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Processing the Chaos
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Back again with my bro Neptvne Blvez this episode we talked about the world with all thats going on just expressing our opinions about the current administration and just the new year. Goals things we need to work on also the obsession of social media.
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Reflecting on 2026 and New Year's Resolutions
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2026 welcome to a new year of uh tacos he tightened up to him here with me yo yo
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Speaker
I'm good. I'm well, man. I appreciate being here once again. Love all y'all. Love being here with you, bro. but ah How you feeling? 2026, bro. New year. I'm just saying, this this is different, man. like I never thought I'd be saying 2026. It's getting closer to 2030.
00:00:53
Speaker
And that's like a that's a that's that's that's huge. I remember being young and being like, I would say 2008, I'm sorry, but like around that time, you ain't thinking about 2025, 2026. Nah.
00:01:06
Speaker
twenty twenty six you know yeah um How do it feel, though, 2026, man, for real?
Personal Growth and Future Vision
00:01:12
Speaker
How do you feel about just life and where you at? I don't know. It's interesting, right?
00:01:18
Speaker
No, this is very... in The world, my life, um not even just trying to be like, oh, my life on some interest and shit, but like life in itself is interesting. My life specifically is, you know, at this point in my life, with my age, with what I'm going through, is just very interesting. um This year has been right so far. You know, know already... you on some personal shit. We all ain't got any into I didn't have my ups and downs, but so far it's been mostly ups, you know? okay Um, I like to, I don't like to be on some new year, new me type shit.
00:01:54
Speaker
You know, you know, a lot of people do saying this. Uh-huh. Yeah. I like to kind of be, and don't even say it, but I'm more on some like new year, new goals type shit. I like to make new goals. So like, if I,
00:02:08
Speaker
slowly if I accomplish my new goals, then maybe I'll become a newer person than how I used to be over time. So I stick to that rather than just say new year, new me, you know what im mean?
Information Accessibility and Self-Education
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So new year, new energy, same apologetic vision. Yes. Yes. Man. el so it's, uh, I think it's honestly about teaching, you know, setting a new standard for like what's actually considered the standard, if you know what I mean.
00:02:44
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But, um, you know, but most importantly, like taking care like the younger people and making sure that we actually showing, you know, what it needs to be like, and,
00:02:58
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So people won't grow up and just be lost. Cause I feel like information is still to this day. It's hard to get access to certain information. Like we stuck in algorithm algorithms. We stuck on our phones and, and we got to learn, man. It's a lot going on out here in the world.
00:03:15
Speaker
And, uh, it's, it's, it's really important to educate yourself on everything that's going on. That's all I'm going to say.
Impact of Trump's Policies and Gas Prices
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Um, on that. And I don't, I want to get too dark, too dark. Uh, so, um,
00:03:29
Speaker
What's up, man? Man, let's... How your gas down there? I mean, like... I mean, I know Trump... I know Big T done hit y'all already. I mean, y'all good over there? Because he... He seemed like he... He got it together, is what he's saying.
00:03:46
Speaker
On the gas prices? On the gas prices, my boy. Well... um You know, this gas... My shit... It's actually low-key a little bit lower right now.
00:03:58
Speaker
It's not as well as I was during COVID, but it's actually kind of decent, but I'm not going front you. What's decent? What's filling up the tank? What's, um, it's, oh, what's filling my tank? Uh, probably like 25, a little over 25 maybe. I could say about maybe $28 pause. Big pause. Big pause.
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Big pause. being slow
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I would... yeah I got you. Time stamp.
Controversies and Critiques of Trump's Actions
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Time stamp.
00:04:36
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So, yeah, I mean, our prices down here is dropping about a cent, I'd say. I have definitely seen a significant little drop. Like, it was at, like, $3.50 or something like that. $3.45, maybe.
00:04:51
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The shit down to, like, $3.05. Yeah, nah, that's about it. um I actually can find some shit that's like $2.96 or $2.97.
00:05:03
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And then it's like authorities, you know. You put a number in, you get five cents also. You'd be paying $2.92 for tank.
00:05:14
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Be careful at Thornton, man. What's going on with Thorntons? Thornton be, they be kind of weird sometimes, bro. What you mean by that? What's going on with Thorntons? What's up, Thorntons? You heard of things?
00:05:26
Speaker
I don't know if I heard things or I just experienced. I'm not going to be aware of that. I need to be aware of? some money Just be skeptical. I don't know. Just kind of watch.
00:05:38
Speaker
I'll be on a plane. It'd be some characters in Thorntons. I haven't seen motherfuckers stealing all type of shit. I'm not talking about the people in the store. I'm talking about the actual gas. like it Ah, you talking about shady, slim shady. Yeah, like real shady. like i I went to a couple, and i ain't trying to say Thorntons, but like you got your main chains when it comes to gas stations, and then you got the franchise.
00:06:06
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The what? The little sad shot. I thought Thornton was up there. Thorntons ain't vain. Do you to think Thornton? I thought Thornton was there. I don't know. Maybe they is, but I mean, you know. Thorntons ain't like a... ah ah You know what? I take that back. I take that
Government Spending and Priorities
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back. I take that back. you know what I'm thinking about?
00:06:25
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What? I'm thinking about like one of those, like a one of the spots in the hood and shit. I'm thinking about the fucking... um I'm trying to think of the name of one of them motherfuckers.
00:06:36
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oh you Falcon Fuel, goddamn. Something like that. Racing sport. All type of wild name gas station. Like, what?
00:06:48
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Yeah, like, what is this? like But um my apologies to... um thorns i'm nice online Thornton. to... Thornton's... That is a bad way to start the year. When I go on Thornton's, bro, my bad. It feels like... um What's the name of that big gas station from down south that everybody loves going to that's like a Walmart?
00:07:11
Speaker
Buc-ee's. It feels like a mini Buc-ee's. Okay. Yeah, I know Buc-ee's. Yeah, it's like a little mini Buc-ee's, bro, with no furniture. You can't buy shit like that. Oh, nah, hell nah. He told anybody like that.
00:07:24
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Yeah, man. So, Trump, though, man. So, apparently what it looks like is he went and took he went in the for The president of Venezuela, they got him. they they They got him and his wife, and they brought him back to the country, and they in New York right now, and as we speak, they get in charge.
00:07:47
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in court this morning. don't ask me who's in charge because i'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial what does that mean please we're in charge have you spoken with her we're in charge have you spoken to her they have to do one thing in venezuela bring it back it's a dead country right now it's a country that frankly we would have been if i had lost the election we would have been a dead country venice We would have been Venezuela on steroids. Venezuela right now is a dead country. We have to bring it back. and We're going to have to have big investments by the oil companies to bring back the infrastructure. And the oil companies are ready to go. They're going to go in. they're going to rebuild the infrastructure. you know We built it to start off with many years ago.
00:08:30
Speaker
What are they getting charged with? Do you know? I didn't look into no charges or nothing like that, but I know it's on with drug trafficking, for sure. Damn. Yeah, bro. So, I mean, I got to look more into this. I'm not going to lie.
00:08:44
Speaker
I had to really sit back, man, and like think about everything I be talking about far as politics, bro, because I don't know the history, bro. So I can't sit back and just be judging shit on what I'm seeing. Like, I'm like, I need to go actually do some homework, some research, you know, do my homework. But it's, yeah, bro, it's interesting, bro. Like, bitch, that shit is wild. I'm just like, oh okay, so.
