Police Beatdown in London: My Shocking Story with Snoop Dogg! | Adam Plant DSH #587
Ever wondered what it's like to be in the middle of a wild showdown with the police, alongside none other than Snoop Dogg? π¨ In this jaw-dropping episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, our guest spills the beans on a brutal police encounter in London that left them both shaken. Get ready for an eye-opening tale of unexpected chaos, raw emotions, and unwavering loyalty. π±
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - How Tasty T's Cheesecakes Started
01:50 - Playing Football with Snoop Dogg
04:41 - Playing Football with LaVar Ball
06:02 - Your Son Going Pro
08:04 - Bishop Gorman High School
09:51 - Howieβs Cheesecake
13:48 - Las Vegas
18:26 - Scary Moment With Floyd Mayweather
21:10 - Having Security Is Always Good
23:31 - Did You Get Approached To Join A Gang Growing Up
24:40 - How Important is Athletics for Kids Growing Up in the Hood
28:18 - Advice for Entrepreneurs
30:45 - Where to Order TastyT's Cheesecakes
31:05 - Nothing Else to Promote
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Snoop was making some rack ruckus whatever and he wasn't because we were walking him around so they called the police the police came and then argument ensued while we were going to go get on the plane to you know continue our trip
the police tried to stop us and they did stop us and unfortunately we got a serious police butt whooping and damn yeah
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All right, guys, we got the cheesecake legend in the building, Adam Plant.
Thanks for coming on, man.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
How you doing today?
Good, dude.
We just ate some cheesecakes.
And my man, those are the best I've ever had.
Well, let me start off by saying this.
The legend is my wife, Tamika Plant, because it's her creation.
So Tasty T stands for Tasty Tamika's Cheesecakes.
So, you know, I'm always give props to where props are due my wife she is the queen she's the maker she's the uh you know everything of tasty teas my thing is i get it out to the people and i'm the one who you know promoted and everything but yeah tamika plant her creation my wife hey she's changing the world
give her her flowers man i love her yes sir it's a good duo because you got the connections she's got the talent yeah bringing that two together yes sir you just talked about physical location possibly opening yeah that's exciting man yeah yeah so you know we're just with every sale you know, that's more money made.
And then, you know, with more money made, obviously it's
you're growing your bank account to be able to, you know, go ahead and make that do what you want to do.
So we want, our dream is to be able to open up a location on the strip in Las Vegas.
And then from that point,
the money we made, we furthermore open up more locations.
So I love that.
And before this, you were pro-athlete, right?
Pro-athlete.
Yeah, started off playing football.
I ended up playing with the BC Lions in 2002.
Got injured, and after that, I became a bodyguard.
So yeah, I became bodyguard for Snoop Dogg, Floyd Mayweather, and Jaquille O'Neill, a bunch of other celebrities.
And I still currently take care of a lot of big gamblers here in Vegas.
But yeah, in the bodyguard world,
I set a good name for myself.
Yeah.
Yes, sir.
Any sticky situations there?
Yeah, man.
And then, you know, everything with me is, you can always go on YouTube and look up all these things.
World Star video.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, one incident, of course, course, everybody who followed me for years knew
the situation in London with Snoop Dogg.
We were going over to Africa and London was the layover.
And while we were there, we were walking around the airport and different things.
And when we came back,
the people at
that particular airline had thought that Snoop was making some
ruckus, whatever, and he wasn't because we were walking him around.
So they called the police, the police came, and then argument ensued while we were going to go get on the plane to you know continue our trip.
The police tried to stop us and they did stop us.
And unfortunately, we got a serious police butt whooping.
Damn.
Yeah, we got our ass toe up, man.
But, you know, Snoop could tell you, none of us ran.
We all stood in there and took it.
And, you know, man.
You couldn't fight back.
Yeah, because in London,
it's just a different set of rules, man.
It's not like America where, you know, you might have a little leeway in trying to defend yourself, but over there, it's like, nah, they took them sticks out and they toe us up, man.
Holy crap.
Part of the, you know, if you're a bodyguard, it's just part of the life that you live as a bodyguard, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How did you meet Snoop in the first place?
