaker-0: Mona. ⁓ yeah. That was nice.

speaker-1: You can't eject and throw that shit out That's my...

speaker-0: Motherfuck this. On the phone, on the phone with Ari letting her know. I can't believe Mike, he doesn't pay attention.

speaker-1: It's almost like he don't even love me, girl.

speaker-0: So take that, what we're talking about, that filling, and then multiply that by at least what, five? Gotta be at least five.

speaker-1: Gotta be. Yeah.

speaker-0: Team No Coochie for birthdays, No Coochie for holidays.

speaker-1: Listen, me be completely crazy. Let's not go too far. Not only, right? Like that can be a part of the gift that you're giving, right? But there should also be a tangible, not tangible, maybe tangible. There should also be a gift that is exchanged, right? And here's my other thing. And this is something I said to my wife too. It's like, okay, so you give me sex for my birthday, right? Which is awesome.

speaker-0: My mistake. Okay.

speaker-1: But if I got to do half the work or most of the work, like I got to do all the pumping and thrusting and like, yo, I'm working. Now you giving me a task. you know what mean? Not that I don't feel good that I don't enjoy it, but like, yo, at the end of it, I'm sweating. And you, you feel good too, but like you, you ain't have to, I need to go get some water and throw a towel over my shoulder. Like, you know what I mean? I'm 42, 43. My hips, and you know, the hips don't lie, but come on, man. If I got to work, it's not much of a gift. Feels amazing, but it's not a gift. So bring something to the table.

speaker-0: I'm even cool with you bought some new lingerie

speaker-1: Okay.

speaker-0: and you're put the lingerie on and we're gonna go that direction. Okay, you bought some lingerie, looking good, I get to see you. How about you did a little personal photo shoot? Come on, it's gonna end how it's gonna end for sure. Once I see the photos, but I feel a little more like some thought went into that. It wasn't just, here's the kitty, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. Okay, cool, thank you. It's fire, thank you, man.

speaker-1: You can't get into the bed with your regular pajamas on. Your bonnet. And you know what, I'm not even mad at the bonnet, because the bonnet go crazy. But, that can't end. On Valentine's Day, I'm gonna need you bonnet-less. I'm gonna need to see your hair.

speaker-0: I'm saying short house shorts We're gonna sort that thing out. Get your hair done just so I can sweat it out.

speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, that's not just a lyric, that's real life. But yeah, there should be some gift giving going on as well, right? And there don't have to be nothing big, know, just, know, give me a gift card to Lowe's. don't care. That's simple, that's the easy lift for you. Drop the gift card on the countertop. Poo, thank you so much. I'm gonna go get that thing that I need to get. And now let's go get that thing that we need to get upstairs.

speaker-0: There you go. Just like that, man.

speaker-1: That's it. I'm even good with a card. I don't really want flowers, but I'll take some flowers. All right. I don't know what doing. I'm sitting on the counter.

speaker-0: I know, I never got flowers, but yeah.

speaker-1: That's crazy. Have I gotten flowers? I feel like I got flowers at least once. Give me flowers. It don't have to be physical flowers, but give them the flowers. Even if you spent some time, you wrote a ⁓ note inside the card and Ari does that a lot. So I appreciate that. But like, just give me your thoughts. Tell me what you think about me. right. Stroke my ego a little bit before you go upstairs and stroke that. Yeah. So just,

speaker-0: girl just a little bit

speaker-1: I know it's not a whole lot of ladies listening to this and they'll probably see it on more like, you know, shorts and clips and stuff like that. But fellas, stop accepting just sex for your birthday, You know what I'm saying? And you're holding the rest of us back. Because your lady is telling other ladies and it's spreading. It's spreading.

