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Chasing Dreams & Dodging Scams: Grad School, Clubs, and Cannabis
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Tune in to Bruce Anthony and his sis, J. Aundrea, on the latest episode of Unsolicited Perspectives! 🎧 They kick things off by celebrating Jay’s grad school acceptance at Georgia State University for Data Analytics. But wait, there's more— In their chat, Bruce and Jay chat about how more people in the U.S. are lighting up weed daily rather than hitting the bottle, and how things are changing in the world of recreation. They discuss the legal status of marijuana in various states and speculate on potential changes when the DEA revises its classifications for weed. But don’t worry, it’s not all deep stuff— they share a wild story about a pair of women trying to score free drinks and grub at a club in Miami. 🍹💰 They also address modern social norms and the importance of handling money responsibly. With plenty of laughs, wisdom, and a bit of sibling rivalry, Bruce and Jay steer the convo through education, cannabis vibes, and personal responsibility. This episode is a must-listen/watch, whether you're a data enthusiast or simply intrigued by the cannabis craze! 🌟
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Sibling Happy Hour: Jay Andrea's Accomplishments
03:28 - Understanding Data Science
07:53 - Memorial Day Weekend Plans
16:51 - Marijuana Use in the U.S.
19:40 - Legalization and Decriminalization of Marijuana
35:12 - Impact on Incarceration and Business
37:48 - Reflecting on a Workout
37:59 - Debating Drug Legalization
39:32 - The Case for Legalizing Drugs
40:00 - The Case for Marijuana
43:39 - Marijuana vs. Alcohol
47:37 - Club Etiquette and Scams
56:07 - The Epidemic of Entitlement
01:08:35 - Final Thoughts and Farewell
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Introduction to Unsolicited Perspectives
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcasts. Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family. Hell, even share with your enemies.
Sibling Happy Hour with Jay Andrea
00:00:35
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're gonna be talking about some of her recent accomplishments. Then we're gonna be talking about marijuana. No direct correlation between the two. And then we're gonna be talking about a pair of women doing something shady to a group of men in a club. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:07
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. First thing I want to do before we get into your good news is let everybody know that Memorial Day weekend is this weekend. We are taking the weekend off. So there will not be a show on Tuesday. We will be back next Friday for a new show and then go back to our regularly scheduled
00:01:31
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releases the following week. But just to let everybody know, no new show on Tuesday. But, but if you miss us,
00:01:41
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and you want to watch or listen to stuff that you haven't heard, might I introduce you to our Patreon page at patreon.com backslash unsolicited perspectives, where we have well over 50 shows of after hours uncensored and talking straight ish all in our Patreon page. So check us out. But Sis.
Jay's Academic Journey
00:02:06
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Yeah.
00:02:08
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You hit me up two days ago, or was it yesterday? Two days ago. Two days ago. Yes. Two days ago and told me some good news. So for this Dilly Dallin, it's going to all be about you, which I know you love since you're a Leo. Yeah. Do you want to tell people the good news? Not really. I don't actually love that. What, love that the focus is going to be on you? Yeah. So that's a common misconception with Leos because some of us are introverted.
00:02:37
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But my news is I got accepted to grad school. Yeah. I will be obtaining my master's of science in data analytics. So from Georgia State University. So I'm very excited about that.
00:02:54
Speaker
I'm excited for you as well. And Georgia State, shout out to y'all because y'all have been good to the family just like the University of Maryland has been good to the family. Like those are the two schools that have just been good to the family. Because our brother got his MBA last year from the same university. So I'm putting you on blast because I'm so curious and I'm sure the audience is curious because
00:03:22
Speaker
They know you, but they don't know you. So we're going to get to know you a little bit more. That's how I like it. But no, ask your questions. So first of all, data science. What is that? So you remember how when we were growing up, the big thing was computers? Yes. Just study. Your parents would say, what you need to do is learn computers. Exactly. So the new thing now is data.
00:03:50
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All of these companies, people, entities, organizations, whatever, they're collecting over the years these vast amounts of data. And now they're trying to figure out what do we do with it? How can we start making decisions based on all this information that we've collected over the years? So my job is to look at problems that they have, look at the data, and try to figure out solutions.
00:04:17
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Okay, all right. Okay, so my follow-up question is that, is what piqued your interest to enter into this field? Money, no.
00:04:32
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Yeah, I mean, it's partly that but partly because it's like the next thing, you know, data is big data is very important right now in in the business of America. And also, I just kind of found my niche, you know, my undergraduate degree is in English, English language and literature. So like,
00:04:55
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I feel like my niche is being able to take complex ideas and data and synthesize it into a form that anybody can understand. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty much what I did in undergrad. And that's what I intend to do in graduate school is research. I love investigating things and figuring things out. So this just seemed like a natural progression of that.
00:05:24
Speaker
And so we know now why you decided to enter in that particular field, but what even was the genesis of I want to go and do something different? Yeah, I think, you know, probably turning 40.
00:05:42
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So is this a midlife crisis? That's what I think. And you know what, whenever there's this there's this thing out there, like whenever a black woman hits a midlife crisis or she gets bored or she just gets complacent in life, she does one or two things. She starts a business or she goes back to school and she get a degree or an LLC. Yes, that's good.
00:06:06
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When a black woman gets bored, she gets a degree or an LLC. Like, that's the thing. Like, and it's true. And I just was like,
00:06:15
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You know, it's like a point in my career where I'm really looking for a career pivot into something linked to what I'm doing now. But, you know, just more. I'm just looking for more. And this just seemed like the right time. I'm like, it just fell into place. So that's how I'm.
00:06:35
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That's how I got where I am. You know, I take life as it comes, honestly. There's no great rhyme or reason. I mean, I do have like an outline, like a rough outline of how I want my life to go. It's in pencil and it's, there's, there's have been a race several times and rewritten and so like,
00:07:01
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You know, it's one of those things like you want to hear God laugh, tell them what you got planned, but this stuff starts to work out. So I just keep following that train. Ain't nothing wrong with that. I'm proud of you. Thank you. You going out there, like I said, well, you're doing both. You're getting a degree and we kind of started an LLC. So you done both. Yeah. You done both. Keep doing both. So I'm real proud of you.
00:07:30
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How long is the program? So I'm going part time because, of course, I work full time.
