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[00:00:04] Speaker A: What's happening? [00:00:05] Speaker B: My bike. [00:00:05] Speaker A: Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for ot? I probably will, but it's Homecoming week. I don't know how long I'm gonna be here. Gotta stay for ot. Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:25] Speaker C: Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me. Like that. Shit like that. Shit like that. [00:00:33] Speaker D: I came in, y' all trying to record without. Give me the microphone. Give me the thing. So they all looking at me through that window there. So when the track come on, it's backwards. [00:00:42] Speaker A: The sound engineer was simply rewinding the tape. [00:00:46] Speaker D: And I don't know what the. I don't. I ain't never heard it before, but I don't know what. I don't know. I can't tell what key it's in. Cause it's all. So I'm trying to play it off like I knew what the fuck was happening. So I started talking. This is the story of famous dogs. Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Real ATO ain't committing to no key or nothing. And then do the dog. I said, wow, that makes sense. Do the dog. So I just did acapella, just like that, with the beat. Instead of them telling me that the track was backwards, they left it like that. That became Atomic Doll. [00:01:30] Speaker A: DeMarco. Hey, shout out to the intro this week. What's happening? What's happening, everybody? How y' all doing? How y' all doing, man? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star. And the place to be, the aim here at Mandatory Overtime is for us to recalibrate, redefine manhood as we see it in our community. Of course, you know, it's an audio Journal of an 80s, baby. Simply a social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. And I appreciate that, y'. [00:02:15] Speaker E: All. [00:02:16] Speaker A: I appreciate that. Don't get this confused with the man is fair. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, comment, subscribe and share and make some noise because your man is here. Y' all know what time is. Okay, they say, I got a Russian sound Engineer and a. Check, 1, 2. Check, 1, 2. Let's go to work, y'. All. It's happening. Live from Charlotte, America. Y' all already know what time it is. In the words a Chance to rap Ice. But, yeah. Reporting live from Charlotte, America. I say all of that, you know, because it's been a little while. Got Border control, border patrol, and ICE or immigration all through Charlotte in there. This shit has been me up, like one of the first to say, like, when it's not at your front door or it's not at your doorstep, you kind of not concerned with it as much, but it's just kind of hitting home. A lot of my friends work in the education field, in the education system, and I'm hearing these first person accounts of just the harassment, the chaos, and everything that's going on with immigration in Charlotte right now. So again, in the words of Chance the rapper ice, y' all already know what time it is. Showing full support as well. This is me being a foundational black American, but humanity is humanity, and what's going on is just. It's just wrong. So just gotta call that out, though. But what's going on, y'? All? If y' all heard the intro, first and foremost, want to shout out. The brothers of Omega Sci Fi fraternity incorporated. Y' all know what time it is. Hello. Okay. We just celebrated our founders day on November 17th. Just trying my hardest to go ahead and get a show recorded on the evening of November 17th, y', all, but I was owt out, as they say, you know what I'm talking about? So I stepping through the Rock Hill in Charlotte area and ended my evening at the frat house here in Charlotte. So had a good time, found his day, had a good time kicking in with the bruhs. A lot of brotherly love. Like, a lot of networking, of course, but a lot of brotherly love. So shout out to my brother Trey. Shout out to my brother Mitch. Mitch. My brother Mitch from Sigma Theta chapter or Voorhees Chapter, Omega PSI 5, Voorhees College, Voorhees University. Now, he has a merch or a clothing brand called Black Heaven. We're looking to get him on on the show on a future episode. Shout out to my dog tradeo. So my dog Trey out there, Shout out to my dog Carlos as well. It was good catching up with with all of my fellow Omega brothers as we celebrated our Founders day. So salute to y'. All. It was great seeing y' all as well. And again, a lot of the networking and stuff like that. I'm definitely looking to follow up on some of the bigger movers and shakers in Charlotte were there as well. So C, man, I was humble, let them know what time it was with the DJing and all that stuff and my services that I provide for folks. So we'll see what. What comes from that. But yeah, y' all, let's. Let's go ahead and get it started, I guess. Another episode. Another episode. I do want to start with some revisions from last week. So we're very quickly, after listening and going over last week's episode, the comedian Godfrey. I mentioned that he spent a lot of time in New York and was trying to come up with it in real time. But he's from, you know, as far as us, he's from Chicago, or he claims Chicago as far as whenever he, you know, again, he's a Nigerian man, but he's from Chicago. So that's just to kind of clarify, give some context to that. But, you know, again, brotherly love. Shout out to Godfrey as well. And then also with the song songs that I was so anxious about telling y', all, the songs that Carnival needed to retire, that I never actually said the titles of the songs. I just played them. So the first song that I played was I Just Want to Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston. And then the second song that I was playing was Proud Mary by Tina Turner, of course. Excuse me. Again, two classics, timeless classics. Awesome tracks as far as, you know, black history and black music. Great music right there. But Carnival, I need y' all to think again about just, I mean, I just consider it. Just consider. I don't know why I'm playing, the round of applause for them or the cheering. But Carnival, y' all gotta think about that. Think about that for me. All right, so that's the revisions from last week. See here. Before we get started, do want to remind everybody that this is an interactive type of thing, so make sure that your voice is heard here in the community by emailing us. MandatoryOT.704.mail.com. again, that's mandatory ot704mail.com. And we'll get your emails read. Also, you can call us at 704. You could call a hotline, 704-781-7011. Again, that's 704-781-7011. And we can play your, you know, voicemail or whatnot online. I mean, on. On air. So let's get started with our Building Wisdom segment. Let's see here, our Building Wisdom segment. This week we got. Let's see. [00:07:56] Speaker C: Is that Prince for King? [00:07:58] Speaker A: Come here, Prince. [00:07:59] Speaker