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Transcript
Introduction & Listener Engagement
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Hey, everyone.
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Thanks for listening to Gather Them Podcast.
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I am Jerome, the host, the showrunner, the writer, the engineer, all of those things.
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This is how I can grow my listenership and expand the podcast a little bit.
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And again, I appreciate everyone that listens.
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And let's get into the show.
Springtime Reflections & Climate Change
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Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Gather Them Podcast.
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I'm your host, Jerome, and we're back for the last week of March.
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And I can't believe it's spring because it's been, at least here in Philly, it's been pretty chilly still.
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We had like one really good nice week, and that was it.
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I think that April might be better because it's usually, I feel like when things start to warm up,
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But again, we don't really get a spring anymore, like global warming, blah, blah, blah, all of that.
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So, yeah, but I'm back.
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Today is, of course, Beyonce Day.
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We will talk about that later on in the Media Lab and some other stuff.
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I got some other stuff planned as well.
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What else we got on the agenda?
Reimagining New Year's Celebration
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Let's see.
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Wait a minute.
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Hold on.
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Look at me unprepared, not pulling up the shit.
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All right.
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Yeah, it's been like a very interesting week, honestly, because first of all, I forgot that it was spring break for the kids.
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I knew that Easter was coming up.
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And that Good Friday was coming up.
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But I've just like I feel like the beginning of the year is such a clusterfuck after Christmas and New Year's.
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Like the beginning of, you know, our, I guess, New Year and, you know, around the world, you know, we all agree, I guess, that the New Year begins.
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And I say we as in the people that control the calendar.
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Yeah.
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I don't know what those people are.
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You know, I don't I don't know.
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Anyway, I don't really think that's the beginning of the new year.
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I think that it really does start in April because I feel like the or at least like, yeah, I think April, because I feel like it almost like aligns with.
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The way in which the seasons work.
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I think I talked about this before, but just the way in which the seasons work and the way in which the death and dead of winter would not signify to me a new year.
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The spring would, I think.
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That, to me, makes more sense.
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So...
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I don't know.
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And then I also think about how in other countries, like, the shit is, you know, kind of different from ours.
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Because if you live south of the equator, it's, like, winter right now.
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Or, like, fall, I guess, becoming winter.
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So, I don't know.
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That's just my thought about it.
Spring Break & Work Balance
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Anyway, again, this week was just really weird.
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Because, like, no one would really, like, around at work.
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Like, the providers, a lot of the providers were all...
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Schools were closed.
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It was pretty easy getting to work all week.
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There wasn't a lot of traffic or commotion.
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Dreading that for next week because I know it is going to be hell getting back in anywhere across the city, honestly.
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So I'm just kind of enjoying this low key vibe this week.
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And I'm really embracing it.
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Like at work, I'm doing kind of the bare minimum because I know it's going to be pretty busy.
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Like I'm trying to get straightened up.
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Um,
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I threw a lot of paperwork out and just kind of sorted things on my desk, sorted things on my desktop.
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I still need to go through a couple more things like my computer files and throw some stuff out.
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Get rid of things because I've just been stockpiling paperwork.
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And it's not like it's bad.
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Like, you know, those social workers, like when you see like in the movies, like how those social workers have stuff.
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those piles and piles of folders and files.
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Like, it's not like that for me and my coworkers.
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Maybe social, like the people that have the title of social worker.
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But for me being like a navigator, it's not that bad, but I do have to like print out stuff.
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And I like to save documents and, you know, all of that good stuff so that people can,
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you know, that people have their shit together.
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Because the thing is, I hate when I throw something out myself when I, you know, need it or realize I needed it.
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And then I hate when it's like hard to get something from a patient and then you throw it out, you don't make a copy, you don't upload it to your computer, anything like that.
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It's like,
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What the fuck?
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So I try to like upload a lot of shit that I know is going to be really important later on, like for a person.
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But the minute something is like complete or approved, I just be like, all right, trash is that's done.
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Yeah, so I realized, I don't know, I'm thinking about this as I'm looking at other opportunities.
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I'm just kind of like, I don't know if I could work.
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do a job that's solely in person anymore because it's something about the way in which and I feel like I'll talk about this a little bit more when that time comes but like it's just something about the way in which
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social workers get treated at jobs and how we just are all on top of each other all the time.
Remote Work vs. City Traffic
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And the rooms be like real little.
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And it's just like, I don't understand how we can't have space or we can't get like dividers or we can't, um,
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I don't know, relocate or something like in, you know, our health system or health systems, because I worked in multiple systems where, you know, the space is tight or it looks crazy.
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And I want to navigate into a space, I think, that is that allows at least remote some of the week, like at least like at this point, it's starting to feel like to like at least two days a week.
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preferably three to be in person at an organization because it's just too much.
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And the thing is, traffic is crazy in the city.
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It's not like you live in East Jablip somewhere where there's a parking lot and you don't have to pay to park there.
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Or like, that's how it was when I worked at Lower Bucks Hospital,
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It wasn't like there was a parking lot.
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It was one up there where you could just park for free.
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You didn't have to pay for parking.
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But the fact that here in Philly, places will charge you literally $13.
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Employers will charge you $13 to...
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30, $20, whatever they, you know, decide they want to charge, um, just so that you can park, like get to work.
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Like, first of all, you're already in a situation where you're traveling is really busy.
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Um, traffic's crazy.
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Everything like construction is happening everywhere.
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Everybody on the road is everywhere.
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Can't drive.
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And God forbid it fucking rains or snows.
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And I don't like the idea of having to plan extra time to go to work because commuting is already a fucking headache.
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So a lot of what I've been doing lately has just been when things look crazy outside or if I notice that the expressway looks bad or getting into West Philly looks bad.
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I just end up taking...
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Or end up walking nine times out of 10.
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Because it's not that far.
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Like, it's really not that far to get from my house to my job.
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I think in the summertime, that's going to suck if I have to do that.
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But I am hoping that, you know, some things happen and move and shake.
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And that'll fix that situation.
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So, but yeah, that's what I was thinking about lately.
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I'm just like so repulsed and drained by like,
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navigating.
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It is just like through the city.
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It is like so much work.
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And I think people think that like everyone was all before like, oh, safer at home.
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And like, you know, you can do work remotely and blah, blah, blah.
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And it's like now everyone wants us to go back into these jobs because they have all these offices that they can't do anything with.
Urban Development Critique
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When I'm like, y'all really could just fix the homelessness problem in the city by creating more
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Even if it was like apartments or condos, duplexes, whatever, for people that are homeless and it's like low-income housing, like, I really don't understand...
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the reasoning behind just not doing that or creating like more programs in the city that are like funded to actually like help people instead of like these big corporations that don't do anything or these, you know, people that create these like high rises that, you know, no one can live in except for people from maybe New York city.
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It's like,
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I don't know.
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I just be so disgusted with the city sometimes and I be ready to get the fuck out of here.
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daily.
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I came in to work on Monday, which I usually don't do.
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I went into work on Monday, which I usually don't do.
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And that was fucking draining as fuck.
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I love having Mondays work from home because it just makes the weekend feel a little longer, even though it's not longer.
00:11:03
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But it's like a way to ease yourself back into the work week.
00:11:07
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um but i had to work from home on wednesday um because i had some stuff going on um but yeah sometimes i'd be thinking though i'd be like i don't be feeling strong enough to survive this world like everything just be feeling so wow like it's just so much um
00:11:26
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I guess I'll talk about that too a little bit later.
00:11:30
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Um, cause I have only two news topics I really want to talk about, but they're very like big topics.
00:11:37
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Um, and so I just want to kind of talk about those a little bit later on, but girl, I'd be like, I don't even know.
00:11:43
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I'd be like, it'll just be feeling too exhausting to survive sometimes because everything is just like so underhanded and messy and,
00:11:52
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insidious like that just is so scary to me like to live in a world where you can't trust the people in charge you can't trust your neighbors you can't trust there's just so much like mistrust and and you know the system and and the you know civilians that it's just like mental gymnastics just to get from day to day so i don't know we want to talk about that a little bit um
00:12:21
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But on the bright side, I will say two things good to well, I can't say one of the things there's actually like four.
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No, I'm going to say this.
00:12:32
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I can't say like for two of the four things that happened this week.
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I'm like the math was just not math.
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And.
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Um, I can't say two of the four things that happened this week because I'm still kind of holding on a little bit and just like not trying to put all my eggs in one basket and get really hype about it or whatever.
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But I will say, um, actually it might be five things.
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I also can't talk about that either.
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So, um,
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Anyway, um, but it has to do with the podcast.
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So that's a good thing.
00:13:05
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Um, it does have to do with the podcast.
00:13:07
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So look out for that to come.
00:13:11
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Um, the two things that happened, so I can just kind of get to the point is, uh, I got approved for a medical marijuana card.
Medical Marijuana & Anxiety Management
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Congratulations to me.
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Clap for me.
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I was just like, I can't do this anxiety thing.
00:13:26
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And I'm like so tired of living in this state of constantly switching between medications to figure out which works, what works when I know what actually does work and what does help me.
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And it's weed.
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Like a lot of times when I'm like high stress and I'm feeling crazy, if I like pop an edible or, um,
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you know, hit some concentrate, whatever, tincture, whatever, I feel so much more relaxed.
00:13:58
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And I'm thinking to just start doing lower dose THCs and just looking more and trying to diversify it a little bit.
00:14:07
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Cause I was doing that a little bit earlier.
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Back in January, well, kind of like before, I would say between January to last October, I started to look at different strands.
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I still don't know everything.
00:14:25
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I don't know how people retain information in a way in which...
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That's another sidetrack.
00:14:33
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But like the fact that Purple Kush, Pineapple Express, Girl Scout, like all of these things.
00:14:40
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I'm like, how would you know what this like?
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I would need a fucking chart.
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And that's what I might have to do is I might have to make a chart and just refer to it because I can't keep that information in my brain.
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I'm not that.
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deep into it.
00:14:54
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Um, I could see maybe if I was selling or something, but I'm not even doing that.
00:14:59
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So, you know, and it's illegal in Philly to do it.
00:15:02
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So, um, you know, not saying like no shade, like I, listen, I appreciate the folks that do, you know, get your bread, but, um,
00:15:17
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I mean, and it's not legal to do in Philly, but this is the whole point.
00:15:19
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Like, the whole point is just that at the end of the day, I want to feel more balanced.
00:15:26
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And I feel like dealing with my anxiety and how bad it's been lately to the point where I'm not sleeping, I'm ruminating constantly, I'm not...
00:15:34
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Like, I feel paralyzed, like, between that, my ADHD and depression.
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Like, I feel like I can't function to my best ability because the medication, you know, is just temporary.
00:15:47
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Like, it's one day, one hit of, you know, dopamine for an extended release with ADHD meds, and then...
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I'd be feeling like the anxiety med I'm on isn't like the one that's supposed to boost the depression, the SSRI isn't working.
00:16:03
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It just is like it's too much.
00:16:05
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And I'm just tired of switching between meds.
00:16:07
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I really want to do the ketamine therapy thing.
00:16:10
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Like I really would love to do that.
00:16:12
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I would need a therapist and I would need more money to afford ketamine treatment.
00:16:17
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But if I have more money, I definitely would.
00:16:20
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Or when I get more money, I definitely want to invest in that and try to.
00:16:26
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re-establish therapy care and um what else re-establish that because it just is so much there's like all the benefits i kind of talked about on a previous episode about how you know it creates these new neural pathways and um
00:16:48
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all of that jazz that normal, you know, medicine doesn't do, it just creates more chemicals, those, you know, create more chemicals in your brain.
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So you can function, but I just get tired of it.
00:16:58
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I get tired of like,
00:17:01
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taking meds and like experimenting and, you know, being on one and then coming off of it.
00:17:06
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And I don't, I mean, withdrawal is pretty bad too.
00:17:11
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Like, I don't really like dealing with that.
00:17:13
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I know for me, like withdrawal just makes me feel like I get sick.
00:17:18
Speaker
And I start to feel like,
00:17:24
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having more bad days than not.
00:17:26
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So it is like helping in some ways.
00:17:28
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It just doesn't help with everything.
00:17:30
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And I just need to find a balance.
00:17:34
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And I feel like medical marijuana is that.
00:17:37
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And so, yeah, we're going to see how that girl go.
00:17:40
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And, um,
00:17:44
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We are also... I hate when people be texting you and you just be like, stop.
00:17:47
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And they don't like... They're little companies and stuff.
00:17:50
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They be texting you and you be like, stop.
00:17:53
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And they just still be texting.
00:17:54
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Like, what the fuck is wrong with y'all?
00:17:57
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Also, the other thing I realized is that my... I realized, oh my God, I got so
Social Work Licensing Journey
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excited.
00:18:02
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And this kind of motivated me and pushed me through the week.
00:18:04
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But I got really excited about the fact that I have like 37 more weeks until I can apply to...