Memorial Day Plans
00:07:36
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So I should be done in two years. OK. All right. Well, all right. In two years, you're going to be making that money. Money, money, money. Yeah. Yeah. Money, money, money, money. Yeah. Yeah. What else you got going on?
00:07:52
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You're going to be up here this weekend. Yeah, I'm coming home from Memorial Day weekend. Is Roscoe coming with you? Roscoe is coming with me. Oh, Lord. You know, Roni does not like long road trips. It gives her a really bad anxiety. So she will be going to the border. But I have a great border that's just.
00:08:12
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great. And she loves going there. So she will be there. Roscoe's coming with me and I'm looking for the crab, the crab boil. Like where is it? Like who has it? Who's got crabs? It's Marilyn and it's Memorial Day weekend. I know somebody is going to be dumping out a bushel of crabs on a table on a, on their deck. Like we know, we know, we know of it. We know of a get together that
00:08:37
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And it only took me two calls to find it. Yeah, well, I'm surprised. I'm surprised the same person that invited me that I got to say, I'm not going, I thought would have called you immediately. Oh, I mean, nobody knew I was coming up. I literally decided this at the last minute.
00:08:55
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I knew, uh, Oh, cause I talked to you on Sunday. That's the reason why I knew, right? Yeah. Okay. Nobody knew, but it only took me two calls to find the crabs. And so that's where I will be on Sunday. Well, not anybody else. Yeah. Well, you, you can go be there and spirit for both of us. Cause I ain't going.
00:09:15
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I'm not going. But I will see you at brunch. Yeah, yeah. We go do brunch because I'm not going. Look, first of all, it is not close to me. Right. That's number one. Number two, it is on a Sunday. That's number two. Which is your day. That's my day. Ladies and gentlemen, Sunday is Bruce's Sunday Fun Day. And you know what I do on that? Pop a bottle of champagne.
00:09:43
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watch whatever TV show series that I like to watch and veg out. You know why? Cause Monday comes and I got to be around people. So Sunday I chill. And the person invited me and was like, you got Monday off and I don't.
00:10:01
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No, that's not how that works. That's not how that works. I've got work to do. Yeah. You know, I got work to do. Entrepreneurs don't have days off. Not really. Not really. So like, I'm on the grind. Like, you working on Memorial Day? I didn't know Memorial Day was a special day for me.
00:10:20
Speaker
Yeah, I really, yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's not really, I mean, I absolutely support veterans and the troops, like that's- Yeah, I mean, we have veterans in our family, both of our- But they're also on Veterans Day. Correct. So Veterans Day, so is it Veterans Day is for people, the veterans that are still alive and Memorial Day is the ones we remember?
00:10:46
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I don't know, I'm sure a quick Google search will answer both of those questions for us. And I feel like me being a historian,
Bruce's Summer Preparations
00:10:57
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I should know the answer to these, but I don't. And you know what? America got a lot of holidays that I don't know anything about. OK, so Memorial Day, I was right. Memorial Day is remembering those who gave their lives. Veterans Day is honoring all who served in the US armed forces. And I support both of those days. Yes.
00:11:15
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And we will barbecue on those days, or we will eat something barbecue adjacent, or we'll have a Sunday funding. Either way, we'll be honoring those who gave their lives for our freedom. I wanted to, because I assume that you will be here one of the days of this week. And it's not just because you're going to be here, but
00:11:41
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You know, I have a balcony that overlooks the courtyard of my place, in the courtyard, in the pool, and it's a vibe. Very lovely. It's an absolute vibe. Yes. I have not been out there yet this spring because it is caked with pollen. Ladies and gentlemen, I am allergic to everything outside. Like, really bad allergic. Yes. And typically, I would mask up and put goggles on and go to work cleaning it.
00:12:09
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It's really bad this year. The pollen was really bad. Yeah. So I was like, I'm going to get a housekeeper to come in and clean. And I've been calling around. They're like, hey, do you do balconies? And they're like, yeah. I was like, look, this is what I need in a balcony. I need it thoroughly cleaned, including the furniture. And I need the floor.
00:12:27
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of the ground of the balcony, mocked, like I need all that done. Oh yeah, well, there's gonna be more. I know there's gonna be more, how much more? A lot more. And so I was like, you know what? I'm about to just talk to the people in my building, because I'm real cool with the maintenance man in my building. I'm like, look.
00:12:42
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I need you to come up here and give me all the equipment or you do it yourself, power wash my bathroom. Power wash it, yeah. Yeah, just because even if they came up here and clean it, my furniture is still going to be caked with pollen. So if you get the power wash, you know, just take all that pollen off and then I can enjoy Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, I haven't used my deck. It's the
00:13:07
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It's the pollen, because like you, I'm allergic to the earth. It's the pollen, and it's the mosquitoes. I have really, really terrible mosquitoes, because there's a creek behind my house. Won't you put a net over your deck? I think me and our brother was talking about that when I was down there. I was thinking about that. Yeah, put a net. Well, I saw the setup. You have access to put a net over it. Your net will clear all that out. And then in your backyard, you should put a fire pit.
00:13:37
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I technically have one. That looked, oh, okay. That looked like a different fire pit. It looked like the fire pit. No, it's a fire pit. Well, it looked like the fire pit that Pablo Escobar used in Narcos when he cut those people up and burned them alive. Well, I didn't see Narcos and no, that has not happened on my property and not in the time that I've... Yeah, the time that you live there. I don't know what happened before that.
00:14:02
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But in the time that I've lived there, no narcos related activity has occurred. What you should have did is when you killed that snake, put it on that fire pit and burn the snake to send a word out to all the other snakes. The way I shoveled that snake and tossed it upon the forest. Snake gone. And that snake is a reminder to the other snakes. I haven't seen one since. Yeah. Okay. That's because they plotting.
00:14:29
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Snakes don't do that. Snakes are the... Yes, they do. Snakes get together in a group. How you know? You ain't no snake doctor? You ain't no snake doctor. No, but we got Google. Do snakes plot? Obviously, they don't. Well, they might plot.
00:14:48
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You ever see the little video of when it, what was it? Was it a duck or no, it wasn't a duck. It was like a mongoose or something like that. It was being attacked. No, it was a giraffe being attacked by all those snakes. No. It wasn't a giraffe. It was something else. It was something else that was being attacked by all these snakes and was trying to make it up the mountain. Ladies, trust me, somebody on YouTube is going to be like, it was this, you idiot.