00:09:07
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They've been... He stole an election. That's... I mean, pretty much he did he refused to, you know, change over this the power and stuff, but the transition. But yeah, man, like they said, he's like a big cartel. You know, they got the biggest oil rig, far as I know. And they not producing as much as they they can be.
00:09:33
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Like they say that they only produce they only run at like 18%.
00:09:39
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But like, yeah, like you said, I don't, I didn't even know about that part of the situation with them, the operation, but like you said, they are, they're the biggest oil reserve in the world. Like they hold the most oil in the whole entire world as a country.
00:09:59
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And, um, they also have the largest gold deposit. So, You know, gold, that's a major currency in the world.
00:10:11
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Like, that's value at a very certain i I'm not exactly sure what gold is valued at right now. But my point is that gold is valuable universally.
00:10:22
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It is gold. Gold is valuable. I mean, like, you know, globally, I mean. talking about universally. Goldly. But my point is, um oil and gold...
00:10:34
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that's like they they those are the two biggest resources pretty much to make the world go around and the fact that the president like you said is in this power is like almost on dictatorship type shit i didn't know about the drug cartel running drug shits and then on top of that like the people like they said that the poverty has dropped about like or risen is about 400 the poverty rate so that's and and that's not cool so and that's um That's something really had thought about because I'm just like, oh so y'all got all this stuff that, you know, it can benefit and actually make the money. But at the same time, why is everybody so poor? They say it's over like 35 million people. I might be wrong on that, but that's a lot of people.
Financial Struggles and Economic Discussions
00:11:22
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Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's a lot of people. But, him to you know, just it's I mean, I don't. Like I said, I want to do some more research research before I even like keep diving into the politics on that. But it is an interesting situation, though, bro. like my I don't agree with how it was going about in terms of our involvement and not what I mean. i don't mean like we I don't mean that he shouldn't have not been in power anymore or anything like that. What I mean is...
00:11:59
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The fact that we've gotten involved in a foreign affair in an improper way is affecting the country of Venezuela's allies or the people in other countries like North Korea or China or Russia and all these other countries that are making comments now because Trump didn't get permission from Congress to even carry the situation about.
00:12:23
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on top of them just looking at it it is like you went to another country and captured not only the leader of the country, quote unquote, but the first lady and flew them back and brought them up on charges. And it's like, who are you out of the entire world to do that? Who are you to say and charge and hold them accountable? Like,
00:12:50
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If you didn't get permission from your own government, Lord knows you didn't get permission from a bunch of countries or like the UN. You know what I mean? Uh-huh. Nobody talked about that shit. He just did it.
00:13:05
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Excuse me. and Nah, he did. um It's interesting, bro. I listened to this podcast called The Unnecessary... No, The Necessary Conversation, bro. You should check it out.
00:13:18
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I think I told you about it. they um The parents are like real heavy Trump supporters and their kids is like, you know. Yeah, but they Democrats, not Democrats, but they don't agree with, you know, but pretty much is they they really be going at it They have some interesting like takes far as just like it go because they be defending, you know, them and they were just saying about they just he's doing everything that he supposed to be doing.
00:13:49
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Like, it's crazy had a um ah how how the stuff's just going on right now. It's interesting, though. um But it shows you, like, how much money is spent on maybe unnecessary. I wouldn't say unnecessary, but maybe, like, we don't have to put so much
00:14:15
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I don't know. I don't know, man. I'm just praying for everybody, man. I'd just be stuck in my head with it. It's crazy how much... um It's crazy how much the government gets upset or frustrated with the rest of the world. i mean, with the rest of ah the people in the country with money mismanagement and stuff like that.
00:14:40
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But they mismanage so much of the money... that we give them, you know, well they just spend it on stuff. And, you know, like, they just waste it on stuff. But, like, it goes, you know, how much is one drone?
00:14:55
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How much is one nuke? How much is all these people going somewhere to carry out? and unless Like, how much does ICE cost when food stamps were down? You know you know what I'm saying?
00:15:11
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How much did it how much did it cost to like stop you know it was a lot of stuff that went on recently bro that Trump did and like we we spent a lot of money over the years I was just man not even just in Trump's presidency but a lot of money over the years on stuff where it's just like the situation has gotten so worse it's and it's the last thing I'm gonna say about it because it's a little bit long winded
00:15:43
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the the the The problem in Flint, Michigan should not have went
Social Media's Influence and Addiction
00:15:47
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on as long as it did. Point blank period. It went on for almost, if not 10 years or more.
00:15:56
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It should not have happened. You send the National Guard and federal troops and everything to Chicago for crime and everything else that happened, but a water, crisis a humanitarian crisis, water issue where an entire city can't have clean water.
00:16:13
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That's not a government problem?
00:16:17
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I think it is. Exactly. And everybody pointing fingers. So it's like the government is um is a mother. The U.S. federal government spent about $873.5 billion on national defense.
00:16:35
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This includes Department of Defense plus related defense spending at other agencies. They just be spending money. But $820 billion?
00:16:46
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But look, and um that's crazy. That is crazy, Tay. But it's also crazy, and that's just the defense. ah I'm not going to lie. that's why and a big Wow, you're right. A big part of it may be necessary, but we know a lot of it ain't. just like It's just like having an arsenal.
00:17:05
Speaker
It's when you see it. But yes, yeah it's right. It's when you see the number and it's laid out right in front you, that's crazy. And don't don't even get us started on the amount of money that they spent on unnecessary shit like that wing in the White House or anything else.
00:17:21
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Just throwing away. is They're just giving it out. giving that Okay, they say the money covers salary and benefits for active duty and reserve troops, operation and maintenance of forces and equipment, um ships, aircrafts, vehicles, and tech.
00:17:42
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They research, development, and testing of new systems, facilities, infrastructure, and family housing support. Yeah, that's a lot of that going on.
00:17:54
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Okay, I understand where it's going.
00:18:00
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But don't know. We know what they're spending some money on and what they're carrying it about to use it on. It's also about 13% of the federal budget went to defense in FY2024.
00:18:16
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twenty four They say U.S. military spending is the largest in the world, often larger than the next several countries' budgets combined.
00:18:27
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Whoa. I need to read a little bit more. Where do they get that money? Man, bro, so... Where do they get that money from? the The people.
00:18:38
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Us. We the one that's paid for this stuff. we are the biggest We are the biggest distributor of that money. we I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about like how we should not we should just stop paying taxes.
00:18:55
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My dude literally was just like, um he's just like we should stop paying taxes. He's like, don't pay no fucking taxes. He's like, they can't catch you for three years. It's some shit like that. I'm just like, whoa.
00:19:09
Speaker
But he was just like... he It's some bullshit. He's just like, they just, they they they fucking they fucking with you in your face. They literally just, they just being real. He's just like, this is bullshit. Because, I mean, everybody's upset, bro. Everybody's upset.
00:19:26
Speaker
It's too much because we suffering all the, you see it. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's a lot going on out here, man. People can't barely make it. And then people also know, realizing that, ah you know, they got to have another negotiation about Snap, right? So that's going to be in it. It's literally like, I don't know.
