Life to the Max Podcast
"Street Food Kingz" Ft The Empanada Man
Brace yourselves, dear listeners, as we journey through the extraordinary life of Denny, fondly known as the Empanada Man! This episode promises an exhilarating ride, weaving through the streets of Puerto Rico, pulsating with vibrant nightlife and Denny's infamous empanadas! From jokes of paying child support, to starting his food business in the staircase of his home, Denny's life is a rollercoaster of challenges and triumphs.
We venture deeper into Denny's entrepreneurial journey as he quits his job and launches his empanada business. From whispering alleys to the neon-lit Nightmare on Chicago Street event, Denny's empanadas become a sensation. Yet, behind the bustle, Denny battles personal challenges, living with his schizophrenic brother. His courageous commitment to support his brother is a testament to his indomitable spirit.
Brace yourselves, dear listeners, as we journey through the extraordinary life of Denny, fondly known as the Empanada Man! This episode promises an exhilarating ride, weaving through the streets of Puerto Rico, pulsating with vibrant nightlife and Denny's infamous empanadas! From jokes of paying child support, to starting his food business in the staircase of his home, Denny's life is a rollercoaster of challenges and triumphs.
We venture deeper into Denny's entrepreneurial journey as he quits his job and launches his empanada business. From whispering alleys to the neon-lit Nightmare on Chicago Street event, Denny's empanadas become a sensation. Yet, behind the bustle, Denny battles personal challenges, living with his schizophrenic brother. His courageous commitment to support his brother is a testament to his indomitable spirit.
I can't rap to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't rap, all right.
Speaker 1:All right, let's do this All right, yeah, me and Max, we can pay every day.
Speaker 3:That's what we say. Let him hate, hold on.
Speaker 1:Me and Max. We can pay every day. Let him hate. That's what we do. So it's fucked you If you're in a truth Except me and Max.
Speaker 4:In the cut. We don't give to shit and we don't give a fuck. That's what we do, and shit to prove.
Speaker 1:We live in life, we live in life to the max.
Speaker 2:We live in life to the max, to the max, just like my boy. I actually ended up really like you. I have a real like that, but she's a real like that. Max is like yo, eric.
Speaker 1:Marry her so she can come to the stage. Dog, marry her you don't gotta do that.
Speaker 3:They're all out here. They're all out here in Illinois. They're everywhere. If you're Friday, saturday night, go to the Dallas, you'll find them there. Max is like yeah but not my Venezuelan. You don't understand. She's cool, yeah, puppy. They want papeles, they want paper.
Speaker 2:She doesn't ask for anything.
Speaker 3:Come on, bro, they're not going to jump the gun and ask you for like for right away. They're going to ask you for a little $100 here, $200 there. Two years later hey, aren't you ready to bring me to the States?
Speaker 1:You scare Max, you scare Max.
Speaker 3:I tell you that because my mom dated this Dominican guy. We were younger, he was in the DR. My mom kept sending him money or whatever. She gave him the papers and everything and two, three years later he just took all her shit and bounced, took my brother's PS2 and everything. So Alright fellas.
Speaker 1:We got Lily trying to get on the couch, but she just had surgery, so we're trying to keep her off the couch. Off the couch we got the empanada man, the infamous empanada man from Elgin.
Speaker 3:AKA Denny Denny, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:And we're going to get right into his interview Right after the quad father kicks us off with the intro.
Speaker 2:How the shit anything happened to me seven years ago. I am still living life to the fullest. So everybody out there, paralyzed from neck down, breathing through a machine, but that doesn't stop me from following my dreams and doing what I love to do. I don't got any excuse in, neither should you. Let's get into this, oh man.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, have you ever had a shitty thing happen to you?
Speaker 3:I can give you.
Speaker 1:He's like bro this morning.
Speaker 3:This morning. Oh, man, judge gave me probably like 30 days to pay $3,800. I'm back through child support. I was only able to pay $2,700. I got to go to court on Friday and I'm like, hey, man, let me slide, give me like a week or two, I'll come up with the other guy. Yeah, he was rolling the map, but not as extra fast. The worst thing is this Friday I have $1,000 worth of food that I have prepped already for Saturday, so he throws me on jail on Friday.
Speaker 1:Let me imagine on the address.
Speaker 3:I'm like I'm screwed. I'm like, hey, man, like you letting people in Illinois walking around with back through child support that they're old like 20,000, 18. The case before me the girl owed $18,000, you know to the baby daddy and then you didn't offer her no jail time. I only owe like 3,800. Well, not only, oh, public, 1200. And you want to throw me in jail, no no it's not baby mama drama, it's court drama.
Speaker 3:It's court drama because me, my being we don't even fight, we don't even argue is just back through child support, when my daughter was two years old.
Speaker 2:So I record.
Speaker 1:I think by law we need to pay child support.
Speaker 3:Yeah, by law, you do like this, this state of Illinois will intervene and intervene my bad, and be like, hey, well, we feel like you know he has to pay the back to child support.
Speaker 2:Oh, I fuck you.
Speaker 3:In my head. I honestly like oh, he said, just sit there, wait for the paperwork. Woo, woo, woo, woo. In my head, on my bro, you just throw me in jail. You think I'm gonna wait in the bench for a piece of paperwork? Tell me that shit. I gotta go, I gotta go cook this thing. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Speaking of cooking some people that don't know about you, about your business. So why are you called the empanada man?
Speaker 3:All right. So I cook Puerto Rican food, street street food, puerto Rican food I specialize in. Over fifth, I mean honestly, in my head I have over 80 recipes of empanadas. Why they call me empanada man? I started out in Elgin trying to do a side hustle and I was selling empanadas out of my house, out of my alleyway. People call me hey, I need 20, 30 of them. Shrimp steak. All right, bet, bring cash. Okay, boom, my alleyway look like a crack at crack the neighbors call the cops like he's selling drugs.
Speaker 1:Cops, pull up. You want an empanada?
Speaker 3:Like I had a whole defri. You know those kitchen, those commercial defriers as you see in McDonald's. I had one in my staircase with no filtration or anything, with a propane tank outside in the cold. My whole alleyway was black like all that smoke, like I don't know how they burned down. The city never came.
Speaker 3:They don't like that part oh no, the city. Like they never came and shut me down or anything. So before they came in, did that? I went and rented out a ghost kitchen in Elgin where I can practice all my cooking skills Actually, I've been cooking for like 12 years, but professionally, out of my own kitchen.
Speaker 1:In two years how did it influence you to cook the way you do? Um growing up nah. I'd say you're dead.
Speaker 3:No, so growing up my.
Speaker 2:Rolling joints.
Speaker 3:Nah, nah, my Three strikes were out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so growing up.
Speaker 3:My parents got divorced when I was 10 and I'm the oldest out of three. Oh, my parents got divorced when I was seven bro, so you already know bro, like it's a lot of mental fucking shit.
Speaker 2:My dad came in and he said hey, max, I'm gonna go out for a little bit. Left for nine months.
Speaker 1:That's the funniest, Although, like seven years old. What grade were you in? I was in second grade and left parents divorced. I was in sixth grade.
Speaker 2:I was seven. I was hanging out with my friend Danny and he goes into the house just like hey, max, I'll be back later. Fucking takes his motorcycle.
Speaker 3:My pop facts he didn't really trade his co-workers to Diana so.
Speaker 1:They told me I was gonna get two Christmases and two birthday parties. So I'm like bet you know peace.
Speaker 3:Two houses, bro. When your daddy gotta pay child support, they ain't no two Christmases. This is only your mom's Christmas, there's two families up. That's funny so no, but like growing up, my parents were in their whole fighting and crap or whatever. They were very neglectful growing up so I had to always cook for my two younger brothers. I mean, imagine a 10-year-old trying to cook rice and trying to, like, cook chicken this and that.
Speaker 2:Bro, they do that in China when they turn five. We're in America. This should be illegal.
Speaker 1:This is I'm telling you burn yourself. You're speaking from pain, man.
Speaker 2:This is Puerto Rico and Mexico at the same time, right In the South Coast of America. Yeah, it's everywhere, yeah.
Speaker 3:The thing is in Puerto Rico is a little bit different, because when you have family over there, like you know, when they understand like this family is having trouble, so the family over here will come and you know, bring food or make sure the kids are okay. But growing up here in Elgin it was just my brothers and my mom and my dad. We had no uncles or cousins or nothing, nobody to like kind of like relate. You know, hey, this is going on at home. Please feed me, you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, guys, you're. So why empanadas? It seems like a very tedious thing to do, like, why not just tacos?
Speaker 3:Well, in Puerto Rico, we don't eat tacos, you don't.
Speaker 2:What the fuck's wrong with you? We call them pastelillo empanadillas.
Speaker 3:It's actually you can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner In Puerto Rico what they do. Actually, in Puerto Rico we do have tacos. It's actually an empanada, a spicy steak or spicy chicken. They'll be like hey dame, un taco de carne, un taco de pollo, meaning spicy chicken empanada.
Speaker 2:Dude, I love Puerto Rican women. You know why? Because they'll beat your ass right in front of you. They'll make you a badass meal.
Speaker 1:They'll beat your ass. They'll pull the knife out.
Speaker 2:They'll beat your ass right in front of you, they'll pull the knife out Then, right after, they'll make you a badass meal.
Speaker 1:Yo tell the people who don't know what an empanada is. You're telling about all the other food.
Speaker 3:Empanada is a hot pocket. It's a hot pocket. That's the most white-friendly way that I can say it. It's a hot pocket. Where did it originate. Mostly Central America, but with Puerto Rican cuisine. We steal a little bit of this, steal a little bit of that. It's just a little bit of all the cultures. But our Puerto Rican food is mostly kind of very similar to soul food.
Speaker 2:Soul food. It's like Southern food.
Speaker 3:Like full food, bro, Fried chicken barbecue.
Speaker 2:I didn't want to say the word School. I can't understand.
Speaker 1:He said it's cool, I can't.
Speaker 3:My buddy who works with me. He gave me, he said no you do it. Of course you won't bro, no, no, no, he what's it called.
Speaker 1:Don't get max jealous now Stop there.
Speaker 2:I just want to say the word.
Speaker 3:Bro, if I bring my buddy Lamont, he will accept you into the culture, trust me.
Speaker 2:Just because you like sneakers, bro, I rule that he's a sneakerhead. Just because you like sneakers? No, it's not about the word.
Speaker 3:It's just, if you embrace the sneaker culture, he'll give you a pass.
Speaker 2:You be alright, I'm good, I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 1:That's funny, you write even songs.
Speaker 2:I don't even say it, I just like bleep it out in my mouth. I'm just like yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't even listen to rap or none of that stuff. What do?
Speaker 2:you listen to.
Speaker 3:Mostly salsa.
Speaker 2:Puerto Rican music salsa bachata reggaeton, land trap, right, so you like it well.
Speaker 3:That's all right, he's more mainstream. He's a cool guy though Don't get me wrong. But I met Faruco. I don't know if you know who Faruco is, so he's a very famous reggaeton artist. He's the guy who made that song, peppas. Have you ever heard him? I'm act like I know it, bro you made that song. I know your line, but I'll take it. Well, this guy is super famous. Okay, like I know your line.
