To: Sweet Tea... I Love You From: Isaiah

[00:00:05] What up, what up, what up? Welcome to the latest episode of Unplanned and Unashamed with Ray Money and Isaiah Pennell. And we're recording a brand new episode of Unplanned and Unashamed. We back? Yep, we back with a brand new episode. What you eating for breakfast, Ray? Man, eggs and turkey sausage. Oh, you like turkey sausage.

[00:00:34] Yeah, man, I can't do, I don't do pork, man. Gotcha. Not because, there ain't no religion, nothing. I just got high blood pressure, so... So if you had the choice between turkey or pork sausage, which one would you pick? I would still do turkey. You'd still do turkey? Yeah, man, I just... Huh? I don't think I've ever had turkey sausage. Legit. Or turkey bacon. Man, no, man.

[00:01:03] As a... You get to doing... You know, all the pork stuff. You start to realize, all right, this ain't... This ain't it. I had some bacon that was so salty one time. I'm like, why am I eating this? My mom... My mom deep fries her bacon. Deep fries her bacon? What? I need to go to Alabama and get some of her bacon. Let me tell you something. That bacon be light and crispy. You ain't had no bacon like this.

[00:01:32] When she do it, when she... She used to do it like now. She'd be doing the little thick bacon. But when she used to do the thin, like, bacon, like, she'd buy the pack with the bench thinning. And she'd deep fry. Oh, it'd come out. It'd go... It's like eating a potato chip that's bacon. It's like a bacon potato chip. Man, what? And then the pork chops? Man, like... I don't know what it is. The people around here, it's like, they get better and better at cooking the pork. I don't eat it anymore.

[00:02:03] Yeah, I'm going to have to go to Alabama and have some of your moms cooking one day. Man. Mm-hmm. I had a food commas come to my parents' house. Oh, you had friends come over to your parents' house? I have commas that have come down from... Let me see. Ryan Davis has come down. Amson Hughes. Let me see. Big Dean. Who else has come down? Little Jacobs.

[00:02:31] And, yeah, Will came and he stayed for a day or two, overnight. Gotcha. Does she make a good sweet tea? What? Do she make a good sweet tea? Let me tell you something. I ain't even got the little... Matter of fact, when the comments came, they went on wasted. My homo did. Then he wasted some on the carpet. He said... Oh, no. He said if he did waste on the carpet, he would suck it out the carpet. It was so good.

[00:03:02] He'd take a straw and suck it out the carpet. Take a straw and I'd get it right out the carpet. Every time I would go down, he'd ask me, hey, I ain't talked to him in a while. He'd say, hey, man, you bring me back with sweet tea. And my mama would send some. But I would drink it before I got back to what made it to him. You would drink his sweet tea? Yeah, yeah, I'd drink his sweet tea. It wasn't his sweet tea. It was still my sweet tea. He didn't know there was sweet tea on the way.

[00:03:31] But she's asked, did he get his sweet tea? Nah, he ain't getting the sweet tea this time. But this is not real talk when you say sweet tea. My homeboy that lives there, he just stopped by to get sweet tea when I ain't even there. He's like my brother, but... I was calling him brother number two. He stopped by. He on the way to work to get some sweet tea.

[00:04:00] That must be the best tea in Alabama. It really is. I don't care who has tasted it. We done told her we should start selling it. Like, it's... I'm definitely better than Milo's. Definitely better than Milo's tea. And that's saying something. Because Milo's tea, I think, is pretty good. It's terrible. You don't like Milo's? I grew up on my mama's tea. What? I ain't found a tea better. Like, it's almost tea concentrate, really. She be making it so sweet.

[00:04:30] Like, you gotta add water. If you put ice in it, it gonna... And let it sit for a while. It gonna turn perfect. But if... She about make it as a concentrate. You make about this much. About a half a cup. We'll make a gallon. Nah, it ain't that sweet. But it is sweet, though. Yeah, I'm just gonna make the road trip to Alabama. Amen. And go get some sweet tea. Because I love...

[00:04:57] That's probably my blood type, to be honest with you. Sweet tea? Yeah, that's my blood type is sweet tea. Do you make it at home? Or do you always buy it somewhere? I used to make it at home. And, like, I used to make, like, peach tea and different, like, flavors of tea. But now we've just been buying Milo's. All right. Because I think as far as, like, tea that you get out of a store, Milo's is the best. By far. I'm gonna bring you something.

[00:05:27] It's gonna ruin you. I'm gonna bring you some of my mama's tea. It's gonna ruin you. Oh, I mean, it's better to make it at home. But, like, if I'm getting something out the store, Milo's is the way to go. Because, like, Gold Peak and... What's those other teas that... I don't even know some of the other ones. It's Red Diamond. Oh. Let's... And there's some, like, other ones out there that you can, like, get at the store.

