The Numbers Game 0700

[00:00:03] Speaker A: You're. You're. What's that in my bike? Y' all stand for ot? Yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for ot. Listen up, workers. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Please. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Let me work. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Like that. Like that? [00:00:33] Speaker C: Like that. [00:00:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:36] Speaker C: That's all she wrote about Time, man. What you getting into this weekend, man? Nothing, bro. I'm locked in, man. I signed up for that overtime they put on the wall over there. You're not. You not leaving with us right now. Four shifts, man. Nobody want it. I ain't never heard. Is that something? Is that legal? Can you work four consecutive shifts? They might as well put me in bed in the break room. No, I just. I just thought you was gonna be leaving because, you know, our kids. Graduation. Graduation. Putting money in my pocket. It's graduation, paying my bills. Exactly. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Come on, man. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Exactly. My check gonna have 160 hours on it. It's only 168 hours in a week. I slept an hour and 14 minutes every day in between these shifts, boy. Locked in. Come on. You can go see your kid walk across the stage or whatever, but that's important to you? Overtime, Locked in. That's what's important to me. Come on, man. It ain't about nothing else. Ain't about nothing else. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Like that. Like that. What's going on, y'? All? What up, what up, what up, what up, everybody? [00:01:54] Speaker C: Nothing, bro. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Let me see what I'm doing. Yeah. What's up? What's happening, everyone? Welcome to Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ Istar, in the place to be. I hope y' all enjoyed that. You know, shout out to Davarian, Jerry El Instagram, real funny Instagram comedian for that introduction and stuff like that. However, again, she made man DJ High Star. Welcome to a mandatory overtime. The aim here at mandatory overtime, of course, is to recalibrate how we define manhood. And we'll do that, of course, through conversation here. When I say we, I mean us, as in everyone involved in the community, of course. So, you know, it's called mandatory overtime, but single women, you know, single mothers, rather. You got your single ladies out there, of course. Married woman grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters. Y' all are more than welcome to join us in the conversation as well. It's just simply an audio journal of an eighties baby and a social experiment here in consistency. Could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me, and I appreciate that. Appreciate that. Now, don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair like comment, subscribe, share and make some noise, man, because your man is here. Y' all already know. You heard they say I got a Russian sound Engineer in a check 1, 2, a check 1, 2. Like that. Like that. I am recording live from Charlotte, America, y'. All, The Carolinas none final. You heard, shout out to Charlotte, America. Everybody out here, man. Y' all definitely stay safe out here in Charlotte, America. You know, it's just wild times in the Carolinas right now, man. I think we may touch on that a little bit later, but I appreciate y' all joining me once again. Always remember, you can email the show mandatory ot704gmail.com again, mandatory ot704gmail.com and then also, let's see here. Should be able to hit up our phone line as well. 704-781-7011. The phone lines are wide open also. 704-781-7012. So since the last time that we talked, the Panthers, they've gotten another W. I'm not going to jinx them or nothing like that, but shout out to. To their performance. They've been performing, you know, very well or whatnot. So shout out to the Carolina Panthers right now. You know, the Hornets, they just lost one last night. Gave up a 100 lead or a 100 run, rather, to the New Orleans Pelicans. They was down there in New Orleans and gave up. Gave up. Yeah, they should have won that game. Got some good pieces this year if you're a Hornets fan. Yeah, Colin Sexton, they got the gentleman knipple from, from Duke, of course, Miles Bridges, Brandon Miller got diabate and also, you know, of course, Lamelo. But Trey Mann, he's coming into his own as well. Nick Arnold, I believe, is still there. So they got a bunch of Nick Richards. Nick's word. Nick Richards. I said my man's government name already already. But shout out to the Hornets, I guess they, even though they lost last night and they're selling ways, they must been listening to last week's show about gambling because they definitely sold the end of that show. I mean, the end of that game, rather. We've got a couple revises, revisiting revises from last week off the top of the Dome, I believe. I don't think I corrected this yet, but as far as favors go, I gotta listen back, see if I corrected it. But when I was talking about favors the other week was Talking about spontaneous favors, you know, sponsor the spontaneity of favors, more or less. So a well planned out favor that we both on the same accord with. I can get down with. I can get jiggy with. I was alluding to those kind of on the spot and what you doing, those type of favors. You know what I'm saying? What you doing right now? What you doing or whatnot. Also, to begin in November, lot of November's very owns out there or whatnot. People celebrating, celebrating their birthdays and everything like that. So all of the November babies, including the fraternity that I'm a member of, you know what I'm saying? Omega Psi 5 Fraternity Incorporated will be celebrating our anniversary, our birthday this year. Let's see here. So what I want to do though, let's see. I want to start off with something that we haven't been able to start off with since we started. One of the people that celebrating the birthday actually sent in some emails or sent in an email. So we do got an email, y'. All. And I want to show some love. Of course. Start off. We're showing some love. