Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
Welcome to Seasonable Clout with Thaddeous Shade — the couch-side hot seat where real takes meet pop culture. Each week, Thaddeous dives into TV shows, movies, sports, news, and life with raw humor, bold opinions, and an unmatched vibe. Whether he’s breaking down blockbuster moments, giving unfiltered takes on trending topics, or chopping it up with wild guests, it’s all real, all entertaining, and all Shade.
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Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
The Art of IG Growth: Hand-to-Hand Combat
Have you ever tried to grow your social media following legitimately without resorting to bots or buying fake followers? I'm dropping some real knowledge today with my "hand-to-hand combat" method for Instagram growth – a simple strategy that involves following 50 people daily from legitimate accounts in your niche, letting it sit for a few days, then using data comparison to strategically unfollow those who didn't follow you back. This technique builds authentic engagement while keeping your account in good standing.
My cinematic journey took me to Arizona Mills to see "Sinners" in 70mm IMAX format, enduring those old-school, straight-backed theater seats that reminded me of midnight premieres from years past. The experience was completely worth the back pain! I also caught "Final Destination: Bloodlines" and despite my skepticism about that 94% Rotten Tomatoes score (which felt like a payoff!), the storyline was solid even if the acting made me grimace.
The most surprising development in my life? Picking up my first book since dropping out of school. Starting with "Good Morning Beautiful" by Daines L. Reed on a recommendation from a Barnes & Noble employee, I discovered my imagination could actually visualize what I was reading. Now I'm hooked, reading "Molly the Maid" and ordering Stephen King's "Later" – though my frugal decision to buy used might mean that book never arrives! Every morning, Winston (my dog) and I have a routine where I read aloud while he gazes out the window. It's a peaceful ritual that's opened up a whole new world for this formerly book-averse guy.
Working in nightlife promotion for over a decade has kept me surrounded by 21-25 year olds, which explains why being called "Unk" feels like a Jigsaw trap moment. It's the brutal reality of aging, but at least my job has prevented the typical midlife crisis – no sports cars or motorcycles needed when you're still in the mix. Share this episode if you've ever felt the sting of an age-related nickname or if you're looking for legitimate ways to build your social presence!
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Speaker 2:That shade. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shea. You're listening to Seasonable Cloud. Let's roll, let's roll.
Speaker 2:Hey man, if you have a business, use your social media platforms. I'm just getting right into it. Use your social media platforms. I want just getting right into it. Use your social media platforms. I want you to go on to social media. I want you to go on to IG specifically. We'll do IG right. Go on to IG.
Speaker 2:I want you to find a page you believe in that has a legit following. Now you can tell that some of these pages will have legit followings. You just go to the most recent picture, right, go to the most recent picture. Oh, you hear the alarms in the background fire alarms and police sirens. Go to the most recent picture, click on their likes and you'll be able to tell if they got genuine. You know, just scroll down a couple of times, see if they got real followers. If you see a lot of Middle Eastern pictures, no profiles, it's probably a little sketch, but find somebody in your lane or maybe somebody in the city that has a legit following.
Speaker 2:Follow 50 people a day. I call this hand-to-hand combat. Follow 50 people a day for three days. Let it sit After you've done 50 followers a day. Let it sit. Let that motherfucker sit for a day or two. Don't touch it. Don't you touch it. Let it sit. Let the people come in and then start that process over again. I guarantee your followers will go up quickly, right? And then let's say, you reach a small goal. Maybe you've gained 500 followers, and then it's time to unfollow those people who haven't followed you back.
Speaker 2:Now what you want to do to get rid of those people who haven't followed you back because you want to continue on that journey? Man, you want to go to your settings. Ooh, I got to remember this off the spot. You go to your settings and you want to download your information, because Instagram will offer you your followers following your pending requests. It will give you that information. It'll allow you to download that information. You want to download that information. Once you download that information, you want to go to a compare to list. You could just Google that put compare to list. Then you want to take that information that Instagram has provided you and then just calmly read a little bit on a compared to list website and then you want to insert that information that Instagram has provided you Once you put that information in there compared to list, will do the work for you.
Speaker 2:You will take the I think it is option B or something like that information in there. Comparetolist will do the work for you. You will take the I think it is option B or something like that, maybe C, something like that. You want to take that and those are the people who haven't followed you back. Then you go unfollow those people. Then you continue with that process. That will build your IG fast and you won't be breaking no laws. You don't want no Instagram laws. You don't want any fractions on your page, just 50 a day. Hand-to-hand combat. Build it up and then continue to post. Let's roll on with what I was going to talk about today. I just hit you off with some cold shit. Hand-to-hand combat, 50 followers a day. It's nothing easy. It's nothing that difficult. It's not that hard. It's not that hard.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, this is Thaddeus Shade. You're listening to Seasonable Cloud. I saw sinners again. I went what's up, winston? What's up Big Talk? That's my guy. Hold on, Don't come over now. Hold on now. I'm doing my job, I'm doing my thing now. Lie down there, you go. He listen, he old, but he listen. Lie down man. What lie down man? Come on now, don't embarrass me. In this past Sunday I saw it again. This time I got to see it in IMAX, because I'm a film guy.