[00:05:57] And all of them have, like, all these other stuff added to it. And if you look at Milo's, it's just tea, sugar, water. Or... It gotta be. Because the... If you... Tea can't doesn't last that long. It goes rancid. So, it will turn to get extra sweet and syrupy. Or it will be... That's why, you know, like, oh, you go to, I don't know, one of these restaurants. And, oh, the tea's bad. Like, ugh.

[00:06:27] Because it's just old. So, when they put it in the stores, like, in a gas station or something, they gotta add something to make it last longer than your normal bottle... Normal tea in a jar or something. Gotcha. Yeah, all those teas that you get out of a store has, like, all these extra preservatives. And that's what makes it taste like poo. Yeah, no. This is... I'm gonna make pure Colombian uncut.

[00:06:58] The purest of the purest. Oh, what's the best fast food sweet tea? Ooh. If you can get Milo's at a fast food restaurant, then that's the best. What's the best one? Oh, like as far as, like, restaurants. Oh. Probably Zaxby's tea. Chick-fil-A to me. Chick-fil-A? Yeah, Chick-fil-A. I'll get Chick-fil-A. They're all right. They lemonade the best, though. I don't know. Yeah, their lemonade's good.

[00:07:28] They pray over the lemons before they serve it. I think they pray over everything before they serve it. What? They're like, dear God, let this be a good tasting. They make it with holy water. They make it with water. They make it, they boil out all the impurities, all the evil bad spirits, and then they pray over the sugar and the lemons. Yeah. Andrew, Moose said, mix the sweet tea and lemonade at Chick-fil-A. Now, that's good. Yeah.

[00:07:56] Oh, he makes the Arnold Palmer's, is what they call them, the Arnold Palmer's, I guess. Yeah, Arnold Palmer's. It's hard to say that name without sounding like you got a mouth full of marbles or something. There's like all the N's and M's and R's. I don't actually know. I think I've heard. I just never know what. Is it Arnold Palmer? Yeah, Arnold Palmer. Why did he get the name?

[00:08:25] Everybody been mixing sweet tea and lemonade for a long time, but no, now he got the. Now, here comes this golf guy. Yeah, he sounded like a big golf. It's like, I'm the one that did it. Mm-mm. Or he claims he's the one that did it. I guess he was like the first one to like mass produce it and sell it. Mm. Maybe. But I don't know.

[00:08:54] Hey, man, Super Bowl weekend just passed, man. Did your team win or did your team lose? My team wasn't in the Super Bowl. Who were you rooting for? Did you root for anybody? The Chiefs or the Eagles? I was wanting the Eagles to win because I did not want the Chiefs to three-peat. I was not about the three-peat. Why? Because if I wanted a team to three-peat, then it would be my team, and they didn't make the Super Bowl. I see. Mm.

[00:09:25] I ain't really watch the game, man. I just, I watched the halftime show. Did you watch the halftime show? I've seen clips. I haven't seen the full thing. And I mean, I like, but a lot of people on my Facebook page was like, worst halftime show ever. And I'm like, I kind of like Kendrick Lamar. Like, I'm. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. If you like Kendrick Lamar, then he was like, you kind of gave it a pass.

[00:09:53] But I guess it wasn't as eventful as some of the other Super Bowl. Come on now. Janet Jackson pulled a titty out of one of them. That's a, you can't, it can't be the best. Right. Nothing's going to top that one. Ain't no. If they did a countdown, Super Bowl performances. Yeah. Nothing's topping the, the nip slip. She's one or two. She's one or two. Number one or two.

[00:10:23] They do the rankings. Number one or two. You can't, how you going to, you can't beat, you can't beat that. I mean, yeah. From like that standpoint. Oh yeah. Janet Jackson. Definitely. But like a musical standpoint, Prince is probably the best one. Prince did a Super Bowl halftime show? Mm-hmm. In 2007. And then he played Purple Rain in the middle of a rainstorm.

[00:10:53] Mm. I'm going to have to look that up. Because you had, I mean, all the performers, I mean, Ginger kind of just walked from, from La Boeuf to La Boeuf with other people dancing. Doing stuff. Hey, Serena Williams had some moves. So was that Serena Williams? I think so. I'm pretty sure. Everybody think that was Serena Williams. Or was it? I'm not. It was so, it was so fast. I'm like, that ain't her.

