Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: The Hawaiian Comedian presents. I. I've been doing comedy for over 20, 23 years. And I've been on the road. I've been in different cities. I've been different. Things like that.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: We're here to talk about everything, man. The topics you talk about with your friends, your family, questions you got for us. Twitty in the City, Aloha and all things new. And I didn't even know about it. Oh, I knew about one. Welcome. Another episode. Next episode, THC. I'm 20. This is Twitty in the City and THC. You are just a little kid right now.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: I'm a carpenter by trade, man. This is my. This is my thing. And this is like a very nice table. Like, very nice. I know. I've. Ever since we walked in here, I've been. I've been beatboxing and.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that's like. That's gonna be your thing now. So that's how we'll know you're here.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: You ever do that in high school or elementary school or Middle School?
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Oh, 100.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: We used to beat on the desk.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Teachers used to hate that. Used to do that whole.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: You'd always have one person that came in, they're like, y. Let me give me the mic.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Trying to spit. Don't know what they're talking about. If this is your first episode, this is what we do. We talk about stuff that everybody relates to. Like, subscribe, please. Thank you. We're getting some comments. We're getting them DMs. We respond to your comments. JXT is on a streak of. He had somebody comment about a random topic I don't even think we talked about. It was one of those classic conversations. Started out asking him something, and I asked him about it like a week ago, and he was like, oh, we're on a different topic now. So we do, like. We do comment back and we might just have. We need to start just having random conversations on the side as, like, a part of the episodes, I feel like. And.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: And, like, one of the comments that we got that I got was where they commented on when we were doing that KFC menu thing and we were going back and forth about kfc. Yeah. And the gentleman that commented on there was just like, yeah, it was funny that you guys were sitting there talking about kfc and then as soon as you get up, you leave with a Burger King cup in your hand. And it was like, man. Well, I was like, you know what, though? Thank you for watching all the way to the end.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that means it was a good.
[00:01:57] Speaker A: 100%. Yeah. You didn't know that I walked away unless you was at the end.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: And also, that lets you know you can't be slick, because you said it after the episode. You said, I wonder if anybody's gonna notice that Burger King.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Well, they did, and we thank you. All right, story time with Twitty. And I am hoping that I just don't talk to the right people about this, but I got a feeling this might have been just a black people thing.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Hold on, hold on.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Before.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Before we open up Pandora's box right here, I got a comment. Because I'm still trying to get used to looking the way you look right now.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: I can't even. I can't even, like, just step over this and start to. It's bugging me every time I look at you, because I don't think I'm looking at the same person.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I. I went to my barber, man, and I mean, look, clean, right?
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Clean.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: It's new.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Lined up, right? Everything.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Thank you. No, I just. I just went. I just started back over. I was looking a little homeless.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: Clean canvas.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: When you wear your hat and your hat starts having the flares.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: I needed to get back to base.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: And so, yeah, I haven't had this haircut since 2013.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: It looked good, but, I mean, when you came in, put the headphones on and sat down and be like, okay, we're gonna start. No, hold on. We gonna take a step back for a minute, Mr. Clean Shaven. Like, even the beard is gone.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Everything. You just went straight with the mustache. I'm gonna get this back. Well, probably, Maybe. I don't know. We're gonna figure it out. I went back to ground zero. We'll figure out as we progress, you and I, on figuring this out. But it was a. We'll just start at zero. We'll let it grow back, and then we'll figure something out. But I don't think I'm gonna keep the clean shaven forever. I at least gotta get.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: I don't think you are, too. And I totally get. Sometimes just starting over with a clean canvas and being like, you know what? This is where I start drawing. Like, yeah, that's.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. I just had to do a restart.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Well, that's good, though. Okay, I'm sorry. Now we can get back to how you wanted to start it. I just. I wasn't gonna let you over that. And then later on, 25 minutes from now, we'll be like, oh, yeah. By the way.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. Okay. So hanging out with my wife, friends, and we got on the conversation of childhood things that you do because of your parents.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: You know, classic taking napkins from a restaurant because you use it.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Okay. But how you started was because you said. Because it was. It's a. Like a black thing.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: I think it is, because I've asked white, Hispanic, Latino. I've asked every race I could find, and the only race.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: How long have you been asking this question? Have you been asking this question before you move to Idaho?