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Show love. [00:07:48] Speaker A: It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Showing some love. [00:07:55] Speaker A: All right, so shout out to our first ever email to the show. What I did being DJ High Star, something that I wanted to do to show some. To show some appreciation to anybody that's giving feedback and stuff. I actually sent Our First Emailer $10 via Cash App for the. For a drink. The drink on me if you wear will. So let's first read. Let's see here. Turn this down first. All right, so we good. Peace to you, DJ High Star. I'm super late with this, so let's get that out the way. This pod is super fire. Speaking on all the things that we would like to think consist of manhood, two big ones for me is discipline and integrity. Without those characteristics, I feel as if we cannot hold manhood together. My only criticism slash critique to the show would be to ensure to tie. Excuse me. Would be to ensure to tie every topic to a characteristic or manhood, if that's the direction that you want to go. Latest episode I listened to is Arrested Development. The best show I have heard. NFC east got the best fans. It's hard to go division, but maybe teams. Pittsburgh, Philly, Dallas, New England, Green Bay. So I' ma sum that episode up with Skip Bayless. Excuse me. My bad, bro. Skip Bayless and anyone who with him except Wayne, but him too. So fat boy. So shout out Shout out to Fat Boy. My dog just celebrated a birthday as well, so definitely happy, happy birthday to you as well, my brother. But shout out to Fat Boy. On the, on the email again, going through, you know, two of his big, you know, words that describe or consist of manhood, family's discipline and integrity. So, you know, listen, shout out to you, my boy, discipline and integrity. Without those two, we can't hold manhood together. So definitely having a discipline to complete any tasks that you set out to do and then having the integrity as well to be a man of your word and do what you say you're gonna do. I. I definitely agree. Fat Boy. Definitely agree with those. Let's see here. Definitely with the criticism and critique, I will look and aim to stay on course as far as tying everything back to manhood that we, that we talk about. So I appreciate that. Let's see here. He was on point with the fans. Pittsburgh, Philly, Dallas, New England, Green Bay. I'll put the 49ers in that mix. See who else. It feels like someone's missing out of there. Washington, to me, is right on the cusp of that mix. Miami is one of them. That's right on the. The, you know, the cusp of that. Of that, like that fan hood. But definitely I appreciate the. Appreciate the email, appreciate the feedback. Once again, shout out to Fat Boy. Fat Boy. The biggest. So I wanted to go ahead to our building Wisdom segment for the week with our building Wisdom segment. Wanted to do it a little bit differently this week. I don't ex. I don't specifically have, like, an audio that I'm gonna play, but I will go through first. Let's see here a couple of quotes from cousin Jerome. So the first quote was a Monday motivation this week, and it was the most wasted of all days, is one without laughter. That was by E.E. cummings. Let me see here. Just for the name, for the dude's name. That's it. And then let's see here. The other one is well ordered self love is right and natural. So shout out. That's the two pieces of wisdom that we'll build on this, this week, matter of fact. Yeah, well, I could give y' all one more from George Washington Carver. And it is. How far you go in life depends on your being 10 with the young compassionate, with the aged sympathetic, with the striving intolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these. And that's by George Washington Carver. Shout out to him. So, yeah, those was our quotes for the week on Building Wisdom. But the, the last couple of episodes I did, I failed to discuss this and I wanted to bring this up with y'. All. So at the wedding a couple weeks ago that I djed, when we were sitting at brunch on a Saturday, we would shout out, well, no, I ain't going to shout out that restaurant in Colombia. Because it was, it was. Nevermind. So when we were sitting down at brunch, I posed the question to the gentleman and I told him if we were given 100k wired to our account tax free by, I think this was Saturday. And I said, by Wednesday coming. What are you doing with the money? You got a lot, you know, some. You got a lot of job. In other words, to every dollar. Like, got to give me the breakdown by dollar amount all the way down to it. And got a lot of great conversation from that healthy conversation. And then a week ago, when me and my guys that go fishing, me and my fishing buddies, we were out fishing and I posed the same question to them. And again, an awesome conversation, awesome dialogue came from it. The purpose originally for doing so was I want us to all get on the mindset of, of, you know, again, wealth being a mindset, it's not the tangible, you know, the actual capital that we got or the liquid, you know, money that's in our bank account or anything like that. But wealth is a mindset. So that mindset that we gotta get transformed into is just how we thinking about some of the things. If you're thinking of prosperity and you're thinking, you know, of that day, or always optimistic that you'll have more than $10,000, more than $50,000 in your bank account, more than $100,000 in your bank account, and you're an optimistic person, an auspicious person, or somebody that thinks, you know, of success all the time or, or prospering, then you gotta think about what you would do with the blessings that you get from God. So that's why I propose that question to my, to my circle. And in doing so, I want to pose that out there to you guys as the audience. If you was given 100k two days from now, wired to your account, tax free, you ain't got to worry about none of the taxes on it. What are you doing with the money? Where, where is the money being allotted to and things like that. So in our conversation, a lot of the gentlemen definitely was discussing high yield savings accounts and stocks, like things where the money could make money for them. You know, putting a portion of that in there. I had a lot of gentlemen down in Columbia. It was talking about buying, buying a truck or buying trucks, starting up a fleet of trucks and stuff to, to look. To start up a truck business. A lot of men were talking about debt and, you know, relieving themselves of their debt that they currently have. Wow. And putting down payments either on houses or cars. While I had some of my frat brothers and close friends that took the other perspective on it and was like, from right now, if I'm in debt and it's not hurting me actively or is not horrible, I'll continuously, you know, continue my habits of paying this debt down and do something different with that money. Excuse me. I had my buddy, he suggested that he would use that money as leverage to take out a loan then for that amount and be able to use that, that money with that loan to do more things. So