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What's good, what's good, what's good, what's good, y'all.
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And it's uh your host, some people call me Jordan, some people call me Big Dreams, Jordan, some people call me BDJ, some people call me BD, whatever you know me as.
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I am the host of this program right here, The Big Dream Show.
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And this is episode 25.
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Yeah, 25, 25 of them things, man.
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Grateful, humble, just yeah, uh 25, man.
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That's a that's a significant milestone.
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That's that's something I'm very proud of.
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Excuse my voice if I sound a little a little hoarse or a little tired.
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I'm on a little bit of a run right now.
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I was out the country earlier this week.
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Well, last week until earlier this week.
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Got back straight into the grind, back to school, back to work.
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Then I got another another trip I'm preparing for.
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I'm gonna be in in California starting early next week.
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So there will still be an episode next week.
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It might be recorded.
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Not might.
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It'll be recorded a little earlier than usual.
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I'm still gonna release on Friday to keep with the consistency.
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But yeah, uh, life be life, but that don't mean we stop.
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I hope that y'all enjoyed the last couple episodes.
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Full transparency.
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I recorded the episode with Milan, episode 23.
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Episode 22, excuse me, I recorded the episode with Milan, and then the next day I recorded the episode with Shark, the NFL preview, which was episode 23, and then I ran the interview for in Residence last week with Kay from Eighth House.
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So in part time, I haven't missed a week, but in real time, it's been two or three weeks since I've been back in the studio.
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So with in spite of jet lag, in spite of my voice sounding a little hoarse, and in spite of not having the the reps, not having the routine that I usually have, I'm here and I'm excited.
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I'm excited to bring a great part to y'all.
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I'm saying that, but I'm tired of shit.
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And I think I I had one of the moments today, you can't quite explain.
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I hopped in the gas station just to get something, something uh to wake me up a little bit, a little beverage or something like that.
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And hopefully to the gas station and in my ears.
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I hear it.
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I hear it, y'all, I hear.
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Dirty soldier in the styrofoam.
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Spent the day to get my mind blown.
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Dress it up and go to NASA.
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200 miles on the dash.
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And when I heard that, I'm like, alright, everything's gonna be alright.
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It gave me that little, that little jolt, that little kick.
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I hit my I hit my second win.
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Need a second win at noon, it's crazy, but I hit my second win.
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And yeah, it's something, something, it's something about that future Hendrix, bro.
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I'm not gonna lie to y'all.
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It's something, it's something about future.
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He got a couple songs that really they just take you to a different time and space.
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My Savage is another one.
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I'd had some of the best moments of my life with my savages playing in the background.
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So shout out to Future.
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Thank you for all that you contributed to our culture.
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That last album was made to us, but we're not gonna hold that against you, just like we're not holding the the Burger King crispy chicken jingle against Mary J.
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Blige.
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Something's happening.
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I'm burying the lead, though.
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I'm bearing the lead.
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And if y'all can't tell by now, this is gonna be a solo episode, a little bit more stream of consciousness, a little bit getting back into the groove, you know, getting my swagger back right, getting my shit back right.
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But I'm bearing the lead because not only is this episode 25, and not only am I grateful of that milestone, but a few episodes ago, we actually crossed 1,000 total downloads.
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I think I think we're at 1,047 in total.
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Don't quote me on that.
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Shh, 1,000.
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So this is gonna be Mr.
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1K for sure.
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Again, just grateful.
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Just grateful.
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I had a real good talk.
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Shout out to the homie Brian H.
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Waters, breaking through Glass Sailors, and he has multiple media properties, got the wrestling realm, just launched a sports show, does uh Beyond the Gates recap.
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So shout out to the big homie.
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I was on his show yesterday, so that'll be releasing in a couple of weeks.
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Y'all will be able to hear that.
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You know, another interview, another real good, real good conversation about my story, my ambitions, how I kind of want to blend these concepts of media, media literacy, entrepreneurship, commerce in general.
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Just a good talk.
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But yeah, I was I was talking to him, and it was like, bro, I didn't even really get to put the the celebration for 1000 in motion.
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So it's nice to be back here with y'all, be back with the family, with the I don't know what we call ourselves the the dreamers is coin.
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We not no fucking dreamers, and we can't be BDs because Chicago, they got the trademark on the BDs.
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I don't I don't want to infringe over there.
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Just know this this thing is growing, man.
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Just know that this this thing is growing, huh?
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Yeah, so much I want to talk about, so much on my mind.
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Like I said, I haven't parted in a couple weeks.
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But for maybe the last time, you never know.
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Maybe the last time, let me get to these ground rules.
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And if this is your first time here, it's not an ominous maybe the last time, it's really a a running joke because every week for the past 25 episodes, I've said I was gonna record these ground rules in advance.
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And every week something has has interfered, but I I always the the the convenient thing is I always just have a a convenient excuse of why they didn't happen.
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So this may be the last next week.
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They might actually be done.
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Who knows?
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They are gonna be done one day, though.
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That's my word.
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They are gonna be done one day.
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And when they are done, my day one's gonna be like, oh damn.
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You finally did it, you finally recorded.
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Yeah.
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I ain't fucking around.
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So let's get into it.
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Let's get into it.
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Ground rule number one.
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And if you're new here, again the ground rules are kinda I mean they're the ground rules.
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I don't I don't like you never heard of fucking ground rules before, but they're they're they they uh they're the container, they're what you would expect from this show.
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Yeah, y'all, y'all know what ground rules are.
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I'm not gonna belabor that point at all.
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So, number one, these thoughts are strictly my own and do not reflect the views of any family, friends, partners, affiliates, or associates.
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Rule number two, we use vulgar language.
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If you didn't know, based on Bernie Mac saying, I ain't scared of you motherfuckers, in like the first 10 seconds of the show.
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Yes, we do cuss.
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This is a show by cusses for cusses.
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Number three, follow me.
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Not literally in the sense of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, whatever, whatever.
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But in the logical sense of, like I said, stream of consciousness is me sitting in front of a microphone in a room by myself for an hour to an hour and a half.
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So the way my mind works, sometimes there are tangents, sometimes there are things that might not seem interrelated, but I'm getting to a larger point.
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So in an era, in a time, in a place where it's easy to be distracted, it's easy to be overstimulated, so on and so forth.
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I just ask that you give me the most of your attention that you can.
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Or you'll get lost, you'll get lost in sus.
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Number four on that same token.
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Tell me if I'm tripping, if I make a mistake, if I make an error, if I say something that's incorrect, if I say something you don't agree with, if you if I if I'm tripping, like we all know what tripping is.
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We if you listen to this show and you're a grown ass adult, I think that you have a good idea of what tripping looks like, what tripping sounds like.
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So what I'm asking is you hold me accountable.
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The same way I hop on this on this podcast and I I hold motherfuckers accountable for the bullshit that they be on or the stupid shit they be saying and doing.
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I need that same thing because I'm even I'm not perfect.
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Infallible, that's the word I like back from my Catholic school days, the word infallible, that's one of them ones.
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But yeah, tell me if I'm tripping.
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Number five.
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Let me let me let me take another swig.
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I I don't like my energy right now.
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I feel like my energy low.
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Let me take another another swig of the potion real quick.
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Alright.
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Number five, help this thing grow.
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Nothing exists by itself.
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Nothing exists in a vacuum.
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Vice President Harris.
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See you at the quote that went viral.
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She's like, you think you just fell off the coconut tree?
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I thought that shit was hilarious, but the point being, I can't do this without y'all.
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So whether it be liking an episode, whether it be rating reviews, and I think I said on a previous episode I was gonna read some reviews.
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So let me take a quick pause for the cause and check the iTunes right now.
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But yeah, like it, rate, review, share it on your social media, share it with a friend, share it, share it with a family member.
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Just I know that there's a lot going on.
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I know there's a lot of shit.
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I know that you have an abundance of options of things you can listen to, things you can watch, things you can be doing.
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So I'm grateful for you, the listener.
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Don't ever get it twisted.
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But the goal is not to just have a small little little hobby.
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You get what I'm saying?
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The goal is for this to reach as many people as possible.
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And on that same token, I don't want to be, I'm not, I'm content with not being the biggest thing in the world.
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But I do want it to be very I do want to be very clear that the people that resonate with what I'm saying, the people that resonate with how I'm thinking, the people that resonate with my vision of the world, I do want you.
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I do want them.
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So if when you're listening to the show, if it strikes, oh, I think that's something that's so-and-so talked about, or dang, I learned about that in class.
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Maybe my professor would be interested.
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Whatever that spark looks like for you, I can't say, but whatever that spark looks like for you, just yeah, just act on that.
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And we do have a review on iTunes, so I'm gonna read that bad boy real quick.
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This podcast feels like it is a very much needed and a world going through cyclical nonsense, cyclical nonsense, dread and despair, a fresh perspective for the open-minded, an enunciation of thoughts that until now have remained just that, and validation that our realities are our own.
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It was a great start, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
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Kudos.
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So, yeah, a lot of big words, but everything helps, and I'm grateful that review.
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Shout out to Bookie.
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But yeah, help this thing grow.
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Help this thing grow.
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I don't I know that um it's a lesson just in life, but I know that one of the things that trip me out, I only speak for myself.
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I don't always know how to ask for what I need.
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I know that I need help with things, I know that I can't do everything by myself.
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I'm very clear on that.
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I'm very realistic in in that aspect of life.
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But I don't know if it's because I'm a man, I don't know because I'm a black man, I don't know because because of America, because of society, but for me, and not just professionally, but personally at times as well.
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It's hard for me to be honest with myself, to know what I need, what help I need, how someone can help me.
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I know that I need help, I know that I feel overwhelmed sometimes, I know that I feel like the world is is on my head, you get it, but vocalizing that help.
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So this is me attempting to get better at that by asking you to leave a review, asking you to share it out.
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Also, probably not probably not this episode, but in the coming weeks, by the end of the month, I'll say I'm gonna be launching a survey, like a listener survey, so I can learn more about y'all, the people that consistently listen to this thing.
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So that'll help me to think about what days and times make sense to drop.
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Does it make sense to even drop weekly?
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I'm probably still gonna drop weekly, but the data would be useful.
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What else?
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What else?
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Live shows looking at demographic, demographic information and know where y'all are listening from.
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So if I want to do a live show or a live pop-up or something like that, where would it make the most sense?
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So there's gonna be a survey coming out.
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Just pick y'all's brains, because I sit up here and talk for 25 episodes and a thousand plus downloads, not to brag, not to rag.
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But it's not just about me.
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And again, one of the things I talked about in the interview that's gonna be coming out with my guy Brian, I talked about I need to do a better job at the branding part of Big Dreams.
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People associate it with me, of course, because I I've named myself and branded myself and marketed myself as Big Dreams Jordan as the face of this brand, but I need to do a better job at fleshing out what the brand means to other people.
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Because it's not just about me, it's never just been about me.
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It's a vehicle that I have, it's a vehicle that I use to protect my intellectual property to get my creative ambition out there.
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But I don't want it to solely just be the shit that I do.
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I want it to be a thing, you know what I mean?
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I want it to be a creative house, I want it to be a something that benefits everyone that has a dream or some ambition or some shit that they chasing.
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So oh man.
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And again, this is why I don't like doing the ground rules, because I always get fucking sidetracked.
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Alright.
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Last but not least, do your research.
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Do your research, do your research as a kid.
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I'm a student, someone that loves learning, I'm someone that's curious.
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But I don't know everything, bruh.
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And especially in this age, in this generation, it's I shit, I be getting fooled by AI shit sometimes.
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So just do your research.
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Don't let anything I say about a topic be the exhaustive, everything you know about said topic.
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If it interests you, make sure you research, make sure you look at articles, journal articles, excuse me, different sources, videos, whatever it may be.
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But in this time of AI, and this time of social media, and this time of engagement, where people put you engaging with something, whether it's positive or negative, they just want the clicks and they just want their responses.
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And this time and this place where those are the precedents and everything is built on this quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
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Having the skill to focus, having the skill to research, having the skill to assess the source and its credibility and its validity is gonna take you very far.
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So yeah, that's all the ground rules.
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The ground rules out the way.
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I'm gonna hit those let's get ready to rumble.
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Let's get ready to podcast.
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Nah, that shit was corny.
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We we working on it, we working it out.
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Let's get ready to podcast.
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Nah, that shit whack.
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That shit wet.
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I like it better than let's get ready to rumble, though, because we don't really we don't really rumble here.
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I don't know.
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I guess we rumble with with dumb asses, but we're working on it.
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We're working on it.
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Still a work in progress.
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Nothing is nothing is perfect.
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But hey, episode 25, we alive.
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Mr.
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1K in the motherfucking building, man.
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Dirty Soda in the styrofoam.
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Dirty Sully in the can.
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About to make another jam.
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Shout out to all my minds.
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Shout out to all my fans.
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Yeah.
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I'll be rapping this shit too.
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My mixtape is gonna come out soon.
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Y'all gonna see.
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Alright, back to the topic.
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Back to the topic.
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So, where to start, where to start, where to start.
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Let's start with Let's start with this oil crisis.
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I know that's a a heavy subject, but I just wanna.
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No, I'm lying.
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I'm lying.
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We're gonna get to the oil crisis.
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Let's start here.
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Let's start with a fall sermon, because I don't know about y'all, but to me, summer is over once Labor Day hits.
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Once Labor Day hits, or once the kids are back at school, you can kinda pick your poison.
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But the last day of summer is Bro, they gave me a Google for Last of the Summer Wine.
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What the hell is that?
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The world's longest running sitcom?
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1973 to 20.
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What?
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Okay.
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I thought The Simpsons was the longest running sitcom, but okay.
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Tuesday, September 22nd is the last day of summer.
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And uh in meteorological what the fuck?
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And astronomical terms.
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I don't know what that means.
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I don't know what astronomical means.
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Oh, like astronomy.
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So why is astronomy different than meteorology?
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I'm sorry, this is hard.
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This is a horrible radio I'm doing right here.
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But the point being, whether you define summer as being already over, like myself, or you go by the seasons that is of the astronomical joint, that is Tuesday, September 22nd, for all intents and purposes, summer is cooked.
