Predictable 3200

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Y [00:00:06] Speaker B: 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. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:23] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Omega Sci Fi fraternity she spat a little spittle on the mar in a bitter battle hey, hey. Stop questioning my method, okay? I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. Again, Brings back the tears. It's hard to forget about I know you're gonna dig this. [00:01:44] Speaker A: I thought that time would heal all of this hurt I feel [00:01:54] Speaker B: ins. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. I don't really need no harm. Trying to spit his darts. Can't spit them. Check it out, though. Hey, yo. Scientific, robotic, optimistic. You probably missed it. 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[00:04:03] Speaker C: Like that, like that, yes, his way was. [00:04:19] Speaker D: Hypnotizing. [00:04:30] Speaker B: And I just love your flashy. What up, what up, what up, what up, people? How y' all doing? How y' all doing? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star, joining you for another episode. I appreciate y' all joining me and all of that. All right, the aim here at Mandatory overtime is for us to discuss, recalibrate, redefine our definition of manhood in our community. And that's with each Discussion with the community. The community that consists of you all. So I appreciate y' all being here. You know, it's simply an audio journal of an eighties baby social experiment. Inconsistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. And for that, I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you for joining me. All right. Don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like comment, subscribe, hype, share. But most importantly, make some noise, y'. All. Cause your main man is here. All right, we reporting live from the 704 Charlotte America 980. What's happening? Give me some energy, man. All right. Of course. As well, I have my Russian sound engineer over there in the cut. And a check one too. It went. It went a check one too. Y' all ready? Let's go to work. Now they go to work. Salute to the intro. Was feeling pretty nostalgic this past couple weeks. So the original is playing some originals and. And then the hip hop samples of the original songs that I was using. So y' all know what time it is. Gotta represent. Okay, but was using the first sample that y' all heard was Eddie Homan, his song it's over. And that was a sample for Nutmeg, Ghostface Killer produced by the rza. And then the second one wasn't more or less a sample, but for publishing purposes, I'm sure that Puffy and Bad Boy paid some money for that one. Is the Crystals, the Do Run Run and Notorious B I. G's line from Hypnotize your crew run run, run. Your crew run run. So now I was watching just whatever cooking show it is, that where you got to cook in like 30 minutes with some random or whatnot. And one of the chefs shout out to Reb. Well, one of the chefs on the show, his mom was a member of the Crystals. And he mentioned the song on there. I said, I know that melody. I know that line from somewhere. So I proceed, of course, to look it up immediately. And I found, you know, the Do Run Run. And again, like the. You could just tell Biggie's. The Crystal's influence on Biggie, I guess. Like, that's probably a. A record that Ms. Valletta, God bless, was playing in the house and stuff like that. Similar. I was speaking with RB about this, but similar to Rapping Duke, Daha, daha. You never thought that hip hop would take it this far. Come on, y'. [00:08:08] Speaker C: All. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Y' all know what time it is. [00:08:10] Speaker D: Come on. [00:08:11] Speaker B: Why? Do not pretend and act like we don't. All right, so I just had to show some love in the intro. A couple sample school. I don't know what I'm gonna call it. Maybe sample school or something like that. When I get my controls and stuff. Excuse me, my controls and the camera and all of that set up, get my DJ equipment. I can kind of vibe with it a little bit easier. Blend the vibes that I need to. Right now is just all audio editing, but salute again. Eddie Holman, the Crystals, the rza, Ghost Face Killer, Notorious B I G, you know, and the producers that was with Bad Boy that helped to produce Hypnotized, but more so Notorious bg, the do Run, run. Your crew, Run, run. That was a nice little O to that. All right. And very creative. Very creative by Christopher Wallace. So, yeah, salute. Now, let's get. Let's. Let's move into our revisions and things like that. I know last week I mentioned toward the end of this show, yo, got classical high star bars coming up, and I never end up getting it, getting to it. So we will have that. This episode certainly, certainly will. We're gonna get into some building wisdom in a second. But listen back. Listening back to the episode