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[00:00:01] Speaker A: Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for ot.
Yeah, that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for ot. It's PEEP season two.
Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses.
Let me work.
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Yeah. What's going on? What's going on, everybody? How y' all doing? How y' all doing? Shamay, man, DJ Highstar here for another episode of mandatory overtime. Welcome and thank you. Thank you for joining me here. The aim here at mandatory overtime is for us to recalibrate what we define as manhood in our community. When I say we, I'm talking about, you know, us, the community. So, you know, even though it's called mandatory overtime. So single mothers, grandmas, you know, single ladies, y' all more than welcome to. You know what I mean? Join us on this, in this discourse.
But again, just the audio. Journal of an 80s baby social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world. But, yeah, listening to me, and I appreciate that, man, sincerely do.
Live from Charlotte, America, of course. Don't confuse this with the man is fair. It's just a place where the man is fair.
So pull up a chair, like, subscribe, comment, share, and make some noise because your man is here.
Come on, y'.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: All.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: They say I got a Russian sound engineer named Vladimir and a check one, two.
A Czech, one, two.
Y' all ready?
All right, y', all, let's go to work.
I mentioned it earlier, but reporting live and recording live from Charlotte, America.
How y' all doing, man? How y' all doing? It's good to be back. Good to be back for another week.
Had a pretty good weekend down in the metro South Carolina, down In Columbia, S.C. went down there for a wedding. Gonna talk about that here in a second, but first, I want to talk about our revisit and revision section.
Fumble, Dish. Excuse me. Fumble. Dish. Last week, so I wanted to correct myself, y', all, the quote that I was seeking for was, some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
You know what I'm saying?
I butchered it last week, but that's the official quote. Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
What does that mean to y'? All?
[00:02:51] Speaker C: Y'?
[00:02:51] Speaker A: All? Let me know. All right. Before we continue, though, with today's episode, I do want to remind y' all that you can always stay in touch and engage with us here at mandatory ot704gmail.com as mandatory ot704gmail.com and this week, I actually Also got, let's see here, a number for y' all to call also.
All right, so the lines is why wide open if y', all, instead of the email, y' all would like to send a voicemail, you know what I'm saying? Give us a call and call up, you know, mine. The phone number is 704-781-7011. Again, that phone number is 704-781- 7011. And y' all can call up.
But yeah, that's gonna. That's, you know, the new thing that we've been working on this week. Wanted to let y' all know. So, yeah, just playing around with the concepts and stuff. I may call it the mandatory overtime call out number. You know what I'm saying? You know how jobs they call out. So nevertheless, nevertheless, let's move forward.
Hope y' all doing well.
Big shout out.
Early, early brotherly love.
So this I'm just showing love to my frat brother, DeAndre Jennings. Him dropped the whole government on, boy. But DeAndre and the Kendra, they.
They had their nuptials this weekend, right? Their wedding situation out in Ridgeway, South Carolina.
Beautiful, beautiful wedding.
I didn't mean to drop your whole government there, Dre, but yeah, I just, I. They left me in charge of the DJing duties, and I, like I said, I just appreciate it. I was very humbled. Everybody had a great time. We was partying. We was definitely turning up out there.
It was awesome time. It was an awesome time.
The. The land out there in the middle was desolate. All right. Like, it's a couple turns that I made where the pavement ended and it was just dirt trees. Y' all know it's getting darker early now, so I was nervous a couple times leading up to the grounds, but Beautiful, beautiful grounds, man, out there in Ridgeway where we. Where they had the ceremony. Oh, my gosh. I can't say that enough. But congratulations to you and your new wife AS well, though, DeAndre.
You know what I'm saying?
Shout out to Black love. I hope that y' all enjoy y' all honeymoon. Certainly. You know what I mean?
Enjoy that, my brother.
Okay, let's see here.
Did want to just recap that before moving forward to our building wisdom segment. Now, before we build wisdom.
Well, yeah, yeah. Well, this is what we'll do.
We'll get into the building wisdom segment. I got a couple quotes this week for building wisdom, and then we'll go into a video or two of my main man, Joey Badass.
Kind of dropping some.
Dropping some Bars dropping some wisdom on some folks. So let's go ahead and go into it. Come here, Prince. What's today's mathematics, yo?
[00:06:26] Speaker D: No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: 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.
Peace, God. Peace, God. Do the knowledge.
I know you going to dig this.
All right, bet. So we're going to go into our building building wisdom. Rather. Rather segment for this week.
I'm going to start off this week with building wisdom with a couple of quotes from my family group chat. You know, we got several family group chat, group chats, but I got one main one with my, my big cousin, Jerome Howard University alumni.
He, he drops little jewels and he'll drop little, little nuggets of wisdom and stuff on us. So I picked out a plucked a couple of those quotes for y' all and we're gonna go over those before I get into these clips, these audio clips real quick. All right, so the first one reads, life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. That's by John W. Gardner.
Secondly, positive thinking will let you do everything better than. Than negative thinking will.
That's bars right there. All right, y', all, I re repeat that one more time. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
That's by Zig Ziglar, not the rza, but that is by Zig Ziglar. All right, and then the last one is unknown, but it's very, very apropos to kind of what we'll be talking about today and things like that. So, so the last one reads, your diet is not only what you eat, it's what you watch, what you listen to, what you read and the people you hang around.
So pay attention to what you feed your soul, not just your stomach. And I love that, love that piece of wisdom as well.
All three are kind of self explanatory, but I just wanted to expose y' all to that.
Now with that being said, though, I do want to play, I want to play two things. I wanted to play one clip from Joey Badass talking about a new term that I learned today.
And then I want to also play y' all this clip of Joey Badass on Cam Newton's podcast this week where he talks about over consumption of social media. So give me one second. This is the first clip we're going to play from Joey Badass. And it's talking about overthinkers and fellow empaths and stuff like that. Y' all will get it here in a second.
[00:09:25] Speaker E: I was in therapy and I learned this new phrase, and now I'm telling everyone, because that's what therapy makes you do.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: Give it to me.
[00:09:30] Speaker E: So over personalization is when you take, like, a neutral event. Like, let's say you come home and the door is shut. Instead of just thinking like, oh, the door is shut. You're like, oh, this person's mad at me. Like, you. You put meaning into something that's pretty neutral. So you walk into the tour bus and let's say your manager's, like, on the phone, and they're not like, hey, Joey, what's up?
[00:09:47] Speaker C: And.
[00:09:48] Speaker E: And in your mind you're like, yo, did I do something wrong? Like, that is all examples of, like, over personalization. So you're in your own world of spiraling. Meanwhile, nothing really has. Has happened. And I think that can sometimes, I think, happen for oversensitive people where it's like, I love that I'm oversensitive because I can feel energy and I can react.
[00:10:08] Speaker C: I'm a super victim of what you're talking about.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:10] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I definitely over personalize, and that's why I like to communicate. Cause I'm like, yo, you good?