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Alright.
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For all intents and purposes, we're on the last quarter of the year, October, November, December.
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Also remember, y'all, because this shit grinds my gears every single fucking year.
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Quarters when you're talking about the calendar are three.
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Quarters when you're talking about quarters, like the the change are four.
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So September is not the start of the last quarter of the year.
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It's the start of the last third of the year.
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I don't know why people get on social media, and as soon as September hit, they start talking about the fourth quarter, but they're not talking to it, they start talking about it in present tense and not future.
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But yeah.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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But the point being, it's called fall, because that's when shit starts to fall down.
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So again, just let's just think about the calendar here.
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When you're hearing this, it'll be September 18th.
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The official last date of the summer is September 22nd.
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So the first day of fall is September 23rd.
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So you got September.
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Then you got October, which you got your homecoming seasons and Halloween, spooky shit, pumpkin spice, leaves turning.
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Then you got November, which is just a march towards Thanksgiving for a lot of folks, or Indigenous People's Day.
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Or is this Indigenous People's Day is not Thanksgiving.
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I'm sorry, that's uh the name for Columbus Day.
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But yeah, you got Sprint Wars for holidays in after Thanksgiving, you know, it rarely started to shut down.
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And then you got December, where the world is, well, the country is shut down for what, two weeks out the out the end of the year.
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So more or less, we're on the last 12 to 14 weeks of the year.
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Just wanted to set the stage, just to make sure we're all on the same page.
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Well, that being said, that's still enough time to do something, that's still enough time to make something happen.
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But one thing I'm grateful for for my time that I spent, my half a decade I spent with Black Yo Institute, is that in December we would prioritize rest.
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So it would be real, really intentional about not taking a whole bunch of meetings in December, making sure that you're up on your strategic plan for the year, the year that's going, that's outgoing, and the year that's incoming.
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Taking time for reflection, taking time for quiet, taking time for stillness, really trying to what's the word we're looking for?
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Really trying to mirror, yeah, okay.
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Really trying to mirror the seasons.
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So the way that as we move from summer to fall or autumn, whatever you prefer, summer to autumn to winter, you see nature start to slow down.
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The days get colder, the nights get longer, the animals start to hibernate, the leaves fall off the trees.
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We should do our best to pattern our ways after that.
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Because when you go against your biology, that's when you end up with shit like the seasonal depression.
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That's when you end up figure trying to figure out why you're burnt out in the wintertime because you're going against the natural flow.
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You're going against the natural, natural rhythm of things.
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So this I I encourage all y'all listening to take whatever time you need between now and we'll say between now and December, because once we get to December, people really start bailing in.
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But just think about how to wrap up this year.
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Think about what went well, what didn't go well for you, as well as what does next year need to look like.
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Try to get a jump on what you want January, February, March to feel like now.
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It doesn't have to be a a concrete plan, but just take a half hour, 45 minutes.
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Something I do.
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I'ma sit down, I'm gonna write October, I'm gonna write November, I'm gonna write December, I'm gonna write January, and I'm gonna write February.
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Because for me, my birthday's in February, so it's kind of that's kind of my New Year's in a way.
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And then I'll write down if it's not specific stuff that's going on, if it's not stuff that's on my calendar, is how I want them those months to feel, or what I want to move towards in those months.
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And yeah, so so take heed to those words.
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Don't feel hard on yourself.
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Don't don't go hard on yourself if you're not producing in a way that you feel like you should be, because.
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Keep in mind all this shit is just all this shit is made up.
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These aren't these aren't the the schedules, these aren't the calendars, like all this all this shit is made up.
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So yeah, take y'all time, pace yourselves throughout this season.
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Alright, let's talk about let's talk about Mexico.
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Let's talk about Mexico.
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So there is current wait, not Mexico.
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I'm tripping.
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Y'all bear with me, bro.
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Bear with me.
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This ain't my cleanest episode, but I like episodes like this, though.
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I don't I don't mind episodes where I'm slurring over my words or trying to get my thoughts together.
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I don't mind it, because those are the most human and most authentic episodes to me.
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While episodes where I do all the prep and I'm hip and it's yeah, boom, boom, boom, firing, firing, firing.
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I love those too.
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Don't get me wrong, but episodes like this where not necessarily I'm not gonna say I'm fighting through it, but episodes like this where I gotta have a little bit more grace for myself and I gotta have a little more patience with the way I cover each topic and the way I say everything and just making sure that I get all my thoughts off.
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Those are those are good ones too.
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And I hope that an episode like this where I'm very clearly not perfect.
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Hope that episode like this shows you the utility in showing up over showing up perfect.
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Same shit with the gym.
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You rather go to the gym and have a bad workout than have no workout.
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If you stack up four or five bad workouts, you still got four or five workouts in versus I don't feel like I'm not gonna do it, I don't feel like I'm not gonna do it.
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For me, I don't look at this as optional.
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I look at I look at recording on Thursdays as optional, because that's my schedule, but that's not hard and fast.
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But I do I do not look at having an episode come out every week.
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I don't look at that as optional.
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It's gonna come a day, I don't know when, but I'm sure it'll be before between now and the end of the year, where I'm probably not gonna be able to make it to the studio during the week, whether due to inclement weather, if it snows, or might be busy at school, might be busy at work there, there's a very real possibility that I won't be able to make it to the studio.
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So, what is that day gonna look like when I'm in the house and I'm figuring it out and I'm making it happen?
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And what is that gonna sound like?
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And the cat probably gonna jump up on the desk while I'm recording and you're gonna hear bells and shit.
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But just just making the point that your best rep is the rep that you put in.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be perfect.
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So yeah, man, back to this episode, back to the fall sermon.
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Back to the fall sermon.
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The year is the year's ending.
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The year's ending.
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What a year has been.
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It's been it's been quite a year.
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But yeah, it ain't over.
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It ain't over.
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Also, don't crash out.
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Don't blow all your money because it's Christmas.
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Don't do that.
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Don't do that.
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Because you want me looking stupid as shit.
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January, February, tax season.
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So don't blow all your money for Christmas.
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And ironically enough, right?
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It's gonna be an episode of this show that drops on Christmas Day.
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So that'll be that'll be something.
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That Merry Christmas, BDJ.
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I'm sure that again, I'm not gonna record that one live.
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I don't even know what the library is gonna be open on Christmas Eve for me to record that live.
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So again, just an example of the shit I just was talking about.
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I know I went down a whole tangent, a whole wormhole there, but that's how I go.
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I warned you.
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I I warned you about that.
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So, the oil crisis.
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The oil crisis, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
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Apparently, Iran said that the strait will be closed until both President Trump and BB Netanyahu are removed from office, removed from power.
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I don't think that's happening, so it might be a long time until the strait is closed.
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There have also been some attacks on some other sources of oil.
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I want to say that Russia attacked Ukraine's oil supply.
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I don't necessarily have the specific specifics off the top of my head, but I'm saying that to you to say heed that warning.
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If you listen to this and you haven't gotten gas, got gas, get gas, you have a trip plan for the holidays, book that travel immediately.
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The thing, the point being that if we're looking at gas, right?
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We're looking at gas, which is already a volatile resource because whether you study economics and shit like that or not, you know just by living in this world that gas prices go up and gas prices go down, right?
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So if events are happening that are decreasing the availability of gas, that scarcity going by the old law of supply and demand will make the price of gas go up.
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Not just the price of gas, but the cr the price of everything auxiliary ex auxiliary auxiliary, the price of everything that is around the gas.
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So that's the reason your flight ticket will go up because it's more expensive to fuel the plane, since it's more expensive to fuel the plane, it's gonna be more expensive for you to get on that plane, so on and so forth.
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So just be prepared.
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I've been saying shit on Twitter.
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I haven't been able to verify it, but there have been people saying that diesel truckers are like we're out of gas, or diesel prices are incredible.
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And again, when you talk about diesel, you're talking about how much it costs to ship some something from one place to another.
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So you're looking at how much it costs your goods in the grocery store to get from point A to the grocery shelves.
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We also have been dealing with massive recalls.
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So just all of these things are like a big shitty gumbo, a big shitty stew, just just working together.
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And hey, guess what?
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It's about to get cold outside, like we just talked about in the sermon.
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So if it's about to get cold outside, people are gonna be using more of what to heat their homes?
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Gas.
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Right.
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Alright.
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So, yeah, man, get ready for winter.
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Get ready for winter.
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That's all I'm gonna say on that tip.
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We can't do anything to control the oil.
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We could be more mindful of our consumption and more mindful of kind of how we're moving, how we're moving about the world.
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But when shit like this happens, you really gotta take a look at your expenses, take a look at your finances, look at everything with a fine-tooth comb.
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Maybe this isn't the year to ball out, maybe this isn't the year to go crazy for Christmas or for the birthdays.
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Maybe this is the year you kind of stack, you do something simple, you do something subtle, and just make sure you got the money in the bank for a rainy day.
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Because as people have been saying about this economy since Trump took over and immediately leveled levied tariffs on all of our allies and shit, the brunt of this will not be felt.
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The brunt of this would not be felt immediately.
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The brunt of the economic policies as well as the United States actions that have reduced our soft power, reduced our kind of benefit with our trading partners, all of these things, they have a lag to them.
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So when the president says some shit or the president does some shit, a lot of times the ramifications aren't felt immediately.
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So it's seeming that this winter into 2027 are going to be when we take the brunt of a lot of the economic pain that's going on right now.
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So yeah, I advise you to buckle down.
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I advise you to get tight with your money, get lean with your money.
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And there's a way that you can make money outside of a outside of a job, outside of a nine to five, and you can find a way to create your own hours and your own schedule and your own sources of revenue.
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I will highly encourage that.
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Y'all know me.
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If you don't know me, you know that.
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If you don't know me, then you know now that I'm someone that will encourage entrepreneurship when it's sunny or when it's rainy.
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I will always encourage people to have their own shit, whether it be a side hustle, whether it be LLC or escort.
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Shit, whether it be just you don't know if you're gonna be at the job 30 years, 40 years, and you know that we don't get no pensions no more, so you got you an IRA or Roth Roth IRA, to put that money aside to make sure you have your own retirement account.
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Shout out to the homie Jeffrey Holmes if you want to learn more about IRAs and retirement account and money management and financial management.
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We did an episode together.
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Episode, let's go to the archives.
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Episode boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom episode nine, money matters.
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So if y'all want a brief brief overview on some financial lyrics stuff, check out episode nine, Highland Jeffrey, certified, well, CPA.
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Right?
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CPA, certified financial planner, certified financial planner, CFP, sorry.
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Uh CPA is an accountant.
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But yeah, winter is coming.
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Winter is coming.
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Tighten up, tighten up, tell your people to tighten up.
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It's it's real out here, it's not it's not a joke, it's not a game.
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So I said earlier in the pod that I was in Mexico for a couple days last week and this week.
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I was out there with wifey, out there with with some some good members.
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Shout out to Ty, she's happy belated.
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And me and her were talking, and she was like, Would you move to Mexico?
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And I was like, I don't know.
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I don't know, but that's only because I just don't know as much about Mexico.
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But the idea of moving to another country definitely definitely been sticking with me.
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The older I get, the more I can see myself just eventually packing up and going to an island somewhere.
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I think that would be the best case scenario for me, an island or somewhere in South America, maybe maybe Cuba or Island in the Caribbean, something like that.
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But it's this old debate, right?
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It's this old subject of if America was built to be the final boss of white supremacy.
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And if we're seeing in our politics, if we're seeing in popular culture, we're seeing these things that are actively trying to repeal us having a a livable standard of life, us having representative media, they call it DEI and shit like that.
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If we're seeing people actively working to ensure that our downfall is perpetual, when do we start to look for other means?
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When do we start to look for, instead of trying to fight the system and fight the power and fight the power and fight the power, which I'm not saying to ever give up on.
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I understand that the struggle for civil rights is the same as the struggle for liberation, is the same as things that have been waged for hundreds of years.
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Whenever I was doing organizing work, one thing that Brother Eric, serving director and founder of Black Young Institute, one thing that he used to always bring up is the quote from I forgot who the civil rights leader was that initially said it, but the quote that we're planting trees of which we probably will not get to receive the shade of.
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We're planting trees of which we likely will never feel the shade of.
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So that idea that the work being done today, the work being done right now is not necessarily for us, but for future generations.
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But the question then becomes if they have a and they, I'm talking about the white supremacists in charge and the capitalist in charge and the oligarchs or whatever, whatever name you want to put on it, patriarchy, fucking colonialism, all of these things, right?
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If they've been working for 500 to a thousand years, at least install our downfall, when comes a point when we start to look for a escape route?
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When comes uh the point when you start to look at other countries as viable places.
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And I know for me, it'll be hard because all my family is here.
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That's one of the reasons I never I never really dabbled when I never really left left home.
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Because the ability to look at my parents, the ability to look at my family, look at my friends, look them in the eyes, and shit, have dinner with them and do all the all the things we kind of take for granted.
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That's always been a big deal to me.
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But the question still remains.
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The question still remains, when what does it look like?
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What does it look like to have an escape plan?
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What does it look like to have an escape road?
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Is it Mexico?
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And even if we want to take it out of the context of liberation and of the struggle for us to just be treated like goddamn human beings, if we want to take it out of there, just what does it look like to move?
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.239
What is it like to set up shop somewhere else far from home?
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South of the equator, shit, or north of north of the border, or south of the border, or across the country, across the world.
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:56.800
Like what does it look like realistically?
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And I'm asking.
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I'm asking, not just because it's just me in here talking by myself, but I'm genuinely asking because that's something I think about.
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:09.119
I would love to retire to an island somewhere at some point.
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Maybe when I got 30 more years in the game, just go to my island and live a simple life.
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It just it just feels beautiful.
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So hopefully we got another 30 years or so, because the way you're talking about AI, it sounds like something is going on.
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:46.960
A lot of whistleblowers have come out from different companies saying that the use of AI has been unethical, saying that AI has become more powerful than they could have imagined, saying that there's a 10% chance that in the next 10 or 20 years AI will bring about the downfall of civilization.