00:15:16
Speaker
Right. Yeah. They are YouTube people. But yeah, no, snakes be plotting. Snakes plot. Snakes don't be plotting. You know what? I don't think nobody wants to hear no more about us thinking about snakes plotting. I think what they want to hear about. That's when. So this is a key feature of ADHD. Ladies and gentlemen, where you get hyper focused on a topic and we will sit here probably for a good portion of the show and talk about snakes. Stop trying to put me in your trap. I don't have ADHD.
00:15:45
Speaker
Okay. I got HDTV. That's what I got. Yeah, you got several of them. I only got two. You're watching at the same time with your laptop, your tablet, two phones. No, I don't have all that. 18 walkie talkies. Nobody even uses a walkie talkie anymore. A can with a cord connected to another can.
00:16:09
Speaker
No, I do have that. That's a holla at my neighbor downstairs. You like to play telephone for now. Anywho, ladies and gentlemen, that was enough of the Dilly Daddling. Congratulations to my sister. She going to make something of herself. Wait a minute. I've already made something of myself. I'm going to continue to make things of myself. OK. Maybe phrase that a little bit better.
00:16:39
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Next up with no correlation to what we just talked about. None whatsoever. None. We're going to talk about marijuana.
Marijuana Use vs. Alcohol
00:16:48
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That's up next. Jay, I read an interesting article that shocked me.
00:17:02
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Tell me about it. It was in the AP News and it said the daily marijuana use is now outpacing daily drinking in the US. I believe it. People out here smoking more than they actually drank now. Yeah, I believe that.
00:17:20
Speaker
That was a little tough for me to believe because of several factors. I'll get to them in a minute. So marijuana is most commonly the used illicit drug in the United States. In 2022, an estimated 61.9 million individuals aged 12 and older used marijuana in the past year. And 42.3 million reported using it in the past month. This was in 2022. Daily marijuana use has been increasing.
00:17:50
Speaker
And 2022, once again, an estimated 17.7 million people reported using marijuana daily or nearly daily compared to 14.7 million daily or nearly daily drinkers. So 3 million more people were admitting. These are just people that's admitting. Yes. Right? Admitting like, yeah, I smoke on that Cheeba more than I taste that devil's nectar.
00:18:17
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Right. And I'm like, OK, well, give me the devil's nectar. But but the Swedish chiba is also delicious. Anyway, this could be contributing. This is there's a lot of contributing factors of why this is happening. One of it being that there are rapid changing laws dealing with marijuana throughout the 50 states. So let's go with the states that have actually legalized marijuana use.
00:18:46
Speaker
Recreational use is legal in 24 states, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, or as we say, Merlin. It's Merlin. Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, of course. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. And now, Bruce,
00:19:16
Speaker
There are 50 states, so 24 is nearly half. Data science. There's medical use is legal in 38 states. I don't have all 38 states, but take the 24 and add 14 more to that. We'll get to that.
00:19:37
Speaker
There's a difference between legalizing recreational use of marijuana and decriminalizing it, and I'll get to that in a minute. But the states that have decriminalized marijuana are Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, surprisingly, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Kekalaki, that's North Carolina, North Dakota,
00:19:58
Speaker
They have all decriminalized marijuana, not South Dakota. How the North going to decriminalize it and not the South? Because the North knows where it's at. As Project Peck said, North, North.
00:20:15
Speaker
What does decriminalized marijuana mean? It means this generally means certain small personal consumption amounts are a civil or local infraction, not a state crime or the lowest misdemeanor with no possibility of jail time. So that's what that basically means. It means it's like you get a ticket.
00:20:37
Speaker
Right, but you won't be a felon. You won't be a felon, which is the most important thing. States that have not legalized or decriminalized marijuana, these are the states that just say, look, weed is bad, okay? And you can't have no. Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming,
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah, check that out. Check that out. These are the only four states in the 50 United States that said, we don't approve marijuana at all. I'm going to run through them again, just so y'all know, don't go to these states moving. Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming. And it seemed like Wyoming would be down because they all outlaws out there on the range camping.
00:21:28
Speaker
Is Wyoming have a big Mormon population? I do not believe Wyoming. You know what? I don't know, but I don't believe Wyoming has a big Mormon population. 11.7% of the state's population is the third highest percentage of church membership in the United States after Utah and Idaho. OK, all right. Idaho is also on the list. But you know what, though? Utah.
00:21:59
Speaker
Utah was, wait a minute, where was Utah? I don't see Utah on this list. Utah's got to be on one of, one of these lists here that I just missed. Yeah, it's gotta be somewhere. Let's check it. Let's check it out. Okay. So in Georgia, so in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, weed is illegal and not criminalized, but CBD products are allowed. Now CBD is different than THC.
00:22:29
Speaker
I can't really explain to you what the differences are. Can you, Jay? The difference between CBD and THC? CBD does not have THC in it. That's it? That's the only difference? Yeah. CBD is not weed because it does not have THC. Okay.
00:22:48
Speaker
The Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, is moving towards reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, weed, but would not legalize it for recreational use. I don't know what the point is. So they just say you can use it for medicinal purposes, but you can't just do it.
00:23:13
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just to get high. Recreational, yeah. So Utah, it's legal medically, not recreationally. OK, so I must have missed that on my list, because I don't see it. But then I'm just doing a quick glance, and I'm getting older, and my eyesight isn't as good. But anyway. No, it was one of those 38 states. You said medical use is legal in 38 states, and you, yeah. See, so it was one of the 14 that I didn't mention up along there. See, that's why there's two of us. There you go. There you go.
00:23:42
Speaker
Data? Scientists? What are the implications of the DEA reclassifying marijuana?
00:23:50
Speaker
It's just moving it towards a less dangerous jug. If y'all don't know where marijuana is currently classified, it's classified as stage one, not stage one at the top. Right there next to heroin, cocaine, like all of the real stuff. Now, if anybody out there has smoked weed, anybody out there who's done cocaine or heroin, I've never done cocaine or heroin.
00:24:16
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Heroin, because even though I have tattoos, I still don't like needles. And cocaine, just because I've seen people on cocaine, and it seems like it would be cool. And I don't want to try it, because I might really like it. Yeah. Honestly, that's the reason I have it. Because I am concerned that I will love cocaine. I think cocaine now, not crack. Crack is whack.
