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Lerin Gaines

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00:29Let's get started.

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03:47Each day holds space for wisdom, clarity, and real conversation.

03:52So grab your journal, pour your glass, and prepare to go beyond the surface.

03:57Because here, we don't just talk, we transform.

04:00And now, here's your guide through it all, entrepreneur, mentor, and founder of Black Diamond Consultations, Laren Gaines.

04:20Welcome, wow, wow, wow, wow, this is starting off crazy already.

04:25Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of Reading Between the Wines.

04:33And I must say, ladies and gentlemen, this is the second time going through this.

04:37We had some technical difficulties behind the scenes, but it's okay.

04:41We are here, and we are here, and we are preserving everything for you, so welcome on in, welcome in.

04:48Episode 21, what your lifestyle is quietly costing you.

04:54I'm going to speak, I'm going to give you a little bit of some financial literacy tonight on this episode

05:01tonight.

05:02We have a very special guest, author, poet, Birdman313.

05:07But before we do that, I want to remind you, please go ahead and use your virtual voice.

05:12Please like, comment, share, subscribe, tag a friend, text a friend, do whatever you need to do to help support

05:17the 4-in-1 podcast, Reading Between the Wines.

05:20Definitely do appreciate that.

05:23I also want to give a very special thank you to the Facebook family.

05:28Good morning to each and every one of you out there.

05:30Thank you so much for joining in every morning.

05:34I appreciate you.

05:36I want to give a very special thank you to all of my guests who come in and support and

05:41speak with me, you know, especially on this week's series.

05:45I could not do it without each and every one of you.

05:47Very special thank you to Seisha Blanco, Antonio Trujillo, Birdman313, Jorge Ernesto Lozano.

05:58We have Danny Lopez coming on.

06:01And again, of course, I could not do this without each and every one of you all out there willing

06:06to come in and share your stories with me.

06:09Also, I want to give a very special thank you to my executive producer, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,

06:15for giving me another opportunity to come out here and give you another episode of Reading Between the Wines.

06:21And, of course, each and every one of you out there, if you're not out there listening, then who's listening?

06:29So thank you for following me from this platform to that platform and showing your love and support.

06:38Now, I will tell you that I have been sampling this bottle of wine here.

06:44I want to put this out here so that you can see it.

06:47This is Voga Italia Pinot Grigio.

06:51So I've always loved this bottle when I've seen it in the store and I always wanted it and I've

06:57had the opportunity to go ahead and get it.

07:00It reminds me of that water, DeVos water.

07:03So if you've seen that in the grocery stores, I believe it looks like it's from the same makers.

07:10If I do my research, I'm sure it just makes sense.

07:15But in any case, you get your bottle of water and then you can get you a bottle of wine

07:20and this nice glass and it has a reusable top.

07:25So here's the thing.

07:26When you open up a bottle of wine, most people are like, man, what the heck do I do?

07:30I got to recork it and all of that stuff.

07:32It does come with a cork.

07:34Once you take the cork out, now you got a way to preserve your wine and make sure that it

07:39is nice and fresh.

07:42So the bottle is dope.

07:45That's exactly why I got it.

07:47So and I will tell you that it smells amazing.

07:52It tastes great.

07:55And I want to just go ahead and say cheers.

07:58Thank you all for joining in.

07:59And I've sampled a little bit of this already, because, again, like I said, we had some technical difficulties.

08:05But, hey, it doesn't matter.

08:08That's exactly what the show is about.

08:09So I'm going to say cheers in advance.

08:15It's a good 12 percent, too.

08:18So now we got past that part.

08:20I want to get into one of my favorite segments.

08:24Song of the day.

08:28This is where I go ahead and give you a little bit of that financial literacy that I was speaking

08:32about, that financial knowledge.

08:34I'm going to give you a preview.

08:35And this is exactly what I do.

08:37So if you're interested, please head on over to Laren Gaines dot com afterwards.

08:43So the song of the day, I've been listening to this group.

08:46I was scrolling on social media and I came across one of their older songs and it reminded me of

08:53what my teenage life was.

08:55So I had to go back to 1994 TLC off of their crazy, sexy, cool album.

09:02It's called Kick Your Game.

09:03So I want to kick some financial literacy to you.

09:07And the episode tonight is What Your Lifestyle is Quietly Costing You.

09:12And if you're going to kick any type of game, my recommendation is to kick the financial game because get

09:22involved, learn, understand, ask questions, do whatever you need to do,

09:26because what your lifestyle, what you are doing today will definitely show up in the future.

09:32So the things that we get wrapped up into today, it quietly costs us over a period of time.

09:40And we really don't have any idea until we get to a point where we want to sit down.

09:45We want to get comfortable.

