Two for the Culture
Two for the Culture is brought to you be Steven Rey and Justin Devonte. This is the podcast for the ages! Both Steve and Justin has been friends for over a decade plus and will give you a genuine approach on news and culture with humor and love. I promise this will be one of your favorite podcasts that you will not get enough of!
Two for the Culture
Ye KKK Interview, Young Scooter Death, Ashton Hall Mourning Routine
Catching Up After a Cold
Seven-Day Water Fast Experience
Mental Clarity and Productivity Benefits
Spirituality and Bible Study Discussion
Kanye's KKK Hood Controversy
Recent Rapper Deaths and Violence
Relationship Cheating Scenarios
What's going on. And we are back for another episode of 2 for the Culture. I'm Justin Devante, Steven Ray. Yes, sir, how you doing I'm doing well. How was your week? My week's been good so far. We're shooting a little later than normal. We're covering from a cold.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so it's been alright. Besides that, just been pumping up on like that turmeric and ginger um what else I've been taking? Of course, vitamin c, vitamin d, b12 um I, just what does b12 do? It's like like energy more than anything, like mushroom tea yes, stuff like that. I'm just taking things you know me, I'm just here just seeing things around the house like organic sea moss. I'm taking it yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I definitely just saw that. I just saw that the sea moss yeah, that it's probably expired. Yeah, it's I saw something. I definitely saw something expired and you took it oh, what was that? I. I mean, you were really confident when you did it, so I just thought you already knew what was going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I was like all right. Well, yeah, it's been there for a while, but hey.
Speaker 2:I feel better, you feel better though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Well, that's all right, and I probably took it twice. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I definitely checked it out before you. It was like a couple days before, because I was messed up. I was like damn, what is around here?
Speaker 1:I saw that and I was like expired.
Speaker 2:No. I just saw you a couple days later like hmm, you just took it. I was like, well shit, I guess I could have just did the same thing yeah, I don't think it did anything.
Speaker 1:Well, I feel better. I guess I could have just did the same thing. Yeah, I don't think it did anything. Well, I feel better. So I don't know what to contribute to, but I'm all right, but yeah, so everything's been going on your week you been feeling good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nah, my week has been pretty. I feel like my whole week has been an experiment. What do?
Speaker 2:you mean Like I started off. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, so I started off. It was my birthday, so you know I didn't really go anywhere or anything, but I did chill order terrible food which tasted amazing, just fast food like Wendy's and whatever I can get my hands on. Uh, drank and then smoked a little bit and I feel like that combination, just like I don't know, the, the. I feel like the liquor and the, the food, and the, um, the smoking, it just like it. It completely trashed all of my white blood cells.
Speaker 1:Okay, interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like my whole immune system was just vulnerable, like anybody anything want to come in like it's welcome, so yeah, so I got messed up and then my jaw swole and I just stopped eating, uh, to do a fast. And I got to like day three, three and a half, and I was kind of better and I'm like damn, I never did seven days before so I just kept going. Then kind of like switched it from trying to like heal to just making it like a spiritual thing and then making it more of uh, uh, uh, changing my habits and like getting rid of mental, mental, um, uh, uh, I guess, mental habits of what I would do and cravings and certain things that could be social media, this, and that I deleted instagram on my phone. So that's been like a game changer like, uh, like how you were, uh, a while ago when you took off instagram and then you just felt, I guess I would assume you felt more productive and all that, yeah, I it eliminated, like me scrolling which was like huge, I didn't know how bad that was.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, that and the whole seven water fast which ends tonight in about like two hours. So I'm really happy about that. I didn't even know it was possible, at least like a year ago. I didn't even know that shit was even possible to even do.
Speaker 2:So you've been doing water, Water only yeah, well, in the morning I will say this In the morning I usually have this Like detox drink, yeah, and it'll have Like lemon. Well, I think lemon Is fine, though it's got electrolytes in it. You still need electrolytes, cause I probably just Can't get up and walk. But One thing I will say the first couple days I didn't know that I was doing Was having a little bit Of honey In my my drink, that I drink in the mornings and.
Speaker 2:I'm not supposed to have that because of sugar.
Speaker 1:Oh, right right right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I was looking it up and the guy was saying how insulin levels can harden the outside of your arteries and stuff like that. So, like you know, if you, if you just basically eat terribly and that's how people have like plaque and all that like on the outside of their arteries. And he was talking about sugar and I was like, oh shit, sugar's in honey but that should be fine.
Speaker 2:And then I typed here I was like will sugar break, uh, no. Will honey break, uh, a water fast? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And I was like, oh fuck, I just stopped, I just stopped it, but uh, it's been going well.
Speaker 2:It's been going well. It's a lot of different. The the the first, like three days, was, um, it was kind of easy for me because I I I naturally don't really eat that much um on the regular. But then after that, then I started to notice like my jaw and all this stuff started to heal like very, very quickly. Uh, then my energy levels it it raised incredibly even last night. Like I woke up and I started working from nine or ten to to like 10 or 11 that night and it was the same energy level throughout the entire day. Well, yeah, so like that is the craziest part.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, my mind feels super clear you know where that comes from, where you have that energy uh, have it.
Speaker 2:Um man, I did just like a couple a couple hours ago, but another reason why I asked that?
Speaker 1:because I I was uh listening to the diary ceo a long time ago, and it was probably last year, and he had on um some type of specialist or whatever it was a woman yeah uh-huh and she was talking about fast and things like that. Like the body, the body. The reason why it heals quickly is because, since you are starving, it feels like it needs to prepare itself fast so you can eat and so you can live yeah, it goes, survival yeah exactly so.
Speaker 1:When your body's in that mode, then at that point you will have more energy to do things, because it's trying to hunt for food.
Speaker 2:Oh right, Right, Damn, Damn. That does make sense. Yeah, this shit is ridiculous. Like anytime I'm doing work, usually I would take way more breaks, way more breaks and then I'm just sitting here an hour later and I'm like I don't even know how I'm not even moving away. It's very weird, but yeah, how I'm not even moving away. Like it's very weird. But yeah, that I definitely believe that for sure.
Speaker 1:So you say you lost like 10 pounds or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably that was in day five right. Yeah, it's probably going to round out about 10. I didn't really like do a full assessment of myself because I'll have like shorts one day and then like sweatpants another day, so I'm not even sure what my first initial weight was oh, okay, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 1:You didn't do like a before an actual picture and then like a speedo yeah and a speedo no, I didn't do the front back pictures.
Speaker 2:I should have. I definitely lost weight, for sure, but I mean again, before I did the fast, I ate like that day I ate like beans fucking five wendy's burgers, two um the the cheese fries, but I was like I went in, so but you had no plan on doing a fast when you did it, you just was like feeling it uh, yeah, it was more.
Speaker 2:So just because it was my birthday, I was just like man I don't care and then I just knew that when I wake up I'm gonna be like, damn, I'm 33 now. And then, like I knew for a fact that I was going to be like, all right, I got to start making some changes and all this. So I just took the opportunity of when I was in pain. I was just like man, let me just do this now. And yeah. So I just kind of made that switch, but it's been a very I'm. I'm definitely going to do this again. I'm probably going to do this maybe two or three times a year, because it just gets rid of everything.
Speaker 2:Like literally everything. So at least that's what I think. Was you doing? Number two what I doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in the seven-day pass.
Speaker 2:I thought I had to. This morning I was like I wonder what's going to happen. I really was like what is going to come out? But I didn't end up doing it Okay, I was just curious.
Speaker 2:Kevin Gates said that around the seventh day he was like that's when you go to the bathroom and then that's when you'll see kind of like mucus a little bit from the lining of your stomach or the lining, probably, of your intestines and stuff. So I, I can, I can, I can believe that. I mean, bro, like this is like, it's like you have a dirty car and then, or the outside of a dirty car, and just like a constant waterfall on it, like eventually, at the end of it, everything is going to be clean.
Speaker 2:So, um, yeah, so it's. It's crazy. I feel like very clear, I can work, I can. I had a um, it wasn't an interview, but it was like something for progressive actually, and they had this assessment that you got to do and then it's like timed, and then you got to answer this question like in a minute. I ain't never thought that fast ever like from so I was just.