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: And that's just on the west Coast. On the east coast as well.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Yes. And it's only been. It's been black people on the east coast, and it's only been black people because I'm the west Coast.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: I might change your mind.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: I hope so. I don't want it to just be a black.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Go ahead. Okay.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: So the story went.
I was in college, and we traveled. All right. And so we traveled. Me and these are two other black guys. It's me, our corner, and our running back.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Okay. What you all traveling for?
[00:04:55] Speaker B: It was for a football game.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: So traveling, you know, night before, we get to our hotel. Gotcha. And go to the hotel. We check out, do our thing, play the game. We win Sunday, head coach sends us three an email. I need you in my office right now.
We're like, what did we do? We're like, what did you do? Right? We're like. I mean, we did act a little bit of a fool at the restaurant, but it wasn't nothing. Like, we got into a fight. Right? So we get into his office. Coach is hot. And we're like, bro, what did we do? And he's sitting there, and he says, what did you guys take from the hotel?
And we're like, we didn't take anything. We're like. We were like. We checked in. We checked out. And he was like, well, I got a bill that states that three pillows were taken.
And literally, y'all stealing pillows for. Okay, So I think you're gonna be like everybody else. And this had to have been a black thing, because we grew up taking the pillow was not a fine.
I grew up taking hotel pillows from hotels.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: Okay, so you admitting that you took the pillow, But.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Because my parents taught me that, and I don't think they were just paying for pillows for extra. Like, it was a thing growing up. Thc. We would go to a hotel, and my mom would say, make sure you get your pillow to go. And that's why we never had to buy extra pillows. And that's why when friends came over, we had extra pillows. We, Me and my two other friends in college grew up. Our parents taught us, you take a pillow. Now, you don't take several, but you just take one.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Are the two friends that were with you kind of grew up in the same area as you?
[00:06:49] Speaker B: No, they're from. They're from Cali. One was from San Bernardino.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: So you're telling me the man from Cal. From Cali. He was taught to take the pillows?
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Yes, and he was black. And the. In our corner, his name's Jerrel. He can quote me on this. He was from.
I think also. I got it confused, but one from San Bernardino and the other was from somewhere else, and they both were black, and they both grew up the same way. Taking a pillow is not illegal or wasn't a fine.
You only took one.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: But why do you want the pillow?
[00:07:22] Speaker B: It's free, and they're comfortable pillows.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but other people's heads was on them pillows.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: See, we don't keep the sheet.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: It don't matter. The oils, the juices coming out their heads while they sleeping, the drool, just that all is in the pillow. See, I actually bring, like, in. In my family, we brought our own pillows. See, I couldn't use somebody else. I don't know how many heads was on that pillow. I don't know who was wrapping their heads on that pillow. But for you to take the pillow, you was like, oh, I'm gonna take. So somebody had lice or something like that and was just laid in. Nah, I ain't taking.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: And that's so.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: I don't think it's a black thing, though, bro.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: I had three. Okay.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: I don't think it's a black thing.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: But it has to be, because I came. Okay. I thought I came from the east coast. And I had two other friends. Deon and Kevin grew up with me. So you could say maybe our parents grew up in that circle. But I've been to the Midwest and I've been to the west coast, and I've had black people in each time zone or whatever you want to say. Only black people have been like, yeah, I grew up doing that. And then, yeah, I had to learn that you got fine and all, but also hotels all of a sudden started charging because there ain't no way. Rest in peace. To my mom, I know she was not just letting me take a pillow and paying that fee.
So it was cool to take a pillow up until a certain point. Which had to have been when I got to college.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: If anybody, if anybody that's watching right now, if you want to comment, I need help, put it on there. And just like, is this something that you was taught? Has anybody ever said, you know what, yeah, it's okay to take the pillow?
[00:08:59] Speaker B: No disrespect to black people. I need non black people. Because all I've ever got is black people saying, see?
[00:09:04] Speaker A: And I think, I think, like, I don't think it's. But see, that's what I'm saying is I don't think it's a black thing or what is it?
