Breaking Fast 2000

[00:00:09] Speaker A: Y. Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. I gotta stay for O.T. listen up, workers. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:29] Speaker C: Let me work. Please let me. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Let me work. [00:00:34] Speaker C: Please let me work. I'm a member of Omega Sci Fi. [00:00:46] Speaker A: Fraternity Greta the Tittle Tattle prattled on about the little metal bottle she spat a bit of spittle on the modern brittle cattle in a bitter battle hey, hey. Stop questioning my methods, okay? Okay. I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. No, you chose yourself, Tricky Sis. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Blacker than BET I'm blacker than EBT I'm blacker than Eazy E I'm blacker than TLC blacker than Kscape than SWV I'm blacker than Nate tracks and stacks of DVDs we go back like flat tires I'm blacker than Sapphire Blacker than Babish Churches down South with a black choir Blacker than smoke detectors that's beeping all through the year Blacker than sneaking snacks in the back of the movie theater I'm blacker than Coltrane Blacker than Soul Train Blacker than gold teeth there reigns and gold chains Blacker than baby kids and even Shanae they crib Blacker than everybody that used to be hating Chris I'm blacker than black mamas that's cooking with Crisco Blacker than every thong affected by Cisco Blacker than roller skating and dancing a disco I'm blacker than Martin and Bruhman from the fifth floor Blacker than living single and even Keenan and Kale I'm blacker than Love island and baddies and bbls I'm blacker than nappy hair and hidden with chairs Blacker than Don Julio with my vision impaired Blacker than home phones and asses that's homegrown Blacker than being back before the street lights come on I'm blacker than ho hiding I'm blacker than flow rider I'm blacker than gang banging and slanging and low riders I'm blacker than majorettes Blacker than black schools Blacker than reparations and 40 acres and mules I'm blacker than Shakazulu when burning sages and Hulu I'm blacker than Grandmama that's cleaning houses and muumus I'm blacker than Tracy Morgan I'm blacker than Gracie's Corner I'm blacker than Ali why knocking out George Foreman I'm blacker than Motown Blacker than road bounce I'm blacker than brown bags that cover the 40 ounce blacker than home remedies, lemon and tea bags Blacker than fried chicken and greens at a repass Blacker than don't you dribble that ball in my damn house Blacker than if I brought you in this world I could take you out Blacker than throwing fades I'm blacker than playing spades I'm blacker than dreadlocks, Afros and box braids Blacker than black preachers I'm blacker than black Jesus I'm blacker than Exodus, Romans, Colossians and Ephesians I'm blacker than all your holding all of your seasons what else? [00:03:12] Speaker A: I'm trying to get the show started, y' all but he keeps spilling he. [00:03:14] Speaker C: Walking left every voice I don't know. [00:03:17] Speaker A: About all that black Mr. King. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Jim Crow, the Underground Railroad My fist is up and I'm proud my, and I say it loud I'm black. [00:03:31] Speaker A: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So that's how we doing it, DJ High Star. That's how we doing. Since. Since I'm starting off with some High Star bars, y', all, it's only right. Let's go ahead and let's keep the party going, y'. All. Some Black History Month High Star bars here we'll start to show up. [00:03:59] Speaker D: And I'm blacker than black and I'm black. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Talk to him. Black. [00:04:08] Speaker D: And I'm black, y' all and I'm black and you're black and I'm black, y' all and I'm black, y' all and I'm black, y' all And I'm black and you're black And I'm black, y' all and I'm black. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Yo, what's up? What's up? What's up? What's happening, everybody? What's happening? What's happening? What's happening? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime with your main man, DJ High Star. I appreciate you all joining me here for another episode here at Mandatory Overtime. The aim is just to recalibrate and redefine our definition of manhood. And we do that within our community through each conversation. And, yeah, just see it as a audio journal of an 80s, baby. Social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here, right here, listening to me. For that, I appreciate you. All right, don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair. Like comment, subscribe, Share. Make sure you follow us on ig. We'll get to that in a second. But for most importantly, y' all make some noise because the man is here. You heard? You heard what's happening, everybody? Let's go to work. Man reporting live from the 704980, the Greater Charlotte area. What's happening, y'? All? I hope y' all are doing all right. I am doing good. I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep up with everything. It's still a little, you know what I'm saying, out there. But we making it, y'. All. We making it. You know, still need y' all to bring y' all ass in here to work, right? So I appreciate y'. All. You know who else gotta come and clock into work every time? Yeah, It's my sound engineer. He's used to this weather because he's from Russia. It's a Russian sound engineer. But I gotta check one, too. A check one, two, just in case. Like that. Let's go to work, though, y'. All. Welcome to mandatory overtime again, man. Appreciate y' all for joining me. What we got going on? I know last week we had them snowstorms, cold world, right? Birthday blizzard and all of that, you know. And this week was a little bit not. Not too different. HARP was still in full effect, if you know. You know. But, yeah, they were still out there doing their thing. So the East Coast, Northeast and all of that and Southeast alike got some. Got some inclement weather still. So about to go back into work tonight for the first time in a little minute. I've been out of work for. For a little second with some bereavement time and then combined with the bad weather. So we'll get to that in a minute, though, or a little bit later as far as with the bereavement with revisions and things like that from last week. I know last week's episode, I believe, was recapping my visit to Florence again. I'm not going to continue to harp on the trip to Florence, but did want to pay respects. Rest in peace. John Forte. All right. Want to pay my respect show. Every time I tried to get to it, I kept stepping over my own thoughts and everything like that. So, you know, rest in peace, officially. To John Forte. Sincerely, outside of that, I didn't have too many revisions from last week, so. But this week, I do have a lot of videos or audios for us to play and, you know, repurpose. Before I get to all of that, though, I did want to say the intro, that song that black history rap or freestyle, if you will. Them bars was brought to you by DJ Stussy on Instagram. S like Sam. T U. S like Sam. S like Sam. Yeah. So, yeah, he's the one who. Who put that together and did his thing. So shout out. Shout out to him. I wanted to again remind y' all to follow us on the social media that our social media, like our IG and stuff like that. We're looking to go ahead and keep everyone engaged and put up some more content up there. So follow us at mandatory OT on ig. Mandatory ot. So we're gonna get this started a little bit later than usual, but we're gonna go ahead and build on some wisdom here this weekend. [00:08:57] Speaker C: Mathematics, yo. No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. Build, destroy. The builders. To elevate the mentalities of self and those around self to add positive energy to every nation. To build, you must first start from the root, which is the knowledge foundation. And I don't want to. The highest peak to destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:09:21] Speaker C: Peace, God. Do the knowledge. [00:09:25] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this. All right, so our first piece of