Speaker 3:I know your line, but two, three years ago I'm in Puerto Rico. I'm in La Pella, one of the worst places in Puerto Rico. Like you cannot go there if you're a tourist. You can't even bust out your phone or record or anything. So you're there solo or you're there with some people. I have nothing. No, you can't because you're my suspicious. You want a chair. You drive by there in the neighborhood you ain't supposed to. That's suspicious.
Speaker 2:You don't know it's new guys. Yeah, I can be like a bomb. I can literally say like hey, if you touch me, I'm going to blow off.
Speaker 3:They might believe you. They might believe you.
Speaker 1:Some people will risk it for the thousand dollar shoes man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like you know what, fuck it.
Speaker 3:I was there in PR. They're more into dunks and Jordan once no they're in a Hermax.
Speaker 2:I feel like he is in Puerto Rico, yeah.
Speaker 3:They mostly dunks and Air Force.
Speaker 1:Let's backtrack, though. Tell us more about this dangerous neighborhood you were in.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, so I mean it's during COVID, worst neighborhood. You can't, you can't bust out your phone or record or anything. I'm very I mean like I feel uncomfortable being there, so me and my buddies. So the neighborhood, how the place looks, is pretty much house to house. They're all crammed together. The clubs are literally houses.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:You go in, everybody's just packed inside. You go outside, you see prostitutes. You see people selling you drugs.
Speaker 2:A lot of cats too.
Speaker 3:A lot of it Very annoying, but it's very suspicious too, because there's no dogs or stray dogs, which I think they're still eating.
Speaker 2:Jesus, shut up cats. That's another conversation.
Speaker 1:He said very suspicious.
Speaker 2:There's no dogs. There's no dogs, they must be eating them, my cats, I'm talking about pussy.
Speaker 3:Oh, you can say gatitas, gatitas. That's what you call a colito.
Speaker 2:Gatos.
Speaker 3:Gatitas, but so it's. So we're walking out of the strict club and we see Faruco, very famous dude. I mean this guy like he's recognizable anywhere you go and he's in this bad neighborhood. He's in this shitty ass fucking neighborhood just kicking it, chilling, smoking on blunt and me and my guy, I look at him and he's like I saw a fan girling. Go ask him for a picture. Go ask him for a picture.
Speaker 1:I don't even fucking about the angle, I don't care, I'm like.
Speaker 3:I was like, hey, man, I'm from Chicago, I love your music, like, let me take a picture with you. Yeah, bro, school, whatever. And the messed up part is my buddy. He's in Puerto Rico so he has an Android. He don't know what an iPhone is. Oh my God, this man doesn't put the flash on, bro, I'm so mad. I look at him. No, no, turn the flash on. How do you do this? You, my love. I got turned the flash on and then he take the picture and it's all.
Speaker 1:You can't even tell who it is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like bro. I asked Faruco. I'm like bro, let me get one more picture, Please. Like, please, let me get one more picture. He's like, yeah, all right, go At this time. Like he's already frustrated because he's just waiting for his food to leave, or whatever. As soon as I got the picture, his security came and just like, just just pushed everybody out of the way and I thought I was going to get jumped or something, because I mean I asked his man for like three pictures already. Like like, oh man, I'm getting bum brushed right now. And then the security team just took him or whatever. My buddies got scared. So I'm like yo, let's get out of here. Like, oh, something's going to happen, blah, blah, blah. And then as soon as we leave, we're here at gunshots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know as soon as y'all left, as soon as we left. Can you imagine that he's over here begging for a picture catching someone in the neck?
Speaker 2:I was a fan girling over Courtney and she was here at Woodfield or whatever like a year ago like 2013 or something.
Speaker 3:Courtney.
Speaker 2:Courtney yeah bro, I think she's hot as fuck Still do Courtney, if you want to, oh, give me a, let me know. But yeah, I was fanning her all over, met her. She was cool as fuck and I was like, yeah, like can I get your numbers? And then she was like you're kind of young for me and I'm like you were with Justin Bieber. Oh and then, like I think it was over, no, you didn't go to that. It's not some stupid. That was.
Speaker 2:That's kind of fucked up to say but, I, mean fuck it, I mean yeah whatever you know, screw it, but yeah, that's who I fangirls over as well.
Speaker 1:So one thing about this show is Max presents a prime example of overcoming any obstacle your way, and you know living life to the max, no matter what you know. So I want to ask you and your entrepreneurship experience you know some of the biggest obstacles that you overcame from the beginning or even now you know?
Speaker 4:and when we get dark, the sun's getting a little bright. The sun's rising.
Speaker 1:We got some nice blinds installed. We're going to show to people. Oh man, and we're going to get a little dim when we get grim.
Speaker 3:Hey, my girlfriend knows I'm here, right All right, turn those blades down.
Speaker 1:Is she Puerto Rican?
Speaker 3:No, she's actually Mexican. Thank God I can't do Puerto Rican for you.
Speaker 1:All right, mexicans call the cousins and they don't fight fair, they jump people.
Speaker 2:Puerto Ricans come with the knives. So struggles, let's see.
Speaker 1:When I first started this business or even the biggest learning experiences you had.
Speaker 3:Yeah, um, being patient with myself. Um, in the beginning I was getting very overwhelmed with people's questions what time do you open? Where are you located? Why is this cost this and that? And I would just blow up.
Speaker 2:What year was this when you started?
Speaker 3:2020.
Speaker 2:So you started making up an honest out of your house in 2020? While I?
Speaker 3:was working with a home visiting doctor full time, I would go pick up the doctor in Chicago, where, wherever he lives, and drive him all over Chicago, all over Illinois, honestly, to see patients, homebound patients, and um, it was very frustrating because I would have to get up at five o'clock in the morning, drop him off, be back in Schaumburg by four or five, run back to the house and prep whatever I got to make. I'll open my own house kitchen at six, six thirty at night and run it all the way to two o'clock in the morning, get some sleep and go back to work because I mean this job. I was only making like good $700 a week with them. That's before taxes, after tax, child support, every two weeks my check will only come out to $800, $900.
Speaker 2:No shoes.
Speaker 3:Nothing, no shoes, nothing. That's crazy. So um but I've been patient with myself.
Speaker 2:So then, so you were patient with yourself and you're like you know what? I'm going to start making empanadas by myself, and when did you like? Say I'm going to take that leap of faith and I'm going to make empanadas my full gig.
Speaker 3:So, um, like I said, my checks were coming down. They weren't shit. So I started selling food one weekend to make some money for my daughter's three third birthday. Because I was inviting people and all this on my aim. I need some extra cash. So I started making. You know, I made that my side business so I can throw her a good birthday party. And then it was a success. I made good $600 in two days and I'm like man, I just why am I still working for somebody?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you work for yourself?
Speaker 3:Exactly. And then, um, I think I was at work, the route that had gave me it was all messed up, like it just didn't make any sense, and I got frustrated. I started crying. I'm like I'm here wasting my time. So I you know what I said screw the patient, screw this job.
Speaker 3:Went back to Schomburg and then I just like I quit, see you, and I quit with only like $300 in my bank account. Yeah, I owe rent, I owe child support. I mean, my phone bill was about to be due and when those $300, I talked to my dad, I was like, hey, because my dad owns his own restaurant too. And I tell him, hey, where do you get your supplies at? At bulk and very cheap? Cause, this is what I need for the blah, blah, blah. We'll just go here, here, here, but here's some stuff to help you start out for the weekend. All right, and people already knew who I was back home like, where I used to work at. So they, so they knew, oh, this is going to be instantly good. So when I did quit my job and I started my own thing, people were loving it. You know, people were calling me.
Speaker 2:So I imagine you come to the menu short, right? You?
Speaker 3:had two because you didn't want the things that you're saying. I did the opposite. I had so many crazy things. I had mac and cheese fries with shrimp on the menu. I had this thing a mofongo burrito, which is, instead of tortilla. I make it out of green plantains, I make the tortilla out of green plantain, I stuff it with all this crazy crap in there and I roll it into a burrito. This thing is fucking massive. Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 2:I remember for a while you were posting on.
Speaker 1:Snapchat like like you're failing recipes. You were like, oh shit, this, this is an open together. Yeah, oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 3:And then, until I figured it out, I mean I've, honestly, it was hard to be creative because I was good at the traditional food that I was taught to make, the traditional Puerto Rican cuisine and I'm like, well, I'm going to focus my business. I'm going to focus my business for the people that like to smoke weed at night.
Speaker 2:You know people that got the munchies. That's what all Paraiso does.
Speaker 3:Bro, I am better than Paraiso. I give you that right.
Speaker 1:I am better than Paraiso. La Rosa Fuck Door. Dash fuck Louise, just text Danny.
Speaker 3:All you got to do is just like call me or text me like two before I close. Hey, Danny, before you close, can you bring me this and that? Because my kitchen's right here off of McLean.
Speaker 1:Have you ever dealt with any, any rude customers? Have you ever blown up on someone, were you ever in the wrong or was someone else ever out of line?
Speaker 3:On the past um.
Speaker 2:Cheek off fires, by the way.
Speaker 3:Not like that. You know, maybe like I, I hair in the food and I'm like, hey, I'll replace it, just let me know with time, but not on the weekends, because I'm busy Every time. She kept hitting me up on the weekends, like you know, I'm like, hey, I'm busy right now, but I I have like eight orders. Like give me an hour, I can do it for you. And then she didn't like that answer.
Speaker 2:I think, I think, like I'm still that person's really sorry about that I think like my brother Just pissed her off so much because he always goes there and she's always working what time in the day was this? This was like 8 o'clock at night or whatever, but he always goes like to the morning blow, you know, and he's always like, yeah, make sure it's extra. Stay Okay, mooch, old Mooch oak steak, all right. Yeah, I make sure it's full, full of jalapenos. He's like fucking yelling at the fucking any's in.
Speaker 2:Alexis, you know like he's that douchebag he's in a luxury car. This girl's working like minimum wage. She's like you know, I know I can have your ass fucking jumped and she ends up losing her job. Poor girl ends up losing her job and Rex gets a detail on his car.
Speaker 1:Honestly, you didn't have to throw the coke in his car.
Speaker 3:Okay, but Now I would have thrown the or chata, you know what, let him pay for the food and then throw that shit in there. I'm like, hey, I'm not, you ain't gonna come here and talk to my girl like that. I'm like, see, that's where I'm coming from, that's where I was raised.
Speaker 2:It's true, you know like it's like on the intercom, you know like be a fucking asshole. They're already. They're already slaving away. Oh right, so, and it was really good back then in like 2013, 2014 that's what it was. The best it was by. Yes, the one of a clean was greed.
Speaker 3:Back then it was one owner and I think now they just sold it to a bunch of different people Brits that's the dream, but, like I said, 20 grand will get me far? What'd you say? 70%? What did you say?
Speaker 1:Don't let him negotiate.
Speaker 3:No, okay, so this is. Listen. No, the reason why.
Speaker 1:I have.
Speaker 3:I slave in that stuff. All you do is just sit there. Look pretty bro. I Maybe five your sneakers. I am with my friends. What you want me to do $20,000 gonna get me a small food truck is not gonna get me nowhere far. I'll tell you that much. Because people think that kitchen equipment is cheap. It is not.
Speaker 2:And food trucks are like a thing now, like they really like this, food trucks are Tell me.
