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[00:00:03] Speaker A: Y. Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for O.T. listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:25] Speaker B: Please let me work. [00:00:26] Speaker A: Let me work. Please. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Let me. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Thing something like that. Something like that. That's an adjective. Can I use a word that I've already used? Sure, go ahead. Eclectic. Say it again. Eclectic. It's eclectic. Well, the heavy on the N, because there's no N in it. No, no, no, no. It's my word. Oh. Let's unpack this. Okay, Got it. Sure. Word. Nclectic. Spell it for me. N, C, L, E, C, T, A. Okay. Nclectic. Nclectic. Do you want to know what the N stand for? Nigga tree. Am I right? Yeah. Okay. Respectful. You see where I was going? Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, I know there's a new word we got to hit up. Webster? No, we ain't got to hit up nobody. Oxford? Nobody. Why would we do that? Do they relate to us? I'm pretty big on words. It's kind of how I make my money, but I don't know. Describe your style in one word. What's going on, y'? All? What's going on, everybody? How's everybody doing, y'? All? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star, here for another episode. The aim here, mandatory overtime, as always, is to recalibrate manhood as we define it, with each conversation in the community, y'. All. And y' all are the community. So shout out to y', all. You know what I'm saying? Simply a audio journal of an 80s, baby. Social experiment, inconsistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me, and for that, I appreciate you. You heard? I appreciate. Now, don't get this confused with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, comment, subscribe, share, and make some noise because your man is here. Very smooth this week, y'. [00:02:37] Speaker B: All. [00:02:37] Speaker A: See? Very smooth. Him saying smooth jazzes. Anywho, reporting live from the 704, Charlotte America was Henning Charlotte America. Oh, I'm sorry real quick, y'. All. My bad, because we actually got. We have the monks in town this week, so we need to preach serenity and go ahead and try to emit the good energy vibes, if you will, while the monks are here in Charlotte, 704. But until then, y', all, you know what I'm saying? What's happening now? Don't Ever get it messed up or confused? We coming into 20, 26. Very diverse on our staff because I got a Russian sound engineer and a check, 1, 2. A check, 1, 2. I think we Gucci. I think we Gucci. Let's go to work. Let's go to work, y'. All. Listen, I want to start off with some revisions real quick from last week or just revisiting the episode, if you will. I'm not sure if y' all caught that nugget at the beginning of the episode of last week, but rest in peace to Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. Also known as Clay Davis on the show the Wire. But rest in peace to that brother. You know, he's known for the she, so I just wanted to definitely show respect in my own creative way, if you will, to him. And so shout out. Brotherly love to you, brother. Thank you for all the art that you put on this earth while you were here. My brother and ancestors, you know, take care of you as you. As you transition and become one of. One of them. Yeah, man. What's going on with y'? All? That's my revision from last week. I think going to go ahead and move forward, actually, this week. And let's talk a little bit of. Let's build a little bit. Yo. How about that? Let me see here. [00:05:03] Speaker B: Is that Prince McKen? Come here, Prince. [00:05:06] Speaker A: What's today's mathematics, yo? [00:05:07] Speaker B: No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:05:10] Speaker A: Build. Destroy. The build is 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 add on 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. Come on, son. Do the knowledge. I know you gonna dig this. All right, so this week we're gonna start off with cousin Jerome and the group chat. Of course, you know he gonna drop some jewels, so I want to start first. I believe this is from Zig Ziglar. Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. Come on, man. It's tough. Straight to the point. Getting straight to the point. Let's see here. Another. This is what this was a Tuesday Truth. Here I am never beyond healing or redemption. So pretty ambiguous, but still valuable. And then this is from Cicely Tyson. Really like this one. The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to Know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat. Tough shout out to Cicely Tyson. Let's see here. So that was some of the. The building wisdom. But I did want to play a clip as well for us this week for building wisdom also. So give me a quick second. Let me go ahead and get this queued up for us. So while I get it queued up, though, just to preface this scene, it's actually a movie scene from the movie the Matrix. So all that have seen the Matrix, y', all, you know, it may be familiar to you, but we're gonna go ahead and kind of dig deep on. On this scene and build some wisdom on it. So see here what we got. You already know if I'm going to take it. Wouldn't be much of an oracle if I didn't. But if you already know, how can I make a choice? Because you didn't come here to make the