Speaker 2:It was almost like I was looking at it. It was like my mind could assess it and my mind just like computed the whole thing and then it was just like answer this. Now it was, I don't know. I could just tell the difference between eating and not it's. It's definitely a difference, I feel like. I feel like everybody should be doing this.
Speaker 2:I don't know why it's not a thing, because it's difficult but it's because of the habits that are there, though, like the only time when I started doing fast um last year, when I did like one day and then I went to like one and a half days and I went to two days and like periodically over the year, the only reason that I was hungry was because of the habit of eating. After I realized it was just literally the habit of eating and not me actually being hungry, then it all started to change. So I just feel like everybody should definitely have a habit of at least like intermittent fasting, like that should be the norm, not eating um. Yeah, I actually think I'm gonna make that um a a normal thing for me to do work without eating.
Speaker 2:I'm most efficient when I do not eat during a whole work day.
Speaker 1:Interesting Because I wound up doing the intermittent fasting unintentionally today because I had things I needed to do and I had to prepare the meal and I had to get medication for my granny yeah, Cause everything. So so I was. I had to eat that on lunch, so I didn't have time to eat. So I wound up eating until, like, my next break was like three something, 3 PM. Yeah, so I. But I used to do intermittent fasting all the time. I used to have like an app for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah fasting all the time. I used to have like an app for it. Yeah, yeah, which worked great. Yeah, the app. Yeah, I'll turn it on, and then it'll tell me that I'll turn it on from the last time I ate. So I hit that start button. It's like, hey, I could do like 14, 16 or whatever hours that I chose. And then, within that time frame, it told it told me what your body's doing like, say, in the eighth hour, is now and maybe repairing something or now you're growing home, you know, it's like something.
Speaker 1:It was really cool. That actually helped me, because now I want to get to that 16 hour tour, it tells me hey, your body's actually doing it. I can't remember exactly, but your body's doing x while in this mode.
Speaker 1:So it's like all right it encourages you to keep on fasting because you want your body to repair, you know the skin cells or whatever. I'm just picking up something, right? Yeah, yeah. So, um, if I can remember that app, it it was actually like a like a workout app that I paid for. Um, so I wound up like canceling it, but that part of the app I loved yeah, no, this is real.
Speaker 2:I feel like. I feel like it literally, I feel like everything is connected, like there are days where I'll think negative thoughts and stuff and I realized throughout this whole time of me I'll meditate here and there and and all that, but I feel like depression, the, the moodiness and all that type of stuff it really has something to do with that too. Like I feel like I think it was like a couple episodes ago I was saying how I was interested in like the what's it called, not the brainwaves, but the.
Speaker 1:I forgot what you're talking about, like you're talking about when you say positive affirmation no, just new, uh, creating new habits in your head and it makes new neurons in your head.
Speaker 2:So, like, I feel like this literally repairs them. It rewires them, is what. That's what I was trying to say. I was trying to like find ways to rewire my brain to where, like, instead of thinking this, I'm thinking this or you know, which comes with habits and all that but I think literally cleaning out your whole system. Like I haven't thought negatively for real at all.
Speaker 1:It's been so easy to when a negative thought comes in, I'm just like, I'm not gonna like think about this and crazy enough, but like if I were to eat like a bunch of like five burgers and this and this and that, it's it's way easier to be trapped into that yeah, I I wonder, um, how true that it says is like you know when they, when a cow know he's about to die or uh, any any animal, human like, knows about the diet. They sweat more and it seeps into that meat it's got to yeah it, it does, and it tastes different.
Speaker 1:people say so I wonder how much is like? Of course we go through this. You know whole factory farming and there a cow or whatever knows about the diet, or in a de-stressed situation to where it gets into that food and we're consuming that.
Speaker 1:And so now you know that gets in what we're eating, because they say that the stomach is your second brain yeah, yeah, yeah, your gut is yeah, so, um, I wonder how much of that actually creeps into the food, because of the food we eat and you know, it's not just one cow, it's like, of course, yeah, a lot of them, yeah yeahers, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got Betsy Betty. You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean. Stacey Becky Keisha but yeah, that's a lot. I thought about that too. I was like damn, this ain't just one chicken, it's like a lot of these motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah, I guess it's kind of different. But, yeah, the ground beef and all that. It's like a lot of them together. That's a lot of different. That's just something to think about.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to focus on eating a lot more.
Speaker 2:And I wonder. It's like completely the opposite of what I just said. Excuse me.
Speaker 1:So that's not what I meant to say. I meant to say cooking a lot more, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah whatever you do, I do the opposite. No, cooking a lot more, eating a lot more alright, yeah, cooking a lot more than that I've been focusing on eating a lot more.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, but yeah, cooking a lot more, yeah, just cooking the food, making sure that grassland is kind of where I was going. Yeah yeah, because you know it's easier to go to McDonald's than for me, definitely, and so that's why I was like preparing my food and that's why I was waiting longer to eat, because I would rather just cook it, knowing it comes from a certain place, versus going to mcdonald's, or I don't want to just keep on shooting up mcdonald's, but um, another fast food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly at least mcdonald's beat. They be owning their own farms, you know I mean, I guess and you know their quality foods are. It's like you have Chick-fil-A it's a B or a B+ I'm just naming one and McDonald's a B in terms of food value, like it's on Chick-fil-A's head top for real. You think so? Yeah, but last time I looked it up and they're better than Wendy's, burger King and all them.
Speaker 2:You mean nutritional, like the grade value of their meats? Oh yeah, yeah, huh. Yeah, I think I did hear that chick-fil-a chicken wasn't real chicken. It is, it's.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think it's probably real chicken, it's just not um, it's not like grade a like I don't know what it great? Which one of the restaurants is probably grade A, but they're not as best as marketed. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean man, I love me some Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 1:I mean me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love the.
Speaker 2:McDonald's breakfast too. That shit all the way fake. Yeah yeah, yeah, the eggs look fake. This shit look like it's handmade out of clay.
Speaker 1:It's for mass consumption. You've seen them make it. They put the little thing you used to manage or whatever, so yeah, they put all the things in the slider, put it out, do the chick-chick with the seasoning, yeah, yeah, and all that's portioned out. You just do one click, you got the salt shaker, you know, and that pours out A hell of a salt. Yeah, do you just do. One click, you got the salt shaker, you know, and that pours out yeah, I'll be putting extra salt.
Speaker 2:I don't be feeling. You put extra salt in your fries, so you say extra salt? Yes, damn they don't be salt my shit at all I may be going to the wrong one well, what nothing less.
Speaker 1:They be starting with the extra salt shit.
Speaker 2:A mcdonald's fries like one of the saltiest fries yeah, yeah, I don't be tasting that.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's just me, that's why you fucked up now, that's why I'm sick.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, I didn't damn, I didn't really think about that. I mean, again, I used to work there and I used to like when somebody said extra salt. I'm like god damn like, because we already like doing that so extra salt on here.
Speaker 2:Yeah and uh, I'll be making sure they be salting my joints no, I do love, I do I say all this, but I do love man, I love some fast food, but that's why I like doing this though, because it's like a balance of my life. Life I can, I could go to mcdonald's and not feel too bad.
Speaker 1:You know, like after a while anyway okay, I got you yeah but it's as for me, it's when I'm doing the diet and then I step off for that cheat day and I can't get back on that diet until later on oh yeah it's. It's like I'll lose weight. Then it's go back, and I'm constantly in that same path mm-hmm yeah. So it's just focus on just making sure, just stick to it, cuz I know I should know myself at this point mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:What helps out like is the intermittent fast enough. Yeah, I used my weight. I mean I know it doesn't look like I just like get super big or whatever.
Speaker 1:But there was a time.
Speaker 2:I mean, there was like in college, my weight would like go up, like my cheeks would be kind of filled. There are times where I can go back videos ago, maybe like a couple years ago when I started race so silly in Memphis, my cheeks were like big as fuck like they were super huge and I had to.