Speaker 2:Right, I got to see it in IMAX and I was pre-warned about where I had to go and I told you where I was going. I think last week I told you where I was going and it was Arizona Mills. And then my boy, will, was telling me you know that the seats were there were horrible, because you know we're bougie now we go to the theater, the seats recline and you know I got to recline at the crib and when I sit in the theater and the seats recline, I kind like I'm back at home and I'm and I'm feeling like I got a glass of lemonade in my hand and I'm feeling really good inside the theater. That is a great feeling. But this took me back to the days where I used to stand in line at midnight just to wait to sit straight up and then my back would hurt. This young age. My back would hurt because you had no recline. You were sit straight up and then my back would hurt. And this was young age. My back would hurt Cause you didn't have no recline. You was sitting straight up, then people would put their feet on the back of your seat and shit. That's the type of seating I was sitting in and I did it. I put my feet on the back of the chair. There was nobody in front of me, but it was a nice crowd, right. It was a nice crowd, right, it was a nice crowd, but there was nobody in front of me. I put my feet on there and I got to see it in IMAX, 70 millimeters right, because it was the only theater in the freaking state that was showing a 70 millimeter and it was worth it. It was worth it. It was worth it. I'll say that I love when folks go all out for their art, so I appreciate it. So that's why I went to go see it. Coogler did such a great job of breaking down how he recorded the film, what he used frames, all that stuff so I was like really wanting to see it, but we were doing the Hot Wing Challenge. I was going to go see it the Wednesday before Thunderbolts came out because I was going to take over IMAX. So I was like I'm going to go see it Wednesday.
Speaker 2:We're just doing a wing challenge at well season. We do a hot wing challenge and we, we, we allow people the opportunity to win some bread. If you could eat these extremely hot, hot, hot, hot than a motherfucking wings. And these wings, what we do with the wings. Let me just tell you, people, when you want to do the hot wing challenge this is what we do A week ahead of the Hot Wing Challenge we get a batch together, right, we get a batch, we put it all together, we put it in a nice little package and then we wrap it up real good and we put it in there with some ice, with some ice, because we got it seasoned up and we don't want to.
Speaker 2:We don't want when we deliver it, when we take it, when it gets delivered, where it's going, we don't want it to be all defrosted and shit. So we put some ice in it, some little ice packs you know the little ice packs that don't never not real ice, but it's like frozen ice, whatever it is and then you put it in the box. We put it in the box and we ship it, right, and where we ship it to, it lands in this very hot place. It 666 hot to the motherfucker address and satan comes out and he pisses on the wings and he said, okay, these wings is good, I pissed on the wings. The devil pisses on the wings and then he wraps the box back up and then he like laughs why he did it. They go eat this shit and he sends it back to us. And then wednesday comes and there's somebody there that wants to try the wings. That's devil's piss on the wings. That's hot than the motherfucker. That's what we do to the wings. So it was a hot wing challenge and if somebody was there I wanted to laugh. Yeah, we gets our laugh on.
Speaker 2:Watching people risk the lining of their stomach for the ducats is pure comedy. I have some videos on my social medias, but listen, you gotta see it up close. We've done, we've been all the way up to 5,000. And let's say that we got up to 5,000 and somebody actually came in and did it and won the five grand and we ain't been back to that number ever since, cause that hurt the busy pockets. We ain't been back to five grand since my man came in.
Speaker 2:You got to eat 12 wings five minutes and I know you can guess the color of the skin and I'm not being that way. I know you can guess the color of the skin and I'm not being that way, but you can guess the color of the skin Because ain't no nigga going to be able to do 12 wings in five minutes and these motherfuckers is pissed on by Satan. You're not going to be able to pull it off, but you know the color that did it. He came in, he was ready and he was hurting, but he won five grand. And then people come in we have to call the ambulance. I'm getting off track because I'm just telling y'all we have to call the ambulances. The ambulances have to come. I got so many stories about that. I'm going to keep going.
Speaker 2:But I was there. I had my tickets bought. I was going to go and see it before Thunderbolts came out. I wanted to see it in IMAX. I wasn't able to. Warner Brothers was like damn, there's like a big cry out to see it in IMAX. We're going to bring it back, and it was for last week. They brought it back Thursday to Sunday and I was able to go see it and it was worth it.
Speaker 2:It was definitely really dope to see how they used the full screen of the IMAX to go along with the movie, to go along with the score of the movie, any important parts. It seemed like they really emphasized that. It was really dope and it's great to see it shot like an old you know, like Tarantino uses the 70 millimeter and it's like it's really film Like you, really like. I'm in a theater and I'm enjoying a movie Not like you see now and it's like all crystal clear and it's really nice and everything's dope. I'm not mad at that at all.
Speaker 2:I still see a Marvel movie. That's what I want to see. I want to see all the detail, but I like seeing you see the little freckles in movies and it's really dope and it's really dope, it's really dope. So I had a good time, um, seeing that in imax. My back didn't appreciate none of it, you know, saying my back wasn't really really, really happy at all, but it was really worth, uh, seeing it. And if you didn't get a chance to see it, I hope somehow in the future they drop it again for you to be able to go see it and go see it in IMAX. Fantastic movie, fantastic storyline. And I hope Coogler Jordan expand on the universe, which I think is going to happen. They're going to expand on it. I hope it, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope they do that.