He had a semi-pro football team that he had started in 2002, and he wanted guys who had played professional football that were like, you know, who had came home or got cut or whatever to play on the team.
So a guy that I knew that knew Snoop had introduced both of us and had asked me to come play.
And I was reluctant at first, but when I went out and seen that Snoop was actually playing and I seen that the team had about eight other guys who had played either NFL or CFL that I knew, I said, okay, I'll go ahead and get out.
And so over that course of time, our first game was 2002.
In 2003, we had like 10 other games and we were just so dominant that, you know, me and Snoop's
camaraderie, you know, as far as playing football with each other just grew.
And he liked how I used to just dog people on the field.
And so his head of security asked me one day.
He was like, hey, man, all that stuff you do on the field, can you really do it in real life?
I said, hell yeah.
So eventually I got my job with him.
Damn, I love that.
You played football with LeVar Ball too, right?
Yeah, Long Beach City College in 1993.
It started off.
Funny story.
I'm walking in the weight room and I see a guy benching 405 10 times.
I'm like, who the hell is that?
I'm like, damn, they got people that strong in junior college.
And so it was LeVar.
He racked a bench and got up and you know, talking, talking, messing.
But LeVar was a great help to me that first year at Lone Beach City in 93, man.
I was 17.
He was like 25.
So he would help me out like in the weight room, you know, help me get stronger and stuff like that.
Damn, Levar.
Levar was mentioning 405.
LeVar was mentioning like 500.
He was repping 405.
Holy crap.
So all that talking he do, he could back it.
Everything LeVar Ball has said as far as him being an athlete,
I can vouch for.
Wow, I've seen it.
People think he was crazy, but.
Nah, that dude dude was, I mean, he would
go from the football field, going to the basketball gym, we'd be playing.
He'd be throwing it off the glass, damn near breaking the rim.
Yeah, he was, LeVar was big.
He was tall, big, and strong.
Yeah, strong.
Look at his kids, man.
Two out of three of them, NBA.
You could tell a lot by a father by their kids.
Right, right, right.
Because, you know,
the story goes, well, the line goes, it takes a man to make a man.
So a lot of times, men who were athletes, that just transpires into their sons you know and their daughters so yeah yeah i love that and your son played professional too right yeah yeah adam planned jr man yeah he so he was the first uh he was the first uh defensive man from unlv in 21 years to go to the nfl damn so yeah man he he uh he had he had a uh a little journey you know coming out of bishop gorm in 2018 you know he went to arizona first and then uh transferred to tcu
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Well, click the application link below in the description of this video we are always looking for cool stories cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life click the application link below and here's the episode guys and i played at tcu for a year in 2019 and then uh they had a coaching change and so the coaches coming in i didn't think that were they were you know really beneficial to him growing as an athlete and so uh i just convinced him to uh think about coming to UNLV and he was reluctant at first but then when he uh i broke it down to him, I was like, son, if you're trying to go to the NFL, if you come to UNLV, you're going to stick out like a sore thumb.
And that's what happened.
So 2022, he led him in sacks and,
you know, had a good pro day and everything.
And
got signed as a free agent.
Yeah, sometimes when you're on a stacked team, man, especially in basketball, because there's only five spots, you don't stand up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, you know,
me being a former pro athlete, you know, I knew for my son, who I had groomed since he was a kid, I just knew that the steps I had told him to take would be beneficial to him because I had, you know, I had been through that.
And me not having a father just let me be an even better father to him because I knew anything that I had lacking, I was going to give it to him.
I love that, man.
You got one kid or you got three.
Oh, three.
So my oldest daughter, Ajanae, she's currently getting her master's.
She's working on a master's degree.
She'll be 26 in June.
She came out of Gorman in 2016.
And then my youngest, Ashley Plant, she's at the University of Arizona.
So she graduated in 2023.
Amazing.
Yeah, yeah.
So all my kids, man,
they all did good.
They all came out of Gorman.
And me and my wife, you know, we worked our tail off to be able to provide for them,
you know, just an opportunity in life.
Incredible.
Yeah, I moved here a few years ago, but I always hear about Gorman and how it's like the elite school in Vegas, right?
Yeah.
I would tell anybody come to Las Vegas, Bishop Gorman will give your kids that complete high school experience as far as great education, great sports, and just a great environment.