Speaker 2:I was just eating a lot, a lot, a lot, and then eventually like me doing a detox. I've been doing that for maybe six, two years, now two, maybe three years, something like that, but I wouldn't eat in the morning. I used to eat a lot in the morning, but after I stopped doing that and just like kind of pushed my meals back to like later on in the day, that regulated my weight. So even if I was like messing it up or messing up a diet or whatever that that alone does a lot and now I'm talking about I did because honey does help with colds.
Speaker 1:I didn't do intermittent fasting Like I'm thinking I did, because I did put it in my turmeric and ginger tea honey to feel better.
Speaker 2:How is it not?
Speaker 1:It's not because, um, even though it is separating, uh, fasting to a certain degree, but I started off the day, um, not fasting because we, we just talked about the tea and how it's sugar honey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly, I mean, I mean excuse me yeah, that ain't like.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not, it's not, it's not all. I mean it's. It's still technically not animated fasting if I'm consuming a sugary substance in any way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'll say that too. Like it really at least. Like the seven day thing, and again, seven day is kind of like big, like this was me a year ago. I'd be like, bro, you did seven, what are you talking? About yeah, seven days is extremely tough yeah and um, there are people out there that have done 30, there are people out there done 60, and it's just that that sounds crazy to me, but knowing me, I'm probably to do 30 one day.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow yeah.
Speaker 2:But I say all that to say, like, even when it comes down to the honey, I'm like a big honey guy, like I always do. Caffeine, usually throughout the day. I associated doing work with caffeine, I think I told you that, um, and with this I realized it doesn't have to be associated with it, like I literally just don't have to eat, like maybe it's, maybe it's kind of like a biblical thing as well, like I know there's something in there that uh says, you know the, the person that doesn't work like doesn't eat.
Speaker 2:Basically, you know what I'm talking about um, not specifically the verse, but I mean that sounds like you know, I mean like a saying I've heard before yeah, yeah, but, um, I don't know, I kind of I kind of like understand that a little more, not in the sense of like duh, if you don't work, you don't eat, but more so taking it a little bit more literal, like what if you don't? Or what if you work but you don't eat while you work and you eat after you're done, like I feel like that can be. I'm gonna start seeing what that feels like to me, because I've been incredibly, incredibly productive. It's been ridiculous how productive I've been. I literally just finished yesterday editing all 21 videos for like the week.
Speaker 2:Remember, I told you I was going to do like three videos a day and then schedule all up. I did all this. I I got I got like four or five posts per day going for a week, like it's, it's already. I don't gotta touch nothing right now. I feel like I'm floating right now. I never did that before and I already downloaded like 40 other videos for the next coming weeks and then, after this podcast, I'm going to be like hopping on that so I can be even further ahead. It's just it's too many benefits to this thing, so I'm an advocate for it. I think people should really get on that, and it's a spiritual thing too.
Speaker 2:I mean, even though I got the bible, but like that ain't I didn't got the bible, but like that ain't it I didn't, I didn't buy the bible for that specifically. I actually like I actually want to study it, yeah, but, um, so I started, but that's, that's that's started with uh, where you at?
Speaker 1:if you don't mind me, I'm starting in the beginning.
Speaker 2:Okay, just I'm gonna go through the whole book. It's probably gonna take me a year. Okay, I'm going to go through the whole book.
Speaker 1:It's probably going to take me a year or so. That's a long time. Yeah, you know what I mean. You can finish the Bible quicker than that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can finish it, but I'm not going to study it.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, excuse me, my bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't buy it to read it like a movie. I bought it to like Read a book, you mean well, I'm saying like you know you watch a movie, but oh, that was a cold movie. I like this part, this part, that part yeah, yeah not like that.
Speaker 2:I didn't buy it for that I I wanted the bible so I could study it. Like what, what happened? What's the? The four rivers, this split off at what's the? It was saying something about the sky. I, I looked up stuff, got pictures, drew the pictures of like what this is and what this looks like Like actually study it. You know, that's like very important to me because I just feel like that's one of the main things that we have right now. That is basically like the law of the land, absolutely yeah, it's like the law of the land, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the blueprint to life.
Speaker 2:So, like I think it's very important to know, like all the stories that's in there and all that. I mean everything that I've heard about. Of course, I've grown up in a church, but it's kind of like, not, I don't know, you can grow up in a church and it could be in the. I don't know you can grow up in the church and it could be in the back of your head instead of like the front of it. If you get what I'm saying, it's kind of like. It's kind of like a tv on that, uh, uh, your, your parents watch all the time, or a certain show that they watch all the time and you know of it, but you don't like know everything about it. But, um, yeah, so you know.
Speaker 2:Now I'm just kind of like I I just want to study it and just figure out like what, what does this mean? This mean, that mean? Where did this person come from? How did the blueprint to? Relationships, friendships, building a community? I'm building a community, like, uh, leading a community, like what could I? That could probably teach me how to do something way bigger than whatever I'm thinking. Um, yeah, so I just think it's the law of the land so no, I mean, I I'm the biggest.
Speaker 1:You know I'm not the biggest, but I'm a big advocate on um reading the bible. Um, when I do bible, my favorite part about church is bible study. Um, when I do bible, my favorite part about church is bible study. Is actually learning the bible? We able to feed off each other what you think? I disagree here. You know what's your interpretation of it. It's literally the best thing. Um, so I personally enjoy it. I think that it's harder to do on your own. You think so. Um the bible, I'm saying it's hard, it is. I'm not saying that it's harder to do on your own. You think so. The Bible, I'm saying it's hard. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but it is harder to do on your own versus with a group. I actually like it more on my own. Well, I mean, have you been to Bible study as an adult?
Speaker 2:As an adult? No.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, you wouldn't know until you go as an adult. And not only that, it's going to be different from you just to go to a church randomly and like not know anybody and try to do bible study. That may be different if you have, like me, and like, say, five, six of your closest friends together reading the bible.
Speaker 1:It's you, that's something you're gonna look forward to because, you got all your, all your friends, somebody you're comfortable with so you can toss ideas to you. Gotta talk about it, it's absolutely. And then you have a a uh like a little workbook that dedicates these chapters explaining the content of it. Um, and then you're able to read, read that book and then get the verses, and then they have questions in it. I'm telling you, it's literally my favorite thing when we have good discussions, because then you're just going to have life discussions of like, hey, I see these same flaws today, you know, and whatever.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's absolutely yeah, yeah, so you know, and then you read it. You read it and you like I would have never gotten this just from just reading the book, reading the Bible. You know, yeah, Because I skipped right over this and didn't see the meaning in this verse. You know, I was just reading the verse and didn't see the meaning in it. So there's a lot of things like I think the Proverbs is going to be a good one for you.
Speaker 1:ecclesiastes, king solomon you know, like all of them are really really really good. Good, uh, it's good stuff. The hardest thing is to get through to me was numbers, because all it did was talk about. You know, he's the son of this person, the son of this, and it's just of this and it's just that it's all supposed to lead. You know it's leading to somewhere, but it's just like. That, to me, is the most boring part of the Bible.
Speaker 1:Yeah dream numbers Because literally it's just like a lineage of people. It feels like useless information when I was reading it.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I think I'd like to do that, but I do really want to study it myself too of course.
Speaker 1:I mean you can do both. I'm just saying when, if you do go to a church and maybe go to Wednesday night Bible study it's a group of your peers, you get comfortable, you'll be like I see what Justin's talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but nonetheless I'm not saying that you can't do it and you won't get success from it, but because you're going at your own pace and your own want, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I can see the comfort in that. But if you was to do it, it feels so much better and you get a lot out of it. Yeah, yeah, because I mean the biggest. I'm not going to say it's going to come off wrong, but and I'll just say how I feel, the church I go to, I love that church and I love a lot of people in there, but there's not a lot of people my age group. So it's it.
Speaker 1:It's it hits different when everybody's your age and you can hold each other accountable accountable and y'all go do the same things together. Yeah, but you know I don't have that. So if you was to get that and like go to a church that has a lot of people our age I, I think it would be a better way to live a christian life just me personally, but everybody's like.