[00:10:16] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? Like, we.
[00:10:17] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Like.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: Like, are you good? You know what I mean? Like, because I know you kind of then, like, acknowledge me and you know what I mean? So you good?
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Mm. Okay, cool. Right?
Yeah. That was awesome. I enjoyed that piece right there. Or that conversation, rather, that Joey was having. It looks like it was somewhere. I mean, the page that is, like, on is Culture Con Uncut.
Culture con is the YouTube page that. That I've seen it on. So I wanted to give the young lady credit that was having a conversation with Joey about that. But very, very interesting conversation. I know a lot of people that suffer from that and that think about that a lot, and it's just something to consider and be aware of with yourself. Are we indulging in that where we're just kind of over personalizing things and, you know, we think that everyone has us on their mind now? It's not a bad thing for somebody to not be thinking about you. It's always a bad connotation. When people say like, yo, I'm not thinking about you or that's not on my mind and stuff like that, that's not a bad thing. But we have to, a lot of times step out of our own way and just remember at times that, you know, the things that we're overthinking is not even running past somebody else's mind. They got their own life that they're dealing with in their own set of things and stuff like that that they're. That they're trying to get past or whatnot. So they're that awesome piece of wisdom with that. This second one is actually going to come from this gentleman that I met to, well met online today.
My boy Santana reacts. First of all, I want to give his page shout out and show his page.
I want to show his page some love.
So I was looking for this clip of Joey Badass earlier today, and he actually had a reaction to it, as in concert with. With my thoughts on the same thing. It's about Joey Badass. He's sitting down with Cam Newton and he's talking about over consumption of social media. So when I saw my man Santana reacts on YouTube, place, you know, put this up, this clip, I went ahead and just commented under his page and he reached back out surprisingly, like right away. I just asked him for permission if I could use the clip.
Excuse me. And if I could kind of big him up and show. Show him some props or give him some props. I know how we do here at mandatory overtime with the brotherly love. So I just wanted to show Santana reacts some props. It's exactly how it sounds. It's spelled Santana reacts. And I'm actually going to play the video which includes Joey Badass's clip and then his commentary on it as well. And then I'll, you know, I'll cut it kind of short here soon. But yeah, let's go ahead and get into this portion of building wisdom.
[00:13:11] Speaker F: Oh, man. I just like to say thank you, bro. Smash that, like, button. Subscribe to my channel. Let's go.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Talk to me.
[00:13:18] Speaker C: We overly stimulated, you know what I'm saying? Like every day we taking in so many different images, bro.
[00:13:26] Speaker F: He not lying, bro. You got to think about that.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Like.
[00:13:31] Speaker F: We not used to. The excitement level is real low right now. You know what I'm saying? Cuz we taking in so much that we not processing what we taking in. As you scrolling up and down Instagram, especially Tik Tok, bro, you see some of the things that blow your mind and you, you didn't process that fully.
Cause something else that came up, you know what I'm saying?
Real talk.
[00:13:55] Speaker C: So it's like the content not even really hitting the scene. Yes, because we like desensitized in a way. It's like how many videos do we watch collectively in a day?
[00:14:06] Speaker F: Comment down below. Like, I guess I think like probably like if you spin on an hour or two on Tick Tock, bro, you probably process like two, three thousand videos.
Just imagine that bro, two, three thousand new videos.
Like, like you're not even processing it all the way. Because they might show you this cookie channel on this one and then my see somebody fight that you might see somebody dancing, then you might, you know what I'm saying? It's just whatever's trending, you're not even really taking it in to the point when you get off Tick Tock right then you get ready to do, to focus on the real world and have your man like clouded for a minute, you know what I'm saying?
[00:14:56] Speaker C: That's why sometimes I gotta really like just disconnect from social media. Because I truly believe in like the next maybe five years, but like definitely the next 10 years they gonna start coming out with a bunch of these different diagnoses of mental health as a result of our over consumption in social media.
[00:15:13] Speaker F: I agree with him, but I disagree with him.
I think it's gonna get to the point that we gonna get so bored because we so used to new stuff every minute, you know what I'm saying? Every minute we used to get new stuff.
So once they start demonetizing and stop stopping certain stuff, you know what I'm saying? We're gonna feel bored 24 7.
That's all that is. We're gonna feel bored 247 because a person can grab their phone and sit in the restaurant for five hours.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: It.
[00:15:48] Speaker F: Don'T have a conversation. Like they could literally just be on their phone, you know what I'm saying? Like you going to a restaurant, bro, put your phone down and have a conversation with your family and friends.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: I believe that that's going to happen because it's not normal. This is the first generation where we living with our head devices like 24 7.
Like nobody's bored anymore. Boredom is filled with checking your phone.
[00:16:16] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:16:18] Speaker C: Dopamine addiction, you know what I'm saying? Your brain is programmed to seeing something new around the clock.
[00:16:25] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: More.
[00:16:27] Speaker C: And so by the time we are, you know, we're exposed to so many different things. So when it comes to art, it's like oh, okay.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: That's dope.
[00:16:35] Speaker C: But yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: All right. Yo, so I'm hoping that I gotta check the audio on a lot of that, but I hope y' all picked up a lot of. Of what was being said and stuff like that. Toward the end, Joey Badass was saying, like, our gaps of boredom and stuff, they're. They're disrupted now, where we have to have something to consume in our face around the clock. If we not. If we're not.
If we are not sleeping, we essentially have to be consuming some sort of media or. Or something to keep our. Our dopamine levels up and everything like that. And once again, shout out to Santana reacts for. First of all, for engaging with me once I reached out, but also for just being honest and fearless about putting out his reaction to Joey Badass's comments on Cam's show.
Because they. They. You could tell they're genuine.
You could tell that this brother cares. You know what I'm saying? Very thoughtful brother. And he. He gave a genuine reaction and a genuine response to Joey Badass. I think one other thing that I wanted to touch on that Joey Badass was saying was, like, we consume so much. It's almost like we. The lost art of appreciating art, right? So because of our attention spans and all of that stuff, we're gonna. We're gonna dismiss something as trash or call it fire and leave it at that, right? It's gonna be the classic or it's mid, and we leaving it at that, and we just leaving it where it's at. Whereas, you know, in the past, when there's pieces of art, whether it's movies, music, or whatnot, books, we're living with that for a second. We're living with that for a while, and that's. That's affecting our outcome or our overall outlook on that piece of art. It's not in the moment. I'm gonna get group think and get a bunch of different voices to tell me what to think about this piece of art, right? So I think that, you know, that's something that's being lost as well, where we're consuming so much that, you know, we're kind of losing our gauge on where we can call something, you know, fire versus the polar opposite or have a place in the middle for something to land and just exist as. As it's. As itself. You know what I mean? I think again, when I brought up the tailgate conversation last week, it really resonates with me that, dog, we was not grading all of these people food, you know, 10, 20 years ago. Yo, who got the burgers? I hate? They got the burgers over there. I'm gonna get me some grilled chicken, some pasta salad over here. All right, I'm going to give me some rice per low. I'm going to give me some ribs over here, you know, and it wasn't everything had to be the best or, you know, a competition level type of food. And. And nowadays it seems like that's the case. Like either somebody's food is all the way trash or it's mad, mad good. And that's how it feels like with art. It feels like we go into a place where I'm consuming so much content throughout the day. It's like, all right, and if it's fire, all right, cool, it's fire, but is going to pass me on. And if it's mid, I'm gonna just call it mid, dismiss it, never go back to it or something like that, you know, So I just wanted to.