00:19:46
Speaker
It's coming soon, though. they they Remember, they just went back. Remember, they just went back to just get through the holidays.
00:19:55
Speaker
They got through the holidays and said they was going to come back next year. It is the next year. And, a yeah, bro, man. So, ah interesting times, man.
00:20:09
Speaker
Interesting
Personal Growth and Societal Expectations
00:20:10
Speaker
times. But, anywho, what it do. Man. man I am, no, but I, it's a lot. You know what I'm saying? it And we're in history. I keep talking about it.
00:20:23
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I'm to keep talking about it. But I'm to more research on this. And we could definitely, get back to that, but Trump definitely charging, you know, Maduro, he getting charged today, so.
00:20:37
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Today? Yep. they They literally just brought him in a court. I was just looking at it on, a like, a Facebook Live or some shit. They literally just brought his ass. They had all type of police around his ass.
00:20:48
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Heavy.
00:20:52
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Damn Dash, man. Man. Man, bro. I really would like to meet him one day, bro.
00:21:03
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Damn it. Mr. Dash. Yeah, bro. Damn Dash, bro. He's smart, bro. He's smart. I was just thinking about it when we was talking about it before we was going to have discussion.
00:21:16
Speaker
But he um been through a lot. You know, like, sometimes you got to just... listen to the people that care about you, man, but um is being told that he had to sell his business or one of his businesses and it went for, how, what was it, $100? Yeah, man, that shit. It's very sad. I believe you're right. Dame sold his, I think, what was his media company?
00:21:53
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Yeah, I think it was the media company. He sold his media company for $100, and I'm not even going to lie or funny, but had I known where to buy it, I would have put bid in for $100. would have put bid in for $100.
00:22:06
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I would have put a bid in $120. Give me that $100. Oh, man. Fuck. Man, give me... I would have paid it. Give me a G, man. Fuck it. Throw a G on there. See what happens. See who bid. I ain't going to pay I tried.
00:22:20
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Yeah. Yeah, I don't... know pay too much. i don't like how his name out here like that, man. It's kind of, Dane was legend, man. I understand. You know, I understand all the shit he be saying. Dane was wild.
00:22:33
Speaker
I was just about to say, who's responsible for your reputation?
00:22:38
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To a degree. They say Dane got money, though. Oh, yeah. I think in the tuck, maybe. In the tuck. He ain't flat broke. i don't think he broke. i don't think he broke. I think he just...
00:22:52
Speaker
He's just doing it just to... might I don't know. i can't I can't call it, but I don't think he broke. I'm not in his pockets, so I don't know what his situation like. But at the same time, people suing him because he didn't backed out of deals or not paid loans or certain shit, so...
00:23:13
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And it's in a position where, like, he didn't, y'all know he had to file bankruptcy, but you see he's selling stuff or, like, yeah it's being auctioned off. So, you know.
00:23:26
Speaker
Prayer's up, man. Prayer, yeah, nah, facts. Because motherfuckers still get a lot of love, respect for Diane. He's still a hustler. There's still a lot of stuff you can't take away from that, man. My elder at the end of the day. and But, um.
00:23:40
Speaker
Yeah, man, your name and your word is everything. And how you be talking out here these streets make a difference. How you carry yourself. And Dame should know that better than anybody.
00:23:52
Speaker
Dame gonna be, he gonna be good. I think he's straight. I think nowadays too, you just gotta kinda troll. And i he this could be his way of trolling. He might be, money he might.
00:24:04
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I know for a fact he's monetizing his content. But, um, Yeah, you know, it's the bag. I think that's why a lot of people be out here on internet. Like, just, you know, you got, what's his name? ah That's a Raven. Orlando Brown.
00:24:19
Speaker
Mm-hmm. He was out here just, he still is, but. But I ain't trying to see Dame at that level, though. He ain't going at that level. He ain't going that level. I mean, I think that's how he gets his bag, though.
00:24:34
Speaker
ah think iin get as bag though they Yeah. That's the time we live in, though. You know, like, it you gotta... fucked up. It is, and when you think about it, like, because it's just like, you got people that literally gets on the internet to make money. They make videos. You know saying? It's the people that's watching. When you got a certain amount of views, they will pay you.
00:24:57
Speaker
So, like, i think a lot of times, not just with Dame and a lot of these celebrities, but they... The bag on Instagram, they get to the bag.
00:25:08
Speaker
You know people that you probably follow. They're not famous famous, but they literally, they just, they post every day. And they got something different that they doing, you know saying? But they got a nice following. Yeah.
00:25:19
Speaker
But that's what, that's what we had though. And i I had thought about things. I'm just like, damn, that's a, it's people literally, because I know people and y'all need to stop doing this shit. I don't care.
00:25:30
Speaker
If you're, ah don't, let me shut up. I ain't going to speak. No, no, speak, speak on it. Speak. it's i I just don't understand when I see these grown-ass women on TikTok dancing and shit.
00:25:45
Speaker
amazing And they do it like they're getting paid. a And if you is getting paid, you don't got to put it through other social platforms. But it be like, i ain't going to... So if you're on TikTok, you promote on TikTok.
00:26:04
Speaker
You should promote the video somewhere else with the on Instagram with a TikTok, which is okay, but I'm talking about your whole page down there, just TikTok with you on Instagram. now then That's the extra, that's the extra, extra.
00:26:20
Speaker
Now, that I agree is a touchy subject. ah not now ah because though I'll say this because I agree to an extent because it some people can get carried away. Some people can get very very carried away. And, like, when you be having your phone around kids or, like, this, then, and third, and you're not familiar, or even just in general, like, around certain people, or you just don't want certain things, you might not be familiar with somebody, what they're into, or this, then, and third, and then you're their personal page, and they post certain stuff.
00:26:56
Speaker
So I can identify, like, with what you're talking about. But at the same time, it's like, the um... They're like a content creator. You know, like... So I feel like they trying to do anything and everything to draw eyes to their content.
Technology's Impact on Social Interaction
00:27:11
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You know? kids out of it.
00:27:13
Speaker
Yeah, nah, facts. oh Kid don't even be in it. They just be walking past. I'm why you got your son back? Man, it'd be wild, man.
00:27:23
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But I understand the content creators. And you got to start somewhere. Mm-hmm. But don't... um I don't know. I just be seeing a lot of y'all just be doing shit. I'd they be like, why you ah you just want... Never mind.
00:27:40
Speaker
yeah yeah Never mind. you know Your mouth will get you in trouble. Mama always said, if you don't got nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all, okay? You're going to find out a whole bunch of your friends that you ain't know. out here dancing on TikTok.
00:27:54
Speaker
what you What you trying to say? What you trying to say? Hey, somebody going to walk up on me like, man, I saw was listening to your pod, bro. Like, y'all, what you got against people on TikTok? One of the homies and shit, bro. What you mean, bro?
00:28:07
Speaker
think you one of the homies. Man, we one of the homies, bro. What? On me? What you mean? Like, bro, like, i was on... Checked you back to TikTok.
00:28:17
Speaker
Bro, like, my mother be like, be seeing all the type of people, I be... a we I get on that shit for a second. That's just me. You know what I'm saying? Because realized I got a real bad problem with social media. So I try to like drift away from it a little bit.
