Dont't Go Exempt on Ozempic

The jokes come fast—height, weight, Ozempic—but the laughs open the door to something real: how we see ourselves when the mirror won’t cut us a break. I talk about the pressure to get “camera skinny,” why chasing an ideal can wreck your head, and what it takes to build confidence that isn’t rented from strangers on the timeline. A wild Walmart handcuff story becomes a lesson in judgment, dignity, and how quickly a narrative can run away from the truth.

From there, we get into the heart of community. Real friends pull you aside, not apart. They’ll tell you when your fit misses or your tone is off—and they’ll be the first to clap when you’re winning. We break down why giving flowers now matters, how to support a friend’s dream in public, and the responsibility that comes with references and reputation. If someone puts their name on you, show up right. That’s love translated into action.

I share gratitude for my mom and the grit of single parenting, the tradeoffs that don’t show up on Instagram, and how that perspective shaped my empathy at work and at home. People carry silent battles; sometimes the most generous move is a quiet “tighten up,” a sincere “you’re doing great,” or a simple “I see you.” We talk inner critics, mental spirals, and the balance between accountability and encouragement. The message lands clear: laugh at the noise, love your body, keep honest friends, support out loud, and protect the people who protect you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Riffing On Weight And Ozempic
• 3:20 Body Image, Height Jokes, And Identity
• 5:55 Wrongful Stop At Walmart Story
• 9:40 Ozempic Culture And Chasing Skinny
• 12:45 Accepting Your Build And Finding Confidence
• 16:00 Friends Who Tell The Truth
• 20:05 Support, Flowers, And Showing Up
• 23:35 References, Reputations, And Respect

Transcript

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I just want y'all to sit down and want to step by step your board step for step man. I can't even get my thoughts together, man. I'm so much on my food shit. Hey, because I'ma tell y'all some funny shit. So I went back to my doctor the other day because I'm getting tired of y'all motherfuckers talking about some Jack. You too short to be that chubby. Nigga, I ain't that motherfucking big. Nigga, I'm I'm I'm that good size. I got that daddy weight on me. You know what I mean? I got that daddy weight on me. Motherfucker talking about some daddy, Jack. How many months are you? Bitch, fuck you. But anyway, I went to my doctor the other day. I said, hey doc, I let me get that skinny bitch drug. He said, What drug is that? I said, Ozimpic, because these motherfuckers out here going exempt on Ozimpic. I tell you, I tell him all some. How you gonna be skinny and tell me how you need to lose more weight and you up here goddamn taking a whole shot to goddamn get even skinnier? I'm telling you, man, I ain't never in my life saw so many men and women on Ozimpic in my life in Majorno trying to be skinny. Who in life told you it was okay to be that fucking skinny? You gotta be too sun to do something. You hear me? Thick thighs save lives. You gotta be so you hear what I'm saying? Because I mean, how about honestly, y'all tell me the truth? Could y'all imagine me at the ideal weight of 160? Man, I look like a goddamn crackhead over here. Excuse me, I'm in my clothes. I'm trying to get ready for work also at the same time. Um, I'm literally fresh out of the shower. And I'm still trying to get over cold after two, three, probably three weeks. But anyway, y'all motherfuckers gonna tell me, go drink some tea, look, nigga. I said you wouldn't be sick if you had that goddamn um, if you if you were skinny. I'd probably be on death's door, Dale. That's how that's the way some of y'all look. But anyway, um I'm not here to bash or boast nobody about getting in that red right physical mind state because I've had people talk shit about me all my life. Um because in my mind, I had I'll tell y'all a funny story. This girl one time told me if I was a little bit taller, I um if I was a little bit taller, I'd be more attractive. Man, I looked to her up and down and said, You acting like I wanted your opinion in the first place, bitch. Fuck you. Um because I'm only at the the the tall height of 5'6. A lot of y'all motherfuckers gonna tell me, Jack, you ain't no five six, bitch. I I know what I got on my driver's license. I know what the fuck I know what the fuck my driver's license is. But you could tell them that you were 6'5. They wouldn't believe that shit to save my life. Um, even though shit, I got put in handcuffs one time. Talking about I fit the description of a 6'2 dark-skinned male