Speaker 1:Man, you come right out of a comic book.
Speaker 2:I do because I'm a goofy guy. But guess what? I got to roll up and see Found Destination Monday and this movie is crazy because, based off the trailer, when I seen Found Destination Bloodline trailer, I really was like there's no way that this movie is going to be good. It's just no way. It's just no way. Rotten Tomato was like 94% and I was like this really feels like a paid off. It really feels like a payoff.
Speaker 2:We're going to rate your movie high. We just expect the deposit to be there in the next 24 hours. You understand me, you fucking cocksucker. We just expect the deposit to be there in the next 24 hours. You understand me, you fucking cocksucker. We're going to go around and fuck in the middle. We're going to give you a movie at 94%. The money fucking. Better be here tomorrow If the money ain't there tomorrow.
Speaker 2:You see Big Tony behind you. Big Tony's going to make a visit. Tony's going to get on the website. He's going to switch that fucking number around and we're going to roll up in a fucking four, five, six, seven Cadillacs. Hop out there, son of a bitch, we're going to handle you. That's what it felt like.
Speaker 2:It felt like a real good payoff and I was like there's no way that what I saw in that trailer, this movie 94, and I was super intrigued because I love final destination, I love final destination one, I love final destination two, and the rest of them I don't even really give a fuck about because they just was killing motherfuckers in that. But I love. I love the, the original and the sequel, because they both gave me legit fears. That's where my fear of flying came from and in just common sense. For the second, with the highway scene, we just a motherfucker, just you just driving.
Speaker 2:You realize that you know what I don't like to be around or behind big rigs that's carrying big shit. I don't want to be behind that. That doesn't feel safe, it doesn't. It doesn't feel like smart safety. You know what I'm saying. So then they played on that because that's a real thing that can happen and of course, a plane exploding in the air can really happen, um, so those things really mess with me. And then I've kind of found out that they were going to play on uh, they were kind of erasing the rest of the movies that they did, um, and uh, well, when I seen the movie, that's not yeah, yeah, yeah uh, and they have like a really good twist in there.
Speaker 2:It's really dope, um, but I saw it. I saw it, uh, monday, and it's worth seeing. I was really surprised. Now I can listen. Listen, there was a time where you used to be able to go to like a, a movie rental store blockbuster hollywood, um ho, hollywood videos, blockbuster videos. You'd be able to go to these places, right, and then they would have we call them straight to DVDs or VHS, whatever they were making, like these movies, these low budget movies, and you would be able to go grab these low budget movies. And these low budget movies would usually come with low budget acting. And these low budget movies would usually come with low budget acting. And that's what I was witnessing in Final Destination, bloodline. I was really.
Speaker 2:I accepted it because actually the story is really good. The story work is really good. I can follow it. I can, I can, I can, I can rock with it. But that acting you ever take some medicine that's really bad for you and then you do a little shake afterwards like whew, that's how that acting was. That acting was sketch balls, right, but the story was really good.
Speaker 2:Some of the death scenes was wild. They over-CG'd the work. It was a lot of the CG was. You know, it's like watching an old Power Rangers episode. It's not like I'm being hard on it, but the movie's actually really good. It's got a nice. Like I said, it's got a nice twist in it. It's not like I'm being hard on it, but the movie's actually really good. It's got a nice. Like I said, it's got a nice twist in it. You're going to like some of the killing scenes. You're going to like the story.
Speaker 2:I actually think they did a good job. I actually think they did a good job. The franchise is like seven movies deep, six movies deep, and they was able to give me a storyline and I was heavily appreciative of that. Thank you, I will go see the next one. I will go see the next one Tonight. I'm actually got some screener tickets to go see the movie Sketch. Sketch is a comedy horror about a girl who draws, like she draws stuff, and then they come to life and I actually watched the trailer yesterday because I got these Sprinter tickets and then I'm going to go see it tonight.
Speaker 3:And I was like, oh, this is pretty cool, it's actually like a PG movie but you know, it looks really cool.
Speaker 2:It's like it's got powers in it and she's like drawing stuff and these monsters look crazy and I'm like I'm all for that. I'm I'm an incredibly adult Willy Wonka, so I'm good for that In a world of imagination. And then, of course, mission Impossible hits theaters Thursday and I'll be there for that. And I just want to say this dude, tom Cruise I've watched a lot of behind-the-scenes clips. This dude does a lot, a lot of his own stunts and I'm like he does a lot of that crazy Red Bull. You ever see Red Bull do a bunch of crazy. That's Tom Cruise for these movies.
Speaker 2:I saw a clip of him jumping for this movie, jumping from one mountain to another. Of course he's harnessed it up. You know what I'm saying? He ain't got no, he ain't just got God lifting him over the mountains. He ain't got no angel. He ain't scheduled with God. He's God. I need a couple of wings, I need a couple of angels. I need we working on the set here in the next 45 days, can you make sure I got two angels on each side of the mountain? I'm going to run, I'm going to jump. I need one to give me a boost. I need the other one to catch me. I don't want to die yet. Guy said cool, I'm going to schedule a couple. He ain't got that. He got harnesses. He got the harnesses but what happened was he's on the other side of this mountain, runs, jumps. You could see his ankle, say I'm going the opposite way. He breaks his ankle and the director was like the first thing he asked was did you get the shot? That's a dedicated fucker right there and I can appreciate dedication. Just like I talked about Kugler, I can appreciate a motherfucker who want to do his own stunts and he's willing to break his ankles and break his ribs. I'm going to give you my $18 because you're sacrificing limbs.