Speaker 3:I got all these messages right now on Facebook when are you coming out Conquering? When you coming to Crystal Lake, when you coming to Chicago, I'm like, look, I don't go anywhere where I don't get invited. And if I do get invited in, you're trying to charge me to sell my own food there. Wow, I got a provider, my own. Like you know my inventory and your event is not cracking. Or you know I gotta bring, no, what hold on, hold on. You want me to bring my own client so I can sell my own food and talk about you Want me to pay you a fee just to post there. Plus, I gotta pay the city for permits. No, no, I ain't going like the meet a lot of fast in Chicago last year they wanted $2,800 for a 10 by 10.
Speaker 2:Okay, and the sneaker places. They're like yeah, eight hundred bucks if you want to move. I mean it's fucking insane eater bugs. So you sell it. So you sell like maybe $2,000 worth of shoes and they eat her books and you end up with $1200.
Speaker 1:Speaking of events, I'm curious how was nightmare on Elm Street Chicago? And you were also gonna tell me a story about how I bumped in you over there and I'm a Chicago shoes.
Speaker 3:Oh, jen, I Loved it, what is it?
Speaker 2:Can you explain they Over?
Speaker 3:five. They fight the close five streets, the whole downtown and I was in.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you've been there's like four or five stages.
Speaker 3:There's a bunch of people drinking having a good time. There's all these Latinos in like who she daddy's.
Speaker 4:Oh, man it's great, you know.
Speaker 3:So they they Asked me to be a food vendor. Then there was like this whole competition thing, like where we'll see if you get selected, I'm okay, cool. So they selected me for Chicago nightmare in Chicago Street and I said I have to find a way because they had Picked over like 12 different businesses. Okay so.
Speaker 3:Oh, those are some other talk with Joins there. But there was like okay, so I had to stand out out of all these 12 food places for me to self, you know, to make some money back. What do I do? I hire. I call my boy JV the vibe. He's a DJ. He plays nothing but reggaeton all the music all your.
Speaker 1:Latinas love, you know.
Speaker 3:Salsa. All the love making music in. Spanish that you can think of. He was playing it. Okay, he, I was selling food right here and then I put him right next to me in the tent he was DJing man. I had everybody's baby mama dancing, throwing ass all over the fucking place. It was amazing my girlfriend's right next to me. They were my girlfriend. It's October. It's kind of cold.
Speaker 2:The girls like dress it like pretty slutty, it's, it's Halloween.
Speaker 3:What do you?
Speaker 2:Fuck, I gotta go.
Speaker 3:What do you? Well, let me know, I'll give you a special VIP access. I that's what I did to some of my friends.
Speaker 2:You could just like say like this my famous friend, he's quad father, I do. He. He's a godfather as well, like, and he's a good guy. He just can't move his arms, make him happy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, they'll definitely do it, definitely do it.
Speaker 2:I have a question. So you're supplier right. You started out with your dad's supplier right and then, like you obviously moved up to a supplier. Is he a good guy? Is he like helping you out a lot?
Speaker 3:my pops.
Speaker 2:No, that's a lot my first the provider for your food. Like the guy, like it's, you like your prep food.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I usually just go to restaurant depot to get what I need. It's just a place where they sell. But then I do have a ingredient that gets shipped out from PR out here, then my, that's not gonna say what ingredient, but it it's what makes my food so popular. That's better and green. I'm not tell you max. I. I like those off white, maybe for those off whites and we can talk about it. But anyways, max say hey, just put those expenses 40%, you might take them from.
Speaker 3:LGD. You might take them Whenever I go to places.
Speaker 1:Max always ask me like what do you say when you tell them about me in the pocket? How did I approach you when I told them about? Because it wasn't at nightmare in Chicago.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, so, yeah. So a nightmare got the tents and then nobody can go past the tents because I'm in the back cooking and Like nobody's allowed, okay, nobody even the people that pay for VIP access to come and say what's up to me, there's a certain error. You can't. Oh yeah, people paid to come to me, I feel like. John snow buddy, I'm just John snowing for nada, bro.
Speaker 2:I'm a fangirl definitely. But no, no so.
Speaker 3:Eric pulls up on me and I hear somebody task me. I'm like I'm about to beat somebody and I see her oh, what's up? And I'm like I saw him. I school, whatever. But I'm just like random. It's like, yeah, I'm a, put you in the popgap, oh, I'm alright, bro. Just in me up later, like I have like literally a line, I like this. There's people making lines that you don't even know where, the actual lines that yeah, and I have this. They get on our like playing music. Everybody's like Danny, danny and not a man, but not a man. The mistake was that I have bought some bottles for me and my people just to chill, whatever. So they saw back there drinking and the people that I grew up with they know me, they just they just went to the back and just after they saw Eric do it, everybody just went to the back trying to talk to me. I was like Pandora's boxing shit fucking gotta do what I gotta do Still here.
Speaker 1:No, honestly like everybody loved it.
Speaker 3:My guy, the DJ, made extra money just because one of the guys that I know was so blasted. Um, he came to the drug like hey, man, I'm gonna give you an extra 300 dollars If you don't leave and keep the party going. Blah, blah, blah. My buddy's like he doesn't know that I'm here with you all night. I don't think so. I just take the money, bro. I'm like just take it like you don't know any better.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. You make empanadas, bro, like you're not selling weed. You're not selling coke.
Speaker 3:I sell for the stoners and Bro they get that munchies, bro. You get them munchies.
Speaker 2:Are you pretty good?
Speaker 3:I'm gonna say they are reasonable for what you're getting.
Speaker 2:Okay so how big is it up? How big show the camera how big is it Okay, and how much is one?
Speaker 3:Four dollars.
Speaker 2:That is absolutely ridiculous. It should be three.
Speaker 3:No, it shouldn't. Do you know the cost of beef in America?
Speaker 2:Yes, it's ten dollars a pound buddy Personal good quality beef.
Speaker 3:If you want good quality beef, you come see the Panada man as she talks me about. We got beef, we don't use no ground beef in my empanadas Okay. We use quality beef when I'm making my pen. I have you ever had a skirt steak in Panada?
Speaker 2:No, okay you can find one with me and the pound of skirt steak right now is $12. Buddy, you're gonna have my four dollars for small as a banana, small as you never even seen it, or a one bro. What's the girl? Next time I'm gonna come and put it in your mouth when you take a bite.
Speaker 3:When people have my food. When my guys have my food, they start getting gay boy feelings over me. Bro I They'll start stalking my life. How you doing, bro, I have, do I have? Dudes are older than me calling me big bro, big bro, how do I talk to this girl? Big bro bro.
Speaker 2:What? So? How was your pride? Oh, it's good Huh.
Speaker 1:What is that?
Speaker 3:Boy, I was like right man.
Speaker 1:He said. He said I got people older than me calling me big bro. That's a flag.
Speaker 3:So later Max is like bro, can I be your little bro?
Speaker 2:I don't know what beef.
Speaker 3:My girlfriend.
Speaker 1:Like, you know how much my beef cost is free.
Speaker 2:How much is beef? I don't think it's real. Like, how much is it?
Speaker 1:Bro, you know, I pull up and I'm like this is for the quad father and they say what's on the house?
Speaker 2:I think it's really cool. You're successful, you're doing something legal.
Speaker 3:He's something legal.
Speaker 2:Do not sell a coke.
Speaker 3:I mean I was doing it illegally. You need a permit for everything you can't sell food out of your house in anywhere Illinois. Do you need to be working in a commercial?
Speaker 2:Are you serious?
Speaker 3:So I mean, the city told you like, hey, if you're selling to the public, we got to make sure that you're following you know protocols and wash hand washing because, think about it, think about it.
Speaker 2:Hold on. What if someone wants to be a talker? The talker man like how is kids? Can you help them? Help them out? So someone wants to start their own thing. I'll help a person out right now, so like a person wants to start a taco and he's selling it out of his house. Okay, so that's not allowed.
Speaker 3:That's not allowed and I Recommend you to stop right away. Make sure that you have your surf safe food handling license first. Then google your nearest commissary kitchen. Comissary kitchen is a ghost kitchen, a commercial kitchen where you can cook out of. Then you can prepare your food in that kitchen and then try to go sell it somewhere, like in a pop-up tent. And all this and that like Finding some, a business that will let you sell their food at. But when you go to that city or whatever time, you have to go check in their city hall To ask for a temporary food permit just the government fucking you If you don't and let's say I want to come to sleep your house, sell food.
Speaker 3:I have to go to this City hall, whatever. Or ask them hey, do I need a food vending One day? Pass to sell food here. Yeah, usually it's 50 bucks. Elgin charge like 175 or 150, um, chicago charges like 300 the cow versus pop, and they only, they only charge $50 just to sell food for one day there, meaning that when you have that permit, the cops, nobody from the city can come harass you. Yo, what are you doing here? Or you know, if you get a care and be like, hey, you can't sell food here? Uh, yeah, I can, I got this pass.
Speaker 2:So so what's the past like, continually like, do they do like a background check, sanitation yeah make sure that you have gloves.
Speaker 3:Um, you know, you have a hand washing station with you, uh, a three sink compartment with soap chlorine.
Speaker 2:Get to me so that they're making bank off of that. Just, I hate the government so much.
Speaker 1:Well, the whole purpose is to keep filthy motherfuckers from poisoning the public?
Speaker 2:No, they don't care, they just want the money.
Speaker 1:I mean I could agree with that, but it's also think about. Think about crazy people that have an idea like I'm gonna sell food. No, I get that Listen max.
Speaker 3:So I worked in the kitchen.
Speaker 2:They're not sending a sanitation guy. Yes, they are.
Speaker 3:So I worked in the kitchen and then the people right next to me they were cooking. They were cutting pork and preparing food for the public in the same table crosshead, cross-contamination. So if the city comes and sees that, they'll shut them down.
Speaker 3:Yeah like right away. So imagine if the city doesn't come and like Put that shit on check and they Go still go sell that food somewhere else. You're literally like about to give food poisoning to over 200 people and then all these people gotta go. I'm like yo, where am I getting food poisoning? Hey, blah, blah blah.
Speaker 2:Can you get in trouble for that? Can you get like like legally in trouble?
Speaker 3:So let's say, if I start selling, well, if I cause like food poisoning to you know, certain people like the people can tell where they got the food from and then the city will come and expect the way that I cook things, how do I store things, and then if I they see something wrong, they'll give me a good fine, 500 or $600, or shut me down, or I mean they can do whatever they want with me.
Speaker 1:That's not in a good way. You're all legal now right?
Speaker 2:Like you just have to pay for the spot that you post up on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pretty much, and let's say no. So I only um, when people invite me to go sell food at their businesses or wherever I, first of all I make sure there's no fee. I'm not. I'm not paying you to be here, for me to be here.
Speaker 2:That doesn't make any sense to me, like parties and stuff like, like for festivals, events, grand openings Um well, you earned that right because you're that, but not again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pretty much. I don't um, like these big festivals, they they charge. Uh, like sueños, that reggaeton concert they just passed. I was trying to be a vendor there but they wanted 20 out of my sales and uh well, I want 50% out of your business. See, sueños is more reasonable than you are right now. Man Makes no sense for a guy in a wheelchair. He's supposed to be humble. He's trying to screw me. Makes no sense.