09:47We want to retire.

09:47We want to relax.

09:49And most of the time, some of us get to a point where we realize that maybe there is no

09:55sitting down.

09:55Maybe there is no relaxing.

09:57Maybe there is no retirement.

09:58Maybe there is no little bit of what do they say?

10:01Fun in the sun.

10:02Because I have to continuously keep working and working and working and working.

10:07So what you purchase, what you indulge in, that quietly costs you over a period of time.

10:14So one of the biggest things is understanding and knowing the difference between an asset and a liability, because if

10:23you don't understand the difference between an asset and a liability, you can get those two twisted.

10:27And a lot of times we purchase a lot of liabilities thinking that they're assets.

10:31So those are the things, the lifestyle that we choose, what we wear, what we consume, the places that we

10:39go.

10:39Those are the things that can be quietly costing us over a period of time.

10:44And then sometimes it smacks us in the face at the very last minute.

10:51I just want to go ahead and leave it there because I can continue to keep going on and on

10:55and on about this song of the day.

10:58Kick your game.

10:59TLC, TLC, released in 1994 off of their album Crazy Sexy Cool.

11:05Be very careful.

11:07Understand and know exactly what you are getting involved in, what game you're kicking, because those things can cost you

11:16over a period of time.

11:17So the rhetorical question I have to ask each and every one of you out there is, what is your

11:23lifestyle quietly costing you today?

11:27With that being said, let's go ahead and bring in my special guest, author, poet, Birdman313.

11:45Let me tell you.

11:47Hey, let's do this.

11:50Well, this good 12% is hitting the spot right about now.

11:58I'm quite sure it is.

12:02All right.

12:03So let everybody know exactly where they can follow you at.

12:07Yeah.

12:09Amazon.com slash author slash Birdman313.

12:14I have 10 books there.

12:17Published books.

12:19You can also find me on YouTube.

12:22YouTube.com slash author, poet, Birdman31355.

12:29You can find me on Instagram, Birdman31355.

12:35And also Coffee, Wine, and Words platform on Spotify.

12:41I have 12 videos there.

12:44And I'm waiting to see if they're going to accept this one I just sent last.

12:49Yeah.

12:50It was last week when I sent it.

12:51Yeah.

12:52So you can find me at all those spots.

12:57That's all I can say.

12:59Because right now I have, I, I've canceled a lot of the places I was at because I was getting

13:06negative feedback.

13:08So I'm just down to those spots right there.

13:14So, um, ladies and gentlemen, we were recording this podcast and we had some technical difficulties.

13:21So this is our second go around.

13:25We wanted to make sure that we had something good for you.

13:27I don't think you wanted to experience the first episode that we recorded.

13:34Oh, it was, it was recording something on its own.

13:38I have no idea.

13:39But, so we were in a discussion, we were in a conversation, we were speaking about, um, do you ever

13:47get to the point where you want to just give up and say that, you know, I don't want to

13:52do this anymore?

13:53Um, yes, I, you know, I haven't, in recent years, um, I know when I was growing up, trying to

14:04find what I wanted to do, I didn't, I always enjoyed writing.

14:11I didn't know what I wanted to write.

14:15And, um, there was times after I left, I started, started back writing poetry a little bit in college and

14:26then spoke to, uh, uh, Junior Walker of Junior Walker and the All-Stars because him and my dad, but

14:34he passed away, but him and my dad was good friends.

14:38Dad used to play the drums here and there for him.

14:41Um, and I told him I was writing music or trying to write music and he said, who you send

14:52your music to?

14:53And I said, uh, one of them is Motown.

14:56Then I found something, you know, and then in the magazine there was, I can't, I can't remember which, which

15:03recording studio it was.

15:05I was sending it there.

15:06And I said, for three years, I had been doing this, getting, getting nothing.

15:12No, thank you.

15:13We received it.

15:14No, no, nothing.

15:16And I said, so I kind of backed off.

15:20And that's when he told me, you're doing it the wrong way.

15:24And he said, you know, he wish he could help me.

15:28He said, but with Motown, at that time, Motown had already, they had their writers.

15:37That's why so many groups like the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, they left because Motown wouldn't let them write their

15:47music.

15:48They had to write what the studio musicians was writing.

15:52And, um, a friend of mine from, I did, I forgot about this, a friend of mine from my hometown

15:57bass player.

15:59He was a session and I was trying to get hold of him to see if he could help me.

16:05And it would like, seem like I was walking into a dead end.

16:10So I went, I went out to California to play in the summer pro basketball league.

16:17And that was, it was the second one that they had.

16:20And so one of my teammates, he said, we was talking, we were sitting on the side of the hill.

16:28And he said, man, with all these players they got to choose from, he said, I don't think I'm going

16:33to make it.