that robbed a GameStop one time, and that is a true story. Um, y'all, shit, I got put in handcuffs in Walmart because I was trying to buy my niece a game. It was her birthday. I was going to drill at the time, and I heard all these jangly-jangly keys coming over there. Um, it's like goddamn six or seven Clark County deputies running up on me, put your put your hands up. But mind you, my tubby tubby ass had a bag of chicken wings in my hand. Um I told him, I'm not putting my motherfucking chicken on the goddamn ground. Fuck y'all. Put your hands on the ground. Man, I'm not putting my chicken on the goddamn ground. Fuck y'all. What the fuck are y'all doing? And so I end up putting on the shelf. They put me in handcuffs and walk me out. Man, that's the most embarrassing shit in my life that ever happened to me. Because, man, I'm seeing co-workers as I walk out. Then when I get outside, the detective is gonna take me over to the game stop. Remind you, I had just left over there because the little white boy came out. Well, taped behind his back. And told myself, don't go in, don't go in, we were just robbed. Remind you, they had all the games still on the shelves. They had all the systems. I said, Who the fuck robbed y'all? Because they didn't do a good job. Because I'm sorry. Me personally, me personally, if I'ma rob some shit, I'm taking all your shit. Nigga, I'm taking empty cases and all. I'm taking cutouts and everything. I'm talking about we finna make, hey, my son finna have all this shit in the in in in a little cousin room. Cause I'm not taking it back to my house. No sort of these. That's how that's how dumb motherfuckers get caught up. But back to the back to the story, Nature Hand. But I'm seeing all these folks getting on those Zimpic, and they look like crackheads from the '90s. And it's like, boo, I know you want to be skinny that bad. I know this. I know you're too scared of meth, so you'll rather get your damn self the injection in your stomach all the time, and that's the way you decide to get skinny. But boo-boo, you you looking like you got your pockets touching and everything else. That ain't the T, boo-boo. That is not the T. That is not the T, Boo Boo. Um, sometimes, man, I just understand that I'm an extra large. And that's the way I'm I'ma always be. But I'm gonna I'm gonna try to slim and tone this shit down because I uh one lady at work always jokes with me, telling my son, Jack, put your shoulders down. Nigga, I can't. This is just the way my shoulders sit. Um not that big, but I am broad-shouldered. Um, but a lot of people fail to realize, except the way you are. Everybody's not, everybody's just going to not find you appealing to their standard. But you have to look in the mirror and find happiness in yourself. And that's what this is basically on. Because I used to doubt myself. And I was like, damn. Um I wish I was a little bit taller. Shit, I wish I was this, I wish I was that. Because I mean, I know every man out there talking about some damn shit. When you look at goddamn, we're gonna we're gonna put it out though. We're gonna just gonna be frank and blunt. When you look at pornos, you're talking about some damn, damn, that nigga shit huge, man. Shit, I'm gonna goddamn shit, I'm gonna try to look like that. That shit don't happen like that, bro. You gotta either have the jeans in you, or you gotta get one of them pumpy pumps, or you gotta take them goddamn late night um them extends pills. Um, but oh, big shout out to my sponsor again, Dubby. Hey, if you want clean energy with no crash, enter my code, Dubby, four steppers only, all one word. But back to the nature of hand. But you gotta be satisfied with yourself. And I'm I'm sorry to say this, with so many people out there, they look in the mirror and they're never satisfied with themselves. And they always catch them, catch, you know, try to play catch-up and trying to fix the things, and then they come out looking like the little cute gremlin off of uh gremlins, too, with all the makeup and all the Botox injections and shit like that. Sometimes you gotta find happiness in yourself. Everybody's outward appearance because I mean if you go under that knife too many times, it's an addiction, you'll never be satisfied with yourself. Or you take that uh Olympic too fast, and your shit gonna look all shriveled, and you're gonna look like one of them, what is it, them California raisins that they had back in the 80s got down singing on TV. You're gonna look all shriveled up and all wrinkly and shit. But then so who's gonna find that appealing? I mean, then you ain't even gonna be satisfied by yourself, and then your mental health is gonna be even more in the shitter than it