there's a lot of different ways and a lot of different conversations that came up from that question. So I'm definitely grateful for them to the most high for even presenting me with that question or, or you know, kind of nudging me to ask my friends and, and colleagues and stuff that question because the, the fruit that it beared was, was awesome conversation and stuff like that. So again, feel free to write us at mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatory ot704gmail.com or call into the show 704-781-7011 and let me know what you would do with 100k tax free if it was wired to your account in two days and you knew that you were getting it. What, what, what are some of the things that you would do with that? All right, so let's see here. It's moving right along to my. One of my favorite parts of the show. I finally remembered what, what I wanted to call this, this segment. And it's really some semblance of get it off your chest. But it's got to be slash random thoughts as well, because I don't want it to have the negative connotation that I'm just grumpy and these is all just gripe fest and stuff like that. Sometimes it's random thoughts, you know, if I'm just, you know, curious and thinking about something and I'm by myself, I'll jot it down. So is random thoughts slash get it off your chest? And when y' all are writing in, feel free to get it off your chest and let me know whatever you gotta get off your chest. Something is Just bothering you or whatnot. This is a safe space. Trust me. I'm going to do my best to, you know, read it with. With no biases and so that y' all will be able to get it off your chest, if you will. So let's see here. This week on get it off your chest, what we got, it's actually a continuation from last week with the fashion thing. Some stuff I didn't get to say, actually, about hating fashion. Let's see here. The. So with the fashion thing, there's, like, when I was younger, we had fakes and all of that stuff as well. You had your counterfeits, but right now, the counterfeits are a little bit unbelievable. All right, can I be real, real quick? The counterfeit. Hold on. [00:19:27] Speaker B: He about to get this work. He about to get this work. [00:19:32] Speaker A: So the counterfeits nowadays. Yo, I don't believe you. If you got any kind of chrome hearts, I'm be real with you. If you're working with me at the warehouse and you got on chrome hearts, I don't believe you. All right. I don't believe that. I don't. I don't believe them. What else? The denim tears. See a lot of y' all throwing denim tears just around and, you know, y' all cutting grass in them and all of that type of stuff. We don't believe you. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. It's just not realistic. I don't think that you really got denim tears. Let's see here. So, yeah, the fake chrome hearts. Fake denim tears. All right, there's another thing that I got to get off my chest. If you was about to say something to me, and you don't have to say it anymore. You don't like, something's convicting you to not really say it anymore. If you say it anyways, that defeats the purpose of saying. I was about to say. Does that make sense, y'? All? So if you're chilling and then you chilling with somebody, and they just be like, oh. Because I was about to say, nah, nah. It comes. It comes more so in, like, favor form a lot of times and be like, yo, what you doing? And I would say, like, about to leave for work. Oh, okay. Because I was about to say, if you could stop by here, drop off a bag of chips for me, then I can't stand. And I was about to say it because you said it. You said it. So there's no reason to say. I was about to say, if you. If you said it already. Moving forward. Let's see here. Any people that posture, as in. They try to posture themselves as bigger or better than the Internet, and above all that fray. And they try to use this term by saying it. Let's see here. It'll say. They'll say, like, man is goofy. I ain't even on this goofy Internet shit. Or these online games. I ain't even with them online games for referral. I ain't playing them online games. All of that. That. Yeah. And then ends up. Or proceeding to play the Internet games or they're doing that on the Internet. We all know somebody like that or people like that. The other. I'm actually a victim of doing this, but it's still something that I got to get off my chest. I. I do this all the time, y'. All. But a person that says, imma be honest, or I'm gonna keep it a stack. I'm gonna keep it a hundred with y'. All, I'm not gonna lie like that. In the back of my mind, I subconsciously think like, yo, so you. So you be lying then. You know what I'm saying? So you. So you weren't actually a. You're not. You're a liar. You know, not right now. Because you're telling me you're gonna be honest with me right now, but you're like, yo, I'm gonna keep it. I'm keep it a buck with you. I'm keep it. Yeah, I'm gonna keep it a stack with you. Yeah, I'm gonna be real. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. Like, all of that just scream. I don't know. Not manipulative, but it just screams like you're trying to kind of get over or get over with your words or whatnot. But nevertheless, like I said, I actually do that all the time. So that's one that I'm actually a victim of. And then let's move forward. Yeah. The other one is if you say, like, you're in a conversation with someone back and forth, and then you say, yeah, but they think that you said huh, and they repeat it, but you. All you're doing is confirming what they said, and you say, yeah, but they think you said huh, and so they end up repeating what they're saying is that's. That. That's something that grinds my gears. You know what I mean? Yeah. So. And then what we was thinking about doing, we going to go to kw, and then we was going to go to City Trans. Huh? I said, we was going to go to K W and then we was going to go to. So that's what it may be. It may be like if you saying huh. And then they take it as they, they hear that they, they'll hear the end of that and all they hear is huh. And then they go to repeating what they done said. But those, those are just what I had to get off my, you know, get off my chest this week, if you will. You know, say it with your chest. Get my gripes out. Random thoughts, if you will. Right. So never. Nevertheless, we're gonna go ahead and move forward. And this week's episode is in some ways a continuation of the last episode. I'm going to title this week's episode the Numbers Game. And in that I wanted to let y' all know, like as a continuation of last week. Cause there were some things that I missed when I was listening back to the