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You know, all the shit you want to hear, as well as all the shit science fiction war that's about shot at the Terminator.
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That's James Cameron, I think.
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I was gonna say shout out to James Cameron.
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.719
I'm pretty sure James Cameron made the Terminator.
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Hold on.
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Let me let me look it up.
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I don't want to give y'all misinformation.
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Misinformation.
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Hey, hell yeah.
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James Cameron was fired from his first directing job on Piranha 2, which inspired him to write and create the Terminator.
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That's lit.
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That's lit, man.
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Sometimes getting fired is what you need in life, right?
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So we got the Terminator.
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We got what's that other shit?
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Uh the shit with hell.
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Not Shallow How.
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Movie with hell.
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2001 a space Odyssey.
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Alright, we got the Matrix.
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We got all these things about all this this science, culture, and popular fiction about why shit, even our robot, but all this about why a super intelligence would be bad for humanity.
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We got all these things.
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We got all this this prior information from all these people that had, I would like to believe, at least some kind of some different level of clarity.
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Now, they might have been on different kinds of drugs and different kinds of drinks.
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But I think that the clarity that they had is why so much shit resonates from back in the G to now.
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But yeah, bro, they're saying the world is ending.
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:21.840
They're saying the world is ending.
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Again, I mean the world is always ending.
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.960
2012, the world was going in.
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:27.280
2000, the world was going in.
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The advent of television versus radio was gonna be the end of the world.
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.280
The advent of oh shit, they they say that the world is gonna end.
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I don't necessarily subscribe to it, and I advise you not to subscribe to it.
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While it is an existential threat to think about a superhuman, a super intelligence that's doing just pure logic-based this is what's good, this is what's bad for Earth or civilization or what.
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I guess the question is what's the what would be the super AI's motivation?
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Because yeah, whatever, whatever, whatever.
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Now we get into we're getting too deep into the subject.
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But I don't think the world's gonna end.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:13.599
I'm not afraid of AI.
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I think that shit is gonna be cool, to be honest with you.
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I think it's gonna keep doing whatever it's doing.
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It's gonna keep being developed.
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I don't I don't believe in the the fear mongering, at least right now, that everything is gonna go left.
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Just because I I just don't.
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I I gotta I gotta see it.
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Now, the report did come out from what's my man's name?
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My man who ran for president, Andrew Yang.
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Andrew Yang said that he was told that there was an AI system that was self-replicating code.
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And I've also seen reports, I forgot where is this been a long week, but I see of course that there are AIs that are talking to each other in like a unique language, and then when humans observe it, they stop talking.
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So yeah, there's something going on.
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There's something going on.
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And it sucks because it seems to me that the people that are in charge of the AI have the morality of a wild animal.
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Like they don't give a fuck about they don't give a fuck about who lives or who dies, as long as they can make the most money and push the shit the farthest, it seems.
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And that's an issue because nobody wants to nobody wants to put their guns down.
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China doesn't want to stop developing their AI.
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The US doesn't want to stop developing their AI.
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Nobody wants to be the one to miss out because whoever is able to crack the code on this God level fucking God level not in, you know, God level not in the sense of it's a replacement of God, but God level in the sense of once you get past a certain level of intelligence, when you once you get past a certain level of power, for all intents and purposes, you wield that level of power.
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So not in a blasphemous way, but just in a straight-up way.
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Everybody wanna be first.
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Same ship with the atomic bomb a hundred years ago.
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Everybody wanted to be the first to make the nuke because you knew the first person with the nuke was going to be able to drop the nuke and be able to drag their nuts in a different kind of way.
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You didn't want Germany to get it.
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So now the tables have turned.
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Not gonna say any more about that, but yeah, I'm not buying it to the AI's gonna trust all hype.
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I'm not buying it.
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I think that there will be some kind of it's like uh the term is singularity.
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I think that there will be a push towards singularity.
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I can see myself being one of the ones.
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I don't want no chip in my brain.
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:44.960
I don't I don't want to become a cyborg, I don't want none of that shit.
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But we'd be foolish to think that there aren't people that would take advantage of that.
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So I don't know.
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I don't know how I don't know how that that plays out at large across society.
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I don't know if it looks like there's a underclass of normal people and then the upper class of people with chips in their brains, or I don't know how the shit.
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:08.559
And it all sounds very science fiction and very dystopian, but shit, so do self-driving cars, and now we got them.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:13.599
So then all the shit I've only gonna do, that all sounded pie in the sky.
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:20.480
So and you can see I'm very conflicted on the subject because I think that technology will continue to move forward.
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:29.679
I don't think it'll bring about the end of us, but I do think that the people that are working to develop it at a level that could bring about the end of us wouldn't really give a fuck if it did bring about the end of us.
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:33.440
So that's kind of where where my uh my feelings lie about it.
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But hey, believe in something, fuck, nigga.
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Pray to God, pray to Jesus, pray to pray to whatever you believe, whatever you believe, because your spirituality and your morality are gonna be the things that set you apart from the inhuman monsters that are that are definitely on the way.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.880
So what else we got?
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Oh, speaking of inhuman monsters, somehow Mitch McConnell returned.
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That's fucked up.
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Hey, Senate, Congress, people, anybody that's in the meetings with that man, yo, y'all fucked up.
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Y'all hearing it from me first.
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Again.
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These are just my thoughts.
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These don't reflect.
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Nobody else.
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Y'all fucked up bringing that dead man out there.
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He, bro, he was just sitting there smiling.
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:13.840
He don't know what's going on.
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.079
He clearly lost some brain function.
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That's not right, bro.
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That's not right.
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.000
I don't think it's right for anybody making a decision.
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:23.599
Somebody, I think it was Market Mondays.
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:39.440
Market Mondays were earn your leisure and done that, but they were making the point that a lot of the politicians that are making decisions around AI governance, around technology, around this shit in general, they don't have the requisite skill set to be able to think about them things.
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So if you've been in, for example, just say, well, let's let's take let's use Ms.
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:44.320
McConnell as an example.
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How long has Ms.
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McConnell has been in Congress?
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I'm sorry, Senate.
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How long has he been a senator?
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:01.119
He's been a senator for 40 years.
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So when he was elected, it was 1984.
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:06.960
He was elected in 1984.
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Make a decision on what the next 40, 50, 60 years are gonna look like.
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:13.360
That doesn't make sense.
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:14.719
And that was the point they were making.
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It was like if you are a politician, you need you should you should have some kind of specialized policies-based education that touches on a lot of different things because they're not qualified, they're not qualified to talk about the shit.
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:32.480
They're not qualified to make these decisions, they don't have the prerequisite skills to be able to understand.
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.679
I mean, they got Lindsay Graham's sister up there, and her qualification is actually Lindsay Graham's sister.
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:38.960
What?
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:41.679
So Yeah, man.
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:43.679
A lot of doom and gloom this week.
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:48.159
A lot of doom and gloom, and that's why you can't really get caught up.
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:56.400
You can't really get caught up in the big picture sometimes, cause for as much doom and gloom as it is, when I was in Mexico, it was all smiles, it was all love.
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.760
When I'm doing my day to day and I'm around where I be at.
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It's all smiles.
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That's all I love.
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.960
But the media will paint the picture that the world is in and that everything is on fire.
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.719
You gotta kind of hold both in your head and in your heart.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:16.000
You gotta be aware that bad shit is happening in the world and good shit is happening in the world.
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:19.840
I try to be an agent to uplift the good and fight against the bad.
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:21.840
There are other people out there, they just straight bad.
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:23.280
The other people out there, they don't give a fuck.
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.639
They don't give a fuck about good or bad.
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:26.159
They just moving how they gonna move.
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:28.159
And you gotta be aware that all that exists.
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.639
But the idea is not to dwell on it.
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.559
The idea is just as likely as there can be an AI, evil, super intelligence.
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There can be a world that looked like the world we was promised when we was growing up, where everybody, all races, all ethnicities, all genders, holding hands and singing kumbaya and shit.
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.519
Like it's up to us and our collective imaginations to create the world that we want to see.
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:52.960
You just can't be scared.
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:54.320
Can't be scared about that shit.
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:55.440
You gotta have a vision.
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.400
You gotta have a vision, you gotta have, you gotta have a compass, you gotta you gotta be sure in yourself, you gotta know yourself.
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.159
And maybe you're not sure in yourself, but you want to make a change, you gotta figure that shit out.
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.800
How do you make a change at the smallest level in your community?
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:13.039
How do you make a change on like if it yeah, I'm getting I'm getting riled up.
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.280
I guess the I guess the the drink kicking in.
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.480
I'm getting riled up.
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.760
But somebody I dare see that made a change that I I think is dope.
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:20.719
Ryan Clark.
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.960
So Ryan Clark, if y'all know Ryan Clark was a former NFL player, he played for the Steelers.
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.880
I wasn't fucking with him on the Steelers, I ain't gonna lie, Ravens, baby, Ravens all day.
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:41.679
But after his playing career, he became a prominent media NFL analyst for both ESPN as well as his own platform with Brian and Marshall, Channing, Crowder, Fred Taylor.
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.800
That shit was I Am Athlete.
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.960
So contract dispute came up.
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.480
Those guys ended up leaving I Am Athlete, except for Brian and Marshall.
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.719
They continued to do the pivot, Ryan Clark continued to work at ASPN, all was good.
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.039
And then a few episodes back I talked about it.
00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.199
Ryan Clark was fired from the SPN.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.920
I guess they were making a bunch of cuts or they didn't like how he talked to Peter Schrager because he said we talked about football and I used to play football.
00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:08.079
You never played football, you can't really tell me shit.
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:09.119
Which is crazy.
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:10.239
That's a great thing to say.
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:17.039
I understand both perspectives, but you you can't really can't bring a little broad man like that at nine in the morning and expect it not to be no consequences.
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.079
But I don't think that was the whole reason why he was fired.
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.800
I don't think, yeah, I think that's deeper than that.
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:34.480
Yes, being clearly is going through a cultural and tonal shift away from where they were in the in the early to mid 2000s to now they kind of patter into a a more conservative base.
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.519
And hey, y'all, y'all a company.
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:38.480
Y'all gonna do what y'all gonna do.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.840
Y'all gonna do what y'all gotta do to make money.
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:40.719
Shout out to Target.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:45.679
Fuck Target, but y'all gonna do what y'all gotta do to make money and appeal to who y'all think will give y'all the most bang for y'all buck.
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:47.199
But this ain't about ESPN.
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:48.320
This ain't about Target.
00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:49.599
This is about Ryan Clark.
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:55.920
So what Ryan Clark andveed at the top of this NFL season is they upgraded how the pivot looks.
00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:01.679
So now they got a full studio set up to where people were seeing it, and they're like, is this sports center?
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:05.519
Ryan Clark made his own sports center, made his own ESPN, and it's that.
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.480
That is the that is the power that we need to wield.
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.920
That is that needs to be the goal of what we strive towards.
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:14.000
And I wouldn't even say make my own ESPN.
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:16.079
I say he made his own sports network.
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:17.360
Fuck a ESPN.
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:18.480
You get me?
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:22.480
Like so, yeah, it's that it's that independence and that agency.
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:29.840
And if you remember, if you listen to the episode where I spoke about him being fired from ESPN, I think I brought up Shannon Sharp as well.
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:36.239
I spoke about these brothers having built their own thing, so the laws won't be the same.
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:44.239
It's different if you pour in all your time, your energy, your effort into this place and you get your check and everything is all good.
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:47.599
But the second they decide you're done, the second they decide you clip, you out of there.
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:49.599
It's different when you got your own shit.
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:58.960
It's different when you get fired from an ESPN and can still go on your podcast the next day and give out your side of the story as well as give out your opinions.
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:02.960
It's different when you got the equity and you got the leverage.
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:17.519
So now you can take the money from either your playing days and or investments and or what you would do outside of football, whether it be appearing on TV and shit like that, you can take that money, flip it, and build your own shit.
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.639
That's the goal, and that's how we need to be thinking as a people.
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:22.079
That's how we need to be thinking.
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:27.199
We need we fuck trying to get accepted, fuck trying to assimilate.
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:28.320
Get what I'm saying?
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.760
We need to be figuring out how to build our own shit by us and for us.
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:48.880
Because then if we got our own shit, if I got big dreams media and big dreams media, instead of trying to get bought up by complex or bought up by some private equity firm, if I'm trying to build that into the biggest possible thing I can do, then I can look back and hand out jobs to people.
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.199
I can look back and hand out opportunities to people.
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:52.719
I can give you an internship.
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:53.920
I can plug you in it.
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.320
Yo, I need somebody to run my operations bet.
00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:58.320
I need somebody to run my logistics bet.
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:00.000
I need somebody to do my marketing bet.
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:01.840
I need a lease with a bill.
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.199
Let me try to find a black landlord or a landlord that is supportive.
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:08.239
Like, we can build a whole network and a whole ecosystem.
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:09.920
And you can't tell me it hasn't been done.
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:11.679
You can't tell me it's not possible.
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.719
Because I just seen Ryan Clark go on do the shit.
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:15.920
I'm from Pikesville.
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.599
I'm from Baltimore County.
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:20.400
I seen how they look on Park Heights, you feel me?
00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.559
I seen the control that they wield.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:23.760
I've seen it.
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:24.960
I've traveled a lot.
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.400
You don't even gotta travel far.
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:35.039
You can go to Allegas City up there by the HMR and by the Walmart and see how that whole shopping center is all people of one race, one ethnicity.
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:38.320
So you can't tell me that there's no viable path.
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:39.760
And I've seen us do it.
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:45.840
Or I've read about it, I haven't seen it because by the time I was saying it, it was it was burnt down, it was history, but we've seen Black Wall Street.
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:46.639
You feel me?
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:48.559
We've seen multiple Black Wall Streets.
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Fate that they fate that they endured aside.
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.320
We've seen it, so we know it's possible.
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:59.119
It's just about we need to get our collective equity and we need to get our people together.
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:06.800
And again, I don't want this to be confused with me saying capitalism is going to be the source of our liberation, because I don't believe that.