from last week, I know it wasn't that I hyper focused on Charleston, but when we're talking about accents and dialects from different regions in the area, Charleston is one of the ones that I'm most familiar with because, of course, my family and things like that, so. Or the Geechee Gullah, all of that stuff. That's one that I'm more and more familiar with. And then of course, the Midlands area because of my time I spent in Orangeburg in college. But any of my South Carolinians that's out there listening or any people that reside in South Carolina that want to go ahead and contribute and let us know, give us your feedback about some of the interesting or unique, you know, colloquialisms and things like that that we have in South Carolina that are unique to South Carolina. Feel free to write the show mandatory ot704mail.com or give us a call 704-781-7011. Also, feel free to follow our IG pagendatoryot. All right, so here's that. We're gonna go ahead and get into building some wisdom here. Let's go get right to it. [00:10:49] Speaker D: What's today's mathematics, yo? [00:10:51] Speaker B: No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:10:53] Speaker E: 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. [00:11:13] Speaker D: Peace, God. [00:11:14] Speaker E: Peace, God. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Come on, do the knowledge. [00:11:18] Speaker D: I know you gonna dig this. [00:11:21] Speaker B: All right, so this week, I actually wanted to start off. This kind of works as a revision as well. But there was an email that I received last week from Mixmaster T, and he has some wisdom in there for us to build on. So I'm going to start with that because I wasn't able to catch it last week in time enough to get it on last week's episode. So let's see here your words of wisdom. All right, so it reads, you don't become the man that you talk about. You become the man that your habits prove. So the question is, what are your habits saying about you? It's tough. It's tough. I'm gonna give the credit of that to Mixmaster T. No author on there, but that is solid. Very tough. So let's see here. Go through a couple of vibes from cousin Jerome. Shout out to cousin Jerome. Hope to see you sooner than later, my brother. And I'll continue sharing the. Sharing the pod with you, because I don't. I don't know how. I got a lot of mature family members. So even when I'm sending the pod through to them and then they turn it on and then they start to hear Jay Z voice or Nick start impersonating jc, they might just turn that right off. You know what I'm saying? So I don't know. I mean, my family know how serious and how consistent we've been over here. Mandatory overtime. But salute to cousin Jerome. Let's go ahead and start off with Last Wednesday. I like this one. Quality is not an act. It's a habit. I don't. I don't. I'm hoping I didn't. I'm not rereading any, but let's see here. Also, this is by Betty Reese. If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. Hello. Sometimes he switches it up with a little bit of humor, y'. [00:13:13] Speaker A: All. [00:13:13] Speaker B: So this other one is anonymous. I'm not lazy. I'm just on energy saving mode. Call it eco friendly productivity. Love that. All right, so beginning this week, thinking is well and good, but feeling is what makes us alive? All right? Truth. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Haslett. All right. And then also be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. Okay? So salute. Salute. Cousin Jerome. Thank y' all for that. Thank you for that. And something I noticed last week, we was at what we said like 40 minutes or so last week. So, you know, again, we're going to keep this stuff concise and compact if we, if we don't have nothing to talk about. So just again, anticipate that not going to kind of dwell on things. All right, so there's a couple pieces of wisdom that I am going to play from. I wanted to play some from D1 [00:14:24] Speaker C: and [00:14:26] Speaker B: in big Banks interview that I alluded to last week. I still haven't curated those, if you will, for us to go over and play. But I do have some from an excerpt from Wayno. So I did, I did reach out to him. I will say that just kind of feels weird because I reached out to him for permission to use it. But I'm about to use Emma hugging right now. I'm saying about to use the clip. And if he ends up being upset, I apologize in advance way know whenever you do hear this. But I wanted to play this clip from a video Wayno did on a YouTube video that he did about so All Star Junior and Ben 10 or NBA YoungBoy affiliate Ben 10, that situation. But give me one second here and then we're gonna go ahead and, and [00:15:18] Speaker C: play this clip from, you know, Flaws and imperfections. I see the beauty in the rouge. I know when I see black people, I just see my people with all of our flaws and imperfections. I see the beauty in us. I ain't talking about these two specifically, but I do see