To play that for y'. All. And also, like I said, I wanted to give my brother Santana Reacts his flowers as well. Once again, show love and then show him some love or whatnot.
So I appreciate you with that, my boy.
You know, again, what we talked about and stuff. Thank you, brother.
So that's our building wisdom segment of the week.
Here we go. It's time for my favorite part of the week, Random thoughts. See.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: It?
[00:20:23] Speaker A: That's new this week week, y'. All. So random thoughts. Let's go through them now on the random thoughts. I'm gonna need y' all help, too. So whether it's random thoughts or like, gripes and things that get you, you know, to grind your gears or whatnot, or that.
I forgot what I called it the other day, but things that annoy you or just random thoughts, feel free, send them in. Mandatory ot704gmail.com you can choose to remain anonymous, or you can go ahead and state your name, gangsta. But mandatory ot704mail.com also remember, we have the lines wide open as far as the phone Number is live. 704-781-7011. Again, 704-781-7011. And you can leave us a voicemail on our line, but let's go ahead and we'll move forward this week with some of the random thoughts. So one of my main random thoughts this week with everything going on with gambling and stuff like that are casinos. An adult arcade or arcades, a kids casino.
Think about it, y'.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: All.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Now I've gotten answers. You know, again, this is similar to the chicken and the egg, but it's like when I go to say when I've gone to Frankie's Fun park for the first time when I was younger and we was visiting Charleston, South Carolina before I moved there, or whenever I go to arcade and stuff like that up here or on a cruise, you know, you see, you know, they. You get money still, you're going to give money still to, you know, you playing, you're paying to play.
But the payoff ends up being those tickets, right? You grabbing mad tickets in the casino, that would be chips. And then you're cashing in your tickets instead of for cash for these prizes. But it's still getting your. Your mind conditioned and programmed as a child.
However, what came first, though? Yeah, you know, the casinos or the arcade. So if I had to guess my conjecture, I would, I would say the casinos, you know, shout out to Vegas, I guess. And. And then I guess arcades may have come along later, but again, this is just a random thought of mine. It's truly the nature of that. It's a random thought.
So that's a random thought of mine.
Gonna move on to some more random thoughts real quick that I had written down.
I have not. I have yet to cross out this one. But see here, why the is orange juice so expensive? That's gonna stay up there until the price comes down.
Let's see here. It just doesn't make no sense to me. It doesn't. I hate, I hate the fact that, yeah, I hate that the, the portions are down but the price is up. Make it make sense. It doesn't. All right?
I hate the viral videos of dancing or trying to get people to stop and dap them up while they dancing.
I hate that. All right, I don't want.
I. First of all, I've never seen it in person. And I've been kind of like, I've been trying to will it to happen to me in person or around me in person. Because I've never seen in a random Walmart or grocery store, somebody with a tripod set up and they are, you know, jujuing on that beat or cranking the Roy or something like that. I don't know. I've never seen that. You know where you have that. See, the thing is, like, I don't know when this happened, but you got some, like, apology. I don't. I ain't gonna call him apologetic.
Let's just call it what it is. Hold on real quick. Hold on hold on.
Get that water. He about to. He about to get this work. He about to get this work. He gonna get this work.
All right? So a lot of times they are one. Either black kids or they're. They're racially ambiguous to some extent, right?
Eyes may come off a little Cambodian or Asian skin, complexion be black, hair be looking like Mandesis and Yandy sun, right? And they be out, they doing whatever. They hitting the folks or whatever like that. And then every white folks that. Every white person that walk past, they gotta try to adapt them up and show everybody that unity is okay and that, yo, we're all one.
Listen, stop fighting for acceptance or whatever.
And I just. Again, it's just a little cringy.
I know y' all are having a good time. I don't want to be a party pooper at all, all right? It's just that. It's just a little cringy, all right? I don't know why you in nobody's establishment and setting up a tripod and dancing if I was just clocking into work and I've turned the corner. If I clock into work to go and stock up on aisle three, and I see you in there doing the Harlem Shake or the Running man or something like that, you gonna have to get escorted up out of my store, man. And I'm gonna piggyback off of that, too. I have yet to have anybody do any kind of, like, pranks to me. So, you know, God is with whoever that be doing the pranks because they didn't do it to me yet. As far as, like, you being Walmart and you in the aisle and somebody throws something and they look up and, oh, who threw that? Or. Or people acting weird and stupid and saying stupid stuff to you, trying to, you know, antagonize you and things like that. I've. I've yet to have that happen to me. Thank goodness. Because.
Listen, man, listen.
I can make people go viral. You know what I'm saying?
We can go viral. We can go viral. You heard?
Anywho, so that's random thought of mine.
Viral videos and them dancing. See here?
This next one gets kind of serious. Well, no, before we get to the serious one, I'll say this as a random thought. I hate niggas fashion.
You are.
I absolutely hate, hate, hate, hate young niggas fashion nowadays. I just say it. Yo, you call me what you want. I don't care. But it started off a couple years back.
I think DK Metcalf may have been the first culprit of this or it was somebody that was playing for like Baylor or something. Homie wanted to have his abs out on his, like on his football uniform. And they tried and it made it a thing. It made a kind of what fashion forward. I don't know.
Started wearing crop tops out of nowhere.
Yeah. And then a couple homecomings ago, I go down to homecoming, all the young cats, they wearing crop tops now. It's not crop tops in the sense that the belly button is showing off the initial, like with your hands by your side.
But if you reaching up and you yawning or you gotta adjust your hat or something like that. Oh, brother. Your skin from your belly, I mean your abdomen, that's all going to be showing. All right. That's not. I mean, that's just. I ain't grow up in that era, I'm just saying.
So I. And then the boots.
So it's like with me, Timberlands, Air forces, you know, these are, these are shoes that we wore, not laced up. They had laces in them though. Don't get it, don't get it confused now. Before my time was the Adidas, no shoelaces and stuff. That trend actually came from jail. Right. Because they, when brothers would get locked up, they had to take their shoestrings from them so that they wouldn't be at risk of committing suicide or hanging themselves or anything like that. So they get out of jail, go through processing. They normally have their shelters with no shoelaces. But I digress.