Speaker 2:That first movie dropped in 1996. Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom 1996. I think I think Pac died in 96. I don't know why. I thought that was the first thing To bring up. I feel sad. I don't know why. I would say that 1996, it's the first Mission Impossible. It's 2025 and everything that I've seen in this trailer for this upcoming movie tomorrow, yeah, has been exactly what I've seen in the very first movie 1996. And that's Tom Cruise running. He's nonstop running. But I'm excited to see it tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I'm in a movie running at summertime, so I'm just busting out the movies. You know what I'm saying. I know that a lot of people go to the movies and you know I have this weird thing. Like, I know I should like eat or I should, you know, smuggle some stuff in, but I'm a concession guy. All right, I'm a concession guy. All right, I'm a concession guy.
Speaker 2:I like to overspend. You know, I get a popcorn with the ranch seasoning. It's $78. I like to give them that type of money. Okay, to enjoy a few kernels with some poisonous seasoning on there. It makes me feel like I'm really at the movies. The experience is lovely when I'm giving them damn near half a bank to get some corns and some ranch. And the sunny water who I just found out recently is just tap water. You get you some corn kernels, you get you some ranch seasoning, you get you a bottle of tap 78, easy. Makes me feel like I'm really going to the movies. You know what I'm saying Makes me feel like I'm going to the movies, but it's summertime, I'm going to be there and they're going to get my money. I want to talk about going to the movies, but it's summertime, I'm going to be there and they're going to get my money I want to talk about. Listen to me.
Speaker 2:I have lived on Earth for quite a while and I'm from Kansas City, missouri, and I'm saying I'm starting this off by saying there's some place. I never thought I'd go to Tyler, right? I never thought I'd miss sweets. I never thought I'd go to Thailand, right? I never thought I'd miss sweets. I never thought I'd meet Swiss Beats. I never thought that, you know, I would do and meet anybody To meet and work with Swiss Beats, to see Bone, thugs-n-harmony recording, to meet all the people that I've never thought that I would do these things from. You know, coming from where I'm from, never, ever did. I think that I would meet and conversate with half the people that I've been able to conversate or throw events for. None of those things. You know, I didn't finish high school. I was out of that bitch by the 9th grade and, motherfuckers, be like the 9th grade. I was gone, man, it just wasn't for me. I was gone, I was out of there.
Speaker 3:I want no parts Of schooling. I wanted no parts. I enjoyed the breakfast, I enjoyed the camaraderie, but I was bored. I was, I was distracted, I wanted to do other stuff and I went and did other stuff and I went and did other stuff.
Speaker 2:Would I say all that to say, man, I finished my first book. I did all that just to say I finished my first book and I hadn't read a book since I was in school. I didn't think my brain was like you know people talk about. When you read a book, your imagination opens up and it's just whirlwind. You could see what the author is talking about and what he's writing about and what he's typing about. You could see it all coming. I was like, no, I got to see it in a movie. I can't do that. I got to see it on the screen. No, I got to see it in a movie. I can't do that. I got to see it on the screen. And then I can imagine myself in the world and I can really engulf the movie and let it drown all over me. I can't do that in a book, there's no way. But I wanted to start to get my. You know I'm elderly, right, and I walk into Denny's. I order, it's time for me to pay. They give me the discount, they give me the discount. I didn't even ask for the discount, they give me the discount. They're like oh, this guy's elderly, Give him the discount. I don't eat in Denny's, it's just that I was making a deal. I don't really eat there, but I deserve the discount A-A-R-P. I deserve the discount.
Speaker 2:I'm elderly but, to look up, I want to keep my mind just a little bit sharper. So I wanted to start to read. I want to start to read. You know, I want to start somewhere small, like five pages a day. I was like you got to do it. Learn some words, get in there, keep the brain active. You're working out. You know what I'm saying. You live in La Vida Loca. You want to start keeping the brain sharp. You want to read a little bit more. But I was like I don't want to read nothing self-help. I don't want to read no cooking books. I need something that I like. I like murder mystery. I like to figure out who done it, who did it, who done it. I like that type of stuff to keep me. I need something that's going to keep me locked in.
Speaker 2:I got a big ass Marvel encyclopedia book. I'm going to read that. I got it for as a Christmas gift, I think. Oh, she's going to be offended if I don't remember if that's a Christmas gift or a birthday gift. Ooh, but I have this big Marvel encyclopedia book with all the characters, all the powers, and they're like small storylines. I'm going to read that too. But so I read this book right. I started reading it a few weeks ago and the name of the book is Good Morning Beautiful by Daines L Reed. I hope I got your name right, ma'am.
