Social media encourages people to create curated personas that may not reflect their true selves, leading to potential loss of authenticity; this phenomenon is driven by the desire for validation, attention, and social acceptance, and can negatively impact mental health and relationships when individuals spend excessive energy maintaining false images rather than focusing on personal growth and genuine connections.
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Welcome to the classroom. It's your boy Rod. This is my co-host, the beautiful, the lovely Kesha from Just Asking for a Friend. And I will be uh deleting all that out for anybody catching the replay. But tonight, we have an interesting topic. I'm not touching anything. We ain't doing no intro videos, none of that. We are going to be talking about authentic versus personas.
We're going to talk about social media.
We're going to talk about regular life.
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She does a do-it-yourself projects, all that good stuff. Raising animals, homesteading, remodeling, you name it, she's doing it. Now we got all that out the way. Man, I think I should be set.
You good, Kesha?
>> I am excellent.
>> What a hell of a comment, y'all. So, hey, hopefully we didn't lose too many people. Hopefully, they'll be back. But, uh, my computer's been acting up lately, and I think I'm the main reason behind it. But, hey, as we said, man, I'm not going to waste any more time. We've wasted enough. So, we're not going to be doing all this. This may be the last time you hear me say authentic versus persona. You may just hear Kesha and I say fake and real.
That's how we gonna keep it, you know.
Um, that's we're not gonna We just did that because certain people are looking for authentic and personas, but we want to talk about people being fake and people being real. And is that a problem today? Are we losing ourselves? So, Kesha, when you think about fake and real, what's the first thing come to your mind?
>> Um, I don't know. Well, first thing come to my mind is internet. That's the first thing that comes to my mind when you talk about fake versus real because I feel like a lot of people what they portray on the internet is not what you know what we see you know we don't see the behind the scenes we just see what they show us right >> hey thank you to for becoming a new channel member hopefully you're still a member after all that man >> y'all rarely do I have issues we got big Rick in the house and I AGREE >> WHAT'S GOING ON BIG Rick >> we got let's see big Rick said one. They can hear us. Okay, everybody can hear us now. Hopefully. I'm not even sure if it Yeah, they're like we're streaming the boat. What up? Griffin's in the house.
>> And let's see who else we got in here.
Big Rick. Big R said, "AOL." No, man. It felt like it.
>> It felt like it, man. I was The stuff was starting. I heard Kesha talking. I'm like, "Well, she can't be seeing what I'm seeing." So, hey, we here now. What up, Cowboy in the house. All right. All right. Let's see what else we got. We got here internal. What's going on? Say >> how you doing? Welcome in. Thanks for coming.
>> Fatima is in the building. What's going on?
>> Fatima is in the building. Hey, Fatima.
>> And we got time in here. Says, "Pointless. Keep your family.
>> Always remember your health is your true is your truth. Stay blessed and consistent." So true. So, hey, what's going on, Jerry? All right. So, Kesha Kha right up there with me. When I think about fake and real, the internet has really skewed that. It's really it's giving people the opportunity to be something they're not because a lot of people are operating from a distance now. They don't have to be they're not confined to their local area, their local city, their local town, their local state.
So, it could be days, months, years before you even see a person that you're interested in or a person you're trying to do business with and there's a facade. So, I agree with you, Kee. The first thing come to my mind is the internet. Mhm. Uh I remember that commercial uh I don't know if anybody else has seen it where uh a girl she said she going on a date and the guy he looks a hot mess talking about he's a model and uh and she said well if it's on the internet then it must be true you know I don't know >> remember that. I remember that.
>> Yeah. and and and that was that was some years ago though, right? That was a recent and that's how far we've come with the internet because at the first thing people use the used to use the internet as everything that was on the internet, done on the internet, said on the internet, they use that as kind of like the gospel. But over the years, we've seen that a lot of people have been fooled, a lot of people have been lied to, but they got a term for it.
They call it catfished. A lot of people been catfished. So >> yeah, >> you know, >> I don't know. Some people make it easy on theirel to be catfish, too.
>> Hey, why why you say that, Kisha? Why you say they make it easy?
>> I don't know. Sometime the math don't be ming and people still be going along with it, you know? So, >> and that >> how do you talk to somebody like for instance, you're talking to somebody but you've never seen them? They won't get on, they won't do a FaceTime with you. They won't um um they won't in you know what I'm saying? you you just see like pictures and you hear their voice. If you hear their voice, you might just be click clacking the whole time. So, I THINK SOME PEOPLE KIND OF MAKE it a little easy on their self to be catfished.
>> You're right. You're right. Some people fall for the okey do. That's kind of what you said. They they they believe whatever if if they if somebody say I'm going to the moon, it's like Robin Harris used to say, "Okay, what time you coming back?" You know, people just go for anything. But you know, now I think people are getting a little wiser when it comes to this fake and real, you know. And y'all, we gonna get a little deeper now. We we we just touching the surface. We setting the tone right now, >> but we gonna get a little deeper on this. And one of the things that I want to talk about, the first thing is sometimes personas are created by other people.
>> It ain't it ain't you it ain't let's say I'm gonna use Rod for example. It ain't Rod that's creating the persona. It's created by what other people think I have, perceive that I have or I could have >> and then taking that in against what I really have. And then sometimes the person like Rob will create this persona. Now some sometimes people believe what they want to believe, think what they want to be think. But there's sometimes I the individual will create this unreal truth that's not true. It's a lie. and and and have people believe in it and living my life as if that's reality when it's not. So, what are your thoughts on that, Ke?
>> Oh, yeah. Uh I'm in total agreement.
Like, um yeah, people can like you know, they think that, you know, oh, because you you know, you you live in a certain area or something like that, then you you must be, you know, uh wealthy and you know, they start spreading the rumor for you. You know, I ain't once told you that. I I had that bank, you know, you put that on me. But then, like you said, some people get caught up in it and and then they start portraying this persona form like, yeah, you know, so >> and and that's that's an issue because I know people like you just said, just because you live in a certain part of town, I know living in California, you could say you live in this area, but there was two sides of that area. It was a a good maybe three. A great side, a good side, and then a not so good side.
And people would think just because you live here, you balling out of control or >> just because you ride in a certain car, you got it like that. But I want to read what Cowboy said. He said, "Do you blame it on the internet or you do you blame it on others?" And that's kind of what we're talking about.
>> It could go both ways. The internet could like Now, as I'm since he said like this, I'mma use a content creator.
>> Uhhuh. No, I was going to say the internet makes it easy on you because you can I can sit there and click click all day long, right? And you know, I can sit there and tell you, oh, I look like a, you know, supermodel or something like that. But, >> you know, so the internet is making it easy for me to portray that. I can put up pictures. I can just send, you know, a million pictures of someone that I'm not, you know, that I don't even look like, right? and um >> and you know and then it's up to that person to you know be like hold on you know it's like one of those trust but verify things okay yeah I trust what you saying and you sending me pictures or whatever but you know can we can we FaceTime like when can I see you can we go on a date like you've been trying to go on a date with this person for a year now and ain't nothing shaking and y'all maybe live you know a town over Oh, >> and and you know, I'm I'm going take what Cowboy saying. Do I blame it on internet? Do you blame it on others? I think it's both couldn't be guilty or at fault. Like say being a content creator, and we're both obviously content creators, and there's a lot of them in the in the live. You know, we we can be whoever we want to be on here. You know, we can go get whatever we want to get.
go get some some fake diamonds and put them all on the wall and everything else or a strobe light like I'm living in party central and have people believing in that. But I think and that's what we gonna get into cowboy ka and I going to get a little deeper into that. I think that person and Kesha said at the very beginning they got to start don't believe everything you know if it's on the internet it must be true. Not necessarily.
Not necessarily. So time said friends direct fake love. If you really want to know an authentic person, tell them no.
If they stick around, that means they're your friend. If they don't stick around, you already know what to do with them.
>> Yeah, >> that's true. And we've kind of touched on this on other episodes. If you have a friend or you have a person and you tell them no and they still stick around, I mean that might be somebody you can count on, but if you before you even get to and it's only two letters before you get the O out of no, they gone. They doing they doing something different.
They talking about you behind your back.
They ain't treat you like dirt like they never knew you. Y'all were never friends or whatever. No, that's somebody you should have been cut off. So what you think about that, Kisha?
>> Yeah, I mean he absolutely right. Yeah, I I often say, you know, if you really want to know how a person feel about you, yeah, deny them or, you know, let somebody die. Them them them the two things you'll figure out how people really care about you. Let somebody pass and it's some money involved. You'll find out real quick. Let you, you know, you know, you've been cool with them, rocking with them, and everything's yes, but then all of a sudden you say no. you know, some people like know it's like kryptonite to these people, you know.
So, yeah, I definitely agree with what time said >> and and the time said, family, I don't think the internet have that much control on people that love to lie.
>> Some people just like to lie.
>> Some people But but I really think the the internet and social media is not making people lie. It's just making it easier for people to lie, >> you know? It ain't making them lie.
There's a lot of people that probably wouldn't lie if everything was not so much technology driven. But uh which I asked Kesha a question when we were preparing for this and I like her her answer. I asked her a question. I'm going get into the question, but Kesha said rich is quiet and no and poor is loud. Rich is quiet and poor is loud.
When you say that, Kesha, what do you mean when you say that? Just for the people in the back. So, say and we're going to talk about like u say like a Warren Buffett or something like that.
He still lives in the same house that he bought originally. He did not upgrade and go get a whole mansion and, you know, he got a, you know, a million guest house and things like that on his property. It's not 400, you know, >> million feet um long, you know. So um you know like I said poor is um poor is loud and rich is quiet. For instance um Elon Musk wears the wore the same outfit. He his whole closet consists of one outfit, you know, not one outfit, but just the same thing, you know. And he said that the reason why he did this was because, you know, if he's sitting up there thinking about, yo, what am I going to wear every day? Then he's not uh thinking about making money. You know, he's taking time out of, you know, his proc his thought process going somewhere else. Um, so, um, but poor, you know, what are they doing? You know, I'm buying Louis Vuitton or something like that. But, you know, so people can have this perception of me that, you know, I got it going on.
But rich people don't have to let you know that they got it going on. You already know that they got it going on.
You know that Warren Buffett can sit here and buy whatever he wants to buy.
you know, he doesn't have to sit there and buy Louis Vuitton, Versace, Gucci, like none of that. Rolexes.
So, he doesn't have to do that because he's Warren Buffet. You know, his name speaks for itself. And um another thing is a lot of these celebrities, while people are going out buying all this stuff, you know, a lot of celebrities, they don't even buy this stuff. Mhm.
>> You think Cardi B is buying all this stuff? No. These people are sending her things just like some of the content creators that people are sending them things so that they can be on the internet and show it off so that they can get the business, right? You know, so it's the same thing.
>> Yeah. Cardi B is being sent Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Versace, uh Valenciaga, everything. Most of the time they're not even paying for this stuff. But as you know, a regular person, they're going out and they're constantly buying, buying, buying because, oh, look at what Cardi B got on. OH MY GOD. YOU KNOW, LIKE, NO. NO. I personally, I love Cardi, but I personally am not buying that. Like, I I love all my money. Every dime of it. And it ain't going towards none of them. They're helping enrich other people's families. They have enough money. Trust me, Gucci, Louie, they all have enough money. they don't need your money, but they will go out and they will shove it out, you know, and um and your family is getting poorer while theirs is getting richer. And I'm pretty sure they appreciate when people do things like that. I know I would.
>> Yeah. And you brought up a good point because I know uh I haven't I don't have endorsements now, but I've been sponsored by people and I I still am kind of I just don't use and don't do it. And uh some of the the flights I've taken, the stuff I've done is because I had a whole channel about points and miles.
But people don't see that now. So they think uh there's this this perception which has created a persona that I'm jet setting all over the country.
>> And if I am, it's not necessarily that Rod is rich is coming out of Rod's pocket. It's Rod plan and use strategy to use points in miles.
So I I and I often try to say that even when I'm not on the channel so people don't get the wrong perception, but most people will gravitate and say, "Oh man, they think I'm balling like this. Let me let them think it." Now, I'm not going to make 17,000 lives to prove to everybody, try to prove to everybody I'm not doing this, that, or the third. But uh I I agree like a lot of celebrities, one difference I think with people, and that's going to lead me to my next question, but I got to read Jerry and a couple of comments. A lot of celebrities, their stuff is paid for.
>> A lot of us go and buy our stuff. Us is me and you.
>> Right.
>> So, a question I have for the people in the comments. Do you think that >> I I can only wait to hear the answer to this. I can only wait. Do I know nobody in here, but do y'all think some people I'm not saying y'all in the comments, but do y'all think some people look at people on the internet, social media people, regular YouTubers, content creators, igers or whatever they call them, do do y'all think people, not y'all, but do y'all think people look at them as celebrities? And then y'all go ahead and answer that. I'mma read what we got on these in these comments, and Kesha and I are going to give our two cents on this one. So, the internet is just a tool used for good and bad. Just like a surgical instrument, it could be used to heal people or blank people.