00:28:32
Speaker
But I'm for real, bro. It be fucking me up. Because I literally lose my whole train of thought after just probably 10 minutes of watching like straight videos and just strolling through some shit.
00:28:44
Speaker
You're stuck in a rabbit hole. Nah, I feel you. i I do it all the time. Not even just with TikTok, but I try to, you know, capture myself. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Nah, you good. well but It's all, um... I try to catch myself, you know. um You know, it can be... It's an addiction. That's what it is. Very much an addiction. It's an addiction. A dopamine addiction.
00:29:06
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So, yeah just try to spend that energy in the right areas and that time in the right areas. Because before you know it, somebody else is making money off of those videos and those content that you consuming and you ain't got the time to do whatever you want to do because you giving somebody else your money.
00:29:26
Speaker
I'm getting so much time and energy to something that you that ain't paying you or benefiting in your, in the way that you need it to go. And shit, the older I get, on I start to realize that. I just be like, damn, like, i need to start focusing on the health. Like,
00:29:44
Speaker
That's a... It's hard, but it's just like when you start getting older, you start p seeing people go through certain things, you're like, damn, I do need to kind of focus more on that. But, um... Yeah, man.
00:29:59
Speaker
Fuck. Life be life, boy.
00:30:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, man. Should've catch up with you quick. That's what mean. Shit, I salute everybody that take care themselves. And I was just listening to Eric Thomas and his ah buddies. They got a podcast, Secrets to Success. And they was talking about um just that boring part.
00:30:22
Speaker
you know what I'm saying? The stuff that you got to do, but it's boring as fuck. Like, you just know that you it's going to be boring. So you just you just don't do it. Like, no, just do the... Sometimes just doing the boring shit, it pays off. Sometimes, all the time it do. You just got to get through that.
00:30:38
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And you just like, I know this going to be boring, like, but fuck. You just do it. You know what saying? Like, so that was real shit.
00:30:50
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You got sacrifice, man. If you want a better lifestyle, if you want a better life, you got to love yourself. And if you love yourself, you would do those things to make your life, you know, what it is. And I'd be listening to them, bro. And it'd be like, it'd just click another switch in my head or something. Like,
00:31:06
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I pause pause whatever but a switch you know what saying like it is just kind of like i'm like damn that shit it lock I lock in different it's just like that yeah if I was listening to this a little more like I think I would be like cool, but at same time, just like, it got me overthinking, because I'm just like, damn, do I love myself enough to make these changes? Because I do want that lifestyle, man. You do want to, you know, one day travel, just be able to get up and just go and be able to just see the world for what it is, and not have to necessarily go into a job, but get paid to do what you love. Like, shit, I'd love to get paid to do this and just talk all day.
00:31:48
Speaker
Fuck it. Yeah, no. No, no, continue. My bad, my bad. No, you good. I'm just ready for that. And that's what I'm going to get. And I realize that I need to start loving myself more.
00:32:02
Speaker
No, thanks. Where the hell are you? Yeah, and that's what you got to do. You got to make those sacrifices like you just said. And one of those sacrifices is to everything that you need to stop doing. That's one of them because it's all a like everything that you know that's holding you back.
00:32:18
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the stuff that you second guessing about, just let it go. And that boring time is going to be worth because you'll be able to handle it. And you, because now you know how to get through it.
00:32:29
Speaker
You done sat there and haven't, you done had that boring time, whatever it is, but it was worth it. You got that discipline. Yeah, bro. I feel good. So now, you know, i'm working on it, but I ain't there yet. I'm about 75. Yeah.
00:32:43
Speaker
yeah You know, yeah um as we get older, You know, at this very moment that we're recording this podcast, I don't have no kids right now. I got about five. Both of us don't have no kids. Speak for yourself.
00:32:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to speak for myself on this one. I ain't got no... Neptune ain't got no kids right now. So, um... But...
00:33:10
Speaker
My point is just even without that, certain shit get old, you know, certain responsibilities. And I don't know if like a lot of y'all listening and are y'all like real spiritual.
00:33:21
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But and I'm not even going to quote the Bible verse verbatim, but they say like when I was um a child, I did like childish things. But when I became a man, I had put i had to put childish things to the side, you know.
00:33:34
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you you When you get older, you got to stop. doing the same things or making the same excuses or same excuses you know yeah like they say stupid is doing the same thing multiple times and thinking that it's gonna be the same like be any different they say it's either stupid or crazy to think that and um When you just constantly keep putting yourself in the same positions, whether they be financially, ah mentally, spiritually, it's not wrong to fall and make mistakes, but you got to hold yourself accountable. You know, a lot of people this day and age, they do stuff and they don't care. They're not morally...
00:34:18
Speaker
they're not morally structured right. you know They don't care about how they abuse or take advantage or the consequences of just being irresponsible in their own lives. And they try to shift that responsibility on other people by leaning on them. That's real. That's real. Yeah, yeah. People, i'm ah my bad, I'm getting into Nah, you got it. You got it. it's it's a It all goes hand in hand. you know it all Once you start being okay with one thing, it might lead to another and it might lead to another. It's like a gateway drug type shit. You know what I mean?
00:34:53
Speaker
Mm-hmm. You got it. You had that one. Preach, preach. Preach, your brother. Nah, for real. You get older and you start thinking about it a lot. And um you don't start thinking, but you start growing into the person that you're becoming.
00:35:07
Speaker
Yeah. And that's that can be any any version of yourself. But... All the advice I would say on that is, and the only thing I really would say on that is just don't be afraid to try those things that feel different or that are different because that might be what you need to get you in a position that you need to be in.
00:35:30
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um But um interesting conversations with...
00:35:37
Speaker
Damn, with Secrets to Success about that, that was the that was real, bro. was just like, because it made me think about a lot as far as just where I want to go now. You know, like like you just said, bro, like the responsibility and just doing what you got to do to just, I don't know, to live a life. I feel like we been taught the wrong, not the wrong, because there's nothing wrong with,
00:36:05
Speaker
it's nothing wrong with anything, like, far as the way we grew up or nothing, but we're so limited to experiences and um yeah different opportunities and information. I was telling you earlier about, like, how even with the internet, we're still so limited to information.
00:36:22
Speaker
And now it's more limited because the algorithms and, you know, the social media and it's easy. You know, it's about just keeping up with the people that you meet and now they made it to where we...
00:36:35
Speaker
in the store with somebody, you talking to somebody, now you see them on your page, they publish a recommendation, whatever. Like, it'd be it'd be different things, man. it's it's Yeah, you know, a lot of people be isolated, too. They don't even, um they you know, kids don't even go outside. And then it's like, a lot of people I know, like, even at our age, it's not as much, but, like, I know it probably gets worse and worse.
00:37:02
Speaker
it becomes and maybe a little bit more difficult to speak or approach people or you might be more timid because you don't have the experiences of going outside and playing or meeting new people or doing certain things or talking to a girl and it's like, that if you might just, you know i'm saying?
00:37:21
Speaker
a lot of motherfuckers meet people online. That's how they end up talking. They don't have the ability of chopping it up and getting rejected in person or doing that. So it's like, a lot of people, my go like you said, it's not that it can't happen, but it's just because of how accessible and convenient things are.
