Giving Flowers 2600

March 14, 2026 00:54:00
Giving Flowers 2600
MANdatory Overtime
Giving Flowers 2600

Mar 14 2026 | 00:54:00

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This week starts off with some recapping from last weeks episode.  The revisions (@03:50) this week touch on rappers that may or may not attended college, a young Laurence fishburne character who attended college, and revisit some Classical Highstarbars from Rapper’s delight (@05:50).

We then build wisdom this week (@08:05) and read some emails and a morbid speech to text exchange (@15:05).  

DJ Highstar continues the theme of Giving Flowers by delivering bEARTHday wishes in a creative way.

Also, we discuss some sports news with the latest in the NFL and NBA, (and poker). 

Continued prayers to our soldiers and citizens abroad!!!!!!!! 

We end things as DJ Highstar shows brotherly (love to the sisters too) love to the community and supporters, thank you for your listen! Make sure you’re being heard!!

Email the show: [email protected]

Call and leave a voicemail: 

704-781-7011 

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[00:00:04] Y. [00:00:06] Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. [00:00:10] yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for O.T. [00:00:17] listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:24] Let me work. [00:00:26] Please let me work. Let me work. [00:00:29] Please let me. [00:00:39] Omega Sci Fi 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? I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. No, chose yourself. [00:01:09] MAGA need to be drafted first. [00:01:14] Maga. [00:01:16] They need to be drafted first. In the war. [00:01:21] In the war. [00:01:24] In that Epstein War. [00:01:27] In Dookie Donny's war. [00:01:30] Maga, motherfuckers. [00:01:32] They need to be drafted first. [00:01:36] Mad. [00:01:37] They need to be drafted first. In the war. [00:01:42] In the bullshit war in Dookie Do's War in that Epstein Wall. [00:01:51] Maga. [00:01:53] They need to be drafted first. [00:01:57] Maga. [00:01:59] Ladies, You're. [00:02:06] You. [00:02:07] What up, what up, what up, what up, what up? What's going on, everybody? What's going on? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star, here for another episode. I appreciate y' all joining me here at Mandatory Overtime. [00:02:20] Everybody knows the aim is for us to recalibrate manhood and what we define as manhood. That's with each conversation, one conversation at a time, with our community. [00:02:30] You guys are the community, of course. Simply an audio journal of an eighties baby. A social experiment, inconsistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. And for that, I appreciate you. [00:02:42] Thank you. [00:02:44] Don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. [00:02:48] So pull up a chair, like, comment, subscribe, share, have some fun. Make some noise, though, because your main man is here, right? [00:03:00] Reporting live from Charlotte, America, y'. All. [00:03:05] What's happening? And as you all know, I got a Russian sound engineer over here. And a check, one, two, a check, one, two. [00:03:16] Let's go to work. Let's go to work. What's up, y'? All? What's going on? Everyone hope everyone is doing well, and everyone is, you know, feeding their minds, healthy things. [00:03:28] Are we being productive out here? You know, it's been a rough beginning of the 2026, but we're gonna remain optimistic, man. Rooted in a faith or rooted in. In that. That optimism and that divinity, man, because, you know, we're gonna create our own. [00:03:45] Our own world with everything that we can control, y'. All. Okay? That's the early word. It's the early word. But we do have some revisions from last week's episode. It was pretty passionate last week. And anti Lil Yachty last week as well. [00:03:59] Hip hop, hip hop. Y' all know what time it is? But I do want to go over a couple of things from last week. Some revisions. So quickly I did mention Big Crit and grouped him in with the group of rappers saying that he went to school. I fact checked that Big Crit, no, he didn't. He didn't attend college, although he was a proponent for higher education and has been on the circuit, of course, with homecomings and a fan favorite of, like, college students and stuff like that. Like, he's, you know, that's a. A core of his. Of his fans and audience as well. So that was one of the revisions that I wanted to make. [00:04:38] Also, I brought up Larry Fishburne in the movie School Days, I want to say, referring to the side high discussion about street dudes versus book smart dudes or whatnot. In the way I spoke, I made it seem like Sam. [00:04:55] Like Laurence Fishburne was Samuel Jackson's character. Samuel Jackson was the dude from the streets. And they pressed up on Laurence Fishburne and his crew in that movie. And Laurence Fishburne and his crew was, you know, the. The college students or whatnot. So had to mention that. [00:05:14] And finally I wanted to show some more love to Rapper's Delight. All right, so I wanted to revisit an excerpt that I was looking for last week from Rapper's Delight. [00:05:30] And I was just emotional. It's a very long song, a lot of verses. So I was trying to comb through it prior to Couldn't find it. And then on the show, I couldn't find it. But poet laureate Wonder Mike states, and if you guys know it out there, feel free to rap along. But he states, have you ever went over a friend's house to eat in the food? I'm sorry, y', all, hold on one second. My bad. Hold on. [00:05:59] The brother Wonder Mike, poet laureate, states, and I quote, have you