16:35And I said, yeah, I said, kind of look kind of bleak right now.

16:38So he said, I'm going to start back writing music.

16:41So doing, doing our practices, we would go sit out on the hill and you had other players would go

16:48sit out in the parking lot.

16:51And you know what they were doing?

16:52They were smoking, you know, getting a buzz on.

16:55We were sitting on the hill and we was writing.

17:01And it's still, it didn't open no doors.

17:04And I was right out there in LA, but I, I should have went directly to the studio to talk

17:11to somebody.

17:13But because I didn't have transportation, which is not excuse.

17:18And I didn't know exactly where, you know, like Motown was or, you know, oh man, Warner Brothers, Arista.

17:32Okay.

17:32Remember them.

17:33Yeah.

17:34Yeah.

17:35I, you know, didn't go to them.

17:40I was mailing everything.

17:43And that wasn't, that was the wrong way to do it.

17:48But yeah, remember those days.

17:50Yeah.

17:51And so then I stopped.

17:54And then I moved down here, started writing.

18:00Cause I, I, I was feeling, I've never said this before.

18:04I was feeling a little depressed and dejected more.

18:06I was more, I was more dejected than anything.

18:09And so I was kind of, you know, depressed too.

18:13Cause I'm like, wow, man, I tried basketball.

18:17That didn't work.

18:18I blew out my arm at, uh, when I used to play baseball, I blew my arm out.

18:23I stopped playing instruments and I'm like, what am I going to do?

18:28And so I started writing again and there's, there's this, um, newspaper.

18:37It's a black, black owned newspaper forward times.

18:42And I decided to, they had an ad in the paper about any type of writing, just send it in.

18:49So I said, I had a short story with a poem to it and they accepted it.

18:55And man, I was thrilled.

18:58I was like, finally, you know, I mean, after, you know, like what, four or five years of writing,

19:04somebody finally accepted something of mine.

19:07And I never forget when the gentleman came out to interview me, my wife, then she's X now.

19:17And she walked up, she said, how much are you getting paid for this?

19:22And he told him, Hey man, um, nothing said most writers, this is how they start off.

19:29She looked at me, did about face, grabbed the kids.

19:35And I don't tell you what she said in the background, but you can imagine it was like, you know,

19:41she left and she went across the street with her friends over there, you know, smoking.

19:51And the guy said, can I say something to you?

19:54He said, you don't have to go with this, with this, you know, interview if you don't want to.

19:59I said, no, no, no, let's do this.

20:01And he said, that's the spirit.

20:03He said, man, keep your head up.

20:04He said, writing poetry is not easy.

20:09So then he asked me, did I know about the ensemble, which is a place he said, that's where a

20:14lot of people go in a little small place.

20:18He told me exactly where it was at.

20:20So I looked in the paper, found it.

20:23And I found out in a stocky shangy, which she's a poet where she was, she's passed away.

20:29She's a poet.

20:30She was a professor at Prairie View.

20:34And she also, she also wrote the script for Color Girls.

20:43I can't, you know, I can't remember the name of it, but I did.

20:47I know she did that.

20:49And then Thomas Melanson was there.

20:52So they, they said, all those who want to be writers, bring your stuff.

20:57We'll look at it and tell you.

20:59So I went there and I showed, I showed her and him and I told him, I said, I don't

21:05know if I want to write plays or do I want to write poetry or do I want to write

21:10music?

21:11They asked me how old I was.

21:13I told him, he said, oh, that, that's natural.

21:15He said, but one thing we could say is don't give up.

21:20It's going to be hard, but don't give up.

21:24Everybody is not going to like what you say, but don't give up.

21:29And that, that stayed with me.

21:30It stayed, and it's with me, it's with me to the day.

21:34And I know people, some people don't like the poems that I write now.

21:40I've gotten that.

21:41And, you know, it's sometimes I say it's sad that a lot of the Blacks rejects my poetry because I

21:55write about nature and I'm not screaming and hollering.

22:00That's a good thing.

22:03Yeah, and I said, you know, there's, like, I go to Austin, I go to Austin, Texas, no matter where

22:11I go, they like me there.

22:14And somebody, somebody's seen one of my videos and they said, I don't see no more white folks there.

22:20Yeah, I feel comfortable there.

22:22I'm sorry, you know.

22:24You know, you just touched, you just opened up a door here.

22:28You said that a lot of Blacks, they don't like your nature poems.

22:33Well, here's the thing that I know that I don't know the statistics behind it, but if you look it

22:38up, it's pretty disturbing because there are a lot of Black people that don't even leave off of their front

22:43porch.

22:44They don't know what an airplane looks like.

