17. Life & Times

Bad words, mortality, family, ESPN is washed, Marvel might not be, Snoop Dogg Movie, YG vs. The Game, Black August R.I.P. George Jackson.

Plus Arby's slander from the voicemail line, shoutouts to the homies, and hold ya head. 

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Real good family friend. That's a good guy. A light. Somebody that people love. Affectious smile. Just a just a great guy. He passed away, unfortunately, after a battle with cancer. So just wanted to send love and respect to my good friends, my good family over there that, you know, been holding it down and been seeing him through illness and all that. I grew up in the kind of with the kind of tribe and the kind of community where it's not uncommon for me to call your uncle, uncle, your aunt, aunt, your grandma, grandma. You know what I mean? Cousins, all those type of things. We and looking back at everything and a lot of my friendships, my family, my relationships, a lot of us kind of ended up in a melting pot where it's like one big family, one big tribe, one big clique. So when I say Uncle Deg, it really is a term of respect, a term of affection. I remember him giving me and Div, shout out to Div, shout out to my brother. I remember him giving us a ride to our first dates in high school, you feel me? Birthdays and graduations and just being a consistent, a consistent, just good dude with good energy. So I'm sure that y'all can relate. I'm sure that y'all have felt or experienced similar things where you got people in your tribe, people in your family, and the law still hurt, the law still hit for sure. So just wanted to send some some love and some healing energy that way. Yeah, and also I wanna give an obligatory fuck cancer and uh fuck Donald Trump and anybody that voted for him just because he cut $3.7 billion in NIH cancer research grant funding, all that, all that type of shit. But also I've been thinking a lot about just death in general, you know, the idea of mortality. And I was listening to the Karen Hunter show or Sirius XM. I listen to that almost every day. Sirius XM Urban View, I think it's channel 127, if you got Sirius XM. But the reason I bring that up is because they were having, she and Dr. Daniel Black, they were having a conversation around the way that we talk about death and the way that we look at excuse me, the way that we look at death from a European perspective, a Eurocentric perspective of like it's the end, it's the conclusion. Of course, you know, faith guides us to believe that there's heaven and people live on, so on and so forth. I'm not sure what you believe or what you subscribe to. But yeah, just changing the but the the main conversation was about changing the idea from thinking of it as like a door closing to a a graduation and an ascension. Yeah, just changing the way that we look at it. I try to take out some of the sorrow and some of the some of the bitterness between it. You know, we all have lost people, I'm sure. If you haven't count yourself lucky, but also I feel for you when when you do have to have that experience with that what that grief is like. But at the same time, what does it look like to really reframe it? What does it look like to really say it and believe it? Like, nah, this person is in a better place, this person made a better way, so on and so forth. So I've been thinking about that, and that was before actually Aunt passed. It just happened to coincide with that conversation I was listening to lined up with kind of his last days. Yeah, I think about that. I think about that a lot. I think about that a lot. So RP the Aunt got a great show for y'all this week. A lot of a lot of topics I'm I'm excited about because it's it's kind of a mix of some shit I've seen and and thought about and been thinking about as well as you know, topical shit, shit that's going on in the world. But without further ado, if you don't know, we got some ground rules that govern every episode of this program here. Now, if you're a regular listen listener, damn, yeah, if you're a regular listener. If you're a regular listener, it only took me what five minutes, five minutes in before I started making a verbal typo. Yeah, if you're a regular listener to this show, you know that I hate doing the ground rules every week. They've saying since week two, week three, episode two, episode three that I was gonna pre-record them. They have yet to be pre-recorded. It's people like to laugh about it and joke about it. I got texts like, hey, BD, you record them ground rules yet? Are you ever gonna record the ground rules? I'm gonna record the ground rules. I I don't know when. I started working on some other shit though. If you on my Instagram, my close friends, you saw some kind of parts that are gonna be added to the show. I've been I've been kind of getting busy flexing my creativity in Adobe and audition a little bit, just trying to. I want a spruce to show up, you know what I mean? I'm a big proponent of working on my craft. I'm a big proponent of not being content, so any ways that I can improve the show, any things that I can change, factors, so on and so forth, little shit transitions, voicemails, all that type of stuff. Either thinking about it or past thinking about it and thinking of a way to implement it or get it done. But for me, the issue is always finding the time, feeling like I want to do a million things in a day, and then not being satisfied with the things that I do get done, but dwelling on the things I didn't get done. So that's some shit I'm working through. I'll say anything to delay the inevitable and avoid having to go through this list. Again, if you've been here before, you know what's coming next. If you're new here, this is 45 seconds to a minute, are gonna kind of guide what we're about to get into on this here program. So if you're a first-time listener, thank you. I'm happy to have you. If you are a long time listener, thanks for coming back. And if you're just somebody that thinks it's funny to hear me do this shit and then hear like the anguish in my voice, fuck you. Alright, let's get to it. Rule number one These thoughts are strictly my own and do not reflect the views of any family, friends, partners, affiliates, or associates. Rule number two, we use vulgar language. I already started cussing here, already got a good fuck cancer out the way. Always gonna that's a that's a big one for me. Yeah, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to derail the conversation too much, but yeah, fuck cancer, bro. That's all I can say. Number three, follow me. As you saw in my intro as well as just now, and getting these ground rules out of the way, my brain is not very linear sometimes. Sometimes it sometimes it feels like a maze of going from point A to point B to point C, but I promise it all comes together in the end. Together. It all comes together in the end. It's one of those things though where you gotta really listen actively. You gotta actually think critically. The things that I'm saying, the concepts that I say, the way that I deliver them, are straight off the dome, you know what I'm saying? I might I got I might have notes in front of me or some bullet points, or I may from time to time look something up during the episode, but a lot of this is like train of consciousness, train of thought. And the same way that me and you were sitting at the bar talking or hanging out talking, it's the same kind of thing here. A little bit more preparation, a little bit more structure, but not too much. So yeah, follow me. Don't get lost up in the sauce, because if you're not listening, you're not paying attention, I'm gonna say some shit's gonna go over your head and you're just gonna end up rewinding the episode. And I want this, uh I always want this to be uh, you know, it's cool to rewind, it's cool to take notes. I know I I do be spitting some gems and it doesn't be some some real shit being being said on these airwaves. But yeah, no, it also shouldn't take all that. On that same token, tell me if I'm tripping. There are ways to get in contact with me. My name is at Big Dreams Jordan on all social media now. So you can send me a DM over there. I'm working on getting a professional email, you know. You know, you get your boy. I'm working on a professional email. Uh if you're in the the Baltimore area, metropolitan area, Baltimore