ever went over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good? [00:06:12] I mean, the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed, and the chicken tastes like wood. [00:06:19] So you try to play it off like you think you can by saying that you're full. [00:06:24] And then your friend says, mama, he's just being polite. He ain't finished. Uh, that's bull. [00:06:30] And so your heart starts pumping and you think of a lie and you say that you already Ate. [00:06:36] And your friend says, man, there's plenty of food. So he piles some more on your plate. [00:06:42] But while the sticky, while the stinky food steaming, your mind starts to dreaming of the moment that it's time to leave. [00:06:51] And then you look at your plate and your chicken slowly rotten into something that looks like cheese. [00:06:58] Oh. So you say, that's it. I got to leave this place. I don't care what these people think. [00:07:04] I'm just sitting here making myself nauseous with this ugly food that stinks. [00:07:10] Oh. So you bust out the door while it's still closed, still sick from the food you ate. [00:07:16] And then you run into the store for a quick relief from a bottle of KO Pectate. And then you call your friend a few weeks later to see how he has been. [00:07:29] And he says, I understand about the food, Baby Bubba, but we still friends. [00:07:35] A rock it out. [00:07:36] A baby Bubba A baby Bubba to the boogie D Bang bang the boogie to the beat Beat I stole your feet. [00:07:46] Come on, everybody, let's dance to the beat. [00:07:49] So, yeah, that showing love once again. The real hip hop salute. And real hip hop. Okay, we gotta preserve it. [00:08:01] All right, so let's go ahead and move forward here for our Building Wisdom segment of the week. So let's go ahead. Prince, right? [00:08:12] Come here, Prince. What's today's mathematics? Hey, 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. [00:08:28] 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. [00:08:37] Peace, God. Peace, God. [00:08:41] I know you gonna dig this. [00:08:43] All right, so we're gonna start off with. [00:08:46] We're going to start off with some. [00:08:50] Some quotes and stuff that cousin Jerome shared. [00:08:54] See here to. [00:08:56] To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe. [00:09:04] From Anatole France. [00:09:08] Also, the most wasted days is ones without laughter. It's from E. Cummings. [00:09:15] Let's turn that down some. And perfection is not attainable. But. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence from the great Vince Lombardi. [00:09:24] All right, so that was that wisdom. I know. I had some from Taz. Brother Taz says, when the wind. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. [00:09:42] Salute. [00:09:44] Pardon. Self. Pardon. [00:09:47] Now also, there's this new trend Going around on X or Twitter or whatever. [00:09:54] And it is. [00:09:57] It shows gunna. It's like a gunna meme. And it shows him in the studio right in and then, like, fire around him. So it's like, supposed to represent these deep, deep quotes or whatnot. So I have a couple that I retweeted, though. [00:10:10] Let's go ahead and see here. [00:10:20] Well, first, before that, I have one that I retweeted. If modern news is so fake, imagine how bad history is true. Indeed. Let's see here. All right, so it's the first one I retweeted. If hard work led to success, the donkey would. Excuse me. [00:10:36] Pardon me for being nasally. [00:10:38] If hard work led to success, the donkey would own the farm. [00:10:44] Yeah, we had a temperature. We had a nice little temperature vibe out here in Charlotte. [00:10:49] Good day shorts type of day. And then the temperature dropped that night or the day after, after it rained and stuff back down sharply. So just dealing with that. Okay. And there's another one that I retweeted with the Gunna meme here. Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them. [00:11:09] It's a fact. [00:11:12] All right, let's see. It's random tweets that I've tweeted. It's patriotic to oppose your government when it becomes treasonous. [00:11:23] All right, Doing taxes this year just feels wrong after all the scams we've seen. [00:11:32] Yeah, it's sickening to even walk around in society at this point. In the grocery store, and it feels like the Truman Show. It's a nice call back. It's a nice call back to our episode with the Truman Show. All right, so start building wisdom for the week. I wanted to. Well, I'll play our first commercial break here in a second. Like, I ran a word from our sponsors, but let's go on to things here that work real quick. I had a couple of sentences I'm trying to decode still with y', all, you know, from what I heard at work this past week. So it's just two. Two sentences. And I don't know. [00:12:19] I don't know the context of them. So pardon me, but I'm gonna just give y' all the exact quotes from what I heard this week at work. [00:12:31] All right, so let's see here. [00:12:35] All right, so this is just me walking past, catching random conversations, y' all at work. [00:12:41] The first one, I supervise myself when I get dressed in the morning. [00:12:52] All right, okay. You know, I left it alone. Just kept it moving. Just kept it moving. Y' all. [00:12:59] Second one that I heard in the break room. [00:13:05] Put this up because it was in the break room. [00:13:09] Somebody come around and rape and molest your kids. Then what? Huh? [00:13:15] She said and what? [00:13:19] So I don't know where that conversation started or was ending at. [00:13:27] So that's random things heard at work this week. [00:13:30] Also, one last quote