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Why do men simp and women date for potential? Kelsey aka “Pooka” (Instagram: @kelseykenesse_ ) stopped by the podcast this week to provide a few answers. T, Scoe, and Kelsey also discussed her clothing service, the future of the Real Spill podcast, polygamy. and more!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Why men simp and women date for potential

4:10 - Hoe phases are necessary to find out what you like

7:50 - Some people learned about sex very young and lied about experience

10:18 - Spending time with multiple people who you aren’t with (dating)

12:00 - Some women just suck

13:50 - Worst experience with a man?

18:10 - Pros and cons to dating people with children

19:15 - Sometimes potential outweighs red flags when dating

22:30 - I can’t date you because you’re too skinny

28:30 - The best way to approach a woman

29:45 - Men make women go through hell and back to prove themselves in a relationship

32:45 - Simping for women in the name of love

38:08 - Can you be married to (polygamy) multiple people at once

38:55 - Biggest turn-offs for men and women explained

54:45 - Men have intuition too and choose to ignore it

57:50 - What makes you know you can be vulnerable with a woman

58:20 - If you could be a woman for a day, would you be?

1:00:30 - Understanding love and studying it

1:03:30 - Is Jada Pinkett Smith entitled when it comes to her marriage?

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Women Need Empowerment and Protection, and this week's guest, Ashley Hunt (Instagram: @aashleyhunt) joined the podcast to explain how. Ashley came on to discuss the esthetician industry, the MeToo movement, women being robbed by men and fighting back against domestic violence, not being ready for emotional attachment in relationships, and more!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Women Need Empowerment & Protection

3:38 - Do men get waxed?

6:08 - Worst experience with waxing women

8:43 - I don’t want my barber giving me a facial

12:28 - Esthetically Elite is a mobile business

17:08 - Esthetician and entrepreneurship are vital for the ecosystem

25:43 - Companionship versus a relationship

30:43 - Starting over “dating” SUCKS

38:43 - I might’ve had sex with your wife!

38:03 - Women hit men, too!

40:13 - Domestic violence and anger issues

40:43 - Men rob women, too, ladies. Get protection

41:43 - Women who have daddy issues

43:13 - Impulsive women are dangerous

45:13 - Women empowerment; Who you calling a bitch?

51:43 - It’s competition when your woman/partner makes more money

53:43 - The way of the superior man

1:02:13 - Group chats are where the mess is at

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iPhone photographer Nita (Instagram: @nitainnashville) stopped by the podcast for a one-on-one conversation with T! Nita opened up about growing her niche photography business from the ground up and money-making tips for beginners, doing photoshoots around the country and even at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the four quadrants of dating, stereotypes, and more!

Timestamps:

4:00 - Be like water and adapt

5:20 - Why T is doing the show alone with Nita

6:40 - Going to college can actually improve your skills

7:00 - Get involved behind the camera and grow your interests

8:30 - You may have to find a full time job to fund your dreams

10:50 - Get your business together and then START

11:20 - Fighting the skepticism around iPhone photography 

14:18 - Investing in disruptive companies 

15:30 - iPhone photographers don’t need specific lenses

16:50 - Stereotypical black people

17:30 - TikTok has exposed people to different types of personalities

20:30 - How are Nita’s family members back home?

23:18 - Narcissism and transactional relationships

30:00 - Is manipulation a good or bad thing?

34:32 - What are temporary feels?

37:28 - The 4 quadrants of dating (all men aren’t trash)

40:18 - How Nita is received by black men

45:00 - How do interested men approach Nita

46:30 - Too many men like it easy with women

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Future RNs and nursing hopefuls--don’t fear, this week’s guest Chasmine (Instagram: @chasminej) is here to tell you everything you need to know before starting nursing school! The Co-Founder of “Best Friends and Future RNs” also opened up about red flags looking like Six Flags when you’re having fun in your relationship, the fear of being rejected from nursing school as a black woman, and more!

1:31 – Chasmine’s Instagram business page “Best Friends RN”

2:13 – How is nursing school?

3:34 – Worst experience with shooting your shot?

7:04 – People from Nashville are weird

9:01 – Austin Peay State University was like high school compared to Middle Tennessee State University

11:52 – Dating while going to nursing school and working full time

19:44 – I’d rather text than talk about how I really feel

21:44 – Red flags look like six flags when you’re having fun

24:29 – Establishing boundaries in your relationships

30:44 – Name something in your life that a woman doesn’t influence

40:44 – Name the red flags in your current relationship

46:14 – Black women always blame themselves when things go wrong

48:44 – What makes future nurse Chasmine happy?