County, Northwest Baltimore, any any of these, if any of these things resonate with you, I'm sure that somebody knows me or can find a way to get in contact with me. But all I'm saying is tell me if I'm tripping, pull my card. I like hearing from y'all. It's one of my favorite parts of the show. It's cool to come in here and record, but it's also cool to see once I put it out into the world, then what parts people resonate with, what things people say, how how it brings attention. So yeah, tell me if I'm tripping. On that same token, rule number five, help this thing grow. Please like, please rate, rate it, please subscribe, please turn on notifications so you can see when a new episode is posted. Really tell a friend. That's the big one. Share it with a friend. If you're listening to this shit right now, and you got your phone in your hand, or or your laptop out, hit that share button and share it with a friend that you think will really benefit from from hearing a program like this. I know I'm a I know I'm a little unorthodox in my in my methods. I know I combine a lot of different things. I'm a I'm a very interesting motherfucker, if I do say so myself. But the gift and the curse of that is I know people from a lot of different places. I speak on a lot of different things. I I have a lot of different niches and a lot of different hobbies. So I say all I have to say, something might resonate with someone. It might necessarily they might not necessarily be the biggest on politics, let's say, or football, let's say, or wrestling, let's say. But shit, I still talk about music, you know what I mean? I still talk about TV movies. So, yeah, just share it with somebody. Give them give them that word of mouth. And also, I want to hear from y'all. You know what I mean? So I'm also down to do a share for a share. Like if you show me evidence, like, hey, this is who I shared your podcast with where I sent it out, and you got something coming up that needs promoting, that makes sense to promote, then let's do that. Because I'm big on community. It's no point in me coming in here talking for an hour, hour and a half, however the fuck long I do, if it's not gonna one help me, but also help the people I love and care about and the people I'm in community with. So I want this to, as much as this is the big dream show and I am big dreams man and all that type of shit, it's it's for us. So take advantage of that. Holly at me. And last but certainly not least, do your research. Never let any of my takes or my perspectives be the alpha and omega of the things that you know about a subject. I consider myself smart, I consider myself well read. Uh I wanted to be a journalist, so I I do have kind of a working knowledge of sources and if I identify if something is legit or if it's bullshit. But don't let me be the arbiter of the shit as you know. You know what I mean? Do your research, look up articles, look up not just articles, but like academic articles as well. Look up YouTube videos, look into the creators of those videos, cite the sources. Like, really, if something I say interests you or resonate with you, look into it, do your research, learn. Learn as much as you need to learn. I think that's something that's kind of lost on us, where we can watch a TikTok video or we can watch a YouTube video or read a Wikipedia entry and feel like we are masters of this subject and we know everything that there is to know about it. When in reality, it's way deeper, it's way more that goes into it. So I just always caution against that. Never let me be the end all be all. Do your research, know what you need to know. If the shit really interests you, shit, teach me something new. Alright, get it, got it, good ground rules out the way. Let's talk about let's talk about this. Let's talk about Ryan Clark. Let's talk about Cam Newton. I know there were some other notable names that were released from ESPN, but I wanna I wanna hone in on Ryan Clark and and Cam Newton specifically for a specific reason. So and you don't know Ryan Clark and Cam Newton, both former NFL players who were employed by ESPN as on-air analysts. They both were fired this week as a part of broader layoffs going across ESPN as well as Disney like itself. So you don't know Disney is the parent company of ESPN. I know that ESP I know that Disney also had layoffs for Pixar and for National Geographic. I know that fucking Microsoft and Uber are also in the midst of large-scale layoffs with their organizations, some of it due to AI. I think the ESPN shit is more subcultural than an AI type of thing, but this is it's a lot to unpack here. But the first thing that I want to say, love Cam Newton, love Ryan Clark, hate Cam Newton, hate Ryan Clark. The one thing that you cannot take away from them is that regardless if they work for ESPN or not, which they now do not, they both built media platforms on their own. Ryan Clark has the has the pivot with Fred Taylor and Channing. I was about to say Channing, take them. What the fuck is Channing's last name? Hold up. The pivot with Fred Taylor and Channe. Crowder. There we go. Channing Crowder. I don't know why I couldn't remember Channing Crowder. And I don't know how Channing Fry became the the go-to now. Well, I ain't gonna lie, it was Shannon Tatum, but I was like, I know it's not Channel Tatum. Like, hell no, Gaming, not on ESPN. But back to the topic I had. Cam Newton has I can't think what the fuck his shit is called. Fourth and one, maybe? But regardless, these guys, they insulated themselves. So even if they lose the high-paying job and they lose the visibility that comes with being on a platform like ESPN, they still have platforms where they can do the same thing. And now they are able to bring this infrastructure, hypothetically, that they learned that ESPN over to their own platform. So y'all know the movie, it's a book anderson movie, but y'all know the movie and the book. Y'all know the intellectual property, the spook who sat by the door. Have y'all heard of that? Are y'all familiar with that? And you don't know, it's one of my favorite movies. I ain't read the book. I would I would read the book, but I I've been bluffing on reading. We'll get we'll get into that shit. But the spook who sat by the door, the main the main plot of that movie is that there's a black guy from the hood. He gets admitted into the CIA. And no one's really thinking much. They're just looking at him as the spook. Spook is a is a racist term, if you don't know even. Don't be going out here saying spook and shit like that. But the spook that sat by the door, the concept was the the concept was a a guy. They didn't really think much of him. They thought he was just a spook that sat by the door, it's just a just a nigga in the classroom. You feel me? He's not gonna learn nothing, he's not gonna pick up nothing, he's not gonna put down nothing that we putting down. But in him going to the CIA training, he was actually able to learn that game and then bring that game back to the hood to then create an uprising using the techniques that he learned in the CIA training. So sorry if I spoiled a fucking 40-something-year-old movie for you, but me bringing it up does not do anything to lessen its impact. And it's relevant here because again, we're not just seeing this at ESPN, we're not just seeing this at Microsoft, we're not just seeing this at Uber, we're not just seeing this at Pixar, we're not just seeing this at Disney, we're not just seeing this in the federal government. We're seeing a fundamental shift in the way that our economy and the way that our lives operate to where jobs are not as secure as they once were. Even I was told growing up, I'm from the the Baltimore area, so you always heard if you get a government job with Social Security, you're gonna be good. You can work 30, 40 years, retire, you're not really gonna have to worry about shit. I saw my grandmother literally do that. She was working at Social Security from the time she was 20, 21, until her retirement, her 60s. You know what I mean? Living a nice life, a well, a well-funded life, but that's not the reality as we move closer and closer into this new era of economic uncertainty and this new era of I I had paused to say new era. It's new in the sense that it's new for this time, but it's not unprecedented. If you if you go back and look at history