the beauty in us. I don't think that there will ever be a time where we all shoulder to shoulder hugging and Kumbaya. That's just not how things work anymore. I do understand that if we want to get to a greater place or a better place, that is going to take a lot of work. And it's going to take a lot of work with the youth. But I also realized that the youth is now hypnotized or convinced that and not like they haven't. People have always been in some sort of mind state to an extent that a gangster life is like just this glamorous, fun life. And then now, like, I'm pretty sure most of the people that watch this channel, if we haven't Been through it or we haven't seen people go through it. We have the friends who have now come home from doing 15 and 20 years. I got a lot of friends that did. Like, I'm 43. I got friends that went into prison at 17 and never came out. Friends that went into prison at 20 that's never coming out. Friends that went in for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years. And I just see the remnants of the ghetto and the lack of resource, specifically education. And when people say education is all is always wrapped around, like, the academic aspect of education and not more so around just educating yourself on multiple levels, which I believe that you should have academics. I'm not one of those people that feel like, don't go to school. I didn't go to school. And I know how hard it was for me to become successful. So I don't urge, like, young people to not go to school. I'm like, yo, if you go to school, you got the mindset you'll be 20 times from just learning and networking. But the mindset of educating on a level of not just the cool entrepreneurship, but the level of togetherness, right? I had a debate in a barbershop about togetherness, and the was like, yo, but the Jews, they. They with this. And they, you know, they got. I said, man, listen, let's stop comparing ourselves to Jews because y' all know nothing about their faith. We don't know how they pray. We don't know their ideologies. Personally, when you speaking about this person that you look at that you say, oh, we could be just like them if we just came together. We don't know their discipline or, like I said, their regiments. And we constantly have this tendency to compare ourselves to people that we don't know, nor do we want to know. And then when we talk about yo, togetherness, because that's what my man said, yo, the togetherness. I said, man, are you crazy? Are you crazy? We can't. Togetherness can't eat. I mean, literally, there's people who are dying in the streets, their kids suffering. We just seen what happened in Louisiana Mental health with this man who took the lives of eight children and all of those children with his children in a domestic dispute. We are dealing with genocide on multiple levels in our own communities. And this is not distinctive to where I'm from. Harlem got some nasty shit going on. So do Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island. [00:18:36] Speaker B: All right? So it goes on and goes on. But I just wanted to cut his wisdom real quick. But, yeah, if y' all gathered Generally. What are you saying? Of course. I just wanted to play that. It's a ton of ways I could expound on that, definitely. And I, I appreciate, I appreciate Wayno's words, put it like that. I definitely appreciate his words. And, you know, we'll. We'll definitely hope for togetherness. When he was speaking on Other Face and other religions, I agree with him. Other ethnicities or cultures, if you will. Again, I know how optimistic and faithful and prayerful and. How should I say it? Like positive or good willed? My prayers are. We don't know that for everybody. You know, we don't know that for every person and every faith that's out there that they're praying for the best for the world. So this second group, it's real quick. I'll make it real quick. It's a group of quotes from Michael Beasley and Shannon Sharp's conversation. I haven't finished watching this interview, but for all my men out there, I implore y' all to watch this. All my ladies out there that have young kings that y' all are raising, I employ y' all to share this with y' all sons. This interview, of course age appropriate. And then if your husbands and all of that, your husbands and your brothers or whatnot, is good for any man to see this Michael Beasley interview again, I'm probably about a little bit over halfway through, so I still have a little bit more to go, but we had to record, so. But there's a couple poignant in quotes from there or clips that I do want to play, so give me one second. We're going to go ahead and play a couple. [00:20:27] Speaker D: How you world laughed at me for that, so I don't wanna talk about that. Is it true that when you met Kevin Durant of the basketball team, you stole the pizza? Yeah. [00:20:37] Speaker B: How you. [00:20:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I had to. [00:20:40] Speaker B: What you mean you had