choice. You've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. All right, so that, again, was a scene from the Matrix. And I just wanted to read the caption from the. From the actual post on X on Twitter. But again is when Neo asks her, the oracle, the classic question, if you already know what I'm going to do, do I really have a choice? And then she hits him with the line, you've already made the choice. You're just here to understand why. And so let's see here. So it kind of breaks down free will. And this is this person's thoughts about free will that posted this on X. But it says free will doesn't exist in the moment. It exists in the identity that leads to the moment. The actions you take right now, they're mostly automatic. So they're shaped by your conditioning experiences, your fears, your habits, and your past. But the person that you're becoming, that's where your freedom actually lives, right? So you don't choose the moment. You choose the man. Or, you know, of course, man or woman that who will meet the moment. So they put it in another way. It says, determinism writes the past, identity writes the future. [00:08:37] Speaker B: Do the knowledge, nigga. [00:08:39] Speaker A: All right, See, because when your life isn't where you want it to be, the answer isn't make better choices. The answer is, become the version of yourself who makes the better choices automatically. That's the real red pill. So that's what they got. I know you gonna dig this. Yeah, man. So shout out to our building wisdom segment for the week. Yo, it's pretty, yeah, it's pretty in depth. I mean, y' all are always welcome to share wisdom that y' all come across, of course. And then any books that y' all have been reading, you know, we have our little book list started lightly from some of our past voicemails and stuff like that. So feel free to contribute to that as you may. And you know, send in that email to mandatoryot704gmail.com mandatoryot704gmail.com or give us a call on the hotline 704-781-7011. Again, that's 704-781-7011. All right, and so let's go ahead and move forward here. I wanted to discuss we don't have any voicemails or any emails, you know, while I'm speaking on it this week. So I did want to go to our Alpha Lunch segment real quick and we can go ahead and talk about it. Child, let's go ahead and talk about it. Ain't nothing to nothing. Nothing crazy to report this week, y'. All. Not crazy to report. I'm actually, actually entered into participating into. See, I can't even get my words out right now. Participating with Reb in Daniel's fast. So, you know, been we started that I think about two days in if you're unaware. Just on the general surface level, no dairy, no processed foods, bread, any meats or food from animals that derives from animals. So that includes eggs as well. So you know, you got to just switch up the vibe and it's for 21 days. So I think on day three, strong, no alcohol, No juices or anything like that. So no body armor, no electrolytes for me, I don't think is the flavoring, all of that, none of that's natural. So if I do want to drink some orange juice or something like that, I could buy the $15 orange juice from Publix that's fresh squeezed and all of that Stu or some pomegranate juice perhaps, I don't know. But until then it's mostly water. So up until then we'll be spinning the block as you will at Kava, making it do what it do all veggies instead of the chicken. I'll stay away from fat boy, you know, with my gas but you know, I won't have no Stellas so perhaps, you know, it'll be a little bit lighter. But again, this is going to be a 21 day journey, y'. All. This is Alpha Lunch segment Then I'm. Oh, and, you know, you can have legumes, trail mix, peanuts, things like that. So that'll be what I'm snacking on fruits and veggies. But, yeah, that's. That's how for lunch segment for the week, y'. All. I did want to. Okay. You know, I want to share, which. I was going back and forth whether I was going to share this, but it's real things heard at work. So DJ High Star is my pseudonym. Right. That's what I go by here at. In Media Land or whatever. But my name is Jerome, y'. All. Right. Yeah, I was looking for a good. A good sound effect for that, but, yeah, my name is Jerome Ex Blackly, and I have, like, two or three Jeromes that work on the shift or the tour with me at work. So while I'm riding past on the forklift, all I hear is one of the other Jeromes, he goes, there you go, there you go, there you go. I stopped real quick. I was about to say what's up? Before I can say, what's up, Jerome goes to another guy there. That's the booty man right there. What? What you just say wrong? The booty man. He has me confused with somebody else, sir. I don't. I'm not. And I'm like, where. Where are you going with this, Jerome you. And he said your name Jerome, ain't it? Yes. Well, what you like flat pancake buns? Huh? You like the flat panc. I guess I don't. I guess I am the bootyman by default, anyways. Yeah. So I don't even know whether to give Jerome brotherly love at this moment or not, but he coined me Jerome the Booty Man. I don't know if. I still don't know if I'm comfortable with that at all, but that was real things heard at work this week, y'. All. Real things heard at work. All right, so that is. That wraps that up. But I wanted to move forward to some random thoughts, and I got some. Get it off your chest. Yeah, I got a little get off your chest here, Stephen. A queen's bread. Run to the front. Around