Procrastinating Perfectionist 1400

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Y Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for ot. Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. Let me work. [00:00:26] Speaker B: Please let me work. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Let me work. Please. Let me. Like that. [00:00:33] Speaker B: Like that. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. [00:00:36] Speaker A: Merry Christmas. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Good to see you, Mary. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Hey, man, I feel good. Merry Christmas. [00:00:50] Speaker C: Merry Christmas. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Happy Kwanzaa and Feliz Navidad to all. Feliz Navidad. All. Feliz Nav. Feliz Navida. Feliz Navida. Feliz Navida. With pearls of highland Day. To be j. What's going on? What's going on, everybody? What's going on, everybody? Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to all. Happy Holidays to all y' all as well, Man. DJ Hotstar, man. We in the place to be for another episode of mandatory overtime. I appreciate y' all joining me here for another episode here. Mandatory overtime. To aim is for us to recalibrate the definition of manhood and what we define as manhood in our community. And that's through each conversation. So I appreciate y' all joining me here. Simply an audio journal of an 80s baby social experiment, inconsistency, if you will. Could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me for that. I appreciate it. Appreciate ya. It's not to be confused with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like comment, subscribe, share, and make some noise because your man is here, y'. All. Your man is here. Live from Charlotte, America. Make some noise for the 704 in the 980, depending on your phone number, but shout out to the 704. Sound Engineer is not patient at all. Yeah, he's not patient, y', all, because they said that he'd be rushing. I got a Russian sound engineer and a check, 1, 2. Check, check, check, 1, 2. Hello. In the words of Reggie, what's happening, y'? All? Let's go to work. What's good? What's good, everybody? Welcome to another episode. Once again, this is the holiday or the Christmas episode. So kind of. I don't know. I don't know how concise. We'll make it a little bit more free form with the outline today, so we'll see where we go. However, I just wanted to again wish everybody happy holidays out there and, you know, mandatory overtime. Overtime land and everything. And I hope everybody's holidays went well. Everybody got what they what they wanted and stuff for Christmas. As far as everything that Your heart desires. But just wanted to recap on our recap and revision segment real quick for this week. Just wanted to make mention and acknowledge the timestamps and the summary for last week. It was off a little bit. It was off. So you wasn't tripping if you read the timestamps and the summaries and it wasn't matching up on the episode. That was my bad. I was rushing a little bit. Like my sound engineer, I don't got the rim shot readily available, so. But I was rushing and it just wasn't. It wasn't lined up and accurate. So my apologies for that. I wanted to definitely address that with y' all before moving forward to our Building Wisdom segment this week. This week with Building Wisdom, I wanted to shout out everybody black, of course, right? No surprise there. But Merry Christmas. But more importantly, happy Kwanzas. Like, you know, just as important, if not more important, Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Kwanzaa. So salute to everybody that's celebrating Kwanzaa again. Hanukkah, Christmas, whatever holidays that you're out there celebrating right now. You know, it's a shout out, shout out. I hope that everybody has a reason for the season and are enjoying their family and loved ones and things like that. But shout out to everyone for with the holiday season, I wanted to start off our Building Wisdom segment this week. Let's go ahead and get that cranked. See, is that prince for king? [00:06:29] Speaker C: Come here, Prince. [00:06:30] Speaker A: What's today's mathematics? [00:06:31] Speaker B: Hey, yo, no disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:06:34] Speaker D: Build. Destroy the builders. To elevate the mentality 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 add on to the highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:06:55] Speaker D: Peace, God. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Come on, son, but do the knowledge. I know you gonna dig this. All right, so we're gonna start this week building wisdom. And cousin Jerome, he does this every year. So one thing I love him for, but he shares the seven principles of Kwanzaa. So we're gonna go ahead and do that before starting anything. So today, the day after Christmas, December 26th, we actually celebrate the first principle of Kwanzaa, which is umoja, which means unity. And it's for us to strive for and to maintain unity in the fit in the family, community, nation, and race. The second one is a little tricky for a couple folks, but I'm gonna try to just say it smoothly. Yakuzi kaja. My fault, my fault. Let me. Let me start over again. Sorry. Kuji shy. Kuji Shagulia, which is self determination, all right? That's to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, speak for ourselves. All right. Third is Ujima, collective work and responsibility. That is for us to build and maintain our community together and