to? [00:20:41] Speaker D: Because y' all judge decisions and not choices, right? You all think you know what you know and what you wouldn't do. But then at the same time, you boast to the world how you're the only one of your kind and then chastise everybody else for not being like you. I wasn't like them. I was going home to five mouths to feed. And my mother always told us, if you bring one in the house, you better bring enough for them all. So I wanted a slice of pizza, and at the same time, I didn't want my ass whooped if I'd have came in a motherfucking car. It was four people in the Car in the back seat of a two door Nissan Pathfinder. Got in that. If I'd have got him with one slice, man, she'd have took the slice, whooped my ass and none of us would have got pizza. So yeah, I took half the slice. Cause the half, the slice was five. I was eating one and had four more. Yo da da da na. I was the man in my house. I ain't gonna lie. Everybody was happy that day, huh, bro? I got home, I was the first on the Xbox, bro. For real. Y' all laughing, bruh. [00:21:48] Speaker A: I got home, man. [00:21:49] Speaker D: What My mom, she had to cook dinner, right? Bruh? She made me a cool little. Like my mom used to make this banana pudding. Little quick, little bro, we going to sleep. Ah, man, she bring me a little. Some kids will know what to do with the money. Some kids will just further like it's a scale. Like the difference between medicine and poison is just the dosage. The difference between Elon Musk and the crackhead is just the doches. What you do with the money, it all correlates, right? So, yeah, I would love to say it's great. It's great. But then if I'm being honest, if I can look back on the past and everything isn't 100%, but we do as a society repeats itself as history. I have to believe that this money is detrimental to some of these kids. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Right. [00:22:45] Speaker D: I think they should just be playing for the right reasons. I think they should be playing to be a better person, to learn discipline, for longevity. I think we so scared of the right now that we don't think about tomorrow. That's where the money comes in. Fish swim. And you gotta let people do what they do. They control the games differently. [00:23:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:11] Speaker D: You understand, we the ones. That's why. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Right? [00:23:14] Speaker D: The big three in Miami, how upset when you. They traded to get LeBron and bot. [00:23:23] Speaker B: All right, a couple nuggets there. I couldn't keep up with all of them that I was watching. I could give y' all clips for days, but birds fly, fish swim. You have to let people do what they do. That was one of the final ones. Just. I mean the brother is brilliant, okay? A genius out of. Out of D.C. pG county, the Maryland area. But. And you know, friends with Kevin Durant, brothers, with Kevin Durant and Nolan Smith and yeah, Michael Beasley's never really had a fair shot. But if you take a look at this interview with Club with. With Shannon Sharp, you'll just get a lot, a lot from it. A lot of wisdom, a Lot of knowledge, just vulnerability, you know what I'm saying? Real manhood. Real manhood. Real manhood. So salute to Michael Beasley once again. I gotta finish watching the interview. Those was a couple of clips that I pulled from us thus far. Of course, the other one, matter of fact, I'm gonna get a couple from the comments, but soccer sent one to me after, because we both tapped into it. He said, yesterday never happened and tomorrow never came. You know, so that's. That's tough from there. Let me see here real quick, y'. All. My boy was spitting. We judge decisions without knowing the choices. See here. My mom raised me on how not to get caught. Y' all was raised on how not to get in trouble. I was hungry by myself. And tomorrow came. I couldn't let the sun beat me. Yeah, man. Then the one that. That was tough for me to hear, definitely, or this is really early in the interview, but he said, I miss my granddad, but I can't miss him more than God has him, you know? So, yeah, Salute to bees, man. Salute to bees. He eat a man. Iron sharpens iron. Why would I be swinging at jello? Money isn't the root of all evil. It was like it's the people that control the money, you know? Oh, the other thing that he stated, he was talking about two year olds. He said, man, two year olds think that they. God, he said, you think about it. Just a year ago, they was trying to figure out life. They've doubled their lifespan and they feel like they know it all or can do it all, conquer everything. So they climbing everywhere, fearless and stuff like that. It's just so poignant. Never looked at it that way. Another thing that he pointed out is LeBron James has been playing in the NBA more than more than half his life. In other words, more than he's been more than half the time that he's been on earth. He's been