00:24:41
Speaker
Crack is absolutely what? Crack is what? I won't do anything that will change my appearance. So crack, meth, any of that. I'm scared to eat popcorn for fear that I might bite too hard and break a tooth. You know damn well I ain't gonna smoke no crack or meth because that's the first thing they lose is teeth.
00:25:01
Speaker
But just realize how shallow we are, ladies and gentlemen. We will not do crack or meth, not because it's bad for us, not because we care about ourselves or our families, but because we don't want to be ugly. Hey, look.
00:25:19
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side tangent, side tangent. A friend of mine, I was talking to him this week and he said that his dentist receptionist is an interesting character. And I said, okay, what do you mean? He said that this person has two fingers on one hand
00:25:38
Speaker
and zero fingers on the other hand. And I was like, and she's a receptionist? Like, how did, how did she get that done? That's incredible. He's like, it is absolutely incredible. She'd get the work done. She'd get it done. And I was like, have you ever asked her like if she was born that way or if like it happened somewhere down the road? And he was like, no, I never asked. And I was like, can you imagine like, if you were born with it, then you automatically,
00:26:06
Speaker
You're a cop, you get used to it. If you weren't born that way and you lost all the fingers on one hand and three fingers on the other hand, that becomes a tough life to live. And me and him looked at each other at the same time. And I was like, you can go ahead and just take me.
00:26:25
Speaker
Just go ahead, Lord. You can just take me after that. I knew this was going to be a comment where you were going to hell. I knew that's what I was going to be. For me, just go ahead and take me. I can't lose no fingers or no arms or nothing like that. What am I supposed to do? My life is built around. You only need. I can go to the computer playing video games. You can't do that with one hand. Well, you can type on a computer with one hand. You can type on. You can't play video games with one hand. There's dictation software.
00:26:53
Speaker
So you don't need to type. I barely understand what the hell I'm saying half the time. Do you know what I mean? Reception. She needs to greet people. You don't need hands to do that. She needs to answer the phone. How you waving to people? She wears a headset. All she has to do is say good morning. You don't have to wave. I'd be waving to folks. Have you ever worked reception?
00:27:17
Speaker
Yes, actually, I have when I was working. And did you wave when people came in? Yes, I waved goodbye. When they left, I waved goodbye. I'm having a nice day. I wave. I'm a waver.
00:27:28
Speaker
Well, that's you. She'll have a headset for her phone. You just need one finger to push the button to answer the phone. There are ways that you can... I knew he was going to say something where it was like... How is that any different? Hold on. How is that any different than you saying, we ain't going to smoke cracker meth because we don't want to lose our teeth and be ugly?
00:27:51
Speaker
That's something I'm actively doing that is harming me. Oh, well, I'm not going to actively do anything that's going to harm my parents either. And if my parents gets harmed, Lord, go ahead and take me.
00:28:07
Speaker
I'm saying that this person is remarkable. It's their remarkable. I'm not as remarkable. That's what I'm saying. You will be surprised what you can do when you have to.
00:28:22
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Okay, the DA is reclassifying marijuana. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, this is a happy hour. We haven't even smoked no weed. We just did the D2. I love that ADHD. Alright, so the DA reclassifying read the proposal would move the marijuana from schedule one group
Potential Marijuana Legalization Impact
00:28:41
Speaker
to this less tightly regulated schedule three. I mean, just think about that. They're moving it not from schedule one to two, from schedule two, from schedule one to three. This move could open up new opportunities for research. Here's the key. Here's the key word that everybody needs to pay attention to. The reason why the United States company is moving towards reclassifying marijuana.
00:29:08
Speaker
It's going to open up new opportunities in research, investment, and less expansion and, and, and expansion in the legal cannabis market. Yeah. So what does that say? That's right. What does that say? Ladies and gentlemen, people are smoking more weed than they are drinking. Yes. Okay. Which is a simple reason why that is.
00:29:32
Speaker
Okay, we'll get into that as I finish running down here. Mayor Mona would still be a controlled substance even though it would be reclassified and subject to federal criminal prosecution of anyone who traffics in the drugs without permission. Some schedule three drugs are like ketamine, coding, things that are prescribed to you by a doctor.
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah, but didn't, what's his name? O.D. Chandler, O.D. on ketamine? Yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not great if you take a lot of it. You're right. That's why they're still controlled substances. The reclassification does not legalize recreational weed nationwide. I mean, get into incarcerated people, but I want to get into why all this is really happening.
00:30:26
Speaker
And it's the business of America and notice what they did here. They said that, uh, you can still federally be charged for criminal prosecution. If you decide to traffic in these drugs without permission. Yeah. So they're going to kind of make it legal so that people can get businesses by the way, do some research on the businesses of dispensaries and
00:30:54
Speaker
legalize marijuana and medical marijuana. In order to get the permits to be able to do that, you got to have some long backs to get that done. Only the privileged can jump into this business and start making money. Whereas historically,
00:31:14
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it's always been the less privilege that's been able to jump into this business and make money. So once again, not giving an opportunity to the people that could actually benefit from new businesses, all these young entrepreneurs, that's what they are. Who really know their stuff. Who know their stuff and who have been creating a product for years, cross blending and all types of stuff. Before it was a science, right? You're gonna cut all of them out.
00:31:42
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to give it to the people that run Amazon or McDonald's or Walmart. So once again, you're just moving the money from the rich to the rich. That's the only people that can get it at the bank. I mean, people often ask the question, they still kind of ask this question, why are cigarettes and alcohol legal?
00:32:07
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and marijuana is not when we know that cigarettes and alcohol kill people, right? And I mean, have they done the research on the long-term effects of marijuana? I mean, no, because it's still really recent, in recent history, the last several decades. I have never heard of anybody, oh, Dan, on marijuana. Never, literally never.
00:32:30
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Literally never. And so I've heard of people taking too much edible and feeling like, I'm talking about you, feeling like they're empty. I knew you was talking about me. Look, first of all, that edible. And I know my homie is out there listening because we'd have brought the story up before. It was crack cocaine. It was not. And that Jolly Rancher that was supposed to be an edible. There was no crack cocaine in it. Because I've never been that high.
00:33:00
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in my entire life. Yeah. But the reason is who's making the money, right? Black and brown people make money in weed. Mm-hmm.
00:33:12
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White people own the distilleries and the tobacco fields and all of that. So it's who makes the money. Ultimately, America is a business. And if there's money to be made, they're going to find a way to adjust the laws. It's like, yeah, if you traffic it, we're still going to arrest you. But it's free for us. That's exactly what they're saying. Because we have permission to traffic. That's exactly what they're saying. They're like, look.