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Because I don't find white people. I haven't. My wife and her whole family.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Honestly, I think it's a money thing. I think it's a, it's a, it's the same reason why, like, if, if, if you said it's a black thing, then that means you running around stealing pillows. Why though? If it's, if it's a color thing. Right, right. And that means you running around stealing pillows. White folks running around stealing towels. Because I've known some people to take towels and stuff like that from the hotels. I never in my life, I never came across nobody. Nobody talked to nobody. I was. I'm raised in Vallejo, California, and that's.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: Why I had to talk to you.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Nobody I ever stayed. Not. Not ever. Not ever in my mind did it say, still. In fact, I still to this day, when I travel to do. When I'm doing comedy and I'm trying, I bring my own pillow. I don't want to put my head on a pillow.
[00:09:58] Speaker B: See, I.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: That's decoration. That's, that's. Those pillows are decoration to me.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: It's a different era now. Yes. I don't. I take my own pillow the same way. I'm not taking it because they charge you. But growing up and I.92. So from night, from 1990, I was a baby, let's say I sleep on.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Top of the blanket.
I don't get underneath them covers.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Right.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: I mean, hey, no respect, no disrespect to, to any of the hotels I stayed at. Every hotel I stayed in was clean. And it was, and it was, it was good. Like. Oh, well, I can't say every hotel.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: But yeah, a majority of them was good. And, and like, the mates love Joe room. Oh, yeah.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: They probably just had to just come.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: In, fluffed it, make it, pull it a little bit. Because I would come in with my own blanket and my own pillow. Like, I, I use My. When I go in there, it's. I'm not saying that is. I'm just. I don't know. It gives me my own little protection. I know this is my pillow. I know my head has been on this pillow and in this pillowcase. I can't touch that pillow is decoration.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: I put it up, I get us some money thing again. Please comment. I can't.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: I ain't never heard. Please comment, please. If you out there, you watching this, please comment. If you was ever told it was okay to take the pillow, if that was a law. If somebody is out there watching this and goes, you know what? I work for a hotel, and we ain't never charged anybody.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Here's the thing. It had to have switched because, again.
[00:11:19] Speaker A: So you thought that. You think at one point they started was cool.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: Yes, it was cool.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: How do they replace the pillows after you left? They just had a whole big pillow machine in the background.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Not a pillow machine, but they had to restock them, like.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like, for how much profit would you be losing the pillows if everybody took their pillows?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Thc. The math don't make sense. All I know is it was a norm because. And here's the thing, my coach, he saw all three of us, like, during headlights, and he knew, like, they did that because they thought it was okay. Cause you know when you get caught and it's like, well, I didn't. We all looked like, you got to call my mom and, like, blame her. Because this is what we did growing up.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: Was this a nice hotel as far.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: As when we did it growing up or as far as when that.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: That incident? It was.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like 4. It was a force like 4. 4.5 out of 5.
Not Marriott. What was you. Probably for a group of athletes, you go like. Like a Hampton back then. Yeah, they were good ham. Now, like, not Marriott. What would you go a little bit, just a notch lower than that? Marriott, to me, I think is phenomenal. But it's not like a Hampton Inn. What would have been back then?
It was like. It was a four point fiver.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Nice pillows. Yeah, like them. Nice goose feather pillow.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Yeah, like, you had a body pillow.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: This. What was the fine. How much did you have to pay per pillow?
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Hundred something dollars.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Like what hundred? Twenty?
[00:12:53] Speaker B: I don't know. We didn't pay it. He. He exempt it, but he. I asked because, I mean, it was.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Three of y'all if it was 150 bucks, right? If it was, it was 150 bucks pillow.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: And we each. We each.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: That's almost. That's almost 500. Yes, that's 450.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: Which is why he was pissed, because he thought we took it just so they could.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: That's my hotel. I charge y'all, too. I'd be like, nah, nah, nah, bring my pillows. I don't even want the pillows back.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Right.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: I wouldn't even want them back. If you even try to bring them back so that you didn't have to pay them, I'd be like, now you already walked out of my hotel with them.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: I think we actually sent them back because it was a place that we all. It was a. You know, those. What do you call them? Like, agreements. It was one of those. We always played that team, so we always was at that hotel.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: So you. This isn't the first pillow you took from this place?