and you look at the Gilded Age, and you look at the guys that that built America, the Rockefellers, the Carnegie's, the Fords, Vanderbilt, the way these guys were able to accumulate massive wealth, and they use that massive wealth to exert influence over society. The difference though, however, is that there was at least a little bit more of a social contract to where Rockefeller would run up a million billion fucking dollars, but he still would for ethical purposes or not, but he still would invest in school. You know what I mean? Carnegie would run up a billion fucking dollars, but then invest in art and shit like that. So they're not really concerned about that. Now they now they making AI bots that'll they'll hack you and steal your job. And I don't know, they might got lasers or some shit like that. It's it's all out of pocket. But the main point that I'm making here, just to keep it, just to keep it consistent. We have to determine what industries we want to be in as entrepreneurs, and we have to pass though, we have to we have to take the the next steps on certifying ourselves and fortifying ourselves in these industries. I don't know what the industry looks like. I don't know what the what the demographics look like, but I do know that this wealth gap is not gonna get any easier. This wealth gap is not gonna decrease by just us sitting on our hands and waiting for our opportunity to come, waiting for shit to shake out. Like we gotta we gotta bring the ball up court for for lack of a better metaphor. All my non-basketball watchers are probably like, what the fuck are you talking about? But we gotta we gotta put the ball in the hoop. We gotta we gotta dunk it. We gotta be Michael Jordan. We can't be Horace Grant. Don't disrespect the Horace Grant, but we can't be Horace Grant, we can't be John Paxson, we gotta be Michael Jordan, we gotta be Magic Josh, we gotta Larry Murr. We gotta really take this shit by the horns. I'll speak more about the Marcus Grant Project later, but shout out to the Marcus Grant Project. They're a nationwide organization. They're their home base is in Dallas, but they're a nationwide organization that goes around the country giving black and brown. I want to say college students, but it's really all different ages. But it gives them experience in marketing because they see that there is a lack of black people in these rooms. There's a lack of black people represented. And what they're doing is right now they're building their home base, they're building Gamma House, which is going to be the creative incubator where MGP folks in Dallas, or you can travel to Dallas, you can do your podcast, you can do your content creation, commercial kitchen, all these type of things, right? But on this car where I'm learning about all these great things, the the gauntlet was also thrown down of yo, like jobs are drying up. So we have to put ourselves in a position to be able to hire our people. It's not good enough to just get the job and cash out. You gotta get the job, you gotta get the high-paying job if that's the route you want to go, and you have to also make pathways to bring in some HBCU graduates, bring in some people from your hometown, bring in some people who are rising stars who may not get the opportunity or may not get the the voice or the whatever the fuck. It's a million, it's a million and more reasons why the smartest people, the most charismatic people, the hardest working people, there are a million and more reasons why they fail. As well as for every successful person, there are a million more stories of someone looking out for them, someone giving them an opportunity that they may have earned, may not have earned. All of these things are not new. None of this is new. But what does need to be new, and new in the sense that what's old is new, is we gotta take entrepreneurship into our own hands and we gotta seriously do that. We have to raise the capital, we have to create the opportunity for the people. We we gotta do it. That's why I'm so big on it. I'm big on it because I know that if I do what I need to do to own a company that's jobs I can create, that's money flowing in, that's relationships being built, all these type of things. So it's on us, it's on us as far as ESPN and those guys over there. I think that ESPN and Nike, they they kind of got the same problem from a branding perspective, a marketing perspective. They shit is old and they shit is skewing towards. Well, Disney I can't say as much, but ESPN is definitely skewing towards not representing the populations that they cover, if you catch my drift. We used to have dudes like Stuart Scott, you get what I'm saying? We used to have people that had hip hop slang and incorporated things that were part of our culture and that athletes respected in a different kind of way. Now it's the the network is kind of shifting back towards a more conservative view where you got Folks like Stephen A, who we had the conversation about the mass success, we can have the conversation about the power that he wields over that network. We can have the conversation that himself and Pat McAfee received huge wages huge wages. Wages. Huge raises. Both are true, wages and raises, but they both received huge raises in the wake of all these people losing their jobs. So I don't know who I don't know who or what the property is for ESPN that recaptures the the zeitgeist that they had in the culture. They used to have Sports Center. Sports Center used to be appointment viewing. You get what I'm saying? They still got Monday Night Football to an extent, but that's kind of it's kind of them and kind of ABC at the same time, so I don't know if I can give them all the credit for that. They still got basketball and they got inside the NBA, but I don't know if inside the NBA has been what it once was since it's moved to ESPN. Long story short, I don't know what the first take is. I don't know what the what the cultural capital that they cash in on is, unless it's is Pat McAfee and it is Stephen A. Smith, and they're just directly making a statement to consumers like me and people who I can see who I would assume, I assume you listen to this and you got made it into the 23-minute mark. I assume you got some similarities in viewpoint and perspective as myself. So I don't know who on ESPN is really representing us, if you get what I'm saying. And I don't know how they correct it. I don't know who the hot young stars are. I know Chinny, I know I say her name wrong. I'm sorry if I said her name wrong, but Chinny, she does the WNBA coverage. I'm a big fan of hers, but I typed her name in and this shit. NFL fans, it's a headline right here. NFL fans are calling for ESBN to fire her after she said that Asia Wilson was a better player than Tom Brady. Now, is Asia Wilson a better player than Tom Brady? I would say no. Asia Wilson is the GOAT, don't get me wrong, but I don't think she's better than Tom Brady. But it's also TV at the same time. I don't I don't even know if that's a take that's belief. That's TV. So you gotta say inflammatory shit. You gotta say shit like that. I think back to to bring it back to the Ryan Clark conversation, he was in hot water because he told Peter Schrager, who was formerly with NFL Network, and then came over to ESPN doing NFL coverage. He basically told Peter Schrager, like, I hear you talking, we're having a conversation about this subject, but I played in the NFL and you didn't, so your perspective ain't yeah, it ain't really going a whole way here, based on bait, I guess what I'm saying. And people were pointing to that as a reason for him to possibly be fired. So it's just interesting that that's the shit that they pull up, and then you see it, you see this example here. Mina Kimes is a star over there, but I don't I don't know what what the ceiling is. They need to push Mina Kimes to the moon. Dominy Fireswear need to push him to the moon, but again, I don't know. I don't know what the what the long-term strategy is. And now too many things have happened for it not to feel like a pattern. I remember when Michael Smith and Jamel Hill got the sports center shot shot sports center slot, the 6 p.m. slot, and they received a lot of backlash because they were infusing all of these pro-black and cultural elements into their programming. And now neither of them are with the company. Jamel Hill