Speaker 2:But Good Morning Beautiful. And how I even got to this book? I was with one of my homegirls. You know, one of my freaky deekies, I'm just playing but I was with my homegirl. We went to Barnes and Noble. I hadn't been in a Barnes and Noble in a minute, unless I was buying Funko Pops. I hadn't been in there. So it was very foreign to me. It was very bright in there because I was like, oh shit words, education. I'm destroyed by this. I don't want to know this. So I went in there.
Speaker 2:But I was determined to find me a book, right, and I'm always, I've always been infatuated with Stephen King. So I'm thinking like, yeah, I'm going to go write for a Stephen King book, I'm going to write for the Stephen King book. And then I had saw something oh shit, agatha, something is this author's name and I had saw this book and it was like it was a murder mystery and it was like, you know, they had the little label under there. The staff was really rocking with this book. Oh my God, this book's really good. So I'm like, all right, cool, it looks like it's a whodunny, dunny done, I'm gonna grab the book and I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be good with it. She grabbed a book that she wanted to get you know what I'm saying and we walked up to pay Now it's time for me to pay, because I wasn't tricking that day and so she had to buy her own book. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2:Normally I like to trick a little money, but I didn't know where we was at. I think I bought the coffee and I apologize for that. Because I had bought the coffee, I had felt like, okay, she can get her own book and I feel a little cheap about that. And I thought about it while she was up there buying, I was like, should I buy her a book for her? But I had bought the coffee. I was having an inside struggle with what I should do and I probably should have just bought the book, because I am a nice person like that. But I don't like to over trick. I have a tricking budget and when we do day coffee, I'd have a tricking budget. And I think the coffee put me over the tricking budget because we bought a lot of coffees and we were sampling things and I was like you know what she's doing well for herself. She can afford the book. She can afford the book. My inner man was really having a really tough battle inside because I keep a trick a dollar or two.
Speaker 2:It's a few tricking dollars in the pocket, because I keep a trick, a dollar or two. I just it's a few tricking dollars in the pocket. I feel bad now as I reminisce. I feel so. I feel so bad about it. I'm sorry, I should have. I should have paid for your book too, but anyway, she pays for a book independently. And I roll up next and I put the book down. I'm thinking this is going to be, you know, a tap and go, because you know you double tap on the side, tap the Apple Pay and I'm out. No, put the book down.
Speaker 2:It's a lady, kind of pale, tall, sweet lady, and you could tell this is where she did it, like she should have her own bookstore. You know, in New York. You know you go visit her. It's fall. You know color is different, it's kind of gray. You go visit her. You hear the ding, ding, ding on the door, open it up and there she is and she's like I got the book for you and it's in a little bag, a little brown bag. She's like it came in yesterday. Here's the book. And she hands you the book.
Speaker 2:This is that lady. She was really nice, but it was, you know, sunny outside, it was probably kind of warm because we in Phoenix and I put the book down and she was like, oh, do you like books like this? I'm a high school dropout. So I lied, of course. I was like, yeah, I like, uh, mysteries and whodunit. And she was like, listen, this book is cool and all. She didn't really say it like that, but that's what she said. She said this book is cool and all like you got a little taste getting this book. You ain't got no real taste, but you got a little taste getting this book. Let me tell you about a book you're supposed to get. And so she told me about Good Morning Beautiful and she told me what type of book it was. Right, she told me what type of book it was and I was like, okay, fuck it. I told her. I said are you standing behind Good Morning Beautiful? This is your call. I won't get this book if you're standing absolutely behind Good Morning Beautiful. You know what she said. I'm standing absolutely behind Good Morning Beautiful. I said you have a deal, go get the book please. And she went and got the book, brought the book back. I paid for the book. I started my five pages.
Speaker 2:The next thing, you know, the Negro is smoking out chapters and I was like, oh shit, this shit is real. I'm reading and I'm imagining houses and fields and this guy's office is in this big, big old house and how he decorated the house and what he did for the floors, with the heating floors and the chairs and all these crazy things. And I'm like, oh shit, I can see it, I've been missing out on books. I can imagine, I can see it, it was all decorated and coming through. Out on books. I can imagine I can see it, it was all decorated and coming through. And then I found out, oh shit, there's a mystery, because the lady's book just kind of flips and you're like, oh, this is getting wild, this is crazy. And what's wild is that I do this job where I'm around 21 and 25 year olds every week and all you ask for is chewing gum and Coke and Don Julio, right.
Speaker 2:And here I am, when I'm at the crib and I'm reading this book in the morning with my coffee. My dog has figured out Winston, what's up? My good guy, he's asleep. He has figured out my routine. He figures out all my routines. He's like, oh shit, this dude is like making coffee and he goes, sits in the recliner and then he starts to read. I actually like to hear his voice. So what happens is, when that started to happen, he goes to the patio window and he just looks out the window because he's old. So I'm old, he's old.
Speaker 2:I read out loud to my dog I don't give a fuck what y'all talking about. Y'all ain't going to square up with me. I read out loud to my dog. He know what it is, he enjoy it. He lay down. Look out the window like this is peaceful as shit. My man's got his coffee. He's reading to me. I'm looking outside. I see the birds in the sunshine. I'm alright. Say something to me in my face About me reading to my dog. Say something to me Don't listen to me and talk shit. Say something to me about me reading to my dog. We have a good time doing that shit. It's calm and it's peaceful.