Speaker 3:50 you give 15 you say you give five, you're like when you get it cracking in the kitchen, we can talk about 50%. Start watching this.
Speaker 2:So, uh, you have you, you live with your brothers, right and um, you told me a story right before the podcast that your brothers One of your brothers suffered from schizophrenia because, of smoking the wrong shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like he was young.
Speaker 3:That's true uh, yeah, um, Very tough to talk about, but uh, it is true, um, I mean, um, it's hard every day because he's been kicked out of homes and you know living facilities, because they just don't have the patience. How to Communicate with him and make sure I'm not going to say, handle him because he's not an object, or you know how to Understand him and make sure you don't say the wrong things. In the beginning it was hard for me because I just I'm like do do this all, be trust, and the thing is he wasn't conscious, he doesn't know what's, what's reality and Was it?
Speaker 2:did it progressively get worse, or did it start worse and progressively get better?
Speaker 3:And I started getting worse, started and it hasn't gotten any better.
Speaker 2:So is it like plateaued or that just it's gotten worse from 19?
Speaker 3:It's gotten worse.
Speaker 2:So what's like probably the worst Scenario you've been in with your brother?
Speaker 3:He tried to break into my gun safe and I wasn't home at the time but my other brother was and my brother got scared and he called the cops. The cops came and I guess my brother was just trying to like Get in there, get my handguns and my rifles. And then my other brother got really scared and then my brother called me and I rushed home, like and I had my daughter with me, so I Called my daughter's mom, like hey, I got a dropper off really quick, I have an emergency, I have to go home really quick and I get home. The cops are there, like you know, and they're just asking all these questions. I'm like hold up, hold up, hold up. I just I tell the cops, just Let me just talk to my brother really quick please.
Speaker 3:So, like, what's going on with you? He's like nothing. Why are the cops here? I don't know. Well, they're telling me that you were trying to break in and the gun safe was going on. You're okay, you need me to go to the hospital or take you to the hospital? No, I'm good, all right, that's all he kept answering like he didn't know he did that.
Speaker 2:So what was the reason? Do you know? Why was it? Was he like trying to like shoot himself for shoot people?
Speaker 3:So this day, thank God and I, he has never tried to hurt himself. We're by other people never, that's reason he's never tried to hurt himself or others or and I. That's why I'm still there supporting him and air. I don't get angry when he has episodes. It just hurts because this is my little brother that I used to feed, shower, changes diapers.
Speaker 3:I used to, I mean like literally help him. I have ADHD growing up so I didn't even know. I was with my own homework and I'm trying to help this kid out with his own homework, to pick him up from school. You know, we used to wrestle he was, I mean, he's my brother, but it was. It was tough.
Speaker 3:It's tough seeing him in that, in that state right now. And then I I thank my dad every day because, like, don't yell at him, don't come at him hard, just remember that he's not. He's not there. But the best thing that I can do right now is I give him a hug. Every time I see him, I tell him I love you, I got you. I'm not kicking you out, but if you feel like you're not there, let me know I'll sit here with you. And then his hand sometimes be like you know they're like, just as like certain movement. And then when we in public I'll tell him hey, stay right next to me, don't go near anybody, start doing this and that, because if they'll, they'll feel like they're being threatened, like you know they're does he have visual and audible hallucinations?
Speaker 2:So he likes, thinks someone's in the house or something. Maybe that's why he was trying to go after the gun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pretty much he. But when that happens, he doesn't, doesn't realize what he's. You know he's doing.
Speaker 2:And that's yeah, like, how do you like? There's gotta be like some support. There is, there is people like are you dealing with the same thing now? Like how do you like overcome that and achieve, you know, prosperity? Like towards you know, like accepting how your brother is right now?
Speaker 3:I well, there is um Places that I can go and just kind of talk to them. And you know how to deal with like mice, like my hour situation. I just don't. I'm just kind of like I'm a tough it out and and I'm and I tell myself I'll be patient with him. I Can't get angry for his situation. You know, I can't be mad because he's not there.
Speaker 2:All I can tell everybody Fuckers decided to sell him something.
Speaker 3:I was wrong. I can't If you can't like.
Speaker 2:You would probably kill that guy if you find out what that kid that did that Apparently.
Speaker 3:He passed away a couple years ago, like a year, two years later, for his overdose, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Was, it was a lease was the least with federal. What year did this happen?
Speaker 3:2000, my brother's 18, 17, he's 26, 27.
Speaker 2:He's my age.
Speaker 3:What year were you born? 96? Yeah, him too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's suffering from this and you guys, like you, have to fight through it, which is crazy.
Speaker 3:So it's just me and my dad, anybody else in the family. They say like, oh, they're worried, oh, you know, but the ones that actually deal with this. It's where who's really there is just me in my past.
Speaker 2:That's a deal. Let's say like you know, I guess like endure it, you know, because, okay, I hate to like circle back to me, but my brother would never come to the hospital when I was in the hospital like he never would come because it was too hard for him. You see me because.
Speaker 3:I went to the same thing my brother's Paralyzed.
Speaker 2:He's like this is a guy that taught me how to work out. This is a guy that taught me, like all these things, this guy who taught me how to, like you know, talk to girls and stuff. This is my best friend, do you know? I mean.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he's looking at me.
Speaker 2:He's looking at me and I.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I can't talk. I got a collar on, you know I can't move my brother got first diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Speaker 3:I Couldn't, I couldn't, even I Couldn't accept it. You know, I couldn't. I just didn't want to deal with that because I just I wasn't. I Always said like no, I just don't want him around me, or my daughter, whoa, whoa, whoa. It was more like guilt, because I should have been there as a better big brother to tell him, I him, and because I'd never taught him how to smoke. I don't do drugs, I don't smoke. I mean I don't smoke weed and never done coke. I mean a nothing, mushrooms, nothing. The nut and nut Never liked it. I mean I mean I'd smoke weed when I was a kid but I never liked it. I got paranoid, got dizzy. Even edible is a stuff like that. I never liked it.
Speaker 2:That's just fucked up. It wasn't it was weird.
Speaker 1:I mean, he was a user and abuser himself. So misery loves company, right yeah?
Speaker 3:I mean, I never taught my brother how to, I never told my hey, you know, to hit it is I know I always been the big, the good big brother. So where he wanted to try it, it was kind of like, where did you know who gave you the first hit? Like one made you try it and I should have been. There's your older brother to tell you no, that was, that's wrong. You can't do this, do that. Blah, blah.
Speaker 2:My brother says the same thing about the guy who crashed my car. He said I should have been there and I should have flicked on different things. You know, rather than, like you know, be supportive towards the dude, like more like Not like aggressive, but more like. You know, like this is my brother, look when you did him like. You know, like this is crazy yeah you know cuz he walked out.
Speaker 2:So you said your family, what kind of walked out to you. So now it's just you and your dad that helps, helps out with your brother.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and my dad, I love him. He's one of like, he's my biggest fan. I wouldn't be where I'm at right now because it wasn't for him and Everybody in my family gave up on my brother. But my dad was still there For him and then my dad called me one day he's. I looked like I can't take him in my house because the situation between my brother and my dad's wife was bad and and the living facility was his that he was getting kicked out. And then my mom not present. I don't know what she's at. Don't Want to bring her back in the picture with my brother Cuz. I found out cuz my brother's in disability. Okay, he was schizophrenic. The medications is horrible. It's called Libria, something like the.
Speaker 3:L I why Libria, something like that. So what's gets a friend is they're really bad with their medications because they make them feel like a certain way and they don't like it, and then they're always off and on, but uh, it's got like bipolar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he does have bipolar to these bipolar and schizophrenic Wow, that's, it's a lot. But you and you guys are just soldiering way and treating like you, being just like you. Treat me like you, I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't want to be treated any different, you know, and I wouldn't do that to anybody else, especially you, max Mean, I'll treat you like one of my guys. If you want to talk shit, I'll talk shit, you know, I mean, but I wouldn't take it to a place where I'm a disrespect you you know I wouldn't disrespect you in any way Just because I mean, if you want to talk, you know we're just being guys. It's hard to find guys friends, they're our guys.
Speaker 3:You know I have a lot of guy friends and the first thing they do like he was going on. Man, you gain weight like first of all, bro, where's your hairline at?
Speaker 1:This is being gone, but it's all coming from. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Listen. I tell people, if I can wait is because I'm making money and I'm sleeping good. If you see me healthy and skinny. Be worried because I'm not sleeping.
Speaker 2:I'm not a guy dude, I'm a simp.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you said you have a lot of you have a lot of problems with your brother right. Well, now I have problems, but you have a lot of like it's like not issues like. You have a lot of like Love for your brother and you hate what he's going through, right.
Speaker 3:It hurts, definitely hurts. And it's tough seeing him like that because he was always a smile growing up, smiling, yelling and running around. We just getting all sorts of trouble. I mean, like my mom Beat both of our asses at the same time, but that's something like hey, remember when I can't reminisce, Was it more than spirit?
Speaker 2:You know I can't reminisce with him like that anymore.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, remember mom or you, so do this and that. Because he just doesn't remember. He's just not conscious anymore. And I'm growing up it was just me, him and my brothers, and we didn't have any like relatives here, where you know we have cousins or, and it's hard, it it's just hard seeing them like that, you know, especially us being the older, the older brothers so that's really hard to hear and I can kind of attest because when I was in the military I was doing everything right.
Speaker 2:I was trying to become a self, I was trying to become a ranger. I said if a special forces was trying to be ranger, I was doing everything right, you know. And unfortunately I got into Free catastrophic Rx and my family found out for like 18 hours. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I was like the nurse, literally like use my thumb, because back then remember the thumb for the iPhone, the thumb in text my sister like she went over ethics to like find my family and stuff and when they found Family they brought them and my brother is one that suffered a lot with it. I didn't see my brother for Most of the year that I was injured. I would talk to him on the phone but I didn't see him and Mom, can you like explain why?
Speaker 4:I, yes, I think Rex just didn't want to accept it in the beginning. He's like mom, there's no way. There's no way. If max doesn't want to live like this, I got him, I'm going to do whatever he needs. So that's a little emotional. So anyway, um, he's like this can't be happening.
Speaker 4:I remember sitting with him at the American Legion post 57 in Elgin and we had found out just a couple days prior and he was I'm gonna cry. He was so sad. That was his brother, was everything. Whether they fought or not. His brother taught him how to wrestle, taught him he wanted to be his brother, big, strong, athletic and just just be, just like him. So he couldn't fathom seeing Max in the position he was in and he couldn't believe that it could actually be true because his quote unquote superhero could not now not move and or breathe on his own or speak. Max has come a long way. Rex has come to terms with it. Rex has learned to grow up to be to do a lot of things in honor of Max. Whether he's working out and doing extra pushups, he says that on his, on his quick little videos.
Speaker 2:He always tells me, like, if this is for my brother, like if I, if I can, if I can do this, like I'm doing this for my brother and like lift like 500 pounds. You know he's insane, you know, but he does, he like does it in his brother's name, which is crazy.
Speaker 4:How was he like when, when I was at RAC, he didn't, he didn't really want to accept it and go up, and he just thought he would always say to me mom, why doesn't Max just try to move? Why doesn't he just try to move? If you just try every day, it's going to be fine, and that's just not how someone paralyzed, it works.