was before because you're not gonna try to, you're gonna be trying to chase something that you can't find happiness in. So at some point, you gotta find happiness in yourself to to make you happy. I know a lot of that a lot of people that sound confusing with that's gonna sound confusing to, I'm sorry, y'all. I'm trying to I'm give me straight. I'm just now waking up, I gotta get this shit right. But it's gotta get to that point where you find happiness in yourself. And a lot of people fail to realize that. So it takes others, sometimes those close ones to you, and say, hey, tighten up, you're doing too much. Hey, it'll be okay. You look perfect, you look amazing, you look gorgeous. Hey, like we say, real friends don't take friends to the ER, they take them to Waffle House when they're drunk. You gotta, hey, if your friend don't fit in that outfit, or that outfit looks like ass, or they smell a little bit musky, or they smell like fish or appallonia or hot ass or dick and pussy as we call it, hey, let them know, man. Because you don't want everybody else in the world to be hard on them when you could just be a true friend and tell them, hey, bro, that ain't it. That ain't it, that ain't the move. You you smell a little strong. Your old spices, not old spicing. Um, because I'm sorry, just because you throw cologne on don't mean you're gonna smell nice. Just because you throw a little bath and body works don't mean you won't smell nice. I mean, shit. Like, be that real friend to some people. Because you never know what demons they fighting. Because I mean, their outward appearances, a lot of times, their biggest battle because they might not be getting attention from the person they want the attention from. Or the right attention. Or like, hey, sweetie, hey, slow your ass down. I mean, even if it's your partner, hey bro, you ain't a good look. Keep that shit in the road, hold that shit up, bro. Or hey, on the up and up side. If they popping their shit, tell them, hey girl, you killing it. Or if your partner got them on that shit, hey bro, you pressure right now. You pressure. So you gotta sometimes you gotta congratulate those when they need it, because we don't get all our flowers when we get them until we got down go. If you're doing something good, shit, tell somebody you're doing something good. Tell them you're doing something the right way. Don't always tear them down. Because don't be their friend. Don't be that friend that always tears somebody down when like you you said some negative fucking Nancy. Who the fuck wants a negative Nancy around them all the time? But see, hey, it's two cass to a coin, though. When when they when they smell a little oniony, y'all know what I mean by oniony. Or they smell a little fishy, let them know. But when they doing something good or they telling telling you something they proud of, hey, congratulate them, support them. Because it don't take too much to support somebody, it don't take too much to goddamn share somebody's story, it don't take too much to goddamn push somebody in the right way, right? Because I'm gonna go ahead and tell you like this my son, my middle son, repent K or Keyshawn, as y'all might know him, or um Fat, as what I call him. Shit, he just dropped his new clothing brown, never brown apparel. Shit, I've been sending it to all my friends, all my partners. Hey, go support them. Because but you could you don't you ain't gonna have too many that that support you like only thing I did was hey shit, son, how much how much does one cost? Daddy, it only costs you X, Y, and Z to make. I said, I don't I'm not asking that. I'm asking what's your retail value? How much does it cost? So I bought one just to show them the support. It don't take that much to support somebody's vision and dreams when they doing something positive. You can't always support people when they on some bullshit on there some fuck shit. I mean, like if you if you my A1 day ones or you my right hand, my partner in crying, shit, I'm gonna I'm gonna support you right or wrong. Just don't have me in no bullshit. Or hey, wink at me if you feel safe or shit, bro. You gotta let me know what we on before I get a phone call or whatever. I mean, that's just code that we go by. Because right or wrong, if I'm rocking with you, I'm rocking with you. If I'm here to support you, I'm here to support you. I can't just support you when it's a good look for you. I'm here to support you through the thick of it, through the bad of it, through the weather of the storms. Because I got a couple partners and a couple homegirls that were with me through some of my darkest fucking days. I mean, my darkest fucking days. That I never thought that it would