I'm saying that was a fashion that looked uncomfortable back then. I've worn shoes with no shoelaces. It's not a comfortable thing.
My generation, the most that we done, Timbs, okay. It has the shoelaces in it, but we, you know, and we flopping around the nose or maybe some air forces and they just untied or whatnot, you know, up tempos and different basketball shoes from our era, you know, some cats just didn't choose to choke them and tie them up. So cool. But nowadays with these like, I don't know what you call them, the Chuck Taylor looking shoes. What are they? Those are the, the Doc Martens or something. Those are the all black ones. Those, those, the Yeezy looking boots. Any of those oversized looking boots that. Nah, nah, it doesn't look comfortable at all. It looks more uncomfortable. And yeah, y' all don't look like y' all are. Y' all don't look like that. Y' all are enjoying that or having a good time when you're wearing that I'm be honest with you. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and go to a love little live looking down in Milwaukee today, y'. All. And the Knicks are currently up on The Milwaukee Bucks 69.59. Got about 20 seconds left and a half little bucket from Mikhail Bridges. He's been looking good this year. So we got 7159. That's just that little Carolina sports talk break right there, you hear?
All right, shout out and brotherly love to my main man, Big Cliff. But yeah, let's hope that the next dude we gotta do.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's another random thought of mine, is that niggas just. I hate niggas fashion nowadays, y'. All. I hate it. I hate it. Like. Like three or four years ago, y' all thought. I thought that y' all was on the tight pants wave and the tight jeans and all of that. And then some memo went out and I missed the email that we going back to baggy and we going back to boot, cut and loose and very flared out.
And I was like, okay, I'm not jumping back and forth, y'. All. I'm not. I just got comfortable with my fitted kind of snug type of. You know what I mean, with the elastic inside of the materials. I could. I seen where everybody was going with it, but nah, nah, I can't. I can't with today's. With fashion today. All right, so this next one, though, this next random thought is.
How should I word this? It's like, this is just true to me. I don't. I don't want to.
I don't want to insult anyone. And I also don't want to discourage anyone from asking me for a favor if they know me personally and, you know, they need a favor from me. I don't. I don't discourage anyone from asking me for favors. But this random thought right here, or all of my close friends, they already know this about me, so I don't.
I don't have to worry about them taking in any type of way. But I hate favors. I hate favors. I hate doing favors. I hate favors.
Nah, for real, I.
I can't stand them.
I feel like favors serve as distractions. And I feel like also favors come with the assumption that my available time is your available time.
I hope that this makes sense to somebody out there. But in this season of mine where I'm hyper focused on my goals, my personal passion, projects, projects, rather my purpose and building my purpose out or defining. Defining my purpose every day I don't really need. I don't need distractions. Not. I don't really need. I don't need distractions, right. So again, favors, I can. I can. I can entertain them, but I'm not always going to be saying yes to him and stuff. And a lot of times I don't say yes to them because it's just. It throws shit off, if that makes sense. Like, say, for instance, you're going somewhere and you get asked to stop to pick up whatever, to pick up beer or something or pick up some cigarettes. I don't know, just that 10 minutes, 15 minutes that it's going to take extra for you to stop, go into his door, stand in line, wait, pay for whatever, take care. All of that. I'd rather not, especially. Like, again, it's just, I think nowadays every day I count these hours up and I have allotted slots or things that I need to do with all of my time.
And like I mentioned, I mean, favors just disrupt any kind of, like, harmony that I could have had with that day schedule.
And if I already have, like, some disharmony or chaos going on with that schedule, a favor will, you know, a favor is gonna up even more if.
If you already got a chaotic day going on. You know, somebody asks you something and a favor's gonna.
So just wanted to get that off my chest as well.
I don't know why. It's just I hate favors. I don't know. I hate them. I hate them.
I do them. I do them. I still. Whatever. But I just put a blanket statement out there to everyone that's listening.
I hate favors. All right.
It's not to say I won't build with nobody, y'. All. It's not to say that I won't entertain favors, but just understand, I don't like having being knocked off my dean, if you will, or being thrown off as far as focus goes and stuff like that. So, yeah, I appreciate you guys allowing me to be open as usual and letting you know the different things that kind of grind my gears there.
All right, so let's move forward here.
Today's show is called Risky Business, inspired by some of the poor decision making from these athletes and former athletes and just inspired by gambling in America as a whole. So I got a couple notes that I have down here, but first, let me play a couple clips, I guess, that I had lined up for us.
First, play this one from Stephen Colbert, if I can. Hold on real quick, y'.
[00:35:11] Speaker E: All.
[00:35:11] Speaker A: Let's see.
Over the last few years, gambling, sponsorships, have become pervasive in all sports. As ESPN's Mike Greenberg explained, it was.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Something that networks like ESPN would stay far away from.
[00:35:26] Speaker A: Those days are obviously long behind us. Yeah, they are long behind you.
Because in the corner of the screen.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: While he was saying all that, an.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Ad for ESPN bet new players, bet $10, get $100 in bonus bets. The thing he's criticizing about.
Yeah, so that was Stephen Colbert and his like monologue or whatnot with regards to gambling.
It's.
I'm explaining to y' all why, why it's getting me kind of upset. I think you have to have less and less grace for people. Let me play this as well though, real quick. Let me play this.
[00:36:14] Speaker D: Ending that they were spending their own money. So you telling me these guys were pretending that they were spending their own money working with Steak, when in reality Steak was giving them the money to bet on their site.
And what makes it even worse is you could have just been gambling and doing your thing and they paying you to gamble and all that. And it could have just been that. But that's not what they did.
They were lying, telling their fans. And these are young people, right? They're lying, telling their fans that they're spending their own money.
So not only are you being paid to gamble, but you telling lies to the people that support you, letting them know that or telling them that you are using your own money.
And now you got all these different people who are Drake fans, Aiden Raw support, all that different stuff getting on there gambling, thinking that they using their own. But they not even using their own money, bro.
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[00:37:24] Speaker A: All right, that's my main man, Jalopy Bungus. Brotherly love to Jalopy. Of course he got this fire track out too with him and, and somebody. I got to give him the credit for that though. I probably, I want to post it on my, on my social media page. But Jalopy, his verse on his recent release that he put out Fire. Fire. But yeah, he's was pretty much talking about Drake and Aiden Ross. They got caught up in a lawsuit today. A class action lawsuit with the company stake, which is pretty much a cyber casino, a digital casino. And anytime Drake, you see Drake online, he's got the Steak ad somewhere. Right?
But that was, that was. Who was speaking on that? That was Jalopy. Give me one second. We wanna, I wanna go to, to another video I was looking at as well.
Let me see here. It's titled the Sports Betting epidemic explained.
But I want to go to a certain part of this video here, try to hear this.