[00:13:37] Speaker B: No, it was the first, because this is my freshman year that I did this.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: But this wasn't the first pillow that you've taken before that?
[00:13:43] Speaker B: No.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: So how many.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Thousands.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: So let me ask you this. How many times have you stayed in a hotel where you thought it was okay to take a pillow?
[00:13:50] Speaker B: I don't know. Thc. Just give.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Just give me another. Just pull it out. A dozen?
[00:13:55] Speaker B: More than a dozen? Because I.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: 20.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: We at least went to two.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: And you got a pillow every time you went there.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: Not every time. It was probably once a year.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Man, that's. So if I would have went to your house as a kid, it just been pillows.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Oh, I was set.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: It was.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: I could have sleepovers.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: It just throw pillows all on the ground.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: That's what it was for.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: You could have named every hotel as you threw the pillow on the ground.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: I probably could at least told you the brands.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Like.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: I'll tell you what. There's hotel owners out there right now that's watching this podcast that are going to be sitting there like, hey, okay. That's where all our pillows went.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Six One six Deli Crest, Wayne, Virginia. We was locked in low.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: But that's why we never had to buy pillows growing up.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but I still don't think it's a color thing. I don't. I don't think it's that.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: What? Can you explain, bro?
[00:14:37] Speaker A: I think it's a. It's just a. It's a money situation thing between families. By going to hotels, you know, you kind of find out exactly what you can. And you can't take, like, so it just takes lotion to take the Shampoo. So it's like. But how far does that go? You know what I mean? It's not like when you leave it. When you leave in a hotel room, there's a placard that tell you, hey, 11 o'clock, you better be checked out.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Right, Right.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: It doesn't say, 11 o'clock be checked out. Please don't forget your complimentary pillow.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: But it also didn't say you couldn't take that pillow.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: It. You. You absolutely correct. Okay, I understand what you saying. It doesn't say, I can't. But it doesn't. It doesn't say don't do it. But it doesn't say, like, I. I can't do it.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: And clearly there was a time between 1998, man, that's a lot of 2011 that.
Cause I'm telling you, I'm telling you, my mom and dad spent way too.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Much money on pillows. Way too much money on pillows. Of. All I had to do was just keep going to a hotel.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: I'm trying to tell you we did it. I easily couldn't. I can easily say we went to hotel. We were in hotels three times a year and two out of the three, man, you lucky.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: It was just fine.
Cause I would love to be there when they put you. Like, if they. If they was going to come down and they was going to be like, nah, you got to do three days in jail. I'm going to stay there and visit you for three days the whole time. So just to. Just to watch you explain to everybody in jail that you there.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: Oh, I'm lying.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: But take it. No, you can't lie.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: I got.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: You can't lie.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:16:01] Speaker A: You're going. You're going to try to come up with a line. As soon as you do, I'm going to be on the outside of the fence and I'm going to be like, hell no. Nope.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: He stole me like that.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: He stole pillows.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: I got. I got to have street cred in there.
[00:16:11] Speaker A: I can't. I can't be the best. I'd rather have better content because I'll put that on. We going to be buying with everybody.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: No, I'm going get taken advantage of in there. No taking pillow. Got you.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: I still get loud Ben too. Leave him alone.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: I need him to take my pillow.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: N. Leave him alone.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: But okay, so. So if you left pillow, you leave.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: With your pillow too, huh?
Yeah, you would. You would look right at it like, nobody want.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Not right. No.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: Why you going to charge me 150 for that?
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Not now, cuz. It's 2025, so I know now not to do it. If I would have been to jail, though, in 2006, 2007. 100%.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: You take a pillow with a prison pillow.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: And that's the thing. I take a pillow over a towel over complimentary soap.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: That becomes a conversation piece in the living room right there. Wanna know where that pillow came from?
[00:16:56] Speaker B: It could.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: You probably have a lot of little conversation pillows, bro.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: I. It. My house was deep. I'm telling. If you. If I had any friend that had to stay over last minute, you know, growing up, if your friend forgot to bring you up, I had enough pillows you can make a blanket out of.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: I'll tell you, we're gonna make an episode in your living room. It's gonna be called if pillows could Talk. You know what I'm saying? We're gonna be talk. Yeah. If pill.
