Welcome to Daily Report Card, where every day
is a continuous test with no subject. What's
your answer? Was it meaningful? Wow. What a time.
A wonderful time, a unique time, a developing
time where we haven't even had a guest on the
show in about two or three seasons. And so we
lit! Got my brother on here. Fellow Aggie. College
graduate. Fellow generational curse breaker.
Fellow rich nigga shit. RNS. Got my boy Dre here.
Say what's up to the people. How you doing? My
boy, right now we sipping on his brother whiskey.
When I tell you the man got his own money, he's
got his own money. And he's got his own brand.
He's got his own liquor. And it's whiskey. And
he's got me sniffing in one nostril. And another
one. And then drinking it. And really elegant
type stuff. Wow. Steel sharp steel. And better
human experiences together. Is how we get better.
And how can I not get better with my brother?
Today we're here. The most important thing is
presence. Because the presence is a presence.
And we look back on these times together on what
a gift that was. I'm deep today. Well, I got
my lovely wife here. I got my son here. I got
my bro's wife, which is my sis, too, here. And
it's a family affair. Nevertheless, present.
Let's start. Song of the day. Ooh. I'm going
to go. I've been on my Nipsey Hussle so hard.
I'm going to go with Pain by him and Bino. I
was vibing to it, but I didn't officially put
it on the playlist. On our 62nd playlist, check
us out. We're going with that. What about you?
If you could have a song encompassing day or
song that just came to you or that was just in
your zeitgeist. You know, I be in my bag a little
bit. Let me see. I fuck with Terrace Martin.
Okay. Heavy. Terrace Martin, right? I be in my
jazz bag, so Not Sharing by Terrace Martin. I
told you we had some R &S right here. Hey, look.
O -G -O -G. I apologize if I pronounced it incorrectly.
O -G -I. Okay? I don't want to get the name wrong.
I don't know how to pronounce it. Terrace Martin
and... OGI. I do not want to get it incorrectly
because I hate when people say my name wrong.
You can just ask. Thank you. So I could have
Googled the name and gotten the correct way to
say it. This is a commercial break for a toast
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That's right. Stanislaw Reyes on Christy Randall.
Keep going with your jazz and blues. What do
you mean? You want to hear more? Was it a song?
You just said an artist. It's called Not Sharing.
Oh, Not Sharing. Okay, got it. It's called Not
Sharing by Terrace Martin. That was over my head,
bro. I said it first. What did I read today?
I'm still on The Art of Closing by, and I also
hate butchering names, but I will, Anthony Inarino.
And this last chapter was about no discounts.
And you're going to expect losses when you're
going in and you've gotten to even the last part
of the sale. And at the end of the day, you might
just not get it, even though you got all those
prior commitments, which is a part of getting
that closing because, as we say in the Army,
I was taught the PT, the physical training test,
is supposed to be the easiest day of our workouts,
meaning your training is the hardest. So when
you're asked in the final closing question about
asking the client to commit, It should be the
easiest one if you've done it right. And so with
that, you can still have to expect losses. Did
you read today, bro? What you got? I know I've
seen you in your notebook, so I know you're going
to have some meditation. I did read today, actually.
What you got, bro? Let me get my book so I can
give you a little something. But honestly, I
was reading. Actually, I ain't going to lie.
I wasn't reading. I was listening. Audio books,
Ken. Audio books. But it's called Brand Yourself
for Success. By who? It is Octavia Gordima. Shout
out. Shout out. Octavia Gordima, Brand Yourself
for Success. I was listening to it on Audible.
And it's kind of a course. He's actually going
to grab a physical book now. So she gives a few
lectures. Like a master class kind of thing?
I don't even know if it's really that. She's
just really providing knowledge. on how to brand
yourself. And people that are looking to either
expand their brand or looking to grow and let
people in on their lives. So honestly, I really
kind of started doing that myself because of
the brand Brother Whiskey, right? So I started
off as the brand myself. I am Brother Whiskey.