Y'all see that? And that's true. You know, we kind of already addressed that.
You know, internet, we've been, everybody's been saying that live after live after live. Just anything could be used for good or excuse me, good or bad.
You could take um people have stuff in the military could be used for good or bad. So that that's that's kind of putting that right there.
>> Yeah, >> that's so true. You have no idea how many people really thought I was a doctor for real. See, just because his name is and now I don't even say Dr. K.
Just say Cowboy Express. And I I I know the jokes behind it. Y'all got to go to their channel to watch to get the answer. But and that's MRTV and Cowboy.
But because he came on, I'm Dr. And and and what's crazy now, he was just going along with the joke. I interviewed Mr. and Cowboy, but he had a doctor's coat on. He had a cowboy hat. Not saying that can't be real, but he kind of he he if you listen to him, he told you that wasn't really what he was.
But cowboy, I wonder how many people didn't hear what you were saying. They just saw it and they ran with it. So, >> yeah, he a doctor.
>> You gota go just watch the interview I did with him. He'll explain it all to you. So, hey, we got six real seven.
These numbers keep going up and down.
So, if you're just coming in, you haven't subscribed, please consider doing so. Time said no is a powerful word and a lot of people cannot deal with that word without looking at themselves. Yeah. I think if you're told no, you have to look at yourself because somewhere it was a reason you were told no. That's just me though. You got anything on that one, Kesha?
>> Um >> about the word no.
>> Oh no. No.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, I think we >> Okay. Time say I got to disagree with Kesha. Not every rich person is like Mr. Buffet like Brian Allen. A lot of people know him but don't understand this brother owns what this brother owns and he came up with Eddie Murphy.
I'll be honest, I ain't know he came up with Eddie Murphy and I've never and I have an investment channel now. Not every rich person is like Warren Buffett. I totally agree.
>> Yeah.
>> Not and and more people I I wish I was more like him. Not totally like him because I wonder did he really enjoy life? Because the man went to the same McDonald's every morning for breakfast.
He got a Coke every day. He drove a Cadillac that he bought years ago and he lived in the same house him and his wife first house they bought after they got married. Did he really enjoy life? But really a lot of people a lot of people know Byron Ellen, but if you put Byron and I know time may not be saying this, but if you put Byron and uh Warren in the same article, hands down more people gonna be than her. They're not going to know him. They gonna be the herd of Warren Buffett because he's like the the epitome of investing, >> right?
>> But it's two different people.
>> One is one wealthy and one rich.
>> No, Byron Allen got some paper, too.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, he got a lot of businesses. But I I would say if I would consider a lot of athletes rich and I would consider Buffett wealthy. Matter of fact, Warren Buffett told his kids many many years ago, he's not even leaving his kids any of the money he's earned. He's giving it all to charity. He's got a set amount each of his three kids is going to get.
And that's, you know, I mean, that's that's his choice, his money.
>> He He's He said he's not going to give his kids anything.
>> No, he he has a set amount.
>> Oh, okay.
>> For each child, he has three kids.
>> Okay.
>> And two or three. I want to say three.
And the rest of his billions of dollars >> he's given to charities.
>> Okay. Um Well, I mean, I understand. I mean, I feel him on that because um well, even if I was going to give it to him, I don't think it's smart if you got that type of money to be telling your kids how much you you know what I'm saying.
>> Yeah. And I agree with what what >> looking at uh what time said and I think Kha wasn't compar not everybody's gonna be like Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett was a different breed but I think a lot of times >> the the the people that are trying to live up to a persona spend a whole lot of money and and mental anguish trying to do so.
>> And we're going to get into that in a second. I just want to get through these last.
Understand what Ke is saying because we have EBT holders. We have our women our women acting like Cardi B Megan estate and we have the men that are acting like they are millionaires.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep. Uh Tyler Perry had a great show on Oprah's own network called The Halves and the Have Nots.
>> I just started I'm sorry >> you go ahead. No, I was going to say I just started watching that uh the have and have nots. I think I'm on like episode three, so don't be telling the whole uh movie. I mean uh series time.
>> And the halves and halves not was just as loud as the poor people. Yeah. And this is not and I'm I'm gonna probably take a turn of Vera in a minute because this isn't about rich and poor. This is really about I'm not gonna even put poor in the equation. I'm not gonna be put I'm not gonna put rich. I'm not going to use either of those two terms before I go to the next comment really. And we kind of didn't want to keep it on social media, but I'm going to go ahead and say what we're really going to get to.
People are trying to live like Warren and and and and Byron Adam both have money. So to me, they're equal.
The halves and the have nots where they may have money, they may be poor in in in emotion and love. where the people who the knots may be rich in love and not have as much money, but what we're talking about is people who are authentic and real and keep it real regardless. And people that are are live up to a persona, a hype. They're doing stuff. They're spending money. They're living in houses. They're buying cars that they know they can't afford. Not, you know, we're not contrasting. Rich people do rich loud things. We're not in their circle to see the rich loud things that they do. like uh that dude and Yeah. I'm not going to read those names, Ty just because it's so many rules on here now.
I look at the people on internet like the people in high school. Yeah. And I think I think you have just different levels. I'm sorry. I skipped down. Yes.
When you get noticed at the store, wherever you and it makes you feel like a celebrity and that that and that that's kind of and and that's where I was going. A lot of people look at content creators. This is how I feel.
I'mma use Rod. Do I think I'm a celebrity? Do I Do I look at other YouTubers as celebrities? No.
No.
Do I feel like other people see people, including myself, see people that they watch on TV, that they watch on laptop laptops, that they watch on their phone, and when they do meet them in person, it's natural to be excited or astonished. I've done that as a YouTuber and had subscribers and I met people regardless what their subscriber count was and I was excited and there was a natural excitement about meeting them because I had watched them on TV. I never talked to him in person. So, what are your thoughts on that case?
>> Um, I've met of course I just got finished uh meeting uh a couple of uh content creators because I went to the crawfish kickback. And speaking of crawfish kickback, we have the nickels in the building and so is Miss Cheryl.
Michelle is in the building, y'all. But um there we met a bunch of content creators and it did not matter what their content uh count, you know, the number of people that they had. I was just excited to, you know, get to mix and mingle and, you know, see like-minded people.
>> And that that's what it's about. And I think I think even even people that are labeled as YouTube celebrities and just regular people, we're looking at other regular people and we're excited to see them. But yes, it is a different feeling when a stranger that you've never met that you don't even know watch you that you don't even know who that they know who you are and you're not used to this.
When they come up to you like me, it it spooked me the times this happened to me. It was like, oh, you know, and I didn't I don't like a lot of contrary to belief, I'm a quiet person. I I say to myself, I'm not a I'm not on 10 all the time on here.
>> Go ahead.
>> A little different because, you know, I've uh dated a producer and a music producer and I met a bunch of people and I wasn't starruck at all by any of them.
And I don't know, maybe I'm a little off. I don't know.
>> And here's here's a good thing right here. Jerry Allen, make sure I didn't miss anything.
Jerry said, "All that I follow, I consider them as celebrities."
>> Oh, >> some people make, but you got to think now. Some I'm I'mma take y'all back.
Some people looked in the hood as Joe Clark, the uh the uh principal, East Side High. Some people looked at uh Coach Carter out in Oakland.
>> They they looked at him as celebrities.
What what we always had to put a label on it, hood celebrities. No, they because they looked out for the community. They looked out for the people. Not that they're necessarily that individuals thinking they're a celebrity. And I can see what Jerry's saying. Some people maybe she watch a lot. I know she watched us. She watched the Nickels. She and that's it. As far as I'm going just because they're in here and she's probably getting some. So maybe she think that. But I think that people put these labels. But what I'm what I'm gonna keep going is the people that are out there that don't like Rod, that don't like Kesha because Kesha and Rod think there's something they're putting this label on. Then you got people that there may be a Rod and a Kisha, I'm just using as an example, that act like they got stuff that they don't have. They act like they're living a life that well, and then there's a perception out there. If you have this job, you make a lot of money.
>> If you have that profession, you make a lot of money. If you're a content creator, you'll make a lot of money.
It's not what you make, it's what you do with what you make. There are a lot of broke professional athletes, right?
>> Okay. Yeah. I mean, I feel like everybody's pretty much equal when you get to a certain point because say you make um I make uh 50,000 and you make 100,000. Okay, you make a h 100,000. So instead of you riding around in in in a a a Nissan or a Honda, you might be riding around in a in a Benz, you know, a Mercedes or something like that, you know. So when at the end of the day, because your car is double the cost of mine, but you make double what I make, but you're spending out double of what, you know, of what I spend out. We kind of are even.
>> Yeah.
And that that that is so true. I'll give y'all an example, man. You talking about a person has investment channel. I had prior to getting total, I had a 2013 Toyota Avalon. I was so happy with that car. I didn't have a note. Had 70,000 miles.
The happiest dude with a car. I didn't have nothing to worry about but maintenance and insurance. But I'm going to read this here. I believe it's more when about when people that don't have money when they get money they don't know how to invest budget and protect their money for the kids and grandkids for the next generation.
>> Yeah.
>> That goes along with the persona and the authentic you know >> but it's it's not even about protecting uh their money for the kids and the grandkids. They not protecting their money for theirel because a lot of them are still, you know, um they're older, but they're in Walmart still scratching off those receipts as you walk out the door and they're, you know, in their 70s and they still are having to work because they didn't invest and spend their money wisely when they were younger and um and you know it catches and then sometimes you just in a position where you just can never get ahead. So that's some people's case.
Sometimes you just cannot, you know, get above water or stay above water.
>> Yeah. And and that, you know, that's going to bring up something I I want to talk about.
I think it's so And I think y'all did I want to ask y'all, do some people act like this because they didn't have a lot? And when they get a lot, they don't know how to >> Forget money. Forget money. Let's take money out the equation. What about somebody that never got a lot of attention?
>> They never was popular and then all of a sudden they're a content creator or they get a job. They get a job and they get all this power. They don't know how to act. They get on YouTube or any other social media site. They get attention because they're good maybe good at what they do. They may not know how to act because they're not used to this. What What you think? She like >> my mama used to say you give you give a person a cubicle and they lose their mind. Boy, they think they they own the company. Boy, >> you know that's a big one. You know, we can talk about content creating, but you know, you got people in jobs, man. Boy, you give them a title and they just, you know, they don't know how to act. They they man and don't be the one that that that upset them when they were y'all both going up the race. you go catch some H E hockey sticks, double hockey sticks. You know, >> I remember Kha when I made uh E7 on a on a Navy ship.
When you pass, it's not that much room.
So when you pass each other, me being the high ranking guy, the the the subordinate would have to wait until I walked by and then they could proceed. I was like, I'm not doing that, man. I'm I'm just a regular old dude. I ain't about to do nothing. I'm up in rank. I ain't got nowhere to be in no hurry. So, I'mma let the the the the guy that really got something to do go by and I'mma get out of his or her way and but that cubicle but but the let's let's take people that do get a little money or content creators that forget we now we still have money but let's say I do a a live now my my authentic self is quiet I'm I'm shy I'm an introvert but then I go and do this three lives and everybody love me and they oh screaming rod rod Next thing I know, I'm just acting a fool. The fourth life. I'm talking crazy to people. I'm not respecting people.
To me, that's when you go away from your true self to their persona just because they like you. Do you think people do that on on uh YouTube or content creating or in life? I mean, you >> Oh, yeah. Sometimes they do. They get the big head, right? So, um and they forget the people, you know, like it's it's the people that make you who you are. you know, you didn't do this by yourself. You know what I'm saying? In order to get to a certain um um following, you had to have, you know, that first one to to hit on you and say, "Hey, you know what? I like this person." And, you know, I think a lot of times, you know, like people need to humble themselves, you know. So, I mean, I don't know.
>> I'm g say this here before I go any further. get too big for your britches.
If if you want to, >> they will humble your your subscribers.
>> You you will get set down somewhere real quick. Trust me, it happened to me. You you'll get you'll get your butt set down real quick. So, cowboy said, "We was at the store one day. You should have seen these two ladies was hollering and screaming so loud. Who we was who we was people was looking like? Who had the hell? Who the hell is these people?"
Like looking at him and Maria, him and Mr. like who are they? Cuz these two ladies just screaming now. Oh, >> you can't control that. I mean, >> and that's how people sometimes when the I'll never forget the one lady that met me at Jersey Mike. She pulled my hair, asked me was it real when I had a little stuff grabbing me and I'm like, "Look, ma'am, we are in public right now. I this don't look good." And I was so uncomfortable.
But some people look at us like that.
And like I said, to me, it's a natural reaction because they see us on on devices >> as we grew up. I didn't see nobody I knew on TV unless they was in trouble.