Where are you from?
[00:17:19] Speaker B: We can't do it now because I don't got any more of those.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: You can look at that one pillow that came from a smoking room. You know that one just. Well, when Twitter got me out of. He got me out because I was his free pillow that day, you know, like, oh, he was in the smoking room.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he smoking room, man. Okay. Please. I'm just looking for one. I need one comment that says, I am on twitty side because I need it. Because other. Because literally it doesn't matter. But my whole family, my wife's.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: No, but you need to be from a white person.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: I needed to be from somebody other that's black and that's messed up to say I got enough black street cred on taking pillows. I need another race. Even if you like 75% black with something else. I need you because I have not found nobody else, dog. That is not. You know, it's funny that you're not taking that.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: You know, that's funny that you said that. Cause I remember one time I was. I was doing a comedy gig and I was on the road with another. He was another comedian that was black. And when we left, he left with the pillow.
See, because you. Because. Yeah, because he had it in my car. See, he got in my car and I kind of like when he first got in there, he didn't have a pillow right. And then on the next. Because we went from city to city from. We went from one city and we stayed there and then we went to. When we was on our way to the next city, he had a pillow.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: And I was like, see, what year was that?
Just an estimate early 2000s.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah. See 2010, 2009.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Also any hotel owners. If you've been in a hotel owner for the last 15, 20, 20, 25. Yeah. The rule changed, bro. It changed.
I'm telling you, my mom didn't allow me to take that many pillows and cough up a hundred bucks even if it was 50.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: Oh, no, man, no. I don't know.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: No.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Hell, she could have been misled is what I'm saying. It's not that she would have done it on purpose, but I think she could have been misled that it was okay and she passed it on to you.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: She wasn't charged.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: My mama told me straight up, don't take nothing.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Mom.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Like, don't. I. I was scared as a kid to move the water bottle off of the top of the stand because I thought it had a sensor on the bottom. The minute you move it, you bought it like charger. I wouldn't even touch. Like.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah, the refrigerator was a no go.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: But you had to walk past the front desk with pillow in hand.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. It was cool. It was funny.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: He stopped you with these hundred and fifty pillows. Nobody said, excuse me, sir.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:19:36] Speaker A: Are you serious? They just said, hey, haven't you gave me the key card? You was probably. Was you hugging the pillow while you was giving the key card?
[00:19:42] Speaker B: It was underneath my arm. Thc. I. I will put it. I put it on my mind.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Did it have the hotel logo around the pillow or anything like that?
[00:19:51] Speaker B: No, it was a cla. This was a classic white. It's the classic white pillow with the white sheet and everything. We took the sheet and we took the pillow.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: What you gonna do with the sheet?
[00:19:59] Speaker B: You saved that for me?
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Nah, See, there you go again. Put your head on other.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: See this? See, this is. This is my mom's philosophy. We had nice pillows on our actual beds. These pillows was for guests because you got family, you have friends that you didn't trust them on your nice ass pillow. These pillows was for them friends to put it on the floor, take it outside.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Not that $150 one. Not that $150.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Wasn't $150. Cause it was free.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Well, how do you know the pillows that are on your mom's bed that are nice didn't come from a nice.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: Hotel because my mom, my mom was that picky. The. The hotel pillows.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: I found some pillows in hotels very comfortable.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: They are comfortable.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: I wanted to leave with her, but.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: They weren't going to my mom's bed. Not our Beds. Because. And see, now you got me overthinking it because of the same reason she didn't want those germs. Those pillows was meant for floors. You know, like, you'd be laying on the floor. You. I want to watch a movie. I want to be on the floor. My mom would say, go upstairs and get the hotel pillow, because you're not taking your nice pillow from your bed and putting it on the floor.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: See, what's crazy is, is that we saw with that. With. With Polynesians that we actually put a blanket on the floor before we put the pillow on the floor. The pillow can't touch the floor.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Even if that was the case pillow, I'm telling you, there was no hiding this pillow. It was a. You got your stuff. And I'm probably getting out of camera. And, Sean, I'm sorry if I'm messing this up. I would have my duffel bag. My mom would look at me.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: No, I got you.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: And she would be like, you ready, Isaiah? You got everything? Cause we ain't coming.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Tell me to come over with the duffel bag with the strap around it.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: No. Okay. But she would look at me. Because there was only. There were certain hotels. Not every time, but for the majority, she would look at me. You got everything? Okay. Don't forget. Go grab your pillow. Let's go. And I would grab it, and I would be holding it under my arm, and we would go to checkout, and she was like, Ms. Twitty, how was everything? It was great. And they would lean over and be like, did you have fun? And I would look at my mom, and she'd be like, you can talk. And I'd be like, yes, ma'am. Well, thank you so much for saying at X, Y, and Z, have a nice day.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: I don't know, man.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: I didn't.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: I probably thought. No, no. But they probably thought that was your pillow that you brought. Cause they probably thought you was somebody like me who bring their pillows in.