speaker-0: You work more than Come I will say this, if you are in a drought, I get it. You thirsty, you in a drought, you arched. You gotta do what you gotta do. But I'm gonna give you some grown man game right now. You're in a drought because you're not helping enough. If she's going to work, coming back home, dealing with the kids, having to cook dinner, and you're not helping her through. Some of that, she's too tired, bruh. She's too tired. If you're not talking to her, or she gets to let off, know, woop-de-woop, Julie from work is acting a fool and I can't be, and you trying to figure out how to fix it, nah, just let her talk, bruh, let her get that out. She nice and calm and relaxed, you're not gonna be in a drought no more. You're gonna be all right.

speaker-1: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I just heard this the other day. My brother was saying, when she don't have nothing else to do, she'll do you. Right? So she go to work all day, she come home and then she got to do this with the kids or do that in the house and do this thing. If you take some of them dudes off her plate and she got nothing left to do, she'll do you. That's some game right there, man. Obviously it's not like, you you got to split the responsibilities and split the duties and you, know, in your household, you have whatever like roles are naturally yours or roles are naturally hers. And that's all cool. But every once in a while, man, take some of that off her plate and see what happens, right? See how appreciative she might be. And that'll help with that drought situation, I think. Right. But then also you got to, you got to pursue, right? We talked about this before. You have to pursue her and treat her like you're still interested and y'all can't just be partners and work together and y'all just punch the clock and you're in and out, right? Have some conversations, act like you like her, get to know her again, and then she'll get to know you. Biblical. Right?

speaker-0: Good to know you. ⁓ Before we get up out of here, man, because I feel like we're winding down. Congratulations brother. Trying to get to this congratulatory ⁓ segment of the podcast. What you got going on man? That just went well. Don't gotta be nothing amazing. It can be. But you know.

speaker-1: Yes, sir. ⁓ Nah, you know what? I think I'm finally starting to hit my stride in terms of, ⁓ you know, with Four Fifth Fatherhood and starting to work as a content creator, right? Because I create content and curate content for the social media and for podcasts. like as a business now, it's starting to kind of pick up where I'm getting brand partnerships and brand deals pretty regularly now, ⁓ where it'll start being kind of consistent income, which is really nice, right? Because I positioned myself over the last five years. And that's something I want to make sure we point out. Like sometimes when you're doing something, like it feels like nothing is happening, right? And then all of a sudden, like you just that quote unquote overnight success. But there's been five years of a lot of work put in and now it's finally starting to pay off where I'm getting approached versus having to go out and like ask people for stuff. People are coming to me like, hey, we'll give you this for, you know, hey, listen, is $700 enough for you to do a 30 second video for us? Hmm. Let me check my phone. Like, yes, absolutely. Actually, you know what? Considering the fact that now I can play leverage, right? Because, know, now that they're talking to me and they're giving me numbers first, I know that they have a bigger budget. Right. And so like that that is something that I'm excited about.

speaker-0: You'd

speaker-1: because we are planning in this next year to pay off as much debt as we can because we're prepping for college for two kids. And so we got to start getting rid of that debt to start working on some new. So yeah, I'm in a good space with that right now. Appreciate you. All right, what about you big dog?

speaker-0: baby You knew that, Congratulations, brother. ⁓ man. You know what? think it's mostly back to what we were talking about with the health. You know, I've talked about, you know, blood pressure and this and that before, but just me being in the frame of mind where I want to go to the doctor to make sure that I'm good, no longer fearful of going to the doctor and like, what's going to happen? And also just stepping up my ⁓ health regime or regimen. ⁓ Just trying to, I'm eating omega threes, y'all. Like, getting up from work and being like, instead of a hot link or, you know what saying? It's like, okay, let me get some of that salmon right there. Making sure that I'm drinking at least 100 ounces of water a day, which sounds like normal and nothing, but for me, that's, you know I'm saying? I'm feeling good about that. Hey man, trying to live out here, bro.