If I saw anybody on TV that was a star, a celebrity, and I think some people still carry that with them. So, um I like to share Cheryl uh hold up. I gotta read this here. Cowboys. No, I'm sorry. Cheryl say no, time. I consider some content creators really good, solid people on the base of their content.
>> As you should. I I I agree with you 100% time as you should. Well, no women, hold on. I consider some really good people based on Okay. Yeah. I mean, I can understand that because it depend on it does depend on your content, you know, cuz some people can be messy with their content.
>> And I think some people like when it comes to content, you do have some good people. And I I do that too. And I'mma tell y'all in a second once I go through these last couple comments. My big matter of fact, I'm gonna tell you now. I ain't got time because I been forgot. One of the things that I love is when I've met people in person and they who they were who I thought they were.
>> What I saw on screen, what I read about, they were who I thought they were.
>> All right.
>> And I pride myself on that. Like I don't want to. Now, I tell you, if you ain't talking about nothing, I ain't gonna be that long, but I ain't g I ain't gonna act like I don't know you. I might not be there alone. Not because I'm say I got to make money and all this crap.
It may be something that I if I can't speak it, I'm gonna try to learn it. But if it's something that's just totally off that rod is doesn't it's against my morals, I'm gonna probably get away.
>> Right. So >> I feel like I'm the same person on screen and offcreen. What you see is what you get.
>> It's it's too much work to try to be a persona or or fake. It's too It's is People don't realize I learned that as I was researching this. It could cause mental health problems because it it takes so much brain power. What my mom always told me, you tell one lie, you got to remember the second lie to cover the first lie. Then you just keep going going going.
>> That's to that's what a persona is. It's a big old lie. It's And now I want y'all to put put this I'mma jump through these colors, but think about this. Have y'all ever ran into people that gossip about other people just because they're trying to keep their position?
They they want to be the popular one or the important one or or or the the the the best guy, the best lady on the internet or on on social media and they gossip about everybody else so they could bring them down just to rise up.
Y'all ran into that.
>> Well, yeah. Well, yeah, but at the same time, like I be I be trying to figure out why you bringing this information to me. That be that'd be my thing. I have to look at even the person that bring the information to you sideways. Like I mean where is this coming from? Is this coming from a good place or a bad place depending on you know what the information is >> and that that's what I say you know if I can't stand gossipers you come to me now I'm let's let's let's let's first of all let's start this off with the truth. We all gossip. I don't care who you are. Everybody's guilty of it at one point in their life or another. I am and I think everybody else probably is. And if you're not I apologize. I'm talking about excessive gossipers. People that just can't help themselves. They just got to keep talking about this person, that person.
And sometimes some people do it for no reason. They ain't even trying to get ahead. They just can't help themselves.
But nothing irks me more than you ain't gonna come to me and tell me about Cowboy, Jerry, Fatima, Kesha, Cheryl, or Nickel. You ain't coming to me. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear what they did over here. It ain't my business. I wasn't there. I ain't see it. I don't need to know about it. And if I saw it, if it ain't my business, I still don't need to know about it. But it's people out there that can't help themselves, but gossip just to knock the next man down. Or when I say man, man or woman, just to get boost themselves up.
And I want to know what y'all think about that.
>> What you know, >> first of all, I'd like to say that Tanya is in the building, y'all. Hey, how you doing, Miss Events?
>> Hey, what's up, T? I'm about to go through here and speak to everybody because my stuff are That's called not Hama. They're letting money make them act like fools. Yep.
>> What up? Lisa in the house says, "Rah, ra." Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Sorry. I don't know how I missed Lisa.
>> The nickel showing off their uh uh membership badge. I got excited for the accomplishment of I get excited for the accomplishment. Other people say, "Cheryl, same here, man." You know, but it's people out there that gossip about people and it's just a matter of time before they gonna be gossiping about youactly to help themselves.
>> Yeah. You ain't obsolete from the conversation. Please believe that.
>> If you receiving a lot of gossip, >> if you receiving a lot of gossip, you you on that list somewhere.
>> They just think about the world would be just think about what the world would be like if we would have had social media back in the 70s.
Couldn't imagine.
>> Couldn't imagine. So the Nicholls said, "Get too big for your britches if you want to." I hadn't heard bridges in a minute, right? Hey, that's true, Nicholls. That you get too big for your britches, you can get set down. I'm not gonna get the y'all read between the line. You can get set down. And then when you get set down, you gonna get a couple warnings. At least I did.
>> Okay. Hold on. Yeah.
Yeah. And and and then it's it's even worse when you get set down by by the man upstairs.
>> Yeah, that's who set me down.
>> Okay. Okay. I just set you down. You was doing way too much.
>> I was doing excessively too much. I'm just gonna put Hey, what's up? Say, "What's up people? I'm done with the live and packing now. What I miss?"
Well, we we really tell you we're talking about and this is a good time to do a refresh here. Authentic versus personas or fake versus real. got caught up in the money aspect of it and where Kesha and I think had attended to go. We could have it really was about social media, but we wanted to expand it. Maybe Rob wanted to expand it. But are there content creators that have lost themselves and not who they really are trying to be a persona living up to the hype of what they've come to believe, what what they think other people believe or what other people really do believe, you know. Uh >> yeah, let me go through these here.
Hello everyone in the chat. And then event yours said, "Oh, this type of is sensitive." Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh. This top is a sensitive spot for me. It can be a form of survival or a form of losing yourself. It's tricky depending on why you're cold switching and how often. And that's that's what I was trying to avoid because I know Tanya had mentioned code switching and I didn't know one on live and direct. So, I know when Tanya mentioned it, she was talking about her job. Now, that's a question I want to ask.
Can you have multiple authentic personas? Can you have if what Tanya is mentioning right here, can you be authentic when you're at home and be still authentic but be a different type of authentic when you go to work? What you think, Tisha?
Well, I mean, I guess >> Oh, or what about Okay, I'm gonna give you an easier one then.
>> Okay, >> you're at home. If if if if I'm Let's say >> me and you in the same building, >> but then you're having a conversation.
I'm being real. I'mma talk. I may say some a couple words that may be profanity.
>> Be out there. I'm being real. I'm keeping it real. Mhm.
>> A child come in that room. I'm still gonna keep it real, but I'mma reward how I was saying stuff.
>> Well, yeah, I understand that cuz Yeah, you definitely gonna have to reward it at work because you know, you may uh you know, yeah, you know, you don't want to uh have to go to HR. So, yeah, you definitely going to have to watch what you say at work versus what you would say at home. So, I don't feel like that's like code switching. I don't think I think it's just uh, you know, following rules and guidelines. I don't know.
>> And yeah, and I know I'm only bringing up when I know when Tanya brought it up, she was saying and she might have it in here that she was a she was different at work and away from work.
>> And that's that kind of >> Yeah. I'm really thinking of these people that are on on on YouTube. Like what Jerry say, I only watch people who I feel are real and genuine out to help others and not just themselves.
A lot of times people could be on social media and um if if people think that content creators make a lot of money, they may feel up like live up to the hype that I got to look like I make a lot of money. They may go out and spend money they don't have, get in debt by Ain't nobody gonna see your car unless you got to go live in it or something, but when they in front of the camera, they got to be this, that, and the third. And a couple episodes ago, Kesha mentioned a watch I was wearing.
I almost melted in this chair because I try to keep and I ain't, you best believe I ain't got it on today.
So, uh, because I don't want people to build this perception of Rod just because of what I'm wearing on my wrist.
They don't know how I got there. Kisha, go ahead, Kha.
>> Nothing. No. No. I was looking at J. Je is in the building. Everybody, >> if you see anybody else, go ahead and speak to him. I'mma run through this here real quick. But I like what she said.
>> Je is about the only one I think that is new came in. Did we speak to um Big Rick?
>> Yeah, I spoke.
>> Okay. I thought we did this very Okay.
So, also Oh, go ahead. You said you gonna run through the comments.
>> No, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
>> Oh, no. No. I was going to say also another type of persona is other than you know like you know YouTube and the internet and you know all that is also um like couples. You see some couples on uh camera and you feel like oh you know oh you know they seem like a nice couple or whatever and behind the scenes they probably fighting like cats and dogs.
And you know the crazy part most I would say I can't even say most I think every couple I watch >> have said it on a live stream at one point or another don't think that we ain't have we don't have our problems or we don't have our disagreements or we don't have I I don't think I watch any couple that hasn't disclosed that because yeah we ain't gonna come on camera arguing fight we ain't just cussed you out and when that camera roll up like yeah so hey what's going Y'all don't NEED BACK. ROSE NEED >> I'mma be over here like subscribe, like, share or something. I mean, but but you know, so I I go back to what Cowboy some other people said to get it. That's on the person. Now, you got to be crazy to think two people that have been together years and decades ain't had some disagreements. You just gota be >> But I'm talking about I'm talking about the ones that straight up hate each other, but they're doing it for the camera because they have like So, uh, what was that? It was a couple. Didn't they um 187 each other? It was a couple on the internet. Wasn't it a couple on the internet that 187 each other?
>> I don't know.
>> I'm glad I don't know him.
>> Said I'm glad.
>> They might They might have took me out.
We got 12 real homies in the crib. Hit that subscribe button if you haven't done so. It's your boy Rod. It's your girl Kesha. Just asking for a friend.
Points bank experience. And we got some nice lovely people in here bringing these comments. for Tim. I lived in the hood and I can remember being called fake because I wash my porch down every morning. That community people feel since we live in the hood, we have to live like rats, >> right? And you know what? I lived uh I ain't going to hold you. I lived in uh projects before. And the thing about it is well, it was considered low income.
Let's say that. And um the thing about it is I would go around like picking up the trash especially over there by near my uh you know apartment or whatever because a lot of people they don't bag they uh trash up. So when they go when they go to dumping the the dump truck and stuff flies everywhere and then it looks a mess every time you know uh it was garbage day. And I I can understand what Fatima would mean like just because you want your piece of, you know, peace to look nice, you know, they calling you fake or they they feel like you, you know, and then they'll ask you, you know, I don't know why you doing all that. It's just going to be right back there again, you know. So, >> you know what, Tesha? I've I've been to a lot of cities in America and I've lived in a lot of places. I've been to probably every hood everywhere I've lived and been and it's always one or two houses that just look immaculate.
They look nice and and you look at, you know, the hoods I've been in and I probably been guilty of it as a young whooper snapper. We throw out, we finish our little popsicle, we just throw the rap, wherever it lay, that's the trash, you know, and then you got a person that wash their porch off every day and they fake. Well, that that's gonna leave.
Now, is there a such thing, y'all, as being too damn real? I mean, I got to be trashy to be real. I got to tab the neighborhood to be real, >> I guess.
>> No, man.
>> Let that trash sit there. You can't let that You can't pick that trash up.
>> No, no, no. Now, uh Oh, time coming up on one that I think I had that I I definitely want to address.
They do that in church a lot. Time.
I'mma let you elaborate and I'mma say I'mma wait for your elaboration, but I'm gonna say go ahead. I I had one on the church because have y'all ever seen so some people put up persona, you know, even u the ones that are in church, pastors and things like that. For instance, have y'all ever seen that series? And I love that series. I ain't going to hold you. I love the series.
It's called Green Leaf. Has anybody in the uh chat ever seen that? So basically it was about a pastor and you know basically how uh you know they were living behind the scenes and so it had Lynn Whitfield in it and um and you know they had children as well grown children and the uncle had uh SA uh the uh daughter and the mom was still cool with the uh with the daughter I mean with the brother that essayed her daughter, you know, because what they they live by that old saying, what goes on in this house stays in this house, right? So, um so he's he's right like and I and and then like we'll talk about celebrities like um for instance uh Creo uh am I saying his name right? Creo where uh he whooped his child, right?
And he end up going to jail. I don't know if y'all remember that, but you know, um these people are regular people, you know. So, they have things that go on, but you know, people think that because they are a pastor that they're supposed to be perfect. And I personally, I'm be honest, it depend on if now I don't believe in abusing your kids, but I do believe in discipline your kids. So, uh therefore, him getting arrested for Wait, hold on. What happened? Oh, I thought he said uh something else was being used to be Oh, okay. Um yeah, so that threw me off. But anyway, I mean I believe that you should discipline your child for him to go to jail for uh uh spanking. I think is is crazy. And then they had uh what's his name? Uh Stump.
Make me want to Stump. What's his name?
>> Kurt.
>> Kurt. Yeah, Kurt had cussed his son out.
He probably needed to be cussed out. I mean, some Yeah. Whatever.
>> I think I think we talked about this in a whole another episode. Y'all going to have to go check it out. But I'm I I feel like sometimes it goes what I said at the beginning. Sometimes it ain't the people in the church that's trying to be on a pedestal. Sometimes it's the people that put them on the pedestal.
>> Yeah. Exactly.
>> That that they can't make a mistake.
They can't be wrong. They can't A cursed word can't slip out.
They're human, >> right?