real quick. Come to the front. His most recent YouTube title for video that he's posted reads, all the problems that I have with him. The title of the description is I respond to Don Lemon, Joy Reed, and Jasmine Crockett's recent comments about me. Sassy. Sassy, emotional. Gotta call your queen's brethren. And you're in Omega as well. Come on, man. Sturdy up, man. That's all. That's all. I just got to get that off my chest real quick. I don't even want to get my blood pressure too high with Stephen A. So just gonna go ahead and. And move forward. Let's see here. Barbershop convos and arguments. I was in the barbershop last week, and it dawned on me that is always a. There's a formula with the barbershop argument. And follow me, y', all, but it's always the one guy, boom, that. That sparks it, right? So last week, y' all could guess what the argument was if I put it out there for a little bit, let y' all think about it. Thought Exactly. It was LeBron versus Jordan. Surprise, surprise. So we're in the barbershop, I'm in the chair, and dude just says out of nowhere, he said something along the lines of. I mean, you know, LeBron is. You know how this thing start. I'm just saying, if LeBron had what Jordan had or how whatever point he made, the. The argument got sparked up. So they're going back and forth, and this is getting loud in each other face. A guy next to me, his hair not getting cut because the barber is arguing so passionately, they pulling up stats on their phones and everything like that. And dawned on me, and I turned around to my barber that was cutting my hair. I told him, I said, you know, the guy that sparked this argument that got his haircut already started all of that chaos and trouble and had his hair cut already, right? So as soon as it was at the height of the argument, he was like, he must have got a text from his old lady or something. But he said, all right, I'm holla at y', all, and boogied. Arguments still ensuing, still going back and forth in the barbershop and everything like that. And then the second layer of the argument comes about. That's when somebody from our generation be like, well, what about Mamba, yo? What about Kobe, though? And it just started all over again. Argument just sparked all the way back up. So I kind of. I was able to see and break down the, you know, the. The DNA or the. The structure of. Of a barbershop argument this past week. Wanted to share with y'. All. You know, if y' all see jumping off any other type of ways, y' all let me know as well. But that was for that. I also wanted to bring this up, and I think I wanted to make it a recurring thing for us. But I thought about the other week, people that we've had the Pleasure of seeing while we're here and while we're alive. I wanted to go ahead and show some love to see I was a good producer. I would have some nice, nice music in the background here. But my main man, Howard Stanley Beverly, better known as Frankie Beverly, an American singer, songwriter, and producer, and the founder of the R B group Maze, or Band Maze, excuse me. Frankie Beverly career spanned from the 60s to the 2000s. Of course, he was born 1946 and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And he transitioned September 10, 2024, in Walnut Creek, California. Let me say this real quick before I get to paying my brother homage, though I will never, ever forgive Essence Festival, all right? And what they did, this is call it politics or whatever of who was running it or whatnot, but this festival, all right? And them not showing Frankie Beverly love. Maybe I missed it on a smaller scale, but on a grand scale. That year that he passed in 2020, as I said, 2024. Yeah, in that year that he passed. September of that year was the year that he passed. Y' all had a little minute to get it together, and y' all showed no love to Mr. Essence Festival Frankie Beverly. All right, so Essence Fest. Now, I had the pleasure of seeing Frankie Beverly perform three times. Although, like, the performances, you could tell that his voice was growing weaker and stuff like that, and he was getting older still, the nostalgia and the vibe that was there. So the first one is at a Cincinnati jazz fest, and that's when I first learned about wearing all white to Frankie Beverly Show. So I had to. I was not in all white, but I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. And I learned for my next Frankie Beverly Show. However, on the next show, I had took my mother with me to Columbia, South Carolina. And let's see here. I want to go ahead and play y' all a little clip from the show. I have a couple clips. Here go a clip I'm gonna show y'. All. All right? And let me just say this again. His voice is growing weak. So show. Show my ancestors some love and some grace. Don't be emailing me no nonsense trying to clown Frankie's voice. The brother performed until he transitioned pretty much like, he worked all the way up until. And that. So that was a. That was a bittersweet moments when you would watch him perform, just knowing, like, yo, he's. He's not even at the end of his career, but maybe toward the end of his life. However, again, it was a pleasure, and I'm so blessed to be able to and grateful to be Able to see. So this next one, this was in Columbia as well. Come on, frankie. Hey. Make you really feel like an uncle. You heard? All right, so this last clip real quick, this was in Charlotte in the Spectrum Arena. Got to catch Frankie