[00:11:20] Because I think they, I think they tagged Serena Williams in a post. Like the NFL did. Hmm. Yep. That was Serena Williams. Drake's ex. I had no idea that was Drake's ex. Oh, word. I got you. Oh, man. But that's crazy, though. Because now, oh, I didn't catch it. Kendrick put Drake's ex in the, in the Super Bowl to dance. Ah!

[00:11:50] And then he did the song. My man is, is definitely a villain. I don't know what Drake did to this dude. But he is, he has been going on a, on a tangent for, for a full year. Yeah, I'm not sure what caused the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. But they've been going at it for a while. Mm-hmm.

[00:12:18] I think, wasn't there like some kind of scandal with Drake? Claiming that he's like some kind of child predator or something? That might be what started it. I don't know. So that's what, that's what, that's what he did in the song. Kids are like, and they're probably A minor. And that's where everybody be yelling. They was yelling during it. So I don't know how true that is.

[00:12:47] But he ain't going to know. But that's what he using, though. That's what he using to, I guess, shame him. That's interesting, though. The beefing in the Super Bowl. Super Bowl know there's a beef. And he allowed it to happen. They allowed it to happen. Mm-hmm. But from what I hear, we got facts coming up. What you got here?

[00:13:17] Let's see. We got Moose dropping some facts. I can't see what he said. Let's see here. Oh, so Kendrick dissed everyone on Patrolling in 2012. And Drake didn't like it. Oh, so Kendrick started it. And he just kept going with it. Oh, he was trying to, that's what he was trying to get some attention.

[00:13:48] Because Drake was probably the hardest, the biggest rapper for a long time now. He got a, Drake got a whole radio station. And where, where is Drake from in Canada? I guess, I think from Toronto or something. Is that on the East Coast or West, or East Coast or West Coast? I don't know. I don't know either.

[00:14:14] Because I was about to say, if it's like on the East Coast, then it could go back to that whole East Coast versus West Coast thing. Nah, I mean, but that's in Canada. It can't really be East Coast, West Coast. Are we talking about the North American continent? Or are we just talking about the U.S., the USA? On, you know, Tupac and Biggie.

[00:14:44] Oh, they got a whole timeline. On NBC, they got a beef timeline. This is, this is on, it's news. It's national news. When the beef is on the news. That's how you know it's legit, when the beef is on the news. Reporting live. But that's the thing, though.

[00:15:13] Drake ain't really said much back. Right. Well, he's suing him, so I guess that's one thing. But, I don't know. It's what it is, though. I guess you're, it's a, I presume that there will be a, there's got to be a return clapback. Oh, yeah.

[00:15:42] Drake's going to say something eventually. Yeah, you let him get, oh, he's just going for the money. And he's like, I'm going to sue him. Let you keep going. Get it all out. Make us plenty much money, so I know you got it. Then he's suing him. I don't know. But, in other news, Valentine's Day is this Friday. You got a date, Isaiah?

[00:16:12] No, I don't have a date. I'll be at work on Valentine's Day. Oh, you'll be at work on Valentine's Day? Yeah, I'll be at work on Valentine's Day. Yeah, me too. Anyway, that's what, that's where it is. So, are you one of the people that would celebrate, have to celebrate on Valentine's Day? No, I wouldn't have to. Well, okay, first off, I'm single.

[00:16:39] But if I did have a lady, like, I wouldn't have to celebrate exactly on Valentine's Day. Yes, you would. That's why I used to be single. He says, no, I wouldn't have to. Like, if I'm at work and, like, I can't go out that day, because I do work second shift. And by the time I get off, restaurants are usually closing at around that time. Hmm.

[00:17:10] Oh, man. Well, matter of fact, we were both doing, see, Valentine's Day is coming up, so we're giving Isaiah a prep. You were supposed to be listening to Tank. Tank is an R&B artist. He'd do all them love songs. He'd be doing all those. Give you some good advice. Some stuff to play with. Let me see who else.

[00:17:40] R. Kelly. Can I still listen to R. Kelly? Or is that off limits? I don't care what nobody's here. I'm still listening to R. Kelly. What? I may play it right after I get off of here. Barry White. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me see. Marvin Gaye with that sexual healing. You got that. You got some Miguel. I don't know. It really depends, though.

[00:18:11] It depends on what you know. You said in the mood. Right. Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah. Have you been on a lot of dates before? I'm not much of a dater. Not much of a dater. Have you had bad dates when you did? I don't have. I'm going to be honest. I don't have much dating experience. Like at all. You ain't got no dating experience? Very little. I got you. Most people don't either.

