Double Overtime 5400

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Y Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. yeah. Nah. Get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for O.T. listen up, workers. [00:00:16] Speaker B: Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me. I'm a member of os like that Omega sci fi fraternity. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Greta the tittle tattle prattled on about [00:00:42] Speaker B: the little metal bottle. [00:00:43] Speaker A: She spat a bit of spittle on the modern brittle cattle in a bitter battle. Hey, hey. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Stop questioning my methods, okay? [00:00:49] Speaker A: I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. No, she chose herself. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Come after me. I'm a man. [00:01:01] Speaker C: I'm 40. [00:01:04] Speaker B: It's party time. Let me work. Please let me work. [00:01:28] Speaker D: I'm gonna dig this. [00:01:41] Speaker E: You're down the mix with DJ High stuff, son. [00:01:44] Speaker C: Where'd you find this? [00:02:02] Speaker B: My style I found my way, [00:02:26] Speaker C: But [00:02:26] Speaker D: the kid got his on man a goddamn. [00:03:19] Speaker B: Let me work. Please let me work. On. It. Me up. [00:03:45] Speaker A: When I found out it was a [00:03:46] Speaker B: white man singing that goddamn song right there, I said, I know you lying to me. Play it again. Play it again. Start it with say. Who you talking to my let's get it going to get your ass. Who the for he got on stolen White folks ain't gonna let us have he done stole another voice. It's a trans. This is some bul wrong with you. [00:04:23] Speaker A: We just bumping [00:04:28] Speaker D: my homeboy told man [00:04:29] Speaker B: you haven't seen the video yet Watch the video. Put that muffler on. I seen that white man come and say let's get it I say hey, hey, hey, hey. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Turn that off. [00:04:47] Speaker B: Trying to bring slavery back Let me work, please let me work. Like that like that shaking ass and doing hair and kisses I need a 10p lemon pepper magic City what the going I got a pocket full of money who the h I got a phone full of shooters who get stepped [00:05:25] Speaker F: on [00:05:27] Speaker A: I heard a comedian I don't know what y' all thoughts about Billy Gang [00:05:34] Speaker E: or not. [00:05:43] Speaker B: What the I might buy now who the horn? I got a closet full of drip I put that stuff on [00:05:52] Speaker A: very profane. It's a lot of the Let me just say this, man. It's a lot of them Atlanta cats and women lotto that just do it extra. Why you gotta show people that you extra black ain't yeah, but anyways, shout out to Shorty Low. And if y' all know who the other artist on that song was, that was DG Yola. You know what I'm saying? What a time to be alive. Some of y' all know about this. Shout out To South Carolina State. Homecoming going on right now. I'm gonna get started in a second. All right. Okay. Oh, no, no. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Let me work. Please, let me work. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Sus to the brothers of Omega Sci Fi Fraternity Incorporated. You heard shout out to Zysai, Man. Of course. Shout out to Lambda Sigma. Y' all know what time it is? Gucci? Nah. Be like, see, that's what I'm saying. Go back to a lot of these songs right there. It's like, oh, no. I don't know this next one, though. Before we get started. I had to play this. Felt compelled to play this. But I don't know what's up with my algorithm, but I've been getting a lot of disturbing stuff on my timeline with regards to, like, Northwest is like. She's just too grown. She's too grown. Is putting. Anyways, anyways, let me just play this real quick. You heard this is before he. I don't think he went off the rails just at this point, yet we knew he was still eccentric. I want y' all to hear these words that this saying in this song. It's Kanye, by the way. [00:09:16] Speaker F: Y'. [00:09:16] Speaker A: All. I want y' all to hear this [00:09:20] Speaker D: song. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Let me work. Please let me work. [00:09:34] Speaker A: You're down to mix with DJ High Star. I gotta. I gotta karaoke some of this. Yeah, I know we normally be jamming at the beginning, but it's just on my spirit. Shout out prayers to the west family. I shall say. Y' all hear this. Savage is monsters is pimps as players till have daughters. Natty precautions. Father forgive me. I'm scared of the karma. Cuz now I see women as something to nurture, not something to conquer. I hope she like Nikki. I'll make her a monster. I having menages. I'm just being silly. I enter the door like Will Smith and Martin. Do we have a problem? This was Kanye had the whole rag team for him. [00:10:39] Speaker B: No, daddy don't play. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Not when it comes to their daughters. Don't do no yoga. Don't do Pilates. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Just like piano was. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Stick to karate. [00:10:46] Speaker B: I pray your bodies drink more like mine. And not like your mommy's just being salty. But. And I am a. I know what they want. I pray that crazy. [00:10:56] Speaker A: But he's very vulnerable too. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Love her to death. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Now she cutting class and hanging with friends. You break a glass and say it again. [00:11:08] Speaker B: She can't comprehend the danger she in. If you whoop her ass, she moving with him. Then he whoop her ass. You go through it again. But how you the devil rebuking the sin let's pray we could put this behind us. I swear that these times is the wildest she got the scars they serve as remind us Blood still on her pajamas but yesterday [00:11:28] Speaker A: Moment of silence. Is sad Savage is monsters Is pimps as plays Till have daughters [00:11:43] Speaker B: Is pimps [00:11:44] Speaker A: as players Till have dogs Come on, [00:11:51] Speaker D: come on. [00:11:53] Speaker A: You ain't gonna say music ain't powerful? Nah, I think we can't fail it. We can't end it on that real quick. We can't, we can't, we can't. But what's up, y'? [00:12:05] Speaker F: All? [00:12:05] Speaker A: He's got one more. One more thing. Happy homecoming. We're gonna get to it in a second. Yeah. So they took that, you know, introspective ass song and made it. This is where you hit. Let's see here. Oh, yeah. Let's see if we can play this real quick. Shout out to all y'. [00:12:34] Speaker F: All. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Tommy clocked him a little late again this week. Nevertheless, it's the clever. I'm being vulnerable with my audience and talking about the future issues I'll have with my daughter potentially growing up in the same and limelight. And y' all made it a dance track. [00:12:59] Speaker F: Me, [00:13:06] Speaker A: I don't think it's no coincidence that T was the one that made the dance popular. [00:13:11] Speaker F: But [00:13:14] Speaker A: hold on, hold on. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Come after me, I'm a man I'm 40. Come after me I'm a man of the story. [00:13:42] Speaker A: What up, what up, what up, y'? All? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. M DJ High Star here with another episode here, Mandatory Overtime. The aim is to recalibrate our definition of manhood with one conversation at a of time with our community. And that community consists of you all, of course. So I appreciate you guys for showing up. First and foremost, simply audio journaling of an 80s baby. But also a social experiment in consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. And for that, I appreciate you. [00:14:18] Speaker E: You heard? [00:14:21] Speaker A: Don't confuse this with the man. I was here. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair. Like Comment. Subscribe. Share. Let's engage, of course. But make some noise, y'. All. Cause your main man is here. You heard. Reporting live from Charlotte, America is Henning 704-980. [00:14:42] Speaker B: You heard like that. [00:14:44] Speaker A: Let's go to work. Of course. Joined by my Russian sound engineer in a check 1, 2. A check 1, 2. Let's get to it. All right, all right. So real quickly, quick revision from last week. I gotta Give brotherly love and shout out to my brother, El Hodge. You heard, holding down the. The male. The black male teaching role out there. I ain't gonna say y' all a little place of employment, but shout out to our black educators out there. See what the. El Hodge don't. [00:15:27] Speaker B: I didn't. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I didn't include him last weekend. I meant to include him in my brotherly love segment, you know, salute. I did meet the brother, but also, he wrapped on the phone and stuff, man. And I will say he's a huge supporter of the show, so I had to show him love. And, yeah, that's the revising for last week. I wanted to go ahead and see here. I wanted to go ahead and. For us to go ahead and just get straight into, I guess, what we get into, right? Go ahead and build some wisdom real quick. [00:16:08] Speaker B: What's today's mathematics, yo? No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:16:12] Speaker D: 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. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:16:33] Speaker D: Peace, God. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Come on, son. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40. Do the knowledge. [00:16:43] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this. Timing is a little off this week, a little slower, but it's all good. We still here to work. Still here to work. [00:16:54] Speaker F: I wanted to. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Go ahead, shout out quick, brotherly love to Big Cliff. He's out there down in South Carolina State right now, and he is announcing the game. So we pulled up the game on ESPN plus, and you can hear the brother, Big Cliff. So big brotherly love and shout out to Big Chris. But let's start off our bro Brotherly. I mean, our building wisdom, rather. This week, some stuff from Cousin Jerome. All right, so let's see here. So we ended on Chad with Bozeman last time. So start off with some Monday motivation from Cousin Jerome. Bad weather always looks worse through a window. Okay. Bad weather always looks worse through a window. All right. Shout out to Tom Lehrer for that one. And then also, the words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. The words of kindness more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. Sarah Fielding. Hey, Shout out to. Going to drone with that one. Then we have a fishing net. Catches more when it's knots hold together. The reflection in that is. Independence has its place, but unity has its power. God didn't design us to accomplish everything alone. The right connection strengthened what individual effort cannot. Salute. Salute. Then we get. Let's see here. I know Brother Taz had dropped a couple of gems per usual. And of course, Bling did as well. Salute to brother Bling. Well, let's see here. Brother Taz said, you may see me struggle, but you'll never see me quit. Ain't that the truth, baby Ruth? Perseverance, my brothers. And brother Taz also says, be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help. Help. And brave enough to ask for it. That's on behalf of Mark Amend. That sounds very familiar. Very close to the prayer of serenity. Let's see here. Let's see what Bling had Bling got. Life is made up of only three days. Yesterday, a day that is gone and can never be brought back. Today, a precious opportunity to learn, grow, and make a difference. Boom. Tomorrow, a day that is not promised and remains unknown. All right, so don't live. Oh, snap. So only. Dang, I missed my place. All right, so don't live in regret over yesterday and don't waste today worrying about tomorrow. Make the most of this moment, because today is the only day truly in your hands. Thanks. Love that, bro. Love that. I appreciate that, Brother Bling. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Cousin Jerome and brother Taz as well, wanted to go ahead and move forward, though. Salute to our brothers, of course, again, for contributing to our building wisdom segment. And I did have a voice note to play, so we're gonna get to that. Soy in Lee. Let's see here. Because it's got a little sunlight making his way in here. So we're gonna go ahead and play this audio note. It is sight unseen or unheard, if you will, but it is from the aforementioned Big Cliff. So let's see what Big Cliff got to say. Y' all see? One moment. [00:20:47] Speaker D: Hello. Please leave a message after the tone. [00:20:54] Speaker F: You already know what it is. It's your main man, Big Cliff, host of Carolina Sports Talk. Well, former host, I guess. At this point, starting off, I got to give a big, huge shout out to my dog, DJ High Star. I know it's been a long. I gotta give a big, huge shout out to my dog, DJ Highstar. I know it's been a long time coming. I probably should have been wrote into the show, man, but I watched from afar, and I am proud of all of the work that you are doing with the show, man. But there's a topic that has recently popped up that I wanted to get your perspective on. You and I have not talked about this yet, but I want to hear your thoughts on it this week. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was ruled out for the rest of the season, man, based on the blood clots. Now your listeners may or may not be familiar with it, but long story less long the team saw that he or learned that he had some superficial blood clots in their trip to London recently. There was some question back and forth about should he or should he play stories around it surrounding saying he was held awake for 36 hours, bro, so that he could stay focused and stay locked in and not have at risk. But then they sent him out there to play an NFL football game and then sent him through that long flight back and forth. But long story less long with the consideration of some other players, namely your Luke Cheekleys of the world and or your quarterback from Stanford, Andrew Luck of the world who retire young to preserve their health. Then you see players like CJ2K Chris Johnson and his. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Looks like Cliff cut his own wisdom perhaps. I think it was one of those situations where he was recording and it cut off probably while he was talking. Like the screen blacked out or something. But salute to my brother, Big Cuff man. Thank you. Thank you for that audio note, my brother. You guys talking about the Jalen Hurt situation which we will get to and talk about overall. Thank that definitely thank you. Appreciate the audio note as well though. And love bro. Thank you. Yeah, certainly. Salute to Big Cliff. Salute. Brotherly love goes out to Jalen Hurts as well. Big Cliff pretty much get a rundown of that. But yeah, complete negligence and mismanagement on the part of the Philadelphia Eagles. But when Maya Angelou says it best when people show you who they are, you believe them the first time time. And the NFL has continuously showed us who they are. Oh, why am I doing that? Showed us who they are and what they stand for as far as their bottom line being about the money. So I hate it for Jalen Hurts. There's a couple other things, you know, with the NFL that always have you looking sideways legally. I think Jalen hurts his family do have, you know, a case in of sorts as far as for the medical negligence and malpractice that went on. But yeah, prayers. Prayers for Jalen Hurts. Certainly prayers for Jalen. Oh man. Prayers for Jalen hurts. Gotta get the time board right. Yo. My bad. Prayers and brotherly love. It's our Brother Jalen hurts out there. He gives big cut a sec. See if he's good to go in the interview. But wanted to go ahead and move forward. Had a couple of random thoughts this week that I did want to go through. Oh, and it has some things that I did want to play in the meantime, before I get my cuz on the line. First random thought this week, though, was just simply, why does everybody feel the need to stand in front of Marcy houses? Marcy housing projects. I get it. That's where Jay Z grew up, and it's okay. But outside of that mystique, it is just the housing projects, Marcy. There's plenty of people that still live there and have to go in and out of those buildings every day from whatever fake promises or promises that the Kushners and the Carters have put out about Marcy projects. What really has, you know, Jay Z and his misleadership brought to Marcy, outside of headaches, just being honest. So that was just a random thought of mine this week. You may want to call it, get it off your chest, but I saw Corey Guns in front of. I don't know, but I saw Corey Guns in front of Marcy houses and Stan standing in front of her like it's an album cover. And I'm thinking in my head, what? Ah, whatever. Like, why is. What is the significance of even standing in front of Marcy nowadays? Like, what does that represent? Like, again, this is where Jay Z came from. It's not. And it doesn't look any different than, you know, after his billions that he's made. So, you know, I don't know. I don't know. It's my thoughts. Just my thoughts. It's just my thoughts. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:20] Speaker A: All right. Salute. So finally, after a long, long time, a lot of perseverance and stuff like that, y' all definitely was able to grab my cousin and get my cousin Big Donald, my cousin Donald on the line now. My cousin, he is alumni Clark at Atlanta University, but also he's up there in Chicago right now, a native of Brooklyn, but out there in Chicago and the dean of students in the Chicago public school system. So I definitely wanted to get him on the line earlier since we had a lot of the tragic stuff go on down there in Chicago, but just get his perspective out there. But, cousin Donald, what's good, bro? How you doing, cuz? [00:27:03] Speaker D: Wrong. What up, man? [00:27:05] Speaker A: Good to be on the show. [00:27:07] Speaker D: Pleasure to be here. [00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:09] Speaker D: Happy for all you a success, you know, that you're having with the show, too, as well. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Oh, I appreciate that, man. I just stand. Honestly and humbly speaking, I stand on. On the shoulders of people like you and cousin Jerome, of course, like, people like my father. But black men in our family that matriculated past high school and, you know, and had to. We had to, like, navigate our own way and stuff like that in college and outside of high school and kind of be the. The example in our family, especially being, like, one of the few males in our family, like, on our Enough, you know, on that side of the family. So I truly stand on y' all shoulders and then just try to elevate what I'm doing or take it to the next level, you know what I'm saying? [00:27:54] Speaker D: I can appreciate that too, as well. [00:27:56] Speaker B: Right. [00:27:56] Speaker D: Especially within our family, too, because you're right, we got a large or a very dominant female presence. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Right? [00:28:04] Speaker D: Male cousins, it's just uncles and everybody, you know, remain tight and kind of, you know, help and lead each other, you know, ways because of just that female dominance testing there, too, as well. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Right. Like, we. We. We could. We know how to provide the vibe. We are part of the vibe, but we never let, like. We ain't never get lost in the sauce, in other words, you know what I'm saying? Can't let the vibe get a hold of you and you end up being embarrassment to the family or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, anytime. [00:28:34] Speaker D: Right? Right. [00:28:35] Speaker A: You or cousin Jerome home, we out and about. Y', all, Y' all carry yourselves a certain way. And then I just gotta. I gotta follow suit because I. You know what I'm saying? I just come behind y', all, so. But salute. But real quickly, though, I did want to ask you, how did you. How is everything with homecoming? How'd you enjoy Clark Atlantis Homecoming? Like I mentioned, y' all Clark Atlantis alumni right there. HBCUs, right? You know what? [00:28:57] Speaker D: And shout out to Park Atlanta. I had an amazing time when I went down there for a whole. Coming this past weekend. And I haven't been to homecoming in maybe like. Maybe like two or three years. Maybe. Yeah, I think about three years. But I could see from this homecoming how much Clark has grown because it was like, one of the best homecomings I experienced. And, you know, you know, for me going to homecoming just to see the amount of people there, Right. You know, just to see, you know, all the alumni that came back. It seemed like a lot of people that were alumni was there too, as well, so nice. It was a good time. Clark had a. You know, Clark won the Game. So the homecoming was amazing. But also just you know, just being out there in Atlanta and just you know where I feel like that's my second home almost. [00:29:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:29:49] Speaker D: You know, that's where you know, you kind of you in college. That's where you kind of grow up and you know, you meet a lot of your life long friends. [00:29:57] Speaker A: Exactly as well. [00:29:58] Speaker D: So just you know, seeing that camaraderie, having that vibe time, you know, is unbeatable. And next year will be my 20th so I can't even wait to go back next year. Nice years since I graduated college. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:13] Speaker D: Make me feel old when I say that. [00:30:14] Speaker A: I'm telling you, I'm telling you. Yeah. That I celebrated my 20th this year of Omegas. And you know it was spring 2006 when we crossed. So it was 20 years for us this year. And like you said. [00:30:26] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:30:26] Speaker A: You look back on it. That's joint definitely makes you feel old. Well we on this subject the Clark Atlanta though because I did highlight FD signifying our video last week and I mentioned him to you but after doing more research because he's a Sigma. Turns out he's a Sigma. But he is, he did graduate I guess from Clark Atlanta. So you know that picture, if you saw it and it looked familiar but I wanted to talk a little bit about your, your path to Atlanta real quick because you played football up in Brooklyn, right? [00:30:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:30:59] Speaker D: I played football in Brooklyn. Got a scholarship out in North Carolina that didn't work out. So I wind up at, you know, Clark Lane University. [00:31:10] Speaker A: Got you where? Where at in North Carolina? [00:31:12] Speaker D: I went to North Carolina a t. Okay, okay. I was there up there for a year playing ball. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Got you. [00:31:19] Speaker D: I want to get wind up getting hurt. They try. They wind up acting funny with the scholarship money after that. Because one thing people don't know when you play sports, when you get a scholarship, your scholarship is every year. You know, it's not like oh, I'll give you a scholarship. And it's like four years. Right, Four years. Nothing like that now you know, you get it each year. So if they wanted to take away or take away some of your money, they can. And they wanted to do some of that because I was going to be able to play because of my injury. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Okay. You know, so the games like the politics of it. [00:31:51] Speaker D: Right, right, right. So I just did wound up going back home and that's why I went. That's how I wound up in. That's how I wound up in at Clark Atlanta. [00:32:00] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:32:00] Speaker D: Because I had an epiphany I had like, you know, it was just like, I can't just end up like everybody else back home. I got. Yeah, you know, get out of here. I can't absolutely. For about six months, you know, almost six, eight months or something like that. I was like, nah, I can't do this. I can't go like anybody else. So I wound up applying to three schools. Clark, Howard and Hampton. I got into Clark in Hampton, I didn't get into Howard, and so I wound up going to Clark. You know, everything else was history after that. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Wow. Yo, salute. I never. I really didn't know the background on that or how you ended up in. In Atlanta, like as far as at Clark or playing. I knew that, you know, of course that you played. And then on my dad's side, I had a cousin that hooped around the same time and he played for. I want to say he played for Grady and, And Lincoln. Lincoln is Grady's rival, if I'm not mistaken. Right? [00:32:56] Speaker D: Yeah, it is. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So he played for Grady around 2000 when they had, I want to say Quincy Doobie or something. And, and well, they. They won like the state championship with basketball. But both of y' all was on. On both sides of the family. I had like, you know, larger than life cousins that was playing at the next level, playing ball like, or whatever in college and stuff like that. So I never knew that it went down like that. And like you said with the all. What it took is like a conversation or a turn the wrong way and stuff. And you would have stayed in Brooklyn essentially. Like, I mean, now granted, I'll give you more credit for that, that. Because, you know, you had that self determination or drive clearly, or that resiliency. But people don't realize, you know, and [00:33:41] Speaker D: we know within our family and within. I don't know, I guess it might be a New York City thing. [00:33:46] Speaker A: It's a. [00:33:47] Speaker D: It's a big decision to leave. [00:33:49] Speaker B: Right. [00:33:50] Speaker D: New York, because a lot of times, once you graduate high school, it's, oh, go get a city job. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:33:55] Speaker D: You know, do that. And for the next 20 years you can retire and do, you know, do this, that. And the third, it's just like you almost have. Have to really have a determination, you know, within yourself to be like, you know, nah, I ain't trying to do that because my mom's definitely, you know, try to hit me with that. I'm like, no, that's not, that's not the path for me. [00:34:13] Speaker F: Right. [00:34:14] Speaker D: I don't wanna, you know, I don't wanna that's not what I want to do. You know, this is what I want to do. That's what I tell, you know, I work in high school now, but that's what I tell students, you know, to, you know, at the end of the day, you got to follow your own path and, you know, do what you want to do. You just got to make the right decisions when you're doing it. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I mean, with respect to an Elaine and everybody, but like, like you said, the. Because to me that like, from a macro standpoint, if I look, look outside of the picture, looking into the picture frame, a lot of our family that's older than us or older than our parents, they move from the south to New York, quote, unquote, or New Jersey to get an opportunity, like to work and to have like the city job opportunities and the guaranteed paycheck or the security of the city job or that government job and stuff. And then their generation, our parents, they went through that, you know what I mean, through the 70s and 80s and 90s and it's like, yeah, y', all, y' all worked, y' all was able to get some bread up and all of that or whatever, but you've had to make that decision at like, you know, your late teens, early 20s, to be like, like, nah, I'm gonna take a, a different route. And then to atl, you went, huh, right into Atlas. [00:35:30] Speaker D: It was just off of that. Right, right. You got, like you said, you know, within, especially like you said, you know, we have a lot of strong willed women. Right. You got to stand on, you know, business in terms of what you want to do. Yeah, I remember, you know, God works, my God rest. So my pops too used to send me, you know, fire department applications. Applications, stuff like that. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:53] Speaker D: You know, I mean, nothing. And there's nothing wrong with that too. [00:35:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Because they mean well. [00:35:56] Speaker D: Is everybody path right too? Right. Yeah. And they do mean well because like, we know in New York City, I don't know about anywhere else, but in New York City, you know, firefighters, you know, cops, they make really good money, right? [00:36:09] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:36:10] Speaker D: A lot of those city jobs pay really well. And they do provide a pension, they do provide, you know, insurance for you. It's just a safety net. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:18] Speaker D: And like you mentioned as well, a lot of our peoples coming from the south just wanted that safety net of having a steady income, you know, being able to save, you know, towards, you know, their future, you know, with a pension or just Social Security. And, you know, that was just all they know. But you Know, at a certain time, you know, we. At a certain, you know, at a certain time in our family history, we kind of just got to stop that, you know, cycle. But it's definitely nothing wrong with that because we have family members that work for the city who make very good and continue to do very good. So, you know, it's all preference in what you want, you know, to do in life. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Did you see your physical talent, like your athletic ability after A and T or whatnot after the Aggie stuff, Did you see your athletic ability still as a vehicle for you, like, all right, I'mma still be able to use this to get. To get some vibes or like, what led you, I guess, to the Hampton Howard Clark Atlanta application outside of, like, not wanting to chill in the crib [00:37:21] Speaker D: when I was in North Carolina, kind of soured me on it, you know. Football, you know, as well, I think also too, we grew up in the. We grew up in that mid. That midpoint time where, you know, I'll use the movie like, you know, it's more basketball, but like Blue Chips, where I thought my athletic ability would be greater than my academic ability, you know. And, you know, I was. I came along during that time time where that just started to change, you know, is no longer, you know. You know, it's a lot of people that are athletes or a lot of people that are good. Even if you are elite, you still have to have some type of academic, you know, ability to get absolutely, you know, you know, certain schools. So that's one thing I wish I would have did a better, you know, job within myself because I had the academic ability. I just thought, you know, my talent will overweigh everything. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:19] Speaker D: And I came at a point where that just wasn't a. The case because we realized at a point, you know, before us, you know, that was the case. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:26] Speaker D: You know, as well as a funny story to. Well, it was the, the. It was that whole. Remember the rumor where a. Where Derrick Rose didn't take his SAT right, You know, in terms of high school. And, you know, it's funny to find out that, you know, he really didn't, you know, take that, but it was just. He just had to do what he had to do. It's almost kind of like that, that, you know, I saying I shouldn't take my say to you, nothing like that. I just say that to say sometimes academically you got to do what you got to do to. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:55] Speaker D: To get to the certain schools, you know, that you want to get into as well. But that kind of soured me on that too. But then also, too, I think I could have played when I went to Clark, but it was a certain freedom that I had when I was at Clark that you don't have when you playing. You know, when you practice. Athletic takes gotcha. You know, like you. Like, for example, when you playing sports, you know, at most colleges. But this was the typical schedule at A T. You know, it's like up at 5am Right? You know, you running, lifting weights, five to seven, you know, you go to your room, you take a shower, go eat breakfast. You off the class. You know, you take your classes, you go have lunch, you know, afternoon, you. You know, you almost have practice. [00:39:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:39:40] Speaker D: A. It's almost like a set schedule. [00:39:42] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:39:43] Speaker D: You know, almost get tired of it in a sense to where. When I went to Clark, you know, it was just like I wasn't playing ball. So it was a total level. It was a total different level of freedom that I had going to college. So I kind of, you know, let that get to me. Hindsight is 20 20. I should have probably, you know, attempted to play. So I will say that. But to be honest with you, if I'm giving you an honest reason, I just was having too good of a time. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, everything happens for a reason. I think about. And. [00:40:11] Speaker D: Right. [00:40:12] Speaker E: Right. [00:40:12] Speaker A: Shout out to Ari B. But she. She went to uncg. So it's like when you was up there A N T. And it's. I. I don't know. You know, with that one year, like you said, with the football schedule the way that it was, how much exposure you got to Greensboro itself. But it's like there's nothing that compares. In other words, what I'm ultimately trying to say is nothing that compares to the auc. And yeah, like, so the closest thing for me is literally in Orangeburg, Claflin and Claflin and State is like one fence apart, is right next to each other side by side. And then in Columbia, South Carolina, Benedict and Allen, they're kind of like across the street, but just in the same area as well. And then UNCG and A and T, of course they're in the same city, but they're. They're PWI and hbcu. Atlanta, you got that auc. And then for those that don't know, of course there's Spellman and Morehouse or Spell House, and then Clark Atlanta. And at the time, Morris Brown was still. Was. Still. It was on its way of losing accreditation at the time you were down [00:41:22] Speaker D: there or, well, you know, more. [00:41:25] Speaker E: They. [00:41:25] Speaker D: Morris Brown lost in creation a year before I came down. [00:41:28] Speaker A: Got you. Got you. [00:41:30] Speaker D: Now, when I was in Atlanta, I found out that they are currently still operating and open, but. But they don't own very much of their property. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Right. [00:41:40] Speaker D: In their real estate. [00:41:41] Speaker A: Yeah, my frat brother, he's the president down there. [00:41:45] Speaker D: Yeah. They sold it off to. A lot of it to the Falcons. You know, build a stadium right there. And they sold it off to Clark, who is, you know, continuing to expand on their campus right now. [00:41:59] Speaker A: Makes sense. Okay, okay, Gotcha. Gotcha it. And then they. They're. Yeah, because Morris Brown pretty much. It was like a reset for them or like a. Like they had to kind of start from scratch. In other words, like, money wise and all of that. [00:42:12] Speaker D: I came down to Clark in the fall of 2003, and everybody said that, like, Morris Brown, before they closed, was like the popping school out. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:42:24] Speaker D: They said it was like, you know, the wave over there. [00:42:27] Speaker A: And then that's where they filmed Drum Line, if I'm not mistaken. [00:42:31] Speaker D: No, they filmed Drum Line on Clark campus. [00:42:33] Speaker A: Got you. Oh, wow. [00:42:35] Speaker D: They did the. They also did the new A Different World reboot at Clark. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Speaking of. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna get to that on my show a little bit later. So with the drumline thing, did you catch any of that? [00:42:49] Speaker D: No, I didn't. They actually shot that in the summertime when we was. [00:42:53] Speaker F: Wow. [00:42:54] Speaker A: We was away. [00:42:55] Speaker D: It was. You know, ironically, that was the last summer that I ever went home before. You know, I never really went home for the summertime. [00:43:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:05] Speaker D: You go home because of your summer break. Yeah, we was home for the summer break when they shot that. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Wow. [00:43:11] Speaker D: After that, you know, I never went home, but. Yeah. And most of the stuff they do, that. The Different World reboot, they shoot it in the summertime because, I mean. And I can imagine it would be pretty hard. [00:43:19] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:43:20] Speaker A: With the students, you know. [00:43:22] Speaker D: Yeah, right. With the students. So. So a lot of that stuff is shot during the summertime, but I like the publicity that it gives Clark. You know, I think Clark had over 50,000, you know, potential applicants, you know, that applied to the school. So it's just that notoriety. [00:43:37] Speaker A: Nice. [00:43:37] Speaker D: You know, it's definitely good for the university. [00:43:39] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And shout out to the AUC once again. Look, I could. I could talk to you forever about kind of all of this history and stuff, but I. I don't want to take up all your time. But I did, so I wanted to move forward a little bit. But so what took you and propelled you to get up there to Chicago? What. What had, you know, helped you to make that move? [00:43:59] Speaker D: You know, Fatherhood. Yeah. My daughter had a daughter in Atlanta. Mom moved back to her hometown of Chicago. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Simply that. [00:44:08] Speaker D: Be closer to my daughter. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:09] Speaker D: You know, I move, you know, from here to Chicago. Had a best friend from college who actually, you know, lived out here too, as well, you know, so I had at least somebody that I knew, you know, out here before. Beyond. You're right, beyond him and my daughter, you know, I have, you know, we have no family in the Midwest. That's funny, too, how college exposure to a lot of the. Part of the world. Because, you know, we ain't have no real recollection of the Midwest. [00:44:37] Speaker B: All right. [00:44:38] Speaker D: Of course we know the Midwest, you know, the States. But in terms of what's really going on down there, you know, was cool to kind of learn that, you know, from a lot of my Midwest friends. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:44:49] Speaker D: You know, at Clark. But yeah, so, you know, fatherhood. So to be closer to my daughter, you know, I moved down here and it's been an adjustment, you know. [00:44:59] Speaker A: How long have you been up there? I mean, I know. Or how long. I'm kind of giving away my little cousin's age, but. How long has it been for you out there? [00:45:07] Speaker D: I've been up here about eight years now. [00:45:09] Speaker A: Got you. [00:45:10] Speaker D: Yeah. Eight years. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Yeah. To your point, though, when we was younger, the only thing I knew about Chicago was Family Matters and Perfect Strangers, and the only thing I knew about Detroit was Martin. So. [00:45:23] Speaker E: Right. [00:45:24] Speaker A: That was the extent of what I knew about these cities, like. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's where Martin and them is at. Yeah. Even Step by Step, I knew, was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but that. That's the most I knew about cities was from TGIF Friday pretty much. [00:45:38] Speaker B: Right. [00:45:39] Speaker D: I tell. I currently work for Chicago Public Schools now, and I tell students that all the time. You know, the most we need to know musically about you guys was R. Kelly and Common and maybe Twister. [00:45:52] Speaker A: If you was like a real. Real like or do or Die, whatever. If you was like a real, real hip hop head. But definitely, like, yeah, Common. [00:45:59] Speaker D: So to know. So to know all this drill rap and, you know, all the stuff that y' all really had going on out here, here, you know, we just didn't know of. [00:46:10] Speaker A: I know. [00:46:11] Speaker D: And I tell them all the time, so I know sometime us in New York, we live in almost like a bubble where, you know, nothing outside of the city, you know, even exists to Us. [00:46:21] Speaker E: Right. [00:46:21] Speaker D: You know, so I know that's how we kind of see things, but yeah. You know, really growing up especially, you know, we grew up with no Internet, like. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:46:29] Speaker D: To where, you know, we didn't know nothing about, you know, what's going on out in the city. None of y' all music. Know what happened. And you know, you know, I really, I barely learned about, you know, the Black Panthers and, you know, and all them, the. The power, the black power movement that they had going on out here, you know. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:46] Speaker D: Chicago, it's just, you know, or even [00:46:49] Speaker A: the last thing was Hoop Dreams for me. [00:46:51] Speaker D: Really? [00:46:52] Speaker A: That movie. That's what I was like. [00:46:55] Speaker F: Exactly. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Okay. That's how it looks up there. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Like that. [00:46:57] Speaker D: Right, right, right, right, right. And if you ever really remember Hoop Dream, cuz they didn't really have no guns and everything like that. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Right. It was more just like drugs. [00:47:06] Speaker D: Yeah, and drugs too. [00:47:08] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:47:08] Speaker D: Which we could always relate to. But we didn't know, you know, how violent it was. [00:47:13] Speaker A: Right. [00:47:14] Speaker D: And you know, and the violence didn't just start. It's always been like this. It's just been masked, you know. [00:47:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Because you got places, you know, the Cabrini Green situations and, and stuff like that. As far as the housing projects and all of the. The different places up there, whatnot. [00:47:32] Speaker D: Right, right. [00:47:33] Speaker A: So wait, so when you first got up there though, what, like for employment? What. What was you doing? [00:47:40] Speaker D: So when I first started my first job here, my first job, I just needed to get something quick. I worked at Amazon. [00:47:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:48] Speaker D: I worked at Amazon. I'll be, I. I'll be honest with you, because I got fired. I think I got got. They took a drug test and I got caught. [00:47:56] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [00:47:58] Speaker D: So then I got a job doing. Or I was. Oh, I was. After that I got a job doing substitute teaching. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. So that introduced you into the school system. [00:48:08] Speaker D: Exactly, exactly. That gave me like a way into the door and kind of allowed me to. Because I did that probably for about two years. So it kind of allowed me to be able to kind of see things, see how things work and just to kind of get into environment to see if this is something that you really wanted to do. [00:48:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:25] Speaker D: You know, as well, I already did have a master's too. So it's already kind of easy for me to get into education. So once a Dean of Students position opened up, you know, I was able to secure the position. [00:48:38] Speaker A: Got you. So you did that? [00:48:40] Speaker D: In my work experience. [00:48:41] Speaker A: You applied to the dean position while you were just subbing, while you Were doing substitute. Got you. Because with the substitute teaching, that's like a whole thing in itself. Like you getting up on an app or something every morning. Right. Or you looking like you had an assignment. [00:48:57] Speaker D: When I was. You saw, When I was 7, I had a permanent school. Okay, this time, too. So I'll go to the same school every day. But yeah, a lot of times that subbing is like, yeah, you get up, you go on the app and you accept, you know, set the job at whatever school that, you know, has a need, you know, as well, you know, within the. There. [00:49:16] Speaker A: So what was your first year with as far as Dean? [00:49:20] Speaker D: My first year was about four years ago. I started at the end of the school year. I think I started in April. And kid you, not my second day on the job, it was like a massive brawl outside. One of those brawls where, you know, people was called up to the school. You know, people got hit over the head with some bats. You know, ambulance call, you know, it was like a really. A really, really bad one. Yeah, but, yeah, that was like a. That was like a couple days, you know, into me starting a position. I think one of the ladies on my job, she always. So you always have such a cool, calm, you know, demeanor. And I think, you know, I think the. My biggest influence on my. The best way I can describe why I'm so able to stay calm is just because, you know, we grew up and I thought always come back and talk about New York, but we grew up in the old Brooklyn. [00:50:16] Speaker A: You know, I was just about to. [00:50:19] Speaker D: You know, I. This ain't nothing that I ain't really seen before or, you know, I used to. [00:50:24] Speaker C: The rodeo. [00:50:25] Speaker D: People come out here with that. [00:50:26] Speaker A: That's exactly what I was gonna ask you. You kind of read my mind with that, because I was gonna ask you. [00:50:31] Speaker D: Yeah, this is just common stance, you know, to it too, as well. And luckily, you know, the incident was involving some boys. They had the brawl. We was able to every. So when you have that type of situation going on is at the end of the school year. It's only a couple weeks left. Everybody got to come back to school. So we had to have a meeting with everybody involved. Cops was there. I won't say the cops, but it was a police officer there. School safety was there. So we was able to have a meeting and nothing happened. And, you know, throughout the rest of the year. But that was kind of my introduction into, you know, a dean of students in Chicago public School. I guess two hours should explain to you what a dean of students is. So I pretty much handle all the discipline within the school. So if anything happening in terms of a fight, any issue with the teacher, you get caught smoking, any type of disciplinary issue within the school, that happens sense, you know, the student comes to me and, you know, I deal. I dole out the necessary punishment. [00:51:40] Speaker A: And it's one school that you're over, though, right? Or that you're in right now, once. [00:51:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:51:45] Speaker A: Okay. And this is. What level are y' all at? You at high school? [00:51:48] Speaker D: I'm at high school. Yep. [00:51:49] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:51:50] Speaker D: 12. Yep. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Got you. So when you. When you were substituting and then when you switched over to dean, was that a hard transition for you to make or for the students to adjust to or anything like that? [00:52:06] Speaker D: No, I think the. It's a little different because I was working at a middle school as a substitute in high school. At middle school, you have to. One thing I like working out of high school is you can talk to them as young adults, you know, Whereas when you're in a middle school, you have to just be conscious of just the way that you speak to them, which, you know, you can understand. But there's definitely a level of different levels. Level of communication, which I rather enjoy, you know. Yeah. Because, you know, a lot of times when we get to the high school level, they think they growing anyway. So if you think you're grown, then we can have an adult growing up conversation. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:52:43] Speaker D: You know, in turn. Now, whether that go left or right, you know, that's up to you. But, you know, this is the type of conversation that we're gonna have, you know, as two adults versus just any, you know, the conversations, you know, are not peachy, peaches and cream, you know. Yeah. Most of the time. So I'm. Because, you know, as you always got to remain adult in the room, but also too, you know, you're gonna talk to me how you're gonna. Supposed to talk to an adult as well. [00:53:11] Speaker A: Right. With. With a certain amount of respect, I'd imagine. And I mean, you command. You command that as well. And like, it goes to the point. Because you had. You. You answered my question before I had asked it earlier, but it goes to my point. Point or your point rather of being from quote, unquote, the old Brooklyn. Like, me and my guy at work was talking about this the other day. Shout out to Dion. He's from Charlotte, the old Charlotte. And we just talk about like. Like the. [00:53:39] Speaker B: The. [00:53:39] Speaker A: The statement there's no honor amongst thieves may be true, but there's still, like, respect Amongst gangsters, if that makes sense. So it's like some of the realest cats that I know in the world are some. The of. Of the, the most well mannered people that I know, if that makes sense, you know what I'm saying? Or some of the most serious guys that I know laugh the most or joke around the most and stuff like that. So I know how to discern or detect BS or like the fake tough guy act with a lot of things, you know what I'm saying? And filter through a lot of stuff to where I'm like, oh no, it's really smoke over here or, or is fabricated. Fabricated and stuff like that. But I did have like, there's a couple questions I did want to ask you, bro. And I, I really appreciate your time regardless, but out there because I didn't want to get no salacious stuff. But what do you feel like is one of the biggest misconceptions about the children up there in Chicago? And then what's one of the harsh truths that we, that, that you know, unfortunately are true. True about the children up there that we have to face or our young adults rather say the first part. [00:54:47] Speaker D: I missed that first. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Oh, sure, sure. What's one of the biggest misconceptions that you feel like the public as a whole like that we have about the young adults that come out of Chicago is, I mean specifically to black young men. [00:55:00] Speaker D: I think that they all savages. That they're all cold, you know, and heartless. Like anything you create that kind of monster. And a lot of the, the monsters, I have to say it, that are created or you know, created, you know, at home. When I say they created at home, they created at home because a lack of structure, a lack of parenting, a lack of love, you know, lack of support, lack of food. [00:55:29] Speaker A: Right. A food thing is a huge thing. [00:55:32] Speaker D: Right, right, right. Just a lack of lack, A lack of lack, you know. And at some, at some point, you know, you create some. A monster to where, you know, they're tired of lacking. [00:55:44] Speaker A: Got you. So you're saying like they believe they're savages? [00:55:49] Speaker D: No, I said they believe they are. I mean our misconception is that they are. [00:55:53] Speaker A: Right, right. Okay, okay. Our like. Yeah, yeah. The misconception that's taken out there got you. [00:55:57] Speaker D: Right, right, right. That's a misconception that's taken out, you know, a lot of the here. I mean, because those same type of young men, if they were put in a different situation, you know, could be different. [00:56:07] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:56:08] Speaker D: You know, type of people but just because. And I only based that off of experience and the kids that I work with. And I, I know that, you know, if they were put in a different situation, you know, that they could be different kind of young men. But you adapt to the environment that you in, unfortunately, you know. [00:56:25] Speaker E: Right. [00:56:25] Speaker D: Yep. And you become, you know what that is. I think one thing that can be said, said, you know, true, is on the same hand, you know, not all of them are savages, but when they become a savage, they, you know, are, you know, are almost gone, you know, and almost senseless and cold, you know, to the type of damage that they're almost doing. [00:56:49] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:56:50] Speaker D: Putting in the world very uncomfortable truth. Right. You know, I talked about been to jail to see a couple students is not two. They are locked up. So they really see, you know, the error of their ways. And unfortunately, a lot of times, you know, it's. It's too late at that point, you know, for them to, you know, be able to rectify that situation. But it's almost like a catch 22, because if they weren't, you know, if they were raised up in an environment that didn't, you know, and able to become a savage, then they wouldn't become one but once. [00:57:25] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:26] Speaker D: Come on, you know, when it's hard to stop it. [00:57:30] Speaker A: Yeah. So when you say that, though, so become, the word become is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence because we, we talk about that happening with a lot of young men in the inner cities, period. And it's, it's the event, right. Like, whatever. What is the catalyst or like the, the straw that broke the camel's back, if you. So to speak and stuff. And a lot of times I hear it in social media or online and stuff that it is, you know, when a loved one gets. Gets killed or whatever, especially by like the opposition or by rival gangs or whatever like that or parent goes to jail or whatever. Have you witnessed with any of your students where one of their, like, of course, like relatives or close friends have gotten. Gotten killed and then you seen that change? [00:58:19] Speaker D: I think that's a, That's a big one. If I get one of the top ones. I think losing someone close to them, you know, whether it be a grandma, [00:58:31] Speaker A: grandfather, that's not even necessarily in the streets, but just don't know how to process a loss. [00:58:36] Speaker B: Right. [00:58:36] Speaker D: Don't even know how to process or. That person was the only one that [00:58:39] Speaker A: really showed that loved them. [00:58:41] Speaker B: Right, Right. [00:58:42] Speaker D: Or even cared about them. Now the only person that really cared about me is gone. You know, you got the friend on the street, you know, that got killed. You know, sometimes these kids seeing their friend get killed, you know, I gotta, you know, kind of keep pushing forward, you know, too, as well. So. Yeah, you do see plenty cases like that too. [00:59:00] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:59:01] Speaker D: As well as, you know, I see cases where, you know, the infamous little Jeff. We had a student that looked exactly like him, height and everything. And I seen how he, you know, felt like he had to live up to that type of image of Jeff, you know. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:21] Speaker D: You know, when she wasn't really that student, you know, come to, you know, find out, not come to find out, but he wound up getting killed himself. You know, it was probably kind of. Probably trying to perpetrate, you know, that type of image. [00:59:35] Speaker B: Right. [00:59:35] Speaker D: Which you want you were. Of which you were not, you know, but just because people said you look like them, not as you feel like you have to, you know, portray it, you know, it's a really, you know, that, you know, that was a sad situation. But, yeah, I. I would agree with that. A lot of those experience death, which leads to their, you know, decline. [00:59:55] Speaker A: Because. [00:59:56] Speaker D: And I heard somebody say a lot of people that experience definitely grief counseling, especially young people, because there's no. If you don't have nobody that loves you around you to show you how to deal with death, then you don't know how, especially as a younger person, really coping with it. [01:00:13] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:00:14] Speaker D: Processing it. And now, you know, you just experience, like, remember the kid in Detroit who shot the two ladies? And I think they said, oh, yeah, a picture of his mom. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:00:23] Speaker D: Just like, you know, that was just a clear, you know, what he did was, you know, apprehensive, but, I mean, just uncalled for. [01:00:30] Speaker F: But. [01:00:30] Speaker A: Right. [01:00:32] Speaker D: You know, that's the best, him not being able. [01:00:35] Speaker B: Right. [01:00:36] Speaker A: When they give that full story of. Of, you know, he had just lost his mother. He was carrying a picture of his mother. He passed the older lady. That may have triggered something where that reminded him that his mother's no longer here or whatever it may have done. Again, like you said, wrong as it may be reprehensible and all of that, but that, that gave context, like, oh, this guy does not know how to. Doesn't have a high level of emotional intelligence to where, oh, I can navigate my. My emotions without, you know what I'm saying, without really acting on it. [01:01:08] Speaker D: Right. And then you have to go be honest. So we dealing with a lot of kids that don't know how to regulate their emotions. Their parents don't know how to Regular regulate their emotions too? Yeah, you know, I'm dealing with, you know, parents that's probably from the age of, you know, 28 and up, you know, at that point. So. So when somebody's in their early 30s, you know, still trying to navigate life themselves, who don't really know how to regulate their own emotions, it's hard to really teach the kids how to do that with them themselves. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna try to combine my. One of my last questions into two but when it comes to discipline or to like, you know, when you have to give out, dole out any kind of discipline and stuff like that, are there any like, like try to stay with me. But are there any non street related activities that you notice that the quote unquote street kids are into or that you observe that they're into? Like if you seeing them in ISS or, or whenever they're in detention or something, kicking it or, or just even in regular, you know, spare time. Is there any non street activities that you see them like gravitating? [01:02:19] Speaker D: I think that's, that's one of the biggest things. If you don't work in education, you don't really. It's really hard to see it. I know when we went to school you can entice us with a lot of different after school activities, you know, just from basketball to football to, you know, different things of that nature. Only way you're able to really, I'll be honest with you, only way you're able to really keep kids after school within high school right now to this day is if you offering food school. Other than that, you know, it's really, it's really hard to keys kids after school because they can't get weight. You know, they can't wait to get up out of there and just to roll up and go smoke and vape. [01:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that part, whatever. [01:03:04] Speaker D: Yeah, whatever else that they do. And this is just literally what we see, what they do right. Once they leave the building, you know, so I think that's probably the hardest. So we do. Do you know, I do have an after school program I run that's called Boys to Men. We meet three days a week. So I do have a study group of students come just based off of the relationship that I build with, but also truly try to have light refreshments and stuff. Give some shifts. [01:03:30] Speaker A: You said that you run it. [01:03:31] Speaker D: We also drinks. Yeah. [01:03:33] Speaker A: Oh man, that's fire program. [01:03:35] Speaker D: Yep. So have light refreshments. It's like three days a week too, you know, so. So I think that's one of the biggest parts within education because you can, you can throw a lot of money to different after school events and things of that nature, but getting the students to come out, you know, to them, you know, is a whole different challenge. [01:03:57] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [01:03:58] Speaker D: Right, right. Because I mean, a lot of these kids barely want to come to school, so. Let alone stay after school. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Wow. Salute to you though, because I was going to be something ironically that I asked or that was on my list of questions as well was what programs and stuff do they have out there? Wow. Yo, I am that. That's amazing. That's. That's because it's a reason I'm so amazed is because, you know, because it's around voting time right now and stuff like that anyways. But we always speak about voting locally or doing what you can control and like, as far as the community and you being in the community, that's something that you can control, man. And that's. I just admire that. I not expect you to say that, bro. But that's, that's super commendable as well. I was googling the guy's name while we were talking and stuff, but I wanted to salute the mayor out in Baltimore, Brandon Scott as well. I know that kind of. He works to make sure that there's a after school programs and stuff. Because the reason I asked though is because I realized that a lot of these street kids are dorks for, for, for lack of better terms, or I say that lovingly, but they're nerds at the end of the day. A lot of them, they love video games, they love, you know what I'm saying, numbers or stories or whatever. And it's like they just have to be exposed to that. And a lot of times, like you said, when they go, when they go dark, it's not a lot of people that, that come back from that side of it. I mean. So. [01:05:26] Speaker D: Yeah, one of the things even just saying at the school is a lot of times, you know, within our school, I'm probably pretty sure a lot of other schools, you're having a hard time with the school filling up a lot of sports rosters and things of that nature. Because of course, you know, that happens after school, right? Practicing on the weekends and different things like that. And they just, you know, really don't want to, you know, do that always is just an excuse, you know, I gotta go, I gotta go, you know, do that. It's no, there's no tenacity, you know, within the students nowadays. It's Just, you know, they want to do what they want to do and that's, that's becoming an increasing problem, you know, in terms of a lot of the sports teams in the inner city. And that's why a lot of the good sports players in high school and go just to the sports schools because, you know, that's, that's what it's kind of geared towards, but also to, you know, what you kind of getting when you go there. [01:06:22] Speaker A: Right, Absolutely. Now, I mean, and this real quick, this is probably one of my last questions, but when I look at, or like comments rather, but I look at people again, like you first take like Lil Jeff or whatnot and Black Hound, Little Jeff and all of them. They had people that looked up to them, which is crazy to me in itself. But then they're quote, unquote, not OGs or the people that they looked up to would be like, like you, King Vons of the world and, and, and those type of guys or whatnot. And one of the first videos that, or one of the first pods that I shared with you and you wrote, wrote me back or texted me back, the first, one of the first things you were saying was academics or whatnot because you know, of course that's my, my view on it as well because I see how heavy the influences of making these guys kind of chase the clout. So I think about the, the Joker in Philadelphia and I'm not sure if you was familiar with that story, but it was a high school kid that played basketball and all that. Yeah. So it's like the same thing where even if a lot of these kids are finding the after school programs and stuff like that, then they still want to make a name for they self or treating the street, the streets like a video game, in other words. Right. Like that would always, that always baffles me, you know what I'm saying? And yeah, the Q50 was a prime [01:07:49] Speaker D: example because the, the Internet, the Internet saw that case within a day right before people was. But then if they entered it and solved it, they went and told on themselves too. You know, this is this, this glorification of wanting everybody to know the type of crime that you committed head. And you put this big red dot on your head and it's almost like, you know, that part of things I just still haven't, you know, figured out. [01:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:17] Speaker D: You know. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:18] Speaker C: Because [01:08:20] Speaker D: to put that type of dot on your head just to say that people know who you kill, not even really worried about. And I don't even really think it's a fear of the police. You know, I just think they want to know the world that they did it and what gang that they represent. And, you know, it's. It's just. It's just an ongoing war. That's. Remember I told you the last conversation. Whereas don't let Chicago fool you as places you go places you don't go the places that you shouldn't be, and you don't go in the places that, you know that's like that. You know, it's like that, and they know that's like that. So they let everybody kill themselves, you know, and they come and pick up the pieces after. Chicago is the only place, you know, like, we come from New York or somebody died. The block is hot for like a week. [01:09:04] Speaker A: Right. [01:09:04] Speaker D: You know, somebody died here, you know, within. Within a couple hours. You know, the block is open. You don't even know somebody's back. [01:09:11] Speaker A: Wow. [01:09:11] Speaker D: Just like, you know, it's just the wildest. You know, it's the wildest thing to me, you know, but they don't want to really solve these crimes when it's involving, you know, black men like that kill yourself. You know, it's just a battle of nutrition at this point. Yeah, they really did. They really did look up to, you know, to little Jeff. [01:09:32] Speaker A: Right, Right. [01:09:33] Speaker D: Like, he was like, he was like, you know, was the man just because of the body. Bodies that he caught, you know, that was his claim to fame. You know, who knows if he would have stuck with the music, how good Imani could have been. I never really listened to none of this music, but. Right, but that's just the type of characters that they look up to. And then he. His. He looked up to King Vaughn, you know, who said the famous line, you ain't a real killer if you don't have more than two bodies. [01:09:57] Speaker A: Right. [01:09:58] Speaker D: You know, now he glorifying. Now, Luke, Jeff glorifying that. You know, it's just a clarification, right? [01:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, man. Well, because I. I appreciate you. I. I don't. Like I said, I don't want to keep you any longer, man, but I. Because I could talk to you all day long, but if. I don't know if it'd be like some kind of monthly check in with you or anything like that, but I definitely would love to tap in again and just have a conversation with you because these are the type of dialogues that I look to promote on this show, at least open up the dialogue so that we could start leading to the direction of some kind of answers and stuff like that in the community with. With the stuff that's, you know what I mean, going on. But I think, right. You're doing a hell of a job with controlling what you can control and. And giving back to giving them. Them guys a space like after school three times a week or whatnot. Which. [01:10:54] Speaker E: Right. [01:10:54] Speaker D: With your organization, man, I definitely, you know, appreciate you having me on the show talking about, you know, Chicago. It is really a beautiful city out there. I tell anybody, if you ever have a chance, come and visit you have a really good. A really good time out here. A lot of black owned businesses, A lot of really, really good, nice things to do here. But yeah, I'll be more than happy to come on anytime and chop it up with you, you know. It's always a been a pleasure, you know, wish you nothing but the best with everything, cuz. [01:11:24] Speaker A: Dope, man. I appreciate it again. Now with y', all, with your program, is. Are y' all like 5013 seed out or anything like that? Or do you got a website or anything with that? [01:11:34] Speaker D: No, it's just through the school. Yeah, you know, something that's running, you know, through the school. So it ain't nothing, you know, like that. But next time I'll definitely get some more donation information for you. Oh, yeah, you know, so people can reach out. Out. [01:11:48] Speaker A: Okay. For sure, for sure. Well, n. I appreciate it again, cuz. Appreciate you tapping in and everything like that on mandatory overtime, bro. Love you and everything like that, man. And enjoy the rest of your weekend. Thanks again for your time, bro. [01:12:03] Speaker D: I love cuz. [01:12:04] Speaker F: One. [01:12:04] Speaker A: All right, peace. Cousin Drew. I mean, cousin Donald, y'. All. Come on, come on, give it up. I'm potting like the renstool. [01:12:18] Speaker B: Like that, like that. [01:12:20] Speaker A: Cause it is. Salute again to my cousin Donald because appreciate you. Yo, so I do wanna. As we move forward, we're gonna go ahead and want to play a couple of clips. I don't even know how to introduce these. These. But see here. All right, this first one. I don't know how to introduce this, y', all, but let's just play this. [01:12:49] Speaker E: This. [01:12:49] Speaker A: It's been stuck in my head. I know. Let's see here. What to say she told me that she going to read me But I'm [01:13:08] Speaker B: not the Bible oh, Jesuit. Yeah, I got the title. [01:13:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:12] Speaker B: I make a jump just like crisscross I'm a big boss sipping water he [01:13:18] Speaker A: felt like he was walking right there [01:13:20] Speaker B: I know my ABCs but I don't know the rest of them letters. I Don't know the rest of them letters. [01:13:27] Speaker A: All right, like that. So homie's name is Loose Cannon. He's been going viral for being like Michael Jackson Deep fake online. On the AI side of it, as far as the deep fake and technology and taking a man's face and biometrics, I hate that. I do hate that part. But everything else. See, this is why we need duality. But it's addictive. It's addictive to listen to. I don't know what to say. Salute to. Salute to Loose Cannon. That's his name. Big Michael. Michael. Then they got the video at TA Camp and Tamar Braxton and Money Long crazy blindside. But they got the picture. They're on live with the Loose Cannon. Anyways, he. He's been taking over the Internet, going viral. So I didn't want to play that. Also for my call. We ain't brothers and sisters. I'm sorry, y'. [01:14:49] Speaker E: All. [01:14:51] Speaker A: I just wanted to play this for y' all as well. This for everybody that says, of course, When they say that we don't have [01:15:55] Speaker E: culture, [01:15:59] Speaker A: what is it that everybody. Yeah, I hear it. For those that don't know, this is maybe Korean. Korea's got talent. Maybe like, no, I don't know Korean or Asian. Everybody dressed like the military, so it might be like a military town on the show. Wait, wait, wait. Did y' all hear that? Hold up, hold up, hold up. [01:16:47] Speaker F: Y. [01:16:49] Speaker A: This been too good of a show for us to skip over. [01:16:55] Speaker B: Hold on. Turn the tv off. Turn the tv off. Turn the tv off. Turn this tv off. Turn the tv off. Turn the tv off me off. Turn this tv off. Turn. This ain't no the king in this rap thing by my children. One sh disappearing in the city where the fl. Before. To being done. [01:17:57] Speaker A: Just with. If they ever was to question I influence on anything. [01:18:04] Speaker D: You got what [01:18:08] Speaker A: out of here she talking about? All right, y', all, let's go ahead. We gonna continue the high star bars. Oh, man, this piece of Trump. I was gonna show this clip of him, but he's just. It was my inspiration of playing the Kanye daughters thing along with this nasty stuff going on out there with Natalie Nunn dressing as her for Halloween. But it was part of my inspiration to play the Kanye daughters thing, but Donald Trump just talking crazy to a reporter. Before I go to the Highar bars, I just want to play these real quick, this clip so y' all can hear it. Just to let you, like Ashley Hinson at the [01:19:00] Speaker D: Republicans. [01:19:01] Speaker A: Like Ashley Hinson, who you were with last Night in Iowa are denouncing the ad. [01:19:05] Speaker C: Well, they can, but they don't know the fact. Look, this is a mother that went on the air to say that her daughter, who's running for governor of the great state of Ohio, that I wanted a record all three times. I got the record vote, the highest vote ever. I know. I love the people. A mother is saying, don't put my daughter there. But she's a terrible person and she's a liar. Why shouldn't somebody inside. Let me ask you. It's my mother. [01:19:31] Speaker A: Allegations make. [01:19:32] Speaker C: No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Who are you with? Who you with? [01:19:35] Speaker D: I'm with NBC, sir. [01:19:36] Speaker C: What are the worst networks you have? [01:19:38] Speaker D: But they're a very serious sexual abuse allegations. [01:19:41] Speaker C: Quiet. [01:19:41] Speaker D: They make no difference to you. [01:19:44] Speaker A: She a fresh person. [01:19:45] Speaker C: You're a horrible little reporter. R. If my mother said bad things about me, you think the Democrats would put it up? I think so, but my mother thought I was wonderful. Thank you, Mom. My mother would never. Even if she thought that, she would never say, this is a person, a mother, a smart woman. I was smart woman. She said her daughter is a disaster. Her daughter is a liar. And she felt that she had an obligation. And she also said her daughter lied about her opponent, which is Vivek Rami Swami. If I had that aunt, I should see so lucky to have an an like that. Why would you listen to a mother that says that? Why? Why would you miss NBC? Why wouldn't you listen? Wait a minute. Quiet. You have. I don't know anything about his stepfather. [01:20:34] Speaker D: All you have his stepdaughter. 1978, sir, you just keep. [01:20:39] Speaker E: I'm answering you, sir, you haven't. [01:20:41] Speaker C: I don't know anything about stepfather. For many, many years ago. I know that recently a mother got on television and said that her daughter should not be governor of Ohio. And she said, I love my daughter, but my daughter lies all the time and lied about her opponent, and I can't watch it. And the mother got up. This has nothing to do with the stepfather or anything else. This has to do with the fact that a woman got out. [01:21:11] Speaker A: All right, so let me explain to those who don't understand quite what was going on in that exchange. Vivek Rama or whatever his name is a Republican candidate for governor, I believe, out and out in Ohio. He put out an ad on his campaign trail of this woman's mother, his. His opponent's mother, speaking on her and talking about how she's a liar and speaking to her character. The twist was that the woman was. The twist was that the woman was estranged from her mother in the late 70s because she was sexually assaulted by her stepfather and her mother sided with the stepfather father and they fled so that they can avoid the stepfather from being arrested. I know it's not, but I'm saying, like, yeah, but sounds like a hot problem, but yeah, so. So that occurred. And that's. That. That's what happened. And again, that exchange right there was the reporter asking, asking Trump pretty much, you know, why he still supports or if he still supports that ad after knowing all of that and y' all saw the answer. So just wanted to play that to show y' all again where we're at. And it's distracted dystopia. I found that, of course, super disturbing. Just the way in general, that