Speaker 1:you know, I got people really drastically younger than me and pretty much people significantly older, Like the youngest person next to me is kind of like my mentor. Yeah, and he's in his 40s.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's different. But, I appreciate him a lot, you know. Yeah, I go to him for a lot of guidance and I'm glad I'm able to have a lot of wisdom in the church. But to have people my age that you can, you know, have confidence that y'all go through the exact same things, that you can talk to personally, um, and it's a lot of them, it would be great, yeah yeah, yeah, no but I like that talk though.
Speaker 2:I'm happy for you yeah, bro, bro, it's really cool. Yeah, I'm a very spiritual guy. Yeah, I always wanted to get you know more into the Bible. It's just time like divine time. It just aligns up with where I am mentally.
Speaker 1:It just happens to be now up with where I am mentally and it just happens to be now. So, yeah, and the biggest thing about you know what? I get a lot from the Bible and I have to go through, uh, it's like um, one of I can't remember the verses, um, the actual verse, but it's like um, why worry, um, when you know that God feeds the birds of the air and you know the animals on the ground I'm really paraphrasing. And then he's like they, they find their way to eat, mm-hmm, it's like, and they don't live a life of stress you know kind of.
Speaker 1:Why would you everything? Like you know, it's pretty much saying like hey, he, he, he feeds the earth. Why are you worried about what the next thing is going to come? You know what I mean You're going to be taken care of. God's going to take care of you. You know, what I mean. I'm really paraphrasing and I'm doing it very injustice because it's coming off my but if you, if you was to start repeating, I could then say it um I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, yeah, yeah, literally.
Speaker 1:But for the the earth is clearly meant for everything to get fed yeah, yeah, so, um, but yeah, so it's, it's absolutely great, um, it's, it's humbling. It makes things in the world like less trivial. It's like I hate that, you know. I mean like I have to care about things that really don't matter yeah just like um classism oh, yeah, yeah, human made.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like yeah, like, but why? I gotta care, care what somebody else got and I gotta match him. I gotta have this big old house and these cars and all this money. It's like for what? Yeah, yeah, like. I'm good where I'm at. You know what I mean that is so.
Speaker 1:That's the type of things I feel. It's like sometimes I get frustrated at, at that aspect of life is like when um, I I'll talk about a little bit more um in a personal person person instead of the podcast. But sometimes I look at things. I'm like bro, like why do I? Why should I care about this? It makes me just like want to leave things, you know, cut things off it's like, bro, this is what you worried about, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like I gotta, yeah, yeah, I gotta leave you alone, if this is what you want for real no, uh-huh yeah, yeah, uh, but yeah, so, um, but yeah, yeah, there's, there's more things to get to talk to, though oh, yeah, yeah there's a lot of well, no, I would say a lot of things, but a lot of interesting things that happened since the last podcast. Uh, what, um. Yay's interview with the academics.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I didn't. I didn't see the interview. Did you hear it?
Speaker 1:uh, I saw a little bit of it because I tried to skip through where he was not talking about Cardi.
Speaker 2:I was just remembering him wearing the KKK mask.
Speaker 1:I saw no outrage for the KKK mask or the KKK hood.
Speaker 2:In the comments. In the robe, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just even listening to different outlets, it was kind of yay. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody was unbothered at the KKK robe, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like nobody. Everybody was unbothered at the KKK road, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too, yeah, yeah. I think I was more shocked of him selling the shirt with the swastika on it.
Speaker 1:I didn't Not by a lot, but just like a teeny little bit.
Speaker 2:Like damn, you finna make money off this. Right, right, but just like a teeny little like damn, you, finna, make money off this, right. Right, that was the only thing. But yeah, as soon as I saw him on here, I saw him in there, I was all right yeah, you know, the thing about the robe and the swastika stuff is he's back years ago.
Speaker 1:He tried to kind of do the same thing with the confederate flag now and he talks about symbolism and how symbolism is not like a real thing, it's a mental thing. It controls your mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if you ever remember that uh, I feel like he's trying to flip the narrative.
Speaker 1:Uh, a lot of things well, I think he like literally don't like jewish people for real but yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, but but I'm saying about the swastika stuff. I think he literally don't like jewish people, damn. But uh, but the the symbolism thing is that there's an element to it uh-huh like I believe, that um and and when I say he there little, I think let me I kind of misspoke.
Speaker 1:I think that there's Jewish people that he does like. I think that when he looks at the community as a whole, that's when there's a lot of disdain, because he looks at everything of how we talked about in our old podcast about like jewish controlled media and how, and then also israel and how they control politics here and a lot of things, and then you look up like, oh, you know he runs so and so he's jewish you know he.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. So it lets you down this rabbit hole of art. We're controlled by jewish people, which everybody. You know I come, that's when I come. You know where I have. You know the god and bible and me it's like bruh. All this is trivial at the end of the day. You know what I mean. It's like whatever yeah I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't control this. This ain't my world that I'm living in. You know I mean so, so I don't try to get caught up in that heap, but I can't see to where you know when you, when you read that information and you look it up, and it's it's true, it can be very shocking and alarming. You know, because you want fair equity and um inclusion. You know what I mean yeah, so.
Speaker 1:So you want those things, so you want to be treated like hey, I want to be. You know, I want a partnership of things I don't want to feel like I'm controlled. I want to be actually, you know, my mind be free, and I can see a lot of that from yay, um, but then how he goes about it is not, is not correct.
Speaker 2:But I mean it goes, had another picture of him with the as soon as like a picture pops in my head.
Speaker 1:It's like bruh yeah, yeah, but when? But when you go about talking about how many people wronged him, it's like all right bro it can't be everybody's fault. You know it's like okay, do you apologize for the people you wronged? You know what I mean and you also got to look at it as, like some people you can't even blame for them turning their back on you. Yeah, you can't just make a decision.
Speaker 1:You can't just keep on making decisions and not keep them in the loop and then be like say they always got to back you. You know, what I mean. Yeah, and some people don't publicly even disown you. They just like hey, bro, you do your thing because you've been wilding.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, that's like I'm not saying this is equivalent, but if somebody keep on robbing the bank, and that's my homie, it's like, bruh, I'm trying to at least have space. I respect you. Yeah, yeah, I love you, but you got to do your own thing over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, don't come over here.
Speaker 1:My space is too peaceful over here. You wild over there and I had to do that with a family and friends. It wasn't to that degree, but it'll be like their personality was wild.
Speaker 1:It was like I like my peace, bro. Yeah, yeah, I love you. I want you to do well and prosper. It can come off as Justin, you know he, he changed. It'd be like nah, y'all just not on the same thing. I'm on, and that's fine, we can have a conversation, but y'all, y'all, y'all, ain't y'all got that ambition, ambitious drive as me, yeah, yeah, or y'all just keep caught up in the wrong things and it just don't feel good, yeah yeah, everything that comes out your mouth is negative, yeah yeah, it's about what everybody else does and not what you done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I don't, and I have specific people in my head when I'm even saying these things. So that's why I was like, hey, I love y'all, I wish you well, but I don't want to enter y'all space and I'm sure you don't want to enter mine.
Speaker 1:Yeah um I can see that yeah, yeah, so so yeah, so yeah, if you're going to be on all the way over on that fence, you can only help. But to believe some, so only so many few people are going to follow you. Everybody ain't going to be on that side, right? Yeah, yeah, definitely if you're displaying the message how you want to, because all you're doing is screaming yeah, yeah, like that. Is there a call to action? Uh, you know him.
Speaker 2:I mean, I would assume that he's when he goes on a rant, or whatever.
Speaker 2:I mean it seems like what he wants is just, it seems like he wants I was about to say it seems like he wants black power, but also he does give the narrative that we're all one. I think it's more of like how you said, like being included, uh, black people doing their own thing. And he's kind of, um, he sees that, and he sees a sword on the side laying down on the ground. He's like man, fuck it, I'm gonna do it. And then, like he goes out and gets the sword just starts swinging at everybody and you know, the crowd of black people behind him is just kind of like brad, we ain't have to do it like that but, and when I say a call to action, it's like oh well, that's what I was getting to.