received a lot of backlash due to her time and the end of her time at ESPN, which was years ago. A guy like Bamani Jones, who was there forever, someone I feel speaks and is in tune with with our culture, in tune with black people, no longer with the network. So yeah, I just wonder. I wonder what ESPN does to recapture that feeling, or if they they just can't recapture that feeling, and they are to us what you know, to our parents' generation when they talk about the glory days of shit like MTV and the glory days of shit like BT. Like we might be at that point with ESPN. So that was my those are my thoughts, uh just generally speaking. From ESPN to a another Disney property though, spa Marvel. Marvel. Marvel also has been on a bit of a downswing, but there's there's a chance that they they make a big comeback. They got Spider-Man, brand new day coming out, and shit. It comes out next week as I'm recording this, and I know that all the tickets are sold out, so I probably I probably won't be seeing it no time soon. Unless I get lucky. Sneak into one of them one of them extra scene, one of them extra screeners they put up when they got the Spanish subtitles and shit like that, the ones that people don't be wanting to go to. But I I'm with it. I seen the Spanish subtitle show. It was like 12 p.m. It's for Avengers Endgame. And I was like, nah, this shit lit. I'm I'm watching that learning. Yeah, they got Spider-Man out. They had the trailer for Avengers Doom Day coming out featuring Robert Downey Jr. playing Doctor Doom. A big, a big departure from his previous role as Iron Man. You got a lot of great memes on Twitter and on threads of people talking about Thor. Like, damn, this is the Avengers scene we got left. Damn, looking around. A lot of a lot of good work. A lot of good work was done. Shout out to shout out to all the all the funny people on internet. Even if I don't know you, I feel like I know you all love. But yeah, can the MCU be saved? Is the question that I'm thinking right now. What does success look like? I think Spider-Man's gonna be gonna knock it out of the box. I think that Tom Holland got his his his big boy actor training fucking around with the Odyssey. So he he about to be on a set really dictating. So I think we get a real good Spider-Man movie. Also, I'm I'm excited for a more contained Spider-Man story. If you if you'll allow me to be a nerd for a second, Spider-Man is my favorite superhero of all time. I feel like such a dork sand that I'm a grown-ass man. But I always fuck with Spider-Man. I've always always been a fan of Spider-Man because Spider-Man he had both superhero problems and real life problems, like Green Golem beating his ass, trying to trying to blow him up, and also his girl won't call him back, and he gotta make the rent and take pictures at the Daily Bugle and his boss is a dick. Like Spider-Man, he he was the realest superhero to me. I'm a big fan of Spider-Man. So I think that this film it appears to be moving away from the big budget MCU kind of connections that we saw in his first couple movies. The first one was more so smaller scale, because it was just him and Tony Stark kind of navigating that relationship. But the second one, they were off in inly, but still you had the Tony Stark influence in there with Mysterio. And then the third film was just the big budget blockbuster. We gonna bring fucking Tony McGuire out of retirement and Andrew Garfield out of retirement. And nah, what's my man name? I'm not uh I I'm damn I'm about to get my movie card revoked. I never had a movie card anyway, but now it's super revoked for that. William Dafoe. William Dafoe. That's that's my man name. And then y'all know what I'm talking about. Everybody up in there, everybody was up in that movie. Jane Fox was in that joint with a hairline, so excited for a more grounded street level day in the life type of Spider-Man story. I know John Barenthal is supposed to be in there as the Punisher. Hawk is coming back as Greyhawk, but I don't know if he's like cool comic book Greyhawk, who was basically a mobster, or if he's just the hawk, but he's gray now. So we'll see. We'll see. And then Doomsday, you know. Y'all know in the Avengers movie is giving up. They they pulling all the stops, and we get the X-Men finally on screen. We get the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the new Avengers, the remnants of the old Avengers, and I'm sure there'll be some other surprises and shit like that. I don't know. Marvel might be back. Marvel might be back. Even if Marvel isn't back, though, this movie is gonna make a shit ton of money. We're seeing the Odyssey right now. I haven't seen that yet, but we see the Odyssey making a shit ton of money. Michael is out now making a shit ton of money. Dune is supposed to come out the same day as Avengers and Dereen 3, and that's supposed to make a shit ton of money. So I'm pose the question: are the movies back? Are we back to the place where the movies are well no, they not back. I can't say they back. Why can't you say they back, BDJ? Cause, bro, back in the day you could go to the movies. It was it seemed like it was always something out. This might just be revisionist history, because when you get older, the the older you get, the more you just lie, inherently. But it seemed like when we was coming up, and before then, you can go to the movies every week, and it was always something to see. And you had a greater variation of these these big budget movies, these retread sequels, already existing intellectual property, and then you had new original shit that you wasn't gonna see nowhere else. So I don't know. I know the movies are I know the movies are having a run right now on the on the blockbuster side. Then they bringing people out, they doing their thing over there. But on the cultural side, on the the movies are a destination and a place to be on a regular basis, not just a couple times a year. I don't know. I don't know if they get that back. But I will say that the movies, if I had to rank them, they're not as washed as ESPN is right now. So that's definitely a plus. Also, Kevin Feyee. Early Ho Jid. Early Ho Jade We sneaking this one in early. How the fuck you ain't make that Blade movie, bro? How did you not make that Blade movie? That shit was a layup. That shit was easy. Talking about nobody wants to see Blade kill vampires. We want like, no, bro. I earned the script was they wanted to make it Blade and Blade's daughter, and Blade's daughter is taking over the mantle as the cheese, like, bro. If you don't just get Mahershala Ali and or Wesley Snipes and that motherfucker, and just let them carry swords and guns for two hours. It Yeah, man. Yeah, man, that's where the MCU went wrong to me. They tried to make everything more or they they tried to market everything as bigger or more or deeper than what it was. Like I think about the multiverse of madness when when that movie came out, and they were like, oh, this is about to be a game changer right here, and it's gonna have all these implications and all these effects. And that shit was it was a good movie, but it didn't live up to the hype that they presented it in. Because they didn't present it as you're about to see a good movie, they presented it as you're about to be a see a pivotal piece in a chapter that you've been following for 10 years at this point. And it was good, it was a good chapter, but it was more of an anthology to a larger story. You get what I'm saying with that. It was more a like a serial, like a one-off type of episode versus okay, this piece lays the foundation for this piece, lays the foundation for this piece. So I think Marvel got a good shot at coming back, at regaining relevance. I would tell them to steer clear of the shit that they did with the TV shows. That's where they lost me. And it was Disney's fault. Like it was Marvel's fault, but it was Disney's fault too, because they had a whole bunch of mid TV coming out with the Marvel shows, and at the same time, they got everybody gassed up about Star Wars and came up with a whole bunch of Star Wars mid. So now y'all just doing a mid overload, and you got people paying their time and paying their money for this bullshit, and then when people stop investing in it, and subscriptions go down and viewership go down, it's like, oh, well, who can we fire? Like, nah, bro. It's