[00:18:41] They just be going places. They don't know what it is, though. So what would you say? I guess that you haven't been on many. I guess you wouldn't really have any tips for the people that are single this Valentine's Day. So I guess you have actual tips for the people, not people that are trying to date, but you got tips for people that are single this Valentine's Day. How do you get through Valentine's Day?

[00:19:12] How do you get through Valentine's Day as a single person? Let's see. You said what? Let's see. How do you get through Valentine's Day as a single person? I don't think I can say that on my own. Big bottle of lotion. Big bottle of lotion. You don't want to go out anywhere. If you're going somewhere, they'll be an ash, right? A VR headset. You said VR headset. Yeah, and Google POV.

[00:19:42] You stupid. Just see what pops up. You can buy chocolate for yourself? Yeah, and I'll buy chocolate for myself. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Eat the whole box. I don't know. But that's it. Everybody has their own perspective. We're going to buy. My wife going to get some after Valentine's Day candy. Because it's on sale.

[00:20:12] She's like, savings? The chocolate going to taste the same. Right. Well, that's the thing. Because, I mean, if you're putting all the pressure just to do it on the day. I don't know who this dude was. St. Valentine. That was his name. I don't know why this day came about. You're supposed to show that love every day. Right. Or not just waiting to that day.

[00:20:41] Yeah, you're supposed to show your love for somebody every day out of the week. Yeah. Not just on February. What day is it? See, I don't even know what day. You didn't even know the date. Come on now. Isn't it the 13th? Isn't it the 13th or the 14th? Valentine's Day is not the 13th. You know Valentine's Day is the 14th. Stop playing. No, it is the 14th. You was in kindergarten. They at least gave you those. You know, everybody around the class.

[00:21:11] Mm-hmm. And they gave you what's the little fun dip? Oh, yeah. The little sugar. The little sugar packet with the other candy stick that you dip and you eat that. Yeah, everybody had the airtight sugar. I miss those days getting that fun dip. You stupid. I do. That was a tasty candy. You ain't had fun dip candy like that since.

[00:21:41] Man, I get it every year, man. Every year my kids come home from daycare, school, Halloween. You steal your kids' fun dip? You just like, give me that. Like, come on, man. Who don't steal their kids' candy? What? Taking candy from a baby? What? We taking it from the baby? The teenagers? The toddlers? You taking candy from all of them.

[00:22:11] It ain't stealing. It ain't stealing. You just like, give me that. Wife says it's self-preservation. I ain't finna get it. Like, you send it. Who sends it? Like, the nerve of your teacher to send this kid home with a trash bag full of candy. Who finna eat this and try to have him lay down to meet bad times? Hell no. You finna eat a piece and I'm finna eat a piece because you gon' be up. Matter of fact, you gotta eat yours on the way home from school.

[00:22:40] Once you get home, no more candy. You gon' be jumping off everything. I'm not gon' fill you up with sugar, so I, yeah, I eat that can. Not all the time. I don't really eat candy like that. But when they do show up, if it's in the bag and I see it, I appreciate you. This is my house. My rules. What? Some gummies?

[00:23:09] Some of those Haribo gummies. Haribo gummies? Nah. I mean, them dots. You know, you're from Halloween. You got dots in the box. What? You used to be looking for those. Those are good ones. You know, the other little chocolate candy bar. A little Snickers or something. See, now those was my favorite to get on Halloween because I love a Snickers bar. Mmm. The Twix? Mm-hmm. I don't know.

[00:23:38] Or the little miniature Hershey's. Those are good ones, too. Oh, man. Like, I don't really eat candy like that. Like, I mean, I'll eat it like if there's a bag that'll show up for Valentine's Day and something there. But, and it's at random. I'll eat. I like food, so I'd rather get some chicken or burgers than actually just eat candy.

[00:24:07] Now, my favorite candy is an old school candy called the Mallow Cup. That's my favorite. The what? The Mallow Cup. The Mallow Cup. Man, you got, you got the oldest references, Isaiah. I don't know where you'd be finding this stuff. Like, you got, your soul is like 59. You got a 59-year-old man, so. Have you ever had a Mallow Cup? I don't even know what that is. Is it like a Reese's Cup?

[00:24:35] You've never had a Mallow Cup? It's the best candy in the world, Ray. It is better than the Reese's Cup. I don't like Reese's Cup, so now you're losing flight. Oh, I lost you on the Reese's Cup. Do you like coconut and marshmallow? Yeah, man, not, no. I don't really like either one of those. Like, not for candy. See, because that's what it is.