playing in the NBA. So he put stuff in perspective with that as well. So salute again. No to Michael Beasley. Salute to Shannon Sharp. Still, you know, he's saying, get. I give you lot of. Give you a lot of Shannon, so I'll give you some flowers as well. It's a great interview that you're conducting. Still chucking in. Yuck, yuck, yuck. A little too much. But I appreciate you letting Mike do his thing and all of that. I appreciate that. All right. Speaking of Shannon Sharp, Michael Beasley and all of that, we got some NBA playoffs, y'. All. Okay. I don't want to. Well, first of all, this is for all of the Celtics fans and the Celtics die hard lovers that had so much to say about the Knicks. And then this is for how n was feeling when I got home Tuesday after poker when the Knicks lost by one point. You know, I do that in jest. I wasn't, I wasn't feeling like that, honestly. But I said it on the, I said it on the podcast already. The playoffs is a tough, tough thing. It's not easy to get through the playoffs. Any round shouldn't be easy. One day happens, the Knicks lose game two and the Hawks tied up, tied up. The series 32 perform, 32 point performance from CJ McCollum. They came back in the fourth quarter. We had a horrible fourth quarter, the whole game. We missing crucial free throws. OG Anunoby missed some crucial free throws down the stretch. We turned the ball over, of course, tremendously. And we weren't playing winning basketball. The Knicks, and it came down, still came down to a last minute shot missed by Mikhail Bridges. So we still had an opportunity to win. So all that being said, I'm not, it's not, don't. Just don't feel like Tyrese Halliburton last year or anything like that. It doesn't feel like that. So I'm fine. However, the day following the Sixers behind a 30 point performance from VJ Edgecomb, a rookie took the Boston Celtics down. Okay. And nobody wants to talk about it. Nobody wants to talk about it at all. What's going on out there? I don't get it. What's happening? Anyways, yeah, fully healthy Boston Celtics. They got taken down by the Sixes. I, I only say this, I'm not even saying this to talk trash. I only say it to say again. There's parody in the NBA this year. We can't be prisoners at a moment. I said this back in Carolina sports talk time. And we can't. You can't follow up the commentators and stuff. They have their biases, their clear biases. So they report that way. And it's. I hate that. I hate it. It's disgusting. So salute to the Knicks. They're playing tonight, so I'm trying to get this recording done, but they are playing tonight, so best of luck to y'. All. I'm. I'm going with the Knicks, y', all, of course, but still salute to the Knicks. And we'll see, you know, we'll see what happens. Game three tonight in Atlanta. Let's see here. Excuse me. Siege. All right, so tonight, that's seven and then Cleveland and Toronto, where Cleveland leads that series two to nothing. They play this evening as well. Eight o' clock. And then the Nuggets Timberwolves finish off the evening. 9:30. Some good baseball and hockey that's going on as well. The Yankees have been playing the Red Sox. Yankees have been beating the Red Sox the last couple games. We're 15 and 9 right now, so that's always go cool or Gucci. Shout out my Gucci. Haven't gotten that sound effect yet, y'. [00:30:27] Speaker A: All. [00:30:27] Speaker B: But the. Yeah, the Cleveland game looks promising to nothing. Oh, and the Nuggets and Timberwolves are tied one to one. Would you look at there like that's what I'm saying, y'. All. All of these teams can be beat. In other words. While we're on the subject, though, prayers to Wemby. He took a nasty fall and suffered a concussion in his game. So prayers to to Wemby. Shout out to LeBron for pushing the Lakers past the Rockets. I believe they're without Luca, without AR. They're up 2 to nothing. So salute to that. That's our Carolina sports talk for the week, y'. [00:31:06] Speaker C: All. [00:31:06] Speaker B: Salute to Big Cliff and all of that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, let's see what we. See what we could do tonight in. In the a. In Atlanta, you know. You know, see what's going on out there. So today I just wanted to talk real quickly. Well, matter of fact, real what we're going to talk about that. But first I wanted to. Let me introduce the topic first. Today I was gonna. I am going to be talking about prediction markets a little bit, but foist. I did want to. This is building on the building wisdom. But I need y' all to pay attention. And I read this post from IG and I just want y' all to pay attention to what's going on out here. All right, so grocery stores are designed like casinos. Stores pay Harvard psychologists that looks like 500k to engineer every decision you make inside. Here's how they control you. Milk, eggs, bread, the three things you need every single week, all placed in the back corners of every store. To get there, you walk past 300 products that you did not