C: What's today's mathematics, yo? No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:08:03] Speaker F: Build, Destroy the builders. To elevate the mentalities of self and those around self to add positive energy to every nation. To build, you must first start from the Root, which is the knowledge foundation. And I don't want to. The highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:08:22] Speaker E: Peace, God. [00:08:24] Speaker F: Peace, God. [00:08:26] Speaker A: All right, so the first piece of wisdom that we're going to be sharing these two is going to come from cousin Jerome in the group chat, y'. All. So this first one is by Napoleon Hill. Heavy, heavy quote right here. But if you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. That tough. All right. And then also actually today, Cousin Jerome sent over, you can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave. And that's by Margaret Atwood. So that one, that's tough as well. Great, great quotes to live by. I wanted to read a quote that I ran across on social media, and it's in concert so much with what I've been trying to say from episode one as far as us being in a distracted dystopia. So I want to go ahead and read this. It says, inability to focus is a disease, and it's becoming a pandemic spreading throughout the world. Cheap entertainment has made people's minds soft. They can't read books anymore. They can't sit down and work for an hour straight with no breaks. Many can't even watch TV without also being on their phone. Cure yourself of this and you'll have a massive advantage in the future. Give in to it and it'll ruin you. So that was tough. Super tough. I. I can't think of where I found it at so that I can give credit. But, man, that quote itself or that saying, that epitomizes everything that I was trying to say with regards to us being in a distracted dystopia. And when I talk about. When I talk about favors and the distraction that it presents, because again, like, right now, we're inundated with advertising, with billboards or commercials and everything that we watch. So it's second nature for us to be distracted. It's second nature for us to not be focused. You think about 20 years ago, it would have been considered rude for someone for you to be talking to someone and then them being their phones. And then they look up and be like, oh, I'm sorry. What were you saying? Again, I'm sorry. And nowadays that's commonplace. Like, the norm, that's the status quo, is you'll be speaking with somebody, you get halfway through what you're saying, and then they look up and be like, oh, my fault. Can you say that again? Oh, my bad. Yeah. What was you saying? Like, come on, y'. [00:10:55] Speaker E: All. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Again, I think you. You at. Put yourself in a massive. Give yourself a massive advantage, rather, if you remain focused and if you remain kind of just in concert with what your vision is and on your dean, don't get distracted or whatnot. Okay, the next part of building wisdom this week is going to come from our brother, CeeLo Green of the Dungeon family. Last week, I did not give credit in flowers to outkast and also the Dungeon family as a whole, but to outkast more specifically, for getting inducted into, I believe, the Rock and Roll hall of fame. So salute to Andre Patton, big boy, and Andre Benjamin. Andre, three stacks for both of them. Getting into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, that was. That was dope. Well deserved, in other words, and long overdue. However, we're going to get to this, and I wanted to keep these high star bars a part of our building wisdom segment just because of what CeeLo was talking about on here. But we're going to kick some knowledge real quick with CeeLo Green. This is an old freestyle that he's had. He was at Sway in the morning or on the wake up show. Sway in the Morning. This is over 10 years ago, this freestyle, but it's a building wisdom nonetheless. So here we go, y'. All. Hello. [00:12:28] Speaker C: In the beginning there was none other than the original people Skin blackened from the sun but somewhere along the line I broke the laws of the divine and the curse based on the soul of mine Pale became a color on my face Feeling out of place amongst the people of my race filled with hate I moved to a cold climate Intercourse with animals and raw flesh was aids filth and disease sub zero degrees with Satan's blood and my veins didn't freeze this hatred that I have for you it runs deeper than your skin I hate the one who put me in this position that I'm in Until I realize the powers of evil anything I have to do I will I still kill and destroy Went home to Africa looking for slaves to employ Blue eyes lies on the screen smile was my only decoy snatch you up from your roots what good is the spirit when I have this new invention that shoots brought you here then deceived you I changed and rearranged everything that you have ever believed true my soul is cold as ice is I sold you for prices you were hung from trees for sacrifices well through the blood, sweat, tears and pain God, spirit and y' all still remain which is actually more than I got But I have a mansion And a yacht. The plot is making you think that it's about what it's not. With precision, I tell you lies through television, distortion, religion, wrap you up in materialism. How could you kill your own? Don't you see? You're learning to act just like me. But be more aware that the truth is there. I tell you all the time, but you ninjas don't care. But not all of you. There are a few that get into themselves and books on shelves and learn something new. And once they know, they become so powerful. But many don't have the means nor the inspiration. Inspiration to go to school. And I know they hate it. But you can't get a decent job unless you're properly educated. But educated about what? It seems to me that thus far you've only learned about who we are. Isn't that funny? You'll give a school all your money for what you think you need, but it's never guaranteed. The misled mislead you. Your faith has been broken, provoking you to do whatever will feed you. Well, I front you some cooked cocaine and plain plastic sacks to sell to your fellow blacks. And while the foundation of your people cracks, you try to resist, but I won't stop until you don't exist. Strong though, I give you that. But you must be stupid as hell to be that strong and still be where you at. And you still don't have a clue. I am who I am because I. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Know it's like you. Man. Come on, y'. All. It's my boy CeeLo Green, right there of the Dungeon family family tree. That's. That's what hip hop is all about, all right? Creating movements, creating motion with our words. That's a perfect example for us to see the power of hip hop right there in that freestyle. Yo. All right, we get to. That's truly the freedom of expression and everything like that. So that was to cap off our building wisdom segment for the week. Again, shout out to CeeLo Green. Shout out to the Dungeon family. Shout out to outkast as well. We started off kind of last week with the breaking news of everything was going on with Rory and Maul and the Rory and Maul podcast and some of his older tweets resurfacing and stuff, and him being held to task. So, of course, there's been a million thing pieces since that has happened and come out, but I want us to go back because I haven't coined the term for this segment, if you will, on the show, but I have told y' all plenty of times in the past. Things that we talk about here end up coming to fruition or. Or whatnot. And it's just confirmation for me that we're speaking truth to power. Right. So one of our older or earlier episodes, I kind of expressed some of my hesitancy with us allowing a bunch of white people in this space, if you will, when we're speaking about hip hop or just taking their commentary and stuff like that. Almost like as if the. The water is colder or the ice is colder or whatnot with. With what they're saying. So, you know, I bought a lot of them to task or mention a lot of the white content creators and stuff like that that are. That occupy this space. And I just kind of put those names out there for y' all so that y' all could be on the lookout for it. But as y' all can see, man, this is what I was referring to. If you have, again, if y' all been in tune with what's going on with the Rory and Mall situation and the Andrew Schultz situation or things like that, where people have been adjacent to our culture but then have felt comfortable enough and. Or the arrogance enough to still, you know, speak down on some of our people or. Or just talk recklessly whenever it comes to. When it comes to black culture and stuff like that. That's just the warning for what's about to go down on the show today. Okay, but first, I do want to play this funny clip from Shane Gillis. [00:17:23] Speaker G: Now, Australia ruled. I only. I only had one negative experience while I was there, and it was. I got. I got bullied. I got made fun of publicly by a goth. They still have goths, dude. Full on black trench coat, black eyeliner. I'll give him credit. In his defense, the reason he was making fun of me is cause I was wearing a bucket hat. There were no black people on the island. I was taking fashion chances the whole time. That's the thing about these countries. I was just in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia. No black people. And I know what you're thinking. No. [00:17:59] Speaker E: No. [00:18:00] Speaker G: You need black people. You need black people to keep the whites in check. The last thing you want is a whole island of whites that think they're the coolest people on earth. It's a disaster. That's how you end up with Conor McGregor's walking around like. It's like, shut up, dude. American whites, we're humble. We know we're not the coolest guys around. It's the foreign whites, dude. Yes. Preach, brother. There's a reason every Good NBA player that's white is from another country. The audacity to think you could play in that league, dude. The fucking arrogance. Every white dude in America saw a black kid dunk in like eighth grade and was just like, oh, all right. Just set picks for the next four years. Just box out hard as hell. White people used to be cool in America. Long time ago, dude. The height, the height of white people being cool was us going, we're like, man, that was as cool as we got. [00:19:06] Speaker A: We're like, man, see? [00:19:09] Speaker G: And then the day white people stop being cool, it was Jackie Robinson's first game. [00:19:17] Speaker E: You can find it. [00:19:18] Speaker G: You can find the radio call from that game online. You can hear the exact moment white people stop being cool. You can hear the announcers, they still got. They're like, man, welcome to Chicago, where the White Sox take on the Brooklyn Dodgers. And we all had cool white nicknames. Like, up at the mound is old Curly. He's a 47 year old alcoholic. He's the greatest athlete alive. Runs a 6 second 40 yard dash. [00:19:45] Speaker A: Fastest man alive, they say. [00:19:47] Speaker G: And Jackie came up to the the plate. You can hear the announcers, like. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Coming. [00:19:54] Speaker G: Up to the plate is young Codbar from Brooklyn. No way he can hit Curly's pitch. Here comes the pitch. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Home run. [00:20:01] Speaker G: All right, that was it, dude. Jackie hit the ball. So already knocked that voice out of all the whites. Not one of us has talked like that since. We get it back. [00:20:12] Speaker A: All right, yeah. [00:20:15] Speaker G: It'S time for us to focus on computers. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Shout out to Shane Gillis. Yo, that was funny. That was funny right there. But yeah, so he said the. The cool got knocked out of American whites once Jackie Robinson hit that first home run. Hilarious, y'. All. So that's just gonna. Just a preview of what kind of what we got going on today. Real quickly though, let's do this. Because it's not necessarily. I didn't bring any lunch with me today, but I do want us to kind of step into the break room real quick, remembering this distracted dystopia. DJ High Star told you first. All right, Distracted out here, but it appears that Nicki Minaj went to speak to the UN this past week. Did y' all hear about that? So apparently she's bringing a awareness to what's going on in Nigeria, but they essentially are taking their land back and their resources back. The people of the land. And right now, Nicki Minaj quite possibly is on the wrong side of history. Nigeria joined BRICS at the beginning of this year in January 2025. These nations that are coming together essentially to, to start a new currency or a new system where the dollar, the US dollar is going to be obsolete, but they're making it appear as if Nigeria has a cause going on around the world that we all have to fight for. Nothing's a coincidence, y'. All. That's all, that's all I want to say with regards to that. Also though, these nasty ass white boys. While I'm talking about my fraternity, let's talk about these white fraternities real quick. Sorry, y', all, but we got to talk about it. Talking about these Epstein emails and what's been, you know, what's been released or leaked already. Listen, I'm not really here to placate. We're not here to, to play around with this, man. This is nasty. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a. Is nasty, man. Is nasty. The only reason that people are being protected is probably so that they name don't get dropped or something like that. But this is. I'm gonna take this moment, matter of fact and to all of my listeners in our community, because I'm very confident that all of us are normal. Take a second out of your day and show gratitude to God for you being normal and one of the normal ones, because out here is a sick, sick world of a bunch of sick, sick people. It's a sick world. Sick. And sometimes you gotta, you gotta thank God for, for just being normal some. You know, for whatever circumstances you've been born into and all of that stuff. If you are just. If you have a sane. Sometimes you just gotta stop and give gratitude and give thanks or whatnot. So yeah, this is the world, this dystopia that we're living in now. We are arguing about if we should release these files or not. It's taken a year and a half. It's sick, man. There's victims out there. People have been committing crimes like any other world. A pedophilic, racist, sexual assault, rapey ass man could not be president. But the land of the free and the home of the brave in America, the Divided States of America, we can allow that. That is wild to me. But anyways, that again. I just wanted to. We could step out of the break room and go back onto the work floor because I don't even, even want to spend too much time on that. Like I said this week, I don't have any kind of like out for lunch eats. I did go on Founders Day. I did stop by Twin Peaks on Cowan's Boulevard. There were a lot of bros there, so it was tough to serve all of us. I was waiting about 40 minutes for Stella, and I got up out of there. I didn't stay, but I got up out of there. So that. That was my out to lunch or out for lunch experience this week, y', all, with Twin Peaks. I hate for it to be a negative experience. I'll take it for what it is. It was Founders Day. We had like, four or five young ladies that was helping us out. But I didn't get served. I didn't get my Stella. I didn't get my Stella, man. All good. Okay, so let's get to. First and foremost, speaking of Founders Day. Founders Day always falls around the time of homecoming for Claflin University. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Do the knowledge. [00:24:52] Speaker E: I know you gonna dig this. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yes, we're here. We're at that time of the year. University homecoming. Like that. I think I saw this year, like some see you coming, like maybe a play on the words for JT coming. And, you know, with black homecomings, we just, like with black weddings, we're trying to figure out hashtags and something trendy that people can remember, something marketable or whatnot, you know, you got gho. Greatest homecoming on earth. You got L H I A live. Is homecoming in America. I think that might be state. Morris, nobody does it better. Shout out to my dog and my brother, Dr. Justin Buford. But Morris College, nobody does it better. So you got your little sayings and your hashtags and stuff I saw on our flyers. Claplin, see you coming. Coming. I don't know. See you coming sounds wild, but I don't know. That's maybe what we're going with. That might have been one of the fires or for one of the parties going on, but homecoming is this week, ladies and gentlemen. All right. And I'm here for all the no outfits off this week, by the way, y'. All. No fits off from the kid. There'll be a lot of changes down there at Claflin. So anybody listening to me that'll be down in Orangeburg this weekend. Y' all just be on the lookout. A lot of changes because of the stuff that happened in South Carolina State. So clear bag policy. They're going to be cracking down on a lot of the public drinking and the drug use, if you will. Don't be lighting up the spliff just out in the open like we normally do down there. So just be, you know, extra on point, if you will, or whatnot. And Be safe. Most importantly, more importantly than anything, y' all be safe down there. I will be showing my face and showing up, showing out out there on campus, but for the most part, y' all be safe. Man, if I want to get into today's show again, and it's the white noise in hip hop, if you will. Okay. The white noise that we got going on in hip hop right now very. Is getting real loud. I want to start off by saying, like, since the days of the inception of hip hop, so the days of people like Ad Rock, DJ Ad Rock and the Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin, MC Search, then the move off into the 90s. Your vanilla ices of the world, Eminem, he emerges in the late 90s. Then you even started to have your Limp Bizkits and Kid Rocks. That's right. When. When hip hop was palatable enough for mtv. So you have like your Limp Bizkit, so your Kid Rocks that'll have rap verses in their rock songs, you know, Again, white people have always had an invitation into our world, into our space, to critique, to write on, to be a part of and rap alongside with us to graffiti, break dance, dj, do all of the things and involve themselves in all of the elements of hip hop. From the beginning, we've never had a. A hard line where, like, just what Lil Nas X experienced a few years back, where people are saying Old Town Road is not a country song. No. Get out of here with your. Pretty much get out of here with your black music is what they were telling Lil Nas X Lesbian. For real. Right? That's kind of where we're at with. With stuff with hip hop. And then you got the culture as a whole. So, like, Stuart Scott made it cool to bring hip hop to sports, into sports television. Rest in peace to Stuart Scott bringing that type of flavor to espn. And then what do you see? You'll see Scott Van Pelt or who's that Is talk about Jeezy all the time. I gotta go to work. Oh, Jay Billis, Jay Bilis. Okay, you got Jay Biss's Other World, Scott Van Pelt. You. You find Skip Bayless wearing Jordans and stuff like that. So, you know, y' all know how it goes. They're. They're inundated with the culture. And we understand that. You understand that. Go through a couple of things here. So one of the. One of the people that I. But one of the people that I listen to and entertain his content is Professor sky on YouTube. All of his videos and stuff like that are very thoughtful. He's a very well spoken guy as far as like getting. Communicating his point and getting his point across. So I do want to play this piece from one of his videos. This video is actually tied to title Tyler d' Angelo and the White Spot. So to paraphrase before I play this clip, he alludes to a white blind spot that white people innately have when they're looking or they have their perspective on hip hop and our culture. There's just naturally a blind spot or a white blind spot of things that it's inevitable for you to miss as a white person, in other words. So for professor sky, he was speaking of dm Angelo and Voodoo, the album Voodoo, and all of the great works that d' Angelo put out these last two decades again before he transitioned. So that was an example that professor sky was giving for his own white blind spot. But I want y' all to listen to this portion because, I mean, let's. [00:30:19] Speaker B: Let'S, let's be honest, right? The vast, vast, vast majority of culture seen and appreciated by white people in America was either made by or created by black Americans. And that's certainly true for me. So how is it possible that I could have heard D' Angelo on the radio 30 years ago and just sort of said, how did that happen? I'm sure I'm wrong. I'm sure he's great. [00:30:53] Speaker A: Easy working with. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Questlove and J Dilla. My God, I bet that Voodoo album's amazing. I can't wait to listen to it, you know? So I want to put forth some ideas of how this can be. How do white spots form and what do they mean? Now, let's be clear. This is not the same for every white person. I'm sure d' Angelo has a ton of super white fans as white as me. And it's not limited to white people either. This is a general experience. Whenever you try to appreciate other people's culture and you do, there can be things which for reasons I'm trying to get to, you just don't see it is not as easily appreciated by outsiders. That's really what it is. There's the added aspect. [00:31:42] Speaker A: See? So this is a little bit of perspective from professor sky and the type of honesty or transparency that he speaks with whenever it comes to our culture. So that's one of the clips right there that I wanted to play this next, from this video, I wanted to play a couple of things. This is from Justin Hunt, the company man. The video is currently titled Rory Tried to Explain It Only made things worse. So that's what it's titled with Rory as a thumbnail. Just a little backstory. Justin Hunt, the Company Man. He is a Kappa, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, or as they like to affectionately call themselves, the Noops. So he is a noop. And so is Rory from Rory and Mall. So I know that this hits differently for Company man, being that Rory is a member of his fraternity and Company man more than likely, you know, again, he's in this space with Rory, shares this, this industry space with him. So he, he more than likely has to answer questions with regards to why his frat brother is tripping out the way that he is. But let's go ahead to a couple of timestamps on this video. [00:32:50] Speaker E: I was today years old when I found out that Rory from the Rory and Mall podcast was a new an illustrious member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, one of the defined nine black fraternities and sororities in America. The same fraternity that I'm a member of. New CAI spring 2001 second applause now there's 300,000 or so Kappas across the country, so not knowing someone is a member isn't a rare occurrence by any memes. I meet new noobs all the time, but considering Rory's had a high profile in hip hop, in the music industry and in the podcast space for the past decade, plus all spaces that I'm a part of, I was shocked to find out that Rory was a nuke too. And not because he's white either. Contrary to perception, there are white members of all nine black fraternities and sororities nationwide. Here's a clip of a white Q. Don't tell her what he went through. [00:33:41] Speaker A: No, it wasn't because, yeah, his shape. [00:33:43] Speaker E: Had come to because I learned this while watching his craptastic performance on a Twitter space Wednesday night when he was confronted by nearly a thousand mostly black people offended by a gaggle of awful looking, racially charged, arguably anti black and definitely anti Beyonce tweets he posted on Twitter over a decade ago. [00:34:01] Speaker A: All right, so before we get to the next clip again, Justin mentioned something about the rewards and Twitter rewarding folks back then for being edgier and being, you know, more, you know, edgy with their, with their content. And essentially the only reward that used to come from that was engagement. Algorithmically, you could get, you know, more, more followers and things like that, but there was no true payoff, especially not monetarily back then for doing silly stuff like this. So I still, I look at when people say Kind of. That was the time that we were in. You know, that was how Twitter was back then. Like, yeah, but people are still people. So your. Your true personality still showed through some of your tweets and stuff like that. There was still a line that. That Moshe drew. In other words, again, I. That early space in Twitter, I. I just actively stayed off, if you will, or avoided it. But let's go ahead fast forward to this portion of the video. I want y' all to hear this. Never mind. I'm gonna chill. [00:35:07] Speaker E: When asked if he was deleting old tweets, he gaslighted and accused a woman of being racist. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Why were you hiding your tweet? [00:35:13] Speaker A: Hide what tweet? [00:35:15] Speaker C: Oh, now you don't know, Rocky. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Hey, yo, dog, I got a question for you. [00:35:20] Speaker C: Right, literally, right here, you know, blue. [00:35:22] Speaker A: Weave is not blue Ivy. That's racist as fuck. Rory, Rory. Rory. [00:35:26] Speaker E: When asked if he would retweet any of those things again, he said this. [00:35:31] Speaker A: Which ones? Any of them? I said the one that everybody's offended by. One or two. See? All right, so it took too long for him to even answer simply yes and no. You gotta get that answer out. And then prior to that, if y' all heard the beginning of that clip, that's a perfect example of what this thing that white people do a lot of times, whether they're aware of it or not, plenty of times. But it's a gaslighting thing. Prideful men. Prideful men that get called out on their bullshit, they'll do this a lot where it's a gaslighting technique where you answer questions with hypothetical questions that are outrageous. Like all of that when you were in a serious moment and stuff like that. It just didn't help. It didn't assist. There's also this thing that I like. I'd like to coin it and call it the caucasity of arrogance that a lot of white people have is simply a caucasity of arrogance where they feel like, look, this. Anything that they're going through in life, it ain't that serious, or it's something that I can get past or whatnot. It. I'm white. Come on. I'm white. So it's the caucasity of arrogance of. Of knowing that you're white and you say so and you know that it goes. And that's the energy that I picked up as well from Rory. So before. Before going to our random thoughts and stuff like that today, I wanted to finish this off with a video, another video from professor sky, where it's titled addressing my old tweets. And then in parentheses it says, there are no tweets. Right? A very clever thumbnail where it looks like an old tweet and it says, in the body of the tweet, it says something and unintentionally racist. That's what it literally says. The time stamp for is 2:43pm, August 5, 1995. Of course, we all know Twitter wasn't around back then. So this is tongue in Cheek. And this