he speak to the reporters and stuff like that's off of that. But let's go to some High Star bars here. For the first is going to come from Styles P. This is over there. This is the sampled Cutie Pie song. But snowfall to drop. Shout out to snowfall to drop. I have to catch the new episode for this week. But the song that they sampled in their Cutie Pie, this kind of to the beat of. Of the song. This is one of the songs that they use in the promos and stuff for Snowfall. So let's go ahead and play this from Styles P. Let's see here. [01:23:41] Speaker B: I'm a lock, I stay locked in this a lyrical ride who want to hop in? Besides Lucha kiss I demolish anybody you consider the top guy, the veggie guy My brain's missing like Betty's eye that I'm sending these Betty by I just smoke one I'm heady high take a edible I'm body high bop something I'm teflon, I'm Gotti side keep a mask like it was m? Gr Homie breaking his fast Ramen noodles for Ramadan I pray he get out the cell and the other homies as well yes, legal money on this side but I still that tell now peace sign up hitting the L I'm a glitch in the matrix you were wishing the well that's why I'm wishing you well Putting down the juice getting back in the booth say they the truth and none of it's sitting well you not him your homies is not them a cool G king K arrest the rock making the movie like Latifah and shock him be you imma do you a favor tell you what I'm gonna do Sam counting the 10, probably counting the 2. You only got a second. My. Then you threw Ghost. [01:24:57] Speaker A: Salute. Salute. She. I mean to say to Sheik Styles and Jadakiss, but that was Styles right there. Styles P. Of course, the Ghost. And then I want to play one last time. Bars for y' all here. Know it's been a long episode. Appreciate y' all, though. Gonna really consider this double overtime today. But let me play this High star. Bars for y'. All. All right, let's see here. Let's get to it. [01:25:30] Speaker E: Oh, the other half you call amazing. That same correlations. [01:25:35] Speaker A: Hold on. [01:25:36] Speaker E: You got the drive, but you. [01:25:38] Speaker A: Here we go. [01:25:39] Speaker E: Half man. The other half you call amazing. That same correlation. Revelation is crazy. I'm the Lord and Savior. You got the drive, but you oughta change up your alternator. Serrated blade. It's in the car. So I'm incarcerated. You talking paper. My credit card is a force of nature on credit. Karma. My score resembling 40 acres. You talking tough. [01:25:57] Speaker A: You'll all get fucked. [01:25:58] Speaker E: But I ain't fornicating. I called your bluff. The voicemail was fully automated. Y' all is Nazi. [01:26:04] Speaker B: Come on, Louis. The V spell is fully automated. [01:26:10] Speaker E: Y' all is not some I consider tough. The clock big enough to stop a truck. I ain't going to lie. You need a prop to sit it up and spot my opp. And sit them down, it's like the opposite up. [01:26:22] Speaker A: Boy, you ain't no hugh hep when [01:26:24] Speaker E: you bounce, probably don't even know you left shallow ass. I could show you depth and with the flow, I could show you death. Watch this. Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Cipher. Higher than a flying creature I'll show you the end like a mind preacher we hella g, bro. Ham I'll go ham on a fruit over bread and cheese like a Hawaiian pizza dude, I'm nice I roll over the game and do my numbers I move like dice supply heat but I'm still cool like the ice inside a freezer Lose my life while I lose my stripes I'm a dying zebra. The iron grease here, that is a nail, that's hallelujah. You get two ahead of yourself I saw me, you ever seen the Planet of the Apes? Well, I am Caesar I ain't gotta say it, you gotta see it to my demeanor I'm serious this high learning you not as worthy of the top 30 I'm dropping 30 and not a word till I'm on my attorney I walk this earth just like my mom alert me my father curved me, he did not deserve me. My logic's sturdy if it ain't related to wasted talent of somebody surely related to baby app island partner it certainly does not concern me. You're sweeter than chocolate Hershey I'm nicer than common courtesy how could you try to murder me? It sound absurd to me I'm currently in the water current affect my buoyancy Trying not to let current events affect my currency so shocking I got enough current to power war machine I am the bomb what are you trying to diffuse? I am the fuel inside the lighter while you lighting the fuse I am the fool die of the tiger I'm wild in the booth the mountain of church truth you find inside the fountain they do lyrically with the style that I use My feet are so big that you could literally walk a mile in my shoes I don't follow the rules I roll a quick joint by bumping Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon I'm beasting from the ozone to call him a zoo. Really beast and they need to call them a zoo. I said beast things. I'm really buzzing, honey we need to poo hang McCoy this a beast team the Snickers Though I look to the sky and defy my options Hit a song of the divines and the rhymes I'm dropping these lines ain't designed just to line my pockets I'm a prophet trying to align my chakras Let me pre what you heard or thought about them. Cut a bar's a problem Lay a nigga horizontal with his thoughts on the side of I identify with killmonger more than t' challa to get my point across I go to war Wakanda half [01:28:39] Speaker F: man [01:28:42] Speaker A: salute to that brother. His name is Lou Cipher. Brotherly love to the brother Lou Cipher. Shout out, man, you made it to high star bars. Congratulations. But now, yeah. Salute, Salute. Salute. And then of course shout out to Styles P once again with them high star bars prior to as well. Salute. So real quickly we'll talk sports. Kind of some brother loved it out of here but got a text from big Cliff earlier this week, so. Knock, knock. Who's there? Owen. Owen who? Owen two. Yeah. [01:29:24] Speaker C: So [01:29:28] Speaker A: yeah, New York Knicks start up Owen two for the season. All good though 82 game season. So good we're gonna get in the lab, go to work. That's all I got to say about that. Looks like today we've had the I think South Carolina State when they had their victory, Miami to care business. And South Carolina's playing right now against Tennessee Shout out to Donovan Murph. And brotherly love to my brother Deontre Murph. But, yeah, outside of that with sports man, again, prayers to Jalen. Hurts, you know, it sucks, the whole situation. We just praying for his health right now and again for. Yeah, for his health. For his health, definitely. That's first and foremost and paramount. But brotherly love, let's go ahead ahead and get to brotherly show love. [01:30:28] Speaker B: It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. I was doing this game. [01:30:32] Speaker A: All right, so salute. And brotherly love, of course, to my big cousin Donald. Once again, you ain't have to take out the time, but you took out the time. And I appreciate that more than you know, bro. I appreciate you. And brotherly love. Brotherly love, of course, to cousin Jerome. Brotherly love to Taz. Brotherly love to Bling, of course, as well. To all my brothers out here as far as with the poker crew. What's happening with y'? [01:31:05] Speaker F: All? [01:31:06] Speaker A: So Fat Boy Q, T Dog, Good gracious. Right or hard hat. Hard work. What's up, Mixmaster T. Brotherly love. What's happening with my brother? What's happening? What's happening with you? Brother love to my brother Chuck. Cincinnati Chuck. Shout out to my brother Charles, though. Brotherly love. Salute to my brother, OG KD up here in the Charlotte area. Brotherly love to my brother Ashton as well. [01:31:41] Speaker D: Let's see, [01:31:45] Speaker A: going around. Let's go down to Charleston. Brotherly love to Dr. Buford. Salute. What up, my brother? Shout out everybody down there with high starting high star hoops. What's happening, brother? Going out there to the atl. Shout out to my. My brother Nudie again. What's up, bro? Happy birthday, J.B. Dr. Buford. Happy birthday, my brother. A lot of birthdays around this time of year. W love, of course, goes to all my brothers at work and in the fantasy football league as well, of course. Let's see here. Let's go ahead. To sisterly love, first of all, sisterly love to my twin sister who's calling me as we speak. Sisterly love, of course. Ari B. Was hanging with you. Let's see here. Shout out to my other two sisters, of course, Joanna, Katrina. What's up? Salute. Sisterly love goes out to. What up? What up, sisterly love? Patriot Patty, Amy, Deuce, D. Deuce. What's up, Coco and the culture. What's happening, Shell? Prison. What's up, brotherly love to the whole Crux Media family out there in Florence. Be easy. CL Yoshi. What's happening. DJ Blaze radio show podcast, Music Jones podcast. Once a time music podcast. What's up? What's up? What's up, family? L. What's happening with you? What's up? What's up, my Florence family? Of course, shout out to my New York family as well. Shout out to the Omega side 5 Fraternity Incorporated. I didn't even even get to get into the Stephen A. DL Hughley stuff this week. But it's all good. It's all good. Just know Stephen A. Is taking dinners with. With the same. Same person I was playing earlier. Disrespecting women and. Or disrespecting journalists and stuff like that. Yeah. You mean I'm a member of os [01:34:04] Speaker B: Omega Sci Fi fraternity that [01:34:08] Speaker A: you taking dinners with with Trump. But nevertheless, salute to the brothers of Omega South African Incorporated. And, yeah, salute to all the listings out there, of course. Brotherly love to my brother, El Hodge. I'm not gonna forget this week, my brother. Brotherly love to my brother. I said Ashton. Okay. My brother's out there in G. Vegas. Nick, what's up? What's happening with you? Brotherly love to my brother Sock. Of course. Yeah. This next part is going to be the supreme faith that's in God. It comes straight from the heart made an ego nor the hubris ever break us apart. From one brother to another. I just want to let you know nobody's ever told you before I love you. All right. Oh, yeah. One last message to all my haters. Being like is completely overrated. All right, I'll catch y' all in the next episode of Men. Mandatory overtime. Peace. [01:35:14] Speaker C: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [01:35:17] Speaker D: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [01:35:25] Speaker B: Closing time. Do the knowledge. [01:35:31] Speaker D: I know you going show love. [01:35:34] Speaker B: It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. I'm you some freaky ass. [01:35:40] Speaker A: Hey, you don't call the left camp. [01:35:45] Speaker C: Mama got that bun. [01:35:48] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:35:49] Speaker C: Mama got that bunch of crunch. [01:35:51] Speaker B: Ex black come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40. [01:35:54] Speaker A: I'm 40 years old. [01:36:03] Speaker B: There.