wisdom is going to come from cousin Jerome in the group chat. Started off with some wisdom. Black History Month. This one is from Marcus Garvey. A people without the knowledge of their past history. Origin culture is like a tree without roots. All right, shout out to Marcus Garvey. And then Ella Fitzgerald, she has one that says, just don't give up what you're trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. So shout out to Ella Fitzgerald for that. I had actually, instead of. Well, it's not revision or anything like that, but in one of our emails that we'll be reading soon, one of our listeners went ahead and gave her two cents and kind of gave some clarity to one of the quotes that I was struggling with. So shout out to Coco. Of course. But we'll get to that email in a second. I wanted to go ahead and here we go. A couple from Taz here in the group chat. When someone helps you and they're struggling, too, that's not help. That's love. I mean, do yourself a fake. Okay, I like this one. Do yourself a favor and take mixed signals as a no. It's tough. All right. Never let the same flame burn you twice. All right? Oh, God. Then the tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggled to reach the light like that. All right, so I like this as well. You only have control over three things in your life. The thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take. All right, so I have a couple of videos to get to, so we're gonna play a couple of clips. Of course, it's Black History Month too, so with building wisdom, it'll be leaning more towards that. But, yeah, y' all bear with me here while I play a couple of these videos, and then we'll go ahead and keep it moving. Okay, Give me one second. Don't speak negatively about yourself. Even as a joke, your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy, and they cast spells. That's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself. [00:11:51] Speaker D: And you can change your life. [00:11:53] Speaker A: That's something Bruce. Beautifully put. [00:11:57] Speaker D: Come to understand is that we are starting to see a generation become what it is that they watch in an algorithm on all social media accounts is more willing to show you a k flock before they willing to show you a version of me. Because one thing that the system don't benefit from is for us as young black men to learn how to critically think. How did a race that once used to be killed in pursuit of learning how to read and become literate stop? Stop doing so. But now I'm noticing my young men, they aspire to be YouTubers and streamers. If left to the narratives in mainstream media, you will be made to feel as if you can't be black in a scholar too. They only put trainers as athletes and entertainers, as if the only forms of contribution we make to the world is being a source of entertainment. And then what's worse is that these narratives that we've seen on mainstream media is having real adverse effects. I'm gonna use Howard University for an example. They said that 19% of Howard University demographic, student demographic is young black men, which means that there's more non young black men intending a historically black college than young black men. And I have a problem with that, because what is it that's making us feel as if we are intellectually inferior? Because I'm also noticing that there's a silencing of our scholars. What do I mean? When I was in Syracuse, I noticed the trend that was happening. I'm like, yo, why? I don't ever see Louis Farrakhan. I don't see Angela Davis. So I'm wondering what happened to my scholars? Because when I look at my history. That's who I look up to. Do y' all understand what I mean? There's some people that have never talked to a black person in their life. And the only references of how he exists is our entertainers. Then I went to speak out of school and I told a young man, why you call me a Wyatt? Why not call me a young king? Young God? He said, now that's crazy. I said, so wait, you find it. You are more comfortable reaffirm me and being a young Negro than it being a young girl. And I said, who condition us to feel that way? Because there's no way we could build a village where the youth don't respect their elders. They elders are scared of their children. But another thing I noticed that I did wrong is that I assume that you all should know what it is that I have been taught. What do I mean? When I first came to speak down in February, one of the young men came to speak and he said it was his first time wearing a suit. That's the reality. I forgot that part. Then I'm assuming you all should know what it is that I have been taught. So now I have to teach as young black men. I need all y' all to always have at least one black suit. [00:14:18] Speaker C: Everybody around the world copies African Americans and then yet disrespects them. GPS is a black woman. Well, 3D imaging is a black woman. Laser eye surgery is a black woman. Escalators, a black inventor. Elevators in black amendment. The roller coaster. Cell phone. Our video games is Jerry Lawson. Mary van Brighton in 1966, she invented the home security. You're talking about open heart surgery. Daniel Hale plasma. Charles drew through. We can keep going surgical equipment. Black people inventing. Just constantly inventing. And they took everything and lied. And black people are still thriving. Black women have the highest degrees in America. These are the same women that were operated on with no anesthesia. But they're number one in academics. Atrocities that African Americans have been through. I'm surprised we are this peaceful. [00:15:03] Speaker A: That part. Shout out Godfrey. Shout out Godfrey was the most recent that. That most recent video there clip. The clip before that we had. Forgive me, y', all, the brother, his name is Jordan Pierre. So y' all definitely look him up. But the brother's name is Jordan Pierre. Profound speaker. Found that clip on social media as well. And in that first clip was Bruce Lee, of course, talking about the power of words and the power of kind of, you know, just. Just spelling and the words and the. The choices of words that we use. That's why you'll never hear me. You'll rarely, rarely, rarely hear me say that I'm sorry. You know, I'll apologize for things and I'll apologize or pardon myself, but I'm, I'm rarely ever going to say that I'm sorry. You really never gonna hear me ever say that. I'm broke, so I'm not. I'm wealthy, baby. You know what I'm saying? Just come around this energy and you'll see what I'm talking about. But, yeah, there's certain words that I, I just refuse to use. Reasons why I don't use the words like try, you know, and things like that. So I encourage you all as well. Cater your vocabulary to what you want your destiny and your future to be. The second brother was spot on with everything that I be on y' all already know, okay? Pro intellectualism and against anti intellectualism, just poignant points. It sound like the brother was from up north. And you hear his cadence, you hear his accent, you would typically think probably that this is just a brother that's, you know, again, from, from New York, from the city, hoops maybe, or in the streets and music and rap and not able to elocute itself that way. And again, profound, very profound. And then again, Godfrey always showing up. I know that he has his Nigerian background and stuff like that, and we'll get to Shibuzi a little bit later. But Godfrey is an example of someone who is humble enough to accept where he is in the land that, you know, the land that he's in. In other words, again, he grew up in Chicago, spent a lot of time on the New York comedy scene, but his roots is, you know, Nigeria and everything like that. He's very candid and transparent about that in his stand up comedy throughout his career, but he has never had an issue with giving credit where credit is due whenever it comes to African Americans or foundational black Americans, Black Americans building or the contributions that we have made to this country. So again, we're going to get to, to that in a little bit, but salute to all of those brothers for contributing to our Building Wisdom segment this week. All right? And of course, y' all already know whenever y' all are writing into the show or if you call into the show, you're more than welcome to contribute any kind of wisdom that you would like us to build on in any segments that you would like us to build on. So let's go ahead and move forward. In the words of my moving company, moving services company, let's See here. Do I want to do that? Do I want to do that? I guess I want to go out to lunch real quick. All right. Wanted to. It's kind of special this week. Y' all remember this is always for real hip hop, but you gotta Hummingbirds. What else? And break fast. Hold on. Not doc, but similar to the letters. [00:19:02] Speaker D: No one could do it better. [00:19:04] Speaker A: I checked cheddar like a food inspector. My homie Strict told me, dude, finish your breakfast. Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop. Rest in peace. To Strict. Yo, all right, Y' all heard hov, though, man. Y' all heard TI as well, okay? A brother had to finish his breakfast. That means I broke my fast, y'. All. That's what I'm saying. Daniel fast is. Is over again. We. We made it through. Salute. All right. Salute. I haven't had too much. Much cheese since I've been back off the Daniel Fast Chicken. Chicken. Yes. I've been on the chicken. Bob just had a honey butter chicken biscuit this morning and was messing around with the publix chicken wrap yesterday. So I am back on the chicken. But yeah, just off of the fast. Feels good, you know, to have looked back and known that I was disciplined enough to get through that and to take, you know, to take it to another. To the next level whenever it comes to self discipline and what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying? So salute now still. Yet it's funny because, you know, a lot of those, like I told y', all the new normal, rice and beans and things like that. Veggies, heavy on the veggies and the fruits. That stuff has started to become programmed into me. It's. It's becoming somewhat of a routine, some would call it. So salute. Salute. Shout out to Daniel fast. But we broke it. We broke the fast, y'. All. All right. We broke the fast. All right, so that's out for lunch now while we're in the break room, though, I do want to go ahead and go through a couple of. I had a voice note, I believe, and an email that I wanted to read, so we'll go ahead and get to that. See here. Oh, Okay. Here we are. All right, y'. All. The Reddit. The letter reads, hey, DJ High star. Just want to check in and say how much I truly enjoy your show. I was also able to catch you on another one of my favorite pods, Once Upon a Time in Music, which was so dope, it was like one of those old school 80s sitcom crossover episodes, LOL. I also want to comment on Your Building wisdom segment of this episode. Let me cut this down a little bit for you. Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. When I heard this, all I could say was allow New York facts. My bad y'. All. Allow New York facts. Dead ass B you talking about now she ain't right all of that but a New York facts. So often people tend to. Excuse me. So often people tend to catastrophize the events going on in their lives and act like they have no idea how they got there. However, if they took the time to review the progression to their situation, they would find that they are not victims in their circumstance, but often volunteers. The mountains they see in their lives are a result of the pebbles they stumbled over. We are seldom defeated by mountains by the mountains we face in our lives. Those mountains we conquer lead to the stories we tell others that speak to how resilient we are. However, the small things we think don't matter are the ones we trip over that eventually lead to our defeat. The moral of the story? Stay woke and listen to your gut or the Holy Spirit as it is also called. Thank you for letting me go off on a tangent. But more importantly for the much needed voice you are contributing to the pod space, you have gained a loyal listener with love for the culture. Coco all right, that's the homie that's fam right there y'. All. Coco PS Today's Coco Mathematics come from the great Grandmaster Flash who says don't push me cause I'm close to the edge. I'm trying not to lose my head. Ahaha haha. So salute to Coco for that email. I really appreciate it. Let's go ahead and run that a couple things back real quick. Unpack a couple things because big sis helped me out a lot in this email here. So first of all, you know salute to Once upon a time in music. It seems like a weekly thing that I'm doing now. Link. All right, I'm not cohortsed. This is not no ad but Salute to y' all podcast. All right. I did feel the whole crossover dynamic though when I was out there. That's why again I didn't want to have like main character syndrome of that the like the music starter shows up on the sitcom and then and the crowd going crazy. I didn't want to have that or do that effect and I for having like a self reflective moment or self aware moment. I am very aware of my personality and how loud my energy is. So I always try to throttle that right and try to tether it and Regardless, some. Just when I'm having a genuinely good time. When I'm having a genuinely good time, I kind of. I failed to balance that at times. However, I say all of that to say I had an awesome time out there once upon a time in music, just listening back to it. I'm like, shut up, jerome. Shut up, DJ High Star some points. But nevertheless, let's go ahead and move forward. One is a comment on the Building Wisdom segment. So this part is very important because, Coco, from everything that I heard on here on your episodes, you are an educator. I need the feedback of the community, y'. [00:25:32] Speaker C: All. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I need to feedback. I need that. I need community feedback or some of this stuff, y'. All. The thing about being, whatever you would call it, an intellect or considering yourself somewhat knowledgeable of things and aware is knowing that you know nothing and that you always can learn stuff. All right. One of my favorite podcasts, of course, Joe Butter Podcast. And I have my issues with Joe here and there, but one of the funniest things, one of his funniest sayings that he quotes is the biggest room that I've been in is the room for growth. Right? So I really appreciate Coco chiming in on this because I was having trouble in real time whenever I was reading through it, but now that she's unpacked it and broke it down, I received it differently, and I understand it a little bit more because I've had. I've had my own thoughts on these same things, but without knowing it when I was reading it the other week. So men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. So again, let's move to where she's saying, again, catastrophizing events in our lives. It's one big thing. All right. There's one big thing that I don't know if it's tragedies of the 2000 and tens and late 2000s that I went through from, like, 2008 probably until about 2012, I just suffered, like, losses, losses in my family and tremendous loss. So I don't know if that kind of toughened my exterior. More recent losses that I've had, I don't know if that has contributed to it as well, but I don't tend to as much catastrophize things. And so when people do it around me, it, you know, it bugs me somewhat. It's a. It's somewhat of a pet peeve of mine. And I hate to not ever come off, like, compassionate or empathetic about situations, but when it is something that we've created for ourselves and roadblocks that we've put up and constructed for ourselves and then still choose to speed over the roadblock or the speed bump and try to realize while the car is messed up, it's like I, I don't have too much grace and empathy. Remember what we said a couple of episodes ago? You know, no empathy without accountability first, it's not going to precede it. So I need the accountability first on, you know, I need the accountability to show up first, in other words. So I love that. Cat we, Cat we, we catastrophize the events going on in our lives, act like they have no idea how they got there. Again, where we are is always a sigma