57:44 – “Relationship” versus “situationship” definitions

58:44 – The difference between dating and having an official title

1:14:44 – Why not fix a relationship if you’re unhappy with the way it ended?

1:16:14 – Do you struggle to get out your emotions and be vulnerable?

1:18:44 – All my exes suck

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Business structure, content marketing, and consistency are tough to build in the music industry. This week’s podcast guest, Pierre Banco (Instagram: @lordbvnco), experiences all three during his journey through the Nashville music scene. We talked the definition of content marketing, having an understanding of music business pracices like copywriting, and whether artists like Boosie and Lil B could still be in your Top 5 rappers.

Timestamps:

4:45 - Being unafraid to ask for help with your music quality

6:30 - How to fight against inconsistency

8:00 - Being your biggest critic causes you to procrastinate

9:15 - It’s not the responsibility of the people that made it to discover you

11:45 - Be selective of who your team is and pick somebody who is specialized

12:15 - You have to have your business structure together

12:42 - What do you think marketing is?

13:45 - Sonically you have to sound good, but music personas are important

14:30 - Why we don’t see Pierre Banco as an artist?

17:45 - What do you want to get out of the rap game?

20:45 - Making music is therapeutic

22:15 - Music is bigger than being the best in your city (Nashville)

22:45 - Growing brands can’t afford to take breaks from social media

25:15 - Structure your music and avoid long projects

29:00 - Understanding the business of music copywriting

33:15 - How being married with kids affects consistency in music

38:15 - Have you ever felt like your wife didn’t support you musically?

41:15 - Being willing to enter different demographic markets

42:45 - Only Fans versus Reddit content marketing

47:45 - Would you show your feet on Only Fans for money?

49:30 - Losing your toe nail to turf toe

51:45 - Which audience and crowd do you make music for?

55:15 - Top 5 favorite rappers?

1:02:45 - Skateboarding culture introduced into music

1:03:45 - Lil B is a polarizing artist talent

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Making people laugh is something you learn or it’s natural. At least, we think it’s natural for this week’s podcast guests: Cordell (IG: @keepingit101___) and Randell (IG: @blunightmare). There were plenty of jokes on how to be funny, growing up “country poor” in Bolivar, TN, black men not getting the grace in most situations, and more.

Timestamps:

5:35 - What makes a man decide to go bald?

8:45 - No middle class in Bolivar, TN, so it was tough growing up

9:20 - Cordell says poverty was looked at as a joke, but Randell says Country Club was middle school

9:50 - Small towns don’t leave room for having beef

12:50 - Country broke is different with no running water and having to eat bologna

16:20 - Transferring colleges to follow your girlfriend versus not getting playing time on the football team

28:40 - How to grow up when you’re fatherless

32:05 - What’s the one thing you’d change in your life if you could?

36:30 - Cordell and Randell lived in feuding neighborhoods, and took a while to become friends

37:05 - No distance is too far to travel to support black people doing positive things

42:35 - Roscoe’s alleged anger problems showing during a debate

44:55 - The black community being hard on itself is a generational curse

51:50 - DaBaby should be shown grace, like all black men

53:10 - The LGBTQ community is going harder than the heterosexual community

55:35 - AIDs is not exclusive to the LGBTQ community

56:05 - Cordell says he didn’t agree with D Wade saying he wants his son to cut his own penis off

57:50 - We can’t pick and choose what we are outraged

58:50 - Be a parent and filter what your kids watch

1:01:35 - The Me Too movement shouldn’t be an oppression olympics with prejudice and racism

1:03:20 - How to handle being called the “N” word (hard -er)

1:04:45 - Religion can confuse people at times because of “church hurt”

1:12:20 - How to question Christianity and religion

1:18:00 - Marriage and divorce causing people to choose someone raised off love versus survival

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Author, Motivational Speaker, and Coach Dominique "DMal" Mallory (IG: @thatsdmal_) stopped by the podcast this week to catch up with T and Scoe. DMal, Scoe's Dean of Pledges at Lane College, opened up about how going to jail ended up being the turning point in his life, thoughts on manipulating people to get them to do what you want, and much more!