one last time. This was one of the last times that I got to see him perform. Well, the last time that I got to see him perform. So I wanted to play this for y', all, and let's go. Do the Electric Slide. If y' all want to know, there's live footage. Oh, that was live footage. Live footage. You know, I don't know what my battery life was like in those concerts, but live footage, I'm glad that's what you capture memories for right there. But salute to our brother, Frankie Beverly. Man, Much love to the ancestors. Definitely with that. I'm so blessed and grateful to be able to see you while, you know, throughout my lifetime, in other words, had another random thoughts on here, that was listed as whites we thought were black. So y' all feel free to write in on those two things. People that you've had the pleasure of seeing live throughout your life that you are grateful that you've been able to see greats and then whites that you thought were black. All right, we've been clowning white folk or, like, bringing them to task so much the last couple weeks. And it's not to say like, oh, I want to invite somebody to the cookout. But no, let's go with some tried and true white folks that have been around and that exhibited so much, perhaps through their singing voices or so, or through the athletic ability that we thought that they were black. This is just to have fun. So nobody be serious. Nobody take this seriously. If we didn't know his name, you first heard the song, I would say Robin Thicke. I would definitely put Robin Thicke on there on that list. Tina Marie is the classic one, right? You cannot go wrong with guessing Tina Marie. Let's think. I'm not going with homie. That's the info that. We're not doing that. We're not doing that one. This was. I want to say this was on the. Let's see here. So. So who else? John B. John B. I don't know. Let me know. Again, this is the audio journal of an 80s baby. Michael McDonald. Does he get okay? Bobby Caldwell. Bobby Caldwell definitely gets that pass, though. All right, so y' all give me some of yalls. Some whites that we thought were black, whether they're artists, like singers and rappers or whatnot, or athletes or actors. And actresses, y' all let me know, man. Mandatory ot704gmail.com Mandatory ot704gmail.com Let's see here. Wanted to go ahead and move forward and unfortunately have to discuss this, but I wish we wouldn't have to. Again, like I mentioned to y', all, it's a little bit of sour serendipity that we actually got though. The distracted dystopia that we always talk about just struck again, right? The evil empire, the divided states of America that we reside in has struck again. This time it's affected a white woman. So first and foremost, rest in peace to Renee Nicole, good mother of three again, just who love to, let's see here. Love to sing and write about poetry, but that's kind of the, not the narrative that they're painting but they trying to give context to who this woman was. Just a regular civilian neighbor to many in Minneapolis or whatnot. But she was killed by immigrations and Customs enforcement agent in Minneapolis. Let's see here. Her partner was, was right there. I believe that she had, I'm not sure if she had children in the car or not at the time, but her partner was right there with neighbors across. See here that she's just watching it. She was 37 years old u. S. Citizen see here her ex husband says that she had just dropped off her six year old son at school when she encountered the ICE agents She tried to. Now ICE is claiming that she tried to weaponize her vehicle to run over an officer near an ICE vehicle stuck on the snowline street before he opened fire. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem said too. While we added state and local officials have strongly disputed the claims and they claim that the shooting, which is captured on video, was done in self defense. As tensions explode amid this week's deployment of some 2,000 federal agents as part of the latest surge in Trump's administrative administration's nationwide immigration enforcement crackdown and following claims of welfare fraud in the Somali immigrant community. So what they're sending out there to Minnesota, the agents and stuff that they're deploying, it's a little bit more than immigration enforcement, of course, as we've seen. It is a police state that we live in. That's simply put. So all the entertainment, all that stuff is, you know, come second right now. I think everybody's kind of paused in America. There are some people that are globalist, for lack of better term, for lack of better terms and see this a little bit differently. Almost like what do they call it, like chickens coming Home to roost. But again, life lost. And it's sad and crazy. The juxtaposition that we see with how the administration handles this innocent look from what all accounts show this innocent white woman that was just driving and trying to bust a UE and the January 6th protesters and what they were considered. January 6th, we're considered peaceful protesters by Donald Trump. And he considered her. And she's was being. Being coined a domestic terrorist. She was. People were calling her a domestic terrorist. So it just again describes the divided states of America that we live in here. If you have a moment, I'd always refer back to, you know, the spirit of Radio Raheem Black Love. My piece that I have on YouTube. It just rings true and truer. Sad thing that is