make our brothers and sisters problems, our problems and to solve them together. Community, collective work. All right? The fourth is Ujama, which is cooperative economics. To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. So supporting our own. And next we have nia, which is purpose. That's to make our collective vocation the building and development of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. After that, we've got Kumba, which is for creativity as to do always as much as we can in the way we can in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. And lastly, we have Imani, which is faith. That's to believe with all of our heart and our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. All right, Those are the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Every year that I revisit those and. And reshare those and repurpose them out on my social media and everything and share them with everyone. It reminds me of how important it is, of course, to. To do in our community, but how many of those things are we doing daily? And it reminds me to ask myself that question. And it's funny, because the things that we've been doing here at mandatory overtime as a community, a lot of those things are included in there. So it's just I wanted to encourage us to continue to build community. We can definitely lean on these tenants and these principles as foundation builders of, you know, or a compass, if we need direction, of where to go with building the community up. So I definitely wanted to. Oh, I definitely wanted to. To share those principles with y' all and with the community. So hope that means a lot for y'. All. I wanted to move forward with the building wisdom. This is actually going to be. See here this. So this building wisdom I found online is very tough. Let's see here. So it's a post that I saw on Reddit. I wanted to go ahead and read through it. It says in Japan, laziness isn't judged. It's considered a disease, and people treat it with these seven methods. Number one, I can't pronounce all these Japanese words, you know, accurately. So y' all bear with me. But number one's kaizen, the one minute rule. Start so small that your brain can't resist. So if we talking about one, push up one sentence into that book or novel. One minute of doing anything. Harvard research shows that tiny habits bypass mental resistance and compound over time. So progress beats pressure. Again, tiny habits throughout the times. You know, again, me, me and Sock, we were talking this past weekend. I told him we got to live in the boring moments. You know, if there's nothing that's going on that's out and flashy and you know, to gets our attention or grabs our attention, we gotta learn to enjoy and value the. The boring times. When. When these things are happening so small, tiny habits are building up and then they compound over time. That's tough. Number two, Ikigai. Ikigai. A reason to wake up. I like this one. The Japanese don't ask people, what do you do? They actually ask them, why do you get up? Studies on purpose. Excuse me? Studies. So it's not studies that are done on purpose, but studies about purpose show that meaning increases energy and discipline. When your why is clear, effort feels lighter. So again, the Japanese imagine, you know, again, people in an elevator conversation or when you're at a networking event, somebody walking up to you and saying, why do you get up? And you gotta answer that. So the third is hara hashibu, which means stop at 80%. Overeating kills focus, mood and drive. Japanese elders stay active because they stop before full research links lighter digest into better energy and mental clarity. Most laziness is physical overload. Profound. So let's stay away from gluttony. I guess. Number four is Siri and Saiton, which can be. Oh, no, not. Not that. Sadie. Sorry, my phone just thinks that I'm calling, which means clear space. I love this one as well. A messy room creates mental noise. Japanese culture treats clutter like pollution. Your feed gives you mental noise too. Like as far as your social media feed, whatever you're. Excuse me, downloading daily. As far as taking in content. So your feed gives you mental noise as well. Make sure to. To follow different creators who actually help you grow, you know, and that are worth following. In other words. All right, number five is Kintsugi mindset to finish imperfectly. Laziness hides behind fear of failure. Kintsugi teaches flaws aren't mistakes, they're part of the progress. So they're not mistakes, but they're just part of progress. Psychology shows completion builds momentum not perfection. Finish and adjust later. So I love that as well, of course, that that particular one is for all of my procrastinating perfectionists out there that are always, look, finding a reason or giving themselves a reason not to start on that passion project or not to do whatever it is that they want to go out there and do or get whatever it is that you want to go out there and get. So be careful about being a procrastinating perfectionist. All right, we almost finished here with this, y', all. But number six is Japanese pomodoro. Japanese pomodoro. I think I'm pronouncing it correct, but it's 25 minutes of work, 5 minutes rest. But add a ritual like a breath or a gesture or a sound, and then your brain learns, I guess, that rhythm, that signal equals focus. And neuroscience considers calls this conditioning. And it works fast. So let's see here. The last number seven, Wabi sabi Act before perfect, similar to one of the earlier ones. But the