I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm arrogant. I just feel like a lot of shit that I feel like a lot of shit could be simple, and I feel like a lot of shit is a license to to print money. And people get in these rooms and they don't got the right voices or the right people or they overthink or whatever it may be, but there's no there's really no realistic reason that I shouldn't come on these airwaves whenever the Avengers is done and be like, yeah, Marvel is back. They hit it out of the park with the with the Doomsday movie. I'm excited for Spider-Man to see Spider-Man in college and getting the symbiote and meeting, I don't know, Black Cat or whoever. That's the thing about Spider-Man. I'm sorry, that's why you gotta follow me. Because Spider-Man, it ain't just the Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus and Mysterio and the lizard and the round. Like Spider-Man, I think Spider-Man and Batman, to me, have the best rose galleries, the best people, the best people that they the best like villains that they go against, the best anti-heroes that they come across, the best side characters. They got the most fully fleshed out universes and worlds when it comes to characters. I'm willing to I'm willing to take some pushback on that too. Pause if necessary. But yeah. Yeah, nah. It should be a layup. It should be a layup. And now, uh the real elephant in the room, the real thing that they need to be aware of, these cartoons is taking over. Anime is taking over. Y'all see DreamCon getting bigger and bigger every year. Y'all see that there has been an American appetite for anime since fucking Dragon Ball Z broke through in the 90s. And the shit is not going nowhere, because now the culture and the infrastructure is being built around it for it to become mainstream. I'm sure that the DreamCon. I'm sure that if I look at DreamCon online and I look at Comic Con online, I'm sure that the shit I see from DreamCon is gonna be way more lit. You get what I'm saying? Also, on top of that, you got Invincible. So you got a show with the the comic book back lore and storytelling, the platform of Amazon Prime, and it's only a matter of time until they come out with some kind of live-action invincible shit. If it's possible, I don't even know. That shoe actually might be the first rated X movie in a long time if they make an Invincible movie, just because it's so brutal. But yeah, these legacy brands, legacy media, y'all. The benefit of the doubt that y'all had does not exist in the same way. The same way it don't exist for us to in my generation to go to high school, go to college, get a good job, and then everything be huggy dory. You can't just put out a Superman or Supergirl movie, or you probably could put out a Batman movie. Like, when you can't you can't just put out anything and think that the brand equity and the name that you built and the the fans that you have, you can't just do that shit and think that they're gonna keep coming back and keep rewarding it. Cause they not, as we see in this era. And to make shit even worse, and I swear we got other shit to talk about, but to make shit even worse, now everybody's a fucking reviewer. Now everybody, now everybody can go on their phone, you can watch the movie, go on your phone, and within two hours, like realistically, you can have a TikTok done about what you think about the film, take that TikTok, put it on Rails, for YouTube, go to Threads, post that on Threads, have a thread under the thread of these are my thoughts more fleshed out, have a Twitter post with the same shit, record a YouTube video or go live and have a Substack post. Like you all of these shits are very possible, and if you got enough respect behind your voice, whatever you say, people are gonna listen, because you got to build the equity. So yeah, it ain't like the old days where you waiting for the the newspaper reviews, you're waiting for Ebert and Robert or or whatever the fuck. Like it these ain't the old days. The thing about the old days, they the old days. You get what I'm saying? So shout out to some charles. But yeah. Should be layups, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see, we'll see. Speaking of of things that should be layups, there's a Snoop Dogg biopic. I can't, that's one of them words I can't say. Snoop Dogg biopic, a Snoop Dogg biopic that was announced for August 6th, 2027. And it's gonna follow the career of one Calvin Brodus, aka Snoop Doggy Dog. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for it. I know Snoop has become he went from being a controversial figure to beloved figure to know kind of controversial again due to some uh some of the moves he's made politically, as well as just a general I don't know. I don't know if people have the same reverence for for Snoop Dogg as they they once had. I think that people of a particular like niggas who love hip hop, like niggas like me, I think that we got a a certain kind of warm spotslash blind spot for for certain people and certain things, but yeah, I'm excited. I like I like hip-hop biopics. They've been a little hit or miss. I don't need to get into the oh lies on me debacle. We don't gotta talk about that. We also don't gotta talk about Notorious if if y'all don't want to. We don't we don't gotta talk about that. Straight out of Carlton was a great movie. I talked about it before, but they made Dr. Dre look like fucking uh an Avenger in that movie. I don't I don't know what that shit was all about. Well I do. That's what happened when you get that's what happened when you live long enough and and you stay lit enough to get executive producer credit. But yeah, I'm I'm excited for the Snoop Dogg biopic because I think enough time has passed to where people don't necessarily understand. And of course, I'm I wasn't I didn't get to see a lot of his early run firsthand. By the time I was cognizant of of hip hop and and rap and all that, Snoop was already Death Row was already pretty much on the on a downswing, if not out the door. So it was like No Limits, Snoop was my first interaction into Nah. No Limits Snoop was the first introduction that I remember sonically. I do remember that doggy style cover though. Not even on no not even on no crazy shit, but just because if you look at that album cover, it's one of my favorite album covers in all of music ever. Maybe that's a maybe that's a future voicemail topic of one of y'all favorite album covers, album covers that you feel like could me made in the posters, but that doggy style album cover, that shit is so visually appealing, bro. It got the grass, it got the the yellow, the yellow and red doghouse, the brick wall in the background, the cartoon, Snoop Dogg, Chasing Tail, the dog catcher, the dogs up top, the logo and the court. Like, that's one of my favorite. It might be my favorite album cover of all time. If not my favorite ever, one of my favorite ever. That shit is so cold to me. But I think enough time has passed to where I saw Snoop Dogg's lore has kind of changed, his his aura. He he was he was he was a gangster motherfucker. Like that was that was how he came in the game. It wasn't it's different now, like it's surreal to know where he came from, to know about murder was the case that they gave me, and he got a murder charge, actively, actively fighting the murder charge. It's crazy to think that this is the same, that this is the same guy who fucking who fucking got charged with murder, was on the run from the cops and went to the war show. What was it? It wasn't even the source awards or the MTV awards. I think it was the Source Awards, though. But it's the same guy that was on the run from the police, went went to the award show, the police saw him at the award show, and then arrested him at Egstage at the award show. Like, yeah, he was not, he he was not a pretend gangster. He was not a he was not not playing an image. He was he was really that. So I think seeing kind of that desperado era of Snoop, and then seeing the evolution of going from that to no limit, where he got, he might not have had the same kind of success musically, but when he learned the game, uh Master P taught him economics, Master P taught him about equity, taught him about how to build himself from not just a a great rapper, but to a great brand. And then his his second run, not second run, but rhythm and gangster. We'll