I was Brother Whiskey. And then later on down
the line, it evolved into a whiskey brand. You
feel me? So that was the evolution of the brand
and that was the process and that was the foresight
I had. going into it but also what I was listening
to in the book of brand yourself it was so she
gave you steps she said so what do you want to
be what do you want to be known for that's the
first question and it's an evolution of questions
that go on through her lectures so what do you
want to be known for first you give yourself
that answer then he goes how do you measure success
because once you realize what you want to be
known for you got to realize a barometer of how
you're going to say Did I achieve my goal? Did
I underachieve my goal? Or did I overachieve?
And we all strive to overachieve, and maybe you'll
land on achievement. I want $150 million, but
we're selling out the court right now. For 50
bucks. For 50 bucks. You know what I'm talking
about? You feel me? That was a Friday reference.
And then she kept going to, like, what would
you like to accomplish over the next 36 months?
Give yourself three months. That's long -term,
short -term, anything. would you do and what
steps are you going to get to to get to the next
36 months? What do you want to do in that time
so that you can plan it out so that now you can
refine that plan over that amount of time? Because
if you plan something for 36 months, you got
your goal where you want to be then, and then
you realize three months later that you're not
on track, you got 33 months to fix that. You
know what I'm saying? So now you can understand,
oh, I want to be way down here. 36 months, once
you give that plan, it's probably going to be
very unrealistic. Did you write down where? What
you're going through while you heard what you're
saying? So I'm giving you, these are the notes
from this morning. Okay. You see what I read
today. Live and direct. Yeah, live and direct.
This is this morning. I didn't know if he was
really on it. He was writing, reading, and all
that shit. And look at the date. 8 -7. Wow. Love
it. Love it. Love it. The date circled everything.
For real. He has Thursday's Turtles. The goals,
I got my today's focus right there on the back.
And then from there is like core strengths and
skills, probably three of each. She goes to three
achievements over the last year. So what did
you do in the last year that was close to get
you to these next 36 months that you're planning
out? And then what do you plan on doing? uh three
for the next year for this year that you're currently
in right it's in that 36 months but what do you
actually plan to achieve so you can have a gap
and that's a gap analysis a small gap analysis
you know and then pinpoint your professional
role models and that's as many as you can as
many as you want to you can limit it if you want
to but who are your professional role models
what model are you basing your approach off of
standard of success yeah and even if you don't
talk to these role models you never go and actually
talk to this person, you admire either their
style, their business acumen. You admire something
about the way they move. Maybe it's just their
vibe and their soul that you feel like you can
resonate with. You feel me? That is what I was
learning about Brandon today. That's what I was
reading. I love that. And it's so funny that
you're even just doing that and we didn't even
talk. But I take notes through my notes on my
phone. And you wrote yours down, you know, after
reading the book. So that's dope. You know, it's
about really getting out what you're putting
in. It's not just, you know, putting up numbers
saying, oh, I read however many books or, you
know, or I got through it. But it's about what
did I get from that? And how can I remember that?
And what can I come back from that? So was I
physically active today? You know, no. I wasn't.
Honestly, I was on my feet. I was walking. But
I can't say today was one of those days. No.
What about you? Were you physically active today?
I heard you was at the gym. Or you know he was
in the room. Yeah, I used the floor as my gym
today. But I was physically active. I used the
floor as my gym. I got done what needed to be
done today. What did you do? I'm like on this
journey as far as like... I'm doing, this month
I'm doing 100 push -ups, 100 sit -ups every day.
That's the goal. And before you say some... You
don't know what I'm saying. I do them in increments
throughout the day. 100 times 30, so... 3 ,000.