Japanese don't wait for ideal conditions. They move with what they have. Perfection delays, action, movement creates clarity. Most procrastination is just fear wearing patience. That's tough. Very profound. I'll read that last part again. Perfection delays, action, movement creates clarity. Most procrastination is just fear wearing patience. So that's tough. That's tough. Y' all wanted to go ahead and there is one last thing I have jotted down for building wisdom, and I have this written down. We'll get to it throughout the episode. But I have down to interesting relationship between empathy and accountability. I cannot offer one, and I spoke on this last week, but I can't offer empathy before the accountability is taken. There's no empathy that I'm giving without someone first taking or accepting accountability in some way. I mean, again, there are circumstances where, you know, whatever tragic circumstances or things out of our control, but when we're talking about being men and being responsible and accountable, stand up, people. I can't give that or begin to start giving that empathy and grace until I've, you know, see the accountability in certain situations and, you know, we'll get to what I'm talking about with that. However, I wanted to go ahead and move forward. We actually have some. Let's see here. We actually have some emails this week that I wanted to go through and a voice note as well that I wanted to play. So let's go ahead and step into the break room real quick and I'll go ahead and get these. This email read. All right. It Says peace and happy holidays. DJ high star and mandatory OT family. I wanted to share my top 10 artists I've been listening to for the year. I don't know how to explain some of this here, but here you go. All right, this is one through ten, y'. All. Number one, two, chains. Number two, Larry June. Number three, Alchemist. Number four, Tone. Number five, Clips. Number six, Pharrell. Number seven, Nipsey. Number eight, K Camp. Number nine, Dolph. Number ten, Gunner. Okay, that's calm. All right. Building wisdom. I wanted to share a couple quotes I stumbled over this week. I want to also promote the book the way of the superior man by David Dieder. Good read. And will have you really understanding manhood. That's one of my favorite reads as well. That's a good, good call out there. Great book. Everything is unfolding perfectly, even when it looks messy. That's tough. That's tough. Very profound. Also. Don't shrink. Excuse me? Don't shrink your dreams. Expand your faith. That's tough, y'. All. That's tough. Appreciate that. Let's see here. High start. Continue to put out this good content, bro. We appreciate you. Wishing you nothing but more blessings and more success all 2026. Happy New Year. Mandatory OT. We gonna try not to irritate Ronnie too much. This too much next year, fat boy. So salute and shout out to fat boy for that. Appreciate you as well, my boy. I appreciate all of that and of course, more blessings, more life. Well wishes for you in the new year also, brother. But I appreciate that. Wanted to go ahead and go through your email before we start on the voice note. Top 10. Not surprising to me, bro, but that's because I know you. So a lot of you know, if you. If you know, Fat boy is native of va. Two up, two down, Virginia. So clips Pharrell on there. I could see that, bro. Again. And, you know, we go fishing together, bro. So it's not too much of a surprise to me. I'd be interested in know, like, what you were surprised about or what you saying. Like, I don't know how to explain some of the Nipsey. Timeless, of course. So that's similar to my Jay Z on my list, I think again, the two chains, Larry June makes sense to me. The alchemist, because the Freddie Gibbs and the two chains and Larry June Tunchi. Okay. Okay. And depend. I mean, those are your top 10 artists. So I'll be interested to whatever tunchi that you're listening to. A lot of the K camp is, you know, must be a Certain project or just certain K camp joints that you was. That was just heavy in your rotation. And then Dolph and then gonna. I mean, I can, I can see that, bro. But again, as I. I know you knowing, you going fishing or us kicking it, I can, I can see those. So appreciate the top 10 artist list. Definitely those quotes again. Well, first of all, the book the Way of the Superior Man. I believe it was a nipsey God bless the dead. Whenever he was alive and he was doing a press run and he was in a interview, I think he introduced me to that title. And I read that book back then. But that was beautiful. Out of the quotes. I love that last one. Don't shrink your dreams. Expand your faith. That's tough. You know, I don't want anybody to limit themselves with what you could do and what you should do for the new year and everything like that. And then also, you know, it kind of ties into a lot of those. Those principles, those Japanese principles that I was reading earlier. So get started. Even if you only got a little microphone in a small room or something like that. But if you got something that you want to go and do as far as a purpose, I mean a passion or whatnot, and it's fulfilling purpose, go ahead and get out there and do it in 2026. You know, don't allow things to come up and. And limit you or think, you know, again, become that pro. Procrastinating perfectionist, if you will. Say that seven times fast. All right. All right, man. I appreciate that. That email. So we're going to move forward to our voice note here. And I'm gonna play this voice note from Sock. So here we go. Hello. Please