is professor sky being, you know, clever again. But I want to go through a couple of the timestamps on this video that he has just to. To discuss some things. So let's go ahead and take a listen real quick to Professor Sky. [00:37:51] Speaker B: And this is true. I'm one of the good ones. I'm one of the good ones. But this whole thing has taught me something, and it's something which I've been starting, which I was told once, and I've been understanding ever since. This is a message to my white brethren. There are no good ones in white supremacy. There are no good ones. And I want to talk about that. I want to talk about this idea. [00:38:17] Speaker A: Now. [00:38:17] Speaker B: All this, if you don't know, quite obviously springs from the recent situation with Rory of the Rory and Mal podcast, formerly of New Joe Biden, where he. [00:38:28] Speaker A: So, all right, hold on, we're gonna fast forward real quick. [00:38:31] Speaker B: White people will go as far, will get as comfortable as you allow them to be. All of them at some point will push the line to see what you will let them get away with with. It is not always malicious. It is often ignorance. But that train is always on time. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Sound familiar? That sentence, shout out to the company man, Brother Lulo to the company man. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Has been running around in my head like a freaking Amtrak. That trains always down, just all the way through. I've just been obsessed with this sentence and I've been trying to think about. [00:39:09] Speaker A: It's a very. It's a quotable sentence. It's a quotable line. That train is always on time. [00:39:13] Speaker B: What I think he means. [00:39:14] Speaker A: So I'm gonna go to this next time stamp real quick. Just like a fast break. [00:39:18] Speaker B: If you are ever going to realistically fight it, you have to understand that the goal needs to be not to be a good one, not to be invited to the cookout, not to be, I don't know, cool at the barbershop or whatever. The other images of black spaces that white people often watch. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Barber shop is funny. [00:39:38] Speaker B: Your goal is not to be one of the good Ones. It's to be the least bad. That's my goal every day through my YouTube, my community that I make with my black friends and colleagues, the syllabi I write, the curriculum, everything I teach. I strive every day in every way to be the least bad. Because it's a question of power and acknowledging and explaining those systems of power, how those global systems of power interact with individual psyches the way that us. [00:40:13] Speaker A: All right, so let's go ahead and keep it moving. Shout out to Professor Sky. Listen, man, he cooking. You're gonna go to this next time stamp real quick with him. [00:40:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I was called the good kid because I was the. I was called the good one in my African. African American studies class I took in college because I was the only white kid in class and I took a lot of notes. I used to give copies of the autobiography of Malcolm X to all my friends in college. Stokely Carmichael used to babysit my cousins. My father marched to the Martin Luther King, and he helped to mentor a young Henry Louis Gates at an Episcopal Bible camp. My mom was personal friends with and supported Julian Bond going back to the 1960s. So I don't think I would have said or done anything stereotypical out of pocket, but I don't know. That's the thing. When you're in the position of societal power, when that power has been given to you, you don't know when you are exerting it. That's the nature of microaggressions. That's why people get all wrapped up, because they say, well, I didn't say anything bad. I didn't say anything racist. That may be, but you don't know the experience of the thing that people are listening, are feeling when you say them. [00:41:19] Speaker A: That was tough. [00:41:20] Speaker B: So how would I possibly know what. I've thought about it? I've thought about it. Like, what would I have potentially possibly said when I Was back then, 17 years old in 1995? [00:41:33] Speaker A: The key is, what would you have said if you were. If you were provoked or if you were antagonized? You know what I mean? That's oftentimes with white people, the racism and stuff like that is cloaked because I've got a comfortable life. I've got. I'm white. I'm white. So they. Good. It's when something disrupts that comfort of living, when something disrupts their daily. I'm white. And this is another day in America type of day, harmonious day. That's when that stuff seethes out. Right? So if a black person cuts them off in traffic, right? If they almost get into back and forth with a black person at Walmart and about to get into a fight, all right, like, little stuff like that is what triggers what we see. And people's characters true, truly revealed after situations like that, when they're, when they're put to the test. My thing for racism and the term racism and all of that stuff is my question is, would they give, would they give any of the power up? I don't know, like all of this. When I think about personally myself, I'm doing better than a lot of people. I'm blessed, I'm grateful. But would I give up all of my tashini and my polo just so that somebody else can take the place of where I'm at with in life and be as fresh as me and then I take their place? Would I, would I realistically do that? And that's kind of the. To me, that's what white people are faced with whenever they're asked, like, what what would you expect them to do? Give up their power or share their power? Because I don't know what I would do if had my people had all of this imperial power for hundreds and thousands of years or whatever like that, I'm not sure what I would do. Let's go ahead and continue playing this from professor sky real quick. [00:43:23] Speaker B: But I think these things are good. I think it's good we're having these conversations. I think it's good that the good ones get a little less comfortable. As Justin Hunt says, the cost of anti blackness should always be expensive. Even if you don't have racist tweets, the train is always on time. And you know, the thing about it. [00:43:47] Speaker A: Is that, all right, the train is always on time. Let me go ahead and we're going to go to this next time stamp real quick. [00:43:53] Speaker B: It's racism. [00:43:54] Speaker A: Here we go. [00:43:55] Speaker B: Anti blackness is such a part of our society that these tweets are a reminder that even those of us who actively fight against it are prone to it. A couple weeks ago, we learned and were reminded that anti blackness is so ingrained in our white supremacist society that it's not exclusively the purview of non black people. That's why his previous anti. [00:44:19] Speaker A: About to get to this little