You know what I mean?
Me and my wife grew up in south central Los Angeles, so to have our kids be able to go to a school such as Gorman was just, I mean, it was magical.
Incredible, man.
Look at what you built for your family.
That's so cool.
I have that belief that every generation should get better.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Definitely, man.
So, you know, we definitely came here to Vegas and made it better for our kids.
I love that, dude.
Yeah, I got high.
I don't have kids yet, but I got high expectations when I do, man.
Sit on the Gorman, man.
You're still here in Vegas, Vegas, sit on the Gorman.
That tuition must be crazy, though.
Yeah.
And, you know, what's funny,
with each kid, it got higher and higher and higher.
You know what I mean?
Now, Gorman, they will, if your kids have a certain GPA, you will get a little bit off of your tuition.
Oh, that's cool that they did that, actually.
Yeah, yeah.
But
like my son, man, he.
He was flunking?
He wasn't flunking because he's a smart guy.
But, you know, you have this thing with athletes.
Sometimes when you're that good of an athlete, you,
in some cases, you know, you, you, some of the kids, they think, like, I'm an athlete, and you know, I'm just making on my athleticism, and you know, I really got to take school too seriously.
But he got it under wraps at the right time, so he was able to, you know, do his thing.
So it's hard to balance both, man, because when you're so athletic and you think that's the future, you just want to go all in on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that.
I saw you with Stephen A.
Smith the other day at Blue Water.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, Stephen A., he had, me and him got to know each other when I was working with Floyd.
And
it was funny.
I had my buddy Big Church, who had worked with me with
Mayweather and Snoop, he had called me and said Maurice Clorette was up there to do their podcast with Cam and Meese.
And so I knew Maurice when he played at Ohio State when he was going to come out to the NFL.
A guy I did security for was like his mentor in L.A.
So we already had knew each other.
So he was going to the podcast.
So I was coming up there to bring him some cheesecakes.
And then lo and behold, Stephen A.
popped up.
And when he seen me, he was like, hey, what's up?
So I was like, man, you could have asked for better timing for something to happen.
So I had two dozens of cheesecakes that I bought for Maurice and for
Cam.
Yeah.
And so I just like, okay.
Slit him one?
Yeah, slit him one.
And I said, I said, Stephen A, like I do with all celebrities and anybody I know, I just ask you, when I bring you the cheesecakes, just tell me the truth.
So I said, Stephen A, man, can you taste these our cheesecakes?
And so, you know, it ended up being a great commercial.
Oh, he loved it.
He said it was the best cheesecake he ever had.
Just like you said.
And
again, that's what I tell people.
Just tell me the truth.
Don't
lie because you know me or say that you know me.
When I bring, knowing me as a man, from whatever experience you've had with me as a bodyguard, football player, whatever it is, know that I'm not going to tell you a lie when it comes to our product because it's my name and my wife's name.
It's the truth.
So when I bring it to you, just tell the truth.
I love that, man.
Too many people be capping about their wife's cooking or like their friends cooking.
You know, I take pride in my Instagram, man, that everything I post really happened.
So I know it's hard to believe for some people to believe that, you know, I'm 48 years old now, but I've done a lot of things in 48 years, you know, going from the football to the bodyguard and to now the cheesecakes and all the stories and things that happen, you know, all the while.
But I actually have this on video or people who are there who actually actually can attest that yeah, he really did that or that really happened So when I post something It's like I'm giving you my real story, you know, and you know like the link like the youngsters say you know cap and I don't none of that.
You know, I don't even like to use that word.
I was like, if it's a lie, it's a lot.
But I tell real facts of my life.
And that's how it should be, man.
Because when you're lying, you get caught up in that shit, man.
I used to lie all the time, but I stopped, honestly, because you get so caught up in it, and it's not worth it, man.
Because when you tell the first lie, you got to tell another lie to back up the first lie.
Exactly.
And then you got to remember all them yeah not swear it gets tricky yeah so it's just worth telling the truth man yeah i'm pretty honest with with cooking your cheesecakes man i got to hear your top three flavors because i'd be ordering the same three but i'm curious if we got some alignment i love all 28 flavors that we got every single one every single one okay because there's some i don't like yeah and we like that you know i'm saying because it's like we want you to have your favorite And we want, you know, we always want the truth.