00:18:14
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getting my license for, or start the process anyway, of getting my license for my LCSW, which is, feels like a dream come true because I've been working on this bitch for like, literally since I graduated in a way, like not at first, not the first year and a half, but I definitely started, um,
00:18:40
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Like I graduated in 2019.
00:18:42
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And then I started in 2021.
00:18:45
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And it's been on and off like find like trying to decide if I want to do it trying to decide against it, like feeling burnt out already by social work, not finding jobs that were good fits and kind of just going back and forth and then just ending up in a situation I'm in now.
00:19:03
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where I've gotten a supervisor that's supervising me and my coworkers for free for individual and group soup.
00:19:11
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It's just like...
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amazing.
00:19:14
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Like, it almost feels fated.
00:19:17
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And I'm starting to, even I know, I know I complain a lot, and I really have to work on that.
00:19:23
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But I'm starting to really, I think, understand a little bit better the way in which the universe functions, or how life functions and manifestation and, you know,
00:19:36
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karmic energy and like all of those things um but again it's my anxiety like it's my anxiety that won't just shut the fuck up and it's the adhd that like paralyzes me like or that uh function of you know adhd is like the thing that paralyzes me and keeps me stagnant um and not feeling like motivated or inspired sometimes or um
00:20:03
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reaching for like hits of dopamine.
00:20:05
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So I really do want to go on a social media cleanse.
Social Media & Mental Health
00:20:10
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I don't know how that's going to work with like the podcast, but or at least I'll just maybe I'll just like cut back or like something.
00:20:19
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I don't know how I'm gonna do this, but I have a couple more days to think about it because I really just want to cut off and just not even focus on social media, to be honest.
00:20:31
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Or like, you know, doing a bunch of like internet searches or like reading comments.
00:20:37
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Because comments have just been like so nasty and bad.
00:20:39
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Like I feel like even the comments about the quiet on set, Nickelodeon, the dark side of...
00:20:47
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TV documentary, I feel like people are just so negative about the things that are, that were said, and that have come up.
00:20:57
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And that to me is insightful, and how I think people either received it or didn't really
00:21:10
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process it fully you know what i mean so it's kind of like one of those things where i feel like people are just kind of passing judgment and like with um i finally watched the rest of it with like drake bell and uh josh peck their relationship and why josh never said anything and then i saw something today about keenan uh yeah it was keenan thompson um about his experience which you know
00:21:35
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he was saying like, I didn't realize all this stuff was happening.
00:21:38
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And people were just like, well, you knew something.
00:21:40
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It's like, first of all, he's a fucking kid.
00:21:42
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Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
00:21:43
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Like, he was a kid at the time when all of this was happening.
00:21:47
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Like, y'all act like he was going to do something.
00:21:51
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So again, like looking at comments like that have just made me like really frustrated.
00:21:57
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And I feel like I can't keep
00:22:02
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There's only so much you can take, like in terms of hearing everyone's thoughts, opinions, like social media is a place where you just hear thoughts and opinions all day.
00:22:11
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And a lot of them are stupid.
00:22:13
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A lot of them are shallow.
00:22:14
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A lot of them are stupid.
00:22:15
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A lot of them are conspiracy theories that don't really make sense.
00:22:20
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A lot of them are accusatory or victim blaming.
00:22:24
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And it's just like, like, I don't know, I just be feeling like some of y'all just need to get shot.
00:22:29
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I probably am not supposed to say that, but I don't care.
00:22:33
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Like, I just kind of feel like.
00:22:35
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Unless some people get pew pew, we're not going to move anywhere as a society.
00:22:41
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Like some people just got to get like really shooken the fuck up or something for something to actually change because it's getting really ridiculous that we're in 2024 dealing with the same issues we've been dealing with like literally for the past two decades going on two and a half.
00:23:01
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Like that's insane to me.
00:23:03
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And not and even more than that, like if you look even further back, it's like we look at racism, you know, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, all of it.
00:23:13
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Like it's even further than that.
00:23:16
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But it's a lot of the same conversations that we've even been dealing with within the past like 14 years since 2010.
00:23:24
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So to me, it's just getting really ridiculous.
00:23:27
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And I'm just frustrated and tired of everybody in the system.
00:23:31
Speaker
And.
00:23:32
Speaker
it all just needs to go to fucking the trash, if you ask me.
00:23:35
Speaker
So that's where I'm at.
00:23:37
Speaker
And I think I'm gonna just take a little cleanse to reset my brain, and then try to do some other activities.
00:23:43
Speaker
Like I'm trying to put some library books on my Libby or whatever.
00:23:51
Speaker
But I don't understand to like, just one more thing before we move on.
00:23:54
Speaker
But I don't understand how like you can
00:23:58
Speaker
Have a library book that's digital, but you only have a certain amount of copies of it.
00:24:03
Speaker
So you have to create a waiting list.
00:24:06
Speaker
Like, I don't understand that.
00:24:07
Speaker
Like, it's fucking digital.
00:24:08
Speaker
Like, even if you had to have original copies of the ebook.
00:24:13
Speaker
Just buy more.
00:24:14
Speaker
And I don't know, maybe that's just me and maybe it's just the funding or whatever.
00:24:18
Speaker
But I feel like there shouldn't be a wait list of like 40 people for a digital book, like months for a digital book.
00:24:26
Speaker
Like that does not make sense to me.
00:24:30
Speaker
But yeah, I digress.
00:24:31
Speaker
We're moving on.
00:24:33
Speaker
So one of the things that really happened this week that was really sad was the Keybridge campaign.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Analysis
00:24:42
Speaker
You know, incident that happened in Baltimore, Maryland.
00:24:47
Speaker
Like, it literally feels like the world is just falling off the bone.
00:24:50
Speaker
Like, that's not to make light of it, but like, literally, that's what it's starting to feel like, like everything around us is just being destroyed.
00:24:59
Speaker
And having studied mythology, like mythology around like Egyptians, Indian mythology, like Hindu mythology, Native American mythology, like having had a class in that and like understanding the way in which these cycles work of creation and death.
00:25:26
Speaker
And then you end up creating again.
00:25:30
Speaker
It feels like we're in a death period.
00:25:32
Speaker
I mean, we are.
00:25:35
Speaker
Things are bad.
00:25:36
Speaker
Things are really bad.
00:25:37
Speaker
Everyone's barely hanging on by a fucking...
00:25:42
Speaker
strand of hair like it's so bad so i think we are in a death period where we're seeing a lot of chaos in the world um and also there's like the thing about people that man in new york punching people in the face that that's not even on the list but like craziest shit like crazy ass stuff is just happening in the world and um i think that you know for me like being an outsider kind of looking in or like
00:26:08
Speaker
An insider looking across.
00:26:11
Speaker
It just seems like things are so bad.
00:26:13
Speaker
And it's to the point where.
00:26:16
Speaker
We have these like.
00:26:18
Speaker
Things happening.
00:26:18
Speaker
Like apparently the boat.
00:26:20
Speaker
For the.
00:26:25
Speaker
Yeah, the boat or the ship had, I guess something had happened to the ship in terms of losing power or experiencing some kind of electrical problem.
00:26:36
Speaker
I'm curious, too, of how the ship was able to navigate under the bridge, because I couldn't figure out, I kept trying to research and figure out the path that the bridge normally takes.
00:26:49
Speaker
I don't think the bridge was that high.
00:26:51
Speaker
I mean, the ship was that high.
00:26:52
Speaker
I don't think the
00:26:55
Speaker
Because it was like a carrier ship, like the one that got caught in that canal during a pandemic.
00:27:03
Speaker
It looked like one of those types of ships, but it didn't look as big or like as tall, I should say.
00:27:11
Speaker
But the bridge itself didn't seem that big or tall to me either.
00:27:17
Speaker
So I was a little confused by that.
00:27:19
Speaker
But anyway, I just have to assume I guess it was set up to go underneath because I looked at the area and there was no other route that it could really take.
00:27:30
Speaker
So I felt like that was the only thing that, you know, for the ship that made sense.
00:27:36
Speaker
And then again, I'm not sure if everyone was accounted for.
00:27:38
Speaker
I've heard recently that there was like maybe two bodies found like as of Thursday.
00:27:49
Speaker
Wednesday night, Thursday, um...
00:27:53
Speaker
I'm also curious how someone like found or had this footage just on hand.
00:27:56
Speaker
I don't know like what that was about.
00:28:00
Speaker
Like the fact that we actually got to see the ship collapsing, you know, into the bay.
00:28:04
Speaker
That was odd to me that unless I don't know if someone's like security had a security camera or a camera for just kind of watching the area because it happened at like one point.
00:28:23
Speaker
So I'm like, huh, who was out there that late or, you know, whatever.
00:28:30
Speaker
I don't know.
00:28:32
Speaker
So.
00:28:37
Speaker
Yeah, I was also like kind of wondering, let me just see really quickly, because I thought I wrote something up.
00:28:43
Speaker
Oh, and then also, too, before I even get into this, I wanted to just kind of talk about really quickly, Mayor Brandon Scott.
00:28:48
Speaker
Like, I love the way he spoke about the diversity and inclusion situation with people, you know, referring to him as
00:29:01
Speaker
And that like, oh, well, this is diversity and inclusion.
00:29:03
Speaker
This is what you get when you, you know, blah, blah, blah, X, Y, and Z. It's not a good thing.
00:29:08
Speaker
And how he basically was like, yeah, you guys are just calling me the N word.
00:29:13
Speaker
Like, you're scared to actually do it.
00:29:16
Speaker
And the thing is, is that, you know, he's not going to stop, uh,
00:29:23
Speaker
being himself and not going to just give up on moving people forward.
00:29:29
Speaker
And I just really was in awe of listening to him and listening to him speak.
00:29:36
Speaker
Like, I think that, you know, a lot of times this is what I mean about the internet.
00:29:41
Speaker
Like, this is literally what the fuck I'd be talking about.
00:29:44
Speaker
Or like I just talked about was the fact that people would blame something like diversity and inclusion in...
00:29:54
Speaker
why a ship lost power and crashed into the structure, like the structural piece that's holding the bridge up.
00:30:04
Speaker
Like that does not even make sense.
00:30:06
Speaker
Like that's the synopsis is not synapsising.
00:30:10
Speaker
The neurons are not neuroning.
00:30:13
Speaker
Like,
00:30:14
Speaker
I don't understand how you would come to that conclusion.
00:30:17
Speaker
If anything, it does make more sense that it's a power failure or was a power failure or someone didn't do their job.
00:30:27
Speaker
But that's not on him.
00:30:29
Speaker
Like that's on whoever the shipping company's staff are.
00:30:34
Speaker
And then everyone's like, all of a sudden, a fucking...
00:30:39
Speaker
engineer, like out of nowhere, structural architect, engineer, whatever, like out of nowhere talking about like, damn, they need to build these bridges better and damn, they need to do this better.
00:30:50
Speaker
And I'm like, part of that is true.
00:30:52
Speaker
Like, I'm not going to lie.
00:30:53
Speaker
Like sometimes that is the truth.
00:30:55
Speaker
Like sometimes these bridges suck, but it literally crashed into like a big ass boat that weighs so much, uh,
00:31:03
Speaker
crashed into one of the pillars holding up the bridge.
00:31:08
Speaker
So why... That doesn't make sense.
00:31:11
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:31:12
Speaker
Like, that's like...
00:31:14
Speaker
Fucking if like Godzilla just ripped that shit up off the ground or something like I. But I digress again.
00:31:22
Speaker
That's people.
00:31:24
Speaker
It's just scary, though, to know that you could be in a situation like that, that you could potentially be in a situation where you're on a bridge and a bridge collapses into the water and.
00:31:39
Speaker
Even on the ground, I feel like on the ground would be worse.
00:31:44
Speaker
I don't know.
00:31:44
Speaker
I would have to look that up, actually.
00:31:46
Speaker
I feel like that'd be worse because you would hit your head, I imagine, if you're not strapped in.
00:31:55
Speaker
Maybe you would in a car, too.
00:31:56
Speaker
But I feel like water...
00:31:59
Speaker
I don't know.
00:31:59
Speaker
Would it be like when people jump off a bridge and it's like hitting cement?
00:32:04
Speaker
Like, would it be like that?
00:32:06
Speaker
So maybe it wouldn't make a difference.
00:32:08
Speaker
I don't know.
00:32:08
Speaker
Does anyone know that any, anyone that listens to the show?
00:32:12
Speaker
Are they a scientist, uh, physics scientists, um, specifically, I don't know if anyone is a physics scientist listening to this, but, um,
00:32:24
Speaker
I would just really be interested and, uh, or like hearing that opinion.
Submerged Car Escape Tactics
00:32:32
Speaker
Um, but I, it did have me wondering, needless to say, like what you should do if you are inside of a car, um, and it crashes into the water.
00:32:43
Speaker
So I attached in the show notes, one of my favorite YouTube channels, uh, the infographics.
00:32:49
Speaker
Um, and it is basically a,
00:32:55
Speaker
how can I even describe it?