white thing. [00:44:20] Speaker B: I'm about to get the goal. [00:44:23] Speaker A: So he's calling Tyler, the creator to task a little bit or just alluding. He's alluding back to Tal creators controversy. And then I want to play this last time stamp. [00:44:32] Speaker B: My whole life have been Just super. If you're doing some victory a lot, very important one. That's what we're talking about now. [00:44:39] Speaker A: Yeah, this right here, this. It had to side eye professor sky with this one. [00:44:44] Speaker B: There's a lot of trains. We're talking about the race. [00:44:47] Speaker A: There's a lot of trains. Okay. We're talking about the race train. [00:44:50] Speaker B: That's what we're talking about now. There's many forms of power and marginalization. I know. All right, I'm very important one. That's what we're talking about now. But there's many forms of power and marginalization. [00:45:04] Speaker A: He's got about seven minutes left in this video. [00:45:07] Speaker B: If Twitter existed when I was a teenager, I wouldn't have said anything offhanded, racist, or weird. I just. I felt like I was pretty tuned into that. But I probably would have said some misogynist stuff. Probably would have said some homophobic stuff. Now, none of this is recorded, but I know that in my heart and amongst my friends, that's how I communicated. I talk about it all the time. [00:45:28] Speaker A: All right, so he goes on to say, you know, talk about how we loosely use the F word as far as the. The homophobic slur in the 90s and admits to that and all of that stuff. But that's. Again, this is something that I want us to observe and take notice, too, is probably unintentional by Professor Sky. Like I said, I rock with Professor Scott, but white people will do this. A lot of times. I call this the blue lives matter effect, if you will, or all lives matter effect. We were focused in and channeled in again, speaking about race. And to a certain degree, I feel like it gets so uncomfortable that. All right, we'll talk about it, and then let's go ahead and lighten things up, or let's go ahead and deflect and take some of the attention off of the race topic. And, you know, what about what we call all of the slurs that we call gay people? Or what about how misogynistic I am and how I talk down on women? All of that stuff has its proper place. And I'm glad that Professor Scott did allude to that, but that just goes, again, to a certain level of caucasity and a certain level of, like, distracting, if you will. Like, I didn't want the last sentence in that or the last sentiments of that video to be. Let's look out for all of the trains that we might be missing, y', all, because we all. No, no, no, no, no. This started off centered around A white man feeling too comfortable in a black person's space and getting out of line with a couple of his tweets and things that he said with regards to black women. Let's just keep it on that you heard. So but shout out to Professor Sky. I'm glad that I was able to get through that personally. But, yeah, I had to. Oh, I had to talk about all of that stuff this week. Y' all make sure I get it off my chest. Speaking of get it off your chest, y' all know what time it is, right? [00:47:31] Speaker E: Dig this. [00:47:32] Speaker A: All right, y', all. I know what time it is. My favorite part of the episode today. We went ahead and put this toward the end of the episode, just because I had to get all of that. That racial stuff out a little bit earlier. We're going to go ahead and talk about random thoughts. Get it off your chest. So my first random thought is a continuation from last week. I spoke about when we speak to foreigners and you kind of speak in their accent, thinking that they're going to understand you a little bit better. Yeah. So if y' all didn't remember that one, this is a follow up from that. Because also, this is a pet peeve of mine and got to get off my chest. When you see older people and just because they're older, you want to speak louder to them, you start yelling and talking slow to them like they got something wrong. Yeah. Auntie, did you want us to fix your plate for you? They looking at you like, why you yelling, sweetie? Why you yelling, honey? I know what I'm talking about. Right? That's one of my get it off your chest for this week. Let me see here. Stephen A. I gotta get off my chest, man. He. He, him and a lot of other men I'm noticing on television are being very emotional and are replying to women and reading, if you will, or, you know, whatever. I don't know what the term is, but they're. They're trying to be sassy with women. That's just an emotional trait. I just got to call it out. You know, I see it. Stephen A. I'm charging you up once I see you, too, bro. I gotta know what you know, bruh. All right? I'm talking about some frat. Y' all don't. Y' all don't mind me, but I definitely am checking. You gotta see what you know, bruh. So that's a random thought of mine. Stephen and the rest of these emotional men that be online or on television and they feel the need that they have to respond to everything and every woman in the world. That's sassy, dog. It's sassy. Let's see here. There's a random one that I wrote down at work. Who are y' all talking to on an overnight shift? Who are y' all talking to at 3am in the morning? And then people are fully wide awake. You having full conversations for hours and hours with a person and you on the phone. I'd be trying to get stuff done at work, right y'? All. So I'm trying to be productive. I'm driving around on a forklift or whatever and I'll stop by some. Yo, y' all need these boxes to go over here. People talking, but they not talking to me. They in their AirPod talking on the phone. It's 3, 4 in the morning. I don't know if y' all are like dating people that also have an overnight shift job and it just worked out for y' all and it's divine. But I don't get it. I don't get it. A random pet peeve of mine had to get it off my chest. When people engage in like they're talking, they have their own little diatribe going and they ask themselves a hypothetical question and then they answer, I don't know. So it'd be like, now the Epstein files were released. Now was Donald Trump a criminal? Was he a rapist? I don't know. But X, Y and Z sure. Like, I hate that. I hate that. Don't out of here with that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I hate the hypothetical questions or the questions where people answer themselves back, you know, now am I a black man? Yes. Yo, shut the up. Nobody. Get to your point. Get to your point. All right? Nobody trying to hear that. So that's my last little pet peeve. Get off my chest. And this will be a introducing what we'll be talking about next week. In other words, this is an era that we're in of over entertainment. [00:51:28] Speaker D: All right? [00:51:29] Speaker A: And I had to get this off my chest with all of this stuff that's been going on, the deception and