here on a building wisdom segment. It's a quote that I got from Twitter. [00:13:38] Getting your shit. Excuse me, Getting your together requires a deep level of honesty with yourself. You got to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, be willing to accept flaws and behavior that's not allowing you to grow. Self evaluation is difficult, but it's extremely necessary. [00:13:57] So shout out to that building wisdom, that late entry for building wisdom, if you will. [00:14:04] All right, so let's go ahead and move forward, though. [00:14:12] I'll keep the hearing impaired story for another week. As far as random things at work, pardoning nasally random thoughts that I got written down. Watch out for any items in the restaurants or in the grocery stores where the chicken is spelled C H I K and then with apostrophe N. [00:14:35] All right, thank me later. But y' all just gotta watch out for that. [00:14:41] It's not real chicken, in other words. Also just this just in. This was from Reb. [00:14:48] Excuse me. [00:14:49] Ben and Jerry's is one of the few real ice creams left. All right, make sure that y' all not out there eating frozen dairy dessert and that if you looking for ice cream, you really eating ice cream. Okay, let's just watch for that now. [00:15:05] You're welcome. All right, so is it a random thought to the week? I guess since that's food related, that'll kind of. I'm confused. That and went with our Alpha lunch segment. [00:15:16] Let's see here. I do got an email that we're going to go ahead and go through. Let me go ahead and pull that up for us. Give me one moment and we'll go ahead to the email for this week. All right, y', all. So I opened up. [00:15:29] Hold on, y'. All. I wish I had that. Yay. With the little kids. But I opened up the email folder because I wanted to read one. Our first one from Fat Boy and I actually had a second email. So we got two emails and a text message that we want to go ahead and go over. Okay, so salute to the community. Man, we're showing love. Y' all are freaking out. [00:15:52] Y' all know I appreciate you. [00:15:55] All right, so let's go ahead and start this up. [00:15:58] First one from Fat Boy reads Dear dj. Excuse me, dear. Excuse me. [00:16:03] Pardon me, y'. All. [00:16:05] Peace. DJ High star, mandatory ot. Let me just say a couple things. First, it's certain seasonings that go in certain food. [00:16:17] For example, I do not season fried fish with garlic powder. To me, it don't go together. [00:16:24] Just a little pepper. [00:16:26] Old Bay might do a little slap your mama or cayenne pepper and your seafood breader. [00:16:35] Not garlic powder. [00:16:38] All right, okay. Not garlic powder. [00:16:42] And it says really be irritating me or really says that be really irritating to me. All right? Also, if you call, text. If you call or text my phone, don't ask a bunch of questions trying to fish for info. Just ask what you gotta ask. Please don't say, what you got, what you doing later, what you got planned? When you really want to say, yo, let's link later. Let's go to this spot, you know, in other words, let me decide what I want to do with. With my time. Sheesh. I like that one. I like that one. Fat Boy. [00:17:19] Sheesh. You bothering me. [00:17:21] I' ma finish up with. So excuse me. I'm gonna finish up with some positive words. [00:17:26] All right, so some wisdom from Fat Boy. [00:17:30] You're not being tested, you're being. Oh, hold on, hold on. My fault, y'. All. [00:17:36] I am Fat Boy. You're not being tested. You're being tuned. [00:17:41] It's calm. [00:17:43] Just cut that for a second. You're not being tested, you're being tuned. [00:17:48] Right? [00:17:49] Desire is the invitation. [00:17:51] Belief is the rsvp. [00:17:56] Don't manifest from lack. Manifest from love. [00:18:00] All right, Fat Boy with the. With the wisdom this week. Fat Boy. [00:18:05] Hey, appreciate you, man. Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. [00:18:12] Go through that email real quick now. We went. Okay, so it's good that I didn't do the out for lunch segment, because Fat Boy kind of covered it this week with. Okay, now, point of order, y'. All, Point of reference. Fat Boy is from Virginia, hails from the seven cities out there in Virginia. So he's very familiar with seafood and how to manage it. All right, so the garlic powder, he says that's a no. No. [00:18:36] I guess it clashes perhaps with the. With the fish, or it may overpower the fish flavor. I'm thinking now let's go through his. His seasonings. All you need a little pepper, some obey, because that will take care of your sodium content. So maybe that, you know, I'm gonna need no salt. [00:18:52] Do a little slap your mama or cayenne pepper. Okay. And then your seafood breaded, which in my. Y' all know my seafood bread Is the seafood bread that I love is House of Autry. I haven't tried moss breading yet on that, but he said not garlic pattern. Yeah. All right. And then we got. [00:19:11] Also, if you call or text my phone, I'm a big proponent. It is. Don't be, you know, interrogating, asking for info and fishing for info. Yeah, just kind of lead with what you're doing now. I always find myself. When I find myself doing that, I'll go ahead and cut it out and be like, look, y', all, look, yo, I'm trying to do this, this and that. I'm sorry to kind of dance around it. This is what I'm trying to do. Once I feel myself asking, like that second or definitely the third question, and they're just answering me with, you know, yes or no or real short answers. I. I just jump. Jump in back in the mode, apologize and get to it and just express myself. So, yeah, that was that