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:14.719
But in the day and time that we live in now, you need money for survival and you need places for us by us for survival.
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:16.239
We're talking about survival.
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:20.079
We're not talking about, we're not even talking about trying to reach generational wealth.
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:24.480
We're not even talking about trying to be millionaires and billionaires and shit like that.
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:27.599
We at this point in time, we're talking about survival.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:37.039
We talking about taking some of that spending power that we have and all of this cultural capital that we have and keeping it with us, saying we up.
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:40.639
Not saying don't fuck with the people over there, fuck with who fuck with us.
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And it's the same shit Michael Mess was saying back in the day.
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He just ain't he just ain't giving up the way I'm giving it up.
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:56.400
But literally, bro, we need to be figuring out how we can make more money and keep more money in our communities because shit is gonna happen, shit is gonna come up.
00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:12.079
And while we would love to see the revolution, and while we'd love to see a world and a system that's not built upon capitalism and not built on amount not built upon economic exploitation, to get there in this day and age, it takes money.
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:22.639
You need money to donate to the people on the ground that are doing the work, that are helping people out, that are doing the mutual aid markets, that are running the urban gardens, the people you need money to get people out of jail.
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.679
You need bail funds for people that are marching in the streets, you need all of these things.
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:38.559
You need money and education to make sure that our kids are getting educated and facilities that are adequate and appropriate, that they got fucking heat in the winter and they got AC in the summer.
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:39.519
You need money for that.
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:40.719
You need money for these things.
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.480
Everything that we want to see in this world, it takes money.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:55.840
Once we got the money, once we got the base, once we got the blueprint, uh boom, we got little Africa or Little Ghana, little Haiti, or whatever, and all the cities across the map.
00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:22.639
Once we got that to a level, once we got safe spaces for people that are enduring hardships economically, financially, mentally, once we got a good foundation on what political education looks like, so that once we get these resources in these spaces, we're not perpetuating the shit that we learn through white supremacy, through capitalism, then we can talk about what it looks like to probably pull our resources and go get some land out in Ghana, go get some land out in Jamaica, go get some land out somewhere that look like that, some land in fucking Africa, you feel me?
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:23.760
Then we can talk about that.
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:26.719
Then we can have them conversations, but you need the capital to get there.
00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:29.039
You can't build a house off good intention.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.199
You can't get shelter off good intention.
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People is hungry, they can't eat well, wishes and prayers.
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They need food, they need money.
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So, yeah, that's where I'm at with it.
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So, Ryan Clark, salute to you.
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Uh, yeah, got me inspired, got me fired out.
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.119
Cam Newton, that's the name I brought up.
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Cam Newton, salute to you, building your shit out.
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Salute to everybody that is on the wave right now, and and and that's taking that money and that influence and that power and then giving back to try to lift someone else up.
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:01.840
That's what it's all about.
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:04.800
Alright.
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.760
I got football talk going here, but I don't really want to talk football.
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I mean, the Ravens, they look good.
00:53:11.679 --> 00:53:12.880
Had some injuries.
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:13.760
They look good.
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:19.280
A lot of my predictions came true that I talked about on the episode with the shark, episode 23.
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.679
K9 was a beast, because you know, Andrew Reid is a running back whisperer, so that coming.
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:25.360
The Chargers prediction was off.
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The Chargers didn't end up really doing shit.
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:28.960
What else?
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What else?
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:30.639
I had some I had some predictions.
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.960
They was they was hitting, but I can't I can't remember off the top of my head.
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:36.800
Yeah, but whatever.
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So NFL's back.
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NFL's back.
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:40.239
Nothing really made just report.
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.480
Kyle Kavernick is doing a media tour.
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:49.039
I saw that he was on higher learning with Van and Rachel, and he was on the Karen Hunter show or Sirius XM.
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:55.199
So I'm excited to listen to that to see, because he doesn't he hasn't done a lot of public speaking, if I'm not mistaken.
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:58.239
He hasn't done a lot of interviews over the past three years.
00:53:58.400 --> 00:53:59.760
So I mean I'm excited.
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I'm not excited, that's not a word.
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:07.760
I'm interested to see what Kyle Kapanick's perspective is at this day and age.
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:10.639
Yeah, so so we'll see.
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.320
Like I said, on the NFL side, I don't I don't really got too much.
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.400
I don't I don't really got too much on the NFL.
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:24.639
I think that the Ravens are still in pole position to win a Super Bowl, so hopefully, hopefully the city of Baltimore gets a Super Bowl before it's all said and done.
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.599
Seems like that offensive coordinator we got Declan Doyle.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.920
It seems like he's a he's a special guy.
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:32.320
I I don't see him being in Baltimore long.
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:32.960
What else?
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Any other random thoughts, JSN?
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.280
Picking up where he left off last season.
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:40.000
Bucky Irving looking good.
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:42.800
Bucky Irving looked good for the the Buccaneers.
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Yeah, nah, we'll we'll get the NFL later.
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We'll we'll get the NFL shit later.
00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:49.920
For now, I I don't know.
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:58.000
Anything else on this topic board that I need to get to before I close this out.
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We're going at we we around an hour.
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:03.119
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna force the point.
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I'm gonna say hold your head to the Kennedy Center saying that they might be closing soon due to due to bankruptcy.
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:25.119
I'm sure that has no I'm sure that's in no way related to President Trump just being an asshole and trying to put his name on it and kind of driving away the liberal arts community from what is one of the home of one of the homes of art.
00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:27.519
I just feel for the people.
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:36.400
Feel for the people that lost their jobs, feel for the people that missing out on art that they were excited to see or speeches that they were excited to see.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.800
Feel for the people that never got to visit the Kennedy Center.
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:42.960
Hopefully all that shit works out.
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:44.800
Hey man, that's life.
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:46.719
We can only control what we can control.
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Hold your head.
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:54.079
Also to the man that died from getting getting dick enlargement surgery.
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I wasn't doing the pod.
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.639
I wasn't doing a lot of pod, so I couldn't really talk about it.
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:00.639
But just hold your head to that, man.
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:09.840
Uh a lot have made the point that if you were there with your wife, then she was more than likely satisfied with what you had going on and you didn't need to do that.
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:11.679
It's just it just sucks.
00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:19.280
Um you don't know a story, uh uh a fella went to can't remember the country, don't want to Google it on public Wi-Fi.
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:23.360
But a fella went to a country, I think Thailand.
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:26.639
A fella and his wife went to Thailand for a birthday trip.
00:56:26.800 --> 00:56:35.679
And while in Thailand, don't quote me, he got hydraulic acid pumped into his dick to make it girthier.
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:46.800
Had to let that sentence breathe real quick, because no one no one in my in my bloodline has said or heard that sentence before, so I had to I had to give it a second.
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:53.519
But yeah, he did that and he ended up he ended up passing away as a result of complications.
00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:55.119
And you always hate it.
00:56:55.199 --> 00:57:00.000
You always hate when people pass away from unnecessary unnecessary shit.
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:03.280
It's always sad when people pass away during cosmetic surgery.
00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:13.920
I have a I have a real real sour spot for people who had to go through surgery, meaning that I was born with a cleft lip and palate, so I'm no stranger to the surgeries.
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:22.719
I'm I don't even know how many surgeries I had to get in my life, literally, on my face, on my on my face, on my mouth, on my hip, whole bunch of shit.
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:34.800
So I yeah, that surgery should get wicked, but to die over such a yeah, to die with some shit like that, bro, it's just hey man.
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:36.159
Hold your head, hold your head.
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:38.719
Because now that's your legacy, like that's the thing.
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:40.719
Now that's your legacy.
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:43.039
Um also hold your head to Boosie.
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:52.719
Not as I'm not as graceful with him as I will be with with as I have, as I was with with the guy that died from dick surgery.
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.400
I tried to try to tap dance around that one a little bit, because uh it's a it's a lot going on for you to do some shit like that.
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.199
But Boosie, you just I'm asked my boy.
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:10.960
Yeah, if y'all haven't already, just go look at the the text messages that Boosie and the guy that was supposed to give him the partner for$600,000.
00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:12.480
Just go look at the text messages.
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.000
It was that nigga wasn't even spelling Trump right, trying to give you a pardon.
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:21.440
Also, why would a pardon only be six hundred thousand dollars?
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:29.519
Why now I know in saying that I know that you can't you legally can't pay for a pardon, I know that.
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:36.719
But I'm also aware that we are enduring the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States.
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:54.320
So I'm saying if the gold card was a million, the free the the gold card was a million that they were offering to kind of give you citizenship and help you avoid your crimes, if that was a million, why would something similar only be 600k?
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.199
And why would you go to somebody that's not in the administration?
00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:58.480
It's just it's just stupid.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:58:59.599
It's just stupid shit.
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It's stupid as shit.
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Be careful with your money, folks.
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And be careful with your name.
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.599
Like, don't don't do no shit that you need to be pardoned for or from.
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:10.960
That's my advice.
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:14.800
Alright, let's shout out to a couple of homies and let's take it home.
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.360
I feel my I feel my energy fading out of this motherfucker.
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:19.039
But shout out to the homies.
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:29.519
I want to send a special shout out to uh some some guys from around the way some John Wells, Scotty Banks, Chris Cashes, Ricky Jacobs, Mac Scott.
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:42.800
Guys I know for a minute, just just off of being a creator, being a creative, doing our thing, doing our thing in the I don't want to say the music scene, but just doing our thing for a while.
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.639
Yeah, man, I seen I've seen these guys at it for a while.
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:53.679
So to see them continue to grow and continue to evolve, releasing new projects, Mac doing different stuff with the producers.
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:58.719
Ricky got a project coming out, John Wells' project dropped, Scotty's project dropped.
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:24.159
I think Chris Cash has got I know Chris dropped a single, if I'm not mistaken, but seeing seeing seeing guys that have been in this game, this media, this weird independent media and rapping and producing and just backpack kind of wave, these guys that similar to myself that we just been at it for a decade, a decade plus of just trying to chase our dreams and figure it out.
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:35.119
Seeing seeing these men continue to evolve into better versions of themselves, musically, stylistically, creatively, marketing-wise, branding-wise.
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:36.719
That shit put a battery in my back.
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.440
Ryan A's Waters, too, who I mentioned at the type of the podcast, doing so many different things.
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.239
That's the type of shit that inspires me.
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:50.000
Seeing people not be still, not be standing, and not lose their not lose the the love of shit.
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:55.840
Cause one thing that we don't talk about, the shit ain't all glamorous, the shit ain't all love.
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:01.760
I'll come in here and record a podcast for two hours off the love, off the strength, but that's not all that goes into it.
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:06.719
It's not just me sitting here and turning the mic on, no matter how good I am, that you might think that.
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.639
It's not just me sitting here and turning the mic on.
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:14.559
It's me sitting here, it's me sitting in traffic on a Tuesday thinking about some shit that I'm gonna talk.
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:15.920
I'm gonna talk about on Thursday.
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:34.960
It's me at 11 o'clock at night after I finish my homework for class, thinking about what the next 10, 15 episodes can look like, is emails not getting returned, is numbers on episodes not hitting where I want them to hit, is it's the good, the bad, and the ugly that goes all into it.
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:45.119
So to see my my parents continue to redefine themselves, redefine success, hit new levels of success, and just keep pushing for it.
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:50.639
That's the type of shit put the battery in my back that makes me keep going and keep wanting to strive and innovate.
01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:51.920
So salute to the guys.
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If y'all don't know them, them fellas, please uh make sure you check them out, check out that what they're producing from the music to the shows to the media to the socials and all that.
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:06.480
It's it's definitely dope to see.
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.119
Alright, we made it through.
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:10.079
We made it through.
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Around the hour.
01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:12.960
Alright, well that was real aggressive.
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:14.400
That was stiff, my bad.
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:16.320
But yeah, we made it through, man.
01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:21.840
I'ma go and get me something to eat, cuz I'm tired and I'm hungry.
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:23.519
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:31.119
Like I say, a little more stream of consciousness, a little, a little more rule number four than most, but I'm grateful for it.
01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:48.719
Anytime I can come in here, it's a blessing to be able to come in here and have the skill set to be able to talk for an hour, reflect, share, learn, and to do it in community, to do it with people that listen every week, or people that haven't even listened yet, that will come back and bench you to come back and discover this.
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:51.519
It's just it's a it's a blessing, man.
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:52.159
It's a blessing.
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:53.280
I don't take it for granted.
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.599
So that's why I try not to miss a week.
01:02:55.840 --> 01:03:04.480
That's why I try to figure out how I'm gonna fit this show into my schedule, as well as figuring out ways for it to grow, ways for it to expand.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:10.960
No matter how busy I get, no matter where I end up in this world, I'm gonna try my best to make sure this shit drop every week.
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That's my word.
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So until next time, until you hear the sound of my voice again, please stay safe.
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:18.880
Please chase that dream.
01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:27.599
If you got a dream or an idea, some shit on your heart, and you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't go a day without thinking about it.
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Act on that shit.
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Do it shitty, do it, do it ass.
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Do it not knowing, just do it because us taking bold action and bold swings towards our dreams, in my opinion, are the only ways that we can feed the collective imagination enough to move out of whatever bullshit is going on here.
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So all love from your boy BD.
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Until next time, y'all be easy.
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Isabel, I heard your statement, you said it well, but that doesn't make it the truth.
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Once again, you failed just the bell.
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You act like an angel, pretend it well.
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But you're a demon, we know the difference.
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I haven't held Jabel.
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How could you say I haven't fed you well?
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When you was locked up, I brought your own bitch a mail, just a bell.
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That's the ball, bitch of bell.
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I kept your money.
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What's good, what's good, what's good, what's good, y'all.
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And it's uh your host, some people call me Jordan, some people call me Big Dreams, Jordan, some people call me BDJ, some people call me BD, whatever you know me as.
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I am the host of this program right here, The Big Dream Show.
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And this is episode 25.
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Yeah, 25, 25 of them things, man.
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Grateful, humble, just yeah, uh 25, man.
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That's a that's a significant milestone.
