What's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office.

And today I'm sitting here with somebody who if you are in the industry, you know well.

But if you are a consumer or a fan of the industry, you may not know well and that has been by design.

Please welcome to the show, my friend Mr. Bay Frazier.

Thanks for having me, Rich. Pleasure to be here.

Of course, man. And there's a lot of exciting new things in your life, which is why I reached

out and wanted to have you on. And I have to be honest, I thought it was 50-50, you would say yes.

Because even when our staff Googled you and wanted to kind of learn this backstory that I knew just from hearsay

and knowing you and Mello, there was so little on you and I would imagine that that is what

you wanted. You grew up in Baltimore, right? Correct. And were you an athlete as a kid? Yeah,

I played all sports, baseball, football, basketball. Nothing to go to the next level, but high school, little high school. That was it. You knew early you weren't. I was a die hard. I'm a sports fanatic. Yeah. You know, so. It's be more, like, the way I look at New York City is, like, I want people to know I'm from New York City. You know what I'm saying? And I want people to understand that my personality is like defined by where I'm from. Do you feel that way about Baltimore? Absolutely. Like Baltimore is that, you know, that gritty. Just a smaller version. Yeah. Like New York City. Basically like one of the burrows, they're small, but it's a gritty town.

I love it.

Like, people talk, you know, you had so much negativity, but I love it. Like, I just, I go back. My home is still there on the outskirts, but it's still, I'm still in the city all the time. I get it. It's like, some people don't get it. Some people like they get all first plane smoking out of New York or like they grew up in Baltimore and they, hey, mom, when I'm 18, I'm out of here. But like I feel like I'm balancing at my best when I'm in my hometown still to this day. Yeah. You feel that way still? Exactly. Because I moved, you know, every place that Mello. I lived in Denver, lived in New York, lived in L.A. for a second, Houston for a second, Oklahoma City.

So I've seen everything, you know, moving around and always came back.

I kept my home there.

Yeah.

When did you meet Mello?

I've been knowing Mello since he's about 10,

like youth basketball watching him play,

and then we actually got close when he was 15.

It's a spot called the Dome, Madison Dome, where everybody played.

I took him over there to play.

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