need. Studies show that this increases unplanned purchases by 60%. You know, you came for three items and you leave with 14. That was never an accident. Okay? Eye level shelf space is the most expensive. Real estate in retail. Companies pay $50,000 per year per foot. The products staring at you have the highest margins. Cheaper alternatives hide on the bottom shelves. All right. You should know that. Let's see here. Kids cereal sit at child eye level. Not for the child, but for the parent who cannot say no while standing in the cereal aisle. Shopping carts doubled in size since 1975. Bigger carts make you buy 40% more. A half empty large cart feels wrong to your brain. Your brain wants to fill it, so you do. The music playing overhead is not random. Slow music at 60 to 80 beats per minute makes you shop 30% longer. Classical music increases wine spending by 40%. Pay attention out there, y'. All. Fresh bread and produce are always at entrance. Shoppers who smell fresh bread on arrival spend 15 to 20% more on their total trip. The bakery is not selling bread. It's setting your mood. And end cap displays, they're not deals, they're ads. Companies pay 5,000 to $15,000 per week for that placement. At the end of each aisle, 45% of shoppers assume the items are on sale. Most of them are not Items, that is. Checkout lanes are the final ambush. You're tired. Your defenses are down. Kids are asking willpower. Spent stores make 3 to 5% of total revenue from that line alone. All right. They also move products every few weeks, not for your convenience, but to break your routine and force you to walk the entire store again. Lost leaders are the final trap. Rotisserie chicken sold at a loss to get you in. The average shopper buying a $5.99 chicken spends maybe 50 to $55 on other items on that same trip. Everything is designed against you. Milk in the back, that forces 300 out, 300 product exposures. Bigger carts trigger your brain to fill the spaces. Music slows your movement by 30%. End cap charge. 50 end caps charge $15,000 a week to fool you or to market to you. And lost leaders bait you in and keep you spending. None of this is random. All of this is engineering. Even down to the red and yellow tags. There's an out of coincidence. Whenever you see these yellow tags and red tags on the sales that are on the. Like, on the shelves, those colors trigger hunger and urgency. Before you read a single word, think about it. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, all have red and yellow in somewhere in their, you know, in their logo, you're not shopping. You're navigating a system built over 70 years of consumer psychology research. Every second inside that store is designed right. So just keep that in mind, y', all, whenever you're out shopping. Also, whenever we're talking out here, remember, we Want to be solution minded. So let me see here. Use the same principles to build faceless digital assets, generating it normally so they're selling something. But what I was, what I pulled from it is, and after speaking with my cousin also this week is we need to get to gardening, y'. All. All right. We need to get to gardening. We need to get planting our own foods as far as especially fruits and vegetables. You can save a lot of money doing that because the way that they're charging for just spices, vegetables and stuff like that right now is ridiculous. I never thought that. So in my time, if you will, back in the 1900s, when we're listening to our grandparents talk about penny candies or something, 2 cent candies, it seemed like a far, far time away, like the inflation in the way that it's been. It seems like yesterday I could have got a four for four, y', all, or last week, last year, last three, whatever it was, whenever it was, it wasn't that long ago. But now that four for four is probably valued at what, about $14, let's be real. So it is scary as far as the rate of inflation and things like that. So let's control what we can control. Let's, let's start gardening out there, y'. All. Let's build some gardens or something like that. Just putting out some solutions and some suggestions. Y' all are more than welcome to write the show and let me know what your suggestions are. As far as saving money at the grocery store. Is couponing still a big thing? You know, we know the food stamps is, is out of there right now, but is. Is couponing still a thing? And, and what can. What are some tips that y' all got? Let's, let's start talking as a community. Right? Let's move forward real quick. All right. I wanted to go ahead and discuss this this week because it's been sitting on my heart for a minute. So prediction markets out there, of course, we've had our episode about gambling and the dangers of gambling out here. But prediction markets, see here, See, it takes gambling to another dangerous level. Prediction market typically is a platform where people can bet on the outcome of future events by buying and selling shares in the outcomes. Participants collectively