ringing truer and truer, regardless if you're black or not, again, is not to minimize anything that we've gone through, because we still go through it every day. Trust. You know, we just kind of on autopilot as far as our defense mechanisms and, and blocking out the microaggressions each day. And now we're starting to see, like, man, this is. This is wild, wild times. Unprecedented times that we live in. So, again, wanted to send condolences and sincerest condolences and sympathy to the family of Renee Nicole Good. And rest in peace to Nicole Renee Nicole Good. Very graphic. What happened. The footage is all over and again, it's being politicized right now. So people are taking sides and. And they're taking out the empathy, which is the worst part of it. So you just hate to see it. You hate to see it. But we did have to. I did need to cover that and show some love to her family, really condemn any of the treatment and the terrorism that these ICE agents are, you know, are committing, if you will, in these respective cities, whether all the way on the west coast, all the way to the Midwest, down to the East Coast. Just wanted to get on air and condemn it because it's trash and mask up. It's cowardly, you know, ice, like Chance the Rapper said. So let's go ahead and move forward here. I know that y' all have been starved for Carolina sports talk. I understand that. You know, I'm saying I'm still trying to get my brother together. We still trying to get on the same page or whatnot. But I wanted to. We'll. We'll go on there a little mini. Okay, well, we. I mean, we'll have a little mini Carolina sports talk segment here and just wanted to discuss a couple things first and foremost, man, queue up the round of applause. Congratulations to the Carolina Panthers on a over overachieving season. All right, I did y' all thing this season, man. Y' all did y' all think I showed me a lot this season. The way things finished off wasn't the way that we would have wanted it to, but the way that we would have wanted it to. But shout out to y'. All. So if, if you're hiding under a rock this past week or if you still don't with the NFL because of the Colin Kaepernick, which I respect, the Rams played the Panthers in Carolina and he came in there, they came away with the W34 to 31 on the last minute play or last like late touchdown rather from Matt Stafford to one of his nice weapons that he has. Parkinson sin a tight end that he has. They've got like seven of them. But 30, 34 to 31. The Panthers fought a hard, hard fought battle. And it all started off though with Cam Newton banging the drum. So the city welcome Cam back. Salute to the Panthers for doing that, being classy with that. Shout out to the Panthers. On that second game that happened that same day, the Bears. There was something in the air because the Bears defeated the Green Bay Packers 31 27. Salute to Caleb Williams. We've got our ties to Caleb Williams at Carolina Sports Talk. And here, mandatory overtime. I gotta claim that. But shout out to Caleb Williams. I hate it for the packers. They were up 213 at halftime. 25 points that the Bears scored in the fourth quarter to come back 31, 27. So salute to them as well. They'll be moving forward. And we've got on Sunday, the Bills and the Jaguars. Shout out to the Buffalo Bills. They defeat The Jacksonville Jaguars 27, 24 net. Wild card game, very close game. Josh Allen pulled it, pulled it out at the end. And then the 49ers and Eagles, which turned out to be a close game, but still kind of an ugly game and an example of how the Eagle season is going, really. Just not together, not congruent, not unified. But they lost 23 to 19 to the San Francisco 49ers and the Chargers lost to the Patriots 16 3. Salute to the page. Excuse me. Salute to the Patriots. To the Pats. I was gonna say salute to Patriot Patty. Salute to Sock. Salute to Mixmaster T. See all of our other Patriot fans out there. And then also the Texans defeated the Steelers 30 to 6. Because. Never mind. But yeah, we. Shout out, shout out, shout out to the Steelers on A great season as far as with the Steelers. I'll get right into this. But whenever the Wild Car weekend ends, you start to see a flurry of firings, just like you see at the end of the regular season today. Mike Tomlin, or it might have been yesterday, but Mike Tomlin stepped down as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. We just wanted to show him some brotherly love for what he did for the city, the Pittsburgh, and. And coaching a lot of young men and leading a lot of young men. So salute to Tomlin for that. There's some other coaches that are out of here, of course. Defanski, Harbaugh, Mike McDonald. So there'll be a lot of coaches in the coaching carousel this year. But back to the Saturday slate of games. The Packers. Excuse me, Losing to the Bears and the Panthers losing to the Rams. Both were games that these teams could have won. I just want to ask the question out there to y'. All. Who would you not want to be fans of this weekend? Like, who would you want to be a part of the fan base, least, if you will? Again, being a Panthers fan, I appreciate that we've overachieved while the loss sucked. We should have won that game. I'm not sure how further we could have confidently gone and what kind of run we could have made this year versus next year. So, again, I'm still going to always be a competitor and root for my team, but I don't know how. How far we could have