22:46They don't know what it, I mean, they know what it looks like, but meaning that they've never been in

22:50it.

22:50They don't know what a train ride is.

22:55Like, there are literally a group of folks that are afraid to be blocks away from their home.

23:01So, I can understand why, you know, some people, you know, don't understand it.

23:08That's what it is, they don't understand it.

23:10But venturing out, vacationing, getting out into nature, a lot of our people, that's foreign to them.

23:18Yes, and, you know, I even, I was doing a Zoom a few years ago, and one of the, she

23:27was, she's a Black female, and she said, she said, excuse me, you know, she sent me a message.

23:34I read the message, and I looked at it, I looked at it again, and I'm like, I can't believe

23:41this lady asked, said this.

23:42And Diana said, what?

23:45I said, she said, she had never seen a Black man do poetry before.

23:52And I'm like, where are you from?

23:57Yeah, yeah.

23:58You know, Cincinnati.

24:00I said, I said, okay, I said, what you think most music is?

24:05A lot of the music we hear is nothing but poetry.

24:10Right.

24:12And she said, oh, I must have hit a nerve.

24:15No, you ain't hit no nerve.

24:16I said, but you'd approach it to say that to me kind of made me think about what's really going

24:24on.

24:25Yeah.

24:27That could be a level of inspiration.

24:33Yeah.

24:34You didn't hit a nerve.

24:35You probably inspired me to want to do more.

24:37Yeah, and, you know, before the pandemic, don't get me wrong, before the pandemic, I started mixing my poems up.

24:48And I'm going to read one poem tonight.

24:52I wrote this after being out in San Francisco.

24:57Okay.

24:57And it's going to come from my book, Street Poems, which the cover is San Francisco.

25:05And, you know, I listen to them poets out there.

25:12And I sit back, and I'm like, ooh, am I ready for this?

25:17And I've gotten on there, but I have a lot of friends out there.

25:21Matter of fact, not too long ago, it was a lady, her and I was on the same Zoom out

25:28of Oakland.

25:30And she really shocked me when she said, oh, I love all your poetry that you read.

25:36And I'm like, what?

25:38Because I don't know if you ever heard the poets from San Francisco.

25:42Man, hey, dude, they are, it's like gangster revolutionary, but you know what?

25:55They're not loud and disrespectful.

25:59There is a poet from New York.

26:02His name is Black Ice.

26:03I actually haven't looked him up, but I'm going to look him up on YouTube and see if he's there.

26:09But the stuff that comes out of his mouth probably would be equivalent to, you know, what you're talking about.

26:15I actually saw him on tour.

26:18That's how good he is that he tours.

26:20Yeah.

26:21Yeah.

26:22And, well, you know, it's like the San Francisco Poet Laureate.

26:27But he's heard my stuff.

26:29And him and I are good friends.

26:31You know, we become friends whenever he has a reading.

26:35He'll let me know.

26:36Matter of fact, if it hadn't been for him, I would have never had a Zoom link.

26:40He the one that hooked me up with the Zoom link.

26:43He said, this way you can stay in touch.

26:46Because he said, we can't go nowhere.

26:48This is where you can stay in touch all over.

26:52He said, start going on the internet looking for open mics.

26:55And I'm like, oh, okay, then.

26:57Appreciate it.

26:59You know, I'm not saying all blacks are like that.

27:02But it's a lot of them.

27:03Well, the ones here, I know the ones here in Houston.

27:06Mm-hmm.

27:07Mm-hmm.

27:09Man, they just, they won't invite me to, they invite me, but not to read.

27:18You know, and I'm good with that because you want to know the truth?

27:23I don't want to go and read.

27:28That's how I've gotten over the years.

27:32I'm like, okay, y'all, keep turning your backs on me.

27:35Okay, that's cool.

27:38Okay, it's, some rooms are not meant for us to be in.

27:42That's all.

27:43Right.

27:43Like, go ahead.

27:45No, like I say, when one door closes, right, the next one might be open, so.

27:49Right.

27:50And I tell people, don't get me wrong, and, you know, when I first moved out here with

27:59Diana, I know one day, man, I said, I'm done with this.

28:04And she just looked at me, you know, like, and then I looked at her, I'm like, man, this

28:10lady here, kind of like, what's wrong with her?

28:13And then she said, go take a nap.

28:15Go listen to some music.

28:17That's all she said to me.

28:18And I'm like, oh, okay, then.

28:21So I went back to the room.

28:23I turned my music on, laid down back there, took me a nap, got up, and then she just sit

28:30here and watched me.

28:32She never said, I knew you weren't going to stop.

28:34She didn't say not one word, and I was right back at it.

28:38And from that day forward, and that was 13 years ago, it has not crossed my mind.