3 ,000? In a month. So if you miss a day, can
you just go towards the month goal? But I don't
plan on missing a day because it's all about
discipline. That's really the mission. It's to
discipline myself into a new habit. Yeah, you
could do 10 push -ups. I was just trying to see
where the strength is coming from, but I get
it in theory. It's really to discipline myself
into a new habit to ensure that I'm doing something
for myself. Yeah, yeah. Honestly. And this is
even what this show is encompassing. addressing
the physical body, addressing the spiritual body,
addressing the work body, addressing the relationship,
addressing the fatherhood, addressing all of
the parts of you that are ultimately you. And
a part of you is what I get from the meditations
today. As we started the show and the title of
it is Be Present. And I'm just like, Even as
I'm getting up, making sure the kids are good,
as you've seen on Dennis POV earlier, we had
Cameron, getting to work, and making sure that
I'm giving each individual patient that necessary
time and energy, but also being present right
now with my brother, with his wife, with my son,
with my wife. I'm putting my wife first. Real
talk. Sorry, not sorry. My wife, my brother,
my son. Anyway, you get the point. But just,
you know, and adequate time equity, too, because
it doesn't equal. For example, we went to Thursday's
was my day. and Friday mornings to make sure
that my grandmother eats. It's a beautiful duty
that I want and love. I said, I do seven days
a week, nevertheless. But Dre came with me and
he sat in there and chit -chatted with her. He
didn't have to do that. He could have came back
with me while I got her some water, but he's
sitting there chit -chatting. That's what I mean
by proper time equity. It's not that we have
to sit in there all day with her, all night,
sleep in a bed, and wake up and have breakfast
together, but proper time equity for everyone.
Making sure we have a conversation, making sure
we talk to each other's wives, making sure we
talk to my son, and just being there. It's really
how you utilize the time that you have. If you
know you only have a minute, make sure you use
it effectively. That's right. Have you ever heard
a minute? Mm -mm. It's a poem. I have only but
a minute. Only 60 seconds in it. Of course, the
pommy can't refuse it, but it's up to me to use
it. Stick it in a drop. Give a count if I abuse
it. Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is
in it. Snaps. I'm not even going to clap. I'm
not even going to clap. That is worth way much
more than a clap, bro. It's a snap. That's a
snap. This nigga just dropped out of the pub,
y 'all. Crazy. Like, you got to think about things
like that. Like, just a tiny little minute, but
eternity is in it. Mm -hmm. It makes you think,
like, efficiency is everything. Bruh. And that's
what I, that's my wife, too. And you said how
I describe her. That's one of the main words.
Better to me being all over the place right now.
The word. Efficient. Yeah, she has some efficiency.
Yeah, I love it. So, what did you get from your
meditations? I see you had some stuff written
down. What did you get from some thoughts today?
Today. Honestly, to be real with you. So I am
working on some things for Brother Whiskey as
far as expansion. That was at the forefront of
my meditation for this morning. Secondary was
making sure that I did some content and getting
my brand. Putting a plan together for expanding
my personal brand as well. Which I'm still working
on because this ain't something I do. But my
third thing was... It literally said in all caps,
but I write in all caps anyway, but I wrote in
real big caps and undermined it. It said, enjoy
the West. Yes! What's up? Enjoy the West. I said,
bro, I haven't been back to the West in like
three, four years. And this is the longest I've
literally ever been from home. And you just got
here. Today. Just woke up. Two days, bro. Fresh
off the plane. Yeah, man. That was it. Enjoy
the West. Enjoy home. Enjoy family, man. Are
you achieving that goal? And am I being a good
host? You, my friend, are a great host. And I
knew you would be. I know you. Thank you, brother.
I know you. So what did I succeed at today? Keeping
to my commitments and being on time. I was really
uncertain about making sure that I would get
to work on time. I would get my grandmother breakfast
and be on time, get her dinner and also be able
to chill. But actually everything ended up working
out. And it's just that discipline and understanding
of schedule and knowing that I can't. lollygag
i can't lag around i can't just watch random
youtubes of first things first or whatever or
and just get lost in time so um time management
success can i i'm gonna interject you real quick
because you just breezed over a lot of shit that
happened today damn i like it Toast break on
that. Cheers, bro. Cheers. We're going to rewind
real quick because I'm going to let you because
you're about to end it and I'm not having that
shit. So, as we went to work and whatnot to go
and get dinner for your grandma before we went,
you grazed over a big opportunity, a big point
that I'm a, maybe you, I know you don't like
talking about yourself as I don't. Okay, true.