[00:22:09] Speaker B: I'm just. And I do not recall my mom ever saying, don't get a pillow, because.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: So when you walked into this place, you didn't have a pillow?
[00:22:16] Speaker B: No.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: And then when you was walking out, I had. You had to go get your pillow.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: Yes. And then let's say two months.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: Who told you that was your pillow? Mom's.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: What do you mean?
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Mom says that was your pillow.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: My mom. My. My cousin. My cousin Winky, my grandma. We paid to be in that hotel. So that pillow is a part of payment.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: I don't know yeah, we need some common. I need help out there. We need help non black people.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: We good, we got it. I got a plenty of blacks.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: I guarantee you. I guarantee you there's white and brown folks out there that have taken the pillow.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: I need it.
[00:22:46] Speaker A: Guarantee it.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: I need it.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: I know it. I know it's that way.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: Cause I done struck out on white. I done struck out on Hispanic. I done struck out on.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: I know. Cause I know color don't.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: I done struck out on Polynesian. Right.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: I know that.
Whether or not you have a lot of money in your life or if you grew up with not having a lot of money, sometimes it was hard to have a pillow. And if you could leave the hotel with a pillow. That's what I'm saying, bring it to the house. But see, I was never. That wasn't my pillow. That was their pillow. When I grew up, my mom was like, that's their pillow. In fact, my mom was like, use your pillow. I don't know where that pillow had me.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: And we grew up. It was. I paid to be in this hotel. It is a complimentary. And oh, if that place had six pillows, I knew it was a guarantee I could get one. And it was also. I couldn't get the long ones. Those were a. No, no, you couldn't take the long body pillows. The regular standard ones. Yeah, see that's.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: See that now, now you got lines where you drawing.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Well, why, why that's too, that's a too obvious one. That one you might get.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: You're taking a pillow. A pillow is a pillow, is a pillow. I don't care how long it is.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: You could get fined for the long one. It's not a standard pillow. It's a special pillow. Yeah, same way that pillow that's on the, on the chair.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: But all of those pillows are they bought for that place. They didn't say. Wouldn't they put something like on the pillow that said, hey, this is your pillow?
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Do they put stuff on the complimentary soaps to say, take that, but we take that. Do they say, you can take this complimentary towel.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: I can get a soap right back to them if they want it. Like it's just a little bar. It's like that. It gets lost anyway when I'm using it.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: And that's how we felt they could replace that dinky pillow.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: But why was that dinky though? You know that pillow wasn't dinky. You knew that was. You knew that was a soft ass pillow.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: But that was like, I mean, you.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Was like, oh, you're a freaking hotel dog. You got 500 rooms and every one of them got six pillows. You can afford one to be gone.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: But see, now you running their budget now, so, I mean, why would you have the budget. Your. Their budget in your mind while you got a pillow in hand?