You know what I mean?
So, like, you might not like a pistachio or a blueberry or something like that but we have people who they want that their whole dozen to be a all blueberry all pistachio all you know whatever it is so that's why uh my wife made the 28 flavors to give everybody something that they're gonna like you know so and now if i had to just have a go-to like as of today it would be my the pineapple the peach cobbler and the pecan damn all right so we align on pecan i haven't tried the pineapple yeah actually i don't think i tried the cobbler either yeah that oh my God.
I got to try those.
Man, them things are incredible.
Dude, I could eat four of those.
And you know, the hardest thing is, like, when I'm delivering is like when that aroma just hits the car, I'm like, oh,
gosh.
Like, damn.
But, you know, you can't get high on your own supply.
I love that.
I love that, man.
How long you been out in Vegas?
Because you were in L.A.
before, right?
Yeah, so me and my wife, we're from South Central Los Angeles, and we moved here at the end of 07 when I started working for Mayweather.
So we've been here, what, going on 16, 17 years now?
Damn.
You've seen a lot of change in your life.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But I've been coming to Vegas since 81.
Holy crap.
Yeah, man.
My mom, you know, my mom was a big slot player.
So
we
growing up in Rialto, California, which is about 50 miles east of L.A.
During that time, you know, my moms would always come up here.
So that was like a two and a half, three-hour drive.
And, you know, she'd come up here, play the slots.
And sometimes we'd be, you know, sitting in the car, go playing that circus circus while she's playing.
And I just always had a curiosity of watching her play the slots.
And so as I got, you know, when I would tell myself when I got older, I was going to play them slots because my mama would play and she would win.
And, yeah, I've been pretty lucky on slots.
She would win, you said?
Oh, yeah.
How?
Yeah.
Slots is like the worst game I heard.
Well, it just,
I won't say that there's actual method to it, but.
My mom, I will see her like she would sit down for like maybe 10, 15 minutes.
If that slot wasn't hitting, she would get on another machine.
Oh, she was quick with it.
Yeah, until she would get on one that would actually like start, start hitting a little bit.
So I kind of follow that same motto.
I have a few machines at the Orleans, at Samstown, at different casinos that have, I have one on before.
So I'll usually just like,
I'll just, you know, come back and play those same materials.
Got it.
So it's like the low-key hotels, not the main ones?
I've had more success with the low-key ones, yeah.
Like
all of the Boyd properties and all the
better.
I mean, you know, at the end of the day, it's all gambling.
So you never know how it's going to turn out.
But the thing I tell people is you can't win if you don't play.
It's like a lot of people.
I say, I want to win the lottery.
Well, damn, go driving down the state line.
I'm going to get you a ticket because when I leave here today, I'm going to go get me a ticket.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah.
If you won the lottery, what would you do?
Build the first taste of teas today.
I love that.
That would be the first.
So, I mean, that's how passionate I am about our product.
If I won the lottery, I still wouldn't.
You'd still be wearing it.
Oh,
Because you bring so much happiness to people without yeah man, and that's the thing we want, man.
We want people to see that, you know, our product is kid-friendly, it's people friendly.
You know, it just makes people happy, you know what I mean?
Because when you taste something so good, it just, good food brings you joy.
Oh, yeah.
It just changes your whole spirit and your whole mindset.
You know what I mean?
Sure, man.
I like to say, you know, if we can go get tasty teas to some of these places in the world, they have mores, man, maybe stop some of that shit.
Everybody would enjoy cheesecake.
It's like, man, let's talk about it.
So
yeah,
that's one thing that we really aim to please all people with our product.
Powerful.
Has Floyd tried them yet?
Floyd, I brought it to him.
Let's just say, man.
He's too healthy.
Nah.
He didn't choose to get none at that particular time, but
his nephew, his sister, his mom, everybody loved him.
So, you know,
I know what our product is, and I would just hope that people would want to see us win.
Right.
You know,
sometimes it's one of them situations, man, where even when people know you have the best for whatever reason,
you know, they might not want to support it as you would think they would.
You can't please every single person in the world.
Right, right.