Speaker 4:So it took him a while to gather all his thoughts. It's taken years. It still hasn't. I don't think it's hit all of us, but yeah, it was very hard on Rex, but he's come a long way and Rex is doing great. Max is doing as well as he can right now. We have a lot of future hopes for him, especially eating a bunch of empanadas at four bucks a piece, because they are well freaking worth it. And.
Speaker 3:I mean my friends. I never charged four bucks. I usually like here you go. I don't.
Speaker 4:He's teasing those are well worth it. Are you kidding?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Rex has come a long way and I'm proud of him.
Speaker 2:I never really tell him that, but he said the last time he said I'm proud of you was in 2016 and that's when I was walking and we used to go to the gym all the time. That was our favorite thing and then we would always hang out and we would always be together. So I can't imagine what he was going through when he saw his brother literally just fucking looking like he's dead, having shit down his throat, and Max had a lot of friends back then, whereas Rex decided to homeschool, so he didn't have as much social activity or friends.
Speaker 4:So he'd kind of grasp onto Max's and, yeah, it is what it is and I'm proud of all I'm proud of him. Neither of them have ever been arrested. Neither they're both. You know wonderful voters. They're good kids, they're kind to their parents, they're loving, they're. I can't say anything bad about even Tiffany. She's the root of our family. So I did want to bring back to Nightmare on Chicago Street, because I know you said that you had your eponodes there.
Speaker 4:A friend of mine, greg Shannon, does run the whole thing he has for years. I volunteer for him on and off yearly.
Speaker 3:He also you know, last year was giving off the food.
Speaker 4:I did not do it last year, but I have done it. Yes, elgin Public House, he and his beautiful wife Lou, they are just wonderful. Their restaurant is wonderful and if you haven't tried it out, try Elgin Public House and also go see. Every year, nightmare on Chicago Street gets better and better and safer and safer.
Speaker 3:Amazing. The minds have definitely got way better than before?
Speaker 4:They sure have. Oh, that was a hard part, but you live and learn and he's learned how to make sure you know we can get in a little quicker and it's all one day shot or whatever it may be. And yeah, and the bands have gotten better and the food's gotten better.
Speaker 3:So I just want to say for the food vendors, they, I mean we got to extend that time from like maybe like four to 11, because last year, around 10 o'clock, no more food sales. Hey man, I got like 800 bananas a year. I can still sell more, you know, but no, I get it, Though it gets the city. They want everybody, I, just everybody to be safe, and all that. There were a lot of drunk people.
Speaker 4:Drunk people. The water department has a very good time with all the people throwing up and picking that up. It was better, I heard.
Speaker 3:Last year I saw a couple of my friends walking by my tent, like literally, just like so out of a drunk.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:I'm like yo jump over here, get him some rice and empanadas. Brought them back to life and I mean, if you're not going to, let me sell, okay, but at least let me feed the people there like they need food in their stomach, because they're literally just everybody just after they're done drinking or whatever. They're just leaving the downtown Elgin. They can get lost or that's a busy street.
Speaker 4:Well, they block them off too.
Speaker 3:But somehow you always manage to sneak you out of those buckets and end up somewhere.
Speaker 4:Well, Greg is pretty safe about all that and I know that he cards everyone. Everyone is. They do what they can, the people that try to sneak it in and do something.
Speaker 3:It's impossible to sneak it in there.
Speaker 4:It's just wrong. So anyway, yeah, it's a great time, it's fun time and hope everyone comes out next year and goes see the empanada man, what is your actual restaurant at the Fest?
Speaker 3:It's called Street Food Kings.
Speaker 4:Street Food Kings.
Speaker 3:Okay, fine, so Street.
Speaker 4:Food Kings. You have to go see if you're at Nightmare.
Speaker 3:Yeah, come this year, Max.
Speaker 2:You know, I just wanted to why not, you know? And to like you know and this.
Speaker 4:Don't think you're in a costume To this, to this.
Speaker 2:This is me babe, to this subject, I just want to say like I actually feel worse for you because like you lost your brother mentally and Rex still has me mentally, you know.
Speaker 4:It's a real.
Speaker 2:But I do want to tell you there is hope. Neuralink is supposed to like this brain chip that Elon Musk is making. Neuralink is supposed to like redo all of this and make and bring your brother back and bring the blind back, like all these things. So there is hope, right.
Speaker 3:It is Eddie's young and I'm not. I mean people think it's frustrating to deal with them. It's not. It's more like there's that little hope there that there's days where he's conscious and we, like we remember, you know, the old times and how my mom used to beat us up, or how he used to gain so much trouble, or like then. Then, then, out of nowhere, he's gone. But thanks to my dad, I know that eventually we don't have to deal with. He's going to wake up. I know he's going to wake up and be like I'm going to stay on my medication. I'm going to stay on my medication and I'm going to keep going, god bless him, and I hope so.
Speaker 4:We all do we all pray for him, thanks.
Speaker 3:Thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1:Like, like podcast on anything and you'll find out. I'll send you a link to Okay, because my girlfriend wants to know if I'm really here.
Speaker 3:I heard you.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we were talking. What were we?
Speaker 3:Y'all want to know how I got pepper spray to dial those.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, why did I get pepper spray shoes?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we were, I think it was July talk, you can see, are you sure?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you ready.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys are already ready.
Speaker 1:You talk about how you got pepper spray.
Speaker 2:Oh, I went to all the other girls were dancing on me like crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh, right here. Yeah, yeah, you got a video of it.
Speaker 3:I want to know if it's true.
Speaker 1:You got videos. We'll put it in the fucking. We'll put it in the video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I went there and the girls started to strip. It was crazy.
Speaker 3:You had a good time, though Was it worth it?
Speaker 2:Like it was worth it. But you could tell in my face.
Speaker 4:I'm like.
Speaker 2:I just want to go and talk to this person.
Speaker 1:We go to El Diablo and there's a bunch of dudes there and Max has the only three attractive girls like dancing on them and everybody else on the dance floor is looking at Max Like how.
Speaker 3:Was it at the time with the other? Wasn't that busy?
Speaker 2:No, it was busy.
Speaker 3:No, have you gone there recently? No, recently, I think he's talking like pop in like a club. No, no it's, you can't even walk.
Speaker 2:I mean it's pretty, it's pretty dangerous.
Speaker 1:It was pretty open. It was pretty open when we're in there.
Speaker 3:No now, like super packed, like it's ridiculous, like we always have to get a VIP in the right room.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the girl. I don't know your name, but she actually she was on the podcast.
Speaker 3:Devon, I know Devon Shout out to Devon. She was on the podcast. I'm actually mad at Devon. She was supposed to work in one of my festivals and the girl just ditched me. So, devon, if you're listening to this, we got beef, but I think we made up when we were all drunk at the club. Oh, my man, oh, it's cool.
Speaker 2:What was your episode again?
Speaker 1:Trauma taught me love.
Speaker 2:Trauma taught me love. If you guys want to listen to it, it's pretty good. It's a really, really good episode we got. Trauma taught me love is great.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, now that we talked about someone that worked at El Diablo, let's talk about when you got pepper sprayed at El Diablo.
Speaker 3:It was all right. So I mean it was two weeks ago. No, it wasn't my fault, I was the victim. I'm just going to say I was the victim.
Speaker 2:Playing victim.
Speaker 3:I was Okay, we were done at Diablo's. So that night, me and my friends, we bought four bottles that night. Okay, these bottles almost $350. Okay, there's four of us and they gave us a free bottle. Hey, when you live in Elgin and you selling bananas for a living, it's okay. I'm practically broke, but I'm gonna keep bragging. Bro, you want me to come back?
Speaker 2:and watch cartoons with you.
Speaker 3:I'm not bragging, I'm just saying like but we beef you next time, jesus.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have to not be Keep going. Yeah, I'm like Keep going, max just keeps bragging on here.
Speaker 3:Oh, thanks for treating me like a real person, like a real boy, but you over here being mean to me, bro.
Speaker 2:Bullying him bro. Yeah, I got all this I want 50% of your business. I'm like whoa, whoa, hold up, bro. So you got pepper spray.
Speaker 3:So we got done and we parked in the Spring Home Mall parking lot and then all of it was three of my friends. We were just there arranging yo should we go somewhere? Where are we gonna keep going, or?
Speaker 4:what's up?
Speaker 3:You know, arranging what to do. Then the security guards across the street went to the parking lot and just started harassing us. Okay, just started screaming get the fuck out of here. Blah, blah, blah, just going at us. And I know some of the security guards there because they actually convinced the owner to let me sell my food right next to their business. So I know I mean, when I got into the club that night I gave them a bunch of security guards a hug like yo, what's up To my boy, daniel? Like we were just like hey, what's going on? I knew the security guards, we're cool. But these were two new guys that came to the parking lot and just started yelling and just like get the hell out. And then my homegirl she's already kind of tipsy, her name is Mariah, small girl, you know she's cute, she might like you.
Speaker 1:Got you.
Speaker 3:And she's a wild though Okay, spicy little tomato. So she goes and like get the hell out of our faces, it's public property. Just like going at it like she's a dude about to get into it, the security and her start arguing. I get in the middle like yo, like back the hell away from her, like this is just getting out of control. Get the fuck out of here Like leave us the fuck alone, like the cool.
Speaker 3:You know, like this, like we weren't doing anything wrong, like you're not in charge of the spring home mall to kick us out. And then the dude started getting right with me and I told him like dude, you ain't going to do shit. So the dude's like y'all, you need to back up before I pepper spray you. I'm like you're gonna do shit, okay.
Speaker 3:And when he comes in bro, I literally keep my eyes open for five seconds I was like, uh, we got to go Like, hop in the car. I told my boy Garrett, like yo, let's get in the car, let's get in the car. You're like why I just got pepper spray. Bro, stop with the guy. I say bro, I'm bro because I didn't want to give him that satisfaction. But then, like so many, pepper spray me. All I hear was from the other security guy oh, come on, come on, we gotta go we gotta go.
Speaker 3:So he just booked it, they just left.
Speaker 2:What do you feel like? I've never been pepper sprayed by men. I've been taste Bro.
Speaker 3:I would prefer a stunt gun in the face.
Speaker 1:Pepper spray. That my skin.
Speaker 3:Bro, I was wearing contact. I ended up in the hospital.
Speaker 2:Was he white?
Speaker 3:No, mexican or Biso or some type of brown. Oh, bro, listen, most of the security guards that I know and the ones that I worked there, they like to throw down. They'll throw down fish. They prefer fighting. That's what I like, but this guy was a lot smaller than I am, so I feel like he got thrown.
Speaker 3:I can't take this big dude. I'm in there like I don't like. Do you so quick about it, though, like bro, like all the security I seen, security guys are throwing down Like they. They like to fight this guy that, like I got. He was trigger happy. He just wanted, like like bro, he was so quick about it. But when it hit me, my whole skin, chest, everything was burning, Everything was on fire. My friends stopped at the gas station. They got a big bag of ice. I'm hugging this bag of ice Like I'm throwing it in my face. I'm throwing water in my face. We go back to my homies house to get cleaned up before I go to the hospital, because at this point my contacts are stuck in my eyelids and your eyelids, like it's like yeah, and I couldn't get them out.
Speaker 3:And then my homegirl she's trying to open my eyelids. Like I'm just yelling at her, like get me milk or cold water. And we couldn't flush my eyes out. So I'm like just take me to the hospital.