00:33:43
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There's money in this thing. Yeah, there's a lot of money in it. How can we create a way that we can get some of that money, but make sure that other people can't take the money away from the money that we can make from doing this? Well, we can make it kind of legal. Right. But you need a permit to sell it. And we make it impossible for you to get that permit. Yeah, I think there's the number of
00:34:13
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Black owned dispensaries in those states where you're allowed to smoke marijuana recreationally legally is less than 1%. Less than 2%.
00:34:27
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Okay, less than 2%. Yeah, less than 2%. And mind you, we got money. Right. Some of us got money to do this. It's marijuana. It has never been a hard business to get into. All you needed was a plug. And the plug didn't even have to be all that or knew somebody that was growing in in their basement. And we knew a couple people that was growing in their basement or in their garden. Yeah. And just say, hey, I need a couple plants to sell get you extra seeds from the because guess what? There are seeds.
00:34:58
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when you grow it. That's how you get more seeds. It's a plant. It's a plant. So we went through all this in legalization, but how does this affect those people that have been incarcerated for marijuana? Legalizing marijuana has led to fewer marijuana related arrests and court cases. I mean, yeah, we kind of figured that.
00:35:23
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Pretty self-explanatory. Ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by 57.1. No, 571. Let me rephrase it. Reducing incarceration.
00:35:40
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ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by 571.8 million dollars and reduce the federal prison population by 2807 over a five-year period. I'm gonna get into that but I just also want to point out that even through all these
00:36:08
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you know, legalizing the marijuana and medical use marijuana decriminalizing. When people are arrested, there's still a very high racial disparity and weed related arrests. But I want to get into why they are, they might reduce sentences, but they're not going to just let people out. And it's that 57, that's $571.8 million.
00:36:39
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jails are private entities. Well, that's costs. That's what that's what it's costing the federal government to incarcerate people. What do you think that money goes? All right.
00:36:52
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The money's go to the prisons. The private prisons. Yeah, the private prisons. That's where the money goes. I guarantee you that the prisons are out there right now. They have a committee. They have a group that is. Obvious. The lobbyist that is going against the legalization of marijuana. And here's another kicker. Because it was 15 years ago, I was teaching a boot camp class.
00:37:19
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And in my classes, when I train people, I talk a lot. I do that on purpose. And my clients know this. I'm talking a lot to divert their attention to what they're actually doing, because what I had them doing is excruciating. And they know it. Yeah, I've worked out with you once, never again. Yeah, OK. Mom got through the workout just fine. Anyway. I was tired.
00:37:43
Speaker
And it was a lot of squats. It was a lot of squats. You worked out with me twice. Anyway, so one time during this class, I was talking to a group of people. I'm in Northern Virginia. And this was 15 years ago. And I said, yeah, they should just go ahead and legalize drugs completely across the board. It's a mental health issue. It's not a criminal issue. The class was full of a certain demographic.
00:38:14
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Let's just say conservative type that were up in arms, saying, what are you talking about? Legalized drugs, mind you, none of them probably had any connection to drug users or sellers at all. We ain't selling it to nobody who don't want it. Stop quoting Ali Sadiq. But that's where the real money is. Can you imagine if we decriminalized and then legalized recreational use for cocaine?
00:38:43
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So everything will go to hell in a hand basket. Listen, listen. Wait a minute. Why do you think they would go to hell in a hand basket? Because another reason why I don't do cocaine is because I don't want it to show up on drug tests and affect my employment, right? So if you're no longer checking us for any drugs because drugs have been legalized or decriminalized or whatever,
00:39:13
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Okay. The reasons I have for not doing cocaine become less and less. Okay. My counter argument to that reason why we should just legalize all drugs because the harshest drugs out there are opiates. Yes. And we're prescribed opiates legally by doctors every day, all day long. Take them.
00:39:42
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Why? Because they are run by corporations making that dollar dollar, y'all. So it's only a matter of time. Marijuana is this first step. Other drugs will become legalized because these companies will realize, oh, there's money in this. Yes, money in this. All of Mexico has been built and Colombia has been built off of powder cocaine. And you will get
00:40:08
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tons and tons of litigation, because as much litigation as there is for legal opiates like fentanyl and things like that. You mean illegal? No, fentanyl is legal. Fentanyl is not legal. Fentanyl? Fentanyl is the one that's killing everybody. Yeah, they've pulled it because it is killing people, but people were being prescribed fentanyl. Yes, it is legal. It is a class one.
00:40:36
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scheduled drug, but it is legal. And now pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, everything open up to all this litigation because people are overdosing and dying. But see, that's the reason why you legalize these drugs because you can monitor what people are getting. So there are no more overdose. You can also control the purity of the drugs. And a lot of people are spiking some of these street drugs with fentanyl. And that's the reason why you're getting a lot of these overdoses.
00:41:03
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But even for the people who were legally prescribed fentanyl and overdosed on it, or have become addicted, because it's highly addictive. Yeah. Fentanyl is a hell of a drug. Yeah. I've never had it like this. If they've not been able to contain overdoses with the drugs that are currently legal, I don't know. Let's walk through this. I don't know how they're going to do that.
00:41:32
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with even harder drugs. Well, look, my thing is making it illegal has never stopped people in this country from doing anything. Should drugs be decriminalized? Yes. Because like you said, it is a public health issue. Yes, public health. Drug use is a public health issue. It is not a criminal issue. It becomes a criminal issue when people start committing crimes in order to get it. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:42:02
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So that, yeah, okay, you wanna penalize that, sure, but the use of it, if I'm not selling, I'm using it, using drugs should not send you to jail. It's just send you to a rehab facility. So the common, and I have a friend who was in the DEA, and I used to debate with them,
00:42:30
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I'm going to slip up on the gender anyway as I continue to steal the story, but I'm trying to keep them safe and clouded by not gender neutral. When I used to debate with them about it, I would say,
00:42:45
Speaker
You guys keep worrying about the cartels. The cartels have been getting drugs into this country for decades and will not stop. And you take down one cartel, another one pops up and replace it, and they will still get drugs into America. The question is, why is America the biggest consumer of illegal drugs? Right.