gone. So, you know, I would have preferred to be a Panthers fan. Packers, I feel like they had a certain standard all year. They were, you know, solidified. They're a nice, solid squad. They had the lead again at halftime. What, 21 or 24 to nothing. I mean, to 3, 21 and 3. And they couldn't close out the game. So that was. I prefer to be a Panthers fan, if you will, but y' all let me know. Panthers, a Packers fan. Who would you prefer to be after this weekend? Just specifically for this game? Just specifically for this game? I know where your loyalties lie out there, everybody. But just specifically for the game. Okay. I wanted to go ahead and trying to be kind of responsible as a man and bring up something. Let me work. Kind of been getting on my nerves, but this Cam and Gilly, back and forth. So after we lost, I know Gilly's probably posted something on his social media about Cam coming out and banging the drum. Now he's the mascot. Who's the mascot now? Because Cam's made fun of Gilly. In the past, calling him just the mascot. And then when Philly lost as well, it just showed us. I mean, we're both on the couch. However, these gentlemen are both going. Still going back and forth with each other in the. In the public or whatnot. Now, to state this, I want to go ahead and state this. Cam was not wrong about Jalen Hurts. I don't think he was wrong in his analysis of Jalen Hurts in the back and forth. Like, this is similar to the Dolce situation, because with Dochi, Glasses Malone and Aiden Ross was going back and forth. Dochi didn't say anything outside of dropping the music. So with this, Jalen Hurts is not doing nothing but his job on the. On the field. And Cam and Gilly are going back and forth heavy on this. You know, it kind of put a plug in it today, I guess. Cam making a video and stuff or. Or posting, you know, a video of his fourth and one show with his man Peggy, which is odd in itself, but brotherly love to them. And he pretty much stated, you know, how he was right and everything like that, and still gloating about who he is versus Gilly the kid. You're just still a Wash rapper and this and that. It's like the ego and hubris will still find a way to show his behind. You know what I mean? There's this new type of thing where it's like a confident hump, a confident humility that people have, or. I don't know, you know, it's just. I don't like it when I see it. I could feel the energy off of it. Again, when you get to defending yourself too much, defending your. Your. Your legacy or your reputation because quote unquote, nobody else do it. And you got to do it. [00:39:27] Speaker C: You gotta. [00:39:28] Speaker A: You got to defend it. Just. It rubs me the wrong way. So I don't know how I feel about that. That Kim and Gilly situation. And Cam made itself look even more foolish when he interviewed Lady London. If y' all heard that clip that I played at the beginning of the. I seen something just come over across the taker. Jordan Addison's just been arrested, but. Or reported that it's been that he's been arrested. But Camelady London, the clip that I played at the beginning of the show where he's talking out his ass pretty much and talking about how eclectic he is and. And she like spelling collectic and he can't. It's just. It's embarrassing. But humility. Humility, yo, that's all. That's all Humility is the word of the day. All right, let's attack the hubris. Let's attack the ego. Come on, man, let's. Let's drop that. All right, let's drop that. But never, nevertheless, y' all. Let me know what y' all think of the Cam and Gilly back and forth. We grown. Y' all grown. At this point, we got other things to worry about. Again, Minnesotans getting shot in the face and American civilians being pulled from their jobs and yanked out of their jobs, thrown into mysterious vehicles and stuff like that. I mean, come on. As well. But nevertheless, Email our show. Mandatory ot704gmail.com Mandatory ot704gmail.com We'll make sure that we get your email. Read or give us a call. 704-781-7011. All right. Just wanted to move forward real quick and be very quick with this, but Sour Serendipity continues as streamers are shot in New York. I don't know if y' all have heard about this recently, but in New York recently. Let's see, That's the golden time of day. What's y' all favorite? Frankie Beverly. So, all right, so there's a streamer, popular streamer. His name is Convi, and he was shot at in the city. First of all, I want to let y' all know that New York has turned into Gotham. Okay? There's no if, ands, or buts about it. I think between Gotham and Sodom and Gomorrah. Let's see here. But these streamers were riding around. They were agitating different gang members in different factions in New York riding through the Bronx, and essentially they got shot at while on live. This is where this is going, people. So I just again, wanted to bring this up. The guy's name was Convey. Yeah. His friend was hit and hospitalized. But again, they. They're still trolling, they're still antagonizing, if you will. And look, this is where. This is where it's going. I just want us to live above all of the fray, of course, continue to feed ourselves and consume positive things and things that vibrate at a higher energy than this. But I gotta get down in the mud with these folk so I could report this stuff to y', all, man, let y' all know, man, this sour serendipity man. Sour serendipity man Coming. Coming in fruition that. We