Speaker 2:You gotta invite me next time.
Speaker 3:Bro, like it burns so bad, like at one point they just throwing milk in my eyeballs and I'm like, oh, it felt, it felt amazing. Then we went to the hospital. It flushed my eyes out, they took the contact off and I say, look, I'm gonna press charges on this guy Because it's already aggravated battery what he did.
Speaker 2:That's battery.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah oh yeah, because I didn't get kicked out of the place. I was not at their facility, we were at a private property but we weren't doing anything. You know, we weren't the only ones parked there. There was at least like 40 cars in that parking lot.
Speaker 2:What the fuck are you guys doing?
Speaker 3:Nothing. We just just standing there and I didn't even put my hands on buddy, I didn't even touch him, they just loitering. We were just standing there like yo, where are we going? We still got alcohol in the crib, like let's go do this and that. Because one of my homegirls, mariah she had met a shorty in the bathroom and she's like, oh, I'm gonna take her home. All right, we got you. Well, yeah, she likes girls. So I was like she met a girl in the bathroom and she's like I'm gonna take her home. I bet, let's do it, we'll take you home and then we'll take, we'll take y'all home and do our own thing. And then we cock blocked her. Well, it was Mariah's fault because she started the whole thing, like she started arguing with them. So I have me.
Speaker 2:You know you shot Mariah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hell. Yeah, I was right there. If it wasn't for her, bro, I would have lost an eye.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. You got pepper sprayed, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:One of my buddies. His name is VeeDro. He's a Kane County sheriff. What up, veedro? He? I told him, like you know, when you got caught, friends, you're like hey, yo, is this illegal? Is this legal, can I do this? Hey, technically, you know that's what I did. I'm like yo man, I got pepper sprayed. He's like okay, are you lying to me? No, are you sure that's what I remember happening? He's like no, yeah, bro, that was aggravated battery. Go to the Seville police station and report it. I'm like I bet the detective just called me yesterday.
Speaker 1:So what, what is? Oh, this is recent as well.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, bro, it was like two weeks ago.
Speaker 2:It's very worse than a soul.
Speaker 3:It should be a great battery. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:I don't know the law.
Speaker 3:I feel like both are worse. I mean, I feel like it's a felony.
Speaker 2:I feel like the soul is worse, but battery sounds like you're being your battery, so what do you?
Speaker 3:mean you haven't got pepper sprayed.
Speaker 2:I've never gotten pepper sprayed, but I had tear gas once and, bro, I had my dog tags on it and they were sizzling because I forgot to put them on the outside.
Speaker 3:Was that for?
Speaker 2:the army.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the army Battery is worse than assault, because battery involves the actual use of force or violence. Assault specifically focuses on the attempt to use such force or violence, so it was yeah, it's a battery.
Speaker 2:So you're about to get a shark.
Speaker 3:I hope so. Well remember, security guards are private contractors.
Speaker 1:So you got to sue him as an individual, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Because Diablo's is not responsible. I'm pretty sure Diablo's is not responsible. I know the owner too, bro.
Speaker 2:My mom knows the owner, my one, my one yeah, he's cool bro, he's going to be at the barcass soon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I have. Actually last week and I texted him because a girl was snapchatting some guy past out drunk, facing up on the back of their building, drunk as hell, and she's just like, and she just left and I texted my one. Yo, some girl just posted like literally like a minute ago, this guy passed out in the back of your building drunk, go check up on him. He's like all right, I got you, I'm at home.
Speaker 2:This is like really weird, because when I went it was like okay, now it sounds like it's like a, it's a nightmare, bro yeah.
Speaker 3:It's like oh, I, they're sure you're going to find your Venezuelan mommy's puppy. I'll be up there, boy, when and I was when I was selling in Panadas. Oh my God, for now, let's say, but when I saw them in Panadas that night, nothing but Venezuelan shorties just walking up with their accent. And their accent is way different than ours and you're like yo, okay, but the way they dress, the way they talk, they're very friendly.
Speaker 2:And then like they take your money.
Speaker 3:They're there. The way they speak is very flirtatious, so you think like they're kind of hitting on you, but they're not. That's how they are, they just they're just sweet.
Speaker 2:That's all Latinos are.
Speaker 3:Hell. No, bro. When they are raised in a different country, when they're from a thorough world country, yes, that's how they are. That's very feminine. The ones that grew up out here, they don't have any manners. They'll try to kill you first. They'll try to kill you without having the facts. Okay, I tell you that from experience.
Speaker 2:It sounds like you are living life to the max.
Speaker 3:There was a year where my baby mama tried to throw me out of the car on random, weird, on random, and I was like I ditched her to go with my buddies, so banditos or whatever, and she opened the door and she pushed me out. Right now, yeah, 32.
Speaker 2:You need to grow up.
Speaker 3:Bro, that was in 2017. You need to grow up. Yeah, that was in 2017, though that was not recently. The girl that I'm with recently man, she's great. She treats me like the king that I am boy. She feeds me.
Speaker 2:She makes sure I'm well taken care of. There's only one king in this room, it's me.
Speaker 3:Oh, come on, bro, can't be with two dudes and with two big egos. Listen, max.
Speaker 2:Bro, I sit on.
Speaker 3:Bro, we got about the same amount of followers on Instagram, bro, you're probably a little bit higher. Priceless, priceless.
Speaker 2:Listen, I sit on a throne all day. That's what a king does? You get up.
Speaker 3:I get up and lead and tell people what to do. Boy, I got people that listen to me and they do because they want to get paid.
Speaker 2:I have people who wipe my ass.
Speaker 3:For a job. I mean, I did that for seven years bro.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying like that's what no?
Speaker 3:shout out to them they do that, bro. That's not an easy job. Kings have ass wiper, that's not Kings.
Speaker 2:Have ass wiper. I am a king, you're not.
Speaker 3:Max, I'm having a hard time to like, like you right now, because he's trying to brag and have a big ego than me.
Speaker 1:Hold on, let's turn the interview around. Now it's time for you to ask Max some questions. Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3:Any question with no filter, because I'm a boy man, your homeboy got no filter.
Speaker 1:No boundaries, let's get it.
Speaker 3:No matter if my girlfriend is listening, All right. So how do you go about? Like hollering a shorty bro.
Speaker 2:Dude, it's hard as fuck.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like I drive up to them or have Eric drive me up to them and I freaking, like I try to talk and they can't hear me and I especially at the Alvaro club or something they have to like go on my ear and stuff, and like I'll be, like I have no, you can't do that, dude. I can't like, I can't holler at all Fucking sucks. Yeah, I have to be like in a fucking library.
Speaker 1:Well, listen so when I don't know why he's complaining, bro, we have fun. I mean, yeah, when you go to those places bro, you should have seen him fuck the club Max. You know you put yourself in a corner and you paint this picture like it sucks so bad. We went to the fucking Science of Industry Museum.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I got footage of him talking to all the baddies at least four baddies Talking about a pocket.
Speaker 3:Yeah, come on. It's like through. Yeah, I got guitars, I got shoes, I got big team.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden I turn around, where's Max talking to some curly headed cutie over there.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so you're trying to pick up chicks at the wrong place, because when you go to the club and abroad, is I'm more like on the Internet.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. I hate it.
Speaker 3:You ever bought a shorty here? Of course, but I like give her a tour of the house.
Speaker 2:I'm not like in, like I'm very far from society. You know, like I like I go out sometimes, but I don't know how the world is now.
Speaker 3:Like the watches and everything that people wear, like everything, it's just like that depends on the type of person that you are If you really care about having all that expensive stuff on you.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about like only fans and stuff like that. I didn't grow up with that shit. You know I didn't like when I was 20.
Speaker 3:So you wouldn't be open for a girl to have only fans.
Speaker 2:I don't give a fuck. I mean it depends on. It depends on the. I told my girl you open a foot fetish thing.
Speaker 3:Like you need to help me pay this child support, so your feet.
Speaker 2:So it's just like if it depends on the arrangement you can answer our question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, okay, okay, another question. So clearly you don't have a hard time. I'll have a chick or nothing like that man, honestly, I don't have any questions because I don't. I mean, I feel like you're just a normal dude, bro. You like your shoes, you like to watch TV, you like to talk shit with your guys, you like hollering their shorties. I mean, honestly, bro, I feel like I don't have any questions for you, bro, because I mean I feel like I already got to know you while we just talking and chilling.
Speaker 2:I got one question for you.
Speaker 3:You have something stupid, or ask me for my business again and have them Call it quits.
Speaker 2:I got one question for you. Okay, so we always start to split, we always end the podcast talking about the little things. So the little things that I miss and I really I really didn't know that I was, it was a privilege to have was breathing. I miss breathing so much. I miss just breathing fresher and inhaling smoke. So what are some of the little things that you can't? Right now that you're thinking, you know that you're like damn, I can't believe I have that.
Speaker 3:Quiet times in the weekends with my daughter from Thursday to Monday, nobody bothering me for food, me not canceling weekends with her because I had to do this and that, for people. I miss just having four days straight with her of just sleepovers, hanging out doing this. Now it's like probably got to work, probably got to do this. Probably. It hurts because I miss being her dad. Sometimes I feel me and her used to talk on the phone all the time. Now it's like okay, bye, because I'm not as there for her. I am there, I'm just, I'm just not there like how I used to be. She used to sleep over four days in a row having a good time with me. Now I have to cancel weekends or change dates because it hurts.
Speaker 3:I mean she'll call me in. I call her every day Like hey, I just want to say I love you. Okay, love you. Bye, thanks up, okay, she'll call me all sweet. I say, hey, poppy, can I get a two, nine, nine for this toka-boka or for this roadblock? I was like no, talk to your mom. And she's like no, mommy said no because she's broke, but you're not, you're rich. I was like, okay, just talk to your mom, tell her to use my credit card, but make sure you're being nice and behave and just listen to your mom. But she'll call me at least like seven times for money a week and my girlfriend's like I'm her piggy bank.
Speaker 3:My girlfriend's, like you, always cave, blah, blah, blah. Why do you? She knows it that she spoiled even my daughter. She's like yeah, you said I can get whatever I want because I'm spoiled, but it's okay though. Well.
Speaker 2:I feel like. I feel like you're like you growing up like you guys didn't have much. You know what I mean and I feel like you're trying to return the favor. I didn't have a parent.
Speaker 3:That would say I love you every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're trying to return the favor To your daughter, but you know, you know, get her things right now because that's what you can do right now, but hopefully in the future and probably in the future you're going to be much closer to her because you're going to get even more successful with your business.
Speaker 3:In my head I'm just like she's only five, you know. So I can't really get mad at her or at myself.
Speaker 2:Well, she's already manipulating me like that's pretty. Well, that's every daughter with their dad.
Speaker 3:But that's like I said back to your question is just, I miss, I miss sleepovers with my daughter. I miss not putting work first. With this work, with this just came a lot of responsibilities. I mean, I'm being messaged to sell food here here, here here, and I can only do so much, and then I've done events where I've gone. Yeah sure, I'll go. I bring like at least like $800 worth of food and I only sell $200.