speaker-1: There you go. Yeah, that's what's up, man. That's good. As long as you possibly can. Yeah, man. Yeah, I love that. I love that. And I think it's important to note, too, is like you kind of minimized the 100 ounces of water, but it's people that don't drink water at all. Yeah. You know what I mean? And that may be a little thing for you, which is is important to point out, because it doesn't have to be these big swings. Right. We just we need bass hits. We get enough base hits, we're gonna be okay. We're gonna score some runs. It don't all have to be home runs. We don't have to make these. And I think a lot of times people think you gotta make these drastic changes in your life. Like, I'm going vegan. You was just eating, you just had a bacon sandwich yesterday. you can't go from bacon sandwich to cauliflower rice. Like it's gotta be some in between. And so taking the small steps towards being healthy are important. ⁓ and they put you in the right direction. Right? And so that's all that matters. And maybe it turns into something more, maybe it doesn't, but it's a step in the right direction and that's what gets you going where you're trying to go. get you some more years on your life. You got anything else? Anything else you want to be celebrated for my good brother? Other than being amazing. ⁓ man, wait, slow down. There's one more thing and we can end on this. I think we both have ⁓ some amazing family trips coming up. And I think that's something that we can congratulate each other on is like putting ourselves in a position to take our families to go see the world.

speaker-0: Nah, that's it.

speaker-1: and have experiences outside of our community, to give them the experience of like seeing other countries and continents and other people's culture and giving them a broader experience than what either one of us had and trying to give them a better life through that, right? So being able to go to other countries and experience that, think, especially at their age where they're still kind of formulating their views on the world. hard set yet. Yeah, it's really, really important. And so congratulations to us both for making it happen. ⁓ We're going go back to the motherland this summer. Yeah, to go to Africa. Fire. You're going to Thailand, Singapore and Thailand, which are which are beautiful places. So, yeah, I think if you fellas you listening passport bros, you guys already know. But like everybody else, try to get outside the country, go experience the world. There's a bunch of beautiful places in America to visit.

speaker-0: Yes, Sir. Singapore

speaker-1: And we've done that before too. But getting outside the country, seeing how other people live, seeing their communities, how they communicate, how they travel, how they move around, it gives you a different perspective on life and how you can live it to its fullest in a bunch of different ways.

speaker-0: Yeah man, appreciate that. I wouldn't even think about that, but yeah man, that's a big thing. Shout out to the only place I had ever been when I was a kid, Mississippi. What's up? Gary, Indiana. What's up to all my fam.

speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ haha. Listen, when you were a kid from California, those places seemed like a whole other world. Oh, Like the South was a whole different beast when I was a kid. just seeing it, seeing segregation and non segregated places where it's like black people on one side, white people on one side, like this ain't your store to go to. Or we had to. I think we was in Texas. I think we're in Texas. We're busy in my.

speaker-0: For sure. For sure.

speaker-1: grandma's side of the family went to a football game and it was segregated. Like it was like the black people, it wasn't like, they didn't have a sign, but in the stands, all the black people on one side, all the white people on one side, on the field, the team was mixed, right? Everybody was playing together. But as far as like how you viewed the game, it was split right down the middle. Black people on one side, white people on one side. And I was like 12 or 13. Like it wasn't like, it was that long ago. And I think even to this day, I remember I had a kid tell me, he played for St. John Bosco and they went and played a team in Texas. And it was the same way. Like they had everything was just segregated in the town and everybody was cool. Like it wasn't like a, you know, maybe it was. And the kid didn't know, but he said it seemed like everybody was cool. Everybody interacted with each other. But you know, when his parents went to the game that night, it was a black side and the white side. was like, dang.

speaker-0: Yeah.

speaker-1: And it's still like sundown towns and stuff like that all over the country. you know, know it's out there, but it's definitely not as prominent as it used to be. But again, visiting other parts of the country are important too. But if you can get outside the country, that's a plus.

speaker-0: Crazy. Super plus. Right. I remember we went to I know we try to one last story, y'all. So we went to Thailand a couple of years ago. You know, we had our girls with us and the Thai people were just in love with little black girls like and it wasn't like in a weird way. Like if you get close to my daughter, I might have to figure out how to make it in this Thai gym. But it was like, you know, like the shop owners and was, you know, women take their phone out and they were like,

speaker-1: ⁓ yeah.