leave a message after the tone. [00:22:49] Speaker E: Gotta get this on my chest. I gotta get this off my chest. I gotta get this on my chest. [00:22:53] Speaker D: And people. [00:22:56] Speaker E: I mean, no ignorance behind the following words. However, mandatory overtime. It don't get it. What they say. Don't get it. Miscrewed with the manosphere. This is a place where the man is fair. So let's get to this. Getting this off my chest. Sexual assault isn't anything to be played with. You know, we got diddy going out here. You know, I'm saying a lot of wicked victims and blase, blase this down the third, however. Fast forward. Ty Little James. I don't even think that's that real name. But we gotta. We got. My boy is under the scrutiny that he was sexually assaulting a woman. Come to find out she lied. [00:23:43] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? [00:23:44] Speaker E: She requested my man $2,000 for playing with her. My boy came up with the receipts, came up with the facts. My boy is, he's looking pretty innocent. Ladies, we gotta. Sexual assault is a sensitive topic, you know, it's very sensitive. However, though, you know, he can be out here. If you sexually assaulted, if you were sexually assaulted, my. Then you gotta, you gotta tell it immediately. [00:24:11] Speaker A: When you tell immediately, please don't be. [00:24:13] Speaker E: Lying about it because there are women out here who are suffering from the fact that they waited so long and nobody believes them, you know. So you, you, you, you, those are the ones that's making it harder for us to, you know, I'm saying, just be believing in things like that because when you do come out, you know what I'm saying, and you, and, and, and, and you're telling the truth and why believes you, but then you come out and you lie, nobody believes you. So that's what makes the topic so sensitive. So let's just play, let's not just play around with that. Let's keep sexual assault. Let's take that serious. Let's not play around with it because that can ruin people's lives, you know. So, yeah, let's just go ahead and can that, bro. That's not, I'm not, not wrong with that. [00:25:02] Speaker A: All right, so shout out to my brother Sock for that voice. Voice note. I have plenty of thoughts that I had on the TIL situation as well, so I'm glad that he did introduce that. And that brings me back to my first statement. Again, I'm looking to. There's no empathy that's going to be shown without accountability taken. Right. So everything that Sock said, 1000% true, I definitely agree with. And that ministry, that's for the people that, that, that's for. In other words, as far as like holding that woman accountable and taking headache tasks, but I want to take a moment to hold us accountable. As mentioned, I just talked about this and we were talking about it in the perforated tear. Perforated tears or perforated tears episode, however you read it, double entendre, don't ask me how, but the perforated tears episode, we were discussing black men making it sturdy or be becoming sturdy, making it difficult for other people to tear down. And this is one of the things where he did leave his self open by cheating on, on his old lady, you know, his girl, whoever he's with. So when Talib was crying and going in, you know, on his live stream about his innocence and pleading that he has a daughter and A sister and a mother. Excuse me. Not a daughter. I'm sorry, y'. [00:26:45] Speaker B: All. [00:26:45] Speaker A: A niece and a sister and a mother. I was thinking in my head about how I would feel if my niece, my sister, my mother was cheated on or, you know, and. And dogged out in that way. Of course, we're still thinking about the sexual assault portion of it. That may supersede you thinking about the cheating, and somebody might dismiss the cheating and. Oh, this. I mean, he. Yeah, he cheated on his girl, yes. But this girl over here, she did this, this and that. I'm still in the cheating part, man. Because we got to hold ourselves accountable. It's a moment of weakness for the brother, all right? He's got to own up to that. And he got to see what happened from that moment of weakness. Shorty thought she could use that as leverage in his life. From what we could tell, it didn't affect in real time. It didn't affect him or his. How it felt about his lady. And he said that everything went south whenever he took a phone call from his girl in that moment. So it was a poor choice made by Ty Lil. And then these are the results that have kind of snowballed from that poor choice. And it all started off with the poor choice made by the man. So that's again, the accountability fact that I gotta hold my boy accountable and then, of course, extend grace and empathy to him because we. None of us as men are perfect. Nobody's perfect. So prayers to Tal in that situation. But I did want to say the unpopular part out loud, or what I felt was the unpopular part out loud, that I actually hold Talil responsible for placing itself in that situation. I don't hold him responsible for being accused of, you know, of sa and falsely being accused of that and having to defend himself and everything, but placing yourself, the genesis of that whole situation, started off with a poor choice. So I just, you know, let's keep it at that. Wow. With that one. But shout out again to Sock and to fat boy for the email and for the voice note. If y' all want to be be heard on the episode, feel free to email us at g. Excuse me. Mandatoryot704gmail.com Mandatory ot704gmail.com Or you can give us a call on