All right.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: There has to be a reason behind it. You see, over the years they've built and perfected a formula that drives their entire business operation. It's one that's built on the nature of the human brain and some clever financial tricks. Now sure, a lot of this is simply built on the standard gambling format everybody knows. First, an opportunity to win, second, an unpredictable reward, and finally, quick repeatability. But while this is true in some sense and definitely forms the core of their formula, much more has been added in recent years and our beloved sports betting companies in particular have taken it several steps further. In fact, if you've been anywhere online these last few years, you've probably seen.
[00:39:12] Speaker A: Some money lines in real time.
[00:39:14] Speaker G: $200 instantly just for betting. 5 bucks to turn wins into bigger wins.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: I put a million bucks in up.
[00:39:21] Speaker G: To five DraftKings sportsbook accounts.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: The ads, the language, the hooks Free bonus risk free deposit 50 play with 500 the companies are aware that the original three step system isn't enough anymore. People are too cautious and they know the basic tricks. So as a result, the marketing and the overall operations sophistication had to evolve.
Let's take a closer look at these so called risk free bets that so many now offer. The marketing for this one is highly persuasive and very successful at pulling in new users. And that's pretty understandable. After all, risk free gambling sounds like heaven, right? It covers the biggest fear most people have, which is the risk itself. But sadly, as is often the case, it isn't nearly as great as it sounds. In fact, it's not even close. Sure, if you join through one of these campaigns, you'd likely get one round where you could bet like lose and still get your money back. But the trick is you wouldn't just get the money back ready for withdrawal. No, instead what happens is that you often receive it back in the form of a bonus credit. And if you want to turn this credit into real money again, well then you need to have placed 5, 10, 15 or sometimes 20 more bets to withdraw. These clever tricks are a theme throughout the rest of the claims they make in their marketing, which all seem like a steal. Let me give you another example. Here's the classic deposit 50 play with 500 clan.
[00:40:36] Speaker D: You might knowledge.
[00:40:44] Speaker A: So yeah, my man, he's just kind of going through again what's, what's going on with the sports betting world again. These I have of course articles and articles that I've done research on, and we could talk the inception of gambling and stuff like that, or casinos and all of that. But let's first, let's go back to last week. Remember, I asked you guys, what is, you know, your relationship with debt or black man's relationship pretty much with his money, Right? Because this is something that we got to be aware of, y'. All. We got to be on top of it. Last year, when I finished up the football season, I want to say, or the end of the year, pretty much like was coming into 2025, FanDuel, they actually sent me something similar to Spotify Wrapped, where it gave me a summary of all of the money that I gambled, all of the money that I wagered, and the. The winnings that I got, which sports that I won on, which sports I didn't win on, and the breakdown of it all together kind of.
It kind of spooked me. I'm gonna be frank with y' all or whatnot. And I just. I fell back. I said, okay, I'm gonna just go to fantasy play my fantasy football league that I do with my best friend and stuff like that. We've been doing this fantasy football league for maybe 20, 20 years now.
So I just. I just said, like, I'm focused on that. I'm gonna focus on that. And I think when we're talking about gambling, especially sports. Sports betting and sports gambling, there are a couple of different things that happen and occurred important in America with legislation that led us to this point. So first, in 2006, George W. Bush, he signed off on a bill or a law to protect from anybody being able to gamble online and use the Internet for gambling. So what it essentially did was it made it illegal for banks, you know, for any financial institutions to convert winnings of gambling and accept winnings of gambling from these particular gambling companies, online gambling companies or whatnot, and convert the winning. So that kind of halted the gambling there in its. In its tracks. Then we have Fast forward to 2018.
The Supreme Court made a decision to lift a federal ban on sports betting, and they legalized it. 38 states, including Washington, D.C.
all made sports betting legalized. The amount wagered since has grown dramatically. Of course, in 2024, it reached approximately $150 billion of the amount wagered. And most of that billion was actually placed. Excuse me, Most of that 150 billion was placed online, those bets. Because, of course, the apps nowadays, the dopamine fix, just this. The ease of it, right? The user friendliness of it with the, with the apps and the interface.
Click a couple of buttons and you got your bed in or whatnot. Right?
Do I want to talk about the marketing yet? Let's talk about the advertising. Just, just a minute. Let's talk about the advertising. So gambling ads, they've become a fixture of sports broadcast, of course, social media feeds and in game commentary. It normalizes betting in everyday life and blurs the line between entertainment and the financial risk that you're taking whenever you are gambling and betting. So a couple of things that stood out to me when it comes to advertising.
Say it was. Might, might have been about 2019, 2020. Might, might have been about around the pandemic and these DraftKings commercials were coming out where I'm like, Dang, they got LeBron James and Kevin Hart on a commercial.
Rocky.
That's when I should have known though.
Hey, they setting it up because there's no companies that got that much capital. They must have raised man money or whatever like that. Spent all of a, you know, a lot of that front end money on advertising and getting these exclusive celebrities to exclusively promote their product, I. E. Kevin hart, I. E. LeBron James.
And then, you know, and then look, we're going to see how this goes or whatever like that. Now I will say this, going into it or entering into it if I'm in 2018. We're grown, grown people, everybody grown, right? So we, like you would be, you would think that you'd be excited for legislation that passes like that and something that can generate money, generate revenue and stuff like that if done the right way and everything. So you would think that it'd be a good thing. But my argument to that is you have to always be wary and watch when counterculture becomes culture.
So there's three examples I want to give.
The first example is growing up, tattoos was actually taboo, if you will.
So everybody wasn't just getting tattoos and piercings and everything like that.
They were, they were, you know, meant for a specific, unique type of crowd and stuff like that.
And then, hey, you turn around and the person that's making your Starbucks order nowadays, you know, it's acceptable that, that they have tattoos on their arms and, and whatnot or whatnot. So nevertheless, my, my point in that is that counterculture became culture. Another example of counterculture becoming culture.
The, the world of weed, right? I smoke myself, right? Been smoking, but since before it was legal. So I know what that, what that life was like. But that counterculture of weed smokers and stuff like that, that was a specific community.
And then it became culture. And if you speak to a lot of folks from that community that was around before it became culture and it became legal and everything like that, they're going to tell you the flower was much better back then.
They are.
They're going to let you know, yo, when I used to get smacked or used to get high, I was high for a little bit longer, or I was high for the whole day off of one blunt back then.
Now all of a sudden, I gotta smoke blunts like cigarettes. Like, what are we doing? What are we talking about?
So that's another culture that's become. Excuse me, a counter culture that's become culture and become regular and normal in our society.
And I don't know, it's like we all look at it as, oh, snap, yo, yeah, finally, weed is legal, and it's not talking about the. The ramifications of that. So if we. We could go back to my episode where I went over Chance's Tree song on his album. But yeah, if. If we got the government regulating what's in the dispensaries, how much would you really trust that?