[00:24:58] It's like a, imagine a Reese's Cup, except you got rid of the peanut butter and added marshmallow fluff and coconut flakes. Maybe. I could do that better than the Reese's. Ugh, Reese's. That's not even peanut butter in there. What is that stuff? I like a Reese's Cup. What is the stuff that they trying to pass off as peanut butter? Yeah, because it is some kind of like mystery peanut butter. That ain't peanut butter.

[00:25:28] What you think saying that? I don't know what that is. That's what I think turned me off. If it was actually peanut butter, I would probably, oh man, this is probably pretty good. But what is this concoction, y'all? It's a peanut butter cocktail. Like, it ain't actually just peanuts that ain't peanut butter. It's something else that I'm mixed in there. And then, yeah, I'm good. A smoothie, that's a good one.

[00:25:56] That's kind of like the Mallow Cup, except it's butterscotch and I think peanut butter. It's been a while since I've had a smoothie. Hmm. And it's made by the same people that make the Mallow Cup. Oh. And I like a good Charleston Chew. A Charleston Chew? What is a Charleston Chew? Oh, Lord. It's been a while since I've had that one, too.

[00:26:23] But it's like chocolate and then some kind of like nougat in the middle. Mm-hmm. So, this is the thing. Would you buy candy? If you had a Valentine's Day, would you buy them candy? I would. What kind? I'd probably get like that little heart-shaped truffles or something. Oh, you're talking about the standard heart-shaped box of candy?

[00:26:46] No, I'd probably go to like Kilwin's website or I'd probably drive to Kilwin's in Blown Rock and get one of those boxes that they have. You said Kilwin's? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. They got some truffles. Like boxes of truffles. Mm-hmm. And they're delicious. I got you. Guess it's the thing.

[00:27:15] I'm like, nah, we ain't got no candy. Why don't we get the candy? We gonna go... I don't know. I guess it's the thing. I guess because I'm not big into candy. I'm like, all right. It might be easy, but I don't... Oh, excuse me. One more. No, we're ready. Oh, no. Sorry. Go ahead. But yeah, I'd probably do that.

[00:27:43] Just buy a box of the Kilwin's truffles. And I don't know. Probably, you know... A nice dinner. And some flowers. That's probably be what I'd do. So, did you watch any of the Super Bowl? Man, I watched a little bit of it. I didn't watch much.

[00:28:11] I just caught the halftime show, really. But when I turned it on, the score was running up so fast. I was like, man, ain't any used to watching this. Oh, yeah. The Eagles had, like, a lead early in the game. Like, it was a runaway game. I could find something else better than doing against the Eagles. Like, I didn't even watch the game. Watch the cheese get trashed like this. I watched Netflix. That's what I did.

[00:28:40] Yeah, it was like 34 to nothing going into the second half. I'm like, I don't foresee a comeback. I didn't watch after the halftime show. I wanted to do something else. But now next year is the Green Bay Packers year. You think so? I hope so. That's my team. Man, now... Now this year is the Lakers year in basketball. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:29:09] They done picked up Luka. Mm-hmm. And they got rid of AD, so they got a little bit younger. Man, this is... That's interesting. Like, they did a trade overnight. Mm-hmm. It was like at 4 o'clock in the morning. Nobody believed it. It was like, there's no way this trade is possible. And sure enough, it happened. You go to sleep. He went to sleep in Dallas. He had just bought a house for what they say.

[00:29:38] For like $15 million. And then wake up the next morning. All right, you got to move to Los Angeles. What? That would be my reaction. The next morning. I'd be like, what? I just bought a house in Dallas. That's wild. They need to get rid of that guy that traded him. Because that was... I don't think that was a good move for Dallas. Who traded him?

[00:30:07] It wasn't Mark Cuban. It was whoever is like under Mark Cuban. Yeah, that's a... Yeah, that was a franchise player. Are you trading a franchise? AD is good, but he's a little bit older. He's not... He's on the back end of his prime. And I mean, that's all it did is make the Mavericks older.

[00:30:36] Because now all your top three players are in their 30s. Hmm. I don't know, man. That's the thing. You don't... It don't really have a... What is this? Luka House went from 15 down square to a studio apartment for 15 million. To a studio apartment for 15 million. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. Yeah, in LA from... In Dallas, that 15 million was...

[00:31:05] It looked like a... Like a... Like a museum or something. It probably looked like... The White House. Like it looked... Yeah, in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas. But then you go LA. He's in a studio apartment. That probably is all. But yeah, the Lakers just got a whole lot better. And I'm excited to see if they can win it this year.

[00:31:33] If they don't win it this year, it'll go down as a failure for the Lakers. Really? I think so. So... Oh, no, man. Well, this is... This has been... Another episode of... Unplanned and Unashamed. Yes, sir.

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