our hotline, 704-781-7011 and 704-781-7011. So let's go ahead and move forward. I wanted to go ahead and I can. Can discuss real quick some things that I Heard on the work floors. Really just one thing or one statement that I heard this week. And there's a dude, he said, man, I've been. I've been called ugly all my life. I'm bulletproof to these insults. You know what I'm saying? And the reason I brought that up is because it was me that said that. It was me, y'. All. I'm all right. I said it. Essentially, what I was saying was them people in there, man, ain't staying. I'm not, you know, I'm not moved or affected emotionally by those people that I work with, those folks that I work with. So I just had to mention that and say that at work. I wanted to do our out for lunch segment. I'll go over that, I guess, real quickly. So for Alpha lunch, shout out to Reb in the place to be. Yeah. Salute to Reb. We threw a Christmas party for family and friends, and there was. I was slated to do a couple of dishes. So two dishes that I did out there, y', all, was turkey burger sliders, or as Arib would coin them, turgers. So turgor sliders and a spinach artichoke dip that had crab meat in it. This was this year. So again, yeah, crab meat in there. Okay, so we're gonna do this real quickly, though. This is turgo sliders in that ground turkey. My first time doing this, and y' all are. Y' all a community. Y' all are family, so I'm letting y' all in on this secret. But a couple dollops of sour cream in the mix. I still did my seasoning pretty much like usual, taking away a couple of the sodium heavy seasonings, but I put sour cream, a couple dollops, and then also the dry ranch seasoning, you know, like your hidden valleys or whatnot. I. I put some of that in there. Just sprayed that in there. Or, you know, sprinkled, rather sprinkled that in there. And we're talking about in the mix. So combine that. That was the big difference. With the ground turkey on the Turker sliders, we finished off the slider buns with a nice compound butter that had, of course, garlic and some herbs in there. Rosemary, thyme, the likings, little zest, little lemon in there, lemon juice. So I brushed that over the top of the buns. Some provolone cheese on the sliders. It came out immaculate. Side note, the scariest part of doing the sliders is cutting a slider bread open. Just facts. Moving on to the spinach artichoke dip for. Did it like I normally do it as far as spinach, artichoke, spinach, artichokes, cream cheese. And with your cheese and everything like that and your seasonings. But this time I added in crab meat. Different element. Went great because I added in crab meat and I added in ground mustard as well. So that ground mustard, it's a great low sodium substitute for old. Well, not substitute, but a great supplement with anytime you're making seafood, so you don't have to use as much old bay seasoning, but you can always throw some ground mustard in there. You're welcome, y'. All. But that's what went into the dip. Came out perfectly, y'. [00:33:16] Speaker B: All. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Chef's kiss. Of course. Now what I did is some big backtivities. I did take my turgor slider and dip it in. Into the spinach nar. Choked it. So that was my big activities. But also for Christmas, did my. My garlic rice and some turkey wings. Baked some turkey wings. It came out a little not tougher. They were done. Put it like that. And I wanted to seal the skin and make it crisper. And so I probably kept him in the oven a little longer where it wasn't the tenderness, it wasn't falling off the bone, but it was still done now. And come on, y', all, who blacker than me? We all came up black. Y' all know chicken or turkey meat, it, you know, it was cooked, seasoned very well, very good, in other words. So that's our Alpha lunch segment for the week. I love to know what y' all ate or what was on the menu, on the Christmas menu out there, or if anybody's chefing it up out there, which I was able to do, but I wanted to go ahead. And we're gonna move forward. See here to random thoughts. So our random thoughts and get it off your chest for the week. So let's figure this out. I don't know if I'm gonna use this, but let's start off with. Is it time to retire Hennessy? I don't know, y'. All. Is it time to retire Hennessy? I think it's time to have the conversation and start the conversation. At least. It's had a great run, but there's not been a lot of positive outcomes from Hennessy, y'. All. Let's just be honest. Time to keep it funky. Let's be real, yo. And it tastes great. Tastes great. When you. When you start drinking Hennessy, sometimes, you know, it's like apple juice. However, is it time to retire it. So many tequila drinkers out there now in the world that we got. And then, of course, even with the cognacs, you got people that's been drinking Doucet for a little minute and things like that. So I think cognac will always have a place in the black. In the black space. But I don't. I don't know, yo, I think it's time maybe to get it out of here. I don't know. [00:36:06] Speaker E: I don't know, y'. All. [00:36:08] Speaker A: Let me know what y' all think. I don't think. It's not the premiere that it once was. It ain't the must have. Yo, we got a bottle of that hen dog and all of that. I think it's extremely overrated and produces way too many hangovers and poor decisions by people or whatnot. So let's see here. I just had here randomly also, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune in Jeopardy. You know, we rooting