[00:24:41] Speaker B: Because their budget is based on the price that I'm spending to rent that place out.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. For the space that they had available for that night.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: That's the math that my mom and dad and my grandma raised me on. So when I got hit with. We got fined for a pillow. I was like, that don't make sense to me.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: Anybody out there, if you watching right now, please. We. You had. It was cool to take the pillow from the hotel room. I ain't never heard of that before.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: But this is why I think it's a. It's a black thing.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: No, I don't. I'm. I'm pretty sure it's not a black.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: I don't ever go. I just. I feel it's a. It's. It's got to be. It's got to be something.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: Cuz you. You telling me somebody. You telling me somebody in India and never took the. Oh, we take the pillows.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: At the rate I've been going, I don't. I really. I've only met black people. If you Indian, I don't care what you are. If you got a percentage of sales.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: In any other country out there. There's hotels in every other country.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I hope I am thc. I am not trying to be on an island with this. I was hoping of all people, you at least would have said we did it one time.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Nope.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: I can't tell you how much I was praying to hear that come out your mouth.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: Nope. Ever since I was a kid, we brought our own shit. That's why I feel like we had our own blankets.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: I'm an island.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: Our own blankets.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: I mean, on the island.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: My mama told me from the beginning you had no idea who the last person was that laid in that bed. You have no idea.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's scary, but, yeah, we took. It's a pillow. So I don't know.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: There was some hotels I. I've stayed in before I wouldn't even think about. I. I slept on the wall.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Oh, standing up. There were certain. Up like, there were certain hotels we didn't take a pillow from. And there were certain ones I even walked in, knew and I was like, but why not?
[00:26:19] Speaker A: Okay, so why not? Why not take a pillow from it? Why not? Was it that bad? It was that bad.
But that was your complimentary pillow that you supposed to get from every hotel.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: You going, uh, See, now you're putting words in my mouth. Complimentary don't mean you gots to take it every time.
What is it? It's an option.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: It's an option.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Now that's what complimentary means, man. If you, if you would like to.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Take somebody, I need help. Anybody out there, please.
I'm really trying to understand this.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: I need it, too, as a matter of fact, if somebody, if there's one or two people that comment we have to have you on.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: I guarantee you, though, I don't think it's a color thing. I think it's, it's, I don't think so. E. A people thing. It's a, it's a me. It's a mental thing, like a, it's how you think, it's how you put it out there of, of what you thought. Like, that's what I'm saying is I don't think your mom was doing it, like, to say. I don't think she was doing it, like, to be criminal. By stealing.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: No, she was doing it to be cheap and get her money.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: She might have been misled by somebody else, probably. And then since she ain't never been called or nobody ever said nothing to her, she just pass it on to you.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Right? And I, if, if, if my.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Which I don't think that has to do anything with color. I think that has happened in every single race around the world.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: I'll tell you this. I don't take them no more. But if I would have never got called to the. My Coach's office at 33, I'd probably still be taking them, man.
It's a night. It's a pillow, bro, for people come over late. Yeah, I'd still be doing it. I can't even lie. If I, if that, fine, wouldn't have happened. Anybody out there, I'd still be out.
[00:27:52] Speaker A: I need a Timothy.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: A John.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: A John? Yeah. I need, Come on, William. I need a, I need a strong Matthew right now. That's what I need, a strong Matthew to come out and be like, you know what, man? We used to do that all the time.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: You need that, Mr. Th.
[00:28:08] Speaker A: My mom used to put the pillows in our bags. That way. They didn't even have to show the bags. I, I, I've seen people do that with towels. I've seen folks take towels, bathrobes, but.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: Not, but not a pillow.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: Lotions, conditioners.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: No pillow, though.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: No pillows. I, I even seen somebody take the, the slippers. Yeah, the slippers left.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: No, not in my family.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Nobody left with us. I, I, I mean except for that I don't see, but I don't know if he just pulled that pillow out of his bag. He didn't, he didn't have, he didn't have one. When we were driving towards the first hotel. This man stayed in the hotel, I guarantee but he had one on the.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: Next one, I guarantee you that came from the hotel.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Anybody out there? Matthew, please, I need help.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Comment?
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Trevor, need you.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: Well, that's the story I had to share. I'm on an island, I'm willing to stay on that island. I just, I hope not. Get, get in the comments.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: We'll hear from him more than anything.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Hit the like, hit the subscribe and please get in the comments if you've taken the pillow. I've gotten enough no's. I don't need anybody saying you crazy.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: I've never taken it. You stupid, never taking the pillow.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: I've gotten enough people stating I'm crazy so I need the non crazies to please get in them comments. I need it. I need it. I can't be on this island alone. I'm Twitty, that's thc Aloha Twitty in the city.