00:37:42
Speaker
a lot of things are becoming limited without even kind of realizing to the point where it's like, oh, y'all used to do that. And it's like, that's the way things are kind of have been for a while. And I'm not going to say the way they're supposed to be, but People should know how to be sociable. We're here to be sociable with each other.
00:38:04
Speaker
You know, it shouldn't just be because dependent on a a cell phone or a screen, because if that phone breaks or this or whatever happens, if you don't know your way around, if you don't know what number, if you don't know how to talk to people, you become dependent on the system.
00:38:24
Speaker
And once the system can be used or turned against you or when you fail to drop out of the system, like breaking a phone or messing up in life, it's not going to be in your favor anymore.
00:38:36
Speaker
So I just really think that we need to be more self-reliant.
00:38:43
Speaker
It's going to take a long time to get there because, like you just mentioned, with you know the kids and the technology now and just we had that experience. We had a little bit of both.
00:38:58
Speaker
We're like the birth of technology in a way. oh The kids are nowadays, 2025, I got to get out that, 2026.
00:39:10
Speaker
But the kids of 2026, as of today, is not going outside riding bikes anymore with their helmets on. They not going out there, you know, meeting up with their friends and it's It's a whole different playground than when we was on the playground, if that make any sense to you.
00:39:31
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Yeah. You know, a lot of us are going into, like, our age, like, specifically you and me, we, like, kind of, at this moment, going into our 30s, if not in our 30s. You know what I mean? You know, I'm the fresh 30, bro. Yeah. Nah, facts. Yeah, so my mental is...
00:39:47
Speaker
So it's whoof we got multiple eras of like, I was going to say we we were caught between two worlds, but it's almost like we were caught between three because you got to think about, think about when you were a kid, your earliest core memories are fundamentally before you were hit the age of 10. They get a little blurry.
00:40:07
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They blurry, but I'm saying like, it's it's like PlayStation. It's like, box TVs. It's like Kmart. Kmart. House phones.
00:40:20
Speaker
Dominics. Dominics. Yeah, like it's certain technology. Fax machines. like blockbuter Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Beepers were still in fashion. Beepers on God. Yeah, yeah. Chirp phones.
00:40:33
Speaker
like i Oh, you remember the boost? That's, ooh, man, the the men you already know. So that era, and then you get into the the early iPhone, Blackberry era, that era, you know, smartphone era, the early.
Parenting Styles and Generational Reflections
00:40:46
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And then like the Xbox 360, like early GTA, eight like early game, early cell phone, like technology booming type shit. And then now here we are in this day and age, the modern age that we in now.
00:41:01
Speaker
2020 stuff. Like, you know, we got, ah we got fucking gambling. We got stock market on our phone. We got, um excuse me. We got so much stuff accessible at our fingertips and just the ability, excuse me, I'm sorry, to do so much stuff.
00:41:21
Speaker
It's, um, it's just like, moon it ah it is unbelievable. The stuff we able to create theaters and like on, paper on and the game. We're not even doing shit on paper no more. No newspapers. That's what I'm saying. like The world has changed.
00:41:39
Speaker
We're changing. Yeah, you're right. So, it's interesting like with all this technology like with these kids because that's all they know.
00:41:51
Speaker
um That's all we know. That's all we know. Everybody know now. I can't even blame them damn kids, but I really... do be concerned about like, far as like what they see. u hu Cause you, you could, you could do as much as you can as a parent. I know. And I don't have any kids, but I'm pretty sure it's hard to keep up with like certain things. Cause it's just, excuse me, but the world, you know, the world we live in today it's um, it's sick.
00:42:22
Speaker
A lot of people just don't give a fuck. No, they don't. They don't. oh I really be concerned about that, and I really want people to... They cater to kids.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah, like but locking lock in with your kids, man. like I really learned a lot as a kid, and i and I always told myself this. I'm like, when I become like a father, I know how going to address certain situations. And I know I'm saying that now with no kids, but...
00:42:51
Speaker
I'm only saying that with experience as being a kid. I'm not going... You know what I'm saying? You got kind of relate a little bit because you don't want to be the parent that's honestly fucking your kid up every day. I'm sorry. It's different ways to discipline kids. I've seen it with my own eyes.
00:43:14
Speaker
I don't even want to hear all that. and It could be trauma. It could be whatever, but... Just remember, you can change it at any time you want to, but beating a kid is not the best solution to behavior-wise.
00:43:29
Speaker
We used to get beat as kids, but it wasn't like... It's different nowadays. That's all I'm going to Yeah, it is. It's certain things, and I'm not even condoning it back then, but it's like it's a lot of things that you don't have to deal with as much as they had to deal with back then.
00:43:49
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like, just in terms of, like, if we just coming from us being as African-American, like, certain shit. um but That's what I mean. And I'm, like I said, I'm not even condoning this shit. I'm just saying that, like, you got to think. Like, I had i have people in my family...
00:44:09
Speaker
That because of certain stuff, they didn't get into the crack game. You know what I'm saying? When it was running rampant. And I got a lot of people that did. I lost on both sides, whether user a seller.
00:44:20
Speaker
But, you know, like, it's just a lot of things that people think.
00:44:29
Speaker
um It's a lot of things that people think r are wrong. And I think that beating your kids are wrong. I'm going just say that. don't don't There's other ways. There's other ways.
00:44:44
Speaker
That's all I'm going to I agree with you. It ain't the only option. No, it ain't. like um I do miss being a kid, though. The experience, it was everything. I'm happy I got to go to corner store with my quarter.
00:45:00
Speaker
No taxes, by the way. They used to be cool. But we used to go to the store with the dollar. Sometimes I get $5 when we was kids. It was a lot. Oh, my God. Bro, we used to walk around with singles. Like, bro, we I got it today. Like, bro I got $20 today. What? Like, yeah, bro. What you want? Go to the store and shit?
00:45:19
Speaker
Yeah, I got this. I got like two people with me. You good? I got you. Yeah, I got you. I got you. Feel good being that guy. I got you, bro. ah But that whole different experience, though, bro.
00:45:33
Speaker
And I feel like it helped out with our... childhood a little back in the day because it helped the community. It wasn't just, don't know, we were younger and um it was it was cool. It was cool. I do miss, I miss it sometimes.
00:45:49
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Miss it.
00:45:52
Speaker
Yeah, miss the world, ah the way the world used to be for sure. It always changes though. We can't, you know. always changes. I seen in a video I've been following at Sciences recently and he
Geography Fascination and National Pride
00:46:04
Speaker
um he was talking about the speed that the Earth actually, you know, the the world is like, it's speeding through like, you know, the solar system or whatever. but Yeah.
00:46:15
Speaker
I didn't know that. I'm just like... Yeah, they said it's something. ah they don't know if it's called the Great Attractor or something like that, where they said that the universe as a whole is being slowly pulled into a certain area.
00:46:33
Speaker
They say the Earth spins about... 1,000 miles per hour at the equator. They say, but the speed decreases as you move towards the poles.
00:46:48
Speaker
Okay. That's still kind of like fast as hell.
00:46:58
Speaker
That is fast as hell. That shit is. That shit fast as hell, boy. Man. So, but he was talking about like, it's enter brand it's it's huge, bro. It's a huge earth.
00:47:17
Speaker
ah The earth is very, very big. Like, and I thought about that the other day. I got on maps, right? I was just looking up like, when when the thing happened with Venezuela, I just literally looked it up real quick.