28:48I had a friend in Austin, and he's an older gentleman, and he's really in bad health.

28:56And every time I go there, I go hang out with him, and he was like, Birdman, I'm tired of

29:03this.

29:04Don't seem like nobody like me.

29:05I said, man, just keep writing.

29:08I said, you're going to get that.

29:10Because he writes, his is mostly, you know, oh, man, his poems is about how bad the country

29:20is, the government, and all that.

29:22And I tell him, I said, man, I said, don't worry about it.

29:25And there was another lady, she's from, oh, man, where?

29:30I can't remember what country is she from.

29:32We went to a festival last year.

29:35And then she said, wow, everybody reading nature poems.

29:39Everybody talking about the beach.

29:41They talking about the parks.

29:42And she said, all I got, you know, is about what's going on.

29:47Rita.

29:48And she was like, oh, I don't, what can they do?

29:54You know, all they can do is just sit back and not say a word.

29:58And so then she got up and read.

30:01When she came and sat back, she said, Birdman, thank you for encouraging me.

30:04I said, because that's what he's going to be reading.

30:06The same thing you're reading?

30:08I said, Ben, we call him Ben Franklin.

30:10I said, Ben Franklin is going to be doing the same thing.

30:14And she went up there and she read.

30:16He went up there and read.

30:18I said, see, I told you, I said, you ain't the only one that write poetry like that.

30:22And I said, hey, we need that variety anyway.

30:25Yeah.

30:26People who tell the truth like that most of the time, people will listen to it.

30:32People will like it.

30:33But it just takes a while to break that ice, to break that level.

30:37You know, usually that happens.

30:39Usually that happens to people who talk about money.

30:43Yeah.

30:44Yeah.

30:45I still get rejections now at some place.

30:49It don't bother me.

30:50I said, and sometimes I beat them for God.

30:52I sent some men, you know, and then all of a sudden it hit me.

30:55They said, oh, this place ain't contact.

30:58I mean, oh, yeah.

30:59Well, OK.

31:00You know, but I haven't stopped writing.

31:03You know, even when I was going through the period where, you know, I was going through the vertigo period,

31:09I still was writing.

31:11And I tell people, I said, man, I constantly, I write, write, write.

31:16I work for an art store.

31:18I remember I used to go to the bathroom, lock the door, pull out my paper and pen or whatever

31:25paper I had in my pocket.

31:27And I write stuff off the wall.

31:30And when I get home, I take it from there and write a poem.

31:39Let's hear what you got for us tonight.

31:42OK, OK, I'm going to read this one.

31:45And this one, this is an old piece, but it's in my book, Street Poems.

31:50It's called Ghetto America.

31:55Rising from the rubble to give birth to a new breed that makes music that is close to the heart

32:02and poetry with words that are meaningful, inspirational and present a new mindset.

32:10Philosophers break down street life with understanding.

32:14There are struggles and strife from broken homes of people working hard just to maintain a dollar.

32:22The street artists stand and try to rise from poverty.

32:27They stop daydreaming about a better life.

32:31The ghetto is emulated by many who think it is fashion and style.

32:37Forget those who have the desire to see something better while they are growing up as time passes by.

32:45Unemployment rises as the welfare numbers increase.

32:49Clothes hang from the windows.

32:52Firescapes and balconies.

32:54Music blare from speakers in the windows.

32:58For a lot of people, home is where the music, beats, and rhythm bring people together.

33:05The heartbeat of the ghetto becomes deeply ingrained into the hearts and minds of ghetto America.

33:14And that one there reminds me so much of what's going on.

33:20I know that's great.

33:24That was the first thing I was thinking.

33:25It's a lot going on.

33:27And I know I was looking through that book trying to find, I was like, man, because I rarely read

33:33any poem.

33:35If don't nobody buy that book, I don't even read a poem out of it.

33:39No, it's one I read.

33:40It's Ghetto Soldier.

33:43And I seen this ghetto America.

33:45And I'm like, I wrote this.

33:48I don't know so much stuff.

33:50I don't wrote so much stuff that I forget I even wrote it.

33:56And sometimes, huh?

33:58I said, you have so much that you can, you can, you have so much content that you can do

34:04like above.

34:06You don't even need to write anymore.

34:08You can just go through the books that you have and put them together and make a whole new book.

34:12Yeah.

34:13That's the beauty behind it.

34:14I know what time Diana, she was editing, because she does my editing for me.

34:18And she was editing.

34:20And then she said, when you wrote this, wrote this?

34:24And I'm like, what?

34:24And then she'll tell me.

34:26I'm like, hell, I don't know.

34:27I said, did I write this?

34:29She's like, yeah, you wrote it.

34:31And I'm like, scratch it by head.