It's impossible.
Right.
So, who wins in a boxing match, you or Floyd Mayweather?
Boxing,
he wins.
I'm smart enough to know why I'm dumb.
I'll never say
what I, you know, I've never talk in the fantasy lane.
You know what I mean?
I'm always a realist.
You know what I mean?
Floyd's a world-renowned boxer, so no matter I've seen him spar against guys taller than me.
Really?
Tear their ass up.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
Because you're double his size and weight.
Yeah, I'm 6'7, but he's sparred big guys.
He sparred heavyweights.
You know what I mean?
So I will never get on the get in the ring with floyd but i i you know i wouldn't expect him to get on the football field with me yeah you know now now he's an athlete so his athlete side of him would but
i actually uh yo if you're watching this floyd i played in his celebrity basketball game oh yeah yeah a couple years ago yeah and i diced him bro yeah i had 20 points oh what yeah okay so they had to double me well i mean tall man
but they knew i was a problem okay that's that's all good any uh security moments with him because he he'd be riling up some stuff, right?
Yeah, man.
You know,
I remember we were in Atlanta one time, man, and
he did a party at
a strip club, and
they shut it down.
And there was a guy out there that, you know, was mad that he couldn't get in, man.
So he just started.
He started blasting at the building.
Damn.
I'm hearing stuff.
It sounded like a knock on the door, but it's like, that, that, that, that, that.
Like, I'm like, oh, no, that's a gunshot.
So we both hit the floor, man.
And I, you know, gotten myself in a position where, you know, I mean, if something came his way, I was going to, the bullet was going to hit me.
Damn, you were ready to take your life, sir?
I mean, it's like when you're a bodyguard, man, you always have to be in a mindset that this could be the day you lose your life.
And that's just the reality of that industry.
Wow.
And you always have to have the mindset that you're going to go at any point.
Now, we try to prevent things from happening, but if it goes to that, that extreme, you have to be ready for it.
So, yeah, there were a few situations, man, where I could have lost some of my life, you know, protecting Snoop Floyd and Shaq.
Holy crap, you know, I mean, people were after Shaq, he's such a nice guy.
Nobody was after him, but like a situation that happened with me and him, we were in the establishment, and somebody was just being an obnoxious fan, and they wouldn't stop.
And then it just got physical, and I had to get, you know, I had to get physical with him.
Wow, but it could have, it could have gone way bad, you know.
But the thing with
Snoop Floyd and Shaq, they can all say that as a bodyguard, Adam Plant did his job.
They all seen me get down.
And even
another incident with Floyd that we had over in Mexico one time, we had
gotten to a little situation, but
that was handled.
You know what I mean?
So they all seen me active.
Like I said, as a bodyguard, you do want to prevent things if you can, but if it has to go there, then, you know, you got to be ready for that.
Floyd ran deep, though, right?
He had like eight bodyguards or something.
something when i started with him it was uh it was big mark rest in peace uh big church who got who got me my job and um
uh
two other guys uh
j
let me see jt and stack yeah my uso homies yeah so it was it was five of us at first and then it went down to uh four of us and then it would it would it would change here and there and then uh ended up being about eight of us damn but me and big church we we would have we we would have made.
You were leaving that?
They used to call us the Great Wall.
So
when you would see us two come through the door, you knew Floyd was right in the middle of it.
So yeah, man.
I feel.
I hired bodyguard once, and the problem with me, dude, because I'm 6'6.
So if I'm taller and bigger than my bodyguard,
like, why am I even paying you at this point?
You know what I mean?
Well, you need to bring that money to Adam Plant.
But yeah, I mean, I would tell people, it's always good to have security than not because you just never know when something's going to happen, man.
You never know.
You never know.
Especially in L.A.?
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm from South Central, so I can attest.
You know.
Yeah.
I grew up in the gang era.
I don't go there alone anymore.
For real.
Yeah.
So, you know, everybody
who came up my era, we know how, you know, the streets can get, you know.
And
the thing is, I would tell anybody, it's good to know people in every city.
It's good to know people, man, because you always want to have allies.
You always want to have people that you can call in case things go left.
That's wise.
That's great advice, man.
That's wise.
Because too many people put all their eggs in one city and then they go to the West Coast or something.