happen to me. But they were there. So, I mean, because like because that means that speaks volumes to me. Because you don't always feel like you have people in your corner. Like my mother has to remind me all the time, John, you ain't in this alone. You ain't going through everything alone. You do have people that love and care about you. But sometimes me being in my own head makes me feel like I'm alone. And you don't know how many other people out there feel like they're alone when they going through shit. And so you gotta let them know, hey, you look good, you smell good, you're doing good, you got, you got money in your pocket, shit, you you on your shit. So, hey, when they popping their shit, they popping their shit. Because like I tell all my friends and everybody that fought me, I'm a no judgment zone. None. Hey, but we gonna make a funny experience out of everything we fucking do. Like, for real, for real. No matter what we got going on. Like I text my homegirl who gave me the inspiration for this shit. Man, my little fat ass just wanna plate. She hurried up and hit me back. And I was just like, man, some of these niggas got down withering away like crackheads back in the 90s. Oh, I'm sorry, crackheads back in the 80s. When we used to see people withering away like shit, they sucking their cheeks in. And that that's like I put a post out on my Instagram. Um, hey, real shit, would you let a crackhead suck your dick? Not a full-blown crackhead, but one that still got their teeth, still go to work Monday through Friday, still hold their shit together. But just when they like to drink, they like to get a little booted. They like to they like to hit that glass pipe, they like to suck on that glass dick. So one of my partners gonna tell me, um, shit, maybe. I said, boy, you better watch your goddamn vacuum clean around that nigga. That niggas know what they got them crackhead mouth do. I wouldn't try one. Because I'm too scared, bro. I'm too scared. That motherfucker might suck my whole soul out. Motherfucker might make me turn El Blanco, yeah. That means white. Like sucking all the all the little bit of color I got left in me. You know I'm light skinned. I ain't got that much color left in me. I ain't got that much pigment left. I ain't got that much melon in me. You get what I'm saying? But it's just just to make it funny. Because I mean, I ain't gonna hold your shit. I got an auntie that I love to death. Shit, she still smoke, she still smokes yams to this day. If y'all don't know what yams is, that's um crack. But I ain't seen it like um damn, it's been that long. 10, 15, 12 years. But I know she's still living. Cause I know crack uh crack um crackheads didn't die from COVID. They were always they were already chiseled, they crack too running too deep in their veins. They were already sterilized by the goddamn um crack and glass smoke. But anyway, that is a joke, y'all. Don't go out and smoke crack thinking that you're gonna be well and well and down by smoking crack, think you ain't gonna get sick. But yeah, man, shit. It's just man, support your people, man. That's really what it all boils down to. No matter what it does. Hey, man, give your people their flowers while they here. Tell them when they right, they right, they wrong and they're wrong. Hey, but just don't embarrass them in front of others. Pull them off to the side and talk to them. Because sometimes that's what they exactly need. And sometimes they respect you enough and understanding that where where your voice of reasoning is coming from is there to support them, not to tear them down, not to talk bad about them. And a lot of times people don't realize how much that does help somebody. Damn, I was fucking up, damn, I was doing this, damn shit. Hell, even if it boils down to this, bro. Put me down as a reference. Bro, I'll put y'all finished the reference, bro. Appreciate it. Sometimes that does a lot more than for a nigga than a lot of y'all realize. Because so many people don't will support you in the dark, but won't support you in the light. They won't put their name and they ain't shit on the line. Hey, but that's for you niggas. This for you motherfuckers out there. Because I'm sorry that I'm sorry, I'm sorry to use that term, but for you ignorant motherfuckers, that if an individual puts your their name out there for you, don't make them look bad. Make them let themselves make them look bad. Don't don't you add on to it. Because I had one dude, I made, I gave a reference for a job, and it was a job I was currently working at. And next thing you know, my boss called me in the office. Man, that man made me look so bad. He was a misogynistic asshole. And I told him, he told