show. But I can recall a couple weeks ago when I was about to record this show and I went into work, it was Thursday night. Cause it was after the Thursday night football game. And whenever I went into work, this dude was walking past me, he was getting off of work around like let's say 11 o', clock, 11:30 at night. The Thursday night football game had just ended. All you hear him say is all he needed was 4 yards. And I look back like, wait, hold up, brother. You. Hey. Okay, okay. It's the gambling vibes, of course, you know what I'm saying? So I, I wanted to mention that last week because it was just a funny anecdote, kind of illustrates how we all are zeroing in on different stats, numbers and things like that. And that's kind of the root of the conversation with the numbers. I, I pay attention to it only because it, I, I think that it serves as a distraction a lot of times to keep us away from the true numbers that matter. If that makes sense what I'm saying. Right. So time, of course the most important asset to us. So hours, minutes, years or whatnot. And then of course currency. I'm be real, like currency is another valuable asset and thing that couldn't. Okay, it can never be over quantified. Money or time, that's, that's two of our important things that we need to know how to quantify. Need to know that kind of the ins and outs of it. But all the other numbers that we deal with in society, I think that we deal with like an over quantification, if you will, in society. I'm trying to, you know, we got to be. Hold on, y'. All. Hold on real quick. Because I told y', all, we be having these, like, moments on here where they're like divinity kind of intersects with, like the divine order just intersects with what some people may call coincidence and stuff like that. From day one, we've been championing intellectualism and fighting against anti intellectualism just for a couple of weeks ago for all of that stuff to go down with Joe Budden and the Native Land podcast, where they kind of attacked Joe Budden's podcast for their anti intellectualism. But nevertheless, man, I digress. I do want to pick up on that a little bit later, but I digress. I brought up the over quantification and over quantifying things to say, like in our space and in our community. Listen, man, as long as the research backs it up and you got a nice prefix and suffix, if y' all want to try to create and STEPHEN A. Some words in here and y' all emails and in your voicemails, feel free, all right? But make it. Make it be. Just keep it. Keep it cute, all right? Don't let's not over pontificate and all of that. That's not over. Stephen A. It. But anyways, the over quantification of society where we count everything and we think about numbers all the time. So at first, I was gonna like, kind of name and put the term arithmomania to the front of this episode. However, arithmetia is more or less like that compulsive disorder to count and to have to count. So I think there's a clear distinction and people know or have seen maybe perhaps by television programming and stuff, where people suffer from arithmetia. And I think there's a big difference. However, it, you know, again, same ballpark, perhaps same city block that it. That it resides on. Because what I see now is everyone talks in numbers. And I have a list of things that I want to go through with regards to that. But it seems like the language of today is numbers, and it could get sickening at times. And it also can serve as a distraction to some of the numbers that really matter and that are really important. Right? So to start off to give y' all an example of what I'm talking about. And again, I pray that I make sense to people out there whenever I be speaking my language, because sometimes I'm just spitting what's going on in my mind. And it may not come across as succinctly or to make as much sense, but things like on different. Keep in mind different podcasts, radio shows, different mediums of entertainment. We get into different number related things. So the first thing I have listed here is top 10 list in every iteration of it. When I was on my last podcast, Carolina Sports Talk. Yeah, I'll be on the lookout for that. I gotta just get together with Cliff on the same page about when we kind of coming back. But I always used to get on Big Cliff about different Mount Rushmores top ten list all time, top five all time list. Because call me grumpy if y' all will, but I'll be like, what is that doing for me? Like, that's not. I know it's for fun and everything like that. But ranking anything will always end up being subjective. You can back it up with as many, like stats and qualifiers and things like that. But ultimately the ranking of something like a top 10 list or any iteration of it is going to be subjective. Which is why publications like Rolling Stone or Billboard will always get the public outcry that they get and the public discourse that they get from releasing different lists and different articles like that. Everyone's going to have an opinion on it, right? Everybody. So having an opinion or the opinions on those lists are like, everybody got one. I see what I did there. All right, but the second one, let's say, what do they call that? Bd, bds Spins, maybe, or record sales in general. Right? All of the kind of record sales and things like that that was made popular to me by 50, when 50 was going at Kanye and also when 50 was going back and forth with Cameron. This is around 2005. It's going back and forth with Cameron. Cameron had just got. Well, Jim Jones got a deal with Koch at the time. And Jim Jones was a part of Dipset. Of course, Cameron. I mean, excuse me, 50. He's at the radio station and he was talking numbers. He's talking. He was getting ready to drop what would be named Curtis, but he was getting ready to drop that. And he was talking about numbers and billboards and he was the. He was one of the first artists to bring that stuff to the forefront. When he was talking about that stuff, Cameron calls into the radio station. They're going back and forth. Cameron's antagonizing 50 by calling him Curtis, which we. Which he would then go on to name his album. But the root of their argument and their discourse and stuff was about records being sold, who's selling the most, who's getting most more radio spins. And Cameron's argument back then, which makes a lot of sense now was their lion's share of the pot that they was getting with Koch and the money that they was getting with Koch. They didn't have to sell that many records at the time. So this is what I'm saying. It's like people, there's the people can blind you with numbers. In other words. Let me finish, try to complete my