just call it that. That rhythm and gangster era, one of the one of the greatest albums of all time. Essentially the Shaquille O'Neal, the rap game. But pitchman commercial, silent shit, like it's just a it's an interesting career. And I don't know if we've seen it laid out all the way. And also, another another just interesting fact, I'm not sure how long of a time frame this is gonna cover, but Snoop Dogg is still active. He's not a rapper who's dead and his estate is making this film. He's not in the case of NWA where NWA had a run that ended, and then after that, Dr. Dre kind of stopped making music, you feel me? Like he came out with a couple joints after the chronic, but and the chronic wasn't NWA. Y'all get what I'm saying though. If you know, you know, you don't know that it was it was ruthless records to Death Row to Aftermath. So yeah, the Snoop Dogg story, I'm I'm interested to see. It's a couple biopics I'm real interested in. They gotta they gotta come through with the with the Teddy Pendergrass. I don't think they did a Marvin Gay joint either. But that would be cool to see. Sneavy Wonder, that'd be a mean movie right there. It'd be really cool to to see their stories on the big screen. So I'm I'm here for the Snoop Dogg biopic. Yeah, uh We'll see. We'll see what kind of what kind of cultural it has. And shit, we'll see if it's a good movie, because I I didn't even see who was attached to directed as of this point. So hopefully that's a banger. And other West Coast business, there is a versus battle scheduled for tonight. YG vs the game. Also saw a news update that YG is currently detained due to a possible connection with the murder of Draco the ruler. Uh yeah, so I'm not sure if that versus battle is gonna happen. I don't yeah. I don't know. We'll we'll see. We'll see. But in terms of betting odds, if I'm putting a if I'm putting uh a line on it, I would say it's tough. Cause I think that the game has the better catalog. I think the game has one of the best catalogs in in all of rap. I think that the game is one of the best rappers to to ever rap. Like I can't I can't take nothing away from him there. I don't necessarily agree with his antics. I ain't saying I'm the biggest game fan. I ain't saying I'm tuned into every single album from fucking intro to outro. Like I'm I'm not saying that in no way, shape, or form. But what I am saying is catalog-wise, the game has a lot of shit. With that being said, though, we see that versus a lot based on performance. It's a lot based on who can win the room. You know what I mean? So I think that YG's music is better suited for the live audience. I think that the game's music is better lyrically. I'm sitting down, I'm listening to rap and bars, and I'm breaking it down. But in terms of like, I'm on stage and it's a crowd right here, and I got the mic in my hand. I think YG got the edge. So I am going to go with Ah! I'ma go with the game. I'ma go with the game. I'm gonna go with the game, but I'm gonna put the put the line at the game minus three. I don't think that is I don't think that the game is going to dog walk YG. I saw a lot of commentary that the game was going to dog walk YG because you got Hate and Love It, you got Dreams, you got fucking My Life, One Blood. The game got a lot of shit. When get far. A lot of it reached high commercial appeal. But energetically, the YG singles, whether they was hits or not, they they got that same kind of ruckus energy. Another another old regular ruckus records, but they got that same kind of kind of ruckus energy where it's like it's turned up. You get what I'm saying? So I think the game wins, but I think YG has the better, has the better live performance for sure. We'll see how it plays out. To be honest with y'all, I'm probably not gonna watch it. Yeah, I don't got a reason a lot of y'all. I ain't I'm probably not gonna watch it. I'm probably gonna, you know, pop in for a minute or two, a couple songs, but if it happens too, because I don't I don't if it happens. Alright. For the first time in a couple weeks, we got uh voicemail. I was told that his voicemail is from The Shark, M and B. So we're gonna roll into that.

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My dog B D with the word, Brody. Checking in on the big dream show. I just want I got a couple graphs with you though, good brother. You know. I just wanna know why. Come on, bro. And then you said you wanted to bring back Boston market. And I just wanna know for what reason. What what what is a standard gentleman like yourself gonna do with Boston Market, bro? That shit is me. I'm embarrassed, bro. I'm embarrassed. Like kind of like when I seen that Jerry Rice commercial with Pop Pons for the first time. You know, the one where he had the drumstick as his face mask? Yeah, that type of embarrassment.

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Thank you to Shark for calling in. Go Ravens. In terms of of the grievances that he aired against me, I just wanted I'm gonna say it again for the record. I think I said it before, I'm gonna just say it again. Not like super fan of Arby's man. I don't I think that's funny to say that, and I I kinda go with it for the plot, but I'm not I'm not super I'm not super duper Arby's man. I just feel that Arby's is not as trash as people make it out to be. We talking about fast food chains and and shit like that, then we're really comparing a lot of a lot of bullshit to a lot of bullshit. So I just felt personally that the slander that Arby's would was was receiving in mass, I just felt like it was a little uncalled for. You feel me? Like, y'all might have had situations like this. You in school as a kid, and this boy just keep getting picked on and picked on and picked on and picked on. And y'all not necessarily the best of friends. Like, y'all, y'all not gonna hang out after school. Well, you know he's cool. Like, it's not fair that he can get picked on and picked on. So you you you hit one of them like, yo, chill. Like, leave him alone. Like, hey man, back off, get off his back, get off his case, man. Like, that's me and Arby's. We not we not going to see we not going to see Avengers together. You get what I'm saying? I'm not, I don't got no money burned a hole in my pocket, and I'm just like, damn, I'm just just craving some Arby's. Like, that's not that's not what this is. That's never what this what this is or has been. I just feel like it's an unfair rap because there are a lot, there are places that are a lot more trash than Arby's. KFC is more trash than Arby's. Subway is more trash than Arby's. The Verg is still out on Carl Jr. Carl Jr. Hardy's. The Verg is still out on y'all. See, I I just think I just wanted to I just wanted to stand up and chat me in that cause of Arby's is not ass. It ain't it ain't exquisite. I'm uh if I if I had the option, and this probably gonna get me opened up to a whole nother world of slander, but if I'm talking fast food or I'm in a I'm in a hurry, I need something good to eat, I'm probably going to Panda Express if it's a Panda Express around the way. Now before you you judge me, because clearly y'all motherfuckers are listening and judging, I'm getting brown rice. I'm getting super greens, which is the kale and the spinach and all that. I'm getting grilled chicken, and I'm getting the pepper with the pepper. I'm getting the steak with the with the the peppers and onions and all that. So it's it's a fast food meal, it's still loaded with with antibiotics and hormones and all that, but you can't really beat the the brown rice and the vegetable combination. You got your protein with your grilled chicken, so and so on the side. But that's how I'm giving it up. You get what I'm saying? Or I'm gonna go holler at my man Jersey Michael. You get what I'm saying? Or if I if I am so inclined to get a burger, I'm either I'm either parlaying with the king, or I'm I'm going over there to the chic shack. You get what I'm saying? So it it ain't it ain't a love of Arby's. It's just it's just me me speaking up for what's fair and what's right. Um in terms of the Boston Market slander, we go way, we go way back on this one. This is this is back to to the office days. You you have a you have a disdain for for Boston Market. And I I respect it, I understand it. My thought process though is sometimes you just want something that's consistent. And don't