Yeah, because
everybody thinks that their hood is harder than the next.
And I'm here to tell you it's not.
Now,
the gang.
banging did originate in in Los Angeles as far as like, you know, colors being attached to a gang.
That did come from LA.
But every city got a hood.
Everybody got shooters and killers everywhere, all over the world.
For sure.
I mean, I've traveled the world, so I know this for a fact.
And I'm going to tell you that some of the most gangster shit I've ever seen was in Africa.
Africa.
So I was in Africa with Snoop Dogg.
This was 2006.
He did a concert over there with him and Jay-Z and I think it was Mary J.
Blog, Buster Mines, a couple of other people.
Man, they had security going through the crowd with hyenas and machetes no way get out of the way i mean they i was like damn i'm on stage like tap tap no
hyenas
and machetes damn i said no i ain't i ain't seen no in america like that yeah so so you know again when people think that just their neighborhood is the only hood out nah i'm here to tell you player is everybody got a hood everybody got them them them guys everywhere you go so respect everybody's
neighborhood and they block.
Absolutely.
Did you get approached growing up to join a gang or a group of people?
I did.
I grew up in the Crip area, you know, and all of
my brother and
a lot of my homies was banging and stuff like that.
graduating from Dorsey High School, where it was mostly bloods in that area.
I got to know a lot of them.
So I know
some of everybody, Crip, Blood, SA, whatever it is.
And my thing is, I'm Adam Plant.
You know, I represent myself as a man.
So I deal with everybody.
So I'm not, I don't single myself out to any one group.
I like to be able to bring people together.
You know what I mean?
And the growth in life is, especially from a man, is that you have to grow up.
You know, you could be where you're from and
love your neighborhood and the people you grew up with, but you have to elevate as a human being.
You know, if I'm, I'll be 50 years old next year.
It's like, how would I look trying to to bang on somebody?
Like, dude, what the hell did you get out of life?
You know what I mean?
So grow, mentally grow, physically grow, and be who you're supposed to be as a human being.
I love that.
And you seem to have that mindset at an early age.
Yeah, man, because
with me, athletics was the things that, you know, I always wanted to be a football player.
You know, I loved playing basketball.
And then coming up, I did track.
I was good at shot, put, and disc.
I actually won the gold medal in both
and the junior Olympics in Southern California at Chafee College.
This is the early 80s.
I wanted a golden disc, golden shot put,
did played soccer, you know, just, you know, sports always kept me busy.
Yeah.
And just seeing the realities of what happened in the hood, like with
looking at my brother and some of the older homies and what they was doing and stuff like that, I knew that's not what I wanted to become.
So I'm glad that athletics, you know, sports kept me out of a lot of stuff, a lot of nonsense.
Absolutely.
And that's the path for a lot of athletes that grow up in rough neighborhoods, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's tough, man.
Because it's like one thing, you know, it could say it could be like five guys.
You guys always grow.
You guys all grow up.
Four of them end up being gang members.
You're the athlete.
Now, you still
affiliated with them guys because they're your homies.
You grew up with them.
They're like your brothers.
But you took a different path.
Your path was like, no, I'm going to go play football, basketball, baseball, whatever it is.
I'm still your homeboy, but I know the route you guys are going, that's not constructive to what I want to become.
So, even though I'm going to do my thing, I'm going to still, you know, show loyalty to you because we grew up together, but you know,
people just go different paths.
Absolutely.
You saw that happen with John Morant.
Yeah, yeah, I seen that way before John Morant, you know, just with me and different other people I grew up with.
Like,
there were some
extremely great athletes
where I grew up in South Central, you know what I mean?
But for whatever reason, a lot of guys made bad decisions.
So the world never got to see them.
And
I could truly say this, everybody that made it to the NFL, the NBA, or the MLB weren't always the best athlete.
There were guys that were better than them, and they know it.
The guys who did make it made better decisions.
Wow.
You know what I'm saying?
That's crazy to think about, right?
Yeah.
Because, like, every professional league, they do consist of great athletes, but again, they weren't always the best one.
You know, they might have had two or three guys they grew up with that they know could jump higher, that were faster, were,
you know, would have been a better linebacker or run back or O-line, dem lineman, whatever.