00:47:30
Speaker
And I was trying to see how long it it take to get over there from Chicago and some random shit. And they obviously didn't have no flights or whatever, but if you go on your maps on your phone, on the iPhone, you literally can just go around the earth, like on the globe-wise, and it'll take you to like the other countries and like the Caribbean. and i probably I was just like amazed, though.
00:47:53
Speaker
Nah, that is kind of crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I do that on a Snapchat map sometimes. Sometimes I go on a Snapchat map and then I just pick a random place and then I just look and see what they doing.
00:48:05
Speaker
Go on your maps right and then just literally zoom out. All you got to is zoom out your maps on the thing. It literally just shows the whole world, bro. You literally can just turn it. It's crazy, bro.
00:48:17
Speaker
Like, I'm looking at Asia right now. He said I'm looking at it. Yeah, no. What's up with that in Asia? Different language.
00:48:27
Speaker
Can see the wall? Hold on. What map are you looking at right now? What's it? Go to your maps on your iPhone. Are you looking at Apple Maps? Okay. Yeah. I was going to ask, because which one is it? Is that Apple or is it good is Google Maps that has it to say Gulf of America, right?
00:48:45
Speaker
I have no idea. You know what I'm talking about though, right? Like how they had they changed it the Gulf of Mexico to say Gulf America. I don't really. I didn't even look for that.
00:48:57
Speaker
It's real. make They actually changed it. It still says it on Google. um Bro, on Google Maps it says Gulf of America. That's wild. I just thought it was interesting that you can actually like go to your maps on your phone and all you do, you know how you zoom in on your location? Uh-huh. Like it shows you, can literally zoom out all the way out from where you at and it'll show you the whole fucking earth.
00:49:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The globe. I didn't know that. Hell, yeah. I never did this before. See, what's in Antarctica? That's shit great. That's all I'm saying. I just be like, I went to South America, boy.
00:49:36
Speaker
South America look different, bro. I ended up in Detroit. I'm in Detroit. What they doing over here in Detroit? But we over here looking at... I wish I had a screen. I'll show y'all what I'm looking at. Wow. Apple Maps says Gulf of America, too.
00:49:53
Speaker
They do? Yeah, he changed it then. I mean, it's a... Globally, they changed it? He the president, man. Man, get the fuck out of here. Hell no. So, everybody else in America...
00:50:09
Speaker
Why do I say like that? In a America. Why you say it like that, bro? Everybody else in America. You good? Cool with this? Y'all cool with this, America?
00:50:20
Speaker
Or like Bernie Mac say America? I think, bro. America. and Come on, America. Yeah, he changed that. that's i been wait He changed that when he first got in there, didn't he? Yeah, but like, is the rest of the world okay with this too?
00:50:34
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I think so. this is is
00:50:41
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hello and That's crazy I'm looking it up like why they cause i Now you got me thinking about the Gulf of America
00:50:55
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It said the Gulf of Mexico Was renamed the Gulf of America In early 2025 By President Donald Trump Through an executive order Called Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness The move was framed as a way to emphasize, oh my God, u s ownership and national pride, but it has sparked controversy.
00:51:22
Speaker
Yeah, on both sides. mean, this shit ain't real. I'm looking at it and say the only people that acknowledge it is us. And it's probably some regional shit. Like, you know, Apple and Google probably did it to make the president happy so they can continue operating. They gonna do that, you know, the way that they gonna do that because he the president.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, like if we was over in China or somewhere elsel else, they're going to adhere to their policies and rules and laws. So ain't that a bitch? to say You seem very upset about that. yeah, because I'm like, he don't own that shit. That is international waters. What are you talking
Political Ambitions and Local Roles
00:51:58
Speaker
about? You're going to just rename some shit that everybody agreed on. That's like Kennedy Senate, though.
00:52:01
Speaker
Everybody agreed on this, and you just going, like, come on. It's like the Kennedy Senate, though, too. what What? What about the Kennedy He put his name on the building. It's the Donald Trump Kennedy Center or something like that. Snash that bitch out.
00:52:16
Speaker
Somebody need to. Next. Next up. You gonna come snatch your ass up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Say that. Those are charges on your ass, boy. Come on, T. Big T. I was just playing.
00:52:33
Speaker
He said the blue, the guy with the hair. Yeah, he he he done some really awful things, you know? I'm like, bro, I'm from the city where your name on the building. I'm not saying I fuck with you, but you ain't got to throw the book at him while fucking fuck. It's freedom of speech.
00:52:49
Speaker
First Amendment, baby. He used to be a nice guy, but, you know, he just... This man became the president of the freedom of speech, of the First Amendment. I can't use saying that. Come on now. I have literally had a dream that I was running for, like, a political spot somewhere. I don't know if it was president But I was literally out there talking that talk. And I'm just like, damn. I woke up like that. That's real.
00:53:16
Speaker
I could be that. but and i Then I thought about other stuff. Nah, I ain't trying to get a... Start now. yeah all Be That's why you got started, don't you?
00:53:31
Speaker
You for the people, bro. Start to be an alderman, man. And they're gonna try to take me out. Alderman make good money. I'll be the first president with dreads, though. That'd be dope.
00:53:43
Speaker
ain't going to lie. That'd be dope. That'd be dope. That'd make a statement. That do make a statement. Like, why do he got dreadlocks? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
00:53:54
Speaker
When I run out the office. You say aldermans get paid good, though? Aldermans get paid decently. Like, I heard the little but but birdie told me that aldermans get paid decently.
00:54:10
Speaker
Let's see. Let's see. As of 2025, the salary for Chicago aldermen varies based on their position and experience. They say the annual...
00:54:26
Speaker
It ain't that much, bro. It's saying recent years, they have been paid around $115,000 to about $143,000 per year. that that that that That might be true, but you know starting off, someone like myself, I'm only going to make about $41,000. So i ain't trying to... This is This is starting.
00:54:49
Speaker
This is in a small town. Go ahead, start in a small town. I'm going to keep working my nine to five. started Peoria somewhere. And make more than this. Close to it. Calumet City or Calumet ISIS, whatever. Don't go to ISIS. What if you're going to send me to ISIS to go be an ultimate? It's crazy.
00:55:10
Speaker
No, said Calumet Heights. ain't stayed up here. Dang, G like. I'm weird, man. You can start. You right, though. Put a year or two in.
00:55:20
Speaker
It ain't going to be that bad. You stupid. The highest paid alderman earned over $171,000. Man. They better do something for the people y'all making that money. That's why they be on their ass.
00:55:34
Speaker
How much Mary Johnson makes?
00:55:37
Speaker
I don't know about that. You're going get a motherfucker in trouble now. You're talking about Trump. I live here. Trump? You're talking about Trump. This motherfucker. Damn. But Matt Johnson, he got them blue boys outside. make They say approximately... They $221,000 annually.
Public Breakups and Mental Health
00:55:57
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It's
00:56:00
Speaker
kind of cheap. How long do they be serving? For three, four years? Four years? Nah, they've been serving for two years, don't they? Who? don't know. i don't know how long the term is.
00:56:14
Speaker
Oh, how long have you been elected since 2018? So, I think re-election next... Is it next year? Hell no. Mayor Johnson ain't been there since 2018.