00:32:56
Speaker
It's like a educational, like factual animated series, I guess, or channel.
00:33:11
Speaker
Um, a lot of what they do is they talk about different, um, things that are happening and, uh, or history, whether it's history, science, um, I don't know.
00:33:25
Speaker
Uh,
00:33:27
Speaker
It's different things.
00:33:28
Speaker
Like, it's a bunch of different things.
00:33:29
Speaker
Like, they'll talk about animals.
00:33:30
Speaker
They'll talk about, like, people, um, human body facts, uh...
00:33:37
Speaker
different things that you might think about.
00:33:39
Speaker
Like, it's like the other YouTube channel, What If?
00:33:42
Speaker
But I feel like this one is a little bit more educational in the sense of these are facts versus what if this thing were to happen from, you know, an educational standpoint.
00:33:56
Speaker
But basically, based on that and some research I did watching, like, different news stories of, you know, this happening in the past,
00:34:03
Speaker
of cars just kind of falling into the water or driving into a body of water.
00:34:09
Speaker
The two top things you're going to want to do is the first one is unbuckle your seatbelt.
00:34:14
Speaker
Don't reach for your phone.
00:34:16
Speaker
Don't try to call 911.
00:34:18
Speaker
That's going to actually be the very last thing you do.
00:34:22
Speaker
Um, if no one else around has done it, if people are not around and no one sees this happen, of course, you're going to call 911.
00:34:29
Speaker
But, um, the first two things, again, you're going to unbuckle your seatbelt and then you're going to roll down the window like quickly as you can, and then try to escape, um, before the cars fully submerge, which takes anywhere between 30 to 60 seconds.
00:34:42
Speaker
Um,
00:34:46
Speaker
And that's because and the thing is, is like you want to unbuckle your seatbelt as quickly as you can and roll all of the windows down.
00:34:52
Speaker
If you have a car full of people just as quickly as you can, because once the water gets into the car, it will be impossible to get out.
00:35:03
Speaker
Not like impossible, impossible, but it's going to take a lot of work and you're going to have way less oxygen once you're fully submerged in water.
00:35:14
Speaker
And you're going to have to depend on being able to hold your breath, get out of the car with the windows rolled down again, swim to the surface and.
00:35:28
Speaker
you might not make it.
00:35:29
Speaker
Like, that's the point.
00:35:30
Speaker
So definitely go watch that video.
00:35:33
Speaker
I think it was, like, really cool and really interesting.
00:35:35
Speaker
It was funny in the beginning.
00:35:36
Speaker
They had this, like, thing about Mothman.
00:35:39
Speaker
See, that's what I love about it.
00:35:40
Speaker
I love that it creates these, like, scenarios of, huh, you're thinking about this thing, and then all of a sudden your car falls into the water.
00:35:46
Speaker
It's like, how did that even happen?
00:35:48
Speaker
Like, how did... At first, when I was watching the video, I was like, what?
00:35:51
Speaker
Like, how...
00:35:53
Speaker
did he go from talking about mothman and i was like am i on the right video because they will talk about things like the jersey devil and stuff like that but i was like how did they even like get from a to b um and then it worked and i was like okay it makes it more entertaining um and then again last thing you want to do is call the police but um if you have people in a car like children specifically
00:36:17
Speaker
You'll want to get the oldest ones out first, which is very interesting to me.
00:36:22
Speaker
It makes sense because you want to get them out first and then get the baby or the youngest and carry them.
00:36:29
Speaker
If they're like an infant, you want to carry them with you out of the car.
00:36:34
Speaker
Um, and the thing about it is too, is that a lot of times I know cars have that thing where the back windows don't roll all the way down.
00:36:42
Speaker
So you'll even have to like, if you're in the back seat, you'll have to maneuver to the front of the car in order to get out the front windows, which roll all the way down.
00:36:51
Speaker
That's wild to me.
00:36:53
Speaker
I, I,
00:36:55
Speaker
It is so scary.
00:36:55
Speaker
Like, I hope I'm never in that situation, but you have to remain calm because you start using up oxygen once the car fills up.
00:37:04
Speaker
And there's a chance that, you know, panicking, you are taking in less air so that if you are more so submerged in the car, like you're not going to, again, be able to
00:37:18
Speaker
get out depending on how deep the water is.
00:37:20
Speaker
That'll be also another thing to consider.
00:37:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:27
Speaker
So I'm glad I watched that.
00:37:30
Speaker
There's also like these things.
00:37:31
Speaker
I didn't know this, but there's like these tools that easily break glass windows.
00:37:36
Speaker
If you are in a situation where the windows are rolled up and you have to break them or you can't get the windows down, you have to break them.
00:37:43
Speaker
Of course, they advise that that tool is within reaching distance because once you go under, like that's kind of it.
00:37:51
Speaker
And you can't open a car door from underwater because, you
00:37:57
Speaker
Water pressure is crazy.
00:37:58
Speaker
Like you would not be able to do that.
00:38:01
Speaker
So yes, I highly suggest if you have a fear of your car going into the water, I definitely recommend that you are
00:38:16
Speaker
prepared.
00:38:17
Speaker
And if you're going over bridges a lot, be prepared.
00:38:20
Speaker
Like, it's always better to be prepared than to panic later on.
00:38:26
Speaker
And I think that, again, we don't prepare enough for things.
00:38:30
Speaker
So it's nice to have knowledge about these different things that could happen.
00:38:36
Speaker
Because no one's immune, like it could happen to anyone, like anyone could have been on that bridge.
00:38:40
Speaker
And
00:38:41
Speaker
Uh, at that time, you know, in that area could have been on that bridge.
00:38:45
Speaker
And I think about it and I'm like, sometimes we have the luxury of thinking like, okay, it couldn't have been our family members.
00:38:51
Speaker
Cause we imagine that they have these routines and who's out so early or late at night or early in the morning, uh, for something like this to happen.
00:39:02
Speaker
Um, um,
00:39:05
Speaker
Like anything could happen, like anything could happen.
00:39:07
Speaker
And that is so scary to think about that anything could happen to you.
00:39:13
Speaker
So definitely rest in peace to the people that did pass.
00:39:19
Speaker
And also, yeah.
00:39:22
Speaker
if there is anyone left, I hope that, I mean, at this point, I don't know, but you know, I just give thoughts, um, to the families and, you know, hopefully the state of Maryland can, um, help with, uh, fund funding efforts, especially when it comes to like funerals or hospital care.
00:39:42
Speaker
I think someone did get injured, um, but they survived.
00:39:46
Speaker
Uh, that was like one of the first two people that came out of the, um,
00:39:53
Speaker
the water like around the time it happened.
00:39:55
Speaker
So, all right.
00:39:58
Speaker
And then moving on to the second thing,
00:40:01
Speaker
We are going to talk about Diddy Chow.
Diddy's Legal Troubles & Speculations
00:40:05
Speaker
I'm going to try to do my best to not do too much, but there's been a lot that's happened over the course of this week, starting on Tuesday.
00:40:13
Speaker
Maybe, I don't know, maybe it was Monday.
00:40:15
Speaker
I feel like it was Tuesday because, or Monday night, maybe, because I just feel like it's been a whole week of nonsense.
00:40:25
Speaker
um good nonsense but also like some other nonsense as well so there's just so much to discuss um so earlier in the week his homes were raided and of course he was nowhere to be found both his homes and uh was home in la and then um it i think he has two homes in miami and they were all raided by homeland security um
00:40:50
Speaker
They only found his children inside.
00:40:52
Speaker
I don't know if it was at the LA one or if they were kind of scattered or what that was like.
00:40:57
Speaker
Didn't pay too close attention to the details, but...
00:41:00
Speaker
The thing that did come up was this commotion about him not being there because he was on his way to Antigua, which I was like, huh?
00:41:11
Speaker
Like, where'd that come from?
00:41:13
Speaker
In a world of, you know, cameras and technology, I don't know, something just be seeming off to me about that.
00:41:20
Speaker
Or like the way in which these things kind of happen.
00:41:24
Speaker
I imagine he was tipped off.
00:41:26
Speaker
At some point, because I don't know how that Antigua thing happened unless Antigua, I said Antigua, Antigua thing happened unless he was like tipped off, honestly.
00:41:42
Speaker
Um, and he like sent like my, I was looking at some theories online and some people were saying that like, he probably has someone in a boat on their, or not a boat on a, um, private jet on their way there.
00:41:57
Speaker
Cause I imagine he has more than one private jet.
00:42:00
Speaker
Um, he's Diddy and, um,
00:42:06
Speaker
I imagine he has someone on their way there with like tapes and money and like all of that stuff because of course they did a rape.
00:42:16
Speaker
They went all through everything.
00:42:17
Speaker
I don't know if they found anything.
00:42:20
Speaker
I mean, honestly, I don't think they would admit it even if they did right now because it's all evidence.
00:42:27
Speaker
And...
00:42:30
Speaker
you know, we'd have to wait until like the court, you know, opens up the documents.
00:42:35
Speaker
But yeah, it's like looking bad.
00:42:38
Speaker
Like it's really, really looking bad.
00:42:40
Speaker
And I just kind of feel like everyone that knew he was kind of doing dirt in the light.
00:42:51
Speaker
And I don't know, he just used like these tactics to intimidate people.
00:42:56
Speaker
Like it,
00:42:59
Speaker
It was a lot, I think, for the U.S. government.
00:43:03
Speaker
Homeland Security.
00:43:05
Speaker
Oh my God, these sirens outside.
00:43:08
Speaker
Homeland Security to show up to your house to do a raid.
00:43:12
Speaker
I'm side-eyeing a little bit because I'm like...
00:43:15
Speaker
You really had to have done some shit.
00:43:18
Speaker
And someone was like, he probably violated the Man Act, which is an act that's supposed to protect women from being trafficked across state lines.
00:43:28
Speaker
And...
00:43:31
Speaker
So I was like, okay, wow, that's like wild.
00:43:35
Speaker
I mean, you're not supposed to traffic anyone, period, but like you're really not, you know, that's a law.
00:43:42
Speaker
I didn't know that.
00:43:44
Speaker
What else was I going to just say about this?
00:43:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:48
Speaker
Also, too, like, this is one of my earlier points.
00:43:50
Speaker
It's just amazing to me, like, how much people do in the shadows that we don't talk about or, like, we don't openly talk about.
00:43:59
Speaker
Like, people are coming out the woodworks now to say, like...
00:44:02
Speaker
I have information about this.
00:44:04
Speaker
I have information about that.
00:44:05
Speaker
Some people are trying to save themselves.
00:44:07
Speaker
That's what I think is happening.
00:44:09
Speaker
I saw one thing about how someone was saying that if they confessed to something, they would hope that they wouldn't get jail time or something about confessing about the minors that were trafficked, which I'm feeling a little dirty about that.
00:44:24
Speaker
I get it that, you know...
00:44:31
Speaker
You're supposed to.
00:44:34
Speaker
Like, I get like, I kind of get how like the way the world works, like I get it.
00:44:37
Speaker
It's not perfect.
00:44:38
Speaker
It's grimy and it's fucked up.
00:44:40
Speaker
Like, I feel like if you know about kids getting trafficked and you're not doing anything about it or knowing about people like being human trafficked and you're not doing anything about it, like.
00:44:54
Speaker
I don't know.
00:44:54
Speaker
I just kind of look at people different.
00:44:56
Speaker
And I feel like I'm the kind of person that even if there was any kind of like inkling, you know what I mean?
00:45:04
Speaker
Like any kind of whatever I'm putting, I have to put a tip in, I'm sorry.
00:45:09
Speaker
And I would just have to be pew pew, breaks cut, whatever, because I just feel like people don't just stand for nothing.
00:45:17
Speaker
And I get like, people try to protect themselves and, you know,
00:45:24
Speaker
Again, it's the money, it's the fame, it's the notoriety, it's the, you know, again, the money.
00:45:28
Speaker
Like, that's the big thing it always comes down to.
00:45:31
Speaker
And, you know, maybe even protecting your family members, which I can get too.
00:45:36
Speaker
But I'm just like, just, like, shoot me down, child.
00:45:38
Speaker
Because I'm not going to lie about...
00:45:42
Speaker
Like, that's not that don't even sit right with me.
00:45:44
Speaker
Like, that does not sit right with me lying about a child or minors being in messy, nasty situations like that.
00:45:53
Speaker
It's barely OK for me to be even OK with that with like sex workers.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:59
Speaker
But, you know, that's like a whole maybe different thing or whatever that I kind of feel like gets a little bit more nuanced or, you know, like the some people may be wanting to be at those parties, like getting the money profiting, but then other like consenting legal adults, you know what I mean?
00:46:18
Speaker
Right.
00:46:19
Speaker
And then maybe some other people getting mixed into it that are abused, you know, in it along the way, you know, which I imagine a lot of those people were like abused, you know, just along the way and ending up in these really messy, fucked up situations.