00:43:13
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That's what you should be asking yourself. And what can we do to solve that issue? Because we live in a require looking inward. We live in an operation and everybody's got burnout and that's why everybody. So, so for me, there's two reasons why there is increased marijuana use over
00:43:32
Speaker
drinking alcohol. One, alcohol has adverse effects on the body, right? Like what? Sclerosis of the liver, death. Well, I mean, you know, I mean, yeah, that's what they say. Pop bellies? No, not if you drink to kids. Yellow eyes. I don't have yellow eyes.
00:43:50
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Uh, you going to get your skin will be all your skin. Listen, because you have a view drink 86 gallons of water a day and you have a pretty detailed skincare routine. And I eat.
00:44:07
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Clean. Yes. Right. I'm not up here eating a bunch of fatty food. Right. You can have all the alcohol. OK, no, you can't, ladies and gentlemen. You really can't. You really can't. But if you're going to be a drinker, make sure that the only two things that you drink is water and alcohol. And also take care of yourself. This isn't great advice. That's the advice that I'm here to give. Right. That's your unsolicited perspective. Cha-ching.
00:44:37
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But yeah, it's one, weed ain't never killed nobody.
Marijuana vs. Opiates: A Discussion
00:44:41
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That's what they say. And alcohol does. And also, we live in a corporation and everybody's got burnout and they want to smoke and relax and or eat an edible. It's so easy too. It's just like a little candy, pop it, you know. Just as long as it's not the Jolly Rancher ones.
00:45:02
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Well, you shouldn't have ate the whole thing. The lesson there is that you ate the whole thing and you shouldn't have. And I don't know what to tell you about that. Yeah, I don't know what to tell myself about that either. That was an experience that I wish I could take back. But yes, the reason why people are experiencing, the reason why we're experiencing an uptick in marijuana usage over drinking is drinking kind of makes you hyper.
00:45:30
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marijuana brings you down. Well, it depends on the strain, sativa- What I mean is it mellows you. Regardless if it's an upper or a downer, it still mellows you. It has a lot of positive health effects and benefits. Yeah. Like it really does. It's pain relief. It helps you increase the sleep. If you have problems with your appetite, don't you worry. That's what it was started for when I used- I got a product for you.
00:45:59
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That's what it was started for. People were using medical marijuana because there were cancer patients that the chemo was causing them not to eat. And it also helps with the nausea. It helps with the nausea, helps with the pain, and helps with the appetite. Yes.
00:46:14
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And then also now a lot of companies are not drug testing for marijuana now. Because there are so many states where it's legal either medicinally or recreationally or decriminalized, a lot of companies have stopped drug testing for marijuana. So because they're like, hey, to get through life, you got to do something. You got to do something.
00:46:43
Speaker
So we're not going to keep you from working because you do this. Right. So our takeaway from this segment is, hey, hey, hey, smoke weed every day. Is that what we're telling people out there? I mean, I think that's fair. It's got great health benefits. You might be in a state where it's already decriminalized or legalized. I mean. And live your best life. Yeah. As Smokey said.
00:47:09
Speaker
It was put here on the earth for both me and you. So smoke it. Yeah. Just smoke it. All right,
Miami Club Confrontation
00:47:23
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Jay. We go from marijuana to alcohol. Yeah. You sent me a story. And I was like, this can't be true. But then when I read it and thought about it, oh, it absolutely is true. And I could totally see this. Yeah, yes.
00:47:38
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Let's give the people a rundown of what the story is and then let's talk about it. Okay. So this was actually posted on the Shade Room on IG. And basically what happened is a young lady with a few of her cousins, the females, they're in Miami. They got a section at a club for her cousin's birthday.
00:48:00
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one of her other cousins, a male joined them. So it's a bunch of ladies and a guy, right? So they're drinking, popping bottles. And another group of girls comes up to them and their section and says, well, whose birthday is it? We point out the birthday girl and they're like, let's do a birthday shot. So
00:48:21
Speaker
They were like, cool. That's how, you know, it's always cool to make friends in the club, especially as women, because, you know, who are you going to talk to when you go to the bathroom? So so the group of ladies walk off and and and the girl who's in the section, she's thinking they're going to grab their bottle and come back and they're going to have some shots. They come back with cups.
00:48:47
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She's thinking, oh, y'all already got y'all shot in the cup. They hold out their cup. She clinks glasses with them like, cheers. And they said, no, we were waiting for you to pour our, they had four empty cups. So the group that was having the party, having the table. Yes.
00:49:09
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another group of girls approach them, say, what are y'all celebrating on birthday? Cool, let's take shots. So girl group table, let's say girl group table. It's saying, yes, let's do shots. Girl group don't have a table. Say, cool, they go come back with cups. Girl group table says, cool, everybody got shots. Clank. Girl group, no table says, no, we ain't got no shots.
00:49:37
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We come in for y'all bottles. We're coming for y'all bottle. Yeah. Okay. All right. We're going to take shots with y'all. Yeah. So we told them y'all going to have to order. So the cousin group team table, team table, team table, say y'all going to have to get y'all on cause you can't have none of our liquor. This is ours. So team no table goes and sits in the section next to them. Right.
00:50:07
Speaker
And they start ordering drinks. I mean, they're popping bottles, having a good time. Team table, told team no table, hey look, you can't hand an ours, go get your own. So they went right next door. Right. And got their own. And got their own. Cool. But it's a little suspicious. Okay, why is it suspicious now? They just are like,
00:50:30
Speaker
Something don't seem right. Y'all came over here with empty cups and now all of a sudden you can pop bottles? Right, okay. So team table, she goes over to the waitress and says, they got their own tab, right? Hold on, you missing something. So team no table.
00:50:53
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start trying to Mack on the lone gentleman. Yes. That's in the team table group. Yeah. Talking him up all of that. The male cousin. Yeah. They hollering. Hollering. Hollering. Hard. Right. Giving him crazy rhythm. Crazy. He is vibing to everything right now. He is like, yo, this lit right now. Yes. Mad motion. So.
00:51:21
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So, so team table, she goes up to the waitress and she's like, team note table got their own tab, right? Waitress says no. They said they're with y'all and that male cousins going to pay. Right. Team note team table said we don't know them. Split our stuff off. They pay.
