Mike C-Roc
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134 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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We first started, I would work with anybody just to see what you could do, right? Because you have to. And then very, very slowly it started to evolve into a situation where we became exclusive. Yeah. I don't just work with anybody. Not at all. And if we get somebody that pays us and we find out that they're not aligned, we just give them their money back and move on.
Hey, listen, I got to tell you, I flew five hours to come just to see you.
I mean, talk to me about... I grew up outside of Philly, and... In the mushroom country, it's where most mushrooms grow. And I'm talking about the food mushrooms.
Nowadays, you got to differentiate, specify. But it was the food mushrooms. And it smells like shit there. And just like a horrible smell when you walk through there because of the manure and fertilizer. But I grew up there in an Italian family and eventually made my way down to Maryland to go to college and play football. What did mom and dad do? My dad was a Mason. He had his own business. Okay.
And my mom worked for DuPont for years and then took early retirement and became a nurse. Okay.
Two separate careers. Cool. Lots of brothers and sisters in the house? Yeah. I'm the oldest of eight with broken family. Oh, my gosh. Broken family, though. So, like, it was never any more than four in a house. Oh, wow. So...
Well, early because I don't remember my parents ever together. So I came from a lot of brokenness, like a lot, like drug addicts, alcoholic, anxiety, depression, divorce, child support, custody battles. And you had step parents into the mix and their agendas, not getting along with people and just witnessing and watching all this stuff as a kid.
I mean, ever since I can remember, I thought it was normal. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, like... I can tell you, eight years old, I was a really keen observer of human beings and human behavior. And so I've always been known as being pretty grown up and mature.
Well, I went to a Division III school, so I was never big enough. Okay. I was fast and had a head on me. But, yeah, I played in college basketball. Did you finish school? No, you didn't.
Uh, there's more, I'll go through seasons where I'll, I'll regret it. But at the end of the day now, um, when I got to college, I was playing football, but I realized that, That it like, I wasn't going to go anywhere after college with football. Yeah. So then I saw parties. I saw parties I'd never seen before coming from a small town.
I say outside of Philly, but when I went to high school, it was a small suburban, like not suburban, even rural town in Maryland, actually. And when I got to college, I saw like girls, the types of girls that were there at the parties. And it's just, that's what caught my attention. Yeah. And so I went down that road, that road of parties. And that was the chase. I was on chase for the good time.
College and courses on that, that was always easy to me. What was the hustle? I was bored by it.
No, not until I dropped out. I got in the restaurant business while I was in college. That was when Cocktail came out. Were you a flair bartender? Not a flair bartender.
I had a vision of start my own restaurant and all this. And then when you're in the restaurant business and you start to party to cash business late nights after you're done at the bar, two thirty three o'clock, you're going to a party and then just, you know, it's just not a good place to be. But that's where I ended up, brother.
Why did, why was that bothering you so much?
Right. Didn't care at all. That's, that's the rule, man. Yeah. We always think people care more about us and think about us more than they actually do. Nobody's got their own world, but nobody's thinking about you.
I had a great time. I got to tell you, there were some great times, but there was also, like, it ends up in darkness, man. Yeah. Dark times. Heavy, like... Yeah.
Yeah. And then all your friends that are in college leave go on their mission that they're going on. And you're just like you're left with everybody else. It's just not on a mission. Yeah. Except for the next party. And it's just like miserable.
Oh, yeah.
It's wild here. I got trapped into sales, a sales job in home sales. Yeah. It's not like that, but like, it was like, I got out of college, out of the restaurant business, looking for something. One of my customers at the restaurant said, Hey, why don't you come meet with me one day? And I ended up in an in-home sales job, which is, I looked, I hated it.
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