speaker-0: Like Jay-Z and Beyonce just came through and then like, can we take picture? Can we take picture?

speaker-1: That might have been offensive right there. You could have just said it your normal voice.

speaker-0: Can we take a picture? Can we take a picture? That was crazy. So sometimes, I can't speak to all racism everywhere, but sometimes you go different places and you're just American. Outside of America, black guy, black woman, black people, you're American for a lot of places. You're not, you know.

speaker-1: Yeah. The race construct doesn't exist the same way, right? Like you just, they don't get to see a lot of people of darker skin, right? And so they're like, oh man. And melanin is, melaninated skin is beautiful. Let's just keep it real, right? You see the glow. The light is hidden. But like when you go other places, especially I think like the Asian countries, Southeast Asian countries, get, it can get weird, right? If you are not comfortable with it.

speaker-0: You know it is.

speaker-1: It can get weird and people will be like, everybody wants to take a picture with you, especially not, ⁓ you look like Shaq. So, you know, everybody thought you were Shaq.

speaker-0: Literally call me Shaq in Mexico. Shaq in! Shaq in!

speaker-1: But there is an appreciation for, and however weird it may be, it gives you something different. Because here in America, I can go outside right now and people don't care about me like that. And in a lot of places, it might even just be negative just off of looking at me. And there, it's celebrity-like. I don't know what they do with all these pictures. One day they got like a photo album and was just like, look at this black kid I took a picture with. He's nobody, but look at me. they're just like, right? They just send it in the group chat and they're like, oh man, we took pictures with the black kids today. like, oh, you're so special. Can you imagine? Oh man, his name is not Steve, but the purpose of the podcast. Steve, Asian Steve.

speaker-0: Bigger than a wire. ⁓ my goodness. Steve talks with black people today, dawg. You are crazy. Right? Yeah, yeah. Asian Steve. Shout out to Asian Steve. He's a man. Yes, a lot man. He gives me lots of game. But yeah, y'all. But also, you know, there's places that, you know, might feel just like home, you know? So, you know, be careful, you know, but yeah, just go explore, man. That's what I would say. Go explore.

speaker-1: Yeah. This is the, let's end after this, but I was just going to say, we talking about, I think this was a, dang, I forgot who it was. Was it Trevor Noah? Maybe it Trevor Noah. He was talking about, you know, for a while they were talking about you just elbowed being James Bond. And they're like, oh, that would be great, right? For black people to be awesome. got 007, James Bond's black. And he was like, yeah, that's great in theory, but like, you know, James Bond, imagine this, right? James Bond's in Iceland. He's playing, you know, poker at the casino. He's the only black guy there. Like the only black guy in the entire, like you're not a spy when you're the only one. Like they know who you are. Like yeah, there's no secret to you, Like Bond, James Bond. Oh, that's the spy. That's him. Like yeah, everybody else here is white with blonde hair. Like that nigga's a spy.

speaker-0: It's him. James Bond needs to go to Ghana then. How about that? Nigeria.

speaker-1: Yeah, he'd be like 006 and he only had to go to black countries and stop the evildoers. All right, y'all listen, this has been another episode of Grown Man Game. We appreciate you taking your time to listen to the episode. If you haven't yet, go back and catch those last episodes. Those are fire too. If you're not following us on social media, this would be the awesome time to go do that. ⁓ On Instagram at grownmangamepod.

speaker-0: and

speaker-1: If you got questions, got stuff you want to talk to us about, you want to share, know, just how great you think the podcast is, you can hit us on gmail at thegrownmangangpodcast at gmail.com. I am Rod at Forfid Fatherhood. This is Big Mike at Maybe Nice Mike on Instagram, and we'll see you fellas soon.

speaker-0: Peace.