Speaker 2:I meant that, um, with him doing that, I feel like, with swinging, he's like looking behind his shoulder, like are y'all coming? I think he just wants people to like join in. You know, like, bro, who cares? Let's change the narrative. I'm going to sell this swastika. I'm pretty sure, bro, if, if somebody, if any rapper, would have been like, yeah, you were that kkk thing. Like, exactly, bro, like that's what I'm, that's what I wanted us to be.
Speaker 2:On, man, we I think, he's just waiting on people, because he already knows at this point that ain't nobody, is nobody's going to stand up and just be like, yeah, yeah, you're right you know, he's.
Speaker 2:I think he's very much internalized that. So I feel like the main thing that he's doing is just trying to set the way and like either wait on, or either two things wait on somebody, like looking over his shoulder, like bro, is anybody going to come up? Or two. He just feels so hard that he's making the way, he's making a new way for black people and y'all just gonna get it later, and y'all the call to action would be like y'all will figure that shit out later. I'm gonna just I'm gonna be the one to do it first and then y'all, y'all gonna get it later on yeah, I think that is.
Speaker 1:It's very much narcissistic. I think a lot of his. I don't I am no therapist so I'm not gonna try to mentally try to understand where he's coming from, but I do see narcissistic behavior from him. And, um, there's things that I love the path he on. When he was building he had the Donda school he had, he had a Donda management team and I was like dang, he's beyond stuff real quick he had like Jalen Brown basketball player was at one point.
Speaker 1:The highest paid basketball player was at one point the highest-paid basketball player in the league, aaron Donald, one of the best defensive players in his era. He was the best. He had him on management. He had a lot of guys real quick who was doing very successful and you could have been on that path strategically, but the outrage had it all destroyed. And come on, you know, I mean, as I don't know- exactly, it's a mental, it's actually a mental thing yeah, yeah, I mean I think it's a I, I him, and he's been very successful.
Speaker 1:So a part of him, it's what him successful. So I can't be like Brett, tone down. You know what I mean, but some things you're going to be wrong on and and how you handle that, and that's any leader. You know what I mean. You go and you're going to and it's because I was about to say like I'm you know, I was like, well, you could tone it down, but at sometimes he, him, being loud, he was right when he talked about bush, don't care about black people. You remember he was like you know he was asking zuckerberg bill, get me out of debt. You know I'm 50 million dollars in debt. You know me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and somehow he got a debt really quick yeah, yeah so I was like, hey, there's a method to how he does some things, so I can't, you gotta take the good with bad. But obviously, obviously this is so far left. What he's doing now, yeah, to where it's like it's entertaining, I still really want him to do well and rebound. But a lot of stuff is like all right, but what we on for real, but like it's symbolism. But I don't mind the Cardi stuff, that's his own thing. And then he talked about Jim Jones and Jay-Z and all that stuff. But the symbolism I understand, so it don't really bother me. When I see the robe or the Confederate flag or even the swastika, yeah, and then that stuff really, really, because it is symbolism to a certain degree. But, um, just the rhetoric is it could be a little too much, you know and I'm still coming from a hardcore fan yeah, I'm still a hardcore fan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I still play his music, for sure, and his new stuff and what and his new stuff uh I was listening to vultures um uh yesterday yeah, I was listening to it last week. It's too good, it's too good. He's super, super man. A lot of people that are just so so, so, so talented get away with a lot of things.
Speaker 1:It's just like god-given talent yeah, but there's a lot of things he calls out that is good to where. It's like hey, I didn't know how Hollywood, how everything. You know who runs what and how it controls it. It's like it's interesting to hear on that side of the world, because I'm so far in my own bubble too.
Speaker 2:Did you hear how much he hates J Cole?
Speaker 1:No, I didn't hear that yet Did you hear how much he hates J Cole? No, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 2:Yet he's been like tweeting, like how much he doesn't like J Cole. Yeah, he said that he met with Drake and you remember that run that Drake and J Cole had like around the time of something, the Super Bowl yeah, first-person shooter. Yeah. And J. Cole was on tour with Drake. He said he met up with Drake and he told him he's like bruh stop hanging out with J Cole cause he's ruining hip hop he was just like he's like he doesn't do anything for this. He said I like Future better.
Speaker 1:Make more music with Future or something yeah, the more I get to understand the music. It's just like you know. I stopped looking up to these guys yeah yeah, yeah, because these, you know, of course they're, of course they, they make music to make money and you know it's, it's very much in themselves, in it for themselves. But a lot of these guys it's like all right, I can't judge anybody in their intentions anymore where is j cole, I don't know, damn. Yeah. So it's like I wish all these guys were.
Speaker 1:I still love j cole as well too, but yeah, it's like these guys ain't who I really thought they would be you know, I think j cole might be yeah, maybe, yeah, I just I just like yeah, I don't know these individuals, they don't know me, so I could think they do well by the music they make and it sounds meaningful, but at this point you, you just don't know who's controlled by what. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it is stuff don't make start to make sense the more I I understand and look at behavior I'm like all right, bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I appreciate for what you offer and you do have um the music you do make have meaning to it I see that I mean I'll never believe.
Speaker 2:Kanye is one thing like he released a gospel album never believe. Kanye is one thing he released the gospel album and then the next song he released after the gospel album was the song with him and Lil Pump you're such an FNL, I thought that was I think that was before, because he was after he did the. I'm not talking about Donda, I'm talking about Jesus the Jesus album oh yeah, he made a Jesus album yeah, you're talking.
Speaker 1:I know exactly what you're talking about following that album. I can't remember. I have it in my head, in my head. I thought it was, but he made Donda after that no, he made Donda after that no, you can't make daughter after yeah, yeah, yeah, so he had that the little pump thing before the before Donda you for the Christian album? For sure, because, because for a little bit he wasn't even even on the Donda album he blurt, he bleeped out all the curse words.
Speaker 2:He wasn't even on the Donda album. He bleeped out all the curse words. He wasn't even on the Donda album.
Speaker 1:No, he bleeped out the curse words on the Donda album. Yeah, I know I'm right on this. Yeah, yeah, just take my word for it.
Speaker 2:Well, he did something super holy, basically like before then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, or maybe what I'm saying yeah he did the Christian album, then he did Donda 1 and Donda 2. But he didn't release Donda 2 on the streaming.
Speaker 2:He released it on this little media player.
Speaker 1:Was that Donda 2? Yeah, he released Donda 2 on a media player or something Was that the one with Soulja Boy on it. Soulja Boy, I got listed as a knight Soulja Boy was on remote control and that was on Donda 1.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying I've was there for a long time, that was there for a long. You know what I'm talking about. No, soulja Boy was on something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had something that was number two, yeah but that little pump stuff Maybe it was. Donda 2. No, it was definitely Donda 2. Yeah. Okay, but another rapper passed who was taking on music Young Scooter.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, uh, I haven't really heard a lot of his music, but I've heard it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. No, I was listening to a little bit of it today and it was actually some good like uh reminded me, like it reminded me of like the paper chase type music in that era. Oh yeah, it was hard though yeah, um, it was like dang, I can definitely work out to this joint did he? He died from like running away or um, like I guess, like he's, uh yeah, running from the police and slipped on like maybe a fence and just artery got cut wrong fuck yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That is the scariest thing to me, yeah, like cutting an artery or even getting shot, and you think like, oh, it's just like my arm or my wrist or whatever.
Speaker 1:And then you go bleed out. Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, but yeah, so it happened on his birthday. Yeah, and apparently it was actually a swatting event. You familiar with swatting? Yeah, yeah. So somebody, a lady, called the police on the house and saying, hey, there's a woman that got beat up and dragged into the house. They're waving guns everywhere, there's blood on the ground. You need to come and help and she has a baby with her on his. They did that on his birthday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she lied to get the police over there, yep and he died well, I mean, that ended up happening, yes, but I mean, yeah, yeah, but I'm making a long story short, um, and it comes out that, yeah, her boyfriend, I guess, was hanging with Young Scooter. Uh-huh, who was her boyfriend? The girl who called yeah, yeah, exactly, so did she go to jail. She just got arrested, I think today or yesterday she's definitely going to jail. Well, I mean, I think she's booked, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Now she can bail out and plead not guilty and all that stuff. I mean, the SWAT team came and they didn't see blood on the ground.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you can plead not guilty, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know that's a process into it.