thoughts one at a time. I'm jumping all over the place. People can blind you with numbers. So Jay Z once famously said at an award show. And that's the. I did want to get that clip, but I don't got that clip. He said, men lie, women lie, numbers don't. And everybody, oh man, it's Jay Zitten. And it's like, nah, no, no, no, no, no, no. Numbers do lie my way. Numbers do. In, in certain, in certain circumstances. To me, numbers do lie. They don't tell or they don't tell the full story all the time. They, they paint a narrative that you want them to paint whenever you're speaking numbers. So that record Sal, we just gotta keep it real. But the top people that are selling records, if they don't own most of their publishing or their masters and stuff like that, then what, what, you know, it's a great feat, but what are we really talking about? You know? So just, just to put that in perspective, the next thing kind of. This one really, this should have been on the. Get off, get it off your chest segment. This one, Views. When you're talking about views. Views, Views, views. The Views game is a game for advertisers. So if you own your stuff, you're looking to quantify views and turn that over, pardon me, to advertisers to justify them paying you certain dollar amount for the ad space on your content. So that's, that's the main leverage point with Views. There's people that don't even know that and are, you know, bragging about their views and stuff like that. And then let's say, for instance, people that do know that, there are people that do know that, but then they manipulate the conversation and talk about views to pretty much hypnotize their audience. Or like, you know, again, the. You, you distracting us from what really matters. So in other words, we associate nowadays a million. The number million. We associate the number billion. We associate the number hundred thousand. We associate that with currency, with money. All right, when people start talking about views with that, then you'll start to get distracted and, and not confused. But again, you just get distracted from where the real source or where the Important numbers are so somebody just bragging about the views that they've had. If they've been doing YouTube for 10 years and they've consistently been putting out videos, salute and kudos to their consistency. However, if you tell me that you have over a billion views, you know, over the last 10 years, that's a great accomplishment. But don't make it seem like. Don't speak about it as if you're a billionaire, if you will, you know, again, pray that this makes sense to who it needs to. But that views stuff is cool. But again, we. People use that stuff to kind of. To law themselves up or to boost themselves up is because we got a society where it's people that feel like they need to celebrate themselves because nobody else is celebrating them or promote themselves, rather, in order to make it, of course, because nobody else is going to promote you. So the best way to promote yourself is, you know, talk about your accolades and your accomplishments and stuff, but it just comes off inflated with hubris, y'. All, you know, inflated with pride. So nevertheless, that was the second one, the views game that YouTube people be playing and, and content creators or, or, you know, musicians play that, that Views game as well. The next one that I had listed was followers and subscribers. This one, it's. I'mma tell y'. All like this Kai would have, A month ago, he would have caught some strays on this portion of it. But I, I got grace and I don't even. I don't even. I don't got no smoke from my. From the young man, the young king Kai. Well, the once one piece of smoke that I got for him is his con, his comments with regards to culture and black Americans not having any. Still got to see about that guy. But outside of that, when it comes to the Mafia thon that he did in October, he garnered over a million subscribers and was in a great accomplishment, an awesome feat. He topped what he's done the past two years in his previous Mafia thons. So it was an awesome thing for him to accomplish. The whole time, though, again, my mind, in the back of my mind was going, who's. Who's he making money for? In other words, who's the people behind the scenes that are just rubbing their hands together like Birdman and watching this kid sacrifice his energy, sacrifice all of his time, 24 hours a day for 30 days straight to, you know, to accomplish these feats that are not like, that are not housed on our platforms or an independent platform, if you will. So it's not me over analyzing it or looking for something to hate about it. It was just me thinking, like earnestly thinking with my genuine naivete, those type of questions. Who's. Who's getting the money? The fact that it is broadcast on, you know, this platform. How, how is that lion's share going? You know, is everything what it seems whenever it comes to the production of it all and stuff? And you know, how much, in other words, like, how much genuine appreciation that I would have for, let's just say, for instance, a content creator or someone doing something from the ground up and building something on their own. Was I, you know, kind of given to that situation, like costing. That is a. Is a business, right? It's a brand. So that, that was a production. There's, there's plenty of people that are invested in Kai not failing and in Kai succeeding at that. Million subscribers. So those were the questions that were going on in my mind. But again, that million subscribers. Million subscribers. Million subscribers was thrown in our face and put on front street. And then not more than a month later, they're announcing that some other. I gotta do the research on this and get back with y'. All. But they're announcing that some other content creator is the highest subscribed or the most subscribed person on screen on, on Twitch. And then also that Kai needs to do more work if he wants to be considered amongst the greats with the streaming that he has to do more. This is for the words of the founder or the, the CEO of Twitch. You know, the. One of your MVPs, Michael Jordan is on the court for the Bulls and you saying, yeah, he needs to do some more work after he got you the three P, like, are you kidding me? So when I saw that my anger for Kai and stuff definitely is directed more toward the owners, and I think that's where a lot of my original anger was towards and rooted in anyways. Because I know that this is an exploit exploitation game, of course. And you know, I can't be mad if you figured out your business model if you're the owner of Twitch or if you're the owner of Patreon, if you're the