forecast the likelihood of events such as sports results, political elections, or entertainment awards. So let's think about that for a second. They're taking the industry of gambling, the thing that so the, the commodity of gambling, of chance, of pure chance, where it was rooted in, I don't know what the original gambling is rooted in. Or whatnot. But let's say horse racing or some sports of some sort. It's. It's implied that there's a. A level of fairness there with prediction markets. It scares me because you think about how much room there is to cheat in these different markets. All right, let's see. Again, we already know about sports and outcomes of sport, sporting, sporting events, but political elections and entertainment awards like, things like that, I don't feel comfortable putting my money towards any of that because it's so easily manipulated. We see how little integrity there is out there right now in the world. So the number or the top prediction markets that are out there right now are like, Kalshi Fanduel has a prediction market arm. Of course, all these betting markets have a prediction market arm, but Poly Market is out there as well. These are all frightening, though, to me, because world leaders, different people, they. They can make decisions, selfish ones at that, based on these prediction markets and what is out there. And again, manipulate different markets, manipulate different outcomes so that it benefits them. And that's the frightening thing about it. So I did want to mention that again, there's not too much that I have to say about it outside of, like, prediction markets, I guess. Like, to prediction markets, I don't know. So, yeah, I don't know markets, but yeah, so, yeah, that's. That's all I have to say about that. [00:40:48] Speaker C: Y', all. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Y' all, be careful. Robin Hoods, the cow, she's of the world, all of that stuff. These prediction markets out here ain't no good. And if you have a gambling addiction that strong to where you're predicting, on predicting when Donald Trump would get impeached or. Or different things like that, you know, you might have to call that hotline. You might have to. You might have to call that hotline. Just being honest. Okay. All right, so let's go ahead and move forward. We're going to move forward with our classical high star bars for the week. Just give me one second here, and we're gonna go ahead and go through that. All right? This week's selection is drawn from the songstress Maya. Maya had a song titled the Best of Me, which was so nice, she had to do do it twice. So part two is a single in 2000. The year was 2000 and an R and B ready. Jay Z was prepared to lay down some poetic lyrics to a fat beat. Shout out to Maya, and we'll get right into it here. So. The song starts. The Poet laureate Sean Carter begins. I'm focused, man. Tell Stout to holler at me, man Young Hova. Excuse me. Sorry. Young hovre. You hurt track masters, you hurt. The sonnet reads yo yes, y' all and jig a man be ballin' Leave chicks pigeon toed some of them be crawling get the best of you Whenever I put my all in have mommy calling for the law darling Jigga m pollen drop coops with half the top expose half my knot Niggas mad that I'm bragging about the cash I got But I'm used to not having a lot I'm from the gutter and I ain't the type to ever chase your box I'm the type to interior decorate the watch I'm the type to sling heavyweight on the block in every state like clockwork Clockwork Jiggas the hurt holler Maya goes on to woo and serenade her audience Then the jigger man comes back in verse four, the fourth verse where he continues. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Caroline of Blue kicks hottest on the block Used to willie bicycles since I was six High school crossover waved away pics Music is the same that gave away hits so, Ma, get it together or for get it forever When I go at you hard, I can get it through lever Excuse me. I can get it through leather. Hey, yo, you act like Jigga can't get at whoever talking. You got a man. Okay, Ma. And that's high school making me chase you around for months. Have an affair, act like an adult for once. Plus my hand is up your skirt. God, flirt. What's a little me on top gon hurt? Maybe a little. But pain is pleasure and pressure bus pipes and you look like the I like it rough type. We can crush tonight. Tell me what you like. I got a yellow bucket. Excuse me? I got a yellow bottle on a bucket of ice. Get right young Hova. So again, first thing, I wanted to salute the toxicity of the late 90s in the early 2000s. Because Jay Z, you was bugging the my. Okay, right. First of all, you start getting creepy with when I come at you hard. I can get it through leather. Okay. Talking. You got a man Dirty macking. You start dirty macking. Okay, Ma. And that's high school making me chase you around for months. That's questionable. That's high school. That's questionable. But have an affair, act like an adult