00:56:26
Speaker
say i likeed to Oh, you're right. Lori Liefeld was dead in. Yeah. yeah um i say like Is it a two-year mayoral? um ah How long is the yeah how is the next election?
00:56:39
Speaker
Yeah, how long do they serve as mayor? think it's two or three years.
00:56:49
Speaker
I think it's three years. that This was on the Constitution, wasn't it? Hey, man, it's been a long time. It's four years. for I knew that.
00:57:01
Speaker
ah told They say this term length has been placed since 1907, and elections are held in the year preceding each election. And I don't mean to get on your ass and make you, like, search up everything, thing but one more. Is this... Damn. Nah, nah, because I know you're doing the research, and I applaud you.
00:57:23
Speaker
But is does this go state by state, or is this, like, federally? like Because, like, if you go in Arkansas, can you serve a longer, like, candidacy and mayor?
00:57:35
Speaker
I'm candidacy in Indiana. I'm just going to look into another state. Yeah, I think it's everywhere, because ah I just went to New York. They say four years. Okay, okay. I just wanted to make sure that news it's a small town. getting down. I know it's because... Well, I just... I'm talking about it's different. My dumb ass thought I went to Philly. It's talking about the Philippines.
00:57:57
Speaker
They got a three-year term.
00:58:00
Speaker
I'm like, three years? Nah, that'll be crazy. and of Three years, though? That's kind of fast. They call niggas from Philly the Philippines. The Philippines is crazy.
00:58:13
Speaker
But yeah, I think they all i know they're different in each state, bro. Texas, two years. I had a feel. I'm like, California shit, man. California? I think they shit long.
00:58:30
Speaker
Because what's his name been around for a minute? Gavin Newsom? No, he the governor, ain't he? Shit, don't know. Yeah, you right. don't know. don't even know about Cali.
00:58:42
Speaker
They say Cali four years. It might be four, but like it might be most places might be four. I think most places it is four. If it's a smaller state, it probably got a quicker one.
00:58:54
Speaker
I can see that. Um, yeah, man. Politics is interesting. We always get back to the politic conversation for somehow. Um, well yeah, but one more thing I wanted to touch on, man. It was, uh,
00:59:12
Speaker
Kai. Kai Sinat, man. Him and his girlfriend broke up. I know it was a heavy one. But, ah you know, i just I just wanted to get really quick on it. Like, we don't got to take too long on it. But I do feel like he he's at a point in life where he's He's growing into the person that he is. And i mean, he's he's successful. He's doing what he needs to be doing. I mean, and he got to just stay focused.
00:59:42
Speaker
I just wanted to send some positive energy energy on it because i um I hear a lot of negative stuff going on. And then the girl out here talking and it's, it is what it is But at the same time, it's like, why you, you don't have to be so quick to respond in that way.
01:00:01
Speaker
And I feel like when people respond in a way in the clip that I saw whatever when you sent me, I feel like she just, her energy is given that she didn't care in the first place. So it really makes me kind of like feel some type of way about it. So I ain't, you know, because I could relate a little bit on some real shit. You know, he if he loves girl, he loved her. But for her to just be so quick to just jump on the internet and do all this. And I understand he sent out the tweet and stuff, but he ain't on the live talking like,
01:00:28
Speaker
giving his, hope you know what saying? Yeah, nah, and you're right. In this day, and it's different in today's era. And as we get older and older, people are more and more comfortable putting stuff online.
01:00:42
Speaker
You know, it's becoming easier to do it. A lot of people, a lot of the older people, like, be saying that it's like a... like Facebook and Instagram and everything is like the new diary or like the new journal. You can just get stuff out. in Like you just said yourself, you went through this type of stuff. and i feel like I went through it. I feel like a lot of men have gone through stuff, some not the the online stuff, but just like to the degree of kind of what happened or what might be responsible for the the breakup.
01:01:16
Speaker
and It's character development. like That's all. It's character development. And I don't mean to be too harsh when I say that, but it's what it is. it it I'm not going to is what it is like that. I'm just saying that is what it is.
01:01:29
Speaker
It is character development because you're going get back stronger. It's going hurt for a while and it's going to be like hell. It might eat you up, but at the same time, you're going come back Like a dog, you're going to come back harder. You ain't even got a dog people. I'm just saying a muscle that is broken down gets back stronger.
01:01:50
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So you might be weak right now, but you're going to bounce back. You're one of the richest young men out right now in the United States. So feel like he that man. Like, just, you know, hang out with everybody. Go, go, go.
01:02:06
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Go live your life, young man. You got a long way to go. He got a lot going on, too. He's one of the most successful youngsters out right now. He ain't going have no trouble. I do love how he just spoke on his mental health, too. He came out recently and said some stuff about it. So it's just like he growing into the person that he's, you know, that he see himself. He want to make those changes. And he's starting at a good age, man, because I wish that sometime I would have started at like 24.
01:02:35
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You know, and ah I get the whole, you got to go through your 20s and, you know, that's when you start. But when the earlier you start, man, the better. Mm-hmm.
01:02:46
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Mm-hmm. And ain't throwing no shade at it because I'm throwing shade at myself and throwing shade at anybody. So start early as you can. And you're going to go through love. As men, we go through different relationships. You love the person and you might want to, you know, get get that back, but you can't.
01:03:04
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and It hurts when you see like stuff like that happens with the rumors and stuff, you know, and then it's like rumors with people somebody. It's just like, ah I can understand how traumatized. I don't care how much money you got to see the the woman that you love, though, just kind of dealing with somebody who's kind of like a,
01:03:24
Speaker
a big-ass side type shit, like of the rumors is, like with the trust. ah The NBA a yu young boy, yeah. That'd make me feel some type of way as a man. Like, I wouldn't, i ain't gonna lie to you. I would be in my feelings, like, but... you had the love, yeah, it's it's the love element, but at the, I ain't even gonna say at the same time because love is a motherfucker. It's the love. It's it's the love, man. It's the love, but you gotta burn it. You gotta cut it. You gotta burn it. You gotta, you could cherish the good times, but You know that if somebody's willing to do you like that, that whatever petty or spite or whatever, like hurt, it ain't worth doubling back on. It ain't worth being bitter about. You went through it already. yeah Exactly. Like, both of y'all, dude, both dudes, NBA and Cat, both in positions where they don't need to do anything, really.
01:04:21
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They don't need to. if If the young boy want us so bad, let her be another one of his baby mamas. I don't mean to be too harsh. He got a lot. i love young boy music. but you've got I respect the young boy.
01:04:33
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but Say what? I ain't watching those damn kids. That's all Kyle got to say. Kyle ain't got no kids. He 22, bro. 23. However, he he got time to do and he got a lot of resources to do whatever he want to do. So that's all he needs to do.
01:04:51
Speaker
Just whatever he want do. If I had the resources that he got at that age, boy, I would be out here having to boy, you wouldn't be able to stop me. I'd probably be state to state every day type shit. Like, why not? Like, I'm streaming. Speed in this motherfucker. I'll be like, Speed. Hey, shout out Speed. Boy, Speed, one of my favorite... I think he probably... Speed's like my favorite one because he real.