00:46:36
Speaker
um because it's ditty you know so yeah i just i don't know it just and again like i don't really understand like the government at this point where it feels like the government only gives a fuck if you're poor and you're you know if you're poor like basically like i feel like these allegations have been going on for years and years and years and because it's not
00:47:07
Speaker
Because it's just rumors.
00:47:09
Speaker
People let that just slide under the rug for so long.
00:47:14
Speaker
And it seems like when Cassie made her, came out, you know, Statue of Limitations, all that stuff we talked about, but like, and no, you know, it seems like things started to unravel for a lot of people, NDAs, you know, expiring, things like that.
00:47:31
Speaker
And that made the government turn and look at them.
Critique of Legal System Delays
00:47:35
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But I'm also just like, it's a little too late.
00:47:38
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Like, the damage is done to a lot of people.
00:47:42
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A lot of people's families probably are really fucked up.
00:47:45
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A lot of minors are probably, or are, not probably, but are fucked up.
00:47:50
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Like, it's just...
00:47:53
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Wow, to me how we could do things like in this country where we can have the human trafficking campaign.
00:48:01
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And I got extensive, like extensive training for a program in my current job, and I've done it in like previous jobs in grad school.
00:48:14
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about like identifying the signs of human trafficking and, you know, what to kind of look out for when you are meeting with like a minor or someone that is in a really crazy like situation that you might have to just kind of go based off of feeling or the things that they say, their behaviors, you know, all of these things.
00:48:38
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And we have these programs that identify these
00:48:43
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individuals and it's like this person is just sitting up here like millionaire i guess almost billionaire um sitting up here harboring people in the house allegedly like that's crazy to me like at 3 a.m because i think his neighbor was like i don't know who this man was but he the cameras the paparazzi was outside and they he was yelling out a car about um how uh
00:49:10
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It gets wild at 3 a.m.
00:49:12
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how there's kids, you know, minors coming off the buses and like all of this and that and the third.
00:49:18
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And it's just like so just repulsive and nasty.
00:49:22
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Like, I don't know how people can live with themselves, honestly.
00:49:27
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And again, I think him admitting that was... Again, it's interesting how people... There's this bystander effect, but there's also this amplified version of... Oh, I know this person is into some shit, and I could get pew-pewed.
00:49:47
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But again, I just be feeling like I gotta stand on something sometimes.
00:49:50
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And I don't know.
00:49:51
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I feel like that's probably why people don't be liking me, because I'd be like...
00:49:55
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Shit just don't, like, be making me... Like, I be feeling like Emma Nelson from Degrassi.
00:50:00
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Like, I'm doing a Degrassi rewatch right now.
00:50:04
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But I be feeling like her when it comes to shit like this.
00:50:10
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Because I'm like, if you don't stand for nothing...
00:50:12
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then what do you stand for?
00:50:14
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Like, I have to, like, in my brain, like, I have to believe that, like, even if something doesn't work out in this life, there has to be something else.
00:50:24
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Like, there can't, that can't just be the end.
00:50:26
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Like, life and death just cycle and cycle and cycle, just like the seasons.
00:50:33
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And I feel like...
00:50:38
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people are so attached to the material world that it's scary to think that like, okay, if I die, then like, that's it lights out.
00:50:47
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But I don't know, like, I just feel like we need to do a better job of looking out for each other.
00:50:52
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And that's kind of where it boils down to of even if it's like, you know,
00:51:02
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It's been years.
00:51:03
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Like, it's been years.
00:51:06
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And a lot of this shit has been kind of blatantly obvious or just kind of out in the open or speculation or whatever.
00:51:14
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But no one's really done anything.
00:51:16
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And I also just kind of look at our government sometimes.
00:51:18
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I'm like, what the fuck is happening?
00:51:20
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Because it takes forever for someone to get acute or to get, first of all, to get even on trial.
00:51:27
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Yeah.
00:51:30
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The legal system is so imperfect.
00:51:33
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It just takes forever to get anything done, yet we can get the National Guard shipped out to a city in no time.
00:51:43
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It's not adding up to me.
00:51:46
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I mean, that's just me.
00:51:47
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Again, I don't claim to know everything.
00:51:51
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maybe someone could, you know, educate me or point me to the right sources or whatever.
00:51:55
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And I'll read up on it, but I just be feeling like shit.
00:51:59
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Don't just add up to me.
00:52:00
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It just seems so contradictory as to what happens in the world and who gets punished, who doesn't get punished.
00:52:10
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And even things getting slid under the rug, um,
00:52:17
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Because it's going to be whether it's like too much for the American citizen to handle and they're not going to be able to do this.
00:52:23
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And it's going to lose faith in the system.
00:52:25
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Like it just it all ends up being fake.
00:52:27
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And I think people value the truth.
00:52:29
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And I think that we value when the collective I think values when justice is served.
00:52:36
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I think most people do want to live in a world that is peaceful and that is loving, caring, where we look out for each other.
00:52:46
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But I think like just so much has happened to where shit is just so fucked up right now.
00:52:51
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Like it is just so bad and so much stuff is just going unnoticed.
00:52:57
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So, yeah, I also feel like the gay stuff is like shrouding people's
00:53:06
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view of this whole thing because it's like setting this tone for this discourse around people not understanding that like this man, you know, allegedly drugged and
00:53:20
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raped and, you know, trafficked people like and blackmail people, you know, just to keep up this like sadistic lifestyle lifestyle.
00:53:32
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It just feels like it's a red herring, like everyone's falling.
00:53:37
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Everyone that is homophobic is falling for the red herring because at the core, if you really look at it, being gay is
00:53:45
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you know, with, like, two consenting men that are of age...
00:53:52
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you know, even if they were consenting teenagers, but they both have to be teenagers, like it can't be no fucking weird shit like being 25 and 16.
00:54:03
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Like, that's fucking crazy.
00:54:07
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It can't be anything like that.
00:54:08
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But I feel like if it's two consenting people of the same, you know, around the same age, I feel like it's
00:54:18
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Like, what does that have to do with you?
00:54:19
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Like, that doesn't do anything to you.
00:54:21
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No one's harmed.
00:54:23
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No one's impacted by your decision to be with who you want to be.
00:54:28
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It does not involve you.
00:54:29
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It does not do anything for you.
00:54:31
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But the idea of being gay or at least homosexual or whatever, like, you know, for two men to...
00:54:42
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almost like surrender their quote unquote masculinity card.
00:54:45
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When again, like these are all of these concepts are things that we make up.
00:54:49
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Like we make up what a gender role is.
00:54:51
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Like we make up what a societal norm is.
00:54:56
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But again, it's like just this idea that like, oh, you would give, you know, your masculinity card up just so that you can be with another man.
00:55:06
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It's like, yeah,
00:55:07
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Girl, bye.
00:55:08
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Like, get out of my fucking business.
00:55:10
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Like, I don't got the fucking time.
00:55:13
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Leave me the fuck alone.
00:55:14
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You know?
00:55:16
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I just get, it's so annoying.
00:55:23
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Let me see.
00:55:26
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Oh, also, I thought it was funny.
00:55:27
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The last thing I'm gonna talk about is just I thought it was funny about the whole thing with young Miami and how she like literally today, the day of the raid.
00:55:38
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She's like on Twitter talking about, oh, Santana puts, you know, chose some wig out for me or whatever.
00:55:45
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And I'm aggravated because I hate it or whatever.
00:55:48
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While this is literally happening, like while TMZ is,
00:55:52
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is live like on diddy's house as the kids are coming out she just like that's like a real aquarius right there like just to be like not even focusing on the shit or like tweeting during the actual the bad shit that's happening like i feel like
00:56:16
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that might be something I would do.
00:56:19
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Like, I thought that was hilarious.
00:56:20
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And then the fact when somebody was like, Carisha girl, where are you at?
00:56:25
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And she was like, I'm right here.
00:56:27
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I'm like, girl, stop.
00:56:30
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I thought that was funny.
00:56:31
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I'm interested to know how much of a part she's maybe been involved in all of this.
00:56:37
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I feel like
00:56:40
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There was a whole thing about her being, you know, one of Diddy's quote unquote sex workers.
00:56:45
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Again, another red herring, a thing that, you know, people just seem to want to care about.
00:56:52
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And again, it's men, you know, they're like, oh, well, you know, why do you when, you know, women are sex workers, why is a man always blamed and blah, blah, blah, and X, Y, and Z?
00:57:04
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And I'm like, yeah.
00:57:05
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Because he did fucked up shit.
00:57:07
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Like, that's why.
00:57:08
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Like, that's end of story.
00:57:11
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He did fucked up shit.
00:57:12
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And I imagine me and my coworker were talking about this.
00:57:15
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And I imagine that she probably didn't know.
00:57:19
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Like, you know, there's this allegation that she was transporting those, like, pink pills that we, you know, that Diddy...
00:57:30
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had or whatever, the ecstasy and cocaine pills, and how she probably was transporting them but didn't know.
00:57:39
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Like, she was probably a drug mule.
00:57:42
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He's probably like, oh, you know, grab that bag for me right quick, you know, or take that bag with you when you go to, you know, such and such and so and so.
00:57:52
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And she probably just was like, again, like, I just see, I see how you can easily fall into the trap
00:57:59
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Of that, I'm not really sure like how that works if you are from the streets.
00:58:06
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But I also kind of feel like.
00:58:09
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Again, that's why JT was like, and I'm glad someone said this out loud because I was a little scared to say it myself, but I just noticed it too.
00:58:18
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I'm like, JT's got her own songs coming out.
00:58:21
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She's got a tour coming up.
00:58:23
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She's been in social media photos by herself.
00:58:27
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And I think I didn't want to say it because I didn't want to come off as...
00:58:37
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I don't know.
00:58:38
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I didn't want to speculate because the thing is, is that if it was my friend, like I would still want to love them from a distance if they was in some fucked up shit like that.
00:58:47
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Or if I could recognize the shit and like try to convince them, pull them out or get them out or whatever, and they just still weren't seeing it.
00:58:56
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I think for me, I would be like, all right, well, I got to kind of distance myself.
00:58:59
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Like, I went to jail or prison before.
00:59:02
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Like, I can't do this again.
00:59:04
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I can't be mixed up in this shit.
00:59:06
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So I feel like that is the reason why she's been pulling away.
00:59:12
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Now, she hasn't made a statement or said anything.
00:59:13
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I don't think she needs to.
00:59:16
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But I don't think they're not friends because of that.
00:59:21
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Like, I think it's just...
00:59:23
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JT was seeing stuff and she was just like, girl, I don't like that.
00:59:27
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And I got to get up out of here because I ain't going back to the feds.
00:59:32
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I'm not getting clink clinked, none of that.
00:59:35
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So yeah, I just kind of feel like it is what it is with that.
00:59:42
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Yeah, that's it for the news topics.
00:59:45
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Moving into the rest of Quiet On Set, I don't have too much to say about this.
00:59:48
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I kind of wrote some stuff out, but I also don't really...
00:59:53
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I just kind of want to highlight the key points.
00:59:55
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And I don't even know what I do with my book because I forgot to write this stuff down in my notes.
00:59:59
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But just off the dome, let's see.
01:00:06
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Off the dome.
01:00:07
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We're just going to go right off the dome.
01:00:09
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And I forgot I had this golden crust.
01:00:15
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Jamaican style spicy patty, beef patty sitting right next to me.
01:00:21
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I can't wait to eat this.
01:00:22
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It's beyond me.
01:00:25
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It is not promo or nothing.
01:00:28
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Like literally probably be the last time I ever say this, but I
01:00:34
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They make these like vegan beef patties by Golden Crust.
01:00:39
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And they are so fucking good.
01:00:40
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They're only in like a few stores.
01:00:42
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But if you can find them bitches, I definitely recommend.
01:00:46
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They are so fucking good.
01:00:47
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Takes forever for them bitches to cool down.
01:00:49
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But they are so fucking good.
01:00:52
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All right.
01:00:54
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Yeah.
01:00:54
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So I'm kind of looking right off the, just right off the dome.
01:00:57
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We just kind of go in like making it like referring a little bit, but we not doing too much.
01:01:02
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Cause I can't with this whole thing again.
01:01:05
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So the rest of the documentary, like it kind of talked about Drake and what did talk about Drake and that relationship with the, you know,
01:01:19
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with Brian Peck.
01:01:22
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I hate that he has the same last name as Josh Peck.
01:01:26
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That bothers me.
01:01:28
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I don't know.
01:01:28
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Does that bother anyone else?
01:01:29
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That bothers me.
01:01:31
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It's like, I know y'all aren't related, but it almost feels like too coincidental, you know, because of the way in which, you know, nepotism works and things like that.
01:01:42
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So, yeah, that was bugging the shit out of me.
01:01:46
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But anyway,
01:01:49
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Drake talked about how he would be invited to his house, how the relationship between him and his dad started to erode because of Brian Peck trying to force his way into Drake's life to the point where his dad...
01:02:15
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He told his dad, he was like, I don't want you to be my manager anymore.
01:02:18
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And his mom ended up managing him.