34:33I'm like, man, I don't remember that.

34:35But that was going to be my question, too.

34:37Like, that is still relevant.

34:41Everything you spoke about is still relevant today.

34:43And a lot of that's coming back full circle.

34:48Yeah.

34:48I wrote that.

34:49I can say this.

34:50I wrote that.

34:53And when we went to, I know you probably don't know who he is.

34:57Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he was a beat poet out in San Francisco.

35:03He was with Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, and all them beat poets.

35:09And we went to his store to celebrate his 100th birthday.

35:13And then we went on a tour through San Francisco.

35:18And they took us through areas.

35:21I'm glad I didn't have to walk down them streets.

35:25It's like that.

35:26It's like that for real out there.

35:28Yes.

35:29Yes.

35:29And I'm like, wow, man.

35:31And so when we got back here, I started reading his poems.

35:39And I was like, oh, wow, man.

35:41You know, I kind of write like the way he does.

35:45And so when I wrote this, I wrote this poem, I didn't think I wrote it, put it to the

35:52side.

35:53And that's the first time, this is the first time I ever read this poem out loud anywhere.

35:59Wow.

35:59And it's been in my book.

36:01And I wrote this because I started the book in 2019.

36:05And I've never read this piece anywhere.

36:10And I got poems like that.

36:12There's poems in my books.

36:14If you don't have my books, there's poems in there.

36:18And I've had people say, hey, I like that one piece.

36:22And I'm like, what?

36:24And they tell me.

36:25I'm like, OK.

36:27I'm like, ooh, did I write that?

36:28I had to actually go in and look into my books.

36:33And they're like, I guess I did.

36:37You got something else for us tonight?

36:40Sure.

36:41Sure do.

36:43I'm going to do, because we go to the Japanese gardens a lot.

36:48And this is titled In Harmony with Nature.

36:52OK.

36:54I take a deep breath to let nature bring me back to reality, where time and beauty stand still.

37:02Even if it's just for a moment.

37:05Excuse me.

37:06The peace and silence clear the mind to think as the cool, crisp air gently blows by.

37:14There is a feeling of freedom with nature and an everlasting beauty for all to see.

37:20No rain is in sight.

37:23The fun of being here in nature is pure pleasure.

37:26A mindful eye pointed at the vast outdoors observes everything that lives and breathes in harmony.

37:37The rhythmic waves roll gently, sweeping along the shoreline as the soft breeze drift past.

37:45The blue sky has only a few white clouds that sit high above.

37:51But living in harmony with nature is the therapy that relaxes the soul.

37:57That's a new piece.

37:58I just wrote that last week.

38:01And I'm getting ready to do a video this week for that one.

38:05The therapy, like I said, the pandemic did a, I've heard people say this, the pandemic, it was bad in

38:17some way because I know a lot of people like myself, I lost a lot of family, you know, with

38:22that, with the COVID.

38:24And it was good in some ways because during the pandemic, we couldn't go nowhere.

38:31So every day I was out in the yard just walking around and I couldn't believe all the stuff that

38:37was in the yard.

38:38I'm like, man, I've been out here since, you know, 2012.

38:43And I said, Diane, I said, all this stuff is in the yard, you know, like, you know, she, we

38:50got one section is a peach garden.

38:52It has like eight trees in there.

38:54I knew they was there.

38:56It had more trees and I'm at grapes.

39:00And I'm like, I just didn't realize it.

39:04Yeah.

39:05Because we were so busy.

39:08Yeah, it's so much time.

39:12So I seen all the crazy stuff.

39:16And then I did have a friend who told me, he said, hey, man, everybody's been hurt.

39:22He said, write something different.

39:24He said, cause he said, I like your poetry, but I'm tired of hearing everybody talk about their pain.

39:32And I thought about that.

39:34You know, you write.

39:35So I switched over to nature.

39:38So whenever he have something going on, he say, man, I sign you up to be featured.

39:45You know, without even, you know, he just said, I sign you up to be featured.

39:48And when he introduced me, he introduced me as the nature poem, poet.

39:52He said, hey, we got the nature poet here.

39:56Because he said, I know within your poems, there's going to be something about nature in it.

40:05And I told him, yes.

40:09I do that to me.

40:12Yeah.

40:13You know, he said something that he's tired of hearing the hurt at that moment.

40:20I kind of, I could get it.

40:22I could understand it when you hear a lot of that.

40:26But that's therapy sometimes.

40:29Sometimes when you can write.

40:31Right.

40:31Write yourself out of the situation.

40:35Yeah.

40:35But sometimes you got some poets, they write the same thing.

40:42Because they don't know how to get out.

40:44Right.

40:45And he, I know he spoke to this one lady about it.