Speaker 2:Speaking of that, did you see Yella Beezy got out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, his case is not looking. Yeah, yeah, his, I heard his. He has a actually weak case against him.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's good right.
Speaker 1:I mean depending on who you talk to. If you feel like he didn't do it, then yeah, it's really good. If you're like he did do it and you want justice for mode three, then it's not good but it's good for yellow beezy. Yeah yeah, um they. I mean the person who the person who did it is um was saying that what was selling that yellow beezy was the one who hired right he just said it? Um, I mean to answer your question. Yes, he just said it, but he could be telling the truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah. And then not only that, I think it was like either, for like the dude wasn't even like charged for murder, the dude killed him. Yeah, exactly, like, like. So that's not going to play well in trial if y'all go to trial because he can lie about doing that for a lighter sentence.
Speaker 1:Did you see the video? Yeah, yeah. But they're saying that, hey, he's just a tool. Like, for example, if I'm just using an example it may not come off right, you can tell me if it comes off wrong, not come off right. You can tell me if come off wrong. If if I shoot you or I shoot a person here and um, that gun doesn't go to jail, I go to jail, and that's what that's. What they're saying is like he's the tool. He just killed that person on your behalf because you wanted him to die. So you're really the person behind it because you hired him to kill him, if that makes sense yeah, yeah, you're saying that for, but he didn't, he didn't hire him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, but that's what the the prosecutors are. I guess justifying their mind is to why they didn't um charge him for murder, which they really should charge them both, but then they wouldn't have gotten um a confession. So it's just like, yeah, that's all gonna play well for yellow, easy, because now it just looks like a weak case. Yeah, yeah, not to say who's right or wrong, because I I have no idea. I didn't know yellow beezy like that.
Speaker 1:You know, I've heard some music, yeah, yeah and um I I knew mo three a little bit like just as much as I heard Yellow Beezy, so I didn't know there was a beefing thing going on.
Speaker 2:Nah me either. I started looking stuff up, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:So I'm dwelling on the loop, so I'm just stating it how I kind of see it.
Speaker 2:At this point, bro, if somebody says like, nah, I don't know who you're talking about, if somebody says like, nah, I don't know who you talking about, I automatically think they have something to do with it at this point yeah, or you may not actually know what you talking about. I feel like I see so much more of who you talking about. Are you from the same city? I haven't heard it from him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can understand that part of it, but I also look at it as you may know something. So it's like I don't want to just play my hand like that. And then not only that.
Speaker 2:No, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. I'm saying as a consumer, yeah, as soon as I hear that I'm like, okay, there's more to this story understood?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm sure there is. I feel that, but at the same time, I'm trying to stay away from things like that definitely involves a death and I'm not trying to have them look at me so it's always going to be like, bro, I don't know sex yeah, yeah, yeah if I'm far from the situation like I am, with that I could give my opinion like, oh shoot. Like you know from the, from the way he was talking, he kind of had it coming.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean yeah, yeah, I could maybe get, but I'm not. I'm if I'm somewhat close to the situation, if I know somebody who knows that person. I was like bro, I don't know. Yeah, I may have not been close to that if it was something in my city, and then I'm, I've knew other person like bruh. I wish him well. You know what I mean. I don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah that's, that's why did you see um one of the guys that shot. Say so P uh, he's dead in Houston no he died in Memphis. I don't know where he died.
Speaker 1:I heard he died in Houston. I could have been wrong.
Speaker 2:I don't know where he died, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:He's running from the police, yeah his picture is out there, but no he was dead.
Speaker 2:He definitely, yeah, he died. From what I mean he didn't kill, I mean yeah, I'm just saying like for what? Reason, not the police, like somebody killed him.
Speaker 1:I get that, I'm just saying. I'm just saying that I mean killers don't have that long of a lifespan, you know. I mean, if you really kill somebody's cold blood, you that's kind of how it goes right like he could have died for many reasons. He could have, you know, I mean known too much and his own homies could have killed him. Yeah, it could be a million reasons on why he died yeah he could be in his own bs trying to kill somebody else and somebody kill him if he's.
Speaker 1:If he's a hitman for real, Because he put up on, you know, say Topee and them real quick. So, he may be a real hitman and you know, tried to do a hit, tried to get a plug and die. There's a million reasons why he could have died. That don't tell me nothing right now.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was just saying yeah, yeah saying, Did you hear that? Yeah?
Speaker 1:And I'm just speaking for the podcast. Bro, how dare you speak on this?
Speaker 2:Nah, that's not what I'm saying. I'm with you. Nah, I was trying to get all the shootings and killings out of the way.
Speaker 1:I mean shoot, that's what we own.
Speaker 2:We have no bright spot, dang. Did somebody say somebody from a fire? Yeah, we started off with fasting and god, and now we're just like straight.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, okay, we did have some good things straight up yeah yeah, murder, execution, murder, murder, murder murder yeah, I mean dang like I. That is a lot, that's kind of going on in the streets. That's just a different world. That's what I'm saying. I don't want to be a part of. I'm a piece. You know what I mean? I just like piece way too much.
Speaker 2:This is the best way to live. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I saw a poster, a meme, because I had to like fill um schedule up for my Facebook page and stuff. And there was a meme. And it was a meme of St Louis, memphis. It's a um the sign on the highway, and it was like Memphis, st Louis is somewhere else, I think I think Alabama, some somewhere else. It was all three of them on there. And then the caption if somebody commented you know how, like they'll comment on it, and then they'll, they'll like put it on to me.
Speaker 1:And then the caption was like it really don't matter where you're going, you still can get shot, that's great yeah, it's just you know, I mean, hey, it feels so much like like the devil's kingdom, for I don't understand people stay.
Speaker 2:You said what? I don't understand how people stay here in memphis oh, I was just talking about there, but where?
Speaker 1:um no, I'm just saying like when I said that was kingdom, I was talking about the earth. It when? No, I was just saying like when I said devil's kingdom, I was talking about the earth. It's like you know, that's how I just like bruh, I was like you would rather to bring back to, like the Bible stuff. It's just like man, just live, try to live as a righteous life as you can for real. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's possible. I think it's. I think it's possible. I think it's location is like one of the main things, though location?
Speaker 1:oh for sure, I mean yeah, absolutely, because some you know there's some privileged people who live in the hills that could never fathom in life like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah, I don't understand why people in the in the hill in la like in the Beverly Hills. I don't understand why they think like that.
Speaker 1:Think like what?
Speaker 2:Because it's so easy to pull up on anybody. I don't want to put that energy out there, but I'm just like when I was driving for Uber or Uber Eats and Instacart and stuff like that they would normally be the ones to do. That. I mean, that makes sense, but like bro, you could pull up to their house like it's a big ass house it's in the hills, but like anybody can pull up there unless you're in, I guess, the hidden hills or the stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But there's so many houses you could just pull up to and I just don't understand. You know, having a good house in a in a good neighborhood, I guess. I guess this social media stuff kind of like trained my brain to that there's a, there's a certain way I want to live, uh, or that I'm striving to get to, and it's very like gated, like you can't get in here, and okay, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I and I can have a possible answer to that is because it's psychological like and even like a killer in a thief's mind, like in their mind.
Speaker 1:They think that's tougher to get into a home like that but it's easier robbing you know like a bad neighborhood and get stuff. Then not only that. Yeah, I remember walking around, um, and I was never a thief, but I walk around in the neighborhood and then the nice neighborhood was across the street and I felt like I couldn't even get to that neighborhood, like I'll get arrested if I go across the street, you know I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:So I can only imagine the psychological mind of a thief is like bruh my. You know, if I get arrested ain't gonna be no light sentence they gonna you know, punish me and give me the book for real and and they often do so I so I think it's more psychological on why that doesn't happen but this, but this era is different, bro.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, but still like my era it was more like that this era.