01:02:20
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And the dad gave this warning of if you, you know, whatever you do, like, even at the, I'll give it up, whatever, I'm not going to fight this or whatever, but.
01:02:31
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Um, even if you, you know, do manage him, like keep him away from Brian.
01:02:37
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But of course the mom was not as hands-on as the dad.
01:02:43
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And a lot of, you know, this abuse started because of that.
01:02:47
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And Drake was getting older.
01:02:49
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He was like 15 at the time of when this first started happening.
01:02:54
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And it's just, um,
01:02:57
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so disgusting and sick how people like him can just work on a set and oh my god he was in the return of the living dead no i love that movie oh god i just want to like lose my fucking mind um the funny thing is i'll be recognizing people until like later on um
01:03:28
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Damn, I fucking can't.
01:03:30
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Like, that's nasty shit.
01:03:35
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What?
01:03:39
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Hold the fuck up.
01:03:44
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Hold the fuck up.
01:03:45
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I'm just reading some shit that I not.
01:03:47
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That is not sitting well with me.
01:03:54
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Why was he hired to do, after prison, hired to be on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody?
01:04:01
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Like, he did a voiceover for three episodes.
01:04:04
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but was later fired by Disney executives after they learned of his conviction.
01:04:09
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Like, this is the shit I'm talking about.
01:04:12
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Like, this shit is, like, driving me insane because it's not right to me how, like, social workers and, you know, medical staff get held to this standard of...
01:04:25
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working with kids and you know you can't have this like child abuse record and yada yada yada it's not that I'm mad about it I'm just mad that other people aren't held to that standard too because I think that should be universal like you can't
01:04:39
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have a history of child abuse or be a sex offender working with a child as a social worker.
01:04:47
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Like that could never happen because the laws would never let that happen.
01:04:52
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I don't understand how in the industry, like working in the industry, we don't have social workers or therapists, counselors, coaches, like nobody that has a mandated reporting responsibility.
01:05:09
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to be on these sets.
01:05:10
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But again, it comes down to money.
01:05:12
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It comes down to places like Nickelodeon.
01:05:16
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They are big corporations that have a bunch of money.
01:05:21
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They're not going to do a background check because they don't really, you know, they want talent that's going to sell.
01:05:28
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Like they don't want to turn someone, someone away that is going to be very profitable to them.
01:05:35
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And, um,
01:05:36
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That is fucked up because then things like this happen where the children suffer.
Protecting Child Actors in Entertainment
01:05:43
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Whether it's physical, verbal, emotional, sexual abuse.
01:05:47
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Like, it's really just nasty and fucked up.
01:05:51
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Like, I don't know.
01:05:53
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And then to get fired, like, he already probably done got the money, like, convicted.
01:06:00
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They eventually replaced his voice and his lines and all of that.
01:06:03
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But they just, like, it's just, like, why even waste that time?
01:06:07
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Like, you might as well do a background check.
01:06:10
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See what the fuck is going on.
01:06:12
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If it was if you have to work with kids, because the thing is, too, like, if you work with kids, like whatever set, I think they said this in the documentary, but whatever set you work on, at some point, there's going to be a child on that set.
01:06:25
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So if everyone's not clear, like some, you got to get off, like you got to get written off the show or.
01:06:32
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taken out something's got to happen because that's not okay like that's not all right um again i don't know if like it's just like i don't know people just don't be giving a fuck about kids the way in which they claim like that's just it people won't be giving a fuck about kids um
01:06:58
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I feel like the dad, Drake's dad.
01:07:01
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Oh, my God.
01:07:03
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I hate when that experience happened to him where he talked about how his dad, when he told his dad about him getting a B or no about how the, you know, Brian Peck was fired because he was, you know, a creep.
01:07:16
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Yeah.
01:07:18
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how his dad was just like, oh my God, like I knew it, I knew it.
01:07:22
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And I'm so glad it wasn't you.
01:07:25
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And that to me cuts deep because you hold, that puts again, like so much responsibility on the child to decide whether or not they're going to tell you.
01:07:40
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And then
01:07:44
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Either decision is hard.
01:07:45
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Like to say something like that out loud.
01:07:49
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I know that sometimes we think things like that or whatever, but I feel like saying something out loud like that or making an assumption of that nature is just so harmful because...
01:08:02
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Again, you live with this guilt of, damn, my dad knew this guy was a fucking creep.
01:08:08
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And I broke up our relationship or drew the line in the sand because of this person.
01:08:16
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And...
01:08:18
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Now he's like really upset and like, you know, I have mixed feelings essentially about how, you know, I'm happy this guy got put away, but now my dad is disappointed.
01:08:31
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And it's like feeling again, like it's you're taking on that burden.
01:08:34
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So me personally, I just feel like, again, watch what you say, because that's another thing.
01:08:40
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Yeah.
01:08:42
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the girlfriend's mom was the one that caught all of the, or at least picked up on that something was going on, which again, it takes one good like adult to just be asking questions, like trying to figure out stuff.
01:08:59
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I remember we were like, I was in a situation like this at one, one of my jobs, but I'm trying to figure out how a 14 year old got herpes.
01:09:10
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And that was like,
01:09:12
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Like some, it was wild because it kind of opened my eyes to how I, you know, did evaluations with children, especially teenagers.
01:09:24
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Because teenagers, like, I used to hear about people doing stuff in middle or in high school, um,
01:09:31
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And some stuff that was like very not up to par, like in 20 something, a mid 20 something dating a teenager.
01:09:39
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Like I would know stuff about this, but I would be in a position where I'm like, I feel like, is that normal?
01:09:46
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Is that not normal?
01:09:48
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Um, you like, and when you're a teenager, you always think about like what it's like to date someone that's older.
01:09:57
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But you don't really, like, you're not responsible, like, for that.
01:10:01
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Like, you know, if you tell someone, you tell an adult and the adult decides to file a report.
01:10:07
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But I feel like even in my situation where I knew a classmate that was dating somebody in their 20s, like, people knew but didn't do anything.
01:10:14
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Like, adults knew and didn't really do anything about it in retrospect.
01:10:18
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Which was fucked up.
01:10:20
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Again, because as I look back on that, I'm like...
01:10:23
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I was like, oh my God, you have enough, like at 16, I'm like, oh my God, you have an older boyfriend, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:10:27
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And like, he has a car and yada, yada, yada.
01:10:30
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But then it's like, you look back and you just be like, why the fuck was he interested in you?
01:10:35
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Like, that's my adult brain kicking in.
01:10:37
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Like, full frontal lobe developed, nasty, disgusting.
01:10:42
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Like, why was he into you?
01:10:43
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Why all of that?
01:10:46
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And oh my God, the student teacher situation at my school.
01:10:51
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I'm not going to bring that up, but
01:10:54
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that whole thing.
01:10:55
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Ciao.
01:10:56
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Um...
01:10:59
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But it reminded me, at least of the parental part, their relationship being fractured, as Brian Herney and his mom had talked about how their relationship was fractured because he was basically essentially not... His contract didn't get renewed when she started to speak up.
01:11:18
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And again, this is another tactic.
01:11:21
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Even though Dan Schneider, he didn't, to our knowledge, molest anyone...
01:11:28
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or sexually assault anyone, it's again, a tactic that
01:11:35
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he used that Brian Peck used, which is to create division between whether it was intentional or not intentional to create division between parent and child, um, by causing resentment, uh, you know, trying to get the parent to stop being so overbearing, trying to get the parent to shut up and stay in their place, be manipulative and gaslight, uh,
01:12:02
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All of those things.
01:12:03
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So I feel like that was like such a interesting kind of overlap between those two families.
01:12:11
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And one was for racial racial discrimination and the other was for sexual assault.
01:12:18
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Like that's wild.
01:12:19
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Yeah.
01:12:21
Speaker
Again, the females or the women, of course, weren't safe when it came to Dan Schneider.
01:12:32
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It seemed like he congratulated or not congratulated.
01:12:35
Speaker
Damn, that's not the word.
01:12:37
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Empathized with Drake.
01:12:41
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more so than he did in any other case because he was still ragging on women like very bad.
01:12:51
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And he was just doing all of these like sexual innuendos with minors.
01:12:58
Speaker
Like it wasn't, it's like he hated women so much that he was able to
01:13:06
Speaker
almost like sympathize, I should say not empathize, but sympathize for Drake because he hates, again, you know, women.
Dan Schneider Allegations
01:13:17
Speaker
And I imagine he's probably on some level, you know, homophobic and I know definitely misogynistic.
01:13:25
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And the idea of, you know, a man violating a boy is, even though it's not
01:13:35
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Gay behavior.
01:13:37
Speaker
It's like, I mean, the same sex, whatever, but it's not consensual.
01:13:42
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Like, it's abuse.
01:13:44
Speaker
You know, it's not this thing of...
01:13:52
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you can't ever be like they would never do this with a guy where they would be like if i feel like if the role was reversed um or if drake was a girl um i feel like the people would start being like questioning oh how was she dressing like how was she presenting how was she you know doing this than the other or she always seemed to be blah blah blah whatever like they would come up with these like
01:14:18
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things or these reasonings and to blame women, but because Drake's a boy and, you know, a straight man, like, didn't want this, um, you know, to happen to him or, you know, didn't, um, you know, we just discouraged, like, those acts between, um,
01:14:40
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the male species.
01:14:41
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Like, I feel like he gets sympathy points for, from Dan because of that, but he still continues to torture the girls on his set with the vulgar, nasty sexual innuendos.
01:15:00
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Um, yeah,
01:15:01
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And really playing into that, like, sex horny teenager factor.
01:15:05
Speaker
Like, that was interesting to watch.
01:15:08
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Alexa, I forget her last name.
01:15:11
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It's like Nica Cola.
01:15:13
Speaker
But she was on Zoe 101, and she felt so uncomfortable around Dan.
01:15:19
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She was like, I would not return back for after the second season.
01:15:22
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And I remember that.
01:15:24
Speaker
Like, I remember being like, oh, my God, I love Nicole, her character on the show.
01:15:28
Speaker
I love Nicole.
01:15:29
Speaker
Where is she at?
01:15:30
Speaker
Like, oh, my God, I miss her.
01:15:31
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Like, yada, yada, yada.
01:15:33
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And it was because she felt so uncomfortable around him.
01:15:36
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Like, she felt like she was crying.
01:15:38
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She, like...
01:15:41
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somehow knew that the stuff that he was having her do was just very inappropriate um very derogatory and very sexual and that like just nasty um they talked about the goo that was spit that was shot out on uh jamie lee's face and i'm just like when you look back at stuff like that you just be like damn like
01:16:07
Speaker
As an adult, like you really, it just makes you think.
01:16:11
Speaker
It makes you think about, you know, being a child.
01:16:14
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It makes you think about seeing that stuff and just maybe not brushing it off or not thinking too much into it because you think, again, like adults are supposed to protect you and they're not going to do something so horrible like that.
01:16:30
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You know, you think about that as a child because you're supposed to, you're told that you're supposed to trust adults.
01:16:39
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, I just, no, it was very hard to watch, especially cause I wanted to go to, uh, what's that place?
01:16:50
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Um, PCA.
01:16:52
Speaker
Cause that was a beautiful ass campus, beautiful ass school.
01:16:55
Speaker
Like I would have loved to have gone there, um, away from parents.
01:16:59
Speaker
Again, that's like another thing, another theme being away from your, from your parents, having this like
01:17:05
Speaker
autonomy the teachers are barely around they went to class but their teachers were like barely around uh when they were walking campus like late at night um i guess this was a school where you could literally walk around late at night and not get in trouble for it like it was college for for i guess high schooler middle schoolers
01:17:28
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Which was very odd.
01:17:29
Speaker
Like that, you know, wouldn't exist in real life.
01:17:33
Speaker
That's that's very odd.
01:17:35
Speaker
But it was as a kid, it looks enticing because.
01:17:39
Speaker
You know, when you're a kid around that age, your parents suck.
01:17:41
Speaker
Like you don't want your parents to really be around.
01:17:43
Speaker
You want to be around your friends and you want to be more adult.
01:17:47
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You want to have these like, you know, experiences that you probably should wait for until you are an adult to have those experiences.
01:17:58
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So, yeah, I just want to see if there's anything else.
01:18:08
Speaker
Um, not too much else, honestly.
01:18:12
Speaker
Oh, I do, I did, will say, look, this is maybe one of the, um...
01:18:19
Speaker
things I feel like that resonated with me.
01:18:24
Speaker
But I also feel like, is this reaching the people that see it?
01:18:28
Speaker
So like the actual like producers, the board, the people that are, you know, the managers, the people that are in charge of hiring these people, is this impactful for them?
01:18:40
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Is it like, they're just like, okay, whatever, you know,
01:18:45
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It's eye-opening for us.
01:18:46
Speaker
And again, I think that's where we come in because we give our attention to these shows.
01:18:52
Speaker
I think that by us making statements of being like, I'm not supporting them, I'm not...