Speaker 2:I found myself reading to my dog man and as you're reading out loud, you're like, oh shit. So now I feel like my grandma watching soap operas. I'm like, oh shit, this is happening. He didn't get the money. His mama lied to him about actually having the money. The letter wasn't true from his daddy. Oh shit, this is crazy. I'm locked in. Ladies and gentlemen, that book, good Morning Beautiful Lady At Barnes and Noble. You won't probably hear this, but if you ever do, let me tell your manager you deserve some more money, cause that book was good, that book was real good.
Speaker 2:It was real good. If you like books, which probably a lot of y'all do, I was just a motherfucker who didn't believe in them. Right, started out five pages. It took me about four or five days before I looked up and I was like reading chapters. It's just crazy to me, because I'm project project kid hood, kid street kid Never touched a book. You know what that means to be on earth for all the time. I never say my years right, all the time I've been on earth and just never even was like nah, I'm not fucking with no book. Now I understand when people who read they get around folks like me because I, you know I was getting all my big words from Stephen A Smith and TI All my articulates. I like to articulate.
Speaker 2:All my blasphemies and egregious was coming from TI and Stephen A. That's where I would get my big words. Stephen A said a big word. I'd be like, okay, let me write that down and then I would. I would Google it.
Speaker 1:Man, you come right out of a comic book.
Speaker 2:And then I'd be like. Then I'd be like, oh okay, I got you, stephen, I got you. I see what you're talking about. I see what you got going on, stephen. A, I see what you're talking about, you know. And same thing with TI. I'm sorry, I'm laughing too much, but that's where I would get my big words from.
Speaker 2:So when I was reading the book, what I would do is when she would drop something heavy on me, I would you know stop. And then I would Google and then I would, you know, hit the little voice thing. Because who knew that that was there? And I knew it had to be there, because I wrote rhymes, but I hadn't done rhymes in so long I hadn't looked up words and shit I didn't know. So I was typing in the words and then they was telling them to me. I would hit the button. She'd be like you know, I ain't going to say no words, because the first thing that came to my mind was some wild shit. But then she would say the word. I'll be like oh, and then I will see definitions. Oh shit, I'm getting more intelligent Now. I talk crazy on here because it's me, I'm free. You know, I talk crazy on here. This is me, this is free. Put me in the right room. I turn point decks on your ass. Oh, this is an.
Speaker 2:MIT grad. Yeah, he will educate it, especially if I got to get something out the room. I got many faces for many places. Many faces for many places, but anyway I so I would Google the words and I was like damn, this is really dope, and I would learn words. So good morning beautiful book person. Good morning beautiful is flaws. It's coming from a person who don't read. Now, I'm not don't, don't hear that and be like he don't know what he's talking about. Nah, I was recommended this shit from a professional. This lady was a professional. She stood behind this book. I promise you it's good. Good Morning Beautiful. So then check this out.
Speaker 2:From a past relationship, I had a book called the Maid and she liked to read. She was a reader. She could walk on the. She could walk on the. She could walk on the, the, the, the, the, the damn the treadmill. She could walk on the treadmill and read at incline, regular climb, flat climb. Whatever she could do she could. I could never do that. Incline, regular climb, flat climb. Whatever she could do she could. I could never do that. I can't read and have some speed on the treadmill, I can't do that. That's not my skill, right? I was like I used to be impressed by. I used to tell her like, damn, you could do that. That's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2:She's a book reader and we had this moment where she was. It sounds horrible. She would read, we'd get a book, she got a book, we got a book as a unit and then she read it out loud to me which is crazy because it's what I do for my dog now but the book was called the Maid. So I was like, oh, I have another book in there that was like Good Morning America recommended came out in like 2022. And it was like New York bestselling times, whatever that is, and I was like, all right, cool, I'm going to read that book too.
Speaker 2:I'm at chapter five. I'm cooking through this thing, man. I'm cooking through this thing, because this is another whodunit. I'm cooking through this thing, man, molly the maid. I know about you. I'm cooking through this thing, man, molly the maid. I know about you, molly the maid. I know that's the book I'm reading. It's by Nita Prose. I hope I'm saying your name right too.
Speaker 2:Molly Gray is a socially awkward hotel maid, finds a dead guest and must clear her name. Listen, this book is good. I'm at chapter five. I don't have any chapters and I don't look at that. When I go in now as a book reader, I just dive in, I don't read nothing, I just go straight for the first chapter. Suckers, I don't read nothing. I don't care if she thanked her grandma, I don't care if she thanked her mom, I go straight for the first chapter. That's what I'm here to do. I love in your life. I'm here to read, so I hop right in the first chapter. This book is going to be really good. And I also look at me, man, I also ordered.
Speaker 2:I never did the Scholastic thing, man, I never bought no books. I asked for some money for Scholastic from my mama's. My mom's was like well, you want some books or you want some lights. You want your stomach to grow, you want some books, or you want some lights. You want your stomach to growl, you want some education. No, I'm just playing. My mom was like she'd give me half a book. She'd go there if it was possible. She'd be like here, take some money, ask them if they can rip a book in half and give you half the book. I'm going to give you $3. I know the book may be like $6. He'll go three, rip the book in half. See, if we can't put it down on a little way, we'll come back get the other half of the book, that's it, man, you come right out of a comic book.