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That's that's something I'm very proud of.
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Excuse my voice if I sound a little a little hoarse or a little tired.
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I'm on a little bit of a run right now.
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I was out the country earlier this week.
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Well, last week until earlier this week.
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Got back straight into the grind, back to school, back to work.
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Then I got another another trip I'm preparing for.
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I'm gonna be in in California starting early next week.
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So there will still be an episode next week.
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It might be recorded.
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Not might.
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It'll be recorded a little earlier than usual.
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I'm still gonna release on Friday to keep with the consistency.
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But yeah, uh, life be life, but that don't mean we stop.
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I hope that y'all enjoyed the last couple episodes.
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Full transparency.
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I recorded the episode with Milan, episode 23.
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Episode 22, excuse me, I recorded the episode with Milan, and then the next day I recorded the episode with Shark, the NFL preview, which was episode 23, and then I ran the interview for in Residence last week with Kay from Eighth House.
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So in part time, I haven't missed a week, but in real time, it's been two or three weeks since I've been back in the studio.
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So with in spite of jet lag, in spite of my voice sounding a little hoarse, and in spite of not having the the reps, not having the routine that I usually have, I'm here and I'm excited.
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I'm excited to bring a great part to y'all.
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I'm saying that, but I'm tired of shit.
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And I think I I had one of the moments today, you can't quite explain.
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I hopped in the gas station just to get something, something uh to wake me up a little bit, a little beverage or something like that.
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And hopefully to the gas station and in my ears.
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I hear it.
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I hear it, y'all, I hear.
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Dirty soldier in the styrofoam.
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Spent the day to get my mind blown.
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Dress it up and go to NASA.
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200 miles on the dash.
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And when I heard that, I'm like, alright, everything's gonna be alright.
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It gave me that little, that little jolt, that little kick.
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I hit my I hit my second win.
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Need a second win at noon, it's crazy, but I hit my second win.
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And yeah, it's something, something, it's something about that future Hendrix, bro.
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I'm not gonna lie to y'all.
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It's something, it's something about future.
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He got a couple songs that really they just take you to a different time and space.
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My Savage is another one.
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I'd had some of the best moments of my life with my savages playing in the background.
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So shout out to Future.
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Thank you for all that you contributed to our culture.
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That last album was made to us, but we're not gonna hold that against you, just like we're not holding the the Burger King crispy chicken jingle against Mary J.
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Blige.
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Something's happening.
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I'm burying the lead, though.
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I'm bearing the lead.
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And if y'all can't tell by now, this is gonna be a solo episode, a little bit more stream of consciousness, a little bit getting back into the groove, you know, getting my swagger back right, getting my shit back right.
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But I'm bearing the lead because not only is this episode 25, and not only am I grateful of that milestone, but a few episodes ago, we actually crossed 1,000 total downloads.
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I think I think we're at 1,047 in total.
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Don't quote me on that.
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Shh, 1,000.
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So this is gonna be Mr.
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1K for sure.
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Again, just grateful.
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Just grateful.
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I had a real good talk.
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Shout out to the homie Brian H.
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Waters, breaking through Glass Sailors, and he has multiple media properties, got the wrestling realm, just launched a sports show, does uh Beyond the Gates recap.
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So shout out to the big homie.
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I was on his show yesterday, so that'll be releasing in a couple of weeks.
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Y'all will be able to hear that.
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You know, another interview, another real good, real good conversation about my story, my ambitions, how I kind of want to blend these concepts of media, media literacy, entrepreneurship, commerce in general.
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Just a good talk.
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But yeah, I was I was talking to him, and it was like, bro, I didn't even really get to put the the celebration for 1000 in motion.
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So it's nice to be back here with y'all, be back with the family, with the I don't know what we call ourselves the the dreamers is coin.
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We not no fucking dreamers, and we can't be BDs because Chicago, they got the trademark on the BDs.
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I don't I don't want to infringe over there.
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Just know this this thing is growing, man.
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Just know that this this thing is growing, huh?
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Yeah, so much I want to talk about, so much on my mind.
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Like I said, I haven't parted in a couple weeks.
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But for maybe the last time, you never know.
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Maybe the last time, let me get to these ground rules.
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And if this is your first time here, it's not an ominous maybe the last time, it's really a a running joke because every week for the past 25 episodes, I've said I was gonna record these ground rules in advance.
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And every week something has has interfered, but I I always the the the convenient thing is I always just have a a convenient excuse of why they didn't happen.
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So this may be the last next week.
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They might actually be done.
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Who knows?
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They are gonna be done one day, though.
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That's my word.
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They are gonna be done one day.
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And when they are done, my day one's gonna be like, oh damn.
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You finally did it, you finally recorded.
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Yeah.
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I ain't fucking around.
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So let's get into it.
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Let's get into it.
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Ground rule number one.
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And if you're new here, again the ground rules are kinda I mean they're the ground rules.
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I don't I don't like you never heard of fucking ground rules before, but they're they're they they uh they're the container, they're what you would expect from this show.
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Yeah, y'all, y'all know what ground rules are.
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I'm not gonna belabor that point at all.
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So, number one, these thoughts are strictly my own and do not reflect the views of any family, friends, partners, affiliates, or associates.
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Rule number two, we use vulgar language.
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If you didn't know, based on Bernie Mac saying, I ain't scared of you motherfuckers, in like the first 10 seconds of the show.
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Yes, we do cuss.
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This is a show by cusses for cusses.
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Number three, follow me.
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Not literally in the sense of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, whatever, whatever.
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But in the logical sense of, like I said, stream of consciousness is me sitting in front of a microphone in a room by myself for an hour to an hour and a half.
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So the way my mind works, sometimes there are tangents, sometimes there are things that might not seem interrelated, but I'm getting to a larger point.
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So in an era, in a time, in a place where it's easy to be distracted, it's easy to be overstimulated, so on and so forth.
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I just ask that you give me the most of your attention that you can.
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Or you'll get lost, you'll get lost in sus.
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Number four on that same token.
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Tell me if I'm tripping, if I make a mistake, if I make an error, if I say something that's incorrect, if I say something you don't agree with, if you if I if I'm tripping, like we all know what tripping is.
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We if you listen to this show and you're a grown ass adult, I think that you have a good idea of what tripping looks like, what tripping sounds like.
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So what I'm asking is you hold me accountable.
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The same way I hop on this on this podcast and I I hold motherfuckers accountable for the bullshit that they be on or the stupid shit they be saying and doing.
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I need that same thing because I'm even I'm not perfect.
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Infallible, that's the word I like back from my Catholic school days, the word infallible, that's one of them ones.
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But yeah, tell me if I'm tripping.
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Number five.
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Let me let me let me take another swig.
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I I don't like my energy right now.
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I feel like my energy low.
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Let me take another another swig of the potion real quick.
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Alright.
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Number five, help this thing grow.
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Nothing exists by itself.
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Nothing exists in a vacuum.
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Vice President Harris.
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See you at the quote that went viral.
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She's like, you think you just fell off the coconut tree?
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I thought that shit was hilarious, but the point being, I can't do this without y'all.
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So whether it be liking an episode, whether it be rating reviews, and I think I said on a previous episode I was gonna read some reviews.
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So let me take a quick pause for the cause and check the iTunes right now.
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But yeah, like it, rate, review, share it on your social media, share it with a friend, share it, share it with a family member.
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Just I know that there's a lot going on.
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I know there's a lot of shit.
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I know that you have an abundance of options of things you can listen to, things you can watch, things you can be doing.
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So I'm grateful for you, the listener.
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Don't ever get it twisted.
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But the goal is not to just have a small little little hobby.
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You get what I'm saying?
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The goal is for this to reach as many people as possible.
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And on that same token, I don't want to be, I'm not, I'm content with not being the biggest thing in the world.
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But I do want it to be very I do want to be very clear that the people that resonate with what I'm saying, the people that resonate with how I'm thinking, the people that resonate with my vision of the world, I do want you.
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I do want them.
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So if when you're listening to the show, if it strikes, oh, I think that's something that's so-and-so talked about, or dang, I learned about that in class.
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Maybe my professor would be interested.
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Whatever that spark looks like for you, I can't say, but whatever that spark looks like for you, just yeah, just act on that.
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And we do have a review on iTunes, so I'm gonna read that bad boy real quick.
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This podcast feels like it is a very much needed and a world going through cyclical nonsense, cyclical nonsense, dread and despair, a fresh perspective for the open-minded, an enunciation of thoughts that until now have remained just that, and validation that our realities are our own.
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It was a great start, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
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Kudos.
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So, yeah, a lot of big words, but everything helps, and I'm grateful that review.
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Shout out to Bookie.
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But yeah, help this thing grow.
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Help this thing grow.
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I don't I know that um it's a lesson just in life, but I know that one of the things that trip me out, I only speak for myself.
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I don't always know how to ask for what I need.
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I know that I need help with things, I know that I can't do everything by myself.
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I'm very clear on that.
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I'm very realistic in in that aspect of life.
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But I don't know if it's because I'm a man, I don't know because I'm a black man, I don't know because because of America, because of society, but for me, and not just professionally, but personally at times as well.
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It's hard for me to be honest with myself, to know what I need, what help I need, how someone can help me.
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I know that I need help, I know that I feel overwhelmed sometimes, I know that I feel like the world is is on my head, you get it, but vocalizing that help.
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So this is me attempting to get better at that by asking you to leave a review, asking you to share it out.
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Also, probably not probably not this episode, but in the coming weeks, by the end of the month, I'll say I'm gonna be launching a survey, like a listener survey, so I can learn more about y'all, the people that consistently listen to this thing.
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So that'll help me to think about what days and times make sense to drop.
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Does it make sense to even drop weekly?
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I'm probably still gonna drop weekly, but the data would be useful.
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What else?
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What else?
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Live shows looking at demographic, demographic information and know where y'all are listening from.
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So if I want to do a live show or a live pop-up or something like that, where would it make the most sense?
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So there's gonna be a survey coming out.
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Just pick y'all's brains, because I sit up here and talk for 25 episodes and a thousand plus downloads, not to brag, not to rag.
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But it's not just about me.
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And again, one of the things I talked about in the interview that's gonna be coming out with my guy Brian, I talked about I need to do a better job at the branding part of Big Dreams.
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People associate it with me, of course, because I I've named myself and branded myself and marketed myself as Big Dreams Jordan as the face of this brand, but I need to do a better job at fleshing out what the brand means to other people.
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Because it's not just about me, it's never just been about me.
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It's a vehicle that I have, it's a vehicle that I use to protect my intellectual property to get my creative ambition out there.
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But I don't want it to solely just be the shit that I do.
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I want it to be a thing, you know what I mean?
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I want it to be a creative house, I want it to be a something that benefits everyone that has a dream or some ambition or some shit that they chasing.
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So oh man.
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And again, this is why I don't like doing the ground rules, because I always get fucking sidetracked.
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Alright.
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Last but not least, do your research.
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Do your research, do your research as a kid.
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I'm a student, someone that loves learning, I'm someone that's curious.
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But I don't know everything, bruh.
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And especially in this age, in this generation, it's I shit, I be getting fooled by AI shit sometimes.
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So just do your research.
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Don't let anything I say about a topic be the exhaustive, everything you know about said topic.
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If it interests you, make sure you research, make sure you look at articles, journal articles, excuse me, different sources, videos, whatever it may be.
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But in this time of AI, and this time of social media, and this time of engagement, where people put you engaging with something, whether it's positive or negative, they just want the clicks and they just want their responses.
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And this time and this place where those are the precedents and everything is built on this quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
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Having the skill to focus, having the skill to research, having the skill to assess the source and its credibility and its validity is gonna take you very far.
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So yeah, that's all the ground rules.
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The ground rules out the way.
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I'm gonna hit those let's get ready to rumble.
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Let's get ready to podcast.
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Nah, that shit was corny.
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We we working on it, we working it out.
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Let's get ready to podcast.
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Nah, that shit whack.
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That shit wet.
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I like it better than let's get ready to rumble, though, because we don't really we don't really rumble here.
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I don't know.
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I guess we rumble with with dumb asses, but we're working on it.
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We're working on it.
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Still a work in progress.
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Nothing is nothing is perfect.
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But hey, episode 25, we alive.
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Mr.
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1K in the motherfucking building, man.
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Dirty Soda in the styrofoam.
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Dirty Sully in the can.
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About to make another jam.
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Shout out to all my minds.
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Shout out to all my fans.
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Yeah.
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I'll be rapping this shit too.
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My mixtape is gonna come out soon.
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Y'all gonna see.
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Alright, back to the topic.
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Back to the topic.
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So, where to start, where to start, where to start.
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Let's start with Let's start with this oil crisis.
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I know that's a a heavy subject, but I just wanna.
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No, I'm lying.
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I'm lying.
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We're gonna get to the oil crisis.
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Let's start here.
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Let's start with a fall sermon, because I don't know about y'all, but to me, summer is over once Labor Day hits.
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Once Labor Day hits, or once the kids are back at school, you can kinda pick your poison.
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But the last day of summer is Bro, they gave me a Google for Last of the Summer Wine.
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What the hell is that?
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The world's longest running sitcom?
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1973 to 20.
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What?
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Okay.
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I thought The Simpsons was the longest running sitcom, but okay.
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Tuesday, September 22nd is the last day of summer.
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And uh in meteorological what the fuck?
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And astronomical terms.
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I don't know what that means.
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I don't know what astronomical means.
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Oh, like astronomy.
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So why is astronomy different than meteorology?
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I'm sorry, this is hard.
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This is a horrible radio I'm doing right here.
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But the point being, whether you define summer as being already over, like myself, or you go by the seasons that is of the astronomical joint, that is Tuesday, September 22nd, for all intents and purposes, summer is cooked.
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Alright.
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For all intents and purposes, we're on the last quarter of the year, October, November, December.
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Also remember, y'all, because this shit grinds my gears every single fucking year.
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Quarters when you're talking about the calendar are three.
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Quarters when you're talking about quarters, like the the change are four.
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So September is not the start of the last quarter of the year.
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It's the start of the last third of the year.