Right? How much do you trust what the government is doing? So that was another counterculture that became culture. And then finally, excuse me, we have gambling.
The counterculture of gambling.
And everything has become culture.
It's just become normal for people to say it on morning shows and talk about it. I'm gonna tell y' all like this, and I don't have exact dates or anything like that, but follow me.
Let's say about 10 to 15 years ago, sports.
Well, I'll put it in errors as well. Stuart Scott, era of sports, a lot of integrity with it.
You didn't necessarily know who Stuart Scott's favorite team was back then or anybody else that used to report back then. It wasn't. That was taboo back then.
You wasn't disclosing that because you wanted to seem unbiased in your reporting, and you wanted to make it seem like, again, that you are a fair reporter. Fast forward to the days of commentators versus reporters. So you got commentators and analysts like your Stephen A's of the world or your Greenies of the world. Mike Greeny, anybody? Like all these ESPN personalities, right?
Stephen A. Kent comes in. Shoot. He wears his teams on his. On his chest like a badge of honor, right? He's letting you know where his allegiances lie and all of that.
I'm just saying that's. That's how it goes, right? That was the evolution of that.
And so you'll start to see more opinionated commentary versus fact based things. So that's where you start to get into the terrible Owens from Skip Bayless saying that terrible Owens or Russell Westbrook, you know what I'm saying?
So different things like that, the insults to LeBron and carrying on those, those things came in the analyst era, the commentator era.
Following that, though, we. More recently, in like four to five years, you know, NFL Network, they have 24 hour programming. NBA TV has 24 hour programming. So there are slots available for these networks and these industries to put a betting show in now. And now there's shows where they're just strictly talking about wagers. They're strictly talking about odds and what the odds are in different games and stuff like that. Dedicated all to gambling. So I don't want us to lose sight of that in that timeline as well as I'm talking about this stuff, because it's a couple different things that went into it, I believe.
So let's see here.
I think that the emergence of the parlay as well.
So that parlay where we're like, the parlay ticket where you have $5 on it and you think that you're gonna win $17,000.
Let me see, let me find it.
It's not happening, okay.
They want you to think that it's happened. It's not like a coincidence to y' all that it's always one or two people that you miss by and it'd be big, big parlay tickets. It'd be like, no, you go, yeah, you put up $5 so you can win $3,600 or whatnot.
But all you needed was for Bo Nix to get 75 rushing yards and you believed in it.
It's like, come on, man.
So, yeah, now on top of that, on top of all of that, you can have full faith into the system and everything like that and feel like everything is on the up and up.
But then we still have these situations and stuff like that where our sports heroes, if you will, are letting us down and disappointing us because the temptation is right in their face to gamble. Like, and. And some of these people, we don't talk about gambling addictions enough, but they're.
Yeah, they're. They're right. The marketing, the advertising, you know, again, it's on your phone. You have all of that stuff available to you. So I don't, I don't see why.
I don't see why. It's a big surprise to a lot of people whenever these stories come out. So when they Legalized gambling in North Carolina. I remember telling my little bro saking and brotherly love to my boy, man, because he is an avid listener.
It'll cost nothing to show a.
Nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a shout out to my bro Sock.
That's the one that put me down with my job that I got now. But shout out to him. He, you know, we have deep conversations all the time. So I told him last year, sometime or a year and a half ago, like, yo, this is not going to what I said. How did I say it? It's pretty much saying like, like people not going to learn until somebody get hurt, essentially.
I didn't want to word it like that, but that's for lack of better terms. That's what I was saying. Like, this is going to end in somebody being hurt seriously. Athlete or, you know, a crazed fan going after an athlete attempting to hurt them seriously because it's too much money being moved around. And then when you start finding out about people, when you finally start finding out about people that are cheating or come on rigging the game and stuff like that, all of this stuff is, you know, it's, it's, it makes it to where the gambling part of it, you don't want to do it. You don't want to do it. It's all, it's all a fix.
But, yeah. So I want to talk about before we get to Chauncey Billups and them, the gambling story that surrounds Shote Shohei Ohtani, who's currently in the World Series, playing in the World Series right now for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It involves his former interpreter, former IPE Mizuhara, who stole over $17 million from Ohtani to pay off his own illegal sports.
To pay off his own illegal sports gambling bets.
Now, it says here that Mizuhara, the interpreter, admitted to the theft and he was sentenced to nearly five years in prison. And in order to pay restitution, federal investigators determined that Ohtani was the victim of a theft and had no involvement in the sports betting, a fact that Ohtani has consistently stated.
So again, the claim here is that the interpreter, who has self admittedly said that he's horrible at gambling, that he stole money from Ohtani's account to pay off extensive gambling debts to an illegal bookmaker, and that he's acknowledged his gambling addiction fueled the crime.
A federal investigation concluded that Ohtani had no knowledge of betting or the theft.
Okay, Yeah. A federal investigation concluded that he had no knowledge. Ohtani has repeatedly and adamantly denied ever betting on sports or knowing, knowingly transferring money to the bookmaker. He expressed shock and sadness over his former interpreter's actions.
And again, Mizuhara, he pleaded guilty to bank fraud and was sentenced to 57 months in prison. But he was also ordered to pay approximately $17 million in restitution to Ohtani and over a million dollars to the irs. But let me read that part again. He was ordered to pay approximately $17 million in restitution to Ohtani.
They just washing that money.
Let's see here. The bookmaker, Matthew Boyer, who took the bets from Mizuhara, he was sentenced to just over a year in prison for running an illegal gambling business.
So essentially, Ohtani was too big to fail. Y', all, let's just be real.
Ohtani was too big to fail.
They wasn't going to lock that man up. They wasn't going to have him locked up. Y' all see what he's doing this year for the Dodgers? The man hit like three home runs and struck out 10 batters the other day, like in the same game. He was hitting home runs and then he was pitching his ass off. So they, yeah, they not looking to get rid of him no time soon. He got away with murder. Got away with murder. But it just goes to my point that this is no surprise. If you look at the fabric of our country and stuff and you look at the, where, where things are trending to, there's nobody that's going to say, yo, we're, we're all going to be able to afford groceries and housing tomorrow. No, because we've observed where it's trending to, in other words, and I see, you know, again, where it's been trending to. And it's not, it's not nothing that is, is encouraging, if you will, that gambling. I want to talk again about the ads and the people taking the ads. I mentioned Kevin hart earlier and LeBron James. But I do want to take time to talk about Joe Budden as well real quick. It's one of, you know, my favorite podcasts to listen to and everything like that. But Joe, he's lauded his name and his reputation for years and years on being independent, the biggest independent built podcast and this and that.
And he's recently had great PR and publicity about how much his podcast grosses per month is, you know, a multi million dollar company that he runs right now, but it's all with the help of prize picks.
I'm just being frank.