Speaker 2:Have you ever? Have you ever thought about like having a partner or having someone else Like? So you're the main head, I'm sure, like you're the CEO of this business, and then you have like someone like Eric or something like Eric's my personal assistant. You know what I mean. So, like you have like someone like Eric that can handle all the bullshit when you're sitting there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what I mean. I do, I do, I do. At the same time, I have this thing where I feel that when you hire someone that is not as passionate as you are for your own business, they won't put in the same work.
Speaker 2:That is exactly why I hired Eric.
Speaker 3:I can't.
Speaker 2:Because, like, okay, I'll tell you a story about it. We had this because it's so pretty long. Eric, the first time we met, everyone probably knows I texted him in 2017. I was partying like crazy, dropping bands at the fucking strip club like idiot and having girls come to the house. I was doing crazy shit. I was like I'm gonna text Eric. Eric is cool. I've always liked his music and stuff and it's Halloween rap. And he texted me two days before the Memorial Day parade. He was like what's up?
Speaker 2:And I was like yeah, yeah, we went to the same high school but we never really I don't think we ever talked to each other in high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we never interacted.
Speaker 2:But we were there, which was cool. Yeah it's cool. But so he texted me and he says, hey, when do you want to hang out, like I don't know where? And I say, well, I can hang out on Sunday if you want to meet me at a parade. And he's like, yeah, sure, and he meets me at the parade and Eric can take it away.
Speaker 1:You want me to take it away?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So I didn't even ask him what kind of parade is this shit? I just assumed he was on the side under a tent. You know what I'm saying Attending watching a parade. I pull up immediately. I'm like yo, what's up? Max, what's up? The conversation doesn't even carry on. Some soldiers walk up like is he with you, max? He's like yeah. Like are you ready? Like yeah. Next thing I know I'm walking through the city of what? I'm leading the parade Fucking sirens going off behind us, people carrying flags.
Speaker 4:I'm looking around Everyone's cheering. I'm glad I wore a button up.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Like he did not tell me what was going on. Next time I ever meet Max. I'm walking through the city, leading a parade with him, you know, and something that's the best way to surprise him.
Speaker 2:It wasn't a surprise, because I didn't think that was going to happen. I thought I was going to meet him after the parade, but he just showed up against the spot and it was like meant to be. He saw how much West Nd cares about me, which is nice.
Speaker 3:It's hard to find a supportive friend that's actually there.
Speaker 2:Here's where I liked him. Here's where I literally offered him a job on the spot. I didn't even know him for a day. We were at the VFW and people are coming up to me and they're like hi Max, how was your day? You did great at the parade. Today You're talking to me like a baby and Eric taking away.
Speaker 1:So again, I'm just meeting Max for the first time, so you know, you ain't You're just chilling You're deserving. And when people walk away from Max, I look at him and I'm like bro does that shit fucking bother you and he's like what I'm like the way they talk to you, like you're a fucking puppy and he's like all the fucking time. He's like you want to get out of here. I'm like, yeah, he's like can you drive my van? I'm like, bro, I drive for.
Speaker 4:FedEx, it doesn't go.
Speaker 1:He's like mom, I'm going to the house.
Speaker 3:Eric's driving.
Speaker 1:She's like who the fuck is Eric?
Speaker 3:He's like what's in his nose.
Speaker 2:That's where it starts, because I have to be up till. After he said that, I was like do you want a job, do you want to be a personal assistant? I was like hell. No, two years later, now he's my son.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I told him a few times, but no, no, hold on, we ain't done so. When we get to the house, you know he's like you can invite anybody, so I invite my homie, silas. He's been on the show a couple of times, you know, and I was like bro, you have a voice Like why don't you use it? Why don't you start a podcast? He's like man, I tried this already. I can't do it. I'm like what do you mean? You can't do it. He's like, my friends tried it. It just doesn't work because my voice is so low. I'm like, bro, I went to school for this shit.
Speaker 4:You can't tell me, though. I'm like fuck your friends.
Speaker 1:Let's get this shit started.
Speaker 2:So you know, here we are, my son Eric. I'm glad you found Eric bro.
Speaker 3:He's never been. He never gave me vibes that like bitch boy vibes.
Speaker 1:You know, he's always cool, you know he's got like a good energy, positive energy.
Speaker 3:what's up Like?
Speaker 2:I've met him. Like he like observes. When he listens, like he, I'll be in my chair and he'll be like you know. Is that going to hurt your skin or something? Because my skin can break down, he definitely do.
Speaker 3:Somebody who pays attention no, like he does.
Speaker 2:And we'll finish it up for you. I almost I was died because it's nursing, or what to do with Eric? He want to do Eric chicken.
Speaker 3:What the fuck big pop.
Speaker 1:He came in and, honestly, honestly, max always told me like, like bro, these nurses, they don't do a good job. Bro, I need you, I need you, I need you, and I'm just in the back of my head Like he's just trying to butter me up. So I accept the job. You know, these nurses are professionals.
Speaker 2:You know they're trained. Not all of them.
Speaker 1:Not all of them you know, this is what I'm getting to. So it wasn't until he had this one Asian nurse I forget the name, but I wouldn't say it anyways, but she was filling in, you know. So she was fairly new. And while we're lifting him from his bed, you know, to the chair he's in the air and his trait comes out of his machine, you know, not necessarily out of his neck.
Speaker 2:I'm on the opposite end. So I can't breathe.
Speaker 1:He's clicking like he can't breathe and the nurses like what?
Speaker 3:What?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, the machine is beeping, I'm telling you, it's disconnected and she's looking at Max trying to read his lips. What, what. I'm like bro you know I'm on the other end, right? So, I'm just like go to the machine, grab the tube that's disconnected, plug it into that hole that's empty.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, I'm literally directing her while I'm holding Max in the air and she fucking did it.
Speaker 2:Then, when I got down, say this life again for the first time, then when I got down. I was like this is fucking bullshit, this is fucking bullshit.
Speaker 1:All right, now I see you, did you fire her?
Speaker 2:Yeah. He got to see me fire a nurse too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how many nurses had been through. Max, take it away, how many nurses has it been through?
Speaker 1:He doesn't necessarily fire them. He just tells the directors like don't bring him back.
Speaker 2:No, but this time was crazy. This nurse wanted me to like sit up like right to brush my teeth.
Speaker 1:Background knowledge. This is my first day like on duty with him. Yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like brushing my teeth and stuff. But she said you need to sit higher and I was like no, I can't, I'm going to lose, like, because my blood pressure can go down, blah, blah, blah. Right, so she's like you need to sit higher and I was like no, and she's been like a bitch the whole morning for me, like you know, and I'm like I'm not doing it. And she's like well, I'm not brushing your teeth. And she walked away and I was like the fuck, you're gonna walk away from a question. Fucking, believe you.
Speaker 1:Curse in this bitch out, curse in her out, like you, fucking stupid bitch. I'm like whoa, I just I just walked in. I just walked in. He's cursing around as soon as I get there. He's like text my mom, text my mom, I'm like what's screaming? He goes shut the fuck up, Just do it. You know. So I text screaming he goes, his mom burst the door. In five minutes. What happened?
Speaker 3:What happened? Is that your code, with your mom screaming? He goes I need one, I need one.
Speaker 1:I'm saying so then literally fired her just because I was there, like he could fire her. Yeah, so then I'm just me and Max now, yeah.
Speaker 2:Josh showed up.
Speaker 1:But then Josh showed up. Yeah, that's all. I was like you don't fire me like that one day you gotta be out again.
Speaker 2:Man, you definitely gotta be out again, because I like the vibe Show girl. Everything's right, you have me.
Speaker 3:I'm not in jail by Friday.
Speaker 2:You have an amazing story. If you're in jail, I'll bail you out.
Speaker 3:The first thing I'm gonna do is, as CEO, give me my Snapchat. I got to call Eric and Max, bail me out.
Speaker 2:It's going Max. Max said, 350 for a bottle is not that much, so I think he could bail me out.
Speaker 3:Bro, 350 is a lot for a bottle of Don Julio Respo Salo when it costs $60. You know what I'm gonna talk about Tripping. I will never.
Speaker 1:I will never.
Speaker 3:It was a mistake. Four bottles deep After the fourth bottle, we had enough. I don't know bro.
Speaker 1:It has to be someone's birthday, it has to be maybe New Year's, it has to be. Maybe the whole family or gang is turning up and it's like a great experience. You're like, all right, we're turning up 350. Then it's worth it. But when people just go out on an average Friday and they just fucking spend $500 on a cheap ass bottle, what the fuck?
Speaker 3:You know what I never do? That I probably go out like once a month or twice every month, because my girlfriend doesn't let me go out.
Speaker 2:But it's gonna have a hard time editing this, but I got our story. So we were at Half Holy Bodies and there was a girl there and these girls usually like when I asked for a dance, they just dance around me and stuff.
Speaker 2:They're like scaring me and shit they're so fucking annoying, so annoying because I'm sitting there and I'm like you could get out of my chair and stuff, but they're treating me like this fucking sick child and I'm paying money, I'm like, and then they always Half Holy Bodies. They always take it over me, always If there's a line I'm going through it.
Speaker 3:I've actually been to Half Holy Bodies and paid the girl for the gold room just to hold me while I cried like three years ago. When I was having problems with my baby mom in 2017, I was like no, she left me. I paid them just to give me a hug.
Speaker 2:So I couldn't go upstairs. I can't go upstairs, so they set up this area.
Speaker 3:Like right there by the yeah, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 2:So they sent me up. Right there there's this girl. Her name's Elise dude, Holy fuck, shout out to Elise the.
Speaker 3:Asian.
Speaker 2:No she was Latina, but bro, she gave me the best lap dance ever. Eric. Eric was there Like because Eric?
Speaker 3:had to be there.
Speaker 2:Eric had to be there because in case my throat gets like you know, in case, like I, stop breathing and I have. I have five in Elijah, which is like this, like this girl was doing handstands on his chair this chair. Yeah, this one, right here, this one bro. Yeah, you see those armrests.
Speaker 1:I would have paid to see that. She was a hand standing on that shit, talking like dropping her ass on her on his chest and then spreading her legs and like shaking her legs on both sides of his face and fucking turn around and like really testing the suspension on her Testing Max's limit you ever watch those Jamaican videos where, like the, girls like grip the dude's head and like smack ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah, well, this is what the fuck Max is going to. Max will tell me like you touch the trick, it's like tapping someone's balls.
Speaker 3:Like it hurts him if you touch the tree. Oh, he just taking like a champ.
Speaker 1:This motherfucker, that's him fucking face first, I'm like bro, you're lying.
Speaker 2:The best part. This is the best part. Eric had to be there because like he was like, like he had to make sure that I don't die. Yeah, yeah, like the security was cool that they're already fine. He could stay you know so he's watching this show, right. And then this girl, she like she sits her ass on me and she yeah spreads her legs and puts them on my shoulder Right. She got the heels on and I start spasming.
Speaker 1:So Max has spasms, it's when his brain they do it right now. Just like that. Just like that, no.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna do it right now, no, so she's like all over me. I'm spasming right now and no shit.
Speaker 1:Falls right on her clip.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's like a my own, I'm in a vibrator, yeah yeah, yeah, he looks at his hand and then he looks at me like so it's with his hand.
Speaker 1:What did she say?
Speaker 3:She's laughing with it. She's cool with it.
Speaker 2:She loves it. It was, I had her for like two and a half hours. She was amazing.