00:51:49
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left out. Okay. So team table paid their part. And she was like, let me go, let me go to the bathroom before we head out. She goes to the bathroom. When a team note table comes up to her and it's like, Hey,
00:52:03
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I know we don't know each other, but can I ask you something? I just lost my job and I bought my friend here for her birthday. We really want to make sure she has a good time. Can you just add our drinks to your tab and we'll pay for our food. Now hold on now. Hold on timeout. Cause you, you left that part out. You said that they was getting bottles. They was also ordering food. Yeah.
00:52:30
Speaker
So it is made this of a lovely evening. They had a lovely evening, intersection. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. And then go ask the birthday people, the people that had the table. Hey, can y'all just put our drinks on your tab and we'll take care of our food. Well, because they were both celebrating birthdays, team table and team no table, both celebrating birthdays, except only team table had bread.
00:53:02
Speaker
And ladies and gentlemen, we ain't talking about the loaf. We talking about them grainbacks. We talking about the dollar-dollar bills that you need when you step outside the house. Because the moment I step out my door, $150 flies out of my pocket. It's $200 up here. It's $200 up here. Well, I'm still in the South, so it's only $150 fly out. I mean, it just flies out. Mm-hmm.
00:53:26
Speaker
Like, what happened? Don't know where it goes. You stepped on sidewalk. Yeah. You stepped on a public sidewalk. Were you left whatever concrete that you were standing on, whatever porcelain floor? Is it porcelain floors? I don't know. Tile floors or whatever. I don't know. I'm just throwing out stuff. When you leave a tile floor and you step on the sidewalk, the public sidewalk, $200 in DC immediately flies your pocket.
00:53:52
Speaker
When you left that wood laminate apartment flooring, and stepped onto the public concrete, there go your money. And it used to be cash would fly out your wallet. Now it's just automatically deducted from your bank account. It'll come out Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, doesn't matter. Google Pay, don't matter. Google Pay, you just see it disappear from your account. It disappear. All right, let's go back. So she approached.
00:54:22
Speaker
She approached homegirl in the bathroom. What did homegirl say? She said, why are you at the club and you don't got no job? That's a good question. Good question. So team note table said it was pre-planned before I lost my job. So the party, they had already planned this outing and then she lost her job.
00:54:47
Speaker
It seemed like what they planned was just to go out. It wasn't like they had called at the place, they had a reservation for a table, and it seemed like they had just, the plan was, we gonna go out for your birthday. That was the plan. But it doesn't seem like they had no solid plan. So you can always say, hey girl, why don't you come on through the crib, we pop bottles over here. Right. Cause that's what I do.
00:55:16
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Right. Well, that's what I do too, because it's cheaper. Because it's cheaper. So team table looks at her and says, damn, that sucks. It sucks that your friend is going to have to come out of her pocket to cover her own birthday bill. And she walked out. And I would have done the same thing. Listen, I don't know that this is in Atlanta.
00:55:40
Speaker
I don't know. You said it was in Miami. Oh, that's right. They were in Miami, which is just as bad. OK? But there is an epidemic, and I'm noticing this, an epidemic of ladies going out, and they ain't got no bread. Oh, Lord. You going to open up the manosphere to just cosign everything that you're saying now. You sound like an ally of the manosphere. No.
00:56:10
Speaker
No. Taking accountability is not siding with people in the management. You're a grown adult. If you can get into a club, you're over 21, so you're an adult, right? If you are planning an outing,
00:56:27
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And you're hoping, your plan is that because you're so attractive, people will probably pay your tab for you. That's a dumb thing to do if you live in Miami, if you live in Atlanta, if you live in LA, if you live in New York, because everybody fine. Yeah, that's true. That's not a good plan. It's not a solid plan. It's not a solid plan.
00:56:55
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Hell, I don't know. DC? Someplace where people ain't fine. DC. DC is not defined capital. I mean, I'm here, but ordinarily speaking. If you're eight, nine, 10 in a city of fives and sixes, then you can get away with that. Probably. Right. But in Miami? No, you're not going to get away with that.
00:57:19
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In Miami? No, in Miami, in all those places that you're talking about, if you go out with people, then that's something that you might could expect. But if you out dolo with the girls, and you not accompanied by people who would actually pay the bill for you, that's a crapshoot. You better come with some bread. If you're not the birthday girl,
00:57:48
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please know you gonna have to come up out your pocket and you know, I'll have my little situation. Yes. But I just have never, I have never gone out and I'll have no money in my pocket because you never know what you're gonna come up against, especially as a woman. Yeah, okay, that's a good point. You never know.
00:58:15
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And I just don't... Listen, if you just lost your job, if your friend doesn't understand that you can't go out with her because I just lost my job, going out is just not an option for me. If they don't understand, then you need new friends. Right. The last thing you need to do is go out there, out in the world, and think you're gonna scam somebody.
00:58:41
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It's really the audacity for me. It's the audacity. And I just don't understand it, but it really is an epidemic. I mean, we see these TikTok videos. OK. Jay, hold on now. Now, you definitely co-signing a lot of what they get. There's going to be dudes in our comment on YouTube, because that's where they at. They're going to be like, see, I told you, these women ain't no good. And they're going to put it across the board to all women. And this is not the case.
00:59:07
Speaker
But this is what I'm saying that's different from what they're saying, is I'm saying y'all need to stop thinking that you can rely on it and get your own weight up. And if you ain't got it, you ain't going. Because don't put yourself in a situation where now you're beholden to somebody else because they've been paying for your drinks all night and now they want something. Right. That's the other thing too. Stop doing that. You're putting yourself in a predicament.
00:59:37
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That's what happened to Diamond in the Players Club. Put herself in a predicament. The dude was paying for drinks. I've been paying for your drinks all night. Yeah. Showed up at her house. Followed her home. Showed up at her house. There's Diamond from the Players Club. It's a movie. Ice Cube produced it. It's dark but funny because of Bernie Mac, but not the dark part. No. But Bernie Mac is hilarious in that movie. And so it's Jamie Foxx. Yes. But yeah, I don't know what's going on. Had that been me?
01:00:06
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And y'all came up with some empty cups. You going back with some empty cups. I just know me in these type of situations. And the older I've gotten, the less patience I have for, I call that stupidity. That's just dumb as hell to think that you say to me, oh, let's do shots. And then you come to me like I'm going to give you some of my liquor. Right.
01:00:36
Speaker
Yeah. So I don't have the patience for stupid people and it's written all over my face. I don't hide my emotions anymore. It's like, what is the WTF face? Huh? What did you say? Like, no. What's the logic? What was your plan? The plan was to scam. Yeah. That was the plan. And you know what? Not all women are like that. No. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example.