for once. So I see what you're saying. When you was both in high school, that's something she would say to you, right? I got a man. I got a man. What's your man Got to do with me. I got a man. I ain't trying to hear that. Okay. However, still dirty macking, my brother, have an affair. Act like an adult for once again, y'. All. The toxicity. The toxicity of do the knowledge. Okay, the toxicity. I don't know if y' all gonna dig this one, but the toxicity of the late 90s, mid to late 90s, in the early 2000s. Yeah, it's right there on display in that rap verse. But still, yet we have to salute how brash and brazen was being smiling. And they verses, I think, about comedy and hip hop, right? Both have matured and have been maturing and aging. And when you look at hip hop, of course, you have certain things back then that was. That passed or that was permissible that are not now. But in. In comedy, it was still rough. It was times where we were trying to figure it out. It wasn't as sophisticated art as it is today, and we were trying to figure it out. So, you know, the same or similar happened. And nevertheless, listen, it don't show nothing. [00:47:02] Speaker A: It don't cost nothing to show A. [00:47:03] Speaker B: I was doing this, getting money, showing some love. [00:47:07] Speaker A: Let me work. Please, let me work. [00:47:11] Speaker B: All right? I did want to show some love this week. First and foremost, I gotta show love to my brother Q out there. You know what I'm saying? So, Q, Trey, excuse me. Q, Dope, Dick Digitals, and Fat Boy, they all joined me this past week at Poker down of South Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina, that is. You watch your mouth, all right? And speaking of, Reb popped out down there a couple weeks ago as well, so, you know, I've been bringing my crew out. There you are. And every time, you know, everybody does well. But Q. Q was. Q is getting some good hands. And in some good showdowns with some valuable pots, Q did well. Q did very well final. The final table and all of that. Me, myself, not quite this week, but I did enjoy and have joy in watching my brother, watching him win, you know, and. And make it to the final table. Also, it was the night that the Celtics choked and gave up home game to the Sixers. That don't got Joel Embiid right now, you know, because it was just a short, short night removed from. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, With the Knicks. But honestly speaking, y' all as high as gas is, as high as these groceries are. The Monstars could win the damn NBA championship, and I don't give a damn. I'm just being real with y', all, y'. All. I'm just being real aware where I'm at with everything. Okay. I'm trying to enjoy myself. But anywho, let's get back to the brother love. So brotherly love to all my brothers that came out. They enjoy poker and stuff. Brotherly love to Mixmaster T, of course, for sending in the email with the. With the building wisdom on it. Brotherly love to my man. They call him Savage. That's. That's my dog Tyrone to my frat brother Tyrone. Give you a holler in a minute. All of the Taurus brothers that are celebrating birthdays and stuff like that, salute to y', all. Of course, members of Lambda Sigma chapped up Omega Sci Fi fraternity. Shout out to Big Cliff, of course. Shout out to be Easy Crux Family, of course. L. Music. Once Upon a Time in Music Music Jones Podcast. All, all. Everybody that I support on the Daily Salute and support to Toray as well. I may play a little excerpt next week, but Torrey just dropped a video where. So Mary J. Blige has a recent interview out, and she's talking about Crispy chicken Fresh. She's asked about it, and she didn't have the best response to it. So that's kind of made its. Its way into the fodder. But sorry is recalling an experience with Mary j. In the 90s. If y' all get a chance to on YouTube again, subscribe to his channel and check that out. Wayno. Brotherly love to. To Wayno, of course, providing some of the content for the episode as well. And brotherly love to Michael Beasley, certainly. You know, y' all definitely check out that interview that he has with Shannon Sharp, who some known know as Unc or, you know, whatever. So, all right. So that. With. With that being that again, this next part is going to come with supreme faith that's in God and comes straight from the heart Made an ego in the hubris never break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody's ever told you before, I love you. All right, I'll catch y' all next week. Peace. [00:51:01] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [00:51:04] Speaker C: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Closing time [00:51:17] Speaker D: do the knowledge I know you gonna dig this. [00:51:21] Speaker A: Let me work, please let me work. Use a freaky ass. [00:51:32] Speaker B: Hey, you don't call the left champ. Ex Blackly. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Ex Blackly Mama got that bunch of grunge G.