>> That's all I'mma say about that. They're human. Now, Tanya said we we early in this. Tanya want us to drop the mic. She said she got a whole lot of is to talk.
>> All right. Go drop it. Go.
>> Hey, I'm about TO DROP THIS MIC. I'm about to drop this link and I'm gonna try to get through this. So, hey Tanya, I just dropped it, man. I was having some technical issues at the beginning.
So, uh Time said you would see all the people that was uh addicts back in the day if they had uh in the 70s. I see a lot in these YouTube streets.
Uh but you have to put yourself in with the grown folks. I really don't care about who Yes. We don't care about what happen you know that and that's that's a lot of times. Now I just had this here now one thing I can't stand when it comes to real and fake is if I'm talking to Kesha >> and I'm sitting over here. I got to see how I got this here. I'm acting like me and matter of fact, I think they did it on the living color >> that uh it was a sister. I'm talking to Kha, man. Kesha, uh you you I love what you do. I love what you you how you put your content out. And then soon as Kha walk off, I go grab the next person. I can't stand Kesha, man. That stuff she putting out there. You know, people I can't stand when people do that, man.
Like why you g what's the OJ's smile in your face all the time want to take your place >> y'all know the rest of the word like I wrote the song so and not just not just our R&B singer but the church people will be disappointed in their pastors in the congregation if there I mean yeah I'm not >> yeah I mean but you know what there's a lot of people in a lot of different industries that would be disappointed in leadersh >> uh I mean it's been going on recently a lot of leaders been really messing up and y'all coming to the stage and y'all we're not going to drag. We ain't going just cuz Tanya coming up here and we got a third person. We ain't gonna be up here no longer than we playing on. I just may have to be quiet. I'mma let her give me the thumbs up when she's ready and uh Okay, coming to the stage and Vic yours. WHAT'S UP TANYA?
>> I'm Tanya.
>> How you doing? You like you ready?
>> Oh, she got that HAIR WHIPPED AND NIGH NEIGH.
>> YES, I do. But it's it's it's pulled back because I had to go to work today.
>> So, uh I'm in here um doing some last minute not last minute pack. I am packed, but I'm just trying to organize my >> That's all I'm doing. And um I'm I have me a couple of drinks from the live. So, I'm uh I'm feeling good. But I came through here. I was like, "Well, since y'all was on," I said, "Well, I don't get a chance to hear y'all often." So, I said, "Let me come on over here." And I saw what the topic was. I said, "Oh, I got to join in on this or at least put some comments up in here." Cuz I literally was just watching um I watch a lady, her name is Jenny Clark, if anybody knows her. Um, but Jenny Clark, she um has worked with some of the top executive companies and she talks about um I literally was just watching one talk about code switching, which is basically being the difference between your authentic self in addition to just putting on a persona, which is basically a a slang term is cold switching.
Basically, it's hey, you know, this isn't really me. But I'm I let me put it in terms where you can feel comfortable.
So, that's basically what it is. But from what as I was listening to y'all, I might be maybe I don't know, maybe getting too serious. So, maybe was this just about YouTube or was it just >> It's about It's about all the personas.
It's YouTube uh couples. Um um also uh what else? What was it? Oh, and then even uh like spiritual personas like people uh that are spiritual and they feel like that, you know, because they spiritual, you know, you know, like like some people said they're not human that they don't make mistakes and do things as well.
>> Well, I could hit on all three of them because I know y'all ain't gonna be on long. I'mma say what I got to say then I'mma jump off and finish listening to y'all. But >> so from a from a work standpoint, um a lot of us, okay, if depending on what type of company or what type of work you do, usually if you're in corporate America, corporate America has a brand >> and you need to fit the brand. And fitting the brand means you need to look like it, dress like it, talk like it, and um act like it, right? And so therefore, some of us like me, I wasn't raised in the proper schools and the Ivy League this and the, you know, I was I was raised in the hood in the projects and and section 8 and all of that stuff.
That's what I know. So, anything that I've learned, I've learned through trial and error just through working and having mentors and things like that. So I'm a I'm a taught person. Um not this is just my normal way of life which is very different. Like my life coming up is different from my daughter. When my daughter talks about that's because that's the way she lived, right? But I didn't live the way my daughter lives, right? I live differently. So therefore I have to be mindful and sometimes I have to co- switch. I have to co- switch at work because maybe, you know, maybe I want to go to work with my hair like this. And I know some people will say, "Well, you can wear your hair." Well, I don't know. Cuz when I when you imagine corporate America woman, you're not thinking about braids down to your butt.
You may see braids to your shoulder. You may see a ball. Or I'm just I'm just putting that out there. Not saying that it's everybody, but the thing is there's just a certain image and a certain way you have to carry yourself in order to fit in or make them feel comfortable, whoever the brand is. And so if you if the brand doesn't feel comfortable, now you a problem. You see what I mean?
So the code switching is necessary. The problem that I have is when you get some of these individuals who co- switch for so long, they lose themselves. They don't know how to be themselves at home.
They don't know how to be themselves around their family. They don't know how to be themselves because they've done that so much that now they've become what they've been faking just to make it. Basically, they're they're it's a survival tactic. Now, our ancestors had to code switch be just to survive, right? you had to do certain things to survive. So we the way the world is right now, yes, you survive, but most of the stuff is because of what you want. It's not what you need, right? So don't lose yourself in it. You know, just like uh what my girl say, what diamond say to her cousin, you know, make the money, don't make the money make you. Okay? So the thing is you have to if you going to code switch, make sure you leave that at work. Be who you are at home. If you want to speak broken English, go ahead.
You know, if you want to act ratchet, go ahead. Whatever it is, but don't make it to where you totally lose yourself where even your family don't know who you are, your friends don't know who you are. Be who you are. You know, now the benefit about code switching is you're able to fit in other places whenever you need to. You know, I'm that type of person. I'm assess my environment and act accordingly.
Whatever that is. Okay? I'mma dress accordingly. I'm act accordingly. I'm going to speak accordingly. And then if I'm around folks that I feel is my peeps, then you going to get like what you see on YouTube. Period. Because YouTube is to me my peeps. You don't like it, you go to another channel. It don't matter. I'mma be who I am.
>> So that's work.
That's work in marriages.
You know, it's funny because if you was to ask anybody who met me and my husband in real life, maybe traveled with us or whatever, they will tell you what you see is what you get in real life. We fuss in real life like we fuss on the screen.
I'm saying something smart, he's saying something sarcastic. It is exactly what that is. So, just like um media and her brother, that's me and my husband.
That's just what we do. We always got some slick [ __ ] to say to each other or whatever. Now, at the end of the day, can't nobody else mess with us cuz we we'll we'll beat you upside your head or or hit you in the head with a chair leg uh if you try to come for either one of us. So, you know, but there are marriages where they're just all for the camera. They're all for the optics is what they say. The optics is all about the optics. But the optics should only matter if that's your livelihood. You know, like if if it's not your livelihood, then you can't but branching off to the pastors and and the and the and the um and the um the first wives or whatever. Everybody got trouble.
Everybody got problems. No marriage is perfect. No relationship is perfect.
None of that. doesn't mean you have to share it with the world either, right?
You don't have to share it with the world. So, no, you you may not see the problems in real life. When the camera come on, they may be like, "Hey," you know, because the whole thing is we're here trying to make this money.
>> So, we got to give the people what they want, right? Ain't no different than cold switching at work, >> right? So therefore, if it's about the money, they trying to get that cheese.
They trying to get that butter. They trying to do whatever they need to do to to get it. Now, what happens behind closed doors?
Everybody don't need to know that, you know, unless you know them personally.
Now, the per people who know them personally will know the real deal. You know, they know what's really going on.
But it's sad, but you would hope that people are um people are at least trying to be as real as possible, you know, it on the camera, but it's not always about that. But I just had to come up here because it it literally I was literally listening to her video yesterday >> and it was about code switching. Her name is Jenny Clock, y'all. If y'all want to know, just look up on YouTube Jenny Clock. Um yeah, Jenny Clock, G I N Y. last name is Clark with an E. Um, and um, it is, you know, it's it's it's necessary unfortunately because the, you know, the the number one the the amount of uh people depend on where you work and what you do will determine what you need to just like where you work. If you work in the fashion industry, you can't come in there with two shades of pink on. They gonna look at you like you crazy. Like you supposed to represent this brand. I'mma need you to look like you work for a fashion industry. I'mma need you to act like you work for the entertainment industry. I need you to act like you work for the church. I need you to act like you work for healthcare.
I need you to act like you work for, you know, um these other companies. So, at the end of the day, if you don't want to conform, then open up your own business.
But at the end of the day, we all got to conform if we not our own bosses. So that's just something that that got to happen anyway.
>> But that's all I got to say. I'm sorry.
>> Even then, you have to conform. And Kisha, I'm sorry. You've been sitting up here.
>> Oh, no, no, no. Go ahead.
>> Even Even when you're your own boss, you have to conform. You have to conform to the customer.
>> That exactly.
>> You want that money to your audience. Now, that don't mean be fake. Conforming to your audience.
Like Kesha said, I'm going to be Rod.
Kha gonna be Kha. But I also know that there's a part of Rod being a sailor.
And I do curse like a sailor sometimes.
I'm working on it. Y'all forgive me. I when I come on this camera, I can't act totally like that. Now, some may slip out here then. I usually apologize in advance or after.
>> Tanya says she do. But at the end of the day, my viewers are my customers. But do I have to go out and fake like and and go buy a Mercedes just cuz that's what the people think I have because I'm PBT. And and I tell you man, I'mma tell y'all losing yourself in a persona is real.
>> Yeah.
>> I remember, man. I didn't nobody even call me Rod. I had to start put Rod back on my name because it was it was PBT.
I'm cool with that. But when I became PBT and was a rod anymore, that's when the problem came up.
>> It wasn't the what the people called me, it's what I started believing. And that was a question I had. Do y'all think that people fall into these traps? I'm asking Kesha, I'm asking T. I'm asking the people in the comments.
I know it's possible. I'm living proof it's possible. But if you know you're here for a reason, to show people how to homestead, to show people how to do uh cocktails, to talk about credit and investing, if you're here for a reason, that reason should come first and everything else should be secondary.
That's why you created your channel any damn way, >> you know? So, what what are y'all thoughts on that? Just And I got a lot of comments, Star, that I'm about to pull up. Y'all, I got your comments.
Uh, I first I like to welcome in is that river? I can't >> uh River. Yeah. Yeah.
>> I was waving at >> in the building. Uh, your favorite couple is in the building. And also game master is in the building and uh huh?
What' you say?
>> Oh, I just said what's up key and show.
>> Oh, and also uh Desmond uh Nicholls Journey Extra is in the building.
>> What's up, D? Hold on. speaking to his beautiful queen >> and and so Kesha that you're that that do people do now the one of the titles in the title is do we lose ourselves in these personas >> well I mean like I said what you see is what you get I'm like this 247 so I don't really uh keep up a persona and I'm trying to think just shoot uh I'm I mean I'm like you Like at work, you got to follow some type of rules and regulations because there's such thing as HR.
So, I can't go to work, okay? I can't go to work sitting up there cussing like a drunken sailor. You know, I can't um you know, I can't say what I would say at, you know, at the house. I can't even do what I would do at the house. Like, you know, can't have certain conversations in front of other people. So, yeah. You know, you definitely, you know, I Yeah, I feel like it's more like following rules, guidelines, and regulations when it come down to work.
>> Now, so let's take work out of it and talk about, so for instance, I grew up in the hood and most of my family act like that's where they from. And over the years, cuz this is how I feel. If you know better, you do better, right?
So my question is, it's one thing to have a culture that you're not trying to to me your culture is who you are.
Doesn't mean you need to act ignorant.
Just because you came from ignorance doesn't mean you need to stay ignorant, right? Just because you came from um broken English, does that mean you need to continue to talk it? Or do you need to maybe say, you know what, based on what I want to do or accomplish in life, I need to do better. Right? Nobody's saying everybody's supposed to be the same. But I would think that over time that you will want to do better than whatever you like. To me, I feel like I'm my competition.
I'm not in competition with nobody else.
I'm my competition. What did I do last year that I can do better this year? How can I be better than I was last year?
How can I be a better parent than maybe how I was parented? How can I be a better friend than maybe an old friend was to me? How can I be a better wife, you know, the uh to my husband than, you know, just in general? Like h how how do I grow with this? And you can't do it by being the same. So, at what point is it losing, you know, losing yourself or just becoming a better person or improving yourself? That's my question. And that's a great question because I I think I think I I think it helped me become a better person, Tanya, with what you just said that the the persona and and when I said a persona, I wasn't going buying no stuff just because people thought I had stuff. I just I had stuff and and I really I think what I did or what I saw a lot of people do in that era was they didn't let people they let people believe what they wanted to. If a person thought you was rich, you let them think that you was rich. If a person thought you was from the hood, you let them think you from the hood. And to me, that's not that's being fake.