But great men shouldn't. That's true. It's for
another person. It's somebody else for you. That's
your job. That's enough of me. You know what
I'm saying? So as we're walking down there, we
are walking past people, people in the community,
and you're not realizing that, or you may not
look inwardly enough because maybe you don't
stop to give yourself them flowers. And I realized
something else that I saw on social media, which
I really don't be on, is somebody said, I saw
a little girl give her dad, run up and give her
dad flowers. And she gave him flowers, and he
was like, what is this for? And she said, because...
Typically, men only get flowers two times. One
time, actually, in their life. At their funeral?
At their funeral. Damn. And they did. So she
gave him his flowers. And he started crying.
Wow. And I started tearing up a little bit. I
ain't going to lie. Hey! Girl, dad. Girl, dad.
She got me. She didn't even do that. It made
me, it's weird. But, yeah, and then he started
tearing up. But immediately, my kicked in. I
was like, bro, you should. Why didn't you turn
that fucking camera off? I was hot for him. I
was hot for him. I was hot for him, but I got
it and I understood. But that's like the psyche
that people don't understand is that man has
been just suffering throughout his whole life
and he just broke down because his daughter brought
him flowers and he didn't realize that he probably
would have never even seen flowers at all because
he was dead when he got his first flowers, but
she brought him the one flowers that he was able
to see before he died. And no other man probably
even thought about that, but that's the power
that social media has. From a random video that
somebody just did because a woman decided to
do something good for her husband, her boyfriend,
or her baby's father. And also the algorithm
knows that you're a girl dad and knows that you're
also dedicated. I'm targeted. And that type of
stuff you would eat up as well. But yeah, I agree.
They did their job. Cheers to that. Yeah, cheers
to that. But like I said, you can't graze over
the fact that you're a local hero. And that we
walked down the street. We didn't even finish,
you know, how far we was going, right? Right.
And then there's a guy saying, hey, hold on,
hold on, bro. I got this tooth. Right up here.
That's right. I think it moved three centimeters.
I need you to look at it. Please. And you're
like, I got you. I can tell you. You know what
I'm saying? I may be able to look at it. I can
do whatever. But it shows the confidence that
your community has in you. It shows that you
are actually out in the community and that people
know you and they recognize you for what you
do and who you are. And that is commendable for
any man. That's what's up. Right? Because there's
a lot of men in this world that can walk down
the street and nobody even give them a double
look. You can't walk down the street and somebody
say, hey bro, come look at this tooth. For real.
Because they know your purpose. Yeah. And they
know who you are and they know your character.
Damn. Because they're comfortable enough to come
to you and say, hey, look at this tooth. Because
there are probably a lot of dentists or a lot
of men in the medical field that's going to be
like, look, I can give you a number and I got
somebody that you can go see. But you took one
second because that's all it takes. We were just
talking about the efficiency of time. Yep. Yeah.
Even if you were just walking backwards, your
voice projects enough for you to still have that
discussion as you cross that street, that 50
to 100 feet, right? Yeah. The conversation is
over before you get to the end because you have
that knowledge to be able to pitch and give them
exactly what they needed once they told you that
diagnosis or that problem, what they felt and
what they saw. Mm -hmm. Damn. You broke that
down so crazy. I do what I can. Thank you, man.
So tell me about you. Where did you succeed after
that? I succeeded at my focus. Ooh, and that
was written down. It was written down. What'd
you focus on? I still focused on the expansion.
That was number one. I focused on the content,
which we are creating right now. Currently? Currently.