So recently, you know, I don't, I don't remember how long ago it was. Might have been close to a year ago or so, but he started a partnership with Prize Picks. And you know, Joe Budden's show, they. They like a little. They talk man stuff or whatever like that, but they're not a sports centric show. So when they first did that partnership, it looked kind of odd to me.
But if the money is right enough, you can align with any.
With any company or business. And that's clearly what Joe did, to be frank, because use like championing and talking all of this big about how you independent. You don't take ads. We don't take ads no more. We are, all of us Joe Budden listeners know about the infamous me Undies ads and all of that type of stuff that y' all used to try to do with the Rory and Ma iteration of Joe Budden. But.
But for you to take the ads with Prize Picks, it just showed me that the. Again, the bag was big enough. The. That partnership was available was big enough for you.
And I see it as different signs. I mean, different.
I see it as different iterations of selling your soul or whatnot. All right, can I be real? Y' all get that water?
He bout to get this work. He bout to get this work. This shit is not cute to me. It ain't cool. We know what we doing when we do these ads and y' all read them ads. And the thing about advertising and marketing is it pays so much for a reason. It's because they know your audience and they know who you could reach or whatnot. But again, I, you know, you have an audience or a demographic of. Talking about Joe Budden of mainly responsible adults. Fine. All the better. Whatever. Yo, I'm not, I don't. I'm not going to take a lot of time in my. When I get to my 40s and in this year of 39, explaining myself, I'm not. So it's just, again, like I said, it. It is hypocritical.
It is a semblance or looks like selling of your soul to me.
[01:00:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:01] Speaker A: So I don't. I don't know. I don't know. That's. That's. That's what I'm gonna leave that at. I.
Yeah. So even when people are talking about, yo, we're the biggest podcast and the biggest independent podcast and this and that. Let's stop, bro. Because you talk about Chance before Chance came on the show, as if he got that big bag from Apple, so he wasn't independent. You got that big back from Prize Picks. You're not independent Drew Ski, back from Prize Picks. You're not independent, brother. You don't, you don't claim to be independent Drew Ski, but it is an issue where a lot of your audience are children. A lot of your audience are our kids.
But whatever, man. I just want to point out the hypocrisies. I want to give us some harsh truths for our I want to give us some harsh truths for our community so that we can protect ours. All right, let's keep going with, with regards to what's going on with the gambling again, when it comes to the apps, though, the betting apps, they use features common in mobile games to make the experience more appealing and addictive and to, you know, satisfy that dopamine, which particularly attracts younger users. The convenience of placing in game bets that resolves in seconds further fuels compulsive behavior. So you think about, I often think about the vape phenomenon and you look inside the store, any kind of tobacco in vape store. And the vapes have these fruity tropical names that are just, they're fun loving, they're innocent names. You know, pineapple, mango, come and try it.
Passion fruit, come and try it. You know what I'm saying? Strawberry, lemonade, this is the like. And it's all marketed to, you know, where it's going to be attractive to kids. We can't, we can't lie to ourselves about that. So, yeah, that we see the same thing right now with these gaming apps. I've seen it also in my time growing up with Swisher Sweets and things like that, with the foil packs and how colorful and the flavors that they used to have for them and stuff like that. So I definitely see that now we're going to talk a little bit about the rising rates of addiction that have been going on since 2018 situation has happened. A February 2025 study found that Internet searches for gambling addiction help increase for gambling addiction help that increased significantly in states following the launch of online sportsbooks.
The highest risk amongst young men. Studies show that young adults ages 18 through 34 and college students have the highest rates of gambling addiction. One university survey revealed that while most student betters believe they are profitable, research shows only a small percentage actually are.
So the greatest predictors of risk in 2024 as participation in online and sports betting or betting frequently Me see here.
The greatest predictors of risk in online in sports betting is betting frequently and believing that gambling is a good way to make money. So a lot of people have adopted this as like a side hustle or like this is my gig or whatnot. And it's like, no, this is still gambling and a risk and everything like that.
Estimated 23 million Americans are in debt due to gambling. A 2025 survey of sports betters found that 1/4 were unable to pay a bill due to wagers and one third were in gambling related debt.
All right, up to 96% of the people with a gambling disorder also have another mental disorder or mental illness such as depression or anxiety. Problem gamblers are 15 more times more more likely to unalive themselves.
Problem gambling often also leads to financial and family misery. Right. Like you'll have people that are losing their families, of course, verbal. And the verbal harassment of the athletes by betters who lose out on their money is also becoming a lot more common.
They're receiving death threats, of course, and different threats and stuff like that. So now I do want to talk about this as well. So y' all can see these.
All right, so we see a significant funding gap here. So in 2023 states generated $14.4 billion in tax revenue from gambling, but allocated just 134 million of it to problem gambling services.
134 million out of $14.4 billion tax revenue as to drop in a bucket that they use to spend on problem gambling services.
See here, I think there's just. Again, so I wanted to give this out also because we do want to come up with solutions here. But if you or a loved one, you know, in all seriousness is struggling with gambling, it's confidential help that's available 24. 7 through the National Problem Gambling Helpline. That's 1-800-gambler or 1800-522470-01800-gambler, or 1-800-522- 4700. Also, you can text this number, 8-00G a M. 8,00G a M. And they are available to text if you need help with any kind of gambling addiction or anything like that.
And why did I bring all of this stuff up? Of course, y' all know in the news what's been going on with Chauncey Billups, Terry Rosier and Damon Jones, just to name those three, because they were on the front of every news article this week instead of any of the mafia members that got caught up, right? The mafia family. They just was named that in this, in these reports.
But these black men.
Oh, yeah, Governments. Let's, let's go ahead and get it out here. Yeah, let's, let's go ahead like.
All right, so there's A lot of different reports out there that's trying to tie LeBron's association with Damon Jones to this whole gambling thing and, and try to pull LeBron in it as well.
See here, I wanna.
All right, so shout out to Tim Donahue. Well, no, not shout out to Tim Donahue. Right, but he was, he was one of the poster childs of NBA betting and stuff like that. Ref, former referee. But again, because he was given his, he's been given his two cents about this stuff. Of course, he says, I know what the FBI put me through and what it's like to sit in the hot seat. Just referring to being a target of the federal sports betting investigation. So a new scandal that's hit the association. NBA includes Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. He's accused of associating with organized crime and luring unsuspecting gamblers into high stakes poker games to cheat them out of their money. We're going to talk about that in a second. But also Miami Heat guard Terry Rosier and NBA guardian coach Damon Jones are accused of sharing inside information with gamblers and altering the outcomes of NBA games. Long story. Less long rosier. If you know that he was leaving the game early, he would tip off certain folks so that they could go ahead and get right. They've got proof of Terry going back to his crib and counting, busting down the money and counting it up like they got him in 4K.
Damon Jones is said to have tipped off people about if like certain people will be playing in different nights and stuff like that with different NBA insider information.
So.