>> You know, be who you are. If you And really, that ain't even why you there anyway. You on this camera for a reason.
It ain't the Kesha Rod Tanya show of what we got and what we ain't got. It's whatever we choose to be our niche. So, what's your thoughts, Kea? Well, me growing up, I mean, I had two literally different households I grew up in. You go my mama house, that's the bougie side. You go my daddy house, that's the Seriously, like you know, uh he lived in the projects. My mama lived in in a pretty nice neighborhood. Uh if uh any of y'all ever been to uh Memphis, it's like the neighborhood right behind Elvis House. So, um, but anyway, um, so I feel like, you know, when you're shown both hands, you kind of like know how to act and interact with different people, different walks of life, life, right?
So, I don't feel like, you know, it was I had a code switch because I I had both of them in me. You know, you know how you have both in you. You have you may have like a um um a sophisticated side.
You may have a little a little hood side. If you got a little little everything mixed in you uh because of how you were raised, you know, is like does that lead to code switching? Like can you be a code switcher if if if all of you >> and river you're born by your authentic self.
You're conditioned to have a persona how to operate in society. It's kind of >> okay with you when you write.
>> Yeah. You you you you we now that to me I think everybody should act like they got some sense in society. I don't care what you what what you do behind closed doors. You got to act like you got some kind of sense. And and I think and we all have our ways. And I like what Ky said and I've been pulling it up so I wouldn't forget from the Nickels.
I'm not gonna get on this. time. I stand on this. I just have to read it because it is true. For a saint is just a sinner who fell down and got up. We ain't got to go into detail. Let's keep that in mind because and that goes with just judging people in general, man. We always, you know, I I don't even want to talk about I'mma probably have to, but hey, Cheryl said, "I know I'm not a cold switcher. The Lord knew I couldn't handle that. I'm just city southern. I won't remember the code switch." And that that's probably the realest of the real that. You don't know no but one way.
Can that not not in Cheryl's answer, but can that be a problem sometimes? Cuz do y'all have that relative that only know how to be one way? But I know >> I got a relative that don't don't know how to do nothing but be hood. I'll be like, "Oh my goodness. You can't be talking like that up in here. We in Texas day, Brazil."
>> Exactly. And I know Miss Cheryl is talking about Sher know how to be one way and that's a righteous person. But you got I got some uncles that's the opposite. They only know how to be one way and that's a damn fool. Excuse my language, but that's all they know.
>> I got a cousin. She don't care where she at. She she she her all day long. You can be she'll be in church and be cussing her tail off. I be like, I ain't sitting there.
>> Now, now see, and that's why I say if you know better, do better. Right? But a lot of times they don't know better.
Or some people don't want to put forth the effort.
>> I think Yeah, I think it's more of a effort. I think it's more of an effort on on >> Yeah, they they don't they don't they don't want to do they don't want the effort. They don't they don't want to do what they need to do because it's going to require them to censor themselves. It's going to require them to be calm and and then that's why you get some people that say, "I'm not going to that party. I'm not going to that bougie party." Okay. So the only the only party you could go to is, you know, in the hood where you got to be worried about if they going to shoot out because that's where you comfortable.
That's fine to do if that's what you want to do. But the best way you're going to make it in this world is to be able to go to wherever and adjust. You don't have to stay there. Nobody's saying stay there. But if you, let's just say you have a job and you have to raise money and you got to go to a banquet, put on that goddamn suit or that damn dress and act like you got some damn sense. Do what you need to do for your two, three hours and then take your tail back on over on Caw and the corner and do whatever else you want to do after that. That's it.
>> And and I like what Desmond saying and I'm and that's kind of what it ain't no kind of it's what Kesha been saying.
It's what Tanya saying and what Rod been saying. What really about to say? People be who you truly are. People these days be wolves hiding in sheep clothing. Once you show me your hand, I'm done with you.
>> Got to separate the real from the fake.
And that's how I am, man.
>> It did.
>> If you sitting up, I'm telling if you sitting up talking about everybody under the sun. I know that it just a matter of time you gonna be talking about Rod, >> right?
>> If you over here talking about what you doing is and I know it's wrong, it's just a matter of time before you gonna do me wrong. But I really feel like what Tanya just said, you know, I know how to sit in a corporate office and act like I got some sense, but I also know how to go to the hood and relate to the people in the hood because I grew up in the hood. Does that mean I'm fake because I leave the hood and I go over here and I know how to act? Does it mean I'm fake because I leave over here in the executive office and go back to the hood? Does it mean I forgot where I came from because I moved? I at the end of the day as a man I'm supposed to be able to provide for me and my family.
I should want to be better than maybe I don't care I if if I'm not in the hood.
If I'm in the suburbs I may want to be in a different suburb. I may want to be in a different area of the hood and still be in the hood. It's some nice houses in the hood. It's people with money in the hood. Mhm.
>> So that that that just Anyway, >> sorry about that.
>> You know what you know what make me mad is when you get when you get folk only reason I get sensitive about this because this was me growing up because I had a godmother outside of my family and my godmother was a house full of educated women. They were professionals.
stay that stuff. And then our house was, you know, the projects, the hood, whatever.
Little Exactly. And when I would go over there and I would come back and I would talk a certain way, they had an attitude. Oh, you think you better than us?
>> You going over there with them people and blah blah blah. You know, instead of saying, "Oh my gosh, my child is learning something that I couldn't teach her."
>> Do you understand what I'm saying? And that's how it was. But then it didn't just stop there. You know, me and my husband had our daughter and it's like she grew up knowing nothing but to speak proper. So when she speak proper, oh, so you got her around them, you got around them white folk. I'm like, okay. So, see now I'm a little sensitive to that because what you're implying is that there's no educated black.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. When you say, "Oh, you talking white." What the hell does that damn mean? What does that mean? That means that if you black, you need So the only way you know somebody black is if they ignorant >> spoken English. Is that what it is?
Because you can't say it's the tone.
Because I can show you a whole lot of black folk that sound just like what the the voicemail person or whatever. It's a tone of voice. It has nothing to do with their culture. But >> I know a whole lot of black people that don't sound like the voicemail, that may not speak proper English, that may not know how to put the right words and the these and the those and the their four twos and all that crap that are smart as I don't know or what, successful in life, successful in love, successful in spirit. So we need to quit all this here prejudging people because like you said, oh they talking white or he talking hood or he talking ghetto or she she man damn all that. Again, you can't judge a book by its cover, man. Sorry about that, Kesha. I'm sorry. We >> there. Uh, some new people have came in, right?
>> Okay. Who you see? Let me know who you see.
>> Okay, I see Ryan.
I don't know about Ryan.
>> Ryan been rocking with Ryan. I forgot the last name. I'll see it in a minute.
>> Oh, never mind. Never mind about Ryan.
But did we say game master? Local uh reviewers is in the building, y'all.
>> Yeah, game master. Yeah, we local reviewer. Yeah, I I spoke but we didn't say I didn't form it. So yeah, if you see somebody Ky just interrupt me and just say hey we gota we got to show love to the people. Hey uh Kizzy from the Nickel said I think it's in the eye of beholder because people believe what they want to believe. Amen about you as long as the one that matters knows that's all that matters. Everyone's looks at things different. That's that's so true. And people gonna base a I don't care if you live a perfect life. People gonna find 20,000 flaws. If you have 20,000 flaws, they gonna try to make you perfect. I see it both ways. So, >> now one question I got for you, Kish, and then I'm gonna float it on down to Tanya, is do y'all think these personas are a part of a person's insecurity?
>> Yes. Absolutely.
>> Yes. Yes. Cuz I can I can tell you when you grow up >> I'mma let Kha go first. Go ahead.
>> All right. Yeah, >> cuz I'm I'm living a lot of this [ __ ] So that's why I'm >> Yeah. So, okay, repeat the question for me.
>> So, do you feel like people who have these personas are showing these fake this fakeness? Do you feel like they have a lot of insecurities within?
>> Definitely have some insecurities. If you got to have a certain type, you got to drive a certain type of car or you feel like you ain't, you know what, or you have to, you know, uh, rock the ladies, you know, Jordans and and Valenciaga or you feel like you ain't, then yeah, you definitely have some insecurities cuz I feel like I can rock a whole paper bag and and still um and still be just fine.
So >> that's right. Say it again, Keith.
>> So it just depend. I mean, so yeah, a lot of people have insecurities. I I don't feel like certain things make you you should make that you should be an an enhancement to that versus it being an enhancement to you. So yeah, a lot of people um have these personas where they feel like they got to have certain things in order, you know, to be accepted or or um liked, you know, >> you know, people Kha's done it. Tanya's done it. Especially Kesha, I always leave the wrong comment up on the screen. I don't never leave the one that said Rod is great. And not I'm not doing it right now. This is a great comment, but I'm using an example. But some people if you boy you go into they live and somebody said they the best they say sliced bread daily they're coming up there the whole live stream and to me that's an insecurity I'm thinking about like people may not be used to compliments and I said it earlier not used to getting attention and they they become someone they're totally not just seeking that acceptance. So I think it definitely does. Jerry said I'm the same all the time but I know how to present myself in different situation but still be me. is >> that's it right there, man. If you know when you have to shift gears, then I I don't call that fake and real.
You just know when you have to pivot.
But if you don't have a reason to pivot and you just pivoted for the you just just I gota I'm the only one here, but I got to look like I'm ball out of control just in case somebody ride by that may know me. That's crazy. So, uh, game master sell all the houses in California expensive.
>> They sure are, game master. Every last one of them.
>> Oh, I can't wait to read this one. You, cuz I ain't ready yet. You can line up 10 people. Let them watch you for six months and ask them what they think about you. Oh man, you will get 10 different answers. That's a fact. Don't get caught up in pleasing the wrong one.
>> Yeah.
>> And you know it. I don't understand, man. I've been on lives where people are seeking attention and they're there talking about people right there in the live stream just talking about it just just talking about it. So you if you if you ask 10 people what they think about Ra Kra you gonna get 10 different answers.
>> If you listen to the live and direct song I straight up wrote it. Don't worry about the money.
Don't worry about the power. We just command respect. When I think of Kesha and I don't think just cause Kesha homesteading and just cause Rod over here talking about stocks and everything else investing, don't think we are far removed from where we grew up because we're not. And that that is not being we first of all I ain't trying to please and prove to nobody who I am and who I'm not. I actually used to spend a lot of time and still sometimes do of what I'm not because I don't want people to think I got all this in the third. I'm just a regular dude. If y'all hear some thunder, man, it might be something flying through here in a minute, but uh >> I hope not.
>> Don't And so that is so true. Don't prejudge, don't judge a book by it cover. Uh I could be ugly on the outside but sweet on the inside. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes.
>> I tell folk all the time, don't let this suit fool you.
You got to look you >> cuz I I'll be the type of person I see you at the parking lot.
>> Go down the street a little bit, Tanya.
Don't go. Still that's still the property, mama. That's still property.
Go there.
>> Oh, I know. Have to do it when nobody can see it. But I'm just saying >> I'm address misinterpret.
You know, you're not you're not supposed to sleep on folk either. Just because folk have come up and they got a lot to lose, that just means that they've identified ways to do what they need to do without jeopardizing what they work so hard to work so hard to obtain. So, um, and I just tell folks, I've had to tell maybe three folk in my career time, I said, "Don't let this suit fool you."
>> Because I also have a different way of doing it. Sometimes I I may not need to put my hands on you. How about you might not have your job in the next year.
Don't know how you lost it, but trust me, I might be behind it, but you just don't know. So, tell people, don't let this suit fool you.
>> It's always a way to do stuff.
>> I want to hear Kisha's and both y'all.
So many people want to look like someone to be liked.
That sums up a lot of this, man.
Some people want to be liked so bad.
>> Liked or respected.
>> This here comments say liked and and that that really what I'm I'm rolling with uh local reviewer. They just want people to like them and accept them.
They ain't even got to the respect part yet.
>> What you think?
>> Well, I mean, let's talk about it. If you on YouTube, you at least want people to like you, right? They got to like you in order for you to get subscribers.
They got to like you in order to get views. So yeah.
>> Well, not necessarily.
>> Okay. Well, they can hate you. Well, I don't know how many people hate they people that >> Well, I I put it to you this way cuz respect and like a two things.
>> And I've I've told people people who have talked to me before, I've already said people watch people on YouTube for different reasons. People come to YouTube for different reasons. People come, some people come for you and some people come for the content.
>> They don't have to like you to respect the content. R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, who else I'm who who else am I talking about? I'm just saying they don't have to like you to like your content, right? Because the content is what it is. And if you know it's giving you what you need and what you came for, you going to watch it. Now, you might not be a member of their channel. You know, you ain't going to go that far, but you damn sure going to click on it and look at it. They gonna get some views out of it.
And then you get some people who they don't care what the content is. They like your personality. They like you.
So, is it more important to be liked or respected?
>> I would go with respect.