I need you to be on live while we did this whole
thing. Yeah. You missed out. I know. I did. We
did. And then I also focused on... Being present
and enjoying the West. You did. Didn't I tell
you? I said, come outside and just breathe the
air, bro. Just breathe it. Taste the air. Taste
the air. It's real fresh out here. It's real
fresh. I love it, man. I can see the hills everywhere
I go. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And you know,
sometimes you don't even think about what you
got because I'm just going up a regular hill
and you take out your phone. I'm like, bro, look
at the view. You're like, oh, cool. That's my
street. We're actually turning right now. Right.
Real talk. So what made me smile today? Actual
and it's good when these days come. I've been
smiling a lot today. Just seeing my wife come
in the door. Seeing my boy. I actually snuck
up on him. He wouldn't be ready, man. He would
have got got, trust. Real talk. Seeing my son,
seeing your wife, and just the togetherness.
It's wonderful when you can just see so many
of your family. I got to see my grandmother.
I got to see my mother. I got to see both my
children. And it's deep. And just being able
to If it's not for that one minute, as you said,
I still did that. And I still gave the proper
time equity. So presence made me smile of just
those, that one minute, just seeing all those
important people. So that made me smile, just
seeing family and friends. What about you? What
made you smile today? And you want to know the
thing? So within my notes and whatever, every
day I have a section that says, what was the
highlight of your day? Okay. The day has not
ended. Haha, that's true. So, I can't tell you
that yet. The day has not ended. Yeah, your highlight
is usually for retrospective. Yes. So, what did
you smile about today, then? I smiled about a
lot. I smiled about me actually being able to
see family and friends. And family is everything.
Sounds really familiar, but keep going. I'm listening
to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shame, shame. Shame,
smile. But, like, honestly, being able to see
family and friends because... Your chosen family
is that for a reason. That's a fact. You know
what I'm saying? That's a fact. We didn't know
when we was in high school 15, almost 20 years
ago that we would know each other. No. You didn't.
First and foremost, you didn't know a motherfucker
from Oregon. No. Or Portland. Even though you
lived on the West Coast. Right. And I was the
only one at school from Portland. That's a fact.
That's a real fact. Right. So when we started,
me and George started the West Coast Aggies.
Which was epic. Epic. Which. Was a legacy. And
honestly, that was our Ivy League. Because you
got to think about it. They only, schools, even
though it's of that magnitude in North Carolina
A &T, is the largest HBCU. Currently. Currently.
And forever. You know what I'm saying? Going
forward. So you know what I'm talking about?
They would only accept. a select number of people
from the western states yeah out of states and
then even western states was a smaller population
so honestly what people didn't understand is
when we went and 50 percent of the population
you know what i'm saying so we went and looked
and when we ran the numbers and things like that
and this was back in the day a little bit damn
i'm like a mug come on back in the day that sucks
over a decade yeah i know almost two right so
when i say that like when we went and ran the
numbers i look i asked for the list of all the
people that were that came or enrolled from western
states There was about 30 of us, bro. Wow. And
there's more than 10, 15 ,000 students, right?
Yep. There's 30 of us from the Western States.
We showed up, though. We did show up. But I expected
100. Yeah. You feel me? At least 100. I was,
right. It's crazy. And we was tight. We was tight.
We was tight. We are tight. We are tight. We
are. And we are doing real big things. Honestly.
Individually. And as a collector. And it's starting
right now. And so what do I think of my day overall?
Family orientated. Goal orientated. And also
keeping the main thing the main thing. I still
know that I had to go to work. However, I still
know I had to feed my grandmother. I still know
that I was going to see my brother. I still know
that. I want to greet my wife when she comes
in the door. So. What do you think of your day,
bro? Here you go again. I also get on a five
star scale. Okay. You got so many like rating
systems and like systems. I like it. I love it.
That's how you measure efficiency. I love it.
Because then I can go back over a certain amount
of time. Yeah. And then I can. It's not subjective.
It's not subjective. I have physical evidence.
Yeah. I also measure my hydration. You see a
scale right here? Oh, shit. I need mine by a
bottle of water. I can't do it by cups. By cups?