Speaker 1:I feel like they breaking and robbering. You know they'll go to lebron's home.
Speaker 1:And you remember they had a list of people's homes they was breaking into. Like so it was years ago, but they had a list of homes of who they was breaking into, going to break into next and like they do that. Like they broke into Joe Burrow's home that's the quarterback, francisco Daddy Bengals. They broke into his home while he was away games. You know what I mean. So they have a strategy on how they do it for real. Yeah, so this era completely different.
Speaker 2:Everything's off tables or on the table. I believe there's a lot of weight to what you're saying too. It's definitely psychological, because otherwise Beverly Hills would have been run down by now yeah, yeah there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that that is a thing. It does feel different out there. I'm not a criminal, so like I don't. I don't know what it feels like to be a difference, but um, it does. That is a thing of thinking differently when you pull up to those type of places, so only like one out of a certain amount would do that instead of it being a normal thing but that that was something I thought in the back of my head.
Speaker 1:I'm like, bro, let anybody pull up in this bitch anybody yeah, and then, not only that, you got cars that people look out for, that police look out for. So, yeah, like my, even my expedition that will get pulled over more than my Tesla, whatever would. Hmm, yep, as I've gotten pulled over randomly for dumb things yeah just a bigger vehicle and that you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like like challengengers get pulled over. Chargers get pulled over a lot more just because those are like, quote-unquote, like hood cars or where you know this stuff is undocumented so fast. Cars like that, big SUVs get pulled over a lot more often. Yeah, it's just kind of what the trailer. You see a black man in one of those. You're more likely going to get pulled over for sure. Yeah, I got pulled over for I've gotten tailed many of times, got pulled over for maybe not stopping at it, and you know how you can make a right at uh, uh, right at the red light uh yeah, yeah, not pulled over for that, completely stopping had a license plate.
Speaker 1:The license plate light up was wasn't on. Oh yeah, so like half have two lights in the license plate light. Like one of them wasn't on. Yeah, because it was out. I got pulled over for that. Yeah, so you can visit. Like what's crazy, like it's the night time yeah, because your headlights on. So you can visibly see my headlight in my my, uh, my license plate, because your headlights are on right and you can run it.
Speaker 2:And they obviously.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just give me a reason to pull over to make sure my everything's legit. He did, of course. He didn't give me a ticket no, okay, yeah yeah, because it was bs, yeah. And then you ran it like, oh shit, oh, it's just good he got insurance, he got this registration I do, do, I do uber yeah, I gotta have those things. Yeah, yeah, not only that I would have, yeah, yeah, but I have to have those things anyway. So, yeah, you got a clean record. Okay, you move on.
Speaker 2:It's just annoying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I mean you still drive it.
Speaker 1:You don't yeah, because I make money from it, I mean, but not why would I? I mean it's finance, I'm not going to just I get pulled over too much. Let me take it back. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, but my Tesla, I don't think I've got pulled over once from it.
Speaker 2:yeah oh, yeah, yeah well, that makes sense too. I wonder if your information is like is it on there? What, like what? I don't know? Well, I mean the question.
Speaker 1:The answer is yes yeah, yeah, well, yeah, you're gonna pull up. You're gonna see my. You run my tags. You're gonna run it, it's gonna come up either way yeah, yeah that's right.
Speaker 2:So what else has been going on?
Speaker 1:I think we're doing good on time, but um, yeah, um, oh, oh, yeah. Yeah, do you feel good or do you want to?
Speaker 2:you know um, let's see, let's see if I can see maybe one question.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I mean, we can end on relationships, because that's always a fun one, okay, or if you got one, Would you rather find out your partner emotionally cheated on you for years or physically cheated one time? I wouldn't even care. Give me a reason to break up. I'm literally just kidding yeah yeah, yeah, no, I'm just kidding emotionally cheated one time or emotionally cheated for years? What's emotionally?
Speaker 2:cheated for years.
Speaker 1:They love this other person yeah, I'm cool on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, cheating one time I'll live yeah, I think, cheating one time let me see if it's a good one. If not, then we could just end it um uh, uh, uh, uh, um um it's okay, I mean you.
Speaker 1:You can say one just pick one.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm gonna just pick one. Um, all right, I'm going to just pick one. If your ex started dating someone who looked exactly like you, would you feel flattered or freaked out?
Speaker 1:I feel weird, I will feel. I will feel. That happened to my homeboy who just got married, yeah. Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I will feel some, she just got a tight for real and yeah, I would feel like that would be hilarious. Yeah, yeah, so maybe find her no way, I guess. Yeah, but you also got tight. But literally my homeboy, one of my close friends, his, his ex-girlfriend she wanted to marry that nigga for real. Yeah, like for real. Like his name even like rhymed with his what Like it was crazy how much I didn't know how you could find the exact replica in Nashville.
Speaker 2:In Nashville. Yeah, so one city, yes, oh my God, I thought she like, she like traveled, went somewhere else.
Speaker 1:No, and she married to him. Now, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, I was like that, looked like the great value version of you. Oh my god yeah, yeah, yeah. What about you?
Speaker 2:um, uh, I feel like, I feel like that has happened. It wasn't like exactly, like she definitely had a type. For sure, it is 100% and I knew it before me Cause I kinda looked like the last nigga. So I was like you definitely got a type.
Speaker 2:But, it didn't really like Bother me too much. I felt weird at first, just cuz it was like we was ending and it was just messy. It was it ended really messy, and then just to see somebody that kind of looked like you, let me fuck this nigga okay, would you stalk his page? No, I just went to it once when she sent it to me.
Speaker 1:She sent you his page.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like after a while.
Speaker 1:For what? What was she hoping to accomplish?
Speaker 2:No, it was after a while. It was after, like after us breaking up and all that stuff has been done. We're talking like months and months and months and months down the line and they don't talk anymore or whatever. And then they're like we was having a conversation about who we've dated and stuff like that, and uh, we were just like opening up to each other. I think this had happened or I I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't really know exactly how it happened it's just like it's just so many people around me, like again, like I'm around women sometimes, or even like my sister. My sister would be like, oh you know, uh, like what. Maybe she showed me somebody show yeah but I never went back on his page, okay, kept looking at shit.
Speaker 1:I was just like then would you hate it? Was you like?
Speaker 2:scroll hating oh no, no, it was just more so like.
Speaker 1:This nigga ain't better than me. Yeah, bruh your ego, be like that, don't even.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, it'll definitely make me work harder and shit.
Speaker 1:Just like bruh nigga. What if he's killing shit? Would that bother?
Speaker 2:you Maybe at the time of the breakup, just because it was messy.
Speaker 1:What if he wanted to collab with you? Come on, he's like you know. Actually I love your work.
Speaker 2:I'm going to screenshot that.
Speaker 1:That's going to make you feel too good. Oh God, oh.
Speaker 2:God, I'm going to be like okay. Might leave that nigga on the scene. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Nah, yeah no, I I ain't really have like a hating bone toward him. Uh, I don't really be like mad at guys that much. Again, I haven't been in like a lot of crazy situations, but I always had hypothetical situations in my head that if a guy tried to get at my girl while I was with her and if you know, if she ended up doing something like while we were together or whatever I would I still wouldn't be too mad and I can't be friends with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't respect this nigga, but like I don't hate this man. You just being a fuckboy and like it's really on the girl.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I don't really just like hate people for just being themselves.
Speaker 1:So what if you're still in a relationship with her? Would you want that guy to let you know if that he was having sex with your girl? This is like I'm just saying in general oh, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:I don't want to talk to no other dude about nothing, but I would want to know, so I could let her go okay, I got you so she's not coming, if the situation is, she ain't going to tell me. I would want somebody to tell me what's going on. So I know it's almost like, no matter how much that feels, it's just like. Thank you for telling me.
Speaker 1:So, now I know who's in this house with me Okay, so you'll be totally cool with if I got.
Speaker 2:Would not be totally cool.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying he deemed you like bruh. I didn't know who you was until you know she she had mentioned she had a boyfriend. I looked you up and I think that you're hilarious. I kind of feel bad that I'm having sex with your girl. I just wanted to let you know because I feel bad. Man to man, I would respect him.