But for whatever reason, they made bad decisions, so they didn't get as far as this guy got.
Wow.
So at the end of the day, man, it comes down to making great choices.
And that's why it was important to me to be a great dad to my kid because especially my son playing ball,
I wanted him to make good choices.
You know what I mean?
And sometimes, you know, you need a father figure to help direct those choices in your life.
Father figure is crucial, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because there's a lot of single parents right now.
It's tough.
I would tell any woman who says, oh, you know, I don't need no man.
No, no, no.
Millions of women have done it by themselves.
You know, my mom was a single mom, but, you know, to have a man in your child's life, especially their dad, for a young man and for a young woman, they need that.
They need that father.
Absolutely.
I grew up.
I'm a single mother too, but I didn't know I had to do a lot of shit, man, growing up, for real.
I didn't have that father figure.
It's crucial.
What would your advice be to people starting up entrepreneurship coming from your background?
Know that it's going to be a hard role.
Know that it's going to take a lot of sacrifice.
Know that you can't sleep eight hours a day and think you're going to be a successful person.
It's no way possible.
If I get three to four hours of sleep, I'm getting a lot.
Wow.
You know, if I get that a day, I'm getting a lot.
I, you know,
I know we got the best tasting cheesecakes, right?
But I need the world to know that.
So if it takes me going out to Southern California, Arizona, Utah, all over Vegas, driving to Dallas, driving to New York, you know, if you...
You drove to New York?
I haven't yet, but
I plan on doing so.
Yeah, I mean, I drove my son to Williamsburg, Virginia back in the the day from Vegas for a football camp.
So if I did that for him for a camp, you think I ain't going to do that for my own product?
Damn right.
So
my advice would be be willing to do whatever it takes to get your product out there.
It's like, you know, rappers have been doing it for years.
Yes, sir.
There it is.
Take some cheese, man.
Hey.
Best cheesecakes in the world.
Best cheesecake.
Cheesecakes in the world, guys.
And I've had a lot of cheesecakes, too.
Yeah, so you know.
I know.
I'm from Jersey.
That's the home of
Cheesecake.
Yeah, yeah.
So, so
to finish answering the question,
again, just be willing to go and do whatever it takes to get your product, whatever it is, out into the world.
So, that's the answer to that.
Now, to talk about this,
the reason I can also
tell people that these are the best cheesecakes in the world is because of this.
As a bodyguard, I've traveled the world.
Last year alone in 2023, I was in New Zealand and Australia with Snoop Dogg on a tour with him.
And then I came back here to Vegas for like five days.
Floyd had contacted me to ask me to go to Dubai with him.
While I was in Australia and New Zealand and Dubai, I tried cheesecakes in all the cities I was in, right?
And wasn't it nothing close?
Nothing even close.
And then prior to that, back in the day when I was traveling with Snoop in London, had cheesecake there.
I've been to every state in America going on tour with Snoop and different places with Floyd and Shaq.
Had cheesecake everywhere, you know, New York, Chicago, all that.
And
like I say, it's no ever a diss to anybody else.
You know, you can make cheesecake all you want.
We're just saying that nobody tastes, tastes like ours.
I'll vouch for that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Some people order those, man.
So you can order your tasty teas cheesecakes.
If you're in Las Vegas at www.tastyteescheescakes.com or you can just text me directly at 702-443-8769.
And I prefer people to text me because I like to be one-on-one with every customer, you know what I mean?
Your phone's about to blow up, man.
Yeah.
I love it.
Anything else you want to promote, man?
Well, I just want to say thank you to you, man, for having me on this platform because this is big, man.
I've been watching your show for a while now on Instagram, and I'm like, damn, I was thinking about it not too long ago.
I said, man, I hope I can do that podcast one day.
You know what I mean?
So I appreciate it.
Thank you for that opportunity.
And again, just tell everybody, if you want the best tasting cheesecakes in the world, Tasty Tease Cheesecake is the number one tasting cheesecake in the world.
Nothing even close.
Bars.
All right, thanks for coming on, brother.
Thank you, sir.
Absolutely.
Thanks for watching, guys.
Order some cheesecake.
See you next time.
Tasty Tees.