don't want to come to fruition like that. But you observe how damn society going go down, you know? So anyways, yeah, I. I don't have much thoughts on it. Again, it is what it is. Yeah, yeah. You play foolish games, you get foolish prizes. I don't know. I know that there's like a parable somewhere in here that your granny or your grandfather would say around this time, but, you know, it's foolish. That's foolish. Now, I did want to play this. All right. This is not breaking news, but this happened right before. Let's see here. This happened right before we recorded today and just wanted to share with y'. All. So High Star bars for this week is actually gonna be from the brother, J. Cole. It looks like the fall off is coming at the beginning of February, so we shall see. I think February 6th. But I want y' all to hear this track here. Being a hip hop head and being a. A native of Queens, New York, I want y' all to hear this track because it reminds me of Nas track called Rewind. So the concept. The writing concept of it does follow the Nas track Rewind. And keep in mind, whenever I speak over these tracks and kind of dropping bombs or the sound effects over them, it's so that I could try to avoid the episode getting taken down and us getting any kind of copyright strikes. So just wanted to go ahead and give y' all that forewarning, but I want to go through these High Star. Well, we're not going to break down the High Star bars. I just want y' all to hear this. J. Cole, new J. Cole. Gotta let it ride. It's about. Yeah, about two and a half minutes. Three minutes. Yeah. [00:45:38] Speaker B: I persevered through the worst My thirst to adhere is a curse My life I see it in reverse I first appeared in a hearse the driver steered at the church My grandkids carried the coffin to the altar as they burst into tears from their shirts. [00:45:54] Speaker A: All right, so y' all already here. This is the last time I'm pausing, but again, y' all hear his life he's saying, you want to see it in reverse? He sees it in reverse. Right. So let's go ahead. All right. Yeah, listen. [00:46:15] Speaker B: I persevered through the worst My thirst to adhere is a curse My life I see it in reverse I first appeared in a hearse the driver steered at the church My grandkids carried the coffin to the altar as they burst into tears from their shirts the tears rising to the side to their face and into their eyes is piercing with hurt Fast forward 60 years I got births of the year My purpose is clear is to murk Whoever dare flirt with Death the best alive and what you now hear is the worst the inspiration was rare and it spurts but when it's there I'm immersed My experience of being a parent dispersed Watching my son disappear as I stare at his birth and he returns to the womb wipey stomach growing greater in girth and then declining every time we come here to the nurse with each day that passes I could feel my cousin career coming first do I took the wedding ring off a thing every now I'm single Walking up the aisle backwards to an era of dirt falling clubs Tipsy with a I see clear through a skirt the cameras be snapping, blogs be yapping so I'm careful alert Walking to my section Whisper right in my ear we flirt, we part ways I see her from a distance she stares with a smirk Cheers to the perks with the squad we live for the search of new hoes Lusty quick to me unaware but they we lead a club drive to the show and I swear that it's turf it all begins with encore cheers from those wearing my merch Fast forward through years of rehearsal Losing winning bank account thinning income streams Nowhere near as diverse and though I'm blessed I see me stressing from hearing the terps and naysayers who only days later I don't care to convert on cloud nine now signed to my hero One of the so called kings of this rap thing that I swear to usurp decades later Later Mama cut on the cable My motivation to be greater ends the moment I appear in a purse I'm growing shorter Pampers cover my hindquarters I watch my father walk back in my life and it clears up a hurt I couldn't explain Mama gives me my name and hands me over to the doctor and I watch as my spirit reverts and I'm no longer here on this earth. [00:48:12] Speaker A: Shit like that. Like that. [00:48:14] Speaker B: I'm no longer here. Mary was hurt. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Yo. So the show, our episode here, mandatory overtime is not going to give that song justice. Just letting y' all know now y' all heard it here first and stuff. It's going to be the talk of the blogs and stuff the next couple of weeks. Really, this song is heavy. This song is layered. So written perfectly or immaculately, if you will. Beautiful imagery. I mean literary devices. Come on, man. This, this is this. Top notch. The bars, the delivery performance. So if you see the video with it as well, you'll gain a great appreciation for that. But salute man. Salute y', all, bro. The speaking up show. Love it. Don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a show. So I did want to go ahead and show some love to a couple of folks this week. First and foremost, I wanted to show some love to Coco and the Culture. Coco and the Culture. Shout out. I heard first about Coco and the Culture for my brother L. So brotherly love to L. Of course, brotherly love to be easy DJ Blaze radio show podcast. But on L's show, on his show Once Upon a Time in Music, he she wrote into the show and then