my boss told me, I hope this is your view also on women. I say, oh no, not by far. I was raised by women, so how can I be misogynistic? Because I feel like mama, shit, I ain't I ain't really understand everything. And I ain't shit, I ain't understand how hard my mama had it as a single parent until I became a single parent. And I gotta give a big shout out to her because I was just irking her nerves because I was a child and didn't understand that. But when you become a single parent and you don't have a support system, and you getting pulled in every different different ways, and your attention is drawn over here, over here, over here, and your time isn't your own anymore. It's like, God damn. I didn't realize how much of an impact and how much of a we gonna say it, we're gonna say it like this, and don't take offense to it, how much of a burden I was. Even though she didn't look at me like a burden, even though I I wasn't technically a burden, but I really was because she couldn't move the way she wanted to, she couldn't do the things she wanted to. She might have had the money and the and the shit in her pocket, but she had to think about me first. And I gotta give my mama her flowers. And I wouldn't be the man that I am today if it wasn't for her. Because of the sacrifices she made, the support that she gave, the cuss-outs that she gave me. I'm talking about a dog walk the shit out of me. But it was there. It was there for a reason. It was make me the man that I am today to understand the do's and don'ts of my society, the way I needed to move, the way I needed to conduct myself, the way I needed to stand up on my two, the way that I understood that outside of those doors that I call home, the world is against me a lot of times. And then nobody would, and then very few people would support me in my dreams, ambitions, and everything else. So you being outside those doors matters so much more to people than the people realize. Because people fail to realize how hard the world is on us and how negative the world is without giving us support. Because when you look at people going through shit, understanding they're going through their own internal battles. Or they going in, or they using work as an outlet to get away from home. You don't know what the fuck they battling. So sometimes instead of being a negative Nancy, or that that coworker that always run back to daddy and tell them everything that Jane done did or Johnny done did or Billy done did just to get a couple more brownie points to make yourself feel better about yourself for the promotion that you ain't gonna get because you run your dick sucker too damn much. Sometimes it's good to just say, hey man, I just want to pull you to the side. Hey, you fucking up. So you need to, you know, you need to tighten up. Sometimes people need to hear that. Sometimes people need to go about their ways and they lives like that just to understand, hey, I might be fucking up, but he cared enough to tell me that I am. So sometimes you just gotta do that just to make people feel better about themselves. Because sometimes people need that helping hand to pick them up when they fall. Somebody like when they tell you give your friend a helping hand to stand tall, they just don't mean a physical hand. Sometimes they need that moral support, sometimes they need that words of encouragement. And told, you are doing a good job. You do matter. You you you're you're more than enough. Because the internal battles that we face alone, sometimes be on some bullshit. And sometimes we be in our own head. And a lot of people don't don't fail to realize or how to balance that shit. Because it gets overwhelming. It gets a lot, it becomes a lot of noise in your head. And people don't realize how much of a burden we are to ourselves sometimes. Because we do be in our heads. We do be down, they'll be down to ourselves. Like I used to tell people, I'm my worst critique ever. But because I'm gonna be harder on myself than anybody else is because this don't sound right, this ain't good enough. I need to go harder, I need to do more, I need to do this, I need to do that. I'm not doing enough right now. I'm beating myself up internally. So sometimes for a motherfucker on the outside telling me, hey, you popping your shit, bro. You doing that shit. And I needed to hear that. Sometimes it takes an outward person to tell us, lift your motherfucking head, oh nigga. Because we too hard on ourselves, we too critical. We too poisonous to ourselves, and we don't see that. That's all for today's episode. Fold steppers only. Hey, I want to give a shout out to my sponsor, like always, Dovey. That clean, fresh energy with no cracks. We out, peace.