SPEAKER_00 1:45

Good afternoon. Welcome to the Hilltop Glove Podcast. We're live in effect in Gastonio, North Carolina. We're at the Bradley Community Center and Park. We're here with the Honeycomb Experience specifically. We're probably with the man of the moment, the man of the hour, Mr. Reezus Brown. What's going on? Good to see you today. I appreciate y'all being here. Beautiful, beautiful. If you could just tell the Hilltop Glove Podcast, artists, etc., what we're doing out here today and what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Alright, so this is the Honeycomb Experience's first uh festival at the Honeycomb Experience Festival, and it's a community experience. So right now, it's just all about the hashtag what you need23. We're giving we're doing massages. We have um enrichment for the kids, whether it's a wellness tunnel or whether they're planting seeds and planting vegetables. Literally. Um, like literally, uh, we have somebody giving knowledge on gardening. We have vendors that doing breathing exercises. I gotta say that, that was dope. So we did some breathing fur just to get our mindset. We have food. Um, it actually was one of my gallery manager's birthday. Yeah. Um the main thing behind it was um my teammate that passed away. Today's actually the anniversary of his death. So um I just always wanted to do something to honor him. So it's kind of our idea like main fest, but it's the festival for the honeycomb. So we're gonna try to do like once a month, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Beautiful, beautiful. You know what we're here for. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Could you just tell um artists a little bit about the sponsorship that you go on and have going on for today? So they have to. Okay, so our official drink sponsor is Sun Drop.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

You feel me? Gazer. We're gonna work on getting them a caption. But no, definitely we love the product, so we definitely want to support the actually made in Gasonia. Yes, yes, it's a local product. It's a local product, and a lot of people in the Carolinas are very familiar with it. So that's another reason why people should come to Gas Donia. You know what I'm saying? We might be even trying to, for the next one, have them come out here and break down like the history of that. Because I feel like a lot of people would know that because I think we drink sun drop and don't even know why. Don't even know why or where it's coming from. Exactly. You know, so I think people might even support it more. So I definitely appreciate them dropping on some cases. Especially this one. I gotta get one of these for I leave.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

This is some new right here.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

So now we're actually gonna do a taste test in a little bit of each flavor, allow everybody to taste test it or whatnot. Definitely. Excellent. And then also one thing I do want to tell you, could this explain what's going on right here with this backdrop so they can see what this is? Alright, bet. So this is black men don't drown. This is kind of something that I'm on like um personally, in terms of like my mission, my purpose. I feel like us as uh a community, we have to be more obliged of us as the males because we it's not all about us being more dominant and things like that, but it's about us filling our role in our families. So just honestly promoting that. Um, I started when one of my um, I know it sounds crazy, but one of my friends actually committed suicide like two months ago. And it just got me thinking like we need somebody that we can talk to. Like, I wish he would just call me, like there's something that I could have said to make you not want to go do that. So now I'm just like every day, like black men don't drown. Like, you know, I go by the fish, so everything's worth for water, you know what I mean? Like we don't need to drown, we need to stay afloat. Yes. Definitely. So that's just what I'm on. And the brook the flowers and things like that can really be like late bloomers, you feel me? Because sometimes you get it late. You know, like I feel like myself personally, I'm a late bloomer. I got it late because like sometimes you have opportunities, but you don't really know, like the you're not you're not fully aware of your purpose, so it's kind of hard for you to really tap into it. Yeah, so now I feel like I'm finally tapping into what I'm supposed to be doing, you know what I mean? So even though I'm blooming late, I'm still blooming still.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

And things are coming your way the way that they should be. Absolutely. They're coming the right way with the right energy. Right. And bruh, I'm telling you. I don't want no other way. I'm telling you. I know you're serious about that. Yeah. Because the energy I hear has been positive all day. The words that I've been hearing about you have been positive all the day. Everybody that I've talked to talk to about you that knows you, even not here, yeah, it's positive. No, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Like, my whole thing, I'm just all about community. I don't care about titles, I don't care about roles, status. I'm all about impact. So it doesn't matter if somebody below me, above me, like we can help each other right now in this moment. Let's do that. You know what I mean? Because those moments lead to other moments. Like I met him at a whole nother show. You know what I mean? And now Jason's lyric. Jason's lyric, you know what I mean? We were both performers. He was acting in it, and I was performing. Yeah, mad dog Kennedy. Yeah. We did a Jason lyric and I was um the doing the music portion of it. Yeah. So we did that, and now you see how he's here today. Like everybody that helped us put this together has been in some type of interaction with me or the gallery, or the honeycomb experience. And that's I don't even want to say myself, I just want to say the honeycomb experience. The honeycomb experience. Because that's what I represent, you know what I mean? So everybody just buying in. I had a couple of my semi-pro team teammates come out to play ball.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

There's out here balling. Yeah, they're out here balling. So we we definitely doing the thing. Yeah. Man, I just have to congratulate you, man. You got great things going on. It's gonna continue to grow and thrive. And of course, at the Hilltop Glove, we're gonna be here with you every step of the way. We love what this man does. And vice versa.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

I'm trying to come down there. You love it. Please, please calm down. Please come back. I'm talking about it on camera. Yeah. As soon as we get a date, the honeycomb experience is coming. I'm coming with the black man on drown backdrop. We're gonna make a hilltop glove or backdrop spot that's on camera. You feel me? So we got you. As soon as the date is, we're gonna drop the flyer.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

So that's that's my word. Money. Word is fine.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

All you gotta do is call me. The drills will be there. Yes, sir! Teamwork is the dream work.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

But but first, before we sign out, I want you to go ahead one more time.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Definitely, shout out to our sponsor, Sun Drop. All right, we're gonna do the taste test. We're gonna see which one people like better. You know what I mean? The original. The original classic or the cherry lemon. I'm going to do that. I don't know. I never had that one. I don't know. That's a really good idea.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

It's that red cab, man. That's a guy. But let me tell you like this, man. Hill Top Glove Podcast. Signing out. We on site. We hope everybody enjoys what they're gonna see and the information that's coming out of this event. Um, the information will be posted soon, so it's gonna be on there live. It's not gonna be a week or two after. When you get this information, it's gonna be relevant. So please make sure that you stay locked in to everything that's going on with the Honeycomb Experience Hill Top Glove Podcast. Peace.