Timestamps:

2:20 - Craziest sexual experiences in college

4:25 - DMal is from humble beginnings growing up in Latin Square apartments in North Memphis

5:50  - Training high school and college basketball players (ETG)

6:35 - How going to jail can force you to change your life

7:35 - Learning how to network in college

9:50 - DMal learns who his real friends are when he went to jail

11:20 - How does it feel when your mentees don’t listen to your advice?

12:00 - The inspiration behind wanting to be a motivational speaker

13:20 - How DMal feels about manipulation against younger people

16:35 - The Eric Thomas effect: wanting things as bad as you want to breathe

17:30 - Social media versus reality for DMal losing loved ones

22:30 - DMal was sitting in meetings at 23 years old with millionaires

23:20 -  Disrespectful backhand compliments from supporters

26:00 - DMal says his following will rock with the podcast

28:20 - How to establish your business structure

29:00 - DMal talks about you looking at the heart and not the face (all good people are not black)

32:40 - The moment DMal knew he was doing something right

39:30 - How did losing a parent change DMal’s relationship with God?

41:30 - What to do when your mother has Alzheimer's

54:35 -  How DMal handles his kids not getting to experience his mother (grandma) the way he did because she passed away

55:30 - The Tears of a Grandson book by DMal

1:03:30 - DMal wants to write a children’s book

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The goal of our podcast is to Entertain, Educate, and Get Educated. This week’s guest Tj (IG: @legaldrugdealer_) helped us definitely do all three. Tj, T, Scoe, and Keenen discussed dealing with your homophobia, Tj being shot for being a gay black man, a lack of respect for those not being their true selves, how many undercover gay men are out in the world, and where negative stigmas root from. It’s another great episode.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

15:45 - Why do we allow people to dictate our lives

16:51 - What the stigma was like coming out as a gay black

17:30 - Why you should apologize for being homophobic

18:40 - Having a supportive family behind you to handle coming out as gay

25:40 - Being shot for being a gay black man

26:50 - There are so many undercover gay men out there

41:30 - Why the “tough” men always end up being gay down low

42:00 - It’s hard to respect gay men that live double lives

51:00 - Weirdest encounter with a gay man?

1:00:00 - What if the world didn’t accept that you loved women (heterosexuality)?

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What a hilarious and enlightening conversation this was with our fellow podcaster and media entrepreneur Bigg (IG: @btse_365). The founder of BTSE 365 Media stopped by the podcast to talk about everything from his personal brand and podcast, Marketing On Little To No Budget, advice from a 30-something-year-old to those younger than himself, how bogus old school R&B songs really sound if you listen to the lyrics, and more!

Timestamps:

1:52 - The BTSE Media & Podcast

5:20 - How do you feel about the growth of your podcast?

6:52 - How to handle being too hard on yourself in life

10:07 - The best advice for anybody under 30 years old

12:00 - What’s the key to success?

12:50 - The importance of specializing in a profession out of necessity

15:00 - Why you should know a little about everything

16:15 - How to promote your brand like a mixtape artist

17:00 - The business structure of BTSE Media

22:00 - Why it’s important to listen to your podcast after recording it

30:00 - The real problems with old school R&B songs

36:00 - Can you be a shooter and a booty goon?

41:15 - What does it mean to be spiritual versus religious?

48:15 - How to pray and meditate

51:45 - Are there people on Earth who know everything?

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE TOO MUCH SEX? You can call him Shimmy or Retros Realest (Instagram: @retros_realest), but we call him our brother, LaShun. The rapper stopped by the podcast to talk about the concept of reaching a level of success everybody else might not make it to, setting boundaries in every relationship, the business of music and the industry, the pros and cons of living in America, and much MORE.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:50 - Do you really want to see everybody make it?

6:20 - Is your level of success even attainable by everybody else?

7:10 - What is the importance of being selfish and setting boundaries?

9:45 - How to respond to friends that throw subliminal social media messages

11:50 - Is too much of anything a bad thing?

13:00 - Would you rather perform well or climax often?

16:00 - What is the concept of polygamy?

18:00 - Pros and cons of living in America

19:55 - What is the key to being successful while living in America?

28:58 - Why all black people don’t want the same things

34:30 - The need for more middle-class leaders in the black community

39:00 - LaShun’s emergence as Retros Realest in the music industry

44:40 - What is the “look” in music?

46:10 - How to harness the energy that grew your following

48:10 - What’s wrong with just wanting to make money?

54:38 - Avoiding getting caught up in the struggling artist lifestyle

57:10 - How to make music that you yourself would listen to

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