for the black people. Of course, that was random thought. But also I started to think if an Indian's watching or if an Asian is watching, I hope that they're doing the same. If, you know, again, an Indian or Asian or somebody of your respective is participating. Because, you know, to me, it would feel weird if you're not. But whatever. I just got that down as a random thought. Moving forward, I have here 21 Savage can't rap. All right. Very whelming rapper, right? Not underwhelming, not overwhelming. It's just whelming. Whelming as a rapper. So I also have. Did the Grinch really steal Christmas? There's just something to ponder. But I just. This past Christmas, I've seen a lot less Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, and a lot more Grinch. And then I think about holiday pictures and stuff. Nowadays, you got families that's sitting around and instead of Santa Claus and sitting on Santa's lap like the tradition has always been. People are. Well, first of all, with that was always well. But instead of that tradition, now you got the Grinch in holiday pictures. So, you know, I said in jest. But also, seriously, did the Grinch still Christmas because it's viral? That's the new costume for everybody. Everybody's a Grinch. That's one of the. It's a theme that's been woven into the Christmas DNA in America, if you will, or this dystopia that we consider the Divided States of America. And it seems that the Grinch has come around to become a hero, maybe from the antagonist to the protagonist. Is it. Is it possible? I don't know, like, or people starting to understand the Grinch or people becoming the Grinch and noticing that Christmas is a capitalistic holiday. Let's, let's keep it funky. All right? I was contemplating if I was going to make this next thing a segment or, or what. But I just randomly wanted to say I may have one each week, but not in my ministry. Not in my ministry list. Case case of disappointing downfalls. But Nicki Minaj, Come on, yo, come on. The Queens that disappointed me. Queens disappoints yet again. I don't know some kind of play on words or show title that's in there somewhere, but the Queen's disappointment or something. Queen's disappointing downfall. I don't know. But it sucks. And yeah, it's not that it sucks because I'm a fan or I've been a fan, but this is embarrassing, Secondhand embarrassment. And if y' all are not aware, you know, Nicki Minaj is fully, you know, aligned herself with maga essentially. She recently appeared at Turning Point USA Conference with Erica Kirk and was on stage with her and lamenting how a blue eyed blonde haired girls are just as pretty as black women are and black girls are even though no one said anything, you know, going in the opposite direction of that. So that was awkward. But nevertheless, yo, I'm, I'm done with her, y'. All. Again, it's not my ministry. Not my ministry. But yeah, well, I thought I needed to mention it, but it's just, it's not my ministry. It's not. So before we move forward real quickly, Brotherly love. Well, let me, I just wanted to write it down so I can mention it later than at least. All right, so these next things is just real quick topics that we're gonna hit because again, it's the Christmas holiday. I want to keep y'. All. But if y' all want on any of these next topics again, be sure to write back into the show. Let me know your thoughts on them. But we'll start off with the Knicks Christmas game. Speaking of the Grinch. Okay, speaking of the Grinch, y', all, you know who played the Grinch better than anybody else this week? Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns, Mitchell Robinson, Tyler Colic, Jordan Clarkson. I mean the guys we pretty essentially came back from. 215 came back. We, we beat the Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers. Let's start there. Coco Jones, who's Donovan, Mitchell's lady. She's right there front and center to watch the whole thing. But they were up the whole game outscored us like 38 to 21 in the first and the third quarters. But they had 17 point leads twice and we came back at home. Madison Square Garden gave the fans a wonderful Christmas present. Thank you very much. Mike Brown in the mix. Thank you very much Grinch for that Christmas present. But they played the Grinch and they stole Christmas from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Coco Jones, you know, they. It was an awesome and entertaining game as well. But yeah, shout out to the Knicks for that Christmas win. I don't have time on this episode, but one, one of these weeks we're going to discuss the Knicks hate and kind of study it, go through it. I've got receipts out there. But. But it's ridiculous, y', all, right? It's ridiculous. Just, just enjoy the product that the Knicks are putting on the TV screen. All of the Knicks haters out there, I don't understand. We've been not good for so long and now that we're competitive, instead of people congratulating us, they're just hating. But I don't know. We'll talk about that another time. Quick shout out to my fantasy team as well, though. Bishop Sicko mode. In a place to be. While I'm doing that, though, while I'm saying that the Panthers currently are number one in the division, so it was just all around a great week in sports for me. But I do want to share this with y'. All. This may get to sports centric for a second, but currently in the Super Bowl, y'. All. All right, Fantasy football, Super Bowl, Bishop Sicko mode. All right, Currently got seven points because I started the Lions defense and that Lions Minnesota game was