or a sum of our choices and our decisions leading up to this point right now. So always keep that in mind and be aware of that. That's why a couple of weeks ago when we were building on the wisdom, one of the things was learning to program yourself for the person that you choose to be because you have to think of ourselves. We're in autopilot, we're in auto drive. We have a program, we have a routine. Every day we get up, we do this, we do that. It's programmed so we're in autopilot and the phones don't help out any, any, any of that, right? So we have to be computer programmers. I hate to sound so doomsday ish and terminator ish or whatever, but we have to be computer programmers or think of ourselves as that. Reprogram ourselves to the person that we would like to be the autopilot version of the person that we would like to show up as. So consider, you know, how you got to certain places whenever you find yourselves in these pseudo catastrophes and, and don't know how you're going to get out of it and all of this stuff again. However they took the time to review the progress, the progression of the situation, they find that they're not the victims, but often the volunteers. So that part, and then the thing that gets me about that is we continue to volunteer. After acknowledging what we've contributed to those circumstances, we can. We, we continue to volunteer. So the mountains that they see in their lives are, are a result of, of pebbles that they stumbled over. Coco, come on. My bad. I can't find the. Spitting. Sound like an educator. But anyways, she said, once again, the mountains they see in their lives are a result of the pebbles that they stumbled over. So that means you didn't want to nip it in the bud, man. My fault to get emotional, y'. All. I mean, I don't know if there's any kind of personal attachments that I have to this stuff, but I'm talking about, come on, y'. All. Come on, man. You don't nip in the bud, it's gonna. You know what I mean? Snowball and snowball. Next thing you look up, it's a mountain. All right, so look, we're seldom defeated by the mountains that we face in our lives. Those mountains that we conquer, they actually lead to the stories that we tell others to speak to how resilient that we are. And also, I'm. This is my $0.02 of it, DJ Hostar. It's also a reminder of God's greatness, if you will. Right. Whenever I look back on things that I've been through and stuff, I've always remind myself, God got me through that. God got me through it, you know? So, again, the moral of the story is stay woke and listen to your gut, or the Holy Spirit, as it's called, is a perfect way that she ended that because you see how we align, right, Coco? So I appreciate you for that, and thank you for letting me go off on a tangent. You're much needed in this space. I appreciate you. Once again, Coco, with your email, there is a. Coco, you had a something that you said on your show that I did want to show my audience. So I'm gonna pause this real quick, go back to your episode so I can figure out what it was. And with your permission, hopefully prayerfully, I'm gonna go ahead and share with my audience. It was pretty. It was perfect for building wisdom. So y' all just hold on real quick. Let me find it real bad. All right, So I have to kind of scrub through a little bit. And again, this is with Coco's advanced permission or assume permission, but nevertheless, this is from Coco and the Culture, a most recent episode on understanding emotional intelligence. Let me just play this clip real quick for y', all, okay? I don't want to belabor the vibes. Hold on. You know, one of the quotes that I love the most is, if the only tool you have is a hammer. [00:32:18] Speaker D: You'Ll treat everything like a nail. [00:32:21] Speaker A: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat everything like a nail. [00:32:27] Speaker D: So what does that mean? [00:32:28] Speaker A: If you don't have the tools to. [00:32:30] Speaker D: Identify your emotions, you're going to respond with the same emotion all the time. Everything gonna make you tight. The only emotion you know is mad. [00:32:37] Speaker A: You don't know anything else but mad. [00:32:39] Speaker D: Because that's the only tool you have in your emotional toolbox. You know, as a teacher, I work with my pre K kids on emotional. [00:32:47] Speaker A: Coco. Coco, you just spit in this week, yo. So with that, that's gonna go into something I'm gonna talk about later as far as, like, your emotional intelligence and the. The tools that we have, like, whenever we are upset and stuff, I gotta. I gotta remember that for later. Let me jot that down. Coco's E. I took hello, but we got another. We got. Actually got a voicemail that I wanted to play from my brother Sock. Let's go ahead and go through this voicemail real quick here. Let's see. Give me one second, y'. All. Hello. Please leave a message after the tone. [00:33:46] Speaker D: I figured it out. I figured out the I want to. [00:33:49] Speaker C: Get off my chest, bro. [00:33:51] Speaker D: I figured it out. It's always. I've been trying to figure it out. [00:33:54] Speaker C: Out the of. [00:33:55] Speaker D: Finally pinpointed that Cancel aesthetic culture. [00:33:59] Speaker C: My tired of scrolling on social media. [00:34:03] Speaker D: Everybody page. Everybody Instagram page and like a magazine or some like. Like everybody want to show the aesthetics. Like, cancel that, bro. [00:34:15] Speaker A: I'm tired of that. [00:34:17] Speaker D: Will take a picture of the food, take a picture of the drinks and all of that. Yo. [00:34:23] Speaker C: Yeah, bro, that's. [00:34:24] Speaker D: I gotta get that. That's what I'm getting off my chest, bro. Cancel aesthetic culture. My. I figured out the I want to get off. [00:34:35] Speaker A: Salute to my brother Sock. Salute to my brother Sock. Listen to Leak. You right on point with that, brother. Yeah, I'm with it. Cancel aesthetic culture. I seen the other day on this. This show that I watch on YouTube every Wednesday, culture United shout out to the company man, Justin Hunt, and everything that he's doing over there. But Culture United, it's like a panel YouTube show. They bring on a lot of different voices, very respect. Respected voices in this space. And they discuss different things, hip hop and. And culture adjacent every week. And one of the young ladies that was on there, I believe her name is El Janelle, she stated that. She said, y', all, I'm just tired of the rich rappers, y'. All. She said, I'm tired of rich rappers, y'. All. Then it dawned on me. It's like, we don't have any struggling rappers anymore. The same way with athletes. We don't have none of those hungry, struggling athletes coming from rags to riches, those type of stories anymore. We. Everybody's already made it by the time they got there. Everything is perfect. Social media, pictures. Everybody is a photographer nowadays and everything like that. You know what the Lady Gaga know about cameras, man. It's a little delayed with the boom, but yeah, so again, everybody's stepping out. They want to take these fun pictures with their new iPhones and, and this and that. And it creates, it creates a depression. If you consume that 247 and just see highlights of everybody else's life or whatnot, that creates a depression of some sorts. It actually I wanted to read something that. Because I want to kind of just bleed this in a random note, random thoughts for the week. And so I do want to read something that had saw very interesting on social media earlier this week. Let me see here. So let's go ahead and play this, I believe. Oh, no, no. Okay, there's something for me to read here. All right, so this is off of ig, but psychologists say that time itself began to feel different after 2000. Then it shifted again after 2020. Not because the world suddenly moved faster, but because the human brain stopped recording life in the same way. Before 2000, life had a natural rhythm. Seasons felt unique. Years felt separate. Childhood felt long for a reason. Your brain was truly present. After 2000, something quietly changed. Not the clock, the brain. Internet, email, smartphones, endless scrolling. Constant stimulation