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I don't know why people get on social media, and as soon as September hit, they start talking about the fourth quarter, but they're not talking to it, they start talking about it in present tense and not future.
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But yeah.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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But the point being, it's called fall, because that's when shit starts to fall down.
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So again, just let's just think about the calendar here.
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When you're hearing this, it'll be September 18th.
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The official last date of the summer is September 22nd.
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So the first day of fall is September 23rd.
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So you got September.
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Then you got October, which you got your homecoming seasons and Halloween, spooky shit, pumpkin spice, leaves turning.
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Then you got November, which is just a march towards Thanksgiving for a lot of folks, or Indigenous People's Day.
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Or is this Indigenous People's Day is not Thanksgiving.
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I'm sorry, that's uh the name for Columbus Day.
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But yeah, you got Sprint Wars for holidays in after Thanksgiving, you know, it rarely started to shut down.
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And then you got December, where the world is, well, the country is shut down for what, two weeks out the out the end of the year.
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So more or less, we're on the last 12 to 14 weeks of the year.
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Just wanted to set the stage, just to make sure we're all on the same page.
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Well, that being said, that's still enough time to do something, that's still enough time to make something happen.
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But one thing I'm grateful for for my time that I spent, my half a decade I spent with Black Yo Institute, is that in December we would prioritize rest.
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So it would be real, really intentional about not taking a whole bunch of meetings in December, making sure that you're up on your strategic plan for the year, the year that's going, that's outgoing, and the year that's incoming.
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Taking time for reflection, taking time for quiet, taking time for stillness, really trying to what's the word we're looking for?
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Really trying to mirror, yeah, okay.
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Really trying to mirror the seasons.
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So the way that as we move from summer to fall or autumn, whatever you prefer, summer to autumn to winter, you see nature start to slow down.
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The days get colder, the nights get longer, the animals start to hibernate, the leaves fall off the trees.
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We should do our best to pattern our ways after that.
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Because when you go against your biology, that's when you end up with shit like the seasonal depression.
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That's when you end up figure trying to figure out why you're burnt out in the wintertime because you're going against the natural flow.
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You're going against the natural, natural rhythm of things.
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So this I I encourage all y'all listening to take whatever time you need between now and we'll say between now and December, because once we get to December, people really start bailing in.
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But just think about how to wrap up this year.
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Think about what went well, what didn't go well for you, as well as what does next year need to look like.
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Try to get a jump on what you want January, February, March to feel like now.
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It doesn't have to be a a concrete plan, but just take a half hour, 45 minutes.
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Something I do.
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I'ma sit down, I'm gonna write October, I'm gonna write November, I'm gonna write December, I'm gonna write January, and I'm gonna write February.
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Because for me, my birthday's in February, so it's kind of that's kind of my New Year's in a way.
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And then I'll write down if it's not specific stuff that's going on, if it's not stuff that's on my calendar, is how I want them those months to feel, or what I want to move towards in those months.
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And yeah, so so take heed to those words.
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Don't feel hard on yourself.
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Don't don't go hard on yourself if you're not producing in a way that you feel like you should be, because.
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Keep in mind all this shit is just all this shit is made up.
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These aren't these aren't the the schedules, these aren't the calendars, like all this all this shit is made up.
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So yeah, take y'all time, pace yourselves throughout this season.
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Alright, let's talk about let's talk about Mexico.
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Let's talk about Mexico.
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So there is current wait, not Mexico.
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I'm tripping.
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Y'all bear with me, bro.
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Bear with me.
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This ain't my cleanest episode, but I like episodes like this, though.
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I don't I don't mind episodes where I'm slurring over my words or trying to get my thoughts together.
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I don't mind it, because those are the most human and most authentic episodes to me.
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While episodes where I do all the prep and I'm hip and it's yeah, boom, boom, boom, firing, firing, firing.
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I love those too.
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Don't get me wrong, but episodes like this where not necessarily I'm not gonna say I'm fighting through it, but episodes like this where I gotta have a little bit more grace for myself and I gotta have a little more patience with the way I cover each topic and the way I say everything and just making sure that I get all my thoughts off.
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Those are those are good ones too.
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And I hope that an episode like this where I'm very clearly not perfect.
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Hope that episode like this shows you the utility in showing up over showing up perfect.
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Same shit with the gym.
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You rather go to the gym and have a bad workout than have no workout.
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If you stack up four or five bad workouts, you still got four or five workouts in versus I don't feel like I'm not gonna do it, I don't feel like I'm not gonna do it.
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For me, I don't look at this as optional.
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I look at I look at recording on Thursdays as optional, because that's my schedule, but that's not hard and fast.
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But I do I do not look at having an episode come out every week.
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I don't look at that as optional.
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It's gonna come a day, I don't know when, but I'm sure it'll be before between now and the end of the year, where I'm probably not gonna be able to make it to the studio during the week, whether due to inclement weather, if it snows, or might be busy at school, might be busy at work there, there's a very real possibility that I won't be able to make it to the studio.
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So, what is that day gonna look like when I'm in the house and I'm figuring it out and I'm making it happen?
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And what is that gonna sound like?
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And the cat probably gonna jump up on the desk while I'm recording and you're gonna hear bells and shit.
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But just just making the point that your best rep is the rep that you put in.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be perfect.
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So yeah, man, back to this episode, back to the fall sermon.
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Back to the fall sermon.
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The year is the year's ending.
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The year's ending.
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What a year has been.
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It's been it's been quite a year.
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But yeah, it ain't over.
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It ain't over.
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Also, don't crash out.
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Don't blow all your money because it's Christmas.
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Don't do that.
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Don't do that.
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Because you want me looking stupid as shit.
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January, February, tax season.
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So don't blow all your money for Christmas.
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And ironically enough, right?
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It's gonna be an episode of this show that drops on Christmas Day.
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So that'll be that'll be something.
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That Merry Christmas, BDJ.
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I'm sure that again, I'm not gonna record that one live.
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I don't even know what the library is gonna be open on Christmas Eve for me to record that live.
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So again, just an example of the shit I just was talking about.
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I know I went down a whole tangent, a whole wormhole there, but that's how I go.
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I warned you.
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I I warned you about that.
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So, the oil crisis.
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The oil crisis, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
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Apparently, Iran said that the strait will be closed until both President Trump and BB Netanyahu are removed from office, removed from power.
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I don't think that's happening, so it might be a long time until the strait is closed.
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There have also been some attacks on some other sources of oil.
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I want to say that Russia attacked Ukraine's oil supply.
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I don't necessarily have the specific specifics off the top of my head, but I'm saying that to you to say heed that warning.
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If you listen to this and you haven't gotten gas, got gas, get gas, you have a trip plan for the holidays, book that travel immediately.
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The thing, the point being that if we're looking at gas, right?
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We're looking at gas, which is already a volatile resource because whether you study economics and shit like that or not, you know just by living in this world that gas prices go up and gas prices go down, right?
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So if events are happening that are decreasing the availability of gas, that scarcity going by the old law of supply and demand will make the price of gas go up.
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Not just the price of gas, but the cr the price of everything auxiliary ex auxiliary auxiliary, the price of everything that is around the gas.
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So that's the reason your flight ticket will go up because it's more expensive to fuel the plane, since it's more expensive to fuel the plane, it's gonna be more expensive for you to get on that plane, so on and so forth.
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So just be prepared.
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I've been saying shit on Twitter.
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I haven't been able to verify it, but there have been people saying that diesel truckers are like we're out of gas, or diesel prices are incredible.
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And again, when you talk about diesel, you're talking about how much it costs to ship some something from one place to another.
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So you're looking at how much it costs your goods in the grocery store to get from point A to the grocery shelves.
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We also have been dealing with massive recalls.
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So just all of these things are like a big shitty gumbo, a big shitty stew, just just working together.
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And hey, guess what?
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It's about to get cold outside, like we just talked about in the sermon.
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So if it's about to get cold outside, people are gonna be using more of what to heat their homes?
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Gas.
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Right.
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Alright.
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So, yeah, man, get ready for winter.
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Get ready for winter.
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That's all I'm gonna say on that tip.
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We can't do anything to control the oil.
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We could be more mindful of our consumption and more mindful of kind of how we're moving, how we're moving about the world.
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But when shit like this happens, you really gotta take a look at your expenses, take a look at your finances, look at everything with a fine-tooth comb.
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Maybe this isn't the year to ball out, maybe this isn't the year to go crazy for Christmas or for the birthdays.
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Maybe this is the year you kind of stack, you do something simple, you do something subtle, and just make sure you got the money in the bank for a rainy day.
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Because as people have been saying about this economy since Trump took over and immediately leveled levied tariffs on all of our allies and shit, the brunt of this will not be felt.
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The brunt of this would not be felt immediately.
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The brunt of the economic policies as well as the United States actions that have reduced our soft power, reduced our kind of benefit with our trading partners, all of these things, they have a lag to them.
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So when the president says some shit or the president does some shit, a lot of times the ramifications aren't felt immediately.
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So it's seeming that this winter into 2027 are going to be when we take the brunt of a lot of the economic pain that's going on right now.
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So yeah, I advise you to buckle down.
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I advise you to get tight with your money, get lean with your money.
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And there's a way that you can make money outside of a outside of a job, outside of a nine to five, and you can find a way to create your own hours and your own schedule and your own sources of revenue.
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I will highly encourage that.
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Y'all know me.
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If you don't know me, you know that.
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If you don't know me, then you know now that I'm someone that will encourage entrepreneurship when it's sunny or when it's rainy.
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I will always encourage people to have their own shit, whether it be a side hustle, whether it be LLC or escort.
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Shit, whether it be just you don't know if you're gonna be at the job 30 years, 40 years, and you know that we don't get no pensions no more, so you got you an IRA or Roth Roth IRA, to put that money aside to make sure you have your own retirement account.
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Shout out to the homie Jeffrey Holmes if you want to learn more about IRAs and retirement account and money management and financial management.
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We did an episode together.
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Episode, let's go to the archives.
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Episode boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom episode nine, money matters.
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So if y'all want a brief brief overview on some financial lyrics stuff, check out episode nine, Highland Jeffrey, certified, well, CPA.
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Right?
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CPA, certified financial planner, certified financial planner, CFP, sorry.
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Uh CPA is an accountant.
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But yeah, winter is coming.
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Winter is coming.
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Tighten up, tighten up, tell your people to tighten up.
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It's it's real out here, it's not it's not a joke, it's not a game.
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So I said earlier in the pod that I was in Mexico for a couple days last week and this week.
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I was out there with wifey, out there with with some some good members.
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Shout out to Ty, she's happy belated.
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And me and her were talking, and she was like, Would you move to Mexico?
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And I was like, I don't know.
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I don't know, but that's only because I just don't know as much about Mexico.
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But the idea of moving to another country definitely definitely been sticking with me.
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The older I get, the more I can see myself just eventually packing up and going to an island somewhere.
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I think that would be the best case scenario for me, an island or somewhere in South America, maybe maybe Cuba or Island in the Caribbean, something like that.
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But it's this old debate, right?
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It's this old subject of if America was built to be the final boss of white supremacy.
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And if we're seeing in our politics, if we're seeing in popular culture, we're seeing these things that are actively trying to repeal us having a a livable standard of life, us having representative media, they call it DEI and shit like that.
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If we're seeing people actively working to ensure that our downfall is perpetual, when do we start to look for other means?
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When do we start to look for, instead of trying to fight the system and fight the power and fight the power and fight the power, which I'm not saying to ever give up on.
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I understand that the struggle for civil rights is the same as the struggle for liberation, is the same as things that have been waged for hundreds of years.
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Whenever I was doing organizing work, one thing that Brother Eric, serving director and founder of Black Young Institute, one thing that he used to always bring up is the quote from I forgot who the civil rights leader was that initially said it, but the quote that we're planting trees of which we probably will not get to receive the shade of.
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We're planting trees of which we likely will never feel the shade of.
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So that idea that the work being done today, the work being done right now is not necessarily for us, but for future generations.
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But the question then becomes if they have a and they, I'm talking about the white supremacists in charge and the capitalist in charge and the oligarchs or whatever, whatever name you want to put on it, patriarchy, fucking colonialism, all of these things, right?
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If they've been working for 500 to a thousand years, at least install our downfall, when comes a point when we start to look for a escape route?
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When comes uh the point when you start to look at other countries as viable places.
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And I know for me, it'll be hard because all my family is here.
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That's one of the reasons I never I never really dabbled when I never really left left home.
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Because the ability to look at my parents, the ability to look at my family, look at my friends, look them in the eyes, and shit, have dinner with them and do all the all the things we kind of take for granted.
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That's always been a big deal to me.
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But the question still remains.
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The question still remains, when what does it look like?
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What does it look like to have an escape plan?
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What does it look like to have an escape road?
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Is it Mexico?
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And even if we want to take it out of the context of liberation and of the struggle for us to just be treated like goddamn human beings, if we want to take it out of there, just what does it look like to move?
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What is it like to set up shop somewhere else far from home?
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South of the equator, shit, or north of north of the border, or south of the border, or across the country, across the world.
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Like what does it look like realistically?
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And I'm asking.
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I'm asking, not just because it's just me in here talking by myself, but I'm genuinely asking because that's something I think about.
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I would love to retire to an island somewhere at some point.
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Maybe when I got 30 more years in the game, just go to my island and live a simple life.
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It just it just feels beautiful.
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So hopefully we got another 30 years or so, because the way you're talking about AI, it sounds like something is going on.
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A lot of whistleblowers have come out from different companies saying that the use of AI has been unethical, saying that AI has become more powerful than they could have imagined, saying that there's a 10% chance that in the next 10 or 20 years AI will bring about the downfall of civilization.
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You know, all the shit you want to hear, as well as all the shit science fiction war that's about shot at the Terminator.
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That's James Cameron, I think.
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I was gonna say shout out to James Cameron.
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I'm pretty sure James Cameron made the Terminator.
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Hold on.
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Let me let me look it up.
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I don't want to give y'all misinformation.
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Misinformation.
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Hey, hell yeah.