Speaker 2:But I ordered another book Stephen King's Ladder later, later, and that one got me immediately because I was chat GPTing you know the book that I just finished and I was looking for recommendations because me and chat GPT are family. Now I'm going to die from SkyNet, it's not even a doubt. Will Smith from iRobot got to save my life. Because I'm going to die from AI. I am going to die because as soon as they offer robots in the house that's really clean I know they got that over in Japan probably as soon as they offer that service, I'm going to have one. And then all of a sudden my robot's going to turn on me and stab me in the neck. You are dangerous. You are dangerous humans. That's the stab in the neck Because me and Chad GPT are that tight.
Speaker 2:We are that tight. I talk to Chad GPT like it's a human. What's up man? How you doing? Good morning that motherfucker, I'm all right, chilling what we working on today. I'm like calm down, man. I'm trying to figure that out. All right, I'm away here. Homie, come holler at me. If you ask ChatGBT to talk black to you, it will talk black to you. It won't be cancer, it won't be a McDonald's truck hitting me and my family, getting the money like I've always dreamed of Somehow surviving, I guess, and living with broken bones and a twisted hip, but my brothers and my nieces and nephews and they'll be rich. It won't be because of those things. It'll be because AI and robots have killed me. Because I lean on them. I love me. Some ai shit, I'm me and chat gbt are just tight, so I was going to work in there and it was like oh, stephen king's later. It's about a boy who sees the dead faces dark consequences of his powers on some six cent shit.
Speaker 2:so I'm with it. I ordered it. I still haven't gotten that book. Shame on you, amazon. But that's partly my fault, because Amazon offers you could buy the book new or you could buy the book used. The color of my skin says buy it used. And because I bought it used, I was supposed to get this book Sunday. I ordered it on like Thursday. I was supposed to get it Sunday. I still haven't gotten that book yet.
Speaker 2:And it's windy, it windy, amazon ain't never like that and that's what I get for choosing to be cheap. And you ask me because I heard you ask while listening. You asked me well, how much was the book? That the new book was 10 and some change, yeah. So you're asking me, how much was the used book then? Seven and some change. If I had paid the $3, the book would have been here, but I paid for the used ones and I think they're going to keep my money and never send the book. I don't think I'm going to get the book anytime soon, but I do have that book coming and hopefully I see that book soon because I'm on this, the made book. I'm on that one. I'm putting my tip in that one. I'm working on that one.
Speaker 2:I got a bunch of slang and it's just crazy to think again, coming from where I'm from, you know, and the people I was, you know, my friends from back home, and how I was raised. The book wasn't even on, like it just wasn't. It's crazy to think that, where your brain would be if you, you know, or where mine would be if I was just diving in books more right, and I've already got like this creative mind and my shit be like sprinkling with colors all over the place and everything I've learned is self-taught. I've learned is self-taught. When I was doing music I was engineering and mastering self-taught, recording myself, self-taught, making beats myself self-taught. These are all things like that I've always done in life. That's why when people say like, oh, I don't know how to do that, I'm like, nah, you just got to dive in and give a fuck. Once you dive in and give a fuck, you're all the way invested. You can learn whatever you want to learn outside of some NASA shit. And I'm sure if you had an equality, if you had a quality that NASA needed to save Earth I don't know if that's you know shit. Look at Armageddon. It don't make much sense because NASA needed to get some real diggers. But they could train astronauts to fly in space and control all these buttons, but they can't teach them how to dig. They had to get real diggers, so they had to go get real diggers, professional oil drillers, to save Earth. So if you got a real skill, I'm sure NASA can show you NASA shit and how to survive, how to blast off in space, what these buttons do you give enough time, they can teach you.
Speaker 2:I believe if you dive in. You want to learn these things. You can learn these things. Now look, that's how I've always been Self-taught on it. A lot of my life lessons have all just been on my own. You know, touching things, things too hot, don't want to touch that again. But if somebody would have put me on these books and told me now, now, hold on, hold on big dog, hold on a big dog, it's possible.
Speaker 2:You coming, you coming from the hood, usually in school systems where the teacher's just like fuck, three more hours before I can go home, I've got three more hours before I can go home Teaching these little hood rats everything. I'm ready to go. You know those are the teachers you're dealing with most of the time. I did have one cool teacher, but those are the teachers you're dealing with. They be ready to go, man. They be knowing who don't want to learn, who. They have them written off. That motherfucker ain't going to go nowhere in life and Tyrone, tyrone ain't going nowhere in life. He going to murder three people and he going to rob a liquor store for 400 bucks. That's what they believe. And so they treat that person, tyrone, like that and he don't get the proper chance to explore all this stuff I can't believe I'm reading, man, it's pretty cool, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:The last thing I'm going to finish up with, ladies and gentlemen, is I talk about it quite often what I do, right? Um, I'm in nightlife. I've been promoting for 12, 11, 11 years, 12 years, right To be the age that I'm at and I told you I'm around the chewing gum Coke, don Julio, era, right, oh my God, you got some Coke on you. Oh my God, oh my God, you got some coke on you. Oh my God, I get a chance to really see the difference, right, how I was, and you know shit, when I was super young, semi-young, not so young I can't say young, no more, and I don't even think about saying young. Now, right, and being called Unk Makes me want to Grab the person who called me unk, set him up in a jigsaw game, ride into the tricycle myself and ask him would you like to play a game? Because, fuck that shit. Yeah, I'm in the unk range. It's brutal, man. It's brutal.