part of it, like you said. [00:19:55] Just. Yeah, just. Just lead. [00:19:57] Just leave it what you want to do so that you can. Yeah, so I can control and manage my time, in other words. [00:20:03] Yep. And appreciate. Appreciate those words of wisdom. Once again. You're not being tested. You're being tuned. Desire is the invitation, and the belief is the rsvp. So I'm invited to whatever my desires are. I see what you're saying. And then my expectancy, or the belief is me RSVPN and saying that I'm, like, manifesting that desire. I love that. And then again, don't manifest from lack. Manifest from love. [00:20:34] So I appreciate that once again, fat boy. [00:20:40] All right, our next email is from the one and only Cheryl Poison. All right, so this reads, let's go ahead and get the music started. And I'm reading this one fresh. I haven't. I haven't proofread or anything like that. So it reads, just want to say I appreciate the love you show once upon a time in music. [00:21:00] Thank you so much. Let's talk. Oh, yeah, I'll get to it when I review. Let's talk about the bars you kicking at the beginning of the show. [00:21:08] A place where no man. Excuse me. [00:21:11] She's showing love to the intro. Yeah, but a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair. [00:21:17] Love it. Speaking of bars, your girl got a couple of joints on SoundCloud under Cheryl Poison. [00:21:23] This is how long it's been since I've actually recorded a song. But check me out. I'm sure you might enjoy something. I think what has changed in Music is the love and passion. [00:21:34] Some people are in it for the money. Ain't that the truth. Back in the day, it was something we did out of love and appreciation. Money was never the factor. If it came, it was good, but if it didn't, we would still love it. Sugar Hill is the beginning of this thing we love. Without them, there would be no hip hop. Come on. [00:21:58] Listening to Yachty, I can understand how an artist like him wouldn't appreciate Sugar Hill. Real MCs. Pay homage to them. Come on. [00:22:07] Don't let Yachty get under your skin. He's a rapper, not an emcee. Oh, hold on, Cheryl, let me. [00:22:21] Oh, cut the beat. [00:22:23] She said, don't let Yachty get under your skin. He's a rapper, not an mc. [00:22:28] Great show. I love the intellectual vibe. Keep up the good work and keep loving this hip hop of ours. Come on, y'. All. [00:22:37] Give it up. The one and only Cheryl Poison. [00:22:43] Yes, sir. [00:22:45] Yes. Yes. Well, yes, ma'. Am. Yes, ma'. Am. No speaking to you, but I'm saying, you know the general. Yes, yes, sir. [00:22:52] Oh, that email. I appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. You don't know how much that email means to me, Cheryl Poison. So I look up to you and people like yourself. LB Easy. Just as far as y' all. Y' all are, you know, I mean, y' all are like big cousins to me. In other words, it's y' all experience. Everything that I have experienced, y' all have experienced, plus more. [00:23:17] So that email means so much. [00:23:20] Let's go back over it real quick. Let's show the. Just want to say appreciate the love that you showed once upon a time in music, you already know. [00:23:31] And I implore all of my community to definitely check y' all out again when I say at the beginning of the show, audio journal of an 80s baby. [00:23:42] They. [00:23:43] Their audio journal of 70s and 80s babies. Respectfully. Respectfully. But they see, the thing is about us older. I'm turning 40 this year. We embrace that, all right? It ain't nothing to run from. It seems like my older peers and. And generation and stuff, they embrace getting old because they look great. They looking young, staying healthy, staying fit. Yeah, I remember back in the day, you know what I'm saying? Dude, be 29 with the George Jefferson at the top of the other hair and all of that. [00:24:15] All right? Let's not forget cigarettes and divorce, cheating on your lady, all of that stuff. Stress a man out. By the time he 28, 29, he got two different families running around and Stuff and starting to look at the ball, then. Little cul de sac at the top of the head. But nevertheless, I digress. I digress. Y' all check out Once Upon a Time in Music. That's my. That's my show. [00:24:39] And they. Oh, man. Between Cheryl Poison and L, y' all know that's how I got put on to coconut culture. But between Cheryl Poison and L. And then they've got it. Oh, man, they got a. A new. I'm hoping, a kind of a recurring guest or co host on there. I gotta get his name, but he has a web series that's out on Facebook. I'm gonna get his information and stuff like that. But he's. He's dope, too. Argyle. Argyle. I gotta remember his first name. But all three of them, their knowledge on music and this thing of ours, of course, they know about the shift from disco to where we at with hip hop and in all different eras of hip hop. So definitely gotta give y'. All. Y' all flowers on Once Upon a Time and Music podcast, y'. All. Check that out. Wherever you get your podcast at says, let's talk about the bars that you're kicking at the beginning of the show. Come on, yo. Come on, y'. All. [00:25:37] Don't confuse this with the man is fair. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, Comment, subscribe, like, share, make some noise. Cause your man is here. You heard. [00:25:48] Come on, Cheryl. You know what time it is. Especially with us from Queens. Like, as far as people that's from Queens, let's just, you know, come on. I'm a. I'm a. Not. I'm a. I'm a. I'm a son of your husband. All right. Okay. So I could be seen as your stepson. That's probably why we so close. I consider NASA father figure in this hip hop thing. So that just. That. That was organic, that whole. Don't confuse this with the manosphere, because I just hear that term too much, and it's too much. So I had to just flip it, give it my own. Give it a little bit of flavor, some seasoning. Put some seasoning on that thing. So I appreciate you appreciating the bars and showing love to real. [00:26:29] Let's see. Oh, late. [00:26:32] I don't know why I can't find my hip hop drop whenever I need to. [00:26:39] Real. [00:26:40] Hip hop, hip hop. I'm gonna just say it, I guess. [00:26:44] Dang, man. [00:26:50] Damn, son. Where'd you find this? [00:26:53] Ah. [00:26:54] But, yeah, I appreciate your love always in your upholding of hip hop. Hip hop. There we go. There we go. So I will be researching and looking up a couple of you, your joints under the artist and pseudonym Cheryl Poison. [00:27:12] Said this is how long it's been since I've actually recorded. Listen, you see my recordings and. And when they come back up and, you know, become relevant and stuff or I gotta remind out here what time it is with the bars. I like repurpose them and repost them online. But yeah, I'm the same. I've. It's been a while. [00:27:33] And even with recording podcasts, some of my earlier podcasts, again, that RSS feed was straight through SoundCloud. [00:27:39] So salute to SoundCloud. I'm definitely. Check that out. [00:27:44] See here. [00:27:45] I think what changed the music is the love. Impact. This is where you started spitting on this. So you got in your flow state right here. [00:27:52] What's changed in music is the love and the passion. Salute. Salute. Salute. You definitely write on that. All right. [00:28:00] Also, it's like the. And people say it over and over again. It's cliche when you say it, but you just want it to be dope. You just want it to be nice. Considered nice. Buy the nicest. Be let into the cipher. Be let around that freestyle cipher and be able to get in there and get your 8, your 16, your whatever off your freestyle off. [00:28:22] At the time, now that was a goal. And I'm talking, you know, again, this is me being in school, so mid-90s. I'm talking about grade school for me, mid-90s. [00:28:32] But I'm sure, you know, we got that from somewhere in Queens. We got that from the high schools and the big brothers and the big cousins at the time. Time. So break dancing, all of those elements, all of it was rooted in being the master of the ceremony and controlling the crowd, if you will, and being able to make the crowd. Oh, wow. What. [00:28:54] All of that is kind of. It feels like it was rooted in that. So I definitely agree a hundred thousand percent with your Cheryl. Let's see here. [00:29:04] Some people are in it for the money. That's why I think, look, you right, a good majority or a good population that's let in on the commercial side, they know that they or the executives know that they're money driven. [00:29:18] So that leaves a low moral compass to me. And you'll do anything, you know, you start to compromise your creativity and the process or your compromise everything that you know identifies you as you and. And you hit it on the head. Money was never the factor. If it came that's cool. But if it didn't, we still love it. Now, this is where you. This is where you got me, right here. Sugar Hill is the beginning of hip hop. Without them, there would be no hip hop. Listening to Yachty, I can understand how an artist like him wouldn't appreciate Sugar Hill. Real MCs. Pay homage to them. [00:29:56] Don't let Yachty get under your skin. He's a rapper, not an mc. [00:30:01] Bar right there. All right? [00:30:04] A bunch of got people, personalities and different people were convinced by outside influences or themselves that because they had a level of influence and impact, that I could just pick this up and take it and rap and, you know, put words together to make money. And that's the goal, to sell out and make money. And truly doing that, selling out. So again, Cheryl Poison, I appreciate that. Appreciate the love. [00:30:34] Again, love the intellectual vibe. You know, we're going to keep that going. All right? We gotta. Because if you're looking out here nowadays, nobody's competent. Keep up the good work and keep loving this hip hop of ours. Salute. Salute. Salute. [00:30:48] To Cheryl Poison of Once Upon a Time in Music podcast. I appreciate y'. All. [00:30:54] Definitely. Check them out. [00:30:56] This past week's episode was fire. [00:31:01] Yeah. So we'll keep it at that. I did want to move forward real quick, discuss this text message that I received from Mix Master T. Okay? So I'm. Keep it concise, but trying to figure out how to do this, y'. All. I want to read through the text message regularly as I read it when I woke up, because I was waking up from being asleep all day after working, you know, overnight. So when I woke up, I got this message. It was about 5 o' clock or so from a man, Mix Master T. [00:31:34] This is how it reads. [00:31:37] This is how it reads verbatim right here. Okay, y', all, hold on. [00:31:43] It says, what up Rome against Met with a question mark. [00:31:53] Your boy, Luke Keakley. [00:31:56] All right, swear. The text took a turn. He died here at the hotel, speaking at ALS convention. [00:32:09] Right? [00:32:12] So, you know, the first thing I'm thinking in my head is, What? [00:32:21] So I texted, man, like, what? [00:32:24] And then Mixmaster T texts me back saying, damn, that's why I hate speech to text. [00:32:35] So he. He fixed it up or whatnot. I just met Luke Keakley. [00:32:41] I know I didn't spell his name right or whatever, right? Lol. [00:32:44] But