Speaker 1:Max Payne's, song after song after song.
Speaker 3:Boy, that's at least two stacks right there, because some girls ain't cheap boy.
Speaker 2:No, what's the baddest?
Speaker 3:thing, I think she was having fun.
Speaker 2:It was like 800. It was like 800.
Speaker 1:I don't know he didn't have that much cash and he just used the rest of his cash and it wasn't An HB yeah. Damn, you must really go there. You got an acronym I used to bro I used to.
Speaker 3:I still until I started going to the Cirque Clubs and PR Boy them Cirque Clubs out there. Oh bro, as soon as you walk in, oh man, I forgot my girlfriend's listening to you. Well, when I went three years ago to the Cirque Clubs in Puerto Rico. As soon as you walk in, the first thing they do is just start looking at you like really enjoying the podcast. Bro, they'll start grabbing your dick as soon as you walk in to see what you got going on, and then look at this.
Speaker 1:How much of the dances, though In Hawaii is $100 a song, bro, I can't ever go back $60 for two songs, and each song is probably like a minute. They're on some bullets.
Speaker 2:We were watching what you can get for $1,000 in Vietnam and this guy's like just going to all these places. Eric just spent six grand out of fucking Hawaii. For what For his family? It was a family reunion.
Speaker 1:So I paid for plane tickets, I paid for the rental. It was like I don't appreciate it. Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, if you felt I don't appreciate it at all.
Speaker 3:Max is paying you that much, bro, I can cook for you. Chill out, hold on, he'll take care of your knees, I'll cook whatever you want. Boy, I can pretty sure I'm pretty good. I was like boy you paying him that much, bro, I got you.
Speaker 2:You don't even know no one knows, oh my God, only the real ones.
Speaker 3:But listen, the strict closing PR. They're different because you used to walk in. The first thing they'll tell you be like hey, poppy, 250 for 45 minutes. I'm like what? And they're like just follow me. Okay, you follow them. And these fucking secret, some W, some Harry Potter doors just he said what the hell it's that one of those?
Speaker 2:secret rooms.
Speaker 1:And when they don't make you look you didn't see how funny that was, this guy.
Speaker 3:So, like I'm like what the hell is this room? The security guards like listen, poppy, we give you the condom bottle. Some pains to things. Private security 45 minutes. What do you want to do?
Speaker 2:In my head. I'm like I don't want to fuck the shit out of her. Any girl on the fucking floor.
Speaker 3:He's like any girl, bro. I only have $100 on me. I am literally asking all my friends for money Because them shorties in PR, bro. They're very feminine, they're gorgeous.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 3:They're literally like how women should be. You know, out here they're just like a bunch of dudes. Out here, girls will fight you back Out there. They'll be like you know what? I don't want none of this, okay, bye. But they're like really feminine, really pretty, really gorgeous. And I saw this one girl that I really, really, really wanted to. But then my boy's like, bro, $250? We can go to this other club and do it for $50. I was like what he's like, let's go. I got the money.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's like, bro, this is one of the like I felt like it was a high end place. He's like no, bro, this is the worst place to be at. This is like a shitty place. They're just trying to text. You could do it as a medicano. I was like all right let's do it, boy bro. The only thing is that we got to have to stay in the hotel for the elevators?
Speaker 2:You didn't answer my question. Are there stairs?
Speaker 3:Yeah, everywhere you go.
Speaker 2:Are there stairs at the strip club?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Then we need to get a bunch of people to lift up my chair.
Speaker 3:Easy, bro, easy. I have a bunch of guy friends that want to go back to PR.
Speaker 2:This is 700 pounds. It's going to have 700 pounds, so you guys got to lift up the chair.
Speaker 3:Bro, I'm a bunch of friends with a bunch of Kane-Konyshares and those motherfuckers are meatheads. They're meatheads, you're nothing.
Speaker 1:My stepdad's father is an FBI agent, retired.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think it's a super nice place in Puerto Rico. They were talking about going around September.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about a game place when I had this nurse carman. She's Puerto Rican. She said like it's beautiful but I'm scared about the hurricanes because you saw Trump. He was like fucking throwing. He was like step back.
Speaker 3:I've been in a hurricane before Hurricane George in the 90s, when I used to live in PR with my family. That shit is scary bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it fucks up your entire property.
Speaker 3:It's worse if you live by any shit.
Speaker 1:In a hurricane.
Speaker 2:If you can't fucking move away, you can't move, you can't get for cover the worst place is oh, where's the nice place to go on a beer Like for a white person?
Speaker 3:Out there. Yeah, it's not where you think. San Juan, everybody says San Juan, the capital. Go there. Nah, that place is whitewashers hell. It's very Americanized, like it's like you go there, you're eating American food.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I don't want to get shot.
Speaker 3:So let me go, let me finish. Okay, you go to the east coast. It's called Playsa Rincón, where literally white folks have overtaken this little town.
Speaker 2:Let's go, and it's white folks safe.
Speaker 3:You would definitely like you would experience the Puerto Rican culture at the same time.
Speaker 4:But you are not going to see a lot of the locals.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you're into that.
Speaker 2:It's like party with the locals. It's so safe. Yeah, it is safe, and the hotels are really nice.
Speaker 3:It's like a Holiday Inn. I mean, there is Airbnb.
Speaker 1:Max S is nice. He wants like the Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 3:Hotel. Yeah Well, you go to Airbnb.
Speaker 2:I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Kansas City and let me tell you they know how to help man. We had four people ready for Holiday Inn, perfect room when we got there. I'm totally capped, really, I'm with Stopper. Eric had to sleep on the bathroom floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I slept in the bathroom.
Speaker 3:In the floor where everybody's pissing.
Speaker 1:It's another personal assistant and it's a nurse and Max is in bed. You know what I'm saying? That's way too many.
Speaker 3:So Max got a room, one bed. Well, eric said, and he said screw my assistant.
Speaker 2:No, Eric was talking to my lawyer's assistant because we were going to a chief's game, right?
Speaker 3:It was just a miscommunication.
Speaker 2:That's what the fucker said that he didn't. We got there, we were so tired. We get in the room and we're like so why did Max get to bed? He made him sleep a chair.
Speaker 3:He doesn't move.
Speaker 2:I literally was thinking, that I was thinking.
Speaker 3:I was like what.
Speaker 2:Eric was like no, we're going to get you in the bed Did he sleep like this no I.
Speaker 3:You could sleep, laying down.
Speaker 2:I mean, I could if I wanted to.
Speaker 3:So right now, if I lower that back, you just go to sleep, just fine, yeah. You should have left his ass in the fucking chair boy.
Speaker 2:I mean Come on.
Speaker 1:Max Check the pressure point. Ah, okay, okay, okay, the pressure point. So I don't want to, and in the morning we got to get him undressed and dressed and you got to go to the bathroom and that's a process and you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3:It's just, I'm just taking the fun out of everything. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding you want to take a fun. I didn't get any sleep because some fucker came with me named Daniel Rose.
Speaker 1:What did he do? He snored like a bear. That's why I went in the bathroom. That's why I went in the bathroom, had to shut the door, but I keep in mind I made a nice little bed in the bathroom. I asked him how the sheets how the pillows I covered. It wasn't even like I was here. That's the boy that was grew up in the ghetto.
Speaker 2:Eric got so pissed off, bro. I woke up and he said this is fucking bullshit.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 1:Because, Daniel, oh my God, because Daniel Willis, because I did start going to sleep in the bathroom.
Speaker 2:This was snoring and I thought Eric was going to sleep next to me. I'm like okay, I know Daniel snores. I wake up an hour later from fucking us sleeping and I just hear this fucking change. So I have to snore and I look to the light. No he's one of the worst, oh my God.
Speaker 1:But also in such a deep sleep that he won't wake up. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's how it used to be. My brother used to be one of the big set. Is the guy big set. No.
Speaker 1:Skinny oh God.
Speaker 2:Dude. His feet are like feminine as fuck. What.
Speaker 3:Seven and a half, daniel, seven Eight.
Speaker 2:Daniel's feet are like skinny as shit.
Speaker 3:Seven Eight.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:Like a seven or eight. What does his feet?
Speaker 2:have to do with anything we were talking about. Remember we?
Speaker 1:were. I mean, I remember, but why do the people need to know that?
Speaker 2:This guy fell asleep with his hand planted on the fucking. He fell asleep with his hand. He was in a cot, fell asleep with his hand planted on the fucking wall.
Speaker 1:This is bringing up all the homie, the homie inside shit. But anyways, we got to vlog out. His ass fell asleep with his hand on the wall like this, sleeping.
Speaker 2:Like he's on a urinal and I was recording him.
Speaker 1:How does someone fall asleep like that, like his hand was like.
Speaker 3:Was he standing up Like he was getting frisked?
Speaker 1:No, he's laying down.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay, If he was getting ready for the game it was still far and get this. We were late to the game, why? Because Daniel, and then Daniel has the audacity Daniel Willis has the audacity to ask Eric hey, do you have any like nail clippers?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, clippers, I'm a shower you wear the towels at, or literally, but anyway it's 1130 and 1130 the game starts.
Speaker 2:The kickoff is at 12, bro, and we're still at the hotel. Mind you, this hotel was fucking sick. It was called the Fountain.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The first vlog went after the parking lot, but it's bro. Yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 1:This hotel had a fucking living room, two bathrooms.
Speaker 2:My water hooked it up.
Speaker 1:A living room and a dining room and a little bar area.
Speaker 2:My lawyer paid for it and he was like usually, yeah, yeah, we'll put you up, We'll put you up, and I'm like thinking we're going to get this room and I see this room. I'm like what the fuck?
Speaker 1:Dude, it was nice, it's nice. It was in the average person's apartment, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's crazy because he said, well, yeah, we'll put you up.
Speaker 3:He paid for it.
Speaker 2:And he paid for the tickets. Well, it's, a law firm has tickets, so he paid for tickets and the tickets are like front row Nice, we saw juju Spitz sir, get his ass fucking hit so hard, you remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah, carried off the field.
Speaker 2:You remember Eric was, Eric was talking to.
Speaker 3:It's been a great experience. Eric was talking to my lawyer, right there.
Speaker 1:Eric was talking to my lawyer. I'm talking to lawyer all professional meeting his wife. Hello, nice, to meet you.
Speaker 2:Everything is great.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for these tickets. It means a lot to me. God damn, did you fucking see that he got laid the fuck?
Speaker 2:out. He did so bad. He's out here when the fuck does this come from?
Speaker 3:It's?
Speaker 2:like you could hear the smack dude, it was that whole stadium. And then there was no call on everyone. It was like fuck you wrap, fuck you wrap, fuck you wrap, damn it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you saw it, wrap you, suck, wrap you suck. There was a lot going on.
Speaker 2:But I won See.
Speaker 1:I'm coming to the end, Bro. Look at your motherfucking camera, dude.
Speaker 2:Say your name.
Speaker 1:Say who you are. Leave a message if you want to say that you're living life to the max.
Speaker 3:Say I'm living life to the max. Say your name, hey, I'm Denny. I'm the owner of Street Food Kings, the Panada man, and I'm living life to the max.
Speaker 2:Yeah, panada man.
Speaker 3:Come shot because I gotta pay this child support. Thanks for watching.