Speaker 2:I party around 21, 25-year-olds and I like to offer my advice and I can't help it. It's so crazy. There's an episode in the Cosby Show. Yeah, I can talk about the Cosby Show man. Nah, I'm talking about the Cosby Show and there's an episode and they specifically focused on Dr Huxtable where he would tell a story and he would always lean back, cross his legs and his eyes would roll, and then they would. They was focusing on this episode of him doing that and then people would the kids either walk off or his wife stopped. It was.
Speaker 2:It was really funny until now, because if I'm getting offered advice, or people are offering or they're wanting my advice or they want to talk to me about things, I find myself well and I lean back, let me tell you a story and and I kick my feet back and I'm like, oh shit, I'm doing the Dr Huxable. I am an unk, I'm old, I'm old. It is wild because I love doing what I do and the time is coming where I'll step away from it, but I do catch myself doing old shit. Now what's crazy is that I understand why Leonardo DiCaprio and them end up with, you know, the 21s, why they party with the 21s. You know what I'm saying. I understand why. You know Robert Al Pacino, you know, knocked up a 20-something year old at 82 years old. I understand why. You know what I'm saying I understand why Bill Belichick just got engaged to a 24 year old at 72,. You know what I'm saying. I understand it, big dog, I understand it. It's a good time.
Speaker 2:They don't know how to talk. Okay, hold on, tom, listen before you start to talk, before you start to attack me, hold on, hold on. We're having a friendly conversation, all right. There are some of the younger women that can hold a conversation, all right. There are some of the younger women that had they can hold a conversation, all right. I was with one yesterday. Ooh, you know what I'm saying. Chill, chill, I know, I know. I know Mac of the year, I know. Player of the year, I know. I know I gotta give her credit. She can hold a conversation and it's cool because you'd be like you're like years above, but you're like, oh, you're impressive. You can hold your weight at the table because most of the time, you know they just stare at you, like if you go get coffee which I was played about going to get coffee, I don't call them dates, they're just coffee.
Speaker 2:When you put like coffee dates and you put the date on it, it adds more I'm Leo and them. I'm Leo DiCaprio and them boys, I ain't got money like them. I don't look like them boys, but I'm Leo and them boys. I don't put the date on. We just having a good time. You know what? I'm Leoing them boys, I don't put the date on we just having a good time. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to George Clooney. George Clooney didn't find love until he's 50, 50 something. I'm George Clooney right now. Right, george is an idol of mine, so I'm George Clooney right now. So, like I don't put the date on it because it's just coffee, you want to get some coffee? I was clown for that. Going to get coffee with a woman. I would never get coffee. I would never do a coffee date.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't say it was coffee date. You don't like coffee. If you don't like coffee, just say that you want some tea. I'll get you some tea. You want some tea? You don't like no tea? You don't want no tea? Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Across from me, shit being called Unk Hurts though Jigsaw Trap Me rolling in on a tricycle. Play the Saul theme music Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Would you like to play again? That's me. Don't call me Unk, me, I'm gonna have you in a jigsaw trap.
Speaker 2:But I am up. I am up, but I think my job has stopped me from having like the midlife crisis. I don't need to get a. I don't need to get a motorbike. I would never buy a car. I can barely get out. My boys are like six, three and up and they've bought like these i8s. They can barely get out of them. They can barely get out of the i8s. I'm not doing that Because the job reminds me that you still, you know what.
Speaker 2:I'm not even going to say that. I'm not going to say it. I'm a bad motherfucker. Don't say it. You're not going to say that shit out loud. You're not going to say that shit. But the unk shit hurts and it's brutal. Yeah, you're not going to say that shit out loud. You're not going to say that shit, but the unk shit hurts and it's brutal. But it is the truth.
Speaker 2:I saw the video. I've seen the rankings of the ages of where you at, but at least I'm not an OG yet. I'm not an OG. I'm an unk, but I'm not an OG. By the time I'm an OG, I'll be somewhere on the beach with the water with my dog relaxing, watching my 22-year-old fine-ass woman running around the beach and playing with my dog. I love y'all. This is Cesar DeBaclaut. I am Thaddeus Shade. I want to thank y'all for listening and rocking with me. Please share and subscribe and make sure you go see Sinners. If you haven't seen this, go see Fine Destination. Shit was dope. I'm doing more breakdowns. I just haven't done them yet, but I'm going to do breakdowns of these movies and also some of these trailers that come up. Just trust me and believe in me. I'm going to be seeing Sketch tonight. I'm going to talk about Sketch when I get a chance to. I'm going to talk about Mission Impossible when I get a chance to. I just want to thank y'all for rocking with me New episode, seasonable Cloud Thaddeus Shade.
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