now I'm reading it back, the message back, and now I'm reading it back in Mixmaster T's voice. [00:32:54] So here goes. This is different. This is totally Different. It reads totally different. [00:33:00] What's up, Rome? Again? Excuse me, y'. All. Pardon? [00:33:04] What's up, Rome? Against met? Your boy, Luke Keakley. He died here at the hotel speaking at an ALS convention. See, I got that right there. What's up, Roman? Just met your boy Leak, Luke Keakley. He down here at the hotel speaking at the ALS convention. [00:33:20] So that's how. That's how it really. That's what it's supposed to read as. But again, I'll read y' all the verbatim from the speaks to speak to speech to text. [00:33:30] What's up, Rome? Against met question mark. [00:33:35] Your boy, Luke Keakley, period. [00:33:38] He died here at the hotel speaking at an ALS convention. [00:33:43] All right, so let's just watch and proofread our speech to text before hitting that send button. Just wanted to send that out there as a psa. But again, Mixmaster, shout out to you brotherly love to Luke Keakley for speaking at the Leals convention and. [00:34:03] And being alive. You know what I'm saying? Definitely speaking. Salute. Brotherly love. Brotherly love. [00:34:10] Shout out. [00:34:13] So let's go ahead and move forward here, all right? So always remember that y' all can be a part of this show as well. [00:34:22] First and foremost, though, thank you again, Mixmaster T. Cheryl Poison, Fat Boy for the engagement. Always remember, you can be a part of the show first and foremost on Instagram. Follow us and add mandatory ot. [00:34:35] It's at mandatory ot. If you want to email us, you can email us@mabitate ot704gmail.com mandatory ot704gmail.com and then you can hit up our hotline as well. 704-781-7011. All right. 787-04781, 7011. [00:34:59] You can leave us a message. I'll play it, you know, talk about it. So I appreciate all of the engagement, though. Definitely appreciate y'. All. [00:35:08] I wanted to go ahead and break. This is kind of unconventional. [00:35:12] I know bigger podcasts do do this, but I wanted to show some. [00:35:19] Some love. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I wanted to show love. It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. [00:35:28] So I wanted to show some love live on air. If I could catch two people right now. Let's see. [00:35:38] Let's see if the first picks up. [00:35:52] Hey, Momo, what's up? How you doing? [00:35:54] I'm good. Okay. [00:35:56] I'm great. Let me just first, foremost tell you. Can you hear that any, like, applause or anything? [00:36:05] No. Okay, good. No, I'm. I'm recording my podcast right now. Like. Like, recording it. I'm gonna put it out, of course, but I'm recording live. Like, you're on it because I wanted to say live on air. Happy birthday. [00:36:17] Oh, I appreciate. [00:36:20] Let me just play the. [00:36:22] For the audience. Just letting y' all know, giving context is not. My sister right here. My big sis. And I was calling to tell you I love you dearly, sincerely, and just showing you some love. I thought it would be kind of different because I'm able to kill two birds with one Stones, first of all. But secondly, have a happy. [00:36:40] Have a happy man. I appreciate I'm gonna end up calling you later or whatever. I'll let you know whenever the show comes out and stuff. Okay. [00:36:49] All right, bye. All right, love you. I'mma talk to you later, though. I'll talk to you later. All right. All right. [00:36:55] All right. [00:36:56] Ah, that first one was a success, y'. All. All right, all right. So let's see if we can get this second one real quick. Show some brotherly love. [00:37:07] Okay. This thing is always working, though. Hold on, y'. All. Let's see what's going on. [00:37:28] Taking too long. [00:37:29] I don't think it's going down. Y' all gonna have to leave him a message. [00:37:36] Who listens to their voicemails anymore, right? Nowadays ain't. Better not text me. Hold on. It's my brother. He got. [00:37:46] Please leave your message. Okay. And he may call back while we're. While we're on air, so try to call his other phone real quick. [00:37:58] Sorry, y' all bear with me, man. I appreciate the patience, but thought about this right before I started recording. [00:38:08] Please leave your message for 544-942-622. We'll leave a message. Yeah, what up, bro? Just wanted to let you know you on my podcast right now, but Scoop B, my brother from another mother, man, I love you. Happy birthday, though. You already know. And you're live on mandatory overtime, my brother. So, you know, I'll let you later. I hope you're enjoying your birthday and all of that, though. Peace. [00:38:41] All right. So cool, cool, cool. Yeah, that was cool. That was different. Real original. [00:38:46] All right, so wanted to go ahead and cut to our first spots. Well, our first sponsored. [00:38:56] Let's see here. It'd be our first sponsored video, I suppose. [00:39:04] Let's see. I'm going to pull this up. Bear with me one moment, y'. All. [00:39:09] So a word from this week's sponsors is the good gentleman over at DJ Blaze Radio Show Podcast. [00:39:19] All right. So let's go ahead and play a clip. It's an excerpt from. From their. [00:39:26] From one of. One of their episodes here. Let's see. That was when you went raw, but, oh, I went straight down. [00:39:33] Ain't nothing like a good cold seat let you know. But you go raw, but you sit down. [00:39:40] You sit down in this warm. You like, damn. Somebody just said. Because you can trick your mind when it's cold. You can trick your mind to be like, nobody ever uses this ever in life. Yeah, but if