01:05:16
Speaker
He changed his image a lot. I really didn't like Speed a lot in the beginning and I'm not even going to be like... I don't like a lot of people in the beginning. That's just me, but... I like, I ain't even no bandwagon. Speed done changed his image and I support a lot of what he do. And um I got a lot of respect for Speed too. Upstanding young man. Another that was successful.
01:05:37
Speaker
Man, Speed code, man. ain't gonna lie. ah yes ah hey I've seen him. He's like in Africa somewhere right now. And I think he had like a, he donated to this school or whatnot, but it's like the connection he had with them kids. He was trying to like stay in character.
01:05:52
Speaker
And he couldn't because the kids are so happy and shit. to dude didn't start crying because he's just like, this shit is crazy. Because he realizing, bro, like, when you're somebody in a position like that and you're able to provide, like, something to somebody who don't have anything or have never seen nobody as big as you or... And now you you you helping... he I think he's building a school something like that. Like, you know, but that's that's dope, bro. Like,
01:06:17
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he young and he he doing
Community Giving and Personal Fulfillment
01:06:19
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that shit. Like, that is, that's what, that's what life about, man. That's where he getting his blessings. That's where, that's where him and Kai get they blessings at when they do stuff like that. They do it all the time. All them streamers, what's his name too? DDG, man?
01:06:31
Speaker
DDG Co. I like him. feel like, laie I feel like it's, I love i like all them niggas. No Diddy, but like, I feel like, they when Like you just said, bro, when when when na went Speed was about to break character and all them like be doing what they're doing to give back and stuff like that, I feel like the real joy not don't come from like even being in a position to do that or doing that. I feel like the joy... Speed, when he see them kids...
01:07:04
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Like, don't know, like me being an artist, all I could think, cause and I'm not going to lie, like if I was in a position, like we just said, we would do a lot of the same shit. So it's like the same with the music. If you were in a position, you would do a lot of the same stuff, but also within the means of your music.
01:07:19
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And I feel like when he see that smile on them kids' faces or when he see them kids acting like him, when he see the kids All the time that he done spent streaming and doing the stuff that people might not have believed in him doing and knowing the journey and knowing all the hard work and even knowing why he at the top.
01:07:41
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what he's doing is being appreciated and it's not even just a few people. It's not just one country. This man is going all over the world. He did America tour. he't I think he did a Europe tour.
01:07:53
Speaker
He's doing an Africa tour. I think he about to do Asia next if he didn't do it already. Like, I think he did. he's you on the country tours right now, though. Uh-huh. So that's what I'm saying. Like, he's going everywhere. I think he's about to go to South America, like, maybe next if he didn't go there yet. So it's like...
01:08:10
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Man, like, that's what I mean, bro. Like, just knowing that the world, not even so on some dick riding shit or like the world, like like, on some ego shit. I mean, like, just knowing that the world appreciates your art.
01:08:24
Speaker
Not even, like, thinking that you the shit, just knowing that the world loves you and your art. Like, that that's a different type of feeling, man. That's a different type of feeling.
01:08:35
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And then being in the the position to change their life. Like Shaq. I feel like it's just like Shaq. Everybody knows who Shaq is.
01:08:46
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Like, man, but Shaq knows he gets that love from giving back. But it's like knowing that people, when you when people see you, they face light Baby sees Shaq and Snoop Dogg and they face light up.
01:09:01
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m And there's a reason for that. Because they know me. And it's like, I'm not... I'm not noticeable or known and likable that people know me that I've never met.
01:09:16
Speaker
And ah they didn't even... They weren't even alive when I was playing or doing what I was doing. Real talk. Real talk. Man, so I don't know. My bad for being alone in there, bro. That shit just...
01:09:28
Speaker
It's passion, bro. You are the potter of the day. going to give you the award for the day because you definitely brought the energy today and I appreciate it because I was definitely like,
01:09:39
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I'm looking at the, you know, to watch the whatever.
Closing Thoughts and Encouragement
01:09:42
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I'm like, damn, I ain't really talk that talk today. So I appreciate you. You know what saying? You did thing and you came and showed up and showed it out, man. So that's dope.
01:09:51
Speaker
Appreciate you. I love being on this motherfucker, man. That's dope, man. We definitely, yeah, we got to, we definitely invite them. Like I said, if anyone want to, you know, reach out and just want have a conversation, we see how we be doing. We just,
01:10:02
Speaker
come here and we talk as friends and talk about things that just going on the world and things that we can relate to. But um I would like to leave y'all with something for the end of the year. It's nothing too long, but just take care of yourself. You know, do what you need to do. Stay healthy.
01:10:21
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um Stay locked in. Stay inspired and motivated to do everything that you want to do. um Don't let nobody tell you what you can't do, even if it don't feel like you can do it, you do it. You make it happen. You know saying? Those sacrifices.
01:10:37
Speaker
Those sacrifices to get where you need to be for the people that love you, you know? That's all I got. 2026 is about learning. Keep learning. And um that's what I wanted to leave y'all with. But what you got for man? Any 2026 goals? Anything you want give some advice on?
01:11:00
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um I'm going to start. I'm to start. I'm well, I'm going to start. The weed is kicking in. The fatigue is kicking in. I'm going to leave you guys with the same thing I came in a pod with is don't be on some new year, new me bullshit. If that is what keeps you going, cool. I got respect. I got love.
01:11:22
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But
01:11:25
Speaker
It's a new year. Set some new goals. Meet some old goals. you know o But um set new goals. you know Be on your responsibility. Like we talked about earlier. ah Hold it down.
01:11:42
Speaker
Take care of responsibilities. you know Stop shifting responsibilities to other people and just Take care of your shit. It's 2025, you know? Whatever age you want. Yeah, that weed kicking in Oh, shit.
01:11:58
Speaker
Oh, shit. 2026. I'm sorry, y'all. You said that shit's so chill, too. I ain't even want to say nothing. You said that shit's so fucking like, you was searching your zone. I'm like, I can't nothing about that. well, he said, yeah, weed kicking in. I'm like, what you mean? He sat back and thought about Wow, damn, my tears ain't 2025.
01:12:16
Speaker
Damn, dawg. Oh, man. Yeah. 2026, y'all. Nah. Nah, you're this fucked up. I have a dream. Oh, God. bad. They don't fucker would be looking at me. imagine you actually being on a podium or some shit. It's like 500 people and I just bust out with some shit like that. It's 26.
01:12:34
Speaker
miss schs My bad, y'all. don't fucking just walking this. Damn. ah bad, man. I messed up with Martin Luther King. That's all good. No, that's the gist. My bad, y'all. My bad, King family. Martin Luther King said, I had a dream. This nigga said, I had some smoke.
01:12:55
Speaker
On me. had some smoke. Bad. I had some smoke when got high. Gosh, for real. All about freedom. Now let me shut up. Wow. It's all love, man. You already know, man. we we We love y'all. We support y'all listening and being here and just stay on y'all's shit.
01:13:14
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Don't be making excuses. don't be waiting don't don't Don't be making excuses. Also, don't wait for the perfect moment because perfection is just procrastination in a fancy outfit.
01:13:26
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If you're stressing about the future, just remember labels might sleep on you. But your Wi-Fi bill never will. So keep grinding. Stay bold. Stay authentic.
01:13:38
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And if you can't stay out of trouble, at least make it entertaining. That's Neltune. I'm ZTay. We checking out the episode. Whatever this is. Yeah. be right back.