40:51And now she don't even come around.

40:53But he was just telling the truth.

40:55Because if you listen to her poems, it'd be like, okay, we know what to expect from her.

41:01Every time she get up there.

41:03Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

41:05People can, and same thing with music too, because you can get stuck.

41:08And you can get stuck in this vicious cycle.

41:10But that's when you start to write a new story.

41:13You write a new chapter.

41:15So you acknowledge, you start off with acknowledging where you've been.

41:19But then you write where you want to see yourself going.

41:22And you start to speak.

41:23And you start to think.

41:24And you start to meditate on the new version of yourself.

41:28But I get it.

41:29Some people can get stuck.

41:32Yeah, and I do too.

41:34You know, I was there.

41:35I was there at one time.

41:36Stuck on that type of poems.

41:40And then I even said to myself, man, how am I going to move forward if I stay stuck right

41:47here?

41:48And I mean, that's like, I mean, I talk to, it's funny because when we travel,

41:55I get musicians that want to talk to me more than other poets do.

42:02And I'm like, man, I do is write poetry, but yeah, we like what we heard.

42:07And I'm like, okay, I couldn't, I have not been able to understand why the musicians, I mean,

42:15every time, especially when we're out in Vegas and, you know, they talk to me and, you know,

42:22I show them, you know, sometimes I'll have a book with me.

42:25Hey, you can go ahead and look at it, you know.

42:27I ain't expect you to buy it.

42:29And they'll look at it.

42:30The next thing you know, they'd be like, hey, man, let me have your Instagram, you know,

42:34you know, to follow you up or you've got a, you've got a card.

42:39That's what's up.

42:41And I've never been able to understand why that has been.

42:49I ain't trying to no more.

42:50Right.

42:51I was going to say some things we just be thankful for whatever it is.

42:55Right.

42:55Oh yeah.

42:56Oh yeah.

42:57Oh yeah.

42:59You got one more for us.

43:01Sure.

43:02I see you looking.

43:03I know you got one more.

43:05Yeah.

43:06I have a tablet full of this one here.

43:13I'm going to do this one here.

43:15It's music in the ghetto.

43:17These empty buildings and hallways can hear the words that do not sound like a song to the outside world.

43:26The lyrics seem distasteful and degrading, but to the ghetto world, it tells the real story of what life is

43:33like.

43:33Living in neighborhoods that so many turn away from and are afraid to enter these priceless minds.

43:41Protect their words as they tell their stories of living in the ghetto.

43:45Beats flow as fast as words are spoken in rhythm and rhymes.

43:52The outside world fails to understand the stories being told.

43:57Drunken men, drunken men find shade under an oak tree as they bob their heads to the beat.

44:05Drug users strut up and down the streets along with street workers as they feel free of pain while grooving

44:13to the words.

44:14The echoes of poverty ring outside of homes and empty buildings.

44:20You can smell the stench and life of ghetto living in the air.

44:27Your music beats and blasts out loud words of how life is in the ghetto neighborhoods.

44:34Most songs are banned from commercial radio and regulated to underground tunes.

44:40Ghetto music is about real life that is not easy to live and hard to survive.

44:48Most people who live in the ghetto only have their music for comfort as they try to live in this

44:55type of environment.

44:58Ain't nothing but the truth.

45:01Ain't nothing but the truth, though.

45:04And that's as real as it is, as real as it is.

45:09But when you look back at it, it's as real as it is, as sad as it is, because sometimes

45:16that's all that people have is the music to help them get through whatever, you know, circumstances that they're living

45:22in.

45:23Yeah, I read that on a radio station up in Austin.

45:28Like I said, I was saying I can get on the radio station up there.

45:31You know, I can do I can do several open mics, you know, no problem.

45:35And I did that on the radio station.

45:37So my son, Michael, who be listening to this, he'll be listening to this.

45:41I know.

45:42And he was like, Dad, man, he said he said some of he said some of the people because I

45:48think he was at the park and he was listening.

45:51And he said, this one guy said, man, who is that guy?

45:56He said, oh, that's my dad.

45:57He said, you sure that's your dad?

46:02And Mike said, man, dad, I want to slap teeth out of him.

46:07I said, no, man.

46:08I said, you know, look, man.

46:11I said, when you say, you know, somebody that's doing well, people going to doubt you.

46:18I said, I know a lot.

46:19Like, I know a whole lot of athletes and musicians personally.

46:25And I can see on a person's face when I said, yeah, I know that person.

46:31You know, they kind of like.

46:34OK.

46:36Right.

46:38You know, you ain't got to believe it.

46:40You know, and I got pictures, you know, I said, but I have pictures to show you that I know.

46:54Well, I can believe it, but I want to say I can't believe it.