01:19:00
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I'm not sending my kid to Nick Studios, blah, blah, blah, XYZ.
01:19:04
Speaker
Like, I'm not doing none of that.
01:19:05
Speaker
Even though I don't think Nick Studios exists anymore.
01:19:07
Speaker
But I'm not going to be supporting a company that does some shit like that.
01:19:12
Speaker
Like, you're not watching Nickelodeon.
01:19:14
Speaker
Fuck that shit.
01:19:14
Speaker
Because they barely fucking apologize.
01:19:16
Speaker
Like, they...
01:19:18
Speaker
was like, oh, we're doing things differently now.
01:19:20
Speaker
And it's like, well, y'all should have been doing it before.
01:19:22
Speaker
Bye.
01:19:23
Speaker
And who's going to check y'all?
01:19:25
Speaker
So I feel like by the public not tuning in to a documentary such as this, I feel like, or not a documentary, a network such as this, like it starts to create this chatter around like, how do we
01:19:46
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Moving forward, ensure protection for children and make these figures visible.
01:19:53
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And do background checks.
01:19:55
Speaker
Like, hello, like it doesn't, like your billion dollar, million dollar company, whatever, you can afford to screen every single employee for a child abuse clearance or whatever.
01:20:08
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Some kind of a background check or something of these people, especially if they're going to be working so closely with children like any prior history.
01:20:17
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There should be staff on site that are monitoring the relationships that are happening that are like.
01:20:27
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If you see like a kid wrapping their arms around an adult's waist for too long and like it's not just like a regular hug or even if like putting hugs on the back, like we can't hug each other up in here.
01:20:39
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Like none of that.
01:20:40
Speaker
Like I just feel like there needs to be boundaries and people that enforce those boundaries to make sure that.
01:20:50
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Kids are safe.
01:20:52
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Point blank, period.
01:20:53
Speaker
That's it.
01:20:55
Speaker
That's all.
01:20:57
Speaker
Moving on.
01:21:00
Speaker
What was the other thing I had to talk about in the media lab?
01:21:02
Speaker
I had a couple other things, but I'm just.
01:21:05
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Oh, I wanted to talk about Pet Sematary as well, but I feel like that could be held for a different conversation.
01:21:14
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I'm going to just keep this on.
01:21:18
Speaker
My radar to talk about because I feel like I still have other stuff I want to talk about when it comes to Pet Sematary.
01:21:23
Speaker
I just need to do some more research a little bit, too.
01:21:28
Speaker
But it was a good movie.
01:21:29
Speaker
I was the first time I watched it this past weekend.
01:21:31
Speaker
I watched that.
01:21:34
Speaker
When a Stranger Calls, the 2006 version.
01:21:37
Speaker
I've seen the 1970-something version, which I really enjoyed.
01:21:45
Speaker
And this one I didn't not enjoy either.
01:21:47
Speaker
It was pretty good.
01:21:48
Speaker
I just felt like when the phone kept ringing, I just would have been like...
01:21:52
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Come get me.
01:21:53
Speaker
Like, tell him pull up because you just want to come fucking get me.
01:21:57
Speaker
Come fucking find me.
01:21:59
Speaker
Like, I'm gonna have my weapon ready in the fucking corner and you just like to fucking come in and try to get me because I'm not going to keep answering the fucking phone for you to be fucking weird and breathing on the phone like that shit was pissing me off.
01:22:11
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Um, and I also watched, uh, what was the other movie I got Cujo?
01:22:17
Speaker
I watched Cujo as well, which was, um, an interesting watch.
01:22:21
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Uh, I didn't know this, but it was about, I was doing research about that one too online and it was, uh, about, or at least a metaphor for Stephen King's addiction issues, which I thought that was kind of interesting.
01:22:36
Speaker
Um, yeah.
01:22:37
Speaker
I know some about Stephen King, but not a lot.
01:22:40
Speaker
Like, I know mainly, like, stuff about when it comes to these books and movies, but I don't know too much about him.
01:22:48
Speaker
And then also, I wanted to talk about briefly, Cakes to Killah and Tiara Weck.
01:22:54
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They both put out albums this month.
01:22:56
Speaker
Really good albums.
01:22:57
Speaker
I like on Tiara Weck's album...
01:23:05
Speaker
The latter part of the album more, I think so.
01:23:09
Speaker
Uh...
Tiara Weck's Album Review
01:23:12
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I love the imagery of the Joker card and the moon.
01:23:20
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On the back of the vinyl, there's a thing that's kind of set up like the moon, and it has the different... It's almost like astrology, the way it's set up, the back of the cover.
01:23:35
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I really enjoy the way that looks.
01:23:40
Speaker
I also enjoy...
01:23:44
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My favorite songs, I would say, are Movies, Difficult, Club, 27 Club, and Numb and Misbehaved.
01:23:54
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I think those are all really good songs.
01:23:56
Speaker
I'm trying to figure out.
01:23:59
Speaker
I feel like...
01:24:03
Speaker
after numb on the album until like around x or movies is that like that couple run of songs or few songs that run between those uh those tracks on the album are a little meh to me like i'm not as um tapped into them but as a whole i enjoyed the album and um
01:24:31
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Again, 15 songs.
01:24:34
Speaker
Philadelphia, shout out to her.
01:24:36
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Really emotional album, too.
01:24:37
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That was the other thing about this album.
01:24:39
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This album is very heavy.
01:24:41
Speaker
I know I've been reading a lot of or watching people talk about the way emotions come out in this album.
01:24:48
Speaker
And I almost feel like when...
01:24:55
Speaker
Because I can't listen to 27 Club without feeling like I'm going to cry.
01:24:59
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It's almost to the point where if I listen to that song when I'm really depressed, I might start bawling.
01:25:05
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So every time it comes on on the album, like when I had the album on repeat, whenever the song comes on, I start to feel really emotional because of the tone of the song and then the lyrics as well.
01:25:20
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Um, people are, you know, I've been saying that like, wow, I think that song was, you know, it should have hit me more, but it didn't.
01:25:25
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But I just feel like when you're going through something like depression, um, suicidal thoughts, and especially if you're currently going through that, it's like really impactful to me.
01:25:42
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Um, or if it lands a certain way for me, uh, to, uh,
01:25:51
Speaker
Oh, I'm gonna read this later.
01:25:52
Speaker
But it's just really impactful to me because like as someone that struggles with depression, someone that goes through this kind of like cycling pattern of being fine one moment.
01:26:04
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And that's what I like about the album.
01:26:06
Speaker
There's times where it's like kind of goofy and like silly and, you know, very Tierra Whack.
01:26:11
Speaker
And even the sad parts are like very Tierra Whack.
01:26:15
Speaker
Like they're very...
01:26:18
Speaker
I feel like she's not the person that's going to be like Alana Del Rey and just completely fall apart behind the microphone.
01:26:29
Speaker
There's going to be some quirkiness behind the
01:26:36
Speaker
pain because that's how i feel like black people have dealt with it like we've dealt with pain in this way of like we just kind of laugh it off and it's not going to be this like one linear way of how we feel about ourselves or you know see our situations like i'm always making fucking like dark jokes or um
01:27:01
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And I know that's kind of like all, you know, like it makes people kind of be like, like a little nervous.
01:27:05
Speaker
But like, that's the only way I feel like I know I can deal with the pain sometimes is by saying something that's really off the wall crazy because...
01:27:18
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Well, one, I think it's funny, and it's my pain.
01:27:22
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I can fucking laugh at it if I want to, to cope.
01:27:27
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And again, I just feel like everyone's situations or ways of dealing with things are different, so it's not...
01:27:35
Speaker
Like, it's not going to be a thing where she is, you know, going to present a specific way or the lyrics are going to present in a specific way to tell a very, like, depressing story.
01:27:49
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There's going to be some twinge or some quirk in there that makes the appeal of it different.
01:27:56
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And that's, again, that's the artistry.
01:27:58
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That's how her art works.
01:28:00
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Yeah.
01:28:02
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And I got it.
01:28:02
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It landed for me.
01:28:04
Speaker
The other album that came out was Black Sheep by Cakes the Killer.
Cakes Da Killa's Artistic Recognition
01:28:10
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Really good album.
01:28:12
Speaker
I love how grown and sexy it is.
01:28:16
Speaker
I love Cakes the Killer.
01:28:17
Speaker
He should be where Santana is at.
01:28:19
Speaker
I'm just going to say it.
01:28:21
Speaker
I think a lot of people...
01:28:24
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love Santana because of how messy he can be and how I guess on some level that's relatable but Cakes to Killah is also very relatable and a really good rapper like that's I think that he would wrap circles around Santana I hate to say it but he would
01:28:45
Speaker
And I can understand his feelings of resentment towards the industry and the public.
01:28:53
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Sometimes he tweets about feeling this need from the public to be more mainstream.
01:29:00
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And I know he could do it if he wanted to.
01:29:03
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If he really wanted to, he probably could.
01:29:05
Speaker
But when you're a real artist, you don't just sell out.
01:29:09
Speaker
You don't just...
01:29:11
Speaker
say, fuck it.
01:29:11
Speaker
Like, I'm just going to do what everyone else is doing just to get streams or to get sales or to get tours or whatever, brand deals and stuff like that.
01:29:19
Speaker
Like, you just keep doing you.
01:29:21
Speaker
You keep plugging along.
01:29:23
Speaker
And then, you know, maybe one day, like...
01:29:26
Speaker
You find more people to that are going to listen to you or connect to you or maybe not.
01:29:32
Speaker
You just have your people.
01:29:33
Speaker
And that's that's that in that.
01:29:35
Speaker
That's how I kind of feel about my podcast.
01:29:37
Speaker
I'm like, if it ever got to a point where I got more followers or more people, that's well, cool and fine.
01:29:44
Speaker
But like, I'm also cool with the people that are here.
01:29:46
Speaker
So.
01:29:49
Speaker
You know, that's how I feel about that.
01:29:51
Speaker
But yeah, that album, Black Sheep, really good.
01:29:57
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My favorites on there are Mind Reader, Global Entries.
01:30:01
Speaker
Oh my God, that's one of my favorites on the album.
01:30:04
Speaker
I love the part when he is like, and it's like literally like 20...
01:30:11
Speaker
20, I think it's the last like 20 seconds of the song where he just is like, you know, spitting his shit going off.
01:30:23
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I can't even think of the lyrics off the top of my head, but it's, yeah, they not even on nothing yet.
01:30:31
Speaker
That's crazy.
01:30:32
Speaker
They're not even on Apple music.
01:30:34
Speaker
That is wild.
01:30:36
Speaker
I was just going to say the lyrics, but
01:30:41
Speaker
The last 20 seconds of that song is my favorite.
01:30:43
Speaker
But the whole I love the whole song and I love then the transition into downtown J. Catwalk and crushing in the club crushing in the club is so much fun.
01:30:53
Speaker
Like I kind of like that one, too, because it's very flirty.
01:31:01
Speaker
It's like a, it's a little, it's a doubt.
01:31:03
Speaker
Like it feels adult.
01:31:04
Speaker
Like it feels grown and sexy.
01:31:07
Speaker
Um, a lot of this album reminds me of, uh, Sven Garley or Sven Garley.
01:31:13
Speaker
Am I saying that right?
01:31:14
Speaker
Um, that album is good.
01:31:16
Speaker
I didn't listen to that album until last year, honestly.
01:31:20
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Um, cause Cakes To Kill It had gotten away from me a little bit, mainly cause I was, you know, into a lot of, uh,
01:31:27
Speaker
I went through a really wild rock phase where I was like really into rock for like getting into a lot of old school rock and 90s rock.
01:31:37
Speaker
I was, you know, getting into Korn and...
01:31:43
Speaker
different artists that like I, you know, metal artists that like I had not really listened to, um, before like Korn.
01:31:50
Speaker
I never listened to Korn for example.
01:31:52
Speaker
And I was like, okay, I kind of relate to this because it's really feeling like my mood.
01:31:57
Speaker
And I feel like this year has been my year where I've been giving more of my attention to, uh, black artists.
01:32:05
Speaker
So R and B, uh, hip hop, um,
01:32:13
Speaker
This album, Dance, Electronic.
Black Artists & Creative Inspiration
01:32:17
Speaker
You know, so I'm giving, like, pop.
01:32:19
Speaker
Like, I'm giving more of my attention to a lot more Black artists, whether mainstream or not.
01:32:26
Speaker
And, you know, it feels like I'm finding so much more creative energy.
01:32:33
Speaker
expression
Cakes Da Killa's Musical Evolution
01:32:34
Speaker
or ideas, even for myself, like as I'm doing this or as I'm going through this like journey through different Black artists' catalogs.
01:32:46
Speaker
And Case to Kill It, like he, Svingali came out in 2022, so I wasn't too late to, you know, catch one last year.
01:32:56
Speaker
But even on that album, I look at songs like
01:33:01
Speaker
rabbit hole into Sven Garley.
01:33:03
Speaker
Like that song is so good.