it's warm, it's like somebody just got somebody. Or worse, if you watch somebody come out and it's the only available, you gotta go, oh, no, I come out. I don't. Can't. I can't do. Oh, you would have. Yeah. That time. I'm telling you in my mind, I'm always thinking, well, I'm going to go home. I can take a shower as soon as I get home. I'm already counting the damn water pellets coming out of the damn faucet. [00:40:13] I'm like, yeah, sit on that thing. That's nuts. Yeah. Well, so how are you? [00:40:20] Nah. Well, what I will. That was when you went raw, but. Oh, all right. So. Yeah, salute to DJ Blaze Radio show podcast. That's actually a YouTube clip from the YouTube page. So y' all make sure y' all follow that and subscribe. You know, like comment, subscribe, share. Y' all know how that goes. But yes, that the first line. [00:40:44] What'd he say? The first thing that he said, hold on, is that was when you went raw. But yeah, that. That's gonna grab some headlines and some. Some. [00:40:59] So salute. Salute to be Easy L and their guest host, Big Cliff. That week, if y' all didn't recognize that voice, Big Cliff was in studio with them. [00:41:12] That was that episode. Awesome episode once again that they had. [00:41:17] Speaking of Big Cliff, I did want to hijack my brother's brand and IP for a second and say without his permission, that in collaboration with mandatory overtime, High Star Media and Stella Alta and Carolina Sports Talk, we're gonna go ahead and present this segment to y'. All. Okay. It's gonna be very short sports segment, but I wanted to go ahead and go through a couple things going on. First of all, Hornets, they're still doing their thing. All right, let's go ahead and get that out the way. Brotherly love. Salute to the Hornets. All right, y' all are doing y' all thing. Wanted to go ahead and bring up Bam. Adebayos 83 point game. Raleigh North Carolina's very own Bam Adebayo. Asia Wilson's very own or, or boo, whatever. Bam Adebayo. He scored 81 points to become the second ranked, you know, in other words, scoring person behind Wilt Chamberlain and surpassed Kobe and Kobe's infamous 81 points against the Raptors. So there's a couple of different reports regardless, but of course it was received with a lot of criticism and you know, just like. [00:42:45] But I want to show Bam love though. Salute Bam. He always been a stand up gentleman. The Heat are actually fat boys team. So shout out to you fat boy. [00:42:56] But again, I just salute, salute and brotherly love to bam for the 83 points that's in the NBA in order to do that. That's, that's crazy. Six foot nine center, doesn't get talked about how he plays out of position a lot from depend, you know, from his pause, his size and like his height and everything like that. [00:43:19] He plays out of position, but he's, he's just, he's an All Star. Perennial all Star, I would say, and you know, consistent. So salute. Salute to Bam. [00:43:31] Let's see here. Let's go ahead and move forward. If y' all got any thoughts about, you know, again, wait until 83 points for them to sit them down and all that stuff, feel free to call us and, and reach out or call us or email us and send a message into the show with that. All right. But salute to Bam. [00:43:51] Second. All right, we got a couple NFL trades going on and some signings going on. [00:43:57] So Travis etn, we see that he went to the Saints. [00:44:03] See your Zaire Franklin, he went from the Colts and went and got signed by the Green Bay Packers. [00:44:10] I saw Kyler Murray did some move moving around earlier as well. Let's see here. Kyler, oh, he's at the. He's a Minnesota Viking now. [00:44:22] And one of the other signings was Miami Dolphin to a. [00:44:32] He got signed to the Atlanta Falcon. So he's now a Falcon. [00:44:35] So yeah, those are the NFL signings for the like, I know some that stand out to me with the TUA thing. I saw a lot of stuff in the news and stuff like that little title that said, it just said simply like one of the headlines said Hawk tua. [00:45:01] All right. For those. Yeah. No. [00:45:05] All right. [00:45:07] And I guess, you know, he's probably gonna want a lot out of his receiving core and his skill players. [00:45:15] I'm sure that he's probably gonna mandate two A days. [00:45:21] That one was me though, y'. All. That one was me. 2A days, 2A days. [00:45:30] All right, y'. All. So salute to our Carolina Sports Talk segment of the week. [00:45:36] Real quickly with poker when they head down there. Fort Meals, South Carolina, Monday and Tuesday this week. So Monday I went to a game at Carmelis Pizzeria out here in Fort Mill, and they tried. I mean, it's kind of like the. There's a faction breaking off from the John's Place crowd after some drama and politics going on and started up their game at Carmelis. So checked it out. [00:46:05] Didn't really enjoy the energy of the vibe of that one. I'm gonna be honest with y'. All. Okay. [00:46:10] All right. Now, they're both quiet establishments and hot people that, you know, I'm interacting with and kicking it with. But the Monday vibe just felt like. [00:46:28] Was one drink away from saying, all right, just one shot or something, or being offended away from saying the N word and really pissing me off. So I can elect to not be there Tuesday night, John's Place. [00:46:42] I can. I'm gonna admit it's a. It's a lot more welcoming, a lot more friendly, a lot funner to play, but nevertheless, picked up a couple of lessons this week. Didn't. Didn't go far in the. In the evening or in the night. I did bring my. A couple partners met me out there. Shout out to the og OG Dawson. He was out there with your