I mean, the cup, I just measure it. I mean, the
cup is the same size. You can figure it out.
It's just baby mail. Yeah, nobody can measure
a cup. Nobody's drinking a cup full of water.
So that's why I haven't gotten to those yet.
Typically, my day, honestly, and... It would
be 924, typically, where you're at now. But it's
not. Typically, and what it is, I'm going with
the actual time, my God. We're not doing that,
all right? So, I mean, honestly, today would
be possibly, I'm going to give it a four. Four
out of five? I'm going to give it a four out
of five. And because I grade myself on a very
steep scale. Well, it's what do you, think of
your day overall so you think of your day overall
is 80 satisfactory is how i can translate that
yes okay well then that segues right into what
grade do i give myself i speaking of that 80
i'm gonna go with a b minus myself because i
didn't use the the floor as my gym and i could
have I did get my 30 minutes of reading in, but
I could have snuck in 10 minutes of meditation.
The standard of 30 minutes of physical activity,
30 minutes of reading, and 10 minutes of silence
and meditation was somewhat made, but at the
same time, when you're barely making... the standard.
I'm barely making the bar. When the bar is raised,
then you'll miss the bar. And so I'm still thankful
to be able to make that bar. However, I also
still want more for myself because even when
I was in professional school or my master's or
whatever, I was always going for the 100%. always
i never went into an exam or an assignment like
okay i'm cool with a 90 like all right i'm definitely
gonna i want to miss this one so i'm just saying
that was my goal every every question i answer
i'm going in with the energy like i'm i'm gonna
win like you know so from and even from a clinical
standard like That's why I'm glad I went to an
institution that was pass or fail, clinically
acceptable or not, opposed to a grade because
that's not how the real world works. However,
and it feels different when you're saying that
you know less than 17 % of the material. And
so, but still making that bar. So B - for me.
What about you? What grade do you give yourself?
Great. So what, on your rubric, what is a B minus?
I'm going with a standard 90. Yeah. 90s is. I'm
at a B minus as well. Yeah. I'm down there. 80s
is a B. Low 80s. 80s is a C. And the only reason,
so my justification for giving myself such a
low mark is because, honestly, I grade myself
on a very steep scale because. But we also say
that we have to be kind to ourself as well, which
we are not. But being kind to yourself is also
being your biggest critic. But knowing your potential.
Damn. You know what I'm saying? Because nobody
else is going to be as hard on you as you are
because you're the only one that has to live
in that skin. That's a damn fact. You know what
I'm saying? You're the only one that lives in
that skin. You're the only one that can actually
grade you on the effort that you gave because
you know how you felt. at that time like i'm
an empath i can feel and sense how other people
feel but i'm not ever going to be in their skin
so i can't know that the actual anything that
was actually affecting them at that time or what
their mentality was at that time because of all
the things that i weighed on them for their entire
life that came to a point at that day damn because
life is an evolution right Life is a compilation
of everything that we've been through, and it
comes to a point where it intersects to where
we're going. So you literally just have to think
about these things. I mean, every day is a crapshoot.
Nobody expects to be in the situation tomorrow
that they were in today because sometimes shit
just happens. Every day is a continuous test
with no subject. What's your answer? It wasn't
meaningful. Wow. So thankful. So happy. So blessed
to have our guests, family here with us. And
please just end us out. Where can we find you?
What you got going on? Just anything. A cool
quote. I don't know. Shit. Just end us. All right.
So first and foremost, my name is DeAndre Randall,
founder and CEO of Brother Whiskey. That's B
-R -O -T -H -A. Brother, not the brother. Understand
me, BrotherWhiskey .com. Okay. You can also find
us. I make 100 % soy candles, all vegan, double
crackling wooden wicks. So they give you that
fireplace effect when they burn, all right? They
burn. And that is the Randall Candle Collective.
Randall spelled just like candle. Replace the
C with an R. That's about it. You can find us
there. Well, thank you and once again, you're
amazing. You're amazing. Thank you.