stuff like that that our government presents presents us with. So whether it is distracting us with all of this stuff, you know, everything that's going on with the Epstein files and then distracting us and saying like, you know, we're gonna do these two thousand dollar tariff checks or we're going to be discussing fifty year mortgages and proposing fifty year mortgages or we're on the brink of going to war with Nigeria and stuff like that, right? All of those things. We are in an era of over entertainment in this sick, sick dystopia that we live in, right? The emails that were released and all of the files that will be released. The initial thing that's going to come from this is people creating content and looking to go viral off of this stuff. So I just have to hold these people to task, y'. [00:52:26] Speaker D: All. [00:52:27] Speaker A: I don't. I'm a community comedian at heart, so I hate to do this, but the late night shows of the world, Jimmy Fallon's Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, the Daily show, all of these guys, like, I don't. And again, it just maybe America as a whole and our radio shows as well, and podcasts, but it's like, when are we gonna take seriously. Like it seems that snl, even Saturday Night Live, I have to kind of highlight them as well. But all this stuff going on with Donald Trump and it's like we're just making joke after joke after joke after joke about it. And every night, yeah, there's great monologues that are made from it, great jokes that are written. But when are we going to get serious about what's really going on? It, it, it's kind of scary that we are making these jokes. It's like the world is ending right before our eyes and we're just making jokes. So if we was on the Titanic, we would be tweeting the last moments of the Titanic and you know, letting the rest of the, or going live and making content out of the Titanic sinking. That's, that's what this feels like. Currently what we're in is an era of over entertainment. We're not taking any action actually against the criminality of our government and just the bizarre world that we're living in, the, the dystopian society that we're living in, we're not taking any action against it. We're just sitting back watching, being voyeurs or being entertained by everything going on and then again making jokes to it and everything like that. Now I do give Jon Stewart credit. For decades this man has been in D.C. in Washington D.C. and on Capitol Hill fighting for the blue collar American, fighting to protect children that can't protect themselves, fighting for workers that are getting wages that they can't, you know, live by and stuff. So Jon Stewart, he, he, he's a philanthropist and he speaks truth to power whenever it comes to different issues and stuff going on in America and in this country. When it comes to veterans and their, the things that they get and stuff like that. He's very vocal. So. And I always, I do see Jon Stewart's serious side a lot. And if y' all remember or recall, he took some time away from the Daily show when Trevor Noah, you know, took over. So I do see that humane, humane side in Jon Stewart. I just as funny as these jokes are, again, this is the commander in chief that we have put in office. Why are we not more or less again, pointing the finger on ourselves or holding ourselves to task about who we have in office and how we could get this out of office, but we just making jokes and we're making jokes and then there's more jokes that's going to be made because of the Epstein stuff and we won't be able to make sense of the nasty freaky ass that these nasty ass have been doing behind closed doors and have been doing on Jekyll island down in Georgia or have been doing in any of their, you know, out there in Denver and Colorado underground, wherever they've been at and what the freaky ass illegal nasty ass that they've been doing is now coming to the light and we can't stomach or we can't fathom it and so we have to result to making jokes in this like it's a over again. It's a an era of over entertainment. Everything we have to do, we have to be entertained. Let's entertain each other. We're gonna entertain. And it's like, nah, nah, you feel me? So that's all I got on that. Listen, I'm hold on. Y' all know what time show love it don't show nothing. [00:56:25] Speaker C: It don't cost nothing to show a. [00:56:30] Speaker A: This week with it. But I do wanna show some love first and foremost. Shout out to Fat Boy. Fat Boy, what's happening? Just fresh off his Vegas trip, my man went out to watch his Cowboys beat the Raiders this past Monday on a Monday Night Football game. So awesome experience. I know that he had was out there four wheeling and losing his money, gambling and all of that stuff. Shout out to Fatboy man and shout out to his Vegas trip. Shout out to Old Man Q. Q Brotherly love to Old Man Q. He just got back from New Orleans, y'. All. He said something before he left for New Orleans, but he was like, he just appreciates that his close friend circle is traveling and the things that we're getting into as as grown men and stuff like that. So shout out to old man Q. Shout out to Mixmaster T. Of course, as always, shout out to my brother Sock. Shout out to the brothers of. [00:57:27] Speaker B: Excuse me. [00:57:27] Speaker A: Omega Psi 5 Fraternity Incorporated. More specifically, the Lambda Sigma chapter of Omega Sci Fi fraternity, incorporated. Big brotherly love to my big dog, Big Cliff, celebrating his birthday today. Shout out to you, my brother. Brotherly love to my little cousin Makai. Listen, man, you're doing your thing, brother. Just continue to pray, stay steadfast, that everything's gonna work out. My brother, my little bro, he's. He's. He's. He's working, working hard, but he's realizing, you know, that life, that thing called life, man, that want to go 12 rounds, 15 rounds, but you. You gotta fight, you gotta swing back. You know what I'm saying? Swing back. But brotherly love to my little brother, man. Brotherly love to his son, Legend. Because I just saw a little dope this past weekend, so brotherly love to Legend as well. Yeah. Yo, brotherly love to. Everybody's gonna be down there. Clapton University this weekend, celebrating homecoming. Okay? Breath love to all of y'. All. And with that being said, I want to end this off with a. A prayer with. Again, with faith. That's. Excuse me. With a steadfast faith that's in God. I want to end this off with a prayer that's straight from the heart. All right? May the ego and the hubris never break us apart. From one brother to another. Nobody ever told you before, I love you, y'. All. Yo, that's my time today. I appreciate y' all joining me here. Mandatory overtime. Y' all enjoy the rest of the week, man. Peace. Have a good one. [00:59:08] Speaker G: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [00:59:19] Speaker A: Closing time. [00:59:25] Speaker E: Do the knowledge I know you gonna dig this.