boy. My boy Roscoe. He came out there. I'm doing that. [00:47:08] Roscoe came out there. Big Cliff, of course, was out there as well. So just picked up little things. And again, like I said, I love the Tuesday vibe a lot more than the Monday vibe with the poker night. So salute to everybody out there. Poker. I also had here listed 50 AI video 50s. Just kind of started to respond with some music. Can't lie. Some of the verses. He's. He's. He's back in his 50 bag. So you're into the nostalgic sounding cadence and flow and. And beats in production, then you'll. You'll rock with it. So there's a lot of older New York gentlemen that's probably in Harlem or in the Bronx or Brooklyn or Queens right now. That got Pelly, Pelles or Averexes from the early 2000s and 2010s that are loving this right now. [00:48:01] Let me see here. But the video itself, him and Max B. It's an AI video, and I'm not a fan of any of these AI videos, so I'll just keep that short, just like that. [00:48:12] Also wanted to encourage y' all to Stay informed. I don't want to come on here as like a doomer or doomsday person to give y' all updates on what's going on every day there. It's an embarrassing moment or moments from the White House and the administration as a whole. So just keep y' all posted on that. [00:48:32] See? Brotherly love. Let's move forward. So I'm gonna write the DJ Blaze Radio show podcast about this as well, but we definitely said a prayer last week for our soldiers and. And military that will be engaging in. In what. In some way in this Iran conflict and war, ultimately. But I wanted to send love and prayers out to the civilians that are occupied Cotter, and have been in Dubai and UAE and everything like that. So definitely prayers to them for getting home safely and making it back. I don't have any updates, but we do have a member of the DJ Blaze radio show podcast universe, if you will, or their. Their world. [00:49:18] His name is B. Mac, and I know that he is across seas if I'm. No, no, no, Philly. I'm sorry, his name is Philly. His nickname. Or you know what, what I know him as on the show. So whoever is over there, civilians, I know they're a listener of DJ Blaze Radio show podcast. They always write in. They always being. I can remember being them being overseas and then showing Be Easy and them love by blessing them with gifts as far as on their Christmas wish list. And yeah, just. [00:49:57] Yeah, that's fan. That's fam. So prayers definitely to Philly, I believe. I think. I think it's Philly. That's. That's over there. So prayers to my boy Philly. [00:50:09] Let's see here, while we're at it here, some love the fat boy salute. Love the mix master T, man. Love the Cheryl Poison. Definitely on the email vibes and. And sending in some love. But also I wanted to show love. Let's see here, the OG my boy kd Salute. Some love. Brotherly love to Roscoe. Brotherly love to my brother. A butter. Brotherly love out here to my boy ej. Brotherly love to Khalil. Let's see. Brotherly love, brother Madison, Fred, you know what time it is. Brotherly love to Taz, of course. [00:50:53] Biggie ain't talked to you in a minute, but salute, brother. You already know Big Cliff, Meech. What's up? What's happening? [00:51:03] All of the bros, of course y' all know what time it is. Salute to my line brothers and everybody on my line. We still celebrating that 20 years, y'. All. Salute to the guys that brought me through. [00:51:14] Everybody from the job, from the jo. [00:51:17] DJ Wolf, what's happening? [00:51:20] My boy Dion got everybody out there at the jl, man. Oh. Also wanted to show some brotherly love to the doppelgangers at work. Let's go ahead and make some noise for them. [00:51:40] So we got Aunt Viv the driver on the second tour. [00:51:45] Look like I'm Vib old on Viv. Of course. Brotherly love to my brother Sock. That goes without saying, but we got now airy Reb. She says Sock look like two Bit. [00:51:56] She said he looked like two Bit from Power, y'. All. She just got put on or starting to catch up with Power. [00:52:03] All right, so brotherly love to two Bit. Or, you know, Benny the Butcher more like it. You know what I'm saying? [00:52:12] Oh, FBG Duck out there at the jo. We got a dude that looked like FBG Duck, this dude that looked like Jeffrey Osborne at the job. But my boy Kel said that he really looked like Byron Scott, and I can't unsee it now. He do look like Byron Scott. [00:52:28] Salute to homie. That looks like Oscino. All right, that works at the job with a salute to you. [00:52:38] I'm gonna. I'm gonna have to write DJ Blaze and next week, because I wrote them a letter last week, and I was explaining them that people say that I look like Ice Cube, and they laughed hilariously at it, like, dismissingly. So gotta. Gotta check them out. But listen, y', all, I'm gonna close that out and close out our Brotherly Love segment, of course. With some words that are straight with some words that are straight from the heart. This is with supreme faith. That's in God, okay? Let's let the ego nor the hubris ever tear us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right, thank you again for joining me on another episode of Mandatory Overtime. We'll catch y' all next time. Peace. [00:53:26] Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [00:53:29] You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [00:53:37] Closing time. [00:53:41] Do the knowledge I know you gonna dig this Damn, son. Where'd you find this? When it's cold outside will be hip hop, hip hop, hip hop Mama got that bunch of crunch game Ex blackly Mama got that bunch of crunch game.

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