01:33:05
Speaker
And like, I just, I just feel like there needs to be more cakes to kill.
01:33:10
Speaker
Like, sorry, point blank period.
01:33:13
Speaker
He's one of the best rappers, I think, in the game.
01:33:18
Speaker
And I love this kind of switch to being he's not as like hardcore, like, or not as like,
01:33:28
Speaker
spit and fire in the same way that he was when he was first coming out.
01:33:34
Speaker
It was very like,
01:33:37
Speaker
Lil' Kim, Nicki-inspired kind of rap.
01:33:43
Speaker
And I feel like now he's kind of carving out his own lane in music.
01:33:51
Speaker
And that's exciting.
01:33:53
Speaker
I think it's exciting to see his progress.
01:33:55
Speaker
I don't know why all his albums aren't on Apple Music.
Nostalgia for Mixtapes
01:34:03
Speaker
But I got a couple of the mixtapes from the mixtape days.
01:34:08
Speaker
Like the real, listen, the real remember Easy Bake Oven.
01:34:14
Speaker
Like if you was there, like you remember Easy Bake Oven, that's my shit.
01:34:17
Speaker
Like I'll put that on sometimes.
01:34:19
Speaker
And it's just, that EP was just so good.
01:34:26
Speaker
That one.
01:34:29
Speaker
And then what's the other one?
01:34:33
Speaker
Oh, the eulogy.
01:34:34
Speaker
That one, that's, I think that one is on, um, it might be on there, but it might not be on there.
01:34:40
Speaker
I know like they have like cakes to kill essentials or something like that, but that's not the same.
01:34:45
Speaker
Like you got a killer extent essentials.
01:34:47
Speaker
Like you had to just be there.
01:34:49
Speaker
Like there's some songs that were on the eulogy and on, um, the other tape, uh,
Artist Recognition on Social Media
01:35:01
Speaker
hunger pains which again like and hunger pains i don't even think that one is on the cakes to kill essentials i'm rambling but i'm just kind of looking at this right now and i'm just like hunger pains is my shit like that is my fucking song i don't know how that didn't uh end up on um apple music but i digress um there needs to be more cakes to kill and um i'm so glad that
01:35:29
Speaker
mixtapes um if you got them you got them you know if you missed out you maybe could find them but you know yikes if you can't um also one more thing before I move on I just want to say that uh
01:35:45
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Someone had mentioned, I saw that Khalif, formerly known as Leaf, had reposted someone that had said, now I'm just going to be like, not trying to be shady, not trying to whatever.
01:35:59
Speaker
But like, I know he reposted some white guy that was talking about Dark York and...
01:36:07
Speaker
praised like how futuristic the album was or something of that nature, but he praised the album and, um, he responded in like a positive way about it.
01:36:17
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It seemed to me, um, reading it, um, responded positively, positively to it.
01:36:23
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But when I said a few years ago on my old Twitter account, um,
01:36:28
Speaker
that I was really into that album still and how good it held up.
01:36:33
Speaker
Because it still holds up to this day.
01:36:36
Speaker
I don't know if you're going to be able to find Dark York, but it's really good.
01:36:40
Speaker
I think he just said something along the lines of, it sounds like something about a washing machine or like...
01:36:48
Speaker
The sound quality is bad, which is not, I mean, it's not false.
01:36:53
Speaker
The sound quality isn't great, but I think it was very ahead of its time.
01:36:58
Speaker
And it was one of the things that did draw me in to his music because it was very different.
01:37:06
Speaker
Like it was very different.
01:37:08
Speaker
And that's what the thing was for me at the time when it came to rap music, I was really tired of, you
01:37:13
Speaker
rappers that were doing the same things, which, again, like I'm looking at rappers now that are doing the same things, because it sells or whatever.
01:37:22
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And like so many, there's so many people that people name and I'm just like,
01:37:27
Speaker
Y'all listen to this?
01:37:28
Speaker
Like, turn that down.
01:37:30
Speaker
Because it don't sound good.
01:37:31
Speaker
And it sounds the same as everything else.
01:37:34
Speaker
There's so many guys that sound like Future, for example.
01:37:37
Speaker
And I'm just like, turn that shit down.
01:37:41
Speaker
But yeah, for that, I was just like, alright girl.
01:37:43
Speaker
Like, I don't know.
01:37:47
Speaker
I be feeling like, I don't know.
01:37:50
Speaker
I don't want to get into that too much.
01:37:51
Speaker
But I just be feeling like, when it comes to people white fans, I be like,
01:37:55
Speaker
they be getting all this grace and everything.
01:37:58
Speaker
And I'm just like, I be showing love to the artists I like.
01:38:05
Speaker
And I appreciate when I get recognized.
01:38:09
Speaker
Cakes to Killah is one of those people that recognizes me when I tweet, when I talk about him.
01:38:17
Speaker
I remember when I met him here in Philly at Johnny Brenda's.
01:38:21
Speaker
Oh my God, I haven't been there in years, actually, as I think about this.
01:38:24
Speaker
But when I met him when he performed there, we took a picture together and he was like, I know you from social media.
01:38:30
Speaker
And I'm like, yes, like, yes, you know me from social media.
01:38:33
Speaker
I imagine if because Bat for Lashes is another one that I love, another artist I love.
01:38:40
Speaker
And I'm like, if I met her in person, I wonder if she would say something similar or to that effect.
01:38:45
Speaker
Like, have I seen you before?
01:38:47
Speaker
And I'm like, yes.
01:38:48
Speaker
girl, I follow you on social media.
01:38:50
Speaker
I like all of your posts.
01:38:51
Speaker
I like comment on all of your posts.
01:38:52
Speaker
Like, you know, so I just love that when artists can like appreciate all of their fan base, um, especially when we're the same freaking race.
01:39:05
Speaker
Like, I don't know.
01:39:08
Speaker
Again, I feel like it's also like politics and that, like in terms of, um, um,
01:39:15
Speaker
attractability or like likability and all of those things.
01:39:19
Speaker
But I love like a lot of the artists I listen to.
01:39:22
Speaker
This is why I will never want to meet like a lot of the artists I listen to.
01:39:26
Speaker
But I just like the music.
01:39:29
Speaker
Like I like the music.
01:39:30
Speaker
I don't really need to know you as a person.
01:39:32
Speaker
I don't need to get too tangled up with you.
01:39:37
Speaker
Like I don't need to do any of that.
01:39:40
Speaker
But yeah, last thing in the media lab, we're just going to just do this really quickly because I was going to do this at the beginning of the show, but then I decided to move it and I feel like it was maybe a stupid idea.
01:39:48
Speaker
But I saw this post earlier and the post was...
01:39:56
Speaker
And I'm doing this here because it's, I guess, in this segment and why it will make sense because it's the Media Lab.
01:40:02
Speaker
And we are talking about movies, music, TV, all of those things.
Fantasy 'Four Horsemen' Team
01:40:09
Speaker
And it says, this meme says, you are Apocalypse.
01:40:13
Speaker
So you are Apocalypse from the X-Men.
01:40:16
Speaker
Create your own four horsemen from any universe.
01:40:20
Speaker
And I was like, oh my God, like that's a really good...
01:40:27
Speaker
icebreaker or like a good question.
01:40:32
Speaker
If you were to create your own horsemen, who would they be?
01:40:36
Speaker
And it took me all day since I saw this to even come up with an idea about what my horsemen would be.
01:40:48
Speaker
And so I would say for sure, war would be Buffy.
01:40:55
Speaker
I think that Buffy being like one of the strongest, most agile, like superhuman, it almost makes sense.
01:41:02
Speaker
Like healing factor.
01:41:04
Speaker
I imagine all of those things would amplify if she were one of my horsemen.
01:41:09
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So I would definitely crown her as one of my horsewomen.
01:41:15
Speaker
on my team and she would be war.
01:41:17
Speaker
She would be coming.
01:41:18
Speaker
She would come out swinging.
01:41:20
Speaker
Um, I would also pick storm to be famine mainly because she can control the weather.
01:41:30
Speaker
And I think that decide who, uh, eats, who doesn't, you know, if the weather is just really thrown off, I feel like that creates chaos and has the potential to like,
01:41:47
Speaker
kill the world.
01:41:48
Speaker
Um, it's like game over or kill society, uh, life on earth.
01:41:54
Speaker
Um,
01:41:55
Speaker
So I feel like that would be a good choice for her.
01:41:57
Speaker
Pestilence, I would choose probably Rick Sanchez because it's funny how he's like basically killed so many people in various universes, turning them into like different things or, you know, poisoning people or whatever.
01:42:14
Speaker
I feel like he would be good at pestilence because he just, the scientists in him could create a bunch of different things and
01:42:23
Speaker
I feel like the experimentation can get like really crazy if he's like spreading disease.
01:42:29
Speaker
And, um, like I, I think between him and storm, they would do some fucking damage, um, without death.
01:42:38
Speaker
I think that they would do some fucking damage, um, and create death essentially on earth.
01:42:45
Speaker
Um, so I would choose Rick Sanchez.
01:42:48
Speaker
I think it's pestilence.
01:42:49
Speaker
Um, um,
01:42:53
Speaker
And I think about that too on biological warfare.
01:42:55
Speaker
That would be crazy.
01:42:58
Speaker
And then I would also lastly pick for death, I feel like I would pick Kenny.
01:43:03
Speaker
And I feel like I would pick Kenny from South Park.
01:43:07
Speaker
I feel like I would pick Kenny because he is essentially the master of death.
01:43:12
Speaker
He's died so many times.
01:43:15
Speaker
I feel like on some level that should maybe...
01:43:21
Speaker
give a window into corrupting his soul.
01:43:25
Speaker
He also isn't immune to death.
01:43:28
Speaker
Like, that's the other thing I read about death is that, at least in the X-Men, that death isn't really immune to their own powers.
01:43:39
Speaker
They're resistant, but they're not completely immune to
01:43:43
Speaker
So I imagine if he died, he'd just come back or something like he does in the show.
01:43:49
Speaker
But I think that he would take out a lot of his frustration and revenge and be tempted to go to the dark side to get back at everyone for not remembering one that he dies all the time or died all the time because he doesn't really do that anymore.
01:44:06
Speaker
But one that he dies all the time.
01:44:10
Speaker
And it was because of this satanic.
01:44:13
Speaker
ritual his parents did or had him mixed up in and two um I think that he because he's experienced death so many different ways that he would make a really good death when it's all said and done so yeah that would be my team Buffy, Storm, Rick Sanchez and Kenny um from South Park yeah
01:44:42
Speaker
All right, we're going to move into the final thought, y'all, and wrap this up.
Beyoncé's Album Criticism & Impact
01:44:47
Speaker
My final thought essentially is basically about the Beyonce album, the pre-album release.
01:44:57
Speaker
By the time you hear this, it'll be Beyonce album time.
01:45:03
Speaker
But I was just thinking about the criticism that Beyonce has been getting prior to the release of the album and how people have been very critical of her around various aspects of the promotion of this album or the talk about this album.
01:45:21
Speaker
Yeah.
01:45:24
Speaker
And I think that one of the things that really stood out to me was Azalea Banks' comments.
01:45:30
Speaker
I didn't read the whole post because I don't ever read everything that she writes or says.
01:45:36
Speaker
I don't have time for that.
01:45:37
Speaker
I can't do that.
01:45:39
Speaker
But I think the fact that she came up with just such this dense narrative around how she's seeing this rollout when we don't even have the fucking music yet.
01:45:49
Speaker
You're judging the book by its cover.
01:45:52
Speaker
We didn't have a track list.
01:45:53
Speaker
We didn't have anything.
01:45:55
Speaker
And people were like, including her, like, oh, she's always about, you know, self-empowerment and like black women and like, you know, black culture and black this.
01:46:07
Speaker
But then she's like, you know, dipping her toes and the white women and like being, you know,
01:46:15
Speaker
I don't know, just this whole narrative of this deconstructing of her persona or her...
01:46:25
Speaker
the way in which she presents or her image.
01:46:29
Speaker
Yeah.
01:46:29
Speaker
Like, I feel like there's this like deconstruction of her image.
01:46:32
Speaker
If it's like, she does something that's really good and interesting.
01:46:36
Speaker
Like, I just felt like the fact that she did Renaissance and had so many queer people that were sampled or that had like lines or whatever, like, and she had them coming out to her shows, like,
01:46:52
Speaker
getting paid, like queer black, you know, people like getting paid and getting to be a part of like her experience.
01:47:02
Speaker
Like all of that just gets washed away.
01:47:05
Speaker
And a lot of times I feel like too, like with the Renaissance thing, people were like either loving it or hating it.
01:47:11
Speaker
I feel like it's going to be interesting.
01:47:13
Speaker
I haven't heard the album of course yet, but it's just going to be very interesting to see how this album gets received because,
01:47:22
Speaker
It's not the ballroom, house type of music that Renaissance was.
01:47:32
Speaker
It's not that community-focused, specific music.
01:47:37
Speaker
It's more open to everyone now, in a way, or received by everyone now, in
01:47:45
Speaker
or could have that potential to be received.