01:01:04
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My bestie is an attractive woman. She went out on New Year's because I didn't feel like crossing the bridge. So she went out on New Year's. And she was like, I'm just going to go out to this local place and just have a drink. So she goes and sits down, do buys her a drink. OK. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. She's like, a guy bought me a drink. I was like, yeah, OK, that kind of makes sense. Yeah.
01:01:31
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Another dude buys her a drink. Like, oh, OK, you got two free drinks? Yeah. Not bad. Then the bartender says, here's another drink on me. Right? Yeah, she got three free drinks. Also, my bestie makes money. She came there to spend her own money. Yes. She just got some free drinks. She went there to spend her own money. Yes. And I've dated women.
01:02:00
Speaker
that just expect me to pay all the time. And let me tell you something, you get one, two dates, because I'm a gentleman. So the first date I always pay. And the second date, more than likely 95.9 times out of 100.
01:02:20
Speaker
Because there is a 4.1 where I'm just like, this is on you. I'm going to pay for the second date. But at third date, especially when it's your idea, because I don't be asking people out. So you asked me out to go on the first two. That third date, you ain't reaching for your pocketbook? We done. I don't even want to talk to you no more. You got to at least do the pump fate.
01:02:42
Speaker
Look, if they don't do the pump fake on the first date, I'm done. I'm done. You just came here just expecting it. I'm a gentleman, but to expect it, that's a different ball game. You got to at least fake it and I'm going to do this big, what are you doing? That's so disrespectful. I'm taking you out. We got to do that whole song of dance. Don't deprive me of the song of dance. I know it's a song of dance,
01:03:07
Speaker
But play the game. But it's, listen, scammers in general are on the rise. Yeah, well, one of them was president. Protect your neck, okay? Like, scammers are out. But it's honestly, it's the entitlement and the audacity. Yeah. To, you're fine explaining all of this to a stranger. But not to your friend group.
01:03:36
Speaker
Hey. Well, that makes sense. It's easier to tell strangers your secrets than it is people close to you, because you could never see that stranger again. True. But the people close to you, they see you more frequently. She gonna see me again, because you gonna have to pay me back. What you mean? I'm covering y'all tail. Oh, you mean her friend.
01:03:56
Speaker
No team table. If I paid that tech, if I add the goodness of my heart, the moment you get a new job, I'm going to let you get that first check. Cause I'm going to let you get back on your feet. And with that second check, you need to start making some payments with this tab. Y'all just ran up over there.
01:04:14
Speaker
I would never, in that situation, there's no instance in which I would put anything on my tab because of the way they moved in the beginning. Yes. The way they moved in the beginning. Had she, if I was on team table and she came to me, I pulled a corner. Hey, hey, what's up? This is my girl's birthday too. I just lost my job.
01:04:41
Speaker
Do y'all mind if we party with you? I really don't have a lot of money, but here's a little bit to help out. But is it OK? I would absolutely let her in the section. Yeah, that's something I'm like, you know, it's your birthday too? Come on, then. Don't go crazy. As soon as you start going crazy, though. The moment you go crazy, you got to get the hell up out of my section. Because I remember when my boy got out of jail.
01:05:05
Speaker
And he had this little girl, right? Yeah. And we was at the bar. We, we, we was like, look, you just got out. Yeah. So, you know, the first time we get you a couple of sweaters, we went, we, no, we took him to Dave and buses the first time, right? It was the first time that we hang out. We say we got something planned bigger, but man, you, you home. Yeah. Let's go to Dave and busters. He was eating.
01:05:25
Speaker
when we went to go pick him up. He was eating dinner. Okay. We get to Dave and Buster's like, yeah, man, let's get some drinks. He turns to me was like, Hey, you mind if I get some food? Didn't you just finish eating? That was the first sign. Now, now that was the first sign. But I might've been thinking, Hey, he just got out. He's happy to have real food.
01:05:52
Speaker
You know, maybe he want to get him a burger or something. I can understand that. A lot of people get big after they get out. I get you. That's true. That's true. All right. So the next instance was we took him to a nice club in DC, right? Top level. Cause.
01:06:10
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I knew somebody that could get us in VIP. We was partying. We had, there was the Washington professional football team players in there. There was Raven players in there. It was Wizards players in there. And we got a section cause I know somebody, right? He goes up to the bar.
01:06:28
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And I was like, man, you want a drink? We got a table. And he was like, yeah, I'll just go up to the bar because my girl want a drink. I was like, get your girl a drink. We got a table. She don't want what we got at the table. I was like, OK. I think we had bourbon or something like that. She wanted vodka. I was like, all right, you just want one drink. I'll just go to the bar and get you a drink.
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Yeah. So our other boy was like, yo, don't worry about it because you helped us out getting in here and the table, everything I got. I got their drinks that they want something different than what we got at the table. Cool. So my boy ordered his drink. I think he wanted to Heineken or something. And then his girl ordered a drink that she was like, let me get a vodka and cranberry. Okay.
01:07:09
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Mind you, we're like 21 years old, 22. Right. So that's a standard 21-year-old drink, vodka cranberry. It's standard. And also, if you're 21, 22, you ain't got that much money. Right. Right. Remember, I got the table and everything because I got the hookup. I'm not paying full price. Right. I got the hookup. Yes. So he says, yeah, can I get a vodka cranberry? And she goes, uh-oh.
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gray goose. My boy looked at me and I looked at him and I was like.
01:07:40
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Oh, oh. My boy ordered it. And that was the last time that we hung out with him. Yeah. After the David Busters. And then that, I was like, oh, like, we happy that you're home. But actually, truthfully, I wasn't really his friend. He was, you know, it was my boy's friend. Right. I guess we was, I was a friend through association. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I knew he was shy, so that's the reason why I just went to jail in the first place. There you go. There you have it.
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Jay, what do you want to tell these people out here? Listen, legalize it. Come on. Across the board. We're tired of this. No, not across the board. I'm talking about cannabis. No, I'm talking, yeah, no. I'm saying legalize it across the board. All states, yeah.
01:08:26
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Come on, like seriously, throw us a freaking bone. Throw the little guy a bone and legalize it. Give us something to hold on to in this hellscape that we are living in. Okay, that's a lot. All right, you told people what you said. And for me, I'm gonna say thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I holler.
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