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James Cameron was fired from his first directing job on Piranha 2, which inspired him to write and create the Terminator.
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That's lit.
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That's lit, man.
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Sometimes getting fired is what you need in life, right?
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So we got the Terminator.
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We got what's that other shit?
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Uh the shit with hell.
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Not Shallow How.
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Movie with hell.
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2001 a space Odyssey.
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Alright, we got the Matrix.
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We got all these things about all this this science, culture, and popular fiction about why shit, even our robot, but all this about why a super intelligence would be bad for humanity.
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We got all these things.
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We got all this this prior information from all these people that had, I would like to believe, at least some kind of some different level of clarity.
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Now, they might have been on different kinds of drugs and different kinds of drinks.
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But I think that the clarity that they had is why so much shit resonates from back in the G to now.
00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:20.559
But yeah, bro, they're saying the world is ending.
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:21.840
They're saying the world is ending.
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:23.440
Again, I mean the world is always ending.
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.960
2012, the world was going in.
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:27.280
2000, the world was going in.
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:34.000
The advent of television versus radio was gonna be the end of the world.
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.280
The advent of oh shit, they they say that the world is gonna end.
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I don't necessarily subscribe to it, and I advise you not to subscribe to it.
00:37:42.639 --> 00:38:00.079
While it is an existential threat to think about a superhuman, a super intelligence that's doing just pure logic-based this is what's good, this is what's bad for Earth or civilization or what.
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.880
I guess the question is what's the what would be the super AI's motivation?
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Because yeah, whatever, whatever, whatever.
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.159
Now we get into we're getting too deep into the subject.
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But I don't think the world's gonna end.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:13.599
I'm not afraid of AI.
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.400
I think that shit is gonna be cool, to be honest with you.
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.880
I think it's gonna keep doing whatever it's doing.
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It's gonna keep being developed.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:27.840
I don't I don't believe in the the fear mongering, at least right now, that everything is gonna go left.
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Just because I I just don't.
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I I gotta I gotta see it.
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Now, the report did come out from what's my man's name?
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.840
My man who ran for president, Andrew Yang.
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:44.480
Andrew Yang said that he was told that there was an AI system that was self-replicating code.
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And I've also seen reports, I forgot where is this been a long week, but I see of course that there are AIs that are talking to each other in like a unique language, and then when humans observe it, they stop talking.
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.960
So yeah, there's something going on.
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There's something going on.
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And it sucks because it seems to me that the people that are in charge of the AI have the morality of a wild animal.
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Like they don't give a fuck about they don't give a fuck about who lives or who dies, as long as they can make the most money and push the shit the farthest, it seems.
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.480
And that's an issue because nobody wants to nobody wants to put their guns down.
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China doesn't want to stop developing their AI.
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:35.679
The US doesn't want to stop developing their AI.
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Nobody wants to be the one to miss out because whoever is able to crack the code on this God level fucking God level not in, you know, God level not in the sense of it's a replacement of God, but God level in the sense of once you get past a certain level of intelligence, when you once you get past a certain level of power, for all intents and purposes, you wield that level of power.
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:06.320
So not in a blasphemous way, but just in a straight-up way.
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Everybody wanna be first.
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Same ship with the atomic bomb a hundred years ago.
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Everybody wanted to be the first to make the nuke because you knew the first person with the nuke was going to be able to drop the nuke and be able to drag their nuts in a different kind of way.
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:20.079
You didn't want Germany to get it.
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So now the tables have turned.
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Not gonna say any more about that, but yeah, I'm not buying it to the AI's gonna trust all hype.
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I'm not buying it.
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:34.000
I think that there will be some kind of it's like uh the term is singularity.
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.880
I think that there will be a push towards singularity.
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I can see myself being one of the ones.
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I don't want no chip in my brain.
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:44.960
I don't I don't want to become a cyborg, I don't want none of that shit.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.599
But we'd be foolish to think that there aren't people that would take advantage of that.
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So I don't know.
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:55.440
I don't know how I don't know how that that plays out at large across society.
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I don't know if it looks like there's a underclass of normal people and then the upper class of people with chips in their brains, or I don't know how the shit.
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:08.559
And it all sounds very science fiction and very dystopian, but shit, so do self-driving cars, and now we got them.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:13.599
So then all the shit I've only gonna do, that all sounded pie in the sky.
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:20.480
So and you can see I'm very conflicted on the subject because I think that technology will continue to move forward.
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:29.679
I don't think it'll bring about the end of us, but I do think that the people that are working to develop it at a level that could bring about the end of us wouldn't really give a fuck if it did bring about the end of us.
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:33.440
So that's kind of where where my uh my feelings lie about it.
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:35.519
But hey, believe in something, fuck, nigga.
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Pray to God, pray to Jesus, pray to pray to whatever you believe, whatever you believe, because your spirituality and your morality are gonna be the things that set you apart from the inhuman monsters that are that are definitely on the way.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.880
So what else we got?
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.239
Oh, speaking of inhuman monsters, somehow Mitch McConnell returned.
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That's fucked up.
00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:02.000
Hey, Senate, Congress, people, anybody that's in the meetings with that man, yo, y'all fucked up.
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:03.360
Y'all hearing it from me first.
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:03.840
Again.
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These are just my thoughts.
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These don't reflect.
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Nobody else.
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:09.199
Y'all fucked up bringing that dead man out there.
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.480
He, bro, he was just sitting there smiling.
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:13.840
He don't know what's going on.
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.079
He clearly lost some brain function.
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That's not right, bro.
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:18.960
That's not right.
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.000
I don't think it's right for anybody making a decision.
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:23.599
Somebody, I think it was Market Mondays.
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:39.440
Market Mondays were earn your leisure and done that, but they were making the point that a lot of the politicians that are making decisions around AI governance, around technology, around this shit in general, they don't have the requisite skill set to be able to think about them things.
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:43.280
So if you've been in, for example, just say, well, let's let's take let's use Ms.
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:44.320
McConnell as an example.
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:45.039
How long has Ms.
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.039
McConnell has been in Congress?
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:56.960
I'm sorry, Senate.
00:42:58.239 --> 00:42:59.280
How long has he been a senator?
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:01.119
He's been a senator for 40 years.
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:04.719
So when he was elected, it was 1984.
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:06.960
He was elected in 1984.
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Make a decision on what the next 40, 50, 60 years are gonna look like.
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:13.360
That doesn't make sense.
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:14.719
And that was the point they were making.
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:27.119
It was like if you are a politician, you need you should you should have some kind of specialized policies-based education that touches on a lot of different things because they're not qualified, they're not qualified to talk about the shit.
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:32.480
They're not qualified to make these decisions, they don't have the prerequisite skills to be able to understand.
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.679
I mean, they got Lindsay Graham's sister up there, and her qualification is actually Lindsay Graham's sister.
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:38.960
What?
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:41.679
So Yeah, man.
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:43.679
A lot of doom and gloom this week.
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:48.159
A lot of doom and gloom, and that's why you can't really get caught up.
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:56.400
You can't really get caught up in the big picture sometimes, cause for as much doom and gloom as it is, when I was in Mexico, it was all smiles, it was all love.
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.760
When I'm doing my day to day and I'm around where I be at.
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It's all smiles.
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That's all I love.
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.960
But the media will paint the picture that the world is in and that everything is on fire.
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.719
You gotta kind of hold both in your head and in your heart.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:16.000
You gotta be aware that bad shit is happening in the world and good shit is happening in the world.
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:19.840
I try to be an agent to uplift the good and fight against the bad.
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:21.840
There are other people out there, they just straight bad.
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:23.280
The other people out there, they don't give a fuck.
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.639
They don't give a fuck about good or bad.
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:26.159
They just moving how they gonna move.
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:28.159
And you gotta be aware that all that exists.
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.639
But the idea is not to dwell on it.
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.559
The idea is just as likely as there can be an AI, evil, super intelligence.
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There can be a world that looked like the world we was promised when we was growing up, where everybody, all races, all ethnicities, all genders, holding hands and singing kumbaya and shit.
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.519
Like it's up to us and our collective imaginations to create the world that we want to see.
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:52.960
You just can't be scared.
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:54.320
Can't be scared about that shit.
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You gotta have a vision.
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.400
You gotta have a vision, you gotta have, you gotta have a compass, you gotta you gotta be sure in yourself, you gotta know yourself.
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.159
And maybe you're not sure in yourself, but you want to make a change, you gotta figure that shit out.
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.800
How do you make a change at the smallest level in your community?
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:13.039
How do you make a change on like if it yeah, I'm getting I'm getting riled up.
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.280
I guess the I guess the the drink kicking in.
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.480
I'm getting riled up.
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.760
But somebody I dare see that made a change that I I think is dope.
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:20.719
Ryan Clark.
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.960
So Ryan Clark, if y'all know Ryan Clark was a former NFL player, he played for the Steelers.
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.880
I wasn't fucking with him on the Steelers, I ain't gonna lie, Ravens, baby, Ravens all day.
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:41.679
But after his playing career, he became a prominent media NFL analyst for both ESPN as well as his own platform with Brian and Marshall, Channing, Crowder, Fred Taylor.
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.800
That shit was I Am Athlete.
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.960
So contract dispute came up.
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.480
Those guys ended up leaving I Am Athlete, except for Brian and Marshall.
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.719
They continued to do the pivot, Ryan Clark continued to work at ASPN, all was good.
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.039
And then a few episodes back I talked about it.
00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.199
Ryan Clark was fired from the SPN.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.920
I guess they were making a bunch of cuts or they didn't like how he talked to Peter Schrager because he said we talked about football and I used to play football.
00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:08.079
You never played football, you can't really tell me shit.
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:09.119
Which is crazy.
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:10.239
That's a great thing to say.
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:17.039
I understand both perspectives, but you you can't really can't bring a little broad man like that at nine in the morning and expect it not to be no consequences.
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.079
But I don't think that was the whole reason why he was fired.
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.800
I don't think, yeah, I think that's deeper than that.
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:34.480
Yes, being clearly is going through a cultural and tonal shift away from where they were in the in the early to mid 2000s to now they kind of patter into a a more conservative base.
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.519
And hey, y'all, y'all a company.
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:38.480
Y'all gonna do what y'all gonna do.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.840
Y'all gonna do what y'all gotta do to make money.
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:40.719
Shout out to Target.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:45.679
Fuck Target, but y'all gonna do what y'all gotta do to make money and appeal to who y'all think will give y'all the most bang for y'all buck.
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:47.199
But this ain't about ESPN.
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:48.320
This ain't about Target.
00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:49.599
This is about Ryan Clark.
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:55.920
So what Ryan Clark andveed at the top of this NFL season is they upgraded how the pivot looks.
00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:01.679
So now they got a full studio set up to where people were seeing it, and they're like, is this sports center?
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:05.519
Ryan Clark made his own sports center, made his own ESPN, and it's that.
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.480
That is the that is the power that we need to wield.
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.920
That is that needs to be the goal of what we strive towards.
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:14.000
And I wouldn't even say make my own ESPN.
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:16.079
I say he made his own sports network.
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:17.360
Fuck a ESPN.
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:18.480
You get me?
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:22.480
Like so, yeah, it's that it's that independence and that agency.
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:29.840
And if you remember, if you listen to the episode where I spoke about him being fired from ESPN, I think I brought up Shannon Sharp as well.
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:36.239
I spoke about these brothers having built their own thing, so the laws won't be the same.
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:44.239
It's different if you pour in all your time, your energy, your effort into this place and you get your check and everything is all good.
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:47.599
But the second they decide you're done, the second they decide you clip, you out of there.
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:49.599
It's different when you got your own shit.
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:58.960
It's different when you get fired from an ESPN and can still go on your podcast the next day and give out your side of the story as well as give out your opinions.
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:02.960
It's different when you got the equity and you got the leverage.
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:17.519
So now you can take the money from either your playing days and or investments and or what you would do outside of football, whether it be appearing on TV and shit like that, you can take that money, flip it, and build your own shit.
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.639
That's the goal, and that's how we need to be thinking as a people.
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:22.079
That's how we need to be thinking.
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:27.199
We need we fuck trying to get accepted, fuck trying to assimilate.
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:28.320
Get what I'm saying?
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.760
We need to be figuring out how to build our own shit by us and for us.
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:48.880
Because then if we got our own shit, if I got big dreams media and big dreams media, instead of trying to get bought up by complex or bought up by some private equity firm, if I'm trying to build that into the biggest possible thing I can do, then I can look back and hand out jobs to people.
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.199
I can look back and hand out opportunities to people.
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:52.719
I can give you an internship.
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:53.920
I can plug you in it.
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.320
Yo, I need somebody to run my operations bet.
00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:58.320
I need somebody to run my logistics bet.
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:00.000
I need somebody to do my marketing bet.
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:01.840
I need a lease with a bill.
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.199
Let me try to find a black landlord or a landlord that is supportive.
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:08.239
Like, we can build a whole network and a whole ecosystem.
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:09.920
And you can't tell me it hasn't been done.
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:11.679
You can't tell me it's not possible.
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.719
Because I just seen Ryan Clark go on do the shit.
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:15.920
I'm from Pikesville.
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.599
I'm from Baltimore County.
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:20.400
I seen how they look on Park Heights, you feel me?
00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.559
I seen the control that they wield.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:23.760
I've seen it.
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:24.960
I've traveled a lot.
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.400
You don't even gotta travel far.
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:35.039
You can go to Allegas City up there by the HMR and by the Walmart and see how that whole shopping center is all people of one race, one ethnicity.
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:38.320
So you can't tell me that there's no viable path.
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:39.760
And I've seen us do it.
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:45.840
Or I've read about it, I haven't seen it because by the time I was saying it, it was it was burnt down, it was history, but we've seen Black Wall Street.
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:46.639
You feel me?
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:48.559
We've seen multiple Black Wall Streets.
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:51.760
Fate that they fate that they endured aside.
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.320
We've seen it, so we know it's possible.
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:59.119
It's just about we need to get our collective equity and we need to get our people together.
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:06.800
And again, I don't want this to be confused with me saying capitalism is going to be the source of our liberation, because I don't believe that.