01:47:47
Speaker
I don't know.
01:47:47
Speaker
People are talking about because it's going to be a country album.
01:47:50
Speaker
You know, she said it's not a country album that, uh, people or people are like, I don't know if they're going to like it.
01:47:58
Speaker
Like, that's still kind of the point is that a lot of people are like, I don't know.
01:48:00
Speaker
Cause I don't really like country.
01:48:01
Speaker
And, or were you ever at whenever you ask people, like if they like country, they, um, or what type of music they like, it's always everything but country.
01:48:11
Speaker
So, um,
01:48:15
Speaker
I think that also gone are the days of Beyonce making radio friendly music because I think she's gotten to a point where she knows that whatever she makes is going to sell.
01:48:28
Speaker
It's going to stream.
01:48:29
Speaker
The tour is going to sell out.
01:48:31
Speaker
Um, she has so it's like an amazing space to be in as an artist to be in a spot where you can be as creative as you want.
01:48:39
Speaker
Like, and it doesn't matter if like some people like some people didn't like Renaissance, but her tour still showed sold out.
01:48:46
Speaker
Like, she still scored high on the charts because people, she had the support.
01:48:52
Speaker
She had people listening.
01:48:54
Speaker
Like, she's able, like, Beyonce's become a really good master at creating this environment of community and privacy.
Beyoncé's Creative Freedom
01:49:06
Speaker
Like, it's like one minute she's in and one minute she's out.
01:49:10
Speaker
And so that's like really interesting to watch from someone like as big as her to being this like, almost like ethereal kind of force.
01:49:25
Speaker
And like when she shows up, she's in like her corporeal state, but otherwise she's just kind of floating around in the background and
01:49:33
Speaker
You know, you don't really know what's going on, but you know something's happening, you know?
01:49:38
Speaker
I think that's, like, really impressive.
01:49:40
Speaker
And something I would, like, really admire about her is that she can...
01:49:47
Speaker
of course, just be who she wants to be and know that at the end of the day, people are going to still listen to the music that she puts out.
01:49:56
Speaker
So it doesn't matter who likes it and who doesn't.
01:49:58
Speaker
Like, that's such a flex.
01:50:00
Speaker
Like, I don't, you don't even know.
01:50:04
Speaker
As a creative, like, that's such a flex to just have continued support, even when people are like, I don't know, like, I don't know, but I'll give it a listen.
01:50:14
Speaker
Like, that's
01:50:16
Speaker
I don't think people understand how big that is as an artist.
01:50:20
Speaker
I don't think many artists today could pull that off.
01:50:25
Speaker
Point blank, period.
01:50:26
Speaker
I don't think many artists can.
01:50:29
Speaker
And I think that's why a lot of artists do the same thing over and over and over again.
01:50:33
Speaker
And it's because they don't want to risk it.
01:50:37
Speaker
They don't want to lose their fan support because they're not able to create an artistic vision that is...
01:50:48
Speaker
that great, if that makes sense.
01:50:50
Speaker
And again, it's like people, again, I think it's a combination
Music Industry Critique
01:50:53
Speaker
of things.
01:50:53
Speaker
I think it's some people aren't really artists and they're industry plants or they are, um, plugged to us as this, you know, as these, um, artists that are new, interesting, blah, blah, blah, whatever, but they're not.
01:51:08
Speaker
And, you know, we see over the course of albums, how they don't really change or things don't really shift or anything.
01:51:15
Speaker
Um, um,
01:51:17
Speaker
I think it's also interesting how the... How do I say this?
01:51:26
Speaker
I feel like it's... Even as I think about this, the way in which this whole thing with Beyonce almost mirrors...
01:51:42
Speaker
society like in the way in which like society's morals and ethics go out the window when it comes to money and an artist like Beyonce is fortunate to and I imagine she is like eternally grateful for being in the space that she is in where you know she's able to even inspire or create artists um
01:52:09
Speaker
that are inspirational or interesting or different, or they have some flair or something to them.
01:52:19
Speaker
And a lot of people can't do that.
01:52:20
Speaker
A lot of people can't inspire.
01:52:22
Speaker
A lot of people can't mentor.
01:52:24
Speaker
A lot of people are selfish, so they can't.
01:52:27
Speaker
And so, again, I think that mirrors some of the morals and ethics that are like falling to the wayside.
01:52:33
Speaker
And again, you know, the world's like literally on fire right now, like people are dying.
01:52:40
Speaker
And I think that artists that are still just singing about sex and drugs and are not pushing more music that is impactful.
01:52:50
Speaker
Like I think about
01:52:54
Speaker
Like, you don't have to be on no civil rights shit all the time.
01:52:56
Speaker
Like, even Beyonce takes a break from that.
01:52:58
Speaker
Like, you don't have to be on no civil rights shit all the time.
01:53:01
Speaker
Or you don't have to be, like, you know...
01:53:06
Speaker
some kind of a God warrior or some shit like that.
01:53:08
Speaker
Like, you don't have to do all that.
01:53:10
Speaker
But I think of songs that were impactful, like Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, or a more popular song, like What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, and even more modernly, like...
Impactful Music vs. Superficial Themes
01:53:27
Speaker
Childish Gambino with This Is America.
01:53:31
Speaker
Like how those songs are like very impactful and they make a statement about a problem that's going on in the world, whether it's like war or, you know, some kind of suffering or needing to come together to create community, something like that.
01:53:48
Speaker
It's like, it can't just all be
01:53:52
Speaker
Hopped into the whip.
01:53:54
Speaker
My pussy drip.
01:53:56
Speaker
Diamonds on my wrist.
01:54:01
Speaker
And the coochie.
01:54:04
Speaker
I don't know.
01:54:04
Speaker
In a coochie zip clipped.
01:54:07
Speaker
I don't know.
01:54:08
Speaker
Girl, I don't know.
01:54:09
Speaker
I'm trying to come up with something off the head.
01:54:11
Speaker
But it just can't all be that.
01:54:13
Speaker
It can't all just be gutter rap and nothing of substance.
01:54:19
Speaker
And I feel like a lot of artists, too, are just making shit up.
01:54:21
Speaker
Rappers are making shit up about...
01:54:23
Speaker
where they come from and the things that they dealt with.
01:54:26
Speaker
Because again, I think it's industry plans.
01:54:27
Speaker
I think it's industry plans.
01:54:28
Speaker
I think it's people that are copycats.
01:54:32
Speaker
They're willing to copy off of other people's success, their track record.
01:54:38
Speaker
Again, I think when Nikki talked about, because even she's like a little, she's a little Kim, many me, but
01:54:44
Speaker
But she talks about how she's inspired and created a bunch of mini-me's, and I think that's true.
01:54:49
Speaker
I think Nicki was able to do it in a way in which she was able to capitalize off of, yes, the similar aesthetic that Kim was doing, but I also feel like even in that, she carved her own lane.
01:55:03
Speaker
And I think that that was only able to happen because music in the 2010s was not the same music that was in the 2000s.
01:55:14
Speaker
It's a lot more auto-tune, a lot more electronic beats, dance beats.
01:55:20
Speaker
And then to be able to merge that with this and to achieve pop stardom in that way that I don't think Lil' Kim necessarily had.
01:55:34
Speaker
I don't think I'd consider Lil' Kim a pop star.
01:55:37
Speaker
I don't think I would.
01:55:37
Speaker
I would consider Nicki a pop star, but I don't think I would...
01:55:41
Speaker
consider him a pop star but that's just me but um to grab onto that and then create these new um talents that are essentially just ripping off because again like music's not moving like it's not going anywhere it's not moving forward um and i think people need to uh consider that when making art that art should be um
01:56:07
Speaker
always pushing the needle.
01:56:08
Speaker
It should be risk-taking.
01:56:10
Speaker
It should be, um, different and interesting.
01:56:14
Speaker
That's why I'm like, girl, I'd be on these edibles and I just be, my brain be like firing off and I'm like writing all these ideas down and, you know, creating all of these different ideas.
01:56:24
Speaker
And, um,
01:56:26
Speaker
I don't know what people be doing.
01:56:27
Speaker
They be doing too much lean.
01:56:29
Speaker
I think that's what be going on.
01:56:30
Speaker
They be doing them Tucci pills or whatever.
01:56:35
Speaker
And I don't know nothing about that.
01:56:36
Speaker
Like, I don't know nothing.
01:56:37
Speaker
They be doing them honey packs.
01:56:39
Speaker
They be doing the lean.
01:56:41
Speaker
They be doing the Tucci, the Coke and ecstasy pills.
01:56:47
Speaker
Like, they doing all of that.
01:56:48
Speaker
And it's like, that's not me.
01:56:50
Speaker
Like, I don't know nothing about that.
01:56:52
Speaker
That's not me.
01:56:55
Speaker
But yeah, I think at the end of the day, the last thing I'm just going to say is even if you like think about these artists, like they're going to suffer in the long run.
Sustainability of Streaming-focused Music
01:57:07
Speaker
I think the artists that aren't keeping up with like a creative track, because it's not.
01:57:12
Speaker
The thing is, one day streaming is going to go away and all of that music is going to go where?
01:57:16
Speaker
Because they're not coming out with physical albums that
01:57:20
Speaker
They are like if the Internet went out tomorrow, they be shit out of luck.
01:57:28
Speaker
Like no one would be looking like to.
01:57:32
Speaker
I don't think a lot of people would be trying to figure out how to get a sexy red or a little baby album.
01:57:38
Speaker
Like, I don't really feel like that would be people's priority if it came down to all of this social media crap like disappeared.
01:57:52
Speaker
There's, and again, a lot of the music is based in aesthetics and the way you look and the way you come off and the way you do, you do things like you're not going to be looking for that.
01:58:01
Speaker
If the apocalypse happens, you're not going to be looking for, you know,
01:58:07
Speaker
Diamonds on my wrist, if you can barely eat, like that's not making sense to me.
01:58:13
Speaker
So again, Beyonce, she's a pop artist at the end of the day, or considered pop at least, but I think she's just expanding her reach now and opening up to what is considered not traditionally radio friendly.
01:58:30
Speaker
In some ways, or music that's going to play on like a Q101 or Q102 or something of that nature.
01:58:42
Speaker
But I think that, again, no matter what she does, she's going to have people that listen.
01:58:46
Speaker
Like, whether it's country, whether it's folk.
01:58:50
Speaker
I think she could get people into folk music.
01:58:52
Speaker
I think she could do world music and get people into that.
01:58:57
Speaker
I think she could do, like, Afrobeats and get people into that.
01:59:01
Speaker
Like, I feel like there's just so many different things she could do or incorporate in her sound or in her music.
01:59:07
Speaker
And people are going to listen to it.
Beyoncé's Influence in Country Genre
01:59:09
Speaker
Um, and also too, she's been giving a leg up to other country artists, um, giving them more notoriety as well, you know, cause black people haven't been at the forefront of country music.
01:59:21
Speaker
And I feel like this project is starting to awaken, uh, a push for, you know, more black country artists to be noticed in the genre, um,
01:59:34
Speaker
Because she's even talked about how it's a genre she felt left out of because she grew up listening to country.
01:59:40
Speaker
And again, it comes down to like you live.
01:59:46
Speaker
It's like interesting where it's like you can live in the same area as.
01:59:50
Speaker
a bunch of people as like white people and you know you still don't have any type of claim even if you do try to participate in that when again country wasn't even theirs so yeah that's it for the show um you can follow me if you want on the socials i gather them pod um
02:00:16
Speaker
Instagram and X. I also made another
Closing Remarks & Listener Interaction
02:00:19
Speaker
account.
02:00:19
Speaker
Well, I didn't make a new account for the podcast, but I found out where that Jack Dorsey guy went.
02:00:24
Speaker
And or he's like the board of this alternative Twitter platform, which I need to like look into more because I'm like, yeah, this is feeling like way more familiar than X. Like X feels like a hellscape right now.
02:00:37
Speaker
um it's like called blue ski i think it is and um yes i'm gonna make an account there i think even i said i wasn't gonna do that but i'm gonna do it um send letters you know whether you need advice you want me to want to give me a shout out when it
02:00:58
Speaker
Give someone a shout out.
02:00:59
Speaker
Like, I don't know, whatever you want to do, listener letter, send it together, thempod at gmail.com.
02:01:05
Speaker
And that's it for the show.
02:01:06
Speaker
I hope everyone has a good weekend.
02:01:09
Speaker
Happy Easter, I guess, if you celebrate.
02:01:11
Speaker
I don't celebrate, but, you know, to those, yay.
02:01:18
Speaker
Also, good Friday if you're listening on a Friday because that's when this comes out.
02:01:22
Speaker
You know, again, if you celebrate, if you celebrate, if you don't, you don't.
02:01:26
Speaker
And that's it.
02:01:28
Speaker
I will talk to everyone later.
02:01:29
Speaker
Peace out, Girl Scouts.
02:01:31
Speaker
Peace out.