46:58But it's it's that time.

47:01Yeah.

47:01Go by.

47:02Go by so quick.

47:03So.

47:05Let us know one more time where, you know, people can follow you and listen.

47:12Yeah, go ahead.

47:12Take it away.

47:13OK, I'm Amazon dot com slash author poet.

47:20Excuse me.

47:22Amazon dot com slash author slash Birdman three one three.

47:27YouTube dot com slash author poet Birdman three one three five five.

47:33Instagram.

47:37Dot com slash Birdman three one three five five.

47:41And you can go to Spotify and look for the coffee, wine and words platform and you'll see Birdman three

47:50one three five five along with other.

47:53But she has I'm not the only person on there.

47:56And you can see some of my videos on there.

47:59All right.

48:00That's what's up now.

48:03This is going to be our last episode for a couple of weeks.

48:08We will be back.

48:09We just do a little pause.

48:12But, yeah, this is a great show tonight.

48:16I want to say thank you so much for coming on.

48:19Thank you for sharing your poems.

48:22Oh, yeah.

48:23They're from the heart.

48:25You speak about real life situations.

48:28That's exactly what we got going on here.

48:30So I definitely do appreciate you.

48:32Oh, yeah.

48:34Oh, yeah.

48:36That's what I try to do, man.

48:39Yeah.

48:39Just just real life.

48:41That's a real life situation.

48:43Speak.

48:44Right.

48:45Yeah.

48:46Any last words that you like to leave us with here tonight?

48:50I just tell everybody, you know, sometimes I tell anybody this.

48:54You can't stop at the top.

48:55Start at the top.

48:57You start at the top.

48:59It's only one way where to go is down.

49:01So starting from the bottom, starting from the bottom is not a bad thing.

49:06I've seen people who started near the top or at the top.

49:11And within a couple of years, they done flamed out.

49:15You know what it reminds me of?

49:18It reminds me of like an artist when, you know, they work on a couple albums and they finally get

49:24that breakthrough.

49:25Success or they finally get that hit record.

49:28They have all of that momentum to carry them with that that that hit record versus sometimes when these people,

49:35they just hit it right off the bat and they just can't handle the success or they can't handle the

49:40workload.

49:41So you you ever heard of the group whispers?

49:45Oh, yeah.

49:46Yeah.

49:46You know how long it took them to get their first hit?

49:51Took them 20 years.

49:5420 years.

49:55And what was that song?

49:56What was that?

49:57Oh, man.

49:59Now I got it.

50:00Now I got it.

50:00Now I got to go look it up.

50:02Now I'm going to look it up.

50:03Yeah.

50:03But yeah, it took them 20 years.

50:06And when they said that, I'm like, well, they said they never gave up on themselves.

50:12That's what the thing he said, even though everybody out here didn't, you know, accept them.

50:20It kept on.

50:21And then, yeah, after 20 years, man, I was like, man, they was on Soul Train when they came on

50:27that when Soul Train was big time.

50:29And I'm like, 20 years.

50:32And I think that's something else I think about, too.

50:35I always, you know, like I said, during my journey, I think about that, you know, and I've seen what

50:43some people said.

50:44They done put out records for years and then finally they hit on one.

50:51And then people was trying to go back and get their old stuff and try to figure out why it

50:57didn't sell, what really happened.

51:00Right, right, right.

51:02I'm going to look that up because I know I remember so many of the hits from The Whispers.

51:07My one that I remember growing up was, what is it, Rock Steady?

51:14Yeah.

51:15I think that's the one.

51:17That's the breakthrough one?

51:18Okay, because they had several ones before them, but that must have been a breakthrough one.

51:22And the beat goes on.

51:24Oh, yeah.

51:26I think that was all on the same album.

51:31Had to be.

51:33I'm going to do some research on that one.

51:38All right.

51:39So we're going to go ahead and get on up out of here.

51:43Thank you so much, Birdman313, for coming on.

51:47I appreciate you.

51:50Take care.

51:51Have a good night.

51:53Enjoy.

51:53I got a busy week this week.

51:57Yeah, I know.

51:59But I'll talk to you on Sunday.

52:04Talk to you on Sunday.

52:06All right.

52:06Good night.

52:07Good night.

52:08Sunday.

52:09Yeah.

52:10All right.

52:10Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it.

52:12That was author, poet, Birdman313.

52:16Go ahead and give him a round of applause.

52:27and if you like anything that you heard please head on over to laryngaines.com

52:32i want to say thank you so much for joining on in and check me out tomorrow

52:40coaching sessions thursday special guest sasha nicole definitely don't want to miss that episode

52:47go ahead and check that out thank you all so much for joining in and i will see you when

52:51i see you

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