he, he promoted her podcast and I'm glad that I tuned in and subscribed to it, y'. All. I'll be real. L put it perfectly and I put it perfectly as well in the text that I sent to Patriot Patty, but it seems like it feels like the female version of me. So definitely tune in to Coco in the Culture whenever y', all, you know. Oh, wrong one, y'. All. That wasn't for I'm not trying to be funny, but definitely tune in to Coco and the Culture. Subscribe to her podcast wherever you get your podcast at. She's doing her thing over there. But moving forward to brotherly love, of course, Brotherly love to J. Cole. Cole, you know, salute to that brother. Also wanted to take a moment here. Show brotherly love to Kai. Not man. Kai actually is. Kai is going. We, well, we know that he was going through some things as far as mental health wise and everything like that. Kai's popped back up on the scene. He's on YouTube again, not necessarily streaming. Dial back a little bit with his energy, but I want to give you all an example of what he's doing right now. Here we go. Hold on, because this is too fire right here. [00:51:08] Speaker C: Intelligent enough. Why even try? Other people will do it because they're better than me. All of these old agreements which rule our dream of life are the result of repeating them over and over again. Therefore, to adopt the four agreements, you need to put repetition into action. Practicing the new agreements in your life is how your best is how your best becomes better. Repetition makes the master, the discipline of the warrior, controlling your own behavior. Imagine that you awake early one morning overflowing with enthusiasm for the day. You feel good, you are happy and have plenty of energy to face the day. Then at breakfast you have a big fight with your spouse and flood of emotion comes out. You get mad in the emotion of your anger. You spend a lot of personal power after. After the fight, you feel drained and you just want to go and cry. In fact, you feel so tired that you go into your room, collapse, and try to recover. You spend the day wrapped up. [00:52:03] Speaker A: All right, so I'm not going to play the whole. Whole thing, of course. But as y' all heard, the brother is reading the four agreements on, you know, whatever. It's not stream or whatnot, but he's reading the four agreements out loud, like to his. To his faction, to his audience, in other words, to his community. So, yeah, shout out to him. Also, brotherly love to screw face John. He's keeping his necks on these culture vultures. Parasites, if you will. I see a lot of the. Of course, because we. We brought it up on the show last week and the week before. We see a lot of the. I see a lot of the term parasite being used now. Excuse me, I'm not taking credit for that. I'm just saying that's how the universe works. It connects itself. It connects itself on its own. So salute to everybody that's, you know, on the forefront and bringing these parasites to task. One of the brothers is screwface Jean on YouTube, has great reaction videos and stuff like that, but he has been, again, making sure that these. That these parasites get it. Wanted to read these two comments from his video where he was covering the shooting in New York with the streamers. Says, what I hate is that Aiden and his friends saying, they're only streamers. No actions have consequences. Don't troll. No, it says, what I hate is that Aiden and his friends saying they're only streamers. No actions have consequences. Don't troll people who are about it because they might not get you. They'll target those affiliated with you. And then the second comment that I screenshotted, it says, while I don't condone violence, I'm glad this era of content creators are realizing that they are not invincible. So again, salute to all my brothers out there. Everybody is in this media space, if you will, will, or trying to make content and stuff like that. Just move with good intention, move with well intentioned. All of that trolling energy, all of that sarcastic energy, devil's advocate energy. You. You play devil's advocate long enough and you become the damn devil, all right? Or you become one of his soldiers and people that he uses. Okay? So I just wanted to say that y' all definitely salute and brotherly love to all of my other brothers, of course, the gang. The gang, the troop, the crew, you know, thinking about others. And I want to make sure I don't miss anyone this week, but brotherly love, man. Brotherly love. Definitely to casting that salute to you for your vulnerability and being transparent, exploring new things. Because reading on online and stuff like that, who knows how much or how many in this generation that you're going to inspire and help? So salute to you with that. But outside of that, though, y', all, I wanted to go ahead and. Go ahead and conclude this episode, of course, with supreme faith. That's in God disappeared. This is a prayer that straight from the heart. May the ego nor the hubris ever break us apart from one brother to another. If nobody's ever told you before, I love you. All right, peace out, man. Shout out to y'. All. Thank you for tuning in to Mandatory ot, my man, DJ High Star. And I'll see y' all next week. All right, Peace. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [00:55:41] Speaker A: You don't gotta go home, but you. [00:55:42] Speaker B: Can'T stay here. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Blackly.