flattened our sense of memory. Researchers from Stanford and UCL discovered when the brain is overloaded, it struggles to form deep memories. And fewer memories make time feel shorter. Your brain silently concludes nothing important happened. So entire years begin to blur together. Ping, scroll, switch, refresh. Every interruption breaks mental continuity. Your brain can no longer build long timelines. Days feel chaotic and years feel missing. The pandemic didn't just disrupt routines. It reshaped how we experience time. Stress, fear, uncertainty, isolation, monotony. All of these things at once. So under constant stress, the prefrontal cortex stops planning the help. I mean, forgive me on this. The hippocamp. Hippo. Hippocampus. Hippocampus stops storing memories. The nervous system shifts into survival mode. The result? Days blur, weeks disappear. Years merge into one. People everywhere repeat the same feeling. Oh, 2020 feels like yesterday. Everything since then feels like a single long, wrong year. Time's moving so fast. I added that one in there. I feel years older than I should. No, you're not imagining it. Time slows down when life is full of novelty. New places, new faces, new challenges. After 2020, think about it. Less travel, less change, less variation. No, novelty means fewer memories. Fewer memories means. Means less sense of time. Stress doesn't just blur the past. It also compresses the future. Studies show stress makes people feel older, lose long term vision. Believe time is running out and the brain becomes trapped in the present moment. Time feels better or time feels faster. When the brain is overwhelmed, stressed, understimulated, fragmented, disconnected, Time itself never changed our ability to experience. It did we now live in a world of information overload, low novelty, high stress, constant distraction, and a perfect formula for life to feel unreal. That's why the 2000s flew by, the 2010s faded away, and the 2020s feel like a blur. All right, so the hopeful truth is you can expand time again. The brain slows time when it experiences novelty, presence, deep focus, emotion, adventure, meaning. It's a long slide. Forgive me. Bear with me. Psychologists suggest simple changes. Do fewer things with deep. With deeper focus. Turn off constant notifications. So do fewer things with deeper focus. Turn off constant notifications. Seek real and new experiences. Change your surroundings. Create clear memory moments. Reduce ongoing stress. An intentional life feels longer. That's tough. That's tough. I just wanted to read that to y', all, especially coming off the heels of what Sock was saying as far as with. With vanity or aesthetic type of life. Everybody pump faking for the gram and stuff. All we doing is. Is. Is messing up the endorphins and stuff and speeding up time by scrolling on that phone, y'. All. So I hope that that was of some value to y', all. Y' all. Let me know what y' all think about that as well. Perfect time for us to kind of break for our engagement and one of our sponsors this week. But definitely let me know what y' all feel. First and foremost, follow us on IG at Mandatory OT. That's simple as that. Mandatory. The word Mandatory OT. And follow us. Also, feel free to email MandatoryOT704gmail com MandatoryOT704gmail com we'll make sure that we read your email on air. Or you could call into the hotline 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. And we'll make sure that you get heard and that your voice is heard here in the community. So thank you again, Sock and Coco, for that. Let's see here. Wanted to go ahead and play a word for my sponsor this week. Our sponsor this week is one Galen, Galen J. Williams on Instagram. So let's go ahead and cut to a word for my sponsor real quick. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Instead of saying, have you lost your mind? Say, you imbecile. Have you misplaced your wit? Instead of saying, you get on my nerves, say, thou art a plague upon my peace Instead of saying, you got me fucked up, say, by my troth, thou dost misjudge me greatly. Instead of, mind your business, say, I entreat thee to refrain from involving thyself in matters beyond thine own. Instead of saying, catch me outside, say, meet me beyond these walls, and we shall speak further with action. Instead of saying, fuck around and find out, say, persist, and consequence shall induce itself. [00:43:23] Speaker A: So Saluti, our sponsor this week, Williams and on IG now, wanted to move forward here. I did go to put back to poker night yesterday evening. Let me see here. I'll kill the suspension. I lost, all right, but didn't win, if you will, but made progress. So better than I was last week. That's all that matters right now. Okay? Better than I was last week. Learned some things, picked up some. Some cues and how to read folk and different things. So that was cool. Let me see here. I'm gonna get to the Grammys here in a second. But just random thoughts that I have written down. See here? R.I.P. keith Porter Jr. That'll stay up there. 90% of black people. I'm not sure the percentage is exactly, but 90% of black people, in my mind, laugh whenever the dance is over. Like, whenever they finish the dance. Do y' all notice that these don't really have a smooth way to get out of the dance? Especially if they killing it, right? And then they just laugh it off and dap. Look for somebody to dap up. You're not low. You're not low. All right. I'm not saying that I'm mad at that. I'm just saying we're aware. We see all of that. We see all of that. It's not. It's not. Yeah. You're not tricking anybody. All right. We gotta move forward with the show, though. Poker night in Fort Mildo, again off of the Fast. So I was able to go ahead and have a Stella or two while we were playing. It was cool. This Marine dude, he was in there talking. He saw Cliff's Omega Sci Fi jacket, so he was talking about how he could have been in Omega Howard and. And, you know, all of that stuff. Okay? We got you, bro. We got you. Understood. We hear it all the time. I mean, not even the sound. No type of way, but we hear it all the time. All right, let's see here. Once. Move forward here. Might as well talk about it. Okay. The Grammys happened, y'. All. The Grammys. Wow. The Grammys was going on while we. Before we talk about the Grammys, put it like this. [00:45:38] Speaker D: Show love it don't show nothing it. [00:45:40] Speaker A: Don'T cost nothing to show a Because it's free, right? And I'm gonna show some love to Chance the rapper once again. My dog should have been nominated, should have won for album of the year with Starline. It's all good. It's all good. So moving forward though, everybody, it. It's political. I would say the. The awards itself. Like the winners that you thought would win one. Whenever you saw somebody getting interviewed by Trevor Noah, the next category, they had them in that category and they would win. So that. That's what's up. Cool. Whatever. The new artists, Olivia Dean, she did a thing. She did her thing. They had a lot of other new artists out there. Of course. Leon Thomas, he did his thing. He. And like I said, everybody got some hardware and got some. Some stuff. I. I felt bad. I saw their clip, this clip of Jid after the awards and homie that be going around trying to make fun or whatever like that. And he'll miss purposely mistaking people for another celebrity and it's supposed to be funny and get a reaction and stuff. So he did that right after the awards and called Jid Kendrick Lamar and stuff. Jid handled that very classy, my brother. Salute. Salute to you. Especially being in Atlanta. Listen. People that listen to your music know what type of time you on, bro. So I'm very proud of you that you kept your wits. He was very professional in that moment. Salute to you. Yeah, salute to you, JD for even being nominated, my brother. Young artists being nominated like that. Shout out to you. But homie, that did the prank, bro. It might be time to hang that up. Might be. You might be right there behind Haha. Davis, bro, like the is. It's kind of running out. All right, is is corny. Let me see here. The performances that I did catch, though I didn't see the whole. I