I I'd go with respected, but I I think you know, like me, I I I gotta like you though, Tanya. I can't just watch you just because you got some content. I gotta like you >> cuz you find somebody I do like.
>> But how many people How many people do you watch that you don't know?
>> That's now that's a good one. That's what I was about to say.
>> Same thing.
>> We need to really say we we like what we see, but we really don't know these people. Mhm.
>> We like what we see, but that persona may be what I'm liking.
That it may be real. It may be fake. I don't know. But I like whatever they're doing. But sooner or later, I'mma see through the BS.
But >> and that's fine. I'm just saying. But just just like I said, just because you may not like somebody don't mean that they they content might be fire.
Okay? Like if you if you knew some if you knew an investing guru and you do investing with Rod and you like god dog it I can't stand him but then dad going I get so much good information from this man or this woman or whatever you going to watch it especially if it's going to help you do whatever it is that you watching for.
You gonna watch it. You gonna cuss at it but you gonna watch it.
>> You know I remember and I'mma go back a little bit and Kesha probably remember this. I would and it wasn't like fake or real but each channel I have I have to be I have to present myself kind of differently here I can be more real real I'm I'mma be real but when I'm on investment with Rod it's certain things that I won't say over there or I try to downplay here I try to downplay here I'm just the average guy I'm just a normal Rod and that's what I am but on invest with Rod they don't want to hear stuff I don't have but they do want to hear about the accomplishments. They do want to hear about the stock amounts. They want to hear about the shares.
>> They don't want to just hear, "Y'all, I really ain't got nothing. I'm just barely making it over here. How you going to teach me how to invest money then?"
>> That part. You can't tell me about You can't tell me about how to come back from bad credit. If you've always had good credit, >> you if you don't have a testimony about you coming up out of it or you going through it, then I don't need to hear from you. Okay, >> that's what Kesha Kesha brought that up to me. She's like, "Hey man, you need to chat." And I was like, "Really?" And then I thought about like, "You're absolutely right. It may >> right, >> but that's where you have to that ain't being real or fake." So, somebody said it earlier, that's just when you have to switch. You're still you, but you may have to switch roles. So, >> right. Um, I want to welcome in uh Trap Vision.
>> What's going on, Trap?
>> Trap said, "Don't let the smooth taste fool you. I get ignorant over here.
Oh snap.
>> No, he said it gets ignorant over here.
He didn't say I >> like them first, then respect them. Uh, that's all right, man. That's all right, man. What's happening? What's happening?
I had to throw that in their mind. No, you good, man.
Can you respect somebody without without liking them? What about you, K?
>> Yes, you can.
>> Um, well, I don't want to say this uh content creator's name. I don't particularly like him, but I like his content. So, I guess and I got respect for the content. I don't know about him, per se. I don't know. I don't know.
That's That's tough.
>> One thing I learned from the military, if I ain't learn nothing else and and trap may trap a veteran as well.
>> Oh, can you take that comment down for >> Oh, okay. Hold on. Everybody that come in, they just be like, "Panel, >> they see me in T's name." Miss telling you.
>> I'm sorry y'all. So, I don't demand respect. I command respect. And to answer that question, yes. I feel like you can respect somebody without like >> Yes, you can.
>> You I know a whole lot of people coming up in my life that didn't like me, but they had no choice but to respect me. Now, this another thing. Do they really respect me or do they respect my authority?
>> Well, you get different people is no different than your children.
>> Well, I think people can respect you for different things, too.
>> Yes. Exactly.
>> So, some people can respect you for what you bring to the table.
>> That's right.
>> People can respect you for just maybe like the person that you are, >> you know, they respect how you move, >> right? you know, or people can respect you for I don't know, people can respect you for a million different things. It just depends on that person, you know.
I know with me, I want people to respect me for somebody that's trying to help as many people as I can do better with mindset, financially, um, stuff like that. That that's what I want. That's the respect I want. All the other stuff I really don't care about.
Like what uh Cheryl say, you have to have content I'm interested in. I have to also like your tone, >> right?
>> T that is true. They're coming for content. And a lot of people now really you you should go for the content.
Should you go there first thing, do I like this person? Do I not like them?
No. Go there for the content.
>> Okay. But I'm sorry. I'm I'm gonna put it out there. There's folks out there that can make you laugh, be very entertaining, but that doesn't mean that you got to like them, or vice versa, or you're there for their personality.
You're there because they make you laugh because they they they give you something to do when you have nothing to do. That don't mean their content is worth nothing. Let me tell you something. There are people, and I'm sorry y'all, if there's anybody in the comments that this shoe fit, wear it.
But just know that I might not be talking about you, but you know, people feel self convicted. Convicted. So, >> I was just saying self convicted.
>> Yes. Self convicted. My thing is there are people where if you like them, you will be there.
They does not does not mean that they are generating anything of any value to you. It may be hey you know I like they make me you know he or she make me laugh. He or she you know uh uh make me think about a few things.
I like talking to them. I like the way they voice sound. I like what you know that sort of thing. And they're there.
But that don't mean they content is worth a damn. So you can't you can't put the same in there. And I've said this before in my lives. I've said this period. People come to YouTube for different reason. You get people who blow up because people like their personality. You get people who blow up because they got good content. And then if you lucky, you find somebody with both, right? But no, I do not think that every time you come to YouTube, you need to just come to YouTube just for the content because not everybody comes to YouTube like Google. People are coming like coming in here like Tik Tok. They have nothing to do. They want to be entertained. They want to be they want to laugh. They want to be able to say some slick [ __ ] or whatever they want to do. So I I that that's my opinion. I'mma push back on that and say I don't agree with that. And the only reason why I say that is a perfect example.
Me and my husband, me and him watch YouTube for two different reasons. Two different reasons. He watches it for gossip. He says he's being educated about certain things, but it has to be entertaining. Now, there are some things he will watch because that's what he's into, but he's not into a lot of things.
And so, he's not on here, you know, looking for, oh, the content has to be great. He's looking for a laugh. He's looking for a giggle. He's looking for, is this going to help me do whatever I'm working on type stuff. I look look at it for content and personalities depending on what it is but most of the time YouTube is my Google. YouTube is my visual Google.
So that's how I I look at it that. So I don't I don't know I don't know Rod. I don't agree with that. I'm have to push back on that part.
>> Well I I I will say Tanya I'm gonna have to backtrack a little bit. back backpedal rather not backtrack back pedal because on PBT and I know trap remember these days I would do a three I say a three and a half hour live I had 15 minutes worth of real information and three hours worth of who knows what the hell was about to happen I mean and people stayed I mean I would have people wouldn't comment for nothing while I was putting out the content about the information. But the moment that was done and I said, "All right, y'all. What? We can talk about whatever y'all want to talk." Boy, the comments lit up that >> people are bored. They want to talk.
>> Huh?
>> People are bored and they want to talk.
>> Yeah. They couldn't wait to They couldn't wait to that part.
>> You ever experienced that on your channel? Well, you you I mean, >> have you been in lives that people do that? They just don't care about what's really going on. They just want to kick it.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, definitely. Um I have um used to go to this one live and yeah it was like a little social uh spot like where we would all be up in the comments section laughing and like say kikin and and I don't know what was going on on the screen but everybody from that niche would go to this one particular content creator and that's you know we just have fun and kick it.
Trap said there are people that uh don't like me because of my unwillingness to the normal watch review platform. They still watching.
>> Oh yeah, they'll be strong. Trap. They will be real strong.
>> They be in them bushes.
>> So, >> and then uh time I don't believe what anybody say in 2026.
Off top for Tim. Off top I respect people. It's up to an individual to lose my respect. And then Jerry said facts for Tim. So, and we at an hour and 41 minutes here. And I'm going look make sure I ain't missed no comments.
I don't think I did.
And so, I'm I'm just going to go over a couple things just to get your thoughts.
Uh, do y'all do y'all feel like Now, I ain't talking about this got to be and switch it up because you got to.
I'm talking about just people are just just generally being fake as hell. Do y'all think that is exhausting or it's just normal?
>> It would have to be exhausting to be somebody that you're not like, you know.
>> Yes, it is. Uh it is very much so because you got to use a lot of brain >> waves and you got to your temperament has to be different. Uh, you definitely got to have some self-awareness because you got to make sure you don't succumb to whatever the environment does because there are people who know that this is not your usual self and they will try and push them buttons.
Yep. Now, do y'all feel like uh people isolate themselves when they start being fake? Do you feel like it could be a a matter of they don't want to go to functions, they don't want to go on gettogethers, they don't want to go to meet and greets because uh people will not will realize who they truly are?
>> That that that could be possible.
Yeah. If you putting on a persona of, oh, I'm I got it going on and I I rock, you know, this and I do that and I have this and I have that. But you can say it on uh the internet all all day long. I sit there and be lying my tail off saying, "Yeah, I got a Mercedes Ben and a and I also got a Bugatti." I don't know. Like, you know what I'm saying?
But, you know, how can you prove it? You know, I can pull up at the function and I ain't in either one of the cars. No, it probably it ain't conducive for me to go to them functions. I don't know. So, it just depend. I guess >> what you say. I had my mic.
>> I I think I think we lost Tanya.
>> Oh, you know, and then another persona is like, you know, I don't know. There's different personas. Let me run through them.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. So, we got the perfect life persona. People are portraying that, oh, my life is just so perfect. You probably wish you were me.
And then you got the self-made millionaire persona where people will sit there and say, "Hey, you know, I if I can do it, you can do it, too." But yet they're broke behind the scenes, right? Uh so you have that persona.
You have the nice girl, nice guy persona where, you know, they pretend they uh appear like kind and you know all that, but behind the scenes they manipulative, you know, and and very mean, right?
>> You have the relationship uh gold persona couples who post nonstop like they just so happy like, "Yes, this is us, baby. We we living it." But, you know, behind the scenes they arguing and um you know, dealing with different conflicts, right? Uh you got the the street uh uh the person that's street tough, right? You know, uh the person that uh be acting aggressive and like they they'll really uh look at their butt.
You know what I'm saying? But behind the uh behind the scenes, they real soft and fierce, right? So then you got the spiritual guru. That's the person who act like they so healed. I'm so >> and enlightened and you know and secretly they dishonest and uh emotionally unhealthy.
>> Just then you have like the victim persona, right? the person who portrays themselves to um as a oh as innocent in every situation. They ain't did nothing, >> you know, uh to avoid accountability, right?
So then you have uh the boss bay and the alpha male persona. You got the person that pursu uh portrays theirel to be confident, successful, disciplined, right? M >> but uh but yet they you know in real life they powerless you know uh in their personal life right then you have the uh the fake humble persona. You want me to stop?
>> She got the whole list.
>> Yeah. No, I don't want you to stop. Keep going.
>> You were looking crazy.
>> No, I'm Hey, Trap said this list is solid. No, keep going. Here you go.
>> Okay. Uh, what did I say? Oh, you have the uh fake uh fake humble persona person pretending to be modest uh while um while comp constantly fishing for compliments and attention. You have the uh what you say?
>> I'm laughing.
>> Oh, okay.
>> The them pick me folks.
>> Uhhuh. Pick meas. Yeah, big Mishes. Now that's a new one.
>> Oh, then you have the um the internet activist. The person who performs um and acts like they're concerned with social issues uh online for clout but uh doesn't in real life, right?
>> Then you have the luxury lifestyle persona, right? Where they're written cars Hello. Borrowing folks hand designer bags so they can take pictures and and and um and um asking their friends that live in uh rental spots if they can uh come and take pictures and things like that. Uh then you have the happy family persona.
You have the the family pretending to be perfect >> while dealing with dysfunction, distance, and conflict behind the scenes. Those are the personas, ladies and gentlemen.
>> Well, hey, you got some rave reviews on them and and you hit so many that are true.
>> Y >> going back to that uh the internet persona. Going back to the uh there was one you said right before that one. It was all of them are spot on.
>> The fake humble, the boss bay alpha.
>> I think it was the the the one that cared about social issues. They come online like they do.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. That's the internet active uh activist, >> you know. And you, like I say, I know some people that do humanitarian work that I know. Everybody that I know, I've seen them >> show that they doing it.
>> Right. Right. you know, but it's people out there and I probably won't stay on those channels long. And I think that's where sometime uh Hey Trap said I know somebody that got the rich boy. This fool be barring everything.
>> Begging Benny, >> you know, and that that you know at the end what I think it it takes too much energy man to live up to this hype to live up to these this fakeness.
Uh, and in the same sense people I don't think I mean this is way beyond the scope of probably this but I don't think people would even try to live up to the hype if that's not the society we somehow created >> some kind of I don't know if we I'm going say media I don't like to always put everything on social media because this was happening when there was just radio this was happen when it was a black and white TV color TV all the way up to technology now so But it just it takes so little energy just to be who you are.