owner of YouTube or whatnot. I can't be mad at your business model. But just keeping everything in perspective. The people that you put as the front people oftentimes are not respected and are disposable, especially if they are black, let's call it for what it is. But they often are disposable and forgotten about at any given moment. So after they put their blood sweat and tears into your product and building up your product and your platform. So ultimately, like the CEO of Twitch or whatever, whoever was talking about Kai with that after he did that 30 day map, 30 day marathon of streaming for 24 hours, seven days a week, which was wild. And shout out to Kai, brother. We love to that young brother. Yeah. So past the subscribers then you have now, of course, people are quantifying and measuring impressions. So they've combined it all. A thumbs up, a heart, thumbs down. Any. Anything that evokes emotion and evokes for someone to interact with. Your post is considered an impression. And now we're tallying all of those up so people can be like, yeah, no, these posts got over a million impressions. Over a billion impressions. Like, come on man, let's stop again. We're over quantifying things in our society. Moving right along. Know the sports odds thing? Sports odds have become its own language in our society with how popular gambling and sports betting has gotten. So you hear people with odds. I'm, I'm fluent in sports odds. I'm. What's. What's the level that's lower than fluid affluent. I'm conversational in sports odds when we talk in sports odds. So, niggas. Yeah, the Knicks got, you know, the Timberwolves tonight, they got, they got the Knicks for 15 point or as the over, whatever. Yeah, I know I could kind of break down what people are saying. Or the over on the Knicks Timberwolves game tonight is going to be 215. Like, I can understand those things. The under is this. But outside of wait, I'm going to get to sports and games in a second. But outside of the sports odds, do y' all know people that know for a fact that they know every athlete's like, dimensions or whatnot? Like, it'll be like, yeah, nah, dog. Yeah, Kobe was 6, 822-65-65 or whatever. You know, that's, that's wild. Dimensions. Like, he wasn't 265, but y' all get what I'm saying? Like, yeah, Zion. Oh, Zion. Six, nine. Zion. Six, nine, 281. How do you know exactly what this person weighed when they got up this morning? Like, oh, yeah, nah. Oh, ad. Ad. Wingspan is 7 4. And then, yeah, he just weighed 100. Like, nah, there's no. How do y' all know all of that information? There's too much stats. We're overstated. Overstated. All right, this one kind of goes into the record sale thing, but over, over, blank, sold. So you started seeing that in McDonald's advertising, it was put in over billions or billions and billions sold daily, or over a billion sold and stuff like that. So, yeah, that. That was. That was corny. I think one version of it also is in video games. And nowadays in video games with. With roblox and with 2k is going to be in a new GTA somehow, some way, of course. But you got a virtual money that you end up spending money on. You buy packs of the virtual money and then you actually move around. And in order to even be halfway decent in the game, you, like in a decent amount of time, if you don't want to spend your time just sucking pause for, like, being very bad at the game for, like, however many months, you buy these virtual packs of virtual money and boost your person up. So that's another way that I think numbers is being kind of misused, if you will. Let's see here in the Overblank soul. And I think one version of it as well is like the hypothetical verses or battles that we. Yo, can we hang that up, y'? All? Can we hang that up? I'm just tired of it. So, I mean, the cash money, no limit, versus happened a couple weeks ago when I was at the wedding. And I don't know what's up with Birdman, y', all, but nevertheless, to close out my point with. With the numbers game again, people talking about battles or the verses, and they'll go down about 10 songs each. And my. 10 for your 10 or this 20 for that 20 and all that stuff. Again, we're talking about followers and everything like that. Listen, focus on the quality of what you're doing. Let's not focus on the quantity, okay? That's. That. That. That sums it up essentially, is focus on the quality. Don't focus on the quantity. Okay? I think another thing that I kind of said back in the past was like, focus on the outcome and not the income, all right? But focus on the quality and not the quantity of your work and. And the people and the views and all of these other numbers and things like that. They'll come, but we think tend to think about the numbers on the front end of stuff and try to do things so that we can get those numbers first. And it just puts us all the way back real quickly on that. Versus, though, to get back to Birdman. Yeah, Playboy, it just displayed a lot of Arrested Development on there. He may have a lot of personal things going on with Turk or. Or things internal going on with Cash Money as a whole, but that was tasteless for what he said at the end of the end of the battle or end of the verses, toward the end of verses, it showed much dissension and a lot of things. What we have seen in all of these verses consistently is the group that is aiming to show solidarity and show unity is normally the group that comes out on top whenever it's groups. And if there is dissension and tension and stuff in groups, we have seen it on these verses spillover. Like we. We've seen where it's evident with niggas just don't each other and we've seen where niggas do each other. So, you know, there's that with that on. On the verses and everything. That went off on a tangent, but it bothered me or whatnot. So, you know, again, shout out to or brotherly love rather to Master P. Definitely holding it down with the verses. Let's really back in, y'. All. I wanted to. Before we get out of here and stuff like that. Did want to go over some hot star bars this week or whatnot. So the first one. Let's get the first one out the way real quick. Is by my main man, Curtis King D, the CEO of the DIYers, if you will, or the founder of the DIYers on YouTube. But he had this kind of, you know, little freestyle that he did and put together. It was fire and I wanted to show him some love with that. Huh. [00:48:59] Speaker D: Let's see. The first time that I made a rap was on a tape deck CD player Looping the beat I think from bear share Looking at the ceiling Cause I don't know what I' ma say yet Scribbling on paper like I'm trying to sign a patient I was broken in the condom having safe sex I felt rich Cause I