saw the clips performance on the playback or I ran it back on YouTube. That was cool. The Kendrick Cher exchange. Whenever Cher said the whole Luther thing, when Kendrick went for Luther and then Kendrick got up on stage. Show love to Luther Van Draws also salute to Luther. I. I believe that post posthumous posthumously, that he would be an award winner with that. So salute to Kendrick and the team for. For winning that award, at least in Luther's legacy and in his honor. But for those that didn't know Cher had she pronounced the winner. She was up there to announce the winner. She announced is Kendrick and I'm as the winner. But she announces it, looking at it like Luther, like, she read the title of the song as if she was reading, you know, Luther Vandross's name, like he was going to come up. And she looked. She looked at Gas. She looks shocked. And then she corrected herself, or somebody probably was in her ear. And she said, well, Kendrick Lamar, whatever, he came up there, had a little funny joke about it and stuff. So cool. Shabuzzi actually won a Grammy as well. So salute to Shaboozi. I believe it was a song that he has with Jelly Swims or Teddy Roll, whatever y' all want to call them, or them, whatever you want to call them. Wanted to go ahead and play this clip real quick from a man, the company man, Justin Hunt. It's with regards to Shabuzzi's. It's with regards to his Grammy speech, took home a Grammy Award for Amen with Jelly Roll. And during his speech, he said, immigrants built this country literally. So this is for them, for all children of immigrants. Thank you for bringing your culture, your music, your stories and your traditions here. You give America color. Now, I wouldn't say that I consider enslaved people immigrants. So I think. But it's pretty clear who he is talking about, and I do agree with him. All right, so, yeah, so pretty much that was Shaboozy comments. It was in the moment of accepting an award. He's just paid respects to immigrants and said, those are the ones who give this country color. These are the people that built the country and everything like that. So some stuff to get off my chest real quick with that. And since then, just to make it a point, since then, Shaboozi has come out and backtracked some of those statements and acknowledged that black Americans have had a pivotal role in. [00:50:11] Speaker C: In. [00:50:11] Speaker A: In building the country regardless. Right? So the first thing that I have to mention, though, with. When it comes to that is there is often a desensitized version, a whitewashed version, pun intended, of what a slave is. And everyone that has occupied this country, so they'll call them voluntary versus involuntary immigrants. Black people even saying this stuff, and you sound like an idiot. Yo. So I. I'm not saying Shaboozi, not saying Shabuzzi, but anybody that that subscribes to that, you sound like a idiot. All right? The involuntary immigrants is just a term in. Or involuntary servants, whatever you look into pacified and call it, is a term to get away from cr. Crt, if you will. That's what they look to abolish, right? In. In the schools or in education and stuff like that. What that's Talking about real chattel slavery and what black people really went through. So involuntary immigrants. We just like Ari B. Wrote into the show a couple weeks ago, we can't mince our words and, and play around with that. So what he said was, immigrants built this country. I have an issue with that, of course, for this. For hundreds of years, the country was built off of free labor. That's not to be understated. That gave the country a head start. That it did. That's just the simple math of it. The reparations that people ask for and stuff nowadays is because the country got a head start because of free labor. Volunteer work, involuntary, of course, but like community service, like whatever you can liken in your mind to working for free or whatever. Like that is what. Is what was doing, man. So I just don't want. It's not. Nothing to argue and debate about. All right, so with the whole. The great country that we feel like we have here and this great country that's afforded us all of these quote, unquote liberties, it was built off of the backs of slaves. The only thing that the, the Dutch or these white people were doing was telling slaves what to do. Some people, like the pacifiers or the people that were looking to help out your John Smiths of the world and all of that stuff, salute to them. But we can't, like, let's stop, like, rewriting history. The majority of this country, like when immigrants came over here, they wasn't coming over here to woods and desolate, you know, forest or whatever like that. You came over here to develop land. All right, nevertheless, look, shout out to Shabuzi. Be more like Godfrey. My. I don't know what to tell you, bro. Be more like Godfrey, bruh. All right, let's see here. So that's, that's the things I had to get off my chest. Wanted to play a couple random things from the Senate flow before we try to speed this up so we can get on out of here. But got one more word from our sponsor in a little bit, but I wanted to play a couple random things from the Senate floor. All right, See three quick videos here for y', all for your entertainment purposes. Hold on. [00:53:44] Speaker E: But out of all Trump's cabinet members who displayed either willful or genuine ignorance, hard to know the difference. Today there was a lot of competition. The most galling had to be Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christine O. Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus? Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to Remove people from this country, suspend their rights. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Let me. [00:54:09] Speaker E: Let me stop, ma'. Am. Habeas corpus. Excuse me, That's. That's incorrect. I mean, given Noem's answer, there she is in the cabinet, everyone. That response from Secretary Hassan was pretty polite, I would say. I mean, habeas corfus is definitely not the right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country. In fact, it is actually kind of the opposite. It is the opposite, which Senator Hassan was quick to point out to her in the hearing. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason. Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea. And if you thought that was the low point in Secretary Noem's hearing today, you would be incorrect, because things actually got worse for her after that. [00:55:13] Speaker A: Do you know what section of the Constitution, the suspension clause of habeas corpus is in? [00:55:18] Speaker E: I do not. Nope. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Do you know which article it is in? [00:55:22] Speaker E: No, I do not, sir. Okay, so it's pretty clear that Secretary Noem does not really know much at all about the fundamental right to due process in this country. So. Pretty important, right? To be fair, she's been pretty busy dressing up as an ICE officer or dressing up as a border patrol agent or dressing up as a cowboy for some reason. Not clear why that one. Or dressing up as a SWAT team member with her gun pointed dangerously close to that man's head, it appears. And when she isn't busy playing dress up, Kristi Noem has also been busy with other ventures, apparently. I mean, she's trying to launch her. She's been in discussions about launching a Hunger Games style reality show, pitting immigrants against each other. That's a real thing that she has actually been discussing, as I'm sure you know. But what that all tells us is that all of this dress up playing as various law enforcement officials and dreaming up cruel reality TV shows is maybe what Kristina thinks her job is. And what those answers in that hearing I played tell us is that she's obviously way out of her depth on issues that the DHS secretary should have some understanding of. Or a great deal of understanding of, to be honest. [00:56:32] Speaker A: Exactly. Exactly. All right, so I, again, that was us exposing Christy Gnome and her lack of knowledge for her job. Okay, this is going to be Jasmine Crockett And Cash Patel. All right, and then we're gonna have Attorney General Pam Bondi. But give me just one second here, y', all, and enjoy the entertainment. If. If it's boring to you, you can skip forward. But it's entertaining. It's entertaining, to say the least. Give me one second here, Man. [00:57:22] Speaker B: Decisions that Donald Trump makes, especially when it comes to the people that he decides to appoint. Two very important positions, including this one, because I did have to make sure that I wasn't going crazy. But when I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real. Because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI prior to joining. Yet we are supposed to believe that you were the greatest thing since sliced bread. I didn't ask you a question. Now, what I want to. Served with the FBI. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Hold on. I want you to catch this again. I played the sound effect. [00:57:58] Speaker B: That's the greatest thing since sliced bread. I didn't ask you a question. Now, what I want to go through is to talk why you are a failure and why. [00:58:08] Speaker A: Why you are a failure to tell you. Bye. [00:58:10] Speaker C: Bye. [00:58:10] Speaker B: I know that you got a little upset and you put on your show for your boss because it seems like you're trying to save your job when it came to talking to Senator Booker yesterday. But let's go through some of. [00:58:23] Speaker A: All right, so I want to go ahead and play one more here. Like I said, this is Pam Bondi deflecting here. See? [00:58:36] Speaker E: Good morning. [00:58:37] Speaker C: What became of the $50,000 in cash that the FBI paid to Mr. Homan in a paper bag? Evidently. [00:59:01] Speaker A: This is in real time, Senator. [00:59:03] Speaker E: As Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche recently stated, the investigation of Mr. Holman was subjected to a full review by the FBI agents and DOJ. [00:59:13] Speaker A: Pay attention if she's answering the question. [00:59:15] Speaker E: Credible evidence of any wrongdoing. [00:59:18] Speaker C: And that was not my question. My question was, what became of the $50,000 in cash that the FBI delivered, evidently in a paper bag to Mr. Homan? [00:59:30] Speaker E: Senator, I'd look at your facts. [00:59:36] Speaker A: That was her response. [00:59:37] Speaker C: Are you saying that they did not deliver $50,000 in cash to Mr. Homan? [00:59:40] Speaker E: Senator, as recently stated, the investigation of Mr. Homan was subjected to a full review. [00:59:45] Speaker C: Different question. [00:59:46] Speaker E: By the FBI agents. That's by Department of Justice prosecutors. They found no evidence of wrongdoing. [00:59:55] Speaker C: That's a different question. What became of the $50,000? Did the FBI get it back? [01:00:02] Speaker E: Mr. Whitehouse. Excuse me, Senator Whitehouse, you're welcome to. [01:00:05] Speaker A: Yeah. So whether it's been bondi Patel, Kristi Noem, all of these different characters in Donald Trump's cabinet, they've been showing themselves to be exactly who we thought they were. Idiots, for lack of better terms, I guess. Right. But it's, it's amazing. Like, I always thought that politics and things like that was boring whenever I was younger. But you look at the. A person just simply not being able to answer a question that makes you scratch your head. You see a question being asked and somebody running away from answering it, yes or no, and having to explain a lot and have diarrhea at the mouth, that's a red flag for me. You know, I say you're lying. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I mean, get aflac. I don't like, like I said, it's just, it's just weird for me or for me to see. These are elected officials, people that, you know, the American people. These, this is dead ass serious, in other words. And people is running around avoiding questions as if we in high school or junior high school and answering notes back and forth like, oh, breaking news, y'. All. Anthony Davis traded to the Wizards in a deal involving eight players. Hold on, y'. All, my fault. This is just coming down the pike. You know, we got a lot of other trade news going on, but the Dallas Mavericks are trading Anthony Davis, 10 time All Star Jaden Hardy, D' Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Chris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malachi Branham, Marvin Bagley, the third looks like two first round picks and three second round picks, I believe. Oh, now also we just seen a James Harden trade. James Harden went across and was traded to the Cavs for, for Darius Garland. So a little bit of movement going on. A little bit of movement. It's a, that's a big dog to move. Once again, Anthony Davis, boy, they've been moving him around a lot, you know. But nevertheless, again with these people, elected officials and stuff like that on the Senate floor being asked simple questions that they can't answer. Big red flags. Also figuring out different ways that they can defend the indefensible. And the things that we have seen in all of these Epstein files with these nasty ass men and these nasty people. We'll take a second here to also address this because play Jay Z in the intro here. Listen, man, like y' all know how we are in this community, okay? No idolatry, first and foremost. No idolatry. That's who, that's, that's one of the tenants. But also, nobody is above being, you know, reprimanded or. Or, you know, whatever. Punished, if you will, for anything. So it's not a gotcha moment. If you say, like, oh, Bill Clinton was in here. Barack Obama was in the files. Look, Jay Z was in the files. Pusha T was in the files. I'm disappointed for hip hop if, you know, whatever the details are surrounding it. And, you know, that's nasty. It's nasty. I looked at Jay differently when he was doing that performance art with the Marina Brahmavic lady or whatever like that. I'll look it up. You know, I looked at him weird. Ever since he had Aleister Crowley on his, you know, shirts and T shirts and stuff, or wearing a baphomet, I've been looking at him weird. So it's. Listen, y', all, it. When it comes to, like, the pedals of the world and all of them criminals, man. All of them, man. I don't know why y' all think it's something that's just isolated to a Republican. I'm no. All of them nasty, man. Demonic ass, man. That ass. Anywho, get that off my chest, man. All right, I gotta go ahead, because we gotta. It's been kind of a longer episode today. Listen, I wanted to take the time out again. Rest in peace, Keith Porter Jr. We're gonna keep saying your name, brother. I didn't say Breonna Taylor. Last week when I was kind of eulogizing some of my. My sisters that have passed on failed to bring Breonna Taylor up. But nevertheless, it's too many. It's too many. But I did want to give a rest in peace to first, my. My homegirl, Brandi Anderson. She passed in 2022, man. Her daughter just recently passed at the age of 13. So I went down there in Charleston, so rest in peace to Braylon wanted to say that. And there's a couple other tragedies that have happened and gone on. So I definitely just wanted to give my love, my condolences out to everybody out there that. That are going through times of bereavement or suffering a loss. You have to put on. On my esoteric Kufi right now. You gotta always remember that right now, in this winter time, the snow is covering things as that snow covers things. That's. That's a metaphor, right? For our growth. Like, it's going to kill a lot of things off. And forgive me, please. I'm with all sensitivity to those that we have lost, those people and things that we have lost. But right now, you always have to be careful or mindful of that beginning of January and February. It's a moment. It's a cold time. It's a cold time. And a lot of times we. We go through losses and stuff or I have in my life experiences a lot of losses between that November and, like, February period. And it's no coincidence, I don't think that around that March, April period, you know, when the sun starts to come out, it's the true new year, if you will. Right. So you think about the months and everything like that. October, Oct, Octagon. How many points is on an octagon? Is