>> Um >> yeah, >> it it I remember you used to go I used to go live I think just because I wanted to hear myself talk now. I I was bored sometime but now I don't really go live just to go live if I ain't got and I used to would stay on the live go tell you I go find something to do and come back to the live. I ain't left I ain't like close the live shut it down. I just would leave the live and my chair will be here. Then I come back 10 minutes later and it be people still there.
>> Can I say something?
>> Yeah.
>> Don't get mad at me, Rod.
>> I ain't >> So So when we when uh when you reached out about live and direct, first thing I did was go to some of your old stuff.
You were crazy.
I'm like, is he drunk or is he just crazy? Like, what the hell is I'm talking about? You was feisty with some in some of your lives. You was feisty.
And I was like, Lord have mercy. I'm like, what is live and direct going to be like? Because the rod I see like I don't know what you going to do on live and direct. I know what you do on investing broad. I know what you do on point blank point blank travel. But I'm like, this a new channel he trying to do. I don't know what he trying to do on this one. But I just had to put that out there just to tell you that.
>> And you're absolutely right, man. Feisty was an understatement. And And I had to learn maturity, grow up, and be more professional. When I first started YouTube, it was like a hobby. It was it wasn't a business. Now that it was it's a business, I had to pivot and I had to grow. I had to mature, grow.
Uh, and and man, if you listen to one of my songs, it say I ditch the solo cup.
I'd be on there with some wine. Yeah.
You got something in case you >> Oh, no, no, no, no.
>> I'd be on there with my wine and man, whatever came to my mind, I said and thought it was cool because I for 15 minutes, I'd have made all the sense in the world about points and mile, but for the other two hours, I don't really know about that one. I can't I can't say that made sense all of it. But, uh, I'd have to agree with you, tell you. I I it ain't no reason to get mad about the truth, you know.
>> Well, I didn't even look at any of his past stuff. So, uh, at least research on before you go live with anybody, you need to research them cuz you you you got to understand your brand's and and that's also something else that goes with this persona thing is your brand is important, but so is theirs. Mhm.
>> And so if your brand is way over here >> and the person who you want to collaborate is way over there, >> it ain't going to work.
>> You understand what I'm saying? So I put it to you this way. If I go on a group trip and I'm trying to turn up, I'm not going with the church folk.
>> No.
>> You understand what I'm saying? I'm not saying that. Now look, I am a church folk. I know how to turn up like Royal Caribbean. You know, corporately turn up. You know, you have fun, but it's clean fun, right?
>> But I also know how to be ratchet, sexy red. You understand what I'm saying? I can be Taylor Swift.
>> Oh, not >> and I can be sexy red.
>> Don't be sexy red. I mean, >> but it's just a matter of it's just a matter of what do you what what is your brand and what are you trying to portray? What are you trying to do with yourself? Because that determines who you hang around, who you do business with, who you because you have to you you it has to make sense, right? So, I just want to put that out there.
>> Okay.
Uh I'm sorry. Uh I'm making sure I didn't miss nothing, y'all. I think we pretty much Can you think you can you think of anything we may have missed?
>> Uh, well, who Oh, F. Smith is in the building, y'all. Hey, F. Smith. I'm sorry. I'm just now seeing you. Um, did you pull up Miss Cheryl's comments? Cuz uh, >> let me see here.
>> Just I didn't even >> I did, but I didn't get a chance to go over.
>> Oh, okay. Okay. So Sher say I just don't care what people have. Material things just don't appeal to me, >> right?
>> I really like people unless they showing their tail.
And then let me make sure I didn't miss nothing else. Uh and then Desmond came and Desmond said, "You know, Michelle, some people in this world just ain't worth two cents. People talk a good game, but don't be meaning others no good." That is so true.
>> That is so true right there. You know, you could talk about it, but can you be about it? I'm a firm believer.
>> That's right.
>> You could talk about it, but can you be about it? You know, um I I had some people say, "Well, you might not make it because your investment channel, you're you're showing people how to invest a little bit of money." I said, "I don't I don't care. I don't I don't want to show people how to invest a lot of money because maybe everybody can't invest a lot of money. I want I'd rather show them how to invest a little bit of money.
>> You know, I could I could show out and invest two three $500, but am I always able to do that? No. Am I always invest able to invest two to five? Probably. I have a better shot. So, uh be about talk about it. Be about it. I agree with Des.
You have some more stuff, Kha?
Um, no. She said cobble. Yes.
Um, so do y'all feel like fake personas and then we can I guess uh wrap it up, but um do y'all feel like fake personas ruin real relationships?
>> Yes.
>> Yeah.
>> Yes. Because the realness is going to come out sooner or later.
fake. You can only be fake for so long and so long it could be a a wide spectrum of time. But I think if you have a real relationship and and then there's a fakeness to it where you think a person think they have a real relationship, then there's a fakeness to it. Yeah, it can ruin. It's almost inevitable that it's going to ruin it. is it's just a matter of time if the truth is not brought out typically by the person that's fake. Because if the truth is brought out and the person who's believing this fakeness, you might not be able to recover from that. But if the person is fake admit and tell the truth, there may be a possibility of salvaging it.
That's just my opinion.
But yeah, it it it definitely it definitely can.
>> I put it to you this way. You can't anything you can't sustain is gonna cause problems.
>> Said I give you a hell yeah.
>> Yep.
>> No.
>> Yeah. If you can't keep up with it, if you can't if you can't >> I'm saying like Well, what I really meant, hey, how you doing? She Natural Homestead is in the building. But um what I was really talking about was say um because Tanya is the only one who uh has you know is married. Um can I use you as example Tanya?
>> Sure.
>> Okay. So say uh Tanya and Timmy their relationship ain't what we think it is, you know. Um and uh like eventually is what I'm saying. by them constantly, you know, faking on screen, would that end up messing up their their real relationship? So, say u some I'm trying to think. U >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I was I was I probably should have used another example. I would have felt a little better.
But yes, it would because if you I put it to you this way and I tell you something simple and it's not even about >> it's not even about me and his relationship.
>> YouTube is mine.
Okay. Right.
>> But we do it together.
>> But he will be quick to be like I'm damn tired.
How that little how that little boy say I'm [ __ ] He will be quick to say I'm tired. I ain't doing no damn live tonight. You know what I mean? So, but I'm like, "This is something that I'm committed to. It got to happen."
>> You see what I mean? So, that's why there might be some days you won't see him >> because he like, "I I I got other important stuff to I got other stuff to do." You understand what I'm saying? So it it it does uh matter because if he wasn't the type of person or if we didn't understand and have an understanding that hey we're doing this together but this is your YouTube >> then that means that I will get upset and then he'll be down there trying to do stuff and then his whole attitude will be messed up. You understand what I'm saying? So, yes, it can interfere with your relationship if you're, you know what I'm saying? If you're not um >> if you're not careful with that >> because then you're making someone else put on the persona that they're like, I ain't trying to do that.
>> So, you got to you got to work through stuff. So, that's just an example of of one.
>> That was a very good example, too.
>> Yeah. Exactly. Because look, y'all already know, y'all see me on there by myself in a minute.
>> Okay?
>> And trust me, Timmy done said, "I ain't I got [ __ ] to do."
Period. So, that's how it is.
>> And And you brought up a good point, Tanya. A lot of times when we work with do collaborations as we call it, you you have to you have to it's got to be some sense of realness there.
I can't act like Tanya. I can't act like Kesha and I can't expect them to act like Rod. Raw got to be himself. Kisha gonna be herself on the classroom and vice versa on live and direct. And then we come together.
We we are individual sales, but we got to have some kind of common ground or I can't fake and and and try to sound southern if I'm not from the south or try to act like I know how to build a remodel kitchen if I don't. I can't do it. It's not going to work. Uh >> yeah. Or try to be from the hood when you from Arkansas. Yeah, like that.
>> Does Arkansas have hoods?
>> Yeah, Arkansas do got hoods.
>> I If I ain't know and respect Tanya and Timmy, I'd take Tanya down there in Little Rock and just drop off AND GO BACK IN THE HOOD. Don't drop Tanya off.
>> Okay, but what kind of Okay, see. Okay, look. I'm glad you said that, Kesha, because guess what? Remember what I said before? People see the glory. They don't know the story.
>> Okay, if I told you she already came from the hood.
>> I came from the hood. Tell you this, >> she came I came from the hood. He talking about Brooklyn.
>> This is a true statement, Tanya. This is a true statement.
>> The hoods in Arkansas to me are even more dangerous cuz they got something they trying to prove.
>> Okay.
They trying to get >> something to trying to prove is worse or surviving? Which one is worse?
>> Shoot. Both.
>> You hungry and you need a place over your head or you just trying to prove yourself?
>> They can equally be dangerous. What's going on? Murder. Murder. Murder.
What up? 100 >> myself 2.0 is in the building. What is going on y'all?
>> Someone in the relationship will end up uh overdoing the fakeness and the other person will end up resenting them and arguing about it when the camera is off.
Yes, >> exactly. Yeah, >> facts.
>> And make sure I didn't miss uh uh if folks here, let me get this coming up. If folks look in the mirror, they shouldn't have time to do nothing else.
That's That's it right there. If you look in the mirror, you really ain't got If you looking in your I said it one live stream. If you drive your car for a mile and you look in every lane on the freeway, but yours, I bet you going to wreck before you get to that mile. You >> I know you you serious. Yes.
>> If you drive your car and you look at every lane around you, but your lane, you go tear that car up before you get to that mile. Stay in your lane. Look what that little girl say. Worry about yourself.
>> Focus on your lane, man. And that that's what that's what Miss Jerry, I'm not speaking for, but that's what I got out of that. All right. That my sister I was born and raised in Harlem. Uh, okay. El Smith said, "I think Esma ain't you from my See, yeah, my hometown PB Pine Bluff."
>> Oh, Pine Bluff. Now all of a sudden she over there drilling something. What you over there doing now that you don't want to hear that, Tanya?
>> I ain't drilling nothing. I'm packing my clothes. I got I got the little vacuum bag.
>> Oh, I was I heard.
>> So look. See, I got I got this. See how thick it is. Now watch this.
Go ahead. Put that on there.
>> Man, I ain't got time for all that.
>> Okay. Don't you got to pack that little thing too back in there before when you get ready to come back?
Hey. So, hey, y'all see it about P. I'm keep going. People do stupid things when they got something to prove. There you go.
>> I was gonna say they both equally dangerous. Cuz if I got something to prove, then I'm dangerous. And if I'm so trying to survive, I'm dangerous.
>> Bam.
>> So either way it go, they they equal to me because the both of them can be very very dangerous. Especially that that person that got something to prove and Well, yeah. and survive and just they equal. Both of them they going they the ending result is the same.
>> Let me tell you something. I rather go up against somebody who got something to prove versus somebody who is hungry and they need to eat any day.
>> Well, where I'm from, I've seen both in little R Kansas as you put it. I've seen both and I think >> R Kansas.
>> Well, well, well, El Smith from there, too, I think. And and I know some other but hey 100 say but now hold I gota rede them. They be looking in the mirror and still worrying about the next person.
Yeah that's why that car go crash before they get where they going >> and 100 said that car lane analogy was genius man. That's hey I just try to put stuff ways I can understand. We got 15 real homies in the crew. If you hadn't hit the subscribe button please consider doing so. We got uh let me let everybody know cuz we getting ready to raise up out of here. You got Tanya from Event Yours and TNT connect. You got Kesha from Just asking for a fan, my extra co-host on the classroom. And you have Tanya's the co-host of Live Direct. You have your boy Rod from Points Blank Experience. And right now, man, we just opinionated about fakeness and real. And as always, we kind of get a little off topic, but we can do that because we still going to bring it right back home.
And I think what I got out of this, man, sometimes you they some people what people call fake ain't necessarily fake.
You may just have to show a different version of you. It's not necess that you're not being authentic.
And I learned that some people watch content because they like it and some people don't care if they like you. Some people watch content because they like the content.
>> It just depends.
Uh, what what did you get out of this?
>> Out of the live.
>> What?
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, I live. Oh, yeah.
>> Tell I'mma mute your mic cuz I can't hear nothing.
>> I'm sorry. Hold on. I She got her uh She probably got her uh what do you call that thing?
>> Yeah. T I'm let you say what you got to say that you finished packing.
>> Oh yeah. Well, she might want to introduce her channel. Tony, you want to introduce your channel? I mean, wait.
You >> I introduce my channel, then I get off.
I'm sorry. I'm making I didn't know that. This microphone must be real good for y'all to hear this.
>> It's good. You know, sound like a little mouse over there in a trash can. Oh, >> you and the crazy part is I don't think nobody can hear it but you >> really. Okay. Well, um you know what I what I well what I got from this is really just confirmation about things and when Kesha ran down the personas I can resonate with all of that. Either I've seen it, some of it I've done or I've been a witness to it. And so it's real. It's basically real. So, um, that's what I got. I just enjoy talking about it because a lot of times people won't talk about it and they don't talk about it because they don't want I'm like, come on now. You know, you you're not everywhere where you feel you want to be. So, you sometimes you need to be somebody that you're not for just a little while just to just to get through whatever it is that you're doing. But anyway, eventual spirits. Uh, we taste the world. One sip at a time. Um, >> what' you say?