really love the process Back when if he was preaching quantity over quality we kick you out the studio or smack you in your mouthpiece Now I'm in the air full of dopings addicted to attention through a phone screen and even though we both like to live stream you be clarinet into an audience that don't read straight face I da Vinci when I'm on the lease and every day I gotta fight against this dopamine but what's the war to me? I've been through more than three breathes that was a message for my O ring get out my DMs you know you can't record with me yeah, you got clout but you still can't afford to feed what you cook the masses you can never cook for me who can cook the fastest? You niggas ain't got no decency. Curtis King is just a product of the blockbuster. Please be kind and rewind on the top cover Every DVD that I bought, I owe nothing. But every streaming site that I'm on, I own. Nothing got off of Spotify. I really think I'm on something. Selling a high yard for a premium and I'm not budget, you ain't gotta like it. That's the problem. Now y' all wanna be likable, but I was born to be a product child. Diy, a catalyst, that's what I supply. Even at the speed of analog, it'll never die. Can somebody tell me where did the time go? [00:50:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's my main man, Curtis King. Gotta show him some love, you know what I mean? A little bit of brotherly love. He. He slapped that up. Shout out to my brother. Like that, like that. And this next one, y', all, so just get this ready. So Smack Smack White, he dropped loaded Lux versus New Jersey twerk. So on YouTube, which is big, they normally be dropping their battles on URL tv. This battle kind of served as a commercial for the app and to push traffic toward their website. So I. I mess with Smack for doing that. That was. That was dope. And I'm glad that he put this out for the culture. I want to go through a couple of high star bars here, y'. All. I'm not going to dissect them. I just. These are a couple highlights from the battle that I wanted to play for, y'. All. All of these highlights this week is going to be from Loaded Lux, just because these are the timestamps that I got prepared. I will say, though, New Jersey twerk, he did do his thing. He prepared. He didn't fumble heavily. He wasn't horrible or nothing like that. It's just that Loaded Lux was. Was the legend that he is, and he showed us why. Why he's that legend. So we're gonna play a couple of bars from all of. From some of Lux rounds and. Yeah. And then we'll go ahead and do some brotherly love. I see a email just came in as well, so read that, and then we'll get on out of here. But let's start here. This is the first round is how Lux came. This. This how Lux came on to the battle. Mind you, New Jersey twerk, he got arrested in Charlotte maybe a week before the battle, and. And his mug shot and stuff was all over the Internet, so that was a big thing. So Lux spends The first maybe five minutes of his round or, excuse me, like, exaggerating, but two minutes of his round or so. Just clowning, twerk, being locked up and everything like that. But this line right here is the first line that where he kind of, kind of. With battle rappers, they'll take you through emotions. So if a battle. What they'll do that I like a lot is like, if they're joking, they'll get serious and. And say, like, a serious bar, that'll kind of change the whole mood of the room. So with this bar that I started off with, it was like the first bar that he said that was like. That got the room attention. Like, oh, nah, this ain't, like, loaded. Lux ain't come to play. So let's go ahead and go through a couple of the timestamps here in the battle, though. Y' all give me one second here. [00:53:10] Speaker B: Rest of the money with a live gun. Listen, man, it's so crazy. You were so scared of these balls, nigga. You went and got behind some, huh? I'm just going with it. I'm just going with it. I'm going with it. This your second time here. Welcome back. This my first time in London and guess who to welcome at. I'm hopping off the how to start this gonna work this it won't work. [00:53:47] Speaker A: In. [00:53:50] Speaker B: How do we start this? Hopping off the starship I'm taking pictures Stepping on a red carpet on my RIP Nipsey hussle is still a marathon shit a lot of minds need me jogging on who running this? As the memory laps continue to pack the venue. I killed your cousin Perhaps you vengeful Tonight we got a Jersey Devil But God knows his levels the sin ain't that prudential but the act is simple so data get booked like apps for Kindle he could have turned the other cheek. Look what he decided to face. So we at the temple this pray smack it simple. [00:54:25] Speaker A: All right, all right, cuz. I got to get some of these other bars. But he was. He was walking on that like, cuz, I. I won't remember this, but toward the end, at the side of his face, smack his temple. The prudential line with the New Jersey Devil. But it was more or less about that first part, right? Like this your second time in London. Welcome back. This my first time in London. The crowd was having a blast. They like, yeah. And guess who the welcome mat like. And then he went on proceeded because New Jersey twerk is a blood. And throughout the. Yeah, I'm not going to get into Affiliations. But he said, how do I start? Lux, mind you said, how do I start this? I'm getting out the. Getting off the plane, stepping on the red carpet just to go back to saying, you know, guess who to welcome at. So that. Yeah, I start bars, man. That's how he started. That's how boy started the. The. The vibes off. So then, let's see here. We're gonna go to 3000, 320. Let's see. [00:55:35] Speaker B: This nigga's the mobile giant. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Hello. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, these just stole my wallet. Y' all don't get this. First place at the community carnival. Big teddy bear ass out of here. I don't care what the trophy size is. I don't want no surprises. What we going by then, huh? I let you pick. We rated just to show you the entertainment. Smacks hit that first half. Soon as the cream made it, you was cremated. [00:56:00] Speaker A: So, yeah, that's another tough one real quick. Smack sent the first half of the bread. As soon as the cream made it, you was cremated. Simple. Straight to the point. All right. In and out. Okay. All right. We're not. We're not here to play no games with you. That was High Star bars. And you could tell by the way that that twerk was looking in the face like, yeah, these. These hitting your soul. So these last couple. These are the last two that I got. [00:56:34] Speaker B: As long as Smack White put it in black and white, I'm shooting everything in the house like the honeymooners get the luggage moving. [00:56:42] Speaker A: As long as Smack White put it in black and white, I'm shooting everything like the honeymoon is calm. I was calm, y'. All. 5,000, 520. This will be the last one before we get to our mail from the day. [00:56:58] Speaker B: Stop. This Electric Slide fans ain't even want your performances televised. They told Jersey, hang it up. We know about all the checks you done blew. It's been verified, nigga. When you first debuted, you had the crowd mesmerized. Now y' all just hoping he got them rounds memorized. What happened? [00:57:20] Speaker A: So that. Yeah, that was another quick one that he threw in there again, these. It got surgical or whatnot for twerk. I'm gonna be real with y'. All. There I go again. But I'll be real with y'. All. But it got surgical for twerk. You know, when you first started, you had them, the crowd mesmerized. Now they just hoping that you got them rounds memorized. Calm, calm. I stop bars, man. Shout out to Lux and. And, yeah, so I got one Email that came in. So before we leave, I want to go ahead and. And read that. Let's see here what we got. All right, Random the emails title, Random thoughts. I'm reading this fresh live, so I didn't get a chance to vet this, y'. All. DJ High Star. One thing that grinds my gears new I've been saying is that bothered. Excuse me, Is that's bothering me or Irritating Ronnie? I gotta read through that. One thing that grinds my gear is new I've been saying is that's bothering me. I don't know. But anyways, okay, so these. These are a couple that he has listed. When get talking crazy by their significant other and don't say nothing to them, but want to have a lot of air in their chest when they talk to you. Like, why is you coming at me like that? I'm just. The radio guy should be bothering me. I get that one. I get that one. When get to talking crazy and they buy their significant other, but they don't say nothing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get talked to. When get talked to crazy by their significant other and they don't say nothing to them, but they want to have a lot of air in their chest when they talk to you. Like, why are you coming at me like that? Yeah, yeah. I'm just a radio guy. Okay, I get that one. Get that one. Yeah. Don't. Don't pop with me, homeboy. Take care of your home. And a lot of times if they are popping with you is because they upset of something going on at home. But that's another thing. Number two, if I throw you an alley with a lady and you don't share pics with me. Nah, that sounds selfish, but without me, you're not even slamming shorty. Irritating Ronnie. Okay, okay, all right. I get that. If. If it's a. If it's a bop that you're living vicariously through you, through your man's. If it's not. If you're not setting them up. If you're not setting them up for, like, a wifey situation, I definitely get that. It's definitely selfish. And then number three, as men, especially friends, we have to stop running away from tough conversations. Like, put your big boy's pants on and talk that shit out. Stop being scared and stop irritating Ronnie. Look, I gotta. Okay, I don't want to give out no governments, but shout out to Ronnie. Shout out to fat boy. This is from fat boy or whatnot, so shout out. And I agree with that, number three. Definitely. And. And word To Fat Boy. That ties us back to manhood all day. Like, you got to be able to have tough conversations. You got to be able to not be able not take things personally and not be emotional about stuff, quote, unquote, over personalized stuff, right, y'? All? So big, big, shout out and salute to Fat Boy for the letter for the email again. I'm not sending another $10, though. Happy birthday as well, man. You got your money. You got your beer money, man. Shout out to the gritty, though. We will be getting popping with the gritty, too. You know what time it is, Fat Boy. So definitely brotherly love to my. To my brother, Fat Boy. Brotherly love to Big Cliff. Of course, brotherly love to Mixmaster T. My man. My main man, Old Man Q. We all went to Eddie's place. So, old man, excuse me. Old Man Eats, Mandatory eats would hypothetically go over Eddie's place that's out here in Charlotte, because we just hit that. But all my guys, brotherly love to Carlos, of course, my brother Los, and all the brothers of Omega Psi5 Fraternity Incorporated, of course. Brotherly love to y'. All. We're talking about content creation, of course. Brotherly love Curtis King, brotherly love. Screw Face John. Brotherly love to Omizi. Brotherly love to Antonio speaks as always. Brotherly love to Santana reacts some brotherly love to rap Latte Torre and King Green whatnot. But ultimately, I want to go ahead and close this thing out, y'. All. I appreciate. I appreciate all your time and everything like that. And this is with supreme, supreme faith that's in God. A prayer that's straight from the heart. May the ego and the hubris never break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody's ever told you before, I love you. All right. I know you gonna dig y'. All. Have a good one, man. We'll catch y' all on the next episode of Mandatory Overtime. [01:02:52] Speaker B: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [01:02:55] Speaker A: You don't gotta go home. But you. [01:02:57] Speaker B: You can't stay here. Closing time. [01:03:08] Speaker A: Do the knowledge. I know you going to dig this. [01:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah, that's all she wrote, man. About time, man. What you getting into this weekend, man? Nothing, bro. I'm locked in, man. I signed up for that overtime they put on the wall over there. Like you not you not leaving with us right now. Four shifts, man. Did nobody want it? Ain't never hurt. Is that something? Is that legal? Can you work four consecutive shifts? They might as well put me in bed in the break room. No, I just. I just thought you was gonna be leaving because you know our kids. Graduation. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Graduation. [01:03:42] Speaker C: Putting money in my pocket. Is graduation paying my bills? Exactly. Come on, man. [01:03:48] Speaker A: Man. [01:03:49] Speaker C: Exactly. My check gonna have 160 hours on it. It's only 168 hours in a week. I slept an hour and 14 minutes every day in between these shifts. [01:03:58] Speaker A: Boy. [01:03:59] Speaker C: Locked in. Come on. You can go see your kid walk across the stage or whatever with that. That's important to you. [01:04:11] Speaker A: Like that. Like that. Like that.