eight. So October should be the eighth month. Okay. September should be what, the seventh month. November, with a November. That should be the ninth month. December, Dec should be the tenth month. So I say all of that to say our real years starts up around March, February and March. And right now, you know, while. While everyone's grieving and stuff like that, it just, again, a time to. To reflect and to. To remember those. Keep. Keep everyone in our prayers that. That have gone through losses and stuff through this time. I hate to go off on that tangent. I hope I don't sound like I'm smacked or something like that, but I hope it all connects for y'. All. In other words, like, right now is truly winter and the end of last year in my mind. So. Prayers up, man. Prayers up. I wanted to go ahead and move forward here real quick to the last portion of the episode is just kind of some random. It'll go down as random thoughts, really. But speaking with Sock about this earlier this week, it's trivial conversations or debates of no value that we have in our community and in our spaces, especially as black men. We have these. These trivial conversations all the time where people, of course, Mount Rushmore conversations, top tens. Y' all know how I feel about those versus conversations. Hypothetical versus retired verses, please. But things like that that we have all of the time, and ultimately it doesn't hold any value. The conversations that we having on a podcast. There's been this conversation going around about, hey, do you want a trillion dollars? Or a conversation with God? What the are y' all talking about, yo? What? Like, why does any of that matter? When is any of that gonna help with paying the rent this month or getting groceries in your house or anything like that? Think we're so distracted again in this dystopia that we're not focused on the things that is going to. That can commit us to progress. We talk about the dumbest and the most trivial things Everybody has a microphone in the podcast nowadays. So you're trying to fish for content and find content out of. Out of anything or find anything to make content out of. I saw two brothers or two brothers, there's four brothers on a YouTube clip that passed me by. And the brothers were arguing about, you guessed it, y', all, which burner on the stove they use. Come on, y', all, come on. Seriously, y', all, seriously, let's stop. And it was dead ass passionate in the argument about what's the best burner on the stove to use and why. Like we have to hear how we sound, y'. All. We have to hear how we sound because it is. It's ridiculous. I don't think we're focused enough, of course, but that's just my two cents. And again, this may have been like a late get it off my chest or whatnot, but there you have it. I may expound on it a little bit more next week. I'd love to hear you guys thoughts and views on it because I think there's always a space for us to release and have fun and light hearted conversations. But when we take these trivial ass debates and we make them at the front of discourse for our communities and people saying, you know, Kendrick or Drake, Jay Z or Nas or whatever like that, Lebron or Jordan, and things is going on in this senate floor that I played y' all earlier where people is getting away with not answering questions, passing $50,000 on in brown paper bags so that things happen behind the scenes. Then I think that we need to go ahead and get off of the barbershop trivial conversations and arguments for a while and get back to some real. So that's just that that was the. My second little piece that I had to put in. I definitely want to expound on that next week. But that, that's what it is for this week, y'. All. So I mean, stay focused. You know, like Coco said in her email earlier, y', all, stay woke, stay aware, you know what I'm saying? Stay on point with everything. I wanted to go ahead and move forward and let's see here, give me one second. I wanted to go to our high star bars for the week. Some Black History Month stuff that I saw on Chance's page. I'm always going to big. My brother Chance the Rapper up. So I wanted to go ahead and play this if I could find. Oh, here we go. So let's go ahead and play this. This from Chance the Rapper. It's our High Star bars of the week, y'. All so on his IG page, I don't see a title for the song, but if I find one and I'll let y' all know. But let's go ahead and play this real quick. [01:11:47] Speaker D: Know how will I know, how will I know how will I? [01:11:52] Speaker A: Gun to your back like Harriet if. [01:11:54] Speaker C: You can't shoot, can't carry it if. [01:11:56] Speaker A: You too fake, can't ferry it come carry me Home sweet Terry. [01:11:59] Speaker C: Everybody want to come drive the boat but nobody want to come battle boat if you realize we was all compatible. [01:12:03] Speaker A: We can combine the money, make it combatable? [01:12:05] Speaker C: Sometimes I'm my boss Sometimes I'm my boss? Freedom is a must and y' all. [01:12:10] Speaker A: We try Hand if you scared, hold my hand if you cry, hold my. [01:12:15] Speaker C: Hand and I'll drive Close your eyes and I'll steer. I'm not woke. I'm just tired. I'm not. [01:12:19] Speaker A: I'm fine. I'm not broken. [01:12:20] Speaker D: I'm fine. I'm not smoking. [01:12:21] Speaker C: I stay on the open online. [01:12:23] Speaker A: They going to know what we know in no time. One big crowd, one big smile. [01:12:55] Speaker C: Money in one big pile. [01:13:40] Speaker A: Salute. Salute. Salute to my brother, Chance the Rapper channel. And they have a great visual to that his team does awesome with their visuals and stuff on their social media. So definitely check that out on Chance the rappers IG page on his social media. Yeah. Yeah, that's perfect. Perfect statement for Black History Month and everything. So before we get out of here. [01:14:10] Speaker D: Show love it don't show nothing. It'll cost nothing to show a. [01:14:15] Speaker A: All right, So I definitely wanted to show some love this week. Salute to Chance the rapper. Of course. Salute to all the Grammy nominees. Everybody out there that's representing real hip hop. Hip hop, you know what I'm saying? Out there for the. At the Grammys, I guess. I mean, shout out to Will Smith, but hip hop. [01:14:36] Speaker C: Hip hop. [01:14:36] Speaker A: All right. Salute to everybody out there representing for us out there in hip hop the Grammys. Salute to my brothers, of course, always Carlos. Fat boy. What's happening, Q? Q just came back from a cruise about a week or so ago. Had a great time. From what I hear. Mix master T was happening. Sock, what's happening, all my brothers? James, Patty. What's up, bruh? Cliff, Ashton, of course, you know everybody a butter. What's happening, my bro? See here, all of those that will be traded one the of to give y' all some brotherly love as well. Okay? It may not look the same. All right, all my brothers at work, what's happening with y'? All? Okay? All of my frat brothers that don't get along with all the time. I'll send y' all some brotherly love as well. All right. Meech, though. Meech. My big bro, Meech. Gamble. What's happening, Bling? What's happening? Sad Savage. I don't like to call him Savage, but. Tyrone. What's up? What's up, my boy? What's up? My life. But with all of that being said, I just want to deliver this last part with supreme faith. That's in God. There's a prayer that straight from the heart, may the ego nor the hubris ever break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody's ever told you before, I love you. All right, man. I appreciate y' all for joining me, and we'll see y' all next time. Or listen to y', all hear from y' all next time that you join me next week on mandatory overtime. All right, Peace. Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [01:16:26] Speaker C: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Closing time do the knowledge I know you going to dig this. [01:16:50] Speaker D: Mama got that bunch of crunch Ex. [01:16:53] Speaker A: Blackly Mama got that bunch of crunch Damn, son. Where'd you find this when it's cold outside? [01:17:01] Speaker C: I'm a member of OA Omega Sci Fi Fraternity.