Speaker 2:Okay, for sure, I don't think there's a lot of guys like that out there he's like Do you wanna?
Speaker 1:Do I need to prove it, do I need to see? Do I need to show you this video?
Speaker 2:I'll show you, bro, you know, like to let you know it's real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does your number start with a 901 no?
Speaker 1:I was actually gonna show you the back shots I was giving.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know I'm like yeah, yeah, I would feel I wouldn't respect them then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the first initial message. I'm like but, would you want to slightly see the back shots?
Speaker 2:No, no, what to see my girl getting killed by some other man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh no, I'm already going through it, knowing that she's having sex with some other dude. Yeah. And I'm looking at her, probably while I'm reading this message yeah, would it feel less?
Speaker 1:but would it feel less worse if she's like, but his penis was small no, okay, like it would.
Speaker 2:it would feel I wouldn't even know how to take that. I wouldn't even know how to take this. I wouldn't even know how to take that, because I don't even think if she's still having sex with this dude and this dude came out and said that I don't know. I would just like cut my mind off from thinking, because it's too much to think about. It's like, bro, first of all you probably lying. And then I'll be thinking to myself like why am I thinking she's lying? Why you probably lying? And then then I'll be thinking to myself like why am I thinking she's lying? Why am I?
Speaker 2:it just be too much, but so I would just respect the fact that he said something so I can let her go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it wouldn't even be a question yeah, but you don't think you can take somebody back. I thought you said if they cheated one time?
Speaker 2:if they cheated one time it depends on, I don't know, I don't know but it's also the embarrassment that comes with it. Yeah, it's like self-embarrassment yeah like you gotta look at yourself in the mirror or now that'll start changing stuff. It's like you know she's out with her girls and stuff. Now you asking like one or two more questions than you would have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and it's just like I wouldn't even like this yeah, I don't like I don't like feeling like that yeah, and then you see him out there and we're like he's trying to shake up with you, like damn, y'all still together like damn. I tried to warn you.
Speaker 2:You good oh my god, that would fuck me up. That would be a silent ride home you gonna be mad at him.
Speaker 1:I'm not mad at him, I'm mad at her.
Speaker 2:Still, all the mad goes straight back on her. As soon as I see this man, he's like y'all still together.
Speaker 1:I'm like you see, the Michael Ealy, jonathan Majors thing and she runs and hugs him. That would be wild. Right, the Michael E Lee, jonathan Majors thing and she runs and hugs him.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be wild right, bruh, I would have to break up Like now nowadays. I just realized bruh just break up when the shit is small. So that is way far past that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, of course I'm adding so much self, yeah, yeah yeah, like yeah, if she's reacting like that, then she never yeah, yeah, she's, she's her, her mind. She don't really respect you for real oh god yeah, yeah, because you gotta look at him with disgust, you know?
Speaker 2:yeah, let's go though and then she can't even she can't say nothing. I've been with women who probably I'll never, I'll never know the full story of everything that has happened. And then I've been with women who probably I'll never, I'll never, know the full story of everything that has happened. And then I've been with women that probably told me too much where I'm like damn. I respect you for telling me the truth, but like why you do that you know, but then there's, like I said, there's other women.
Speaker 2:It's like I would never even know and I feel more.
Speaker 1:I feel more uneasy with the woman that I would never, ever know versus the woman that told me that she fucked up yeah, yeah, I remember, just like my, when I was young, very insecure, I could definitely see myself in a place to where I was like please don't tell me you know, me now. No, now it's completely different.
Speaker 1:I want to know yeah, being hold yeah yeah, but but I think it was just when you're like, when I was deeply in love, insecure, and I felt like I got somebody that was way better than myself, then I could that. That's probably where it came from that just reminded me.
Speaker 2:Neo definitely said that shit years ago. You remember that? No, he said that when he had his wife at that one time and he said if you're doing something, don't even tell me. But in reality he was doing a bunch of stuff okay, and that makes sense. Now, I don't know, I just had a. That's a moment.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was just insecurity I faced with myself and how I value myself in my mind absolutely that.
Speaker 2:That I realized that a lot, especially this year.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, you know, like with the past girl, whatever, like that.
Speaker 2:Like that's definitely something that I realized with my relationship with women is that I think I had always kind of saw myself in this form of like I need to grow, like from where I'm at or whatever, that I would sometimes not even put boundaries on myself for like my own growth or whatever, and I would just like see myself like, damn, steve, you could have got better with that, or you could get better with this, or you could do this, but not like a hard like set concrete thing, like but no, you need to do this, you need to do this.
Speaker 2:And I think that opened up ways for me to kind of accept flaws from people. And then, which is what you're saying, it's kind of like when you don't really fully respect yourself or like that, that insecurity kind of shows, like in a way, or that insecurity comes from a different place. And then when you finally get to the point where you like, but I'm, you know, I, I don't do certain things in a relationship. I don't treat certain people like this or this, that and the other, like you know it, it put me on a total different level, like of um, or it is going to put me on a different level now, like in terms of like dating, because, like, if a girl says like, I'm going to call you tomorrow?
Speaker 1:she don't call me tomorrow. Hey, like she just do-do-do-do-do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's small shit, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's some things. It's just like you got to watch out behavior and the actions. You can get grace, you know. Sometimes you know, but generally I can tell who means well, for the most part I can too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And then you know, I even you know there's one more thing I do want to get to that we forgot to miss and we're kind of running a little long, but to kind of pin it when he was talking about the relationship it was like I was just remember, I just remember, I say, brett, I don't know why you put putting up with this is like you know you're him, you know I mean, yeah, but there was one thing that I want to mention about that the viral video of the morning routine from the Ashton Hall dude, yeah, like, do you look at a video like that, indeed, and what would he do?
Speaker 1:you think it's like viral because it's people are really watching it, or it's just pushed, you know, mechanically, because you have organic and you have mechanic mechanically, and do you think it's like more mechanically viral?
Speaker 2:I think that was organic okay I think that was organic because it was just ridiculous okay, it was, it was just way too much. And then, like he kept putting his face in the water, which is a great thing to do we, that's actually a good thing yeah, I agree I agree.
Speaker 2:But um, it was just so extreme and he got up at three something and then, like, all it takes is for somebody to see your video and if you post like something organic, like that, like not trying to be funny, not trying to do it, it's just you. And then if somebody sees that, and then they make fun of you and that's the actual trend. Oh, okay, and then the trend is like now everybody's making these videos, acting like they woke up at 3, 7 pm. I'm working out.
Speaker 2:I'm doing all that. So now it makes. Now it makes your video even funnier yeah yeah, so I feel like that was that. I feel like it was organic, because I saw a lot of people uh uh, my my, uh uh, influencer friends and stuff, like they start doing that stuff. Like even Mr Mr Beast like did a video with him, like the when he was going viral.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he literally like called him up and then start acting like he was doing it with him.
Speaker 1:Oh, acting like he was doing it with them. Okay, no, that's hilarious. So because it's just following the trend and then make sure video get that much bigger bigger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it creates a trend okay, yeah, exactly, yeah versus just that one.
Speaker 1:Thing yeah, that's actually.
Speaker 2:I love it, you know, it's just and it go bigger from that yeah, but same thing that happened, uh, with. I did a video and it was me and I forgot the name Waiting to exhale and I was laying in the bed with a girl and then she was just like I want to buy a house and I was like where she's? Like in Sky's Tale.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to get married. What you doing on Friday. And they took my sound and then people start doing it themselves. It was mostly women, women, men, and it'll be like when you on that jail phone call knowing that you ain't going to hear from them again when you they made it a trend. I didn't know that. Oh yeah, that video.
Speaker 1:I saw just the view count, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:The view count on my page is crazy, but that one actually traveled. There's no telling how far it's my voice, my voice is out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's just a trend from something. So it kind of correlates to what I was saying.
Speaker 1:I understood, yeah, but I think we nailed it bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, this has been a great episode.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, we'll be back with another episode or two for the culture we love y'all. All right. All right, peace.