"What 30 Years in a Strip Club Taught Me About Life and Growth"

You know, and that always stuck with me. Yeah, I was like 20 years old at the time, you know, but that's something— that's a gift. Because if you think about it, if you're like, what if she's right, man? She don't know what the hell she talking about. But what if she's right? It's not that she's right, it's an exercise for you to sit back and think, if I am like that, how do I be a better man today than I was yesterday? How can I get— and if you, you, you, you have the solution, even though that solution doesn't, you know, apply to what's going on in that moment, but now you got a solution to put in your pocket for later. And all these things in the back of your head that keep— it's a form of growth, right? And growth and maturity. And that's why I don't have time for any of that. Like, I don't have time. Like, it's crazy how women got it twisted. But you know, a lot of women don't got it twisted. But you know, women struggle because they're successful but they can't get what they want, right? They could be successful, have all the money they want, but women aren't— there's a lot of women out there that aren't fine with just being by themselves. There's a small percentage that is. Because I'm cool being by myself, right? But I work in a strip club for 30 years. I have a whole lifetime's ass. I'm good. I, I— what more can I do, right? And when you mature and you mature right, the things you used to love start to hate. Um, and that's part of it, right? It's like I'm— I can't waste my time, right? I'm not wasting my time dating because I know— I, I tell people straight up like this, hey, we can, we can get out of— but you gotta know this is only gonna be about sex. There is really no way that we ever gonna be together because I'm too set. I tell them the truth. If they want to continue on, I've done my part, right? But I'm not gonna— I'm not gonna try to trick you out of something because I don't need to. You know, the best— you know, here's another thing. This is, this, this is what, what is most important. The question was, uh, when do you feel best in yourself, right? When do you feel the best within yourself? And I said, right now. I said, I said, let me tell you something, because there's about 6 people in the room. I said, let me tell you something. I am a dapper, articulate, older, heavyset, you know, successful, successful man. And I get the privilege to stand in front of you good people and be me because that's who y'all want to see— me. It don't get no better than that. You don't get no better than that, right? So you are always enough, right? Because y'all— I'm auditioning for y'all's commercial because y'all want me. I get to be me. So right now I'm feeling myself because you're asking me, when do you feel good? Because you are sitting here with me. So I'm like that woman. I'm like, you You sitting here with me, all good. I feel great. I know what I'm about. I know what I'm— I know what I am. But I, I, I have a, I have a lot of female friends, and that's the one— that's what I'll tell me about how working in a strip club, you know, working in Magic City, is the greatest thing that ever happened to me and the worst thing that ever happened to me, because I'm immune to women.