So again, and just for the record, all of this stuff is definitely still alleged. For those that have been arrested in the current scandal. Billups and Rosier through their attorneys have each denied the federal charges. Billups attorney said that his client would not risk his hall of Fame reputation for this. So Billups, he was essentially accused of luring in unsuspecting johns or tricks, whatever you call them to these poker games, high stake poker games. And there's just super amount of futuristic technology going on where you essentially, you're not going to win, you can't win.
They got X ray tables, y'. All, they got, they got a camera set up where somebody outside is a quarterback, they throwing back signals inside and everything like that.
So you know, this is the, the poker game stuff that Chauncey Bills was involved in. That, that kind of gets deep, that gets real deep.
And a lot of people again were looking up like oh my gosh.
Oh, I'M so shocked that all of this stuff is happening. Are you?
Are you?
Because I'm not. And I don't put nothing past nobody, especially nobody with bread, a lot of money. You know, I really am not. And I don't want to have this obtuse type of naivete when these things start to. Because, you know, I don't think that this is going to be the last.
So when these things continue to happen and come up, I don't. Listen, man, my brotherly love to my boy Trey, man, Trey put it perfectly, man. These. These guys got way too much money, man. They got. They got all of the money in the world. So I'm definitely not about to feel sorry for none of them. You know what I'm saying? But that's. That's the three that's involved this week. We're gonna see what else comes from this and what else comes about. Because it's just a mess. It's a mess. It's wild. It's about. So, yeah, that's, you know, kind of what my notes were on the gambling stuff. I love to hear y' all feedback on any of it.
Reach out to me. Mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatoryot704gmail.com or hit us up on our hotline 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011 so I want to end this off with some high star bars. We'll do a little bit of brotherly love, and then we'll get on out of here. Oh. And not with a prayer. All right, so let's go ahead and. And hit some high star bars. This is a.
A track. This was a cipher that I was a part of maybe, like, close to six years ago.
And I just wanted to play y' all my verse on this.
My co producer, she helped me realize that the bars in this that I'm spitting definitely relate back to the things going on with greed and with pastors. We're gonna go through those high star bars, but let me go ahead and bring this up real quick. Hold on, y'. All.
[01:11:25] Speaker G: Well, I guess it's my turn.
[01:11:27] Speaker A: And it.
[01:11:27] Speaker G: Stars shine brighter Once your life starts turning and your heart on fire Insides is burning? Hebrews 1:12 reminds us that it's permanent now Everything gonna be all right? I'm not conservative. You turn life's lessons into blessings when.
[01:11:39] Speaker A: You learn from it.
[01:11:40] Speaker G: So hike these haiku steps Taking the firmament and claim the victory like you just won a tournament? Quit your worrying but be encouraged in the same world that you failed and.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: You could flourish in.
[01:11:50] Speaker G: Once you see the hungry state that the famine uses bread and his water for your nourishment have come courage when you walk just know that God is with you the same God that everybody trying to get to he miss you plus he want to get you to commit to the fact that you could be saved and be lit too. So shine, shine bright like a diamond and shine Cause it's the perfect time and shine even when it's awkwardly I shine brighter cuz he walks with me and talks to me the tongue could speak life or that coughing thing when temper's been in such an awful thing now it's just, just 10% plus the offer rent for what it's worth his love don't cost to think that's all facts Though I rap circles round sinners and relapse Though I rap gentlemen indoors and no cap flow DJ high star bars could bring it back Though my rhymes couldn't manifest the supernatural Balenciaga kicks no strings attach flow now that's dope this is what they asked for.
This is what they asked for.
[01:12:47] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this.
[01:12:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:12:54] Speaker A: Bang bang. Like that. Like that. So that was.
That was me, yours truly on the Real Ciphers of Charlotte Episode two. This was actually released six years ago by my main man, Brett Haven out here in Charlotte.
A couple standout lines from that again. Once you see the hungry state that the f fam and use his bread and his water for your nourishment have courage when you walk Just know that God is with you. The same God that everybody trying to get to. He miss you plus he want to get you to commit to the fact that you could be saved and be lit too.
So shine, shine like a diamond shine Cuz it's the perfect timing. I shine brighter when he walks with me what he said? I said I shine brighter Cuz he walks with me and talks with me the tongue can speak life or that coffin thing when tempers are bent it's such an awful thing but now it's just 10 plus the offering but for what it's worth his love don't cost a thing that's all facts like that. Like that, yeah. So those are the high star bars for the week.
I wanted to go ahead and give some brotherly love out here. Let's see.
It'll show nothing. It'll cost nothing to show a dabble but definitely brotherly love to my brother. Santana reacts. Once again, I appreciate you for letting me Repurpose your your content brother. Brotherly love to Big Cliff. Of course. Some brotherly love to my my brother down in Charleston, Dr. Justin Buford, doing your thing. Another government name. Dang, I'm giving up these governments. But Dr. JB, doctor in charge of high star hoops down there and in charge of the be yourself brand. That's my dog.
Brotherly love to my brother Nick Cave and Nick Cahi down there, my fellow Port City brothers down there in Charleston. Brotherly love to my brother Bruce down there.
Let me see here. Brotherly love to Big Cliff doing his thing on announcing vibes, comments, commentary, and he just be doing a bunch of stuff in sports media now. I done seen the boys, I done seen the man's prayers and I seen the man's prayers get answered. So big shout out to the big God you already know for answering prayers as well.
Want to always give a shout out and some Brotherly love to DJ Blaze radio show podcast, they just celebrated 700 episodes.
Shout out to them.
Shout out to Beat Easy. Shout out to my boy L main man L. Shout out to my main man Jones, the Music Jones podcast as well.
Salute to y', all, man. Salute to Jalopy Bungus online.
Brotherly love to read my soul. Some brotherly love to Curtis King. Brotherly love to my man Antonio speaks on YouTube as well. If y' all need to catch any positive or good content. And brotherly love to FD signifier had an awesome video on Sinners recently. If y' all need any type of positive content or good content to consume on YouTube, check any of those brothers out. Definitely. All right. But it is we. We are here toward the end, so it's time to say our closing prayer. Y' all know that it's with extreme and supreme faith that saying God, this prayer comes straight from the heart.
May the ego and the hubris never break us apart.
And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right, I appreciate y' all for joining me on this ride, on this journey, and we're gonna catch y' all next time. Remember, you can email us mandatoryot704gmail.com, give us some feedback and interact with us. Or give us a holla on the hotline or the Mandatory ot. I call it the the mandatory OT Call out line, if you will. Give us a call though. 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. Let's start making this more of a conversation or some discourse versus just you know what I mean? My soliloquies and everything like that. But y' all know. Y' all know I appreciate y'. All.
Definitely.
And we out. I know you gonna dig this.
Hey, everybody, it's closing time.
You don't got to go home, but you can't stay here.
Closing time.
Do the knowledge.