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:14.719
But in the day and time that we live in now, you need money for survival and you need places for us by us for survival.
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:16.239
We're talking about survival.
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:20.079
We're not talking about, we're not even talking about trying to reach generational wealth.
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:24.480
We're not even talking about trying to be millionaires and billionaires and shit like that.
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:27.599
We at this point in time, we're talking about survival.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:37.039
We talking about taking some of that spending power that we have and all of this cultural capital that we have and keeping it with us, saying we up.
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:40.639
Not saying don't fuck with the people over there, fuck with who fuck with us.
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.199
And it's the same shit Michael Mess was saying back in the day.
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.760
He just ain't he just ain't giving up the way I'm giving it up.
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:56.400
But literally, bro, we need to be figuring out how we can make more money and keep more money in our communities because shit is gonna happen, shit is gonna come up.
00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:12.079
And while we would love to see the revolution, and while we'd love to see a world and a system that's not built upon capitalism and not built on amount not built upon economic exploitation, to get there in this day and age, it takes money.
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:22.639
You need money to donate to the people on the ground that are doing the work, that are helping people out, that are doing the mutual aid markets, that are running the urban gardens, the people you need money to get people out of jail.
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.679
You need bail funds for people that are marching in the streets, you need all of these things.
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:38.559
You need money and education to make sure that our kids are getting educated and facilities that are adequate and appropriate, that they got fucking heat in the winter and they got AC in the summer.
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:39.519
You need money for that.
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:40.719
You need money for these things.
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.480
Everything that we want to see in this world, it takes money.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:55.840
Once we got the money, once we got the base, once we got the blueprint, uh boom, we got little Africa or Little Ghana, little Haiti, or whatever, and all the cities across the map.
00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:22.639
Once we got that to a level, once we got safe spaces for people that are enduring hardships economically, financially, mentally, once we got a good foundation on what political education looks like, so that once we get these resources in these spaces, we're not perpetuating the shit that we learn through white supremacy, through capitalism, then we can talk about what it looks like to probably pull our resources and go get some land out in Ghana, go get some land out in Jamaica, go get some land out somewhere that look like that, some land in fucking Africa, you feel me?
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:23.760
Then we can talk about that.
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:26.719
Then we can have them conversations, but you need the capital to get there.
00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:29.039
You can't build a house off good intention.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.199
You can't get shelter off good intention.
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:34.559
People is hungry, they can't eat well, wishes and prayers.
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They need food, they need money.
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So, yeah, that's where I'm at with it.
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So, Ryan Clark, salute to you.
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Uh, yeah, got me inspired, got me fired out.
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.119
Cam Newton, that's the name I brought up.
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Cam Newton, salute to you, building your shit out.
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Salute to everybody that is on the wave right now, and and and that's taking that money and that influence and that power and then giving back to try to lift someone else up.
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That's what it's all about.
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Alright.
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.760
I got football talk going here, but I don't really want to talk football.
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:11.519
I mean, the Ravens, they look good.
00:53:11.679 --> 00:53:12.880
Had some injuries.
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:13.760
They look good.
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:19.280
A lot of my predictions came true that I talked about on the episode with the shark, episode 23.
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.679
K9 was a beast, because you know, Andrew Reid is a running back whisperer, so that coming.
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:25.360
The Chargers prediction was off.
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:27.840
The Chargers didn't end up really doing shit.
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:28.960
What else?
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:29.440
What else?
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:30.639
I had some I had some predictions.
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.960
They was they was hitting, but I can't I can't remember off the top of my head.
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:36.800
Yeah, but whatever.
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So NFL's back.
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:39.199
NFL's back.
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:40.239
Nothing really made just report.
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.480
Kyle Kavernick is doing a media tour.
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:49.039
I saw that he was on higher learning with Van and Rachel, and he was on the Karen Hunter show or Sirius XM.
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:55.199
So I'm excited to listen to that to see, because he doesn't he hasn't done a lot of public speaking, if I'm not mistaken.
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:58.239
He hasn't done a lot of interviews over the past three years.
00:53:58.400 --> 00:53:59.760
So I mean I'm excited.
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:01.119
I'm not excited, that's not a word.
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:07.760
I'm interested to see what Kyle Kapanick's perspective is at this day and age.
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:10.639
Yeah, so so we'll see.
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.320
Like I said, on the NFL side, I don't I don't really got too much.
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.400
I don't I don't really got too much on the NFL.
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:24.639
I think that the Ravens are still in pole position to win a Super Bowl, so hopefully, hopefully the city of Baltimore gets a Super Bowl before it's all said and done.
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.599
Seems like that offensive coordinator we got Declan Doyle.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.920
It seems like he's a he's a special guy.
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:32.320
I I don't see him being in Baltimore long.
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:32.960
What else?
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Any other random thoughts, JSN?
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.280
Picking up where he left off last season.
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:40.000
Bucky Irving looking good.
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:42.800
Bucky Irving looked good for the the Buccaneers.
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Yeah, nah, we'll we'll get the NFL later.
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:48.000
We'll we'll get the NFL shit later.
00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:49.920
For now, I I don't know.
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:58.000
Anything else on this topic board that I need to get to before I close this out.
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:00.159
We're going at we we around an hour.
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So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna force the point.
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:08.880
I'm gonna say hold your head to the Kennedy Center saying that they might be closing soon due to due to bankruptcy.
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:25.119
I'm sure that has no I'm sure that's in no way related to President Trump just being an asshole and trying to put his name on it and kind of driving away the liberal arts community from what is one of the home of one of the homes of art.
00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:27.519
I just feel for the people.
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:36.400
Feel for the people that lost their jobs, feel for the people that missing out on art that they were excited to see or speeches that they were excited to see.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.800
Feel for the people that never got to visit the Kennedy Center.
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:42.960
Hopefully all that shit works out.
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Hey man, that's life.
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:46.719
We can only control what we can control.
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Hold your head.
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:54.079
Also to the man that died from getting getting dick enlargement surgery.
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:55.440
I wasn't doing the pod.
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.639
I wasn't doing a lot of pod, so I couldn't really talk about it.
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:00.639
But just hold your head to that, man.
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:09.840
Uh a lot have made the point that if you were there with your wife, then she was more than likely satisfied with what you had going on and you didn't need to do that.
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:11.679
It's just it just sucks.
00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:19.280
Um you don't know a story, uh uh a fella went to can't remember the country, don't want to Google it on public Wi-Fi.
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:23.360
But a fella went to a country, I think Thailand.
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:26.639
A fella and his wife went to Thailand for a birthday trip.
00:56:26.800 --> 00:56:35.679
And while in Thailand, don't quote me, he got hydraulic acid pumped into his dick to make it girthier.
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:46.800
Had to let that sentence breathe real quick, because no one no one in my in my bloodline has said or heard that sentence before, so I had to I had to give it a second.
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:53.519
But yeah, he did that and he ended up he ended up passing away as a result of complications.
00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:55.119
And you always hate it.
00:56:55.199 --> 00:57:00.000
You always hate when people pass away from unnecessary unnecessary shit.
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:03.280
It's always sad when people pass away during cosmetic surgery.
00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:13.920
I have a I have a real real sour spot for people who had to go through surgery, meaning that I was born with a cleft lip and palate, so I'm no stranger to the surgeries.
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:22.719
I'm I don't even know how many surgeries I had to get in my life, literally, on my face, on my on my face, on my mouth, on my hip, whole bunch of shit.
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:34.800
So I yeah, that surgery should get wicked, but to die over such a yeah, to die with some shit like that, bro, it's just hey man.
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:36.159
Hold your head, hold your head.
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:38.719
Because now that's your legacy, like that's the thing.
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:40.719
Now that's your legacy.
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:43.039
Um also hold your head to Boosie.
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:52.719
Not as I'm not as graceful with him as I will be with with as I have, as I was with with the guy that died from dick surgery.
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.400
I tried to try to tap dance around that one a little bit, because uh it's a it's a lot going on for you to do some shit like that.
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.199
But Boosie, you just I'm asked my boy.
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:10.960
Yeah, if y'all haven't already, just go look at the the text messages that Boosie and the guy that was supposed to give him the partner for$600,000.
00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:12.480
Just go look at the text messages.
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.000
It was that nigga wasn't even spelling Trump right, trying to give you a pardon.
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:21.440
Also, why would a pardon only be six hundred thousand dollars?
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:29.519
Why now I know in saying that I know that you can't you legally can't pay for a pardon, I know that.
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:36.719
But I'm also aware that we are enduring the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States.
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:54.320
So I'm saying if the gold card was a million, the free the the gold card was a million that they were offering to kind of give you citizenship and help you avoid your crimes, if that was a million, why would something similar only be 600k?
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.199
And why would you go to somebody that's not in the administration?
00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:58.480
It's just it's just stupid.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:58:59.599
It's just stupid shit.
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:01.199
It's stupid as shit.
00:59:03.039 --> 00:59:04.559
Be careful with your money, folks.
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:05.760
And be careful with your name.
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.599
Like, don't don't do no shit that you need to be pardoned for or from.
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:10.960
That's my advice.
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:14.800
Alright, let's shout out to a couple of homies and let's take it home.
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.360
I feel my I feel my energy fading out of this motherfucker.
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:19.039
But shout out to the homies.
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:29.519
I want to send a special shout out to uh some some guys from around the way some John Wells, Scotty Banks, Chris Cashes, Ricky Jacobs, Mac Scott.
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:42.800
Guys I know for a minute, just just off of being a creator, being a creative, doing our thing, doing our thing in the I don't want to say the music scene, but just doing our thing for a while.
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.639
Yeah, man, I seen I've seen these guys at it for a while.
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:53.679
So to see them continue to grow and continue to evolve, releasing new projects, Mac doing different stuff with the producers.
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:58.719
Ricky got a project coming out, John Wells' project dropped, Scotty's project dropped.
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:24.159
I think Chris Cash has got I know Chris dropped a single, if I'm not mistaken, but seeing seeing seeing guys that have been in this game, this media, this weird independent media and rapping and producing and just backpack kind of wave, these guys that similar to myself that we just been at it for a decade, a decade plus of just trying to chase our dreams and figure it out.
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:35.119
Seeing seeing these men continue to evolve into better versions of themselves, musically, stylistically, creatively, marketing-wise, branding-wise.
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:36.719
That shit put a battery in my back.
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.440
Ryan A's Waters, too, who I mentioned at the type of the podcast, doing so many different things.
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.239
That's the type of shit that inspires me.
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:50.000
Seeing people not be still, not be standing, and not lose their not lose the the love of shit.
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:55.840
Cause one thing that we don't talk about, the shit ain't all glamorous, the shit ain't all love.
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:01.760
I'll come in here and record a podcast for two hours off the love, off the strength, but that's not all that goes into it.
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:06.719
It's not just me sitting here and turning the mic on, no matter how good I am, that you might think that.
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.639
It's not just me sitting here and turning the mic on.
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:14.559
It's me sitting here, it's me sitting in traffic on a Tuesday thinking about some shit that I'm gonna talk.
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:15.920
I'm gonna talk about on Thursday.
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:34.960
It's me at 11 o'clock at night after I finish my homework for class, thinking about what the next 10, 15 episodes can look like, is emails not getting returned, is numbers on episodes not hitting where I want them to hit, is it's the good, the bad, and the ugly that goes all into it.
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:45.119
So to see my my parents continue to redefine themselves, redefine success, hit new levels of success, and just keep pushing for it.
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:50.639
That's the type of shit put the battery in my back that makes me keep going and keep wanting to strive and innovate.
01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:51.920
So salute to the guys.
01:01:52.000 --> 01:02:04.159
If y'all don't know them, them fellas, please uh make sure you check them out, check out that what they're producing from the music to the shows to the media to the socials and all that.
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:06.480
It's it's definitely dope to see.
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.119
Alright, we made it through.
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:10.079
We made it through.
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:11.199
Around the hour.
01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:12.960
Alright, well that was real aggressive.
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:14.400
That was stiff, my bad.
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:16.320
But yeah, we made it through, man.
01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:21.840
I'ma go and get me something to eat, cuz I'm tired and I'm hungry.
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:23.519
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:31.119
Like I say, a little more stream of consciousness, a little, a little more rule number four than most, but I'm grateful for it.
01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:48.719
Anytime I can come in here, it's a blessing to be able to come in here and have the skill set to be able to talk for an hour, reflect, share, learn, and to do it in community, to do it with people that listen every week, or people that haven't even listened yet, that will come back and bench you to come back and discover this.
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:51.519
It's just it's a it's a blessing, man.
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:52.159
It's a blessing.
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:53.280
I don't take it for granted.
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.599
So that's why I try not to miss a week.
01:02:55.840 --> 01:03:04.480
That's why I try to figure out how I'm gonna fit this show into my schedule, as well as figuring out ways for it to grow, ways for it to expand.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:10.960
No matter how busy I get, no matter where I end up in this world, I'm gonna try my best to make sure this shit drop every week.
01:03:11.119 --> 01:03:11.920
That's my word.
01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:17.599
So until next time, until you hear the sound of my voice again, please stay safe.
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:18.880
Please chase that dream.
01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:27.599
If you got a dream or an idea, some shit on your heart, and you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't go a day without thinking about it.
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:28.800
Act on that shit.
01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:30.639
Do it shitty, do it, do it ass.
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:45.679
Do it not knowing, just do it because us taking bold action and bold swings towards our dreams, in my opinion, are the only ways that we can feed the collective imagination enough to move out of whatever bullshit is going on here.
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.639
So all love from your boy BD.
01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:51.199
Until next time, y'all be easy.
01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:56.400
Isabel, I heard your statement, you said it well, but that doesn't make it the truth.
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:58.320
Once again, you failed just the bell.
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:00.320
You act like an angel, pretend it well.
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:02.239
But you're a demon, we know the difference.
01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.079
I haven't held Jabel.
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:06.159
How could you say I haven't fed you well?
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:09.760
When you was locked up, I brought your own bitch a mail, just a bell.
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:11.920
That's the ball, bitch of bell.
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:13.440
I kept your money.