gotta I don't I don't gotta eat five-star dining three times a day, seven days out of the week. Sometimes I just want something, get it, bring it in the house, you get what I'm saying? Some rotisserie chicken, some mashed potatoes, some cream spinach, maybe, or maybe some new potatoes, or or macaroni and cheese, some turkey round Thanksgiving, maybe uh maybe a steak, maybe ribs, maybe a a cake, carrot cake, or uh a chocolate cake, you get what I'm saying? It was solid. Boston Market was solid, and there was no place like it. I know you got you got your soul food joint, so you know you know, you can always find a a meal and you know the shout out to the to the Caribbean folks, you know, the the Jamaican spot always gonna get you right. But sometimes you Sometimes you just want something quick and easy, you know what I mean? And Boston Market filled that niche of it's like going over your friend's house for dinner, and they mother cooking not ass is good enough, it's gonna get you by and the atmosphere is good, man. I say this too. The whole time I was going to Boston Market and the Boston Market around my way, it wasn't no white people working at Boston Market. You had some black people, and you had some, what is it, was Latinx? Is that the term? The proper term? I don't want to say Spanish people. I think that Hispanic is also not what you're supposed to say. So we had some some Latinx people. We had we had some BIPOCs. Boston Market was providing opportunity for the BIPOC people. You know? So Boston Market was a real gym to the community. I will always exhaust your name. I think they only got two Boston markets in existence, and evil of them is in Boston right now. But say, no, they got they got us through many, many a night, mom ain't feel like cooking. Many a day where it's like I just want some I just want some some comfort food. Boston Market came through for me, so I I'm not gonna slander. I just know that my experience is not everyone's, and that's okay. Why are we on this fool subject though? I've been I've been thinking a lot. We're gonna close off on the I'm lying, because I still gotta do the shout out to the homies and the whole hits, but I've been thinking a lot about Black August. I don't know if y'all know about Black August, but Black August is coming up. It's the whole month of August. In the black radical tradition, black August is a time where us on the outside, us who are who are not incarcerated, stand in freedom, excuse me, stand in solidarity. I hope that my game picked that up. That was gross. And that was like the worst possible time. I'm trying to say some serious shit, talk about the niggas behind the wall and all that, and that's what happened. But we're not gonna edit it out because I'm real. But yeah, Black August is a time to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters behind the wall. Our brothers and sisters who were political prisoners who are incarcerated or our ancestors, it's a time to re-examine your discipline. So usually folks will fast, folks will give up something similar to what we see in Lent or Ramadan. It's just a time to re-engage with yourself. The thought being, if we if the thought being, if you were to prepare for some type of monumental revolutionary action, how would you need to attend your mind, your body, and your spirit to be able to achieve that and accomplish that? So that's something I've been thinking of. My semester starts at the end of August. I'll be back at Graves three days a week. So my course schedule actually might change too in the future. But we'll get to that bridge when we when we cross it. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But just on the on the Black August tip, right? I really have been thinking of what does it look like on August 1st. Re-establish discipline with myself to recommit and refocus to some things. So I was writing down a little list. I'll give y'all some things that are on the list. It may inspire you to take the personal vow. Also, I encourage you to reach out to people that are incarcerated, write letters. If you got family and friends that are behind the wall, try to get in contact with them, try to pay them a visit, send them some money, put some money on their books hit. We can't forget about people just because they're out of sight. Out of sight cannot be out of mind. Because we're also seeing on the same token, we're seeing what's going on with ice right now. I hope that we're all seeing what's going on with ice right now, where they're indiscriminately just rounding people up, committing murders with no recourse, with no ramifications. Also, I don't know if y'all are noticing, but there are reports coming out that the ethnicities and the people that they're looking for are getting broader by definition. So what does that mean? That means, for example, say you are a so you listen to this, you in Maryland, you black. Let's say Ice stops you. Let's say you tell Iceman, you tell him, hey, I'm an American citizen. I lived in Maryland my whole life, born and raised, never left the state, whoop-de-woop. He or she have the jurisdiction to not believe nothing you're saying, say that you're a Haitian drug dealer or you're a Haitian here illegally, put that in the system, and they're not gonna follow up within the system for you to get the rights that you deserve because it's not designed for that. And then your ass is locked down, or your ass is in an ICE detention facility, or your ass is getting deported to somewhere you've never been. So I say all of that to say one of our struggles is all of our struggles, injustice to anyone is injustice to everyone. A lot of a lot of cliches, a lot of phrases come to mind, but they are often repeated for a reason because they do hold weight, because they do have some some truth in them. So black arg is some things that I'm committing to. I'm not going I'm not gonna give you all my my full list, but my intention is just to be my best self mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. So, no alcohol, no sodas, no energy drinks. And shout out to Shark. We had ours right now, but Shark recommended the Bloom Energy. So I I cracked one of those instead of a Celsius today. I I think I enjoy it a lot better. Supposed to have probiotics in it or prebiotics. One of the motherfuckers is supposed to be good for you, but it's short-lived because in August I'm not on the energy drinks. No smoking before six, gym five days a week. After eight too late, shout out to YG Tech. So gotta be up and ready to go early. Read a book a week, improve my diet, so cut back on the bullshit. I've been eating a lot of sweets, a lot of a lot of fried food. Just a lot of things I shouldn't be putting in my body when if you are what you eat, then shit. I need to be fruits and vegetables and grains and and all that type of shit. Post on a substack consistently, commit to that. And volunteering more. So really, really taking the time to build relationships, to build community, to get my time, my energy, my effort, my body, my spirit to causes that I believe in, cause I feel it worthy. And also one thing I didn't write on here, but I definitely want to add is spend with one black business a week. At least something I try to do already. I try to patronize black people from clothes to food. Shit, get my hair done. My financial planner, shout out to Jeffrey is black. All up and down, all up and down. I try to be someone who who practices what I preach. But intentionality is also a big thing because if I'm not intentional about it, time can go by or money can be spent or decisions can be made that don't necessarily align with who I want to be, where I want to be. So that's what I got on my list for the most part. Like I said, I got I got one or two other things on there that I just want to be want to be personal to me, but I encourage you to take the exercise of thinking, doing your research on Black Argus, of course. But yeah, take taking the time to do your research, taking the time to sit with yourself and think, what do I need to do? Who do I need to be to be my black, my blackest self, to be my best self. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Also wanna wanna give a rest in paradise to George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, who were killed in San Quentin in 1979. Their their murders were what were the original spark for this. So I would tell you to do some research on George Jackson and the Soul of Dead brothers. I would tell you to look at any black organizations that you follow could be in your area. They don't necessarily gotta be in your area, though. That's the beautiful part about the internet. You can fuck with some people all the way out in California, show them love, and donate to them. But in the spirit of that, man, in the spirit of that, I hope you be your best. So we'll check in around the around the end of the month, the top of September. We'll check in, we'll have a nice conversation about what went well, what didn't go well, where I'm at, how I'm feeling. And shit, again, I hope to hear from y'all too. So yeah, it's time to it's time to prepare. It's time to prepare, it's time to get ready. I don't know what's coming. I don't know what the world's gonna look like even two months from now. But I know that within my controller, within my power, I can start to start to get it in gear a little bit, start to get the wheels turning on who I need to be, what I want to be, what I want to represent, so on and so forth. So, for the for the shout out to the homies this week, I already talked about Marcus Graham, Marcus Graham project. And if you're a keen listener, you're aware Marcus Graham is the famous name of a a famous film character played by a famous comedian. So you kind of understand the parallel there. But again, I want to encourage y'all, if y'all got the extra funds to donate to Gamma House. Here is the description straight from straight from the I don't want to say the horses' mouths, because I don't want I don't want to call my guys horses, but Gamma House is a creator and maker space in South Dallas. Young brand builders walk in with an idea and learn how to make it, own it, and get paid for it. A recording studio, a maker and collaboration lab, a commercial kitchen that takes somebody from a stand to a storefront, a youth suite for ages 8 to 18, and a room the neighborhood can use. 19 years we built a community. What was missing was the actual place to commune. It sits in the middle of the greatest need for our mission and is the first ever building MGP has owned. The outside is done. Now we finish the inside. One building, one deadline, and every dollar from here to December points at it. Phase one opens late 2026. We're looking for 100 builders, not donors, builders. 100 is what opens the doors, and your name goes on the founder's wall before we do. So if you have it, if you have the means and the resources, they're looking for people to donate around $1,000. And if you can't, just share it. Share it. Share the vision like I'm doing. I'm not, I wish I was in a position to be racked up and give out $1,000. Maybe when the podcast blows up, how it's supposed to. I'll have that just sitting around. But spread the word, spread the message. How at your hollow at your auntie with the money or your old boss have cashed out and is eating off that rich, rich 401k IRA combination. But yeah, we gotta we gotta support. But if we're presenting opportunities to then support initiatives or support people or companies or businesses or whatever the fuck it is that's doing what we want to see or acting to bring forth what we want to see, if we don't got no time, no energy, no money to support them, but still gonna go to the movies and see Christopher Nolan shit, still gonna buy Gucci and put their name on our chest. And we hustling backwards, and that's not gonna get us where we need to be at. Alright, hold your head. Hold your head, hold your head, hold your head. I don't know if y'all seen that video, but it was a whale holding a fish, and another whale came and just rammed it and a fish exploded. That was crazy. Hold your gill, so that that motherfucker, that's crazy. I don't know what's going on with the animals. I know y'all seen that whale a minute ago? They was wearing a piece of salmon? A piece of salmon. They were wearing a salmon, like a salmon fish on his head, like a hat. For fashion. Like it wasn't no reason for this for the whale to wear the salmon on his head. Dolphins get a bad reputation as being like undersea psychopaths, but after what I what I've been saying these whales do, man, I don't know. It might be time to it might be time to reevaluate our relationship with the ocean, but and you've been here since week one. Episode one. Episode two, you you know, the big green show. We ain't really fucking with the ocean anyway. If you know, you know, baby. If you don't, go do your research and listen to your lore, because we got some good conversation around that for like a month. Last. Hey, I'll say least. Taylor Farms hold your head. Taylor Farms, Taylor Farms, Taylor Farms, Taylor Farms. If you are not aware, Taylor Farms was ID'd as the culprit behind the diarrhea doo-doo lettuce outbreak that's giving people explosive diarrhea. And the media slick because the media tried to go to they tried to go to the poopy, poopy butt culprit number one. They were like, yo, Taco Bell, we know it's you. We know y'all the ones giving out the shitty lettuce. Taco Bell, y'all have everybody's shitty anyway, so we know it's you. And Saca Bell was like, uh-uh. Sacobell was like, nigga, we ain't grow that lettuce. Fuck you mean. We got that shit from Taylor Farms. And Taylor Farms is a supplier to a lot of a lot of different chains, if you, if you're not aware. I I put it on my RG story because I seen it on Reddit. So this is also me breaking my breaking my rule of do your research. I didn't research this after I saw it on Reddit. But according to our friends at Reddit, Taylor Farms, outside of having their own individual produce that they market under the Taylor, Taylor Farms name, they got Earthbound, 365, which is Whole Foods, Simple Truth, which is Kroger, O Organics and Signature Select, which is your Safeway brands, Green Wise in Public, Simply Nature in Aldi, Market Side in Walmart, Good and Gather in Target, H E B. We don't got no H E Bs up here, but H E B is also Taylor Farms, and Trader Joe's store brand. Also, you're making my name look bad. You're making me look bad. Now when you look up Taylor shit, is it's shitty doo doo-doo butt-butt stuff. So Taylor Farms hold your head. I saw that this is funny. I saw that the that that the CEO of Taylor Farms, we'll call him Mr. Taylor. I saw that Mr. Taylor met with the Trump administration after they were ID'd as the culprit behind the shitty doo-doo letters. They were ID'd as the culprit, and then they met with Trump, and then the White House came out with a statement like, oh no, actually we had it wrong. It wasn't Taylor Farms that that gave us the shitty doo-doo letters. It was it was somebody else. So hey man, I know ball, I know the game. I'm not new, we're not green here. If you listen to the show, I I don't think you're green. And if you listen to the show and you are green, it's enough game on this between episodes one and seventeen to get you at least up to speed, you know. Yeah, man. Taylor Fonz, hold your head. Hold your head. I I'm sure you'll come back from it. I mean people people come back from from terrible shit all the time. Look at the look at the president of the United States who Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't even know where to go from here. Y'all be safe. Drink your water, work your plan, see your future, visualize, visualize your future, visualize where you want to be. Really sit and and visualize, see the vision of if not where you want to be, who you want to be, who you want to represent, what realms you want to be in, how you want your relationships to feel, how do you want things to feel, how do you want them to look? What you can be as specific or as vague as you want, as long as you know what you're chasing. And then putting on paper, I'm a big proponent of putting things on paper, write it down, write it out, go back to it, review it, mark it up, redo it, just go through your process. But you you gotta understand that we are the biggest project that we'll ever take on. So in honor of in honor of Black August, in honor of Joe Jackson, in honor of Unc, in honor, honor everybody, man. Y'all, y'all stay safe, y'all have a good one, enjoy your summer, and we'll talk soon. See y'all next time. Peace.

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It's still real to me, damn it.