crazy yesterday. But although Minnesota scored 23 points, a lot of them was with the field goals. So I got seven points. But the other starters that I have currently Trevor Lawrence, who plays Indiana, Indianapolis on Sunday at 1. San Fran. Christian McCaffrey, where they play the Bears on Sunday at 8:20. I got Blake Corum starting. They're going to play Atlanta the Monday night game. 8:15 Got Tucker starting for the Raiders, reluctantly. They're playing The Giants Sunday, 4 o', clock, Michael Wilson starting. And they're playing the Bengals Sunday at 1 o', clock. Guy Strange starting, who I feel good about. They're playing in Indianapolis Sunday at 1. Ramandre Stevenson, which I feel good about with Travion status. Travion Henderson status. So Sunday at one they're playing the jets and again, Barack Bragalis, their kicker for New England, they're playing the Jets. So that's my lineup right now, okay, again going with the start of Trevor Lawrence over Bo Nix. Bo Nix came through with 19 point, 19.48 points against Kansas City. So prayerfully Trevor Lawrence can do his thing. But that's my bench. Couple notable people that I'm playing against and shout out to Sweet Carolina, that's the homie, that's my best friend, sister in law Alex. So some notable people I'm playing against Bryce Young, a chain, Chris Olave, Robinson, tight end from New Orleans, Johnson Franklin from the Broncos, Gonzalez the kicker for the Falcons and the Seahawks defense who's playing Rice, Young and the boys. So that'll kind of prayerfully even out or balance out. But also she had Jamia Gibbs starting who put up a whopping 6.4 points out of the projected 22 points. So I'm feeling good and confident about that. Hopefully we'll, we'll be able to pull off that W in and win that super bowl in that league. It's just for bragging rights. It's not to, it's not for any money or anything like that, but just for bragging rights. So shout out to the Bennett clan and my family out there in Georgia. So I also had listed here Bud Crawford retires salute to one of the best pound for pound boxes that we've seen seen in our lifetime. I actually had the pleasure, Terence Bud Crawford actually had the pleasure of seeing the start of his career back in like 2009 ish 2010. He officially started his career in 2008. It was on like different ESPN fights on Friday nights and stuff like that. And my father shout out to Big Jerome. But he, he put me on and showed me Terence Crawford. So I went following his career the whole 20 years and salute to that brother. Definitely went out on top as a champion should. So shout out to Terence Bud Crawford. Okay. Had a couple of reviews that I wanted to preview the audience for the community for because I wanted to welcome y' all feedback as well. Whenever we do go over these the next couple of weeks but in the next couple of weeks we'll be reviewing Nas and DJ Premiere's album. Like that. Like that. We'll be reviewing the Knives out, the newest Knives out movie that just dropped so that just dropped on Netflix. I'll be also reviewing the documentary on on Hulu. It's a multi series or multi part series called the Murder. It's about the Murdoch family in South Carolina. We'll be talking about that. And then also the Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle comedy stand up specials respectively. We'll be talking about both of those as well. So wanted to put y' all on the game with that and let y' all know before I get back on and we, you know, discussing and everything like that. And the way that you can engage with us again, of course, is by emailing us mandatory ot704gmail.com or feel free to give us a call. 704-781-7011. So I appreciate y' all with that. We're gonna go ahead. I wanted to get close to the end of the show, and we're gonna do some high star bars here. So the first High star bars is a fabulous verse that dropped this past week. It's going viral. It was a part of the let's Rap about it crew. They dropped a freestyle, all four of them. Davies, Mayno, Jim Jones, and Fab. All four chose a 50 cent beat to wrap over, right? Because they're going back and forth with Fifth, and each of them rapped over it. But Fab definitely stole the show. So I'm gonna play Fab's verse here, and then we're gonna follow that up with a track from Chance or a couple verses from Chance called Secret Santa. All right, so give me one second. Here we go. [00:49:06] Speaker E: Whoa. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:49:11] Speaker B: Whoa look I'm a top shadow who drop dollars and pop collars you ain't talking about top dollar do not holler, can't move us but nah we not squatters they mad cause we fly and cannot swatter get it toe to head from bottom to top sprada them window shoppers ain't really gonna cop nada my dad dog told me give him the word and shots follow I let him off the leash like nino's rock walla you know I got power you shorty got hot shower catch her trying to leave like Tasha shot lala the not mala and you not Allah y' all both meet the creator his first name not Tyler the blick like a magic stick your top walla roof going drain snooping a drop piler screaming let me ride them young ass got diabolic they will leave your whip leaning like they pop hydraulics none of my ops valid they sleep singing the cops ballots none of them want beef they ordered a chopped salad cause how the you got brolic but not solid and be trying to pull cars like we don't got wallets like how do not in the jungle talk to Wallace how is these grown ass men acting childish? How is these bum ass speaking with stylists When I was so fly it made my Stylist. They can't stop us from scoring. They got a file. Can't stop us from scoring. Hey, we met at a pop dollar. I call her the top scholar. She come and drop knowledge like she from a top college. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Like that, like that, like that. Fabulous sport right there. Brevoid Brevort Fab right there. They the comments said fab got the comment said 5. Fab got in the booth like his tooth was still chipped. Mano rap like he was trying to warn 50. Jimmy rap like he don't give a about fifth. Dave rap like he want to roll in power. And 50 rapping like he been wanting to for 50 to try him. Fab ain't Mrs. Step. Fab going last was the right move. He blacked out on 50. If you know, you know, you know. I got power. You shorty got hot showered. That was one of the lines. But also the magic on your head. Voila. That was tough. It said fab is just different. Wow. I'm lost for words. At the word play and all the 50 references. This is what music is about. For real. There's a storm Fab right there, boy. Exactly. That's fabulous sport right there. Brevoid shout out to Brevo. You are you heard. And then this next one I want to play is going to be from Chance the Rapper. Like that. Like that. He dropped. He dropped a surprise Christmas little episode. He's been known to do that in the past is my boy. Y' all know he dropped a surprise Christmas EP with Jeremiah, or Jeremiah is kind of featured on it, but wanted to go ahead and play this track called Secret Santa from Give me one second here, y'. All. [00:52:35] Speaker C: Sometime in the month of January we'll take down the Christmas tree and the smiles from the kids with the missing teeth will be history. We've unwrapped the mystery Santa Claus left is an empty seat. No more carols on MTV and right now somebody sleep on your box from your slim tv. It's a trickle down kick em down icicle world. It's the easy baked bicycle world. Santa Claus lie to your eyes little girl Surprise little girl. It's negative five little girl. Windshield factor aside little girl way too cold here to cry Little girl gotta try a little girl. God bless him, God bless him, God bless him, God bless him, God bless him, God bless him, God bless him, God bless him. [00:53:19] Speaker A: So that one's for the girls. That verse, this verse for the guys. [00:53:24] Speaker C: Gun rise young star, you a son of a gun from a westback coup. Because if you Kill him and he kills you. That's two for the one. A win is a win and a son is a son. When he avenges a father and chooses to hunt, a boy sends a rocket, a giant tank. Let's see what they say in the news in a month. Davidian child, Caribbean child, Haitian Palestinian child. Walking wounded, broken, bravest. The skinniest child. We need him right now. We need him. The kids that's hungry for freedom, don't worry, man. God gonna feed them. God bless. God bless. [00:53:55] Speaker A: God bless. God bless. [00:53:56] Speaker C: God bless. God bless. God bless. God bless. [00:53:58] Speaker A: God bless. [00:53:58] Speaker C: God bless. God bless. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Shout out to my boy Chance. You know what I'm saying? Brotherly love. Brotherly love. Y' all already know what time it is. All right? So speaking of want to move forward right there. Go ahead and move forward today. Show love. It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. I was doing this, getting money love. So I do want to start off there, of course. Brotherly love to Chance. Chance the rapper. Brotherly love to my brother, Dr. J.B. justin Buford, per usual, like we usually do, but recently and for the holidays, they were featured on a news channel like Soft News Report and the feature in the news on the news programming on the 30th. So did I say on the 30th on the news, like, you know, the 6:30 news or whatnot. And nevertheless, salute to High Star Hoops and Dr. Justin Buford down there in Charleston. The whole squad down there, though, as well. So Nick both. Nick's Ivan, Flip all, you know, all the fellas. I wanted to show brotherly love as well to Sebastian Telfair. So Bass, he was released, y'. All. Bassey was released. There's a lot of jokes and stuff like that online, but Sebastian Telfair has been released from prison and he's back with his family just in time for the holidays. So gotta show brother love for that as well. Brotherly love to my bro Sock, of course, actually just moved in to his. To his new place, Social. And brotherly love to stop. You already know brotherly love to my. My bro, Ashton. His birthday is coming up this week, so shout out to Ashton as well if I miss you. Y' all already know what a love is, you know what I'm saying? So make sure that you show your boy some love back right into the show, of course. Mandatory ot704gmail.com or give us a call. 704-781-7011. With that being said, though, this last part of the episode is with the supreme faith that's in God. Want to say a prayer? That straight from the heart. May the ego nor the hubris ever break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right. Appreciate y' all joining me once again. Peace out. This mandatory. Hey, everybody. It's closing time. You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [00:56:56] Speaker B: Closing time. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Do the knob. I know you gonna dig this. Mama got that bunch of crunch game Mama got that bunch of crunch game. [00:57:27] Speaker B: Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Merry christmas, jingle bell.