Uh, >> oh, >> no. No. He was supposed to be giving you the screen.
>> Oh. Oh. Oh, that's fine. Um, basically I um um I do u Mondays uh second, third, and the last Monday of the month is alive. Every Tuesday is alive.
um where the last Tuesday of the month is mocktails to cocktails. Um Wednesdays are videos usually premieres where we do um tasting and reviews of different spirits. Um and then um intermittently throughout the month um once a month I have sips on ships where I collaborate and talk about cruise ship bars along with another channel. This year it's about Royal Caribbean cruise bars with on the go with YOLO. And then with my members, these are my spirit scrutiny members. I have drinks and deliberation that occurs once a month, which is usually I think it's the first or second Saturday depend on if I'm traveling or not. And um also I do a spirit scrutiny, spirit member tasting where me and my members taste um different either releases or different spirits that I've sent them um once a month which usually occurs on the third or fourth Saturday.
So that is all about events.
>> All right. Well, hold up. I got to do this here. Let me remove this and then put that like that. All right.
>> How did you do that?
>> How' I do that?
>> Oh, never mind. We'll talk about later.
>> So, uh, y'all just heard Tanya had a long list of stuff she got going on.
But, >> okay. She booked and busy. That's what she should have said.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I'm booked and busy.
>> And just so you know, I wasn't kidding.
I'm gonna put game master coming up coming up. He said it's sensitive, but that's a good mic. Oh yeah, >> cold word is loud as hell.
>> Well, thank you for coming up, Tanya. It was good seeing you.
>> Hey Tanya, if I don't get a chance to talk to you, >> keeping me busy. See, that's another reason why I was >> safe travels.
>> Thank you. Thank you. I see y'all.
>> Okay, Tanya, thanks for coming up.
>> All right. You know, I would do a quote, but last time I did a quote, you and Game Master tried to drag me.
>> Man, no. I just didn't understand. I had I had to >> Why did you not understand the quote?
I'mma tell y'all the quote and y'all tell me if y'all understand what I I said. So, basically what I said is while sitting in the shade, remember that someone planted that tree a long time ago. And he was like, "I don't get it."
>> I didn't get it. I You had to You had to elaborate.
>> It was I don't have to elaborate.
Everybody else in the comment understand what I'm saying.
>> Everybody but me a game master.
>> But but I did at the end. That's what count. That's what count. So what's your quote for tonight? Let's Let's try again.
>> Um shoot. Now I done forgot it. Sitting up thinking about I I was so traumatized by the last >> Well, she gonna blame me again, y'all.
She gonna be like, "I forgot it. It's your fault." Cuz I No.
>> Oh, what? Um, the thing is don't let other people's opinion become your reality. So you can't worry about what other people think. You got to be yourself. Cuz remember with these personas, one day that mask is going to fall, right? And the true person is going to come out, you know. So that's um all I had to say about persona, sir.
>> Well, I think you summed it up and the best part of this live was that list you read.
I think Tanya came on here and said some great great great stuff.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh and I think at the end of the day, you just summed it up again and I do get this quote, you know, don't let what people think of you, whether it's beyond great or terrible, become your reality.
Be who you are. Be your genuine self. If you need to work on yourself, then work on yourself. Don't let nobody else dictate that you need to work on yourself. Don't let nobody dictate that you think you're bougie and then you downgrade yourself because please somebody else, >> right? Because a lot of times we do do that. We'll sit there and kind of dumb ourselves down. I ain't gonna say dumb ourselves down. What is another word for >> we downgrade ourselves. We downgrade.
>> Yeah.
>> Go ahead. Go ahead. You please.
>> No, no, no, no. I was disagreeing with you. Keep going. Keep going. Sometimes we downgrade ourselves to make someone else comfortable.
>> Downplay. That's what it is. Downplay.
>> Downplay. We downplay our accomplishments, >> right?
>> We downplay where we are in life.
We downplay what we worked our butt off to get.
>> We downplay our beliefs spiritually.
>> We downplay what we do behind clothes.
Now, you can't be all tow up from the floor up out in public, but don't if you know you may have a a a cocktail at the work, you ain't got to go broadcast to everybody, but you don't have to live up to this persona that you're the worst thing in the world if you have a cocktail >> or you're the worst person in the world if you go to church three times a week.
That don't that don't nobody dictate that but you. you at the end of the day, you have to answer to yourself while on earth and to whoever you believe in when you depart, >> right?
>> That's Go ahead.
>> Oh, no, no, no, no. Keep talking. I'm sorry.
>> Uhuh. No, you go ahead.
>> I was just gonna say uh game master said I thought you were stopping. My my apologies, >> man. Don't worry about that.
>> Game master said Tanya definitely put it down. And then he said uh we dim our light. Right.
>> We do. And then sometimes we make our light brighter than we we we we we want to have a 120 watt bulb, but the socket is only 60 watts.
>> But you know what? If you don't believe that that bulb is 121 20 watts, then nobody ever will. So I guess you you would have to upplay yourself, you know.
What is that called? Almost like uh what is it? Fake it till you make it.
>> Yeah. So and that that's another one.
Some people say fake it till you make it. You know, and I think that word fake, >> it goes back to to to what Desmond said about, you know, if we look if we spend more time looking in the mirror than everybody, I ain't gonna say the car thing didn't looking at everybody else's mirror, a lot of these problems wouldn't happen. You know, uh I really I'm I'mma be honest. If you're not hungry and starving and homeless and out in the cold, that that bother me every morning. If I walk in my house and it's nice and warm and I first I think about is the people that are homeless. If you're not starving or homeless or in a bad situation and a kid may be out in the street, I really don't care what you have. I don't care what you're doing. If you're not in a bad situation, you're doing good, great, or whatever, that's not my business. Now, I do want to see as many people as I can do well, but it's not my business. I don't It's not my business to tear you down. It's not my business to gossip about you or she thinks she all that, he think he all that, they think they're all that. I I don't I just don't have the I never really had the energy for that. And people that have told me stuff, I almost cringe because I say it's gonna go in this here and out there. I don't want to know. I don't want to be the one that know, you know?
I really don't. So, that's just me.
Well, Kesha, I think uh we've hit the We hit all the points, man. You want to tell everybody about your channel?
>> Well, my name is just Well, the name of my channel is just asking for My name is Kesha. I am a homesteader in zone 7B. Um I have um I ain't fat and tree. I have uh animals. Um, I got a couple of uh feral uh cats that done had kids. I do uh DIYs. Um, and what else I do? Uh, >> oh do I also Huh?
>> Remodel.
>> Oh, yeah. I remodel. And I also um do this blog. What do you call this? A blog? What What we call this? I like to refer to as a talk show because >> also do this podcast.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Uh and Kesha like right now my opinion she she's she's downplaying herself. Not intentionally but she you go to her channel you'll see some amazing stuff phenomenal stuff. You'll see and I I used to say tearing up stuff and and that's she be tearing up kitchens and stuff but that she corrected me and now she's saying DIY. A lot of people say DIY, like crafts and do-it-yourself projects, but she's actually remodeling kitchens, bathrooms, uh building chicken coops and all that.
So, definitely go check her out. Uh Fashion Tree enter the building. Kha, did you get your package? Fast.
>> Yes, I did. Yes, I did. And I know what's in it. I haven't opened it yet.
Y'all know uh I live out here in Mayberry. So, >> so when it comes to uh you're on the points blank experience right now. I do have an interview this Thursday, 7:35 p.m. Central Standard Time.
>> Man, what an amazing person.
>> Cheryl is going to be on here. She's the business owner of Cheryl's Bubbles and Things. She makes her own soap. We're going to talk about I'm not gonna give y'all too much of the interview. If you've ever uh if you've ever seen the uh any of my interviews, you'll know that uh I go do extensive research. I really read watch the content, watch the videos, watch the live streams because I won't and I don't let the the guests know what I'm going to ask because I want and lately I've been not even watching all the videos because I want to be just as surprised as the viewers are. So that's coming up this Thursday, 7:30.
Um, again, subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so. Hit the like button. Share, tell someone about the classroom. We did have a rookie, we didn't have anything. I had a rocky start with the technology and the internet. It is a thunderstorm going on outside that may have had something to do with it. Uh, typically >> for anybody that's catching the replay, there may be a delay. I'm going to see if I can edit all that out. If not, I'll just leave it at is. So, just know you may have to skip a couple minutes to get to us talking.
Uh, I do have another channel, Investing with Rod. I'm not going to give y'all the run long rundown, but on Investing with Rod, I show people how to take my journey on how I take small amounts of money and invest for my financial future. The name of that channel is Investing with Rod. I'm Rod. Uh, I'm gonna look just like I'm looking now.
T-shirt, ball cap. Just really showing people how I invest for my financial future. I'm not going to go into all the other channels. I will say I just started a music channel. Most of the sounds, not most, uh, all of the sounds that you hear going forward on this, with the exception of the classroom, um, intro and outro. I actually wrote the lyrics, produced the song. So, I did start a music channel that's merging right now, but it's soulful southern Sounds with a Z. Not going to get too deep into that right now. Points blank experience is more than a YouTube channel. It is an experience. What you got there, Kesha?
>> Um, Captain Tree sent me uh something in the mail and I >> Hold on. I was so busy today. I hadn't gotten a chance. I literally picked it up today.
>> So now right here, it's an experience, baby. Y'all going to see an unboxing right here on the classroom.
>> Okay.
>> I'mma put you big once you get it out.
I'm let you >> Oh, this is so cute, y'all. Y'all see I don't know if y'all can see it that well. Let's see. Let's see. Put it in the screen. Y'all see what they say, right? It's Pandora.
>> All right, Fashion Tree. I don't want nothing.
>> They they they done did they big one on this.
>> I don't know what Kha did to get all these gifts, but I don't want nothing.
I'm all right. I'M COOL WITH THEM HERE.
NO, REALLY, I don't, man. And that, you know, when Fast and Tree did that to kindness out of the kindness of their heart. Let me pull them up so people know who I'm talking about. And they they're content creators as well. They go live every Sunday at a 2 pm central, 3 pm Eastern, and it could be a three-hour live or 4 hour live just depending on how the crowd. I know lately they've had a lot of people over there. So, please go support them as well. And that's basically uh and El Smith is saying that's lovely.
Basically, and I'm not probably gonna play no outro because it's been doing its own thing today. And I've deleted I probably deleted a lot of stuff I shouldn't have deleted. There's Cheryl.
She's back. So again, Thursday, 7:35 p.m. Central Standard Time, Cheryl Rod, one stage, one screen, and you best believe we gonna get to know Cheryl. We're gonna laugh. We're gonna have a good time. We're gonna learn about her products. And we're going to uh just show everybody what Points Bank Experience is about in the classroom. is showing everybody not only what just asking for a friend or Kisha is about or Rod at Points Bank Experience about, but it's also about showing what all these wonderful people that are in the comments are about because we every show we get uh it's a travel case, Kha, every show.
>> Go ahead.
>> Yeah, it's a travel case and it has the little uh the little um the little baggie in there and then it Well, y'all probably can't see it because >> Yeah, I I basically wear it.
I don't you you can't see it because it's all black, but it has a little thing in the middle that uh catches the um your uh bracelet, >> man. You know, and yo, I was just kidding when I said I didn't get it. I Man, I just love seeing the love and that's what this channel's about. So, Kesha, unless you got something else, we can go on raise up out of here.
>> Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, no. Um that's pretty much it. Um again y'all Thursday Miss Cheryl y'all please come.
You will not be disappointed.
>> Yeah. Please. And yo on my interviews it's not Rod, it's the guest. The guest made the interview and I know she's going to bring it.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Um >> next Tuesday we will be on Kesha's channel just asking for a f friend for the classroom. Let me put her name up here. It'll be some community posts on mine, some community posts on her channel. 8:05 PM Central will be on her channel and we probably won't have all the all these technical issues. I just had to knock on wood. We won't have all these issues that we had starting tonight. So, with that being said, man, I'm gonna put this thumbnail up here and we're gonna raise up out of here and I I I just can't resist, man. I gotta try it again. I don't know why, but I'mma torture myself and try this again. I think we gonna be good. But hey, Kesha, what do you always tell people about the classroom? What's going on with class right now? Oh, it is dismissed.
>> Class is dismissed. Much love, y'all.
Peace, everybody. Hit that subscribe button if you haven't done so. Much love.
Oh, I don't think I'm gonna try it.
Nope. Y'all, I'm hit this end live button and we're gonna get out of here.
I ain't gonna even try that thing because it's gonna make me upset. So, much love y'all. I'mma hit this here.
See y'all next time. As I always say, shoot for the moon. If you don't make it, you'll be amongst the stars. Peace.
Much love.
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