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Millennials & Nostalgia, Kanye’s Apology & A Stinky Boyfriend
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Millennial nostalgia isn’t “fake”—we break down why our generation knows pop culture from before we were even born, and how cable TV basically raised our brains. Then we pivot hard into the uncomfortable stuff: Kanye’s apology letter, what Bipolar I and mania actually mean (and what they don’t excuse), and the line between grace and real accountability.
And just when you think it can’t get wilder… we hit a Reddit relationship story about a boyfriend spiraling into “MAHA” content, raw milk, “natural” everything, and hygiene that would make your ancestors fight you in the street. Would you stay… or would you run?
Drop your take in the comments: Are apologies enough without restitution? And what’s your personal dealbreaker—politics, paranoia, or poor hygiene?
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Nostalgia, Accountability & Internet Madness Collide 🎙️🔥🧠
00:00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️✨📢
00:00:46 The Big Three Questions: Nostalgia, Apologies & Funky Boyfriends 🤔📺
00:01:52 Ilhan Omar, Vinegar Attacks & Political Absurdity 🌍⚠️
00:03:15 Why Old Shows Raised Millennials’ Pop Culture IQ 📼📡✨
00:04:37 The Cable TV Era That Shaped a Generation 📺⏳💫
00:08:43 Fast Content Era & Shortened Fame Cycles Explained ⚡🎵📉
00:12:25 Analog to Digital: Why Our Generation Is Unique 💾🌐🏆
00:16:47 Kanye Apology Segment — Heavy Turn Starts Here 📝⚖️😳
00:21:23 Bipolar I Breakdown and Mania Reality Check 🧠📚🚨
00:27:33 Timeline of Kanye’s Behavior Raises Doubts ⏳🧩🤨
00:34:23 The Missing Pieces: What Kanye Still Isn’t Saying 🕳️🤨📢
00:38:45 Grace, Consequences, and Real Accountability Clash 🤝🔥⚖️
00:40:30 Grace vs. Accountability: Can Both Be True? ⚖️💔🕊️
00:45:55 Reddit Story: Boyfriend’s “MAHA” Spiral Begins 🧴😬📱
00:55:09 Attraction, Boundaries, and Walking Away Line Drawn 🚪💬💔
00:57:03 Final Word: Wash Your Ass & Use Discernment 🧼🧠😂
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Introduction to Topics
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From Kanye West to boyfriends with weird behavior, we gonna get into it. Let's get it!
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Episode Overview
00:00:44
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On today's episode, is your millennial nostalgia fake?
00:00:48
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Is public apology ever enough? And is your boyfriend hygiene a deal breaker? But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:05
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call
Global Issues and Ilhan Omar Incident
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it. Yo, things is crazy out there in the world. both here and abroad. Did you hear about... I always have a hard time enunciating her name.
00:01:22
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Elian Omar? The representative from... Damn, I don't even know what state she is. I probably should have done the research. Alien of Omar, the one Trump is always attacking. She gave a town hall. Johan Omar. no mar yeah that Thank the Lord that you're on here. look Look, ladies and gentlemen, before we started, I did 14 takes of the intro.
00:01:45
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I'm having trouble, but we're going to get through it. But yeah, she was doing a town hall and some crazy dude threw some, threw some. It turned out to be apple cider vinegar. But I was like, it could have been anything. That could have been, what's the stuff that burned you?
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It could have been pee.
00:02:05
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Yes. It could have been pee. But what's the stuff that acid? It could have been as acid. Yeah. yeah know It could have been anything. yeah And our asshole president Still couldn't even come up with just something decent to say, like, oh, this shouldn't happen. He was just like, you know, she ain't the greatest and she hates our country. I'm like, I can't. Nope. God, he's an asshole. That's not accurate.
00:02:29
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Oh. Yeah. Yeah. But that's what's going on in the world. I got a really cool interview that's coming out on Tuesday us talking about what's going on in Iran. So it's just a bunch of stuff, a bunch of crazy stuff going on in the world.
00:02:45
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Yeah. Yeah. She is the rep from Minnesota also, by the way, which is probably why she was in the news or doing a town hall because of all the things going on in Minnesota. Yeah. thank Things is crazy in Minnesota. But we we look yeah we're not going start off the show.
00:03:00
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with such negativity. Okay. All right? We're going to start off with something that's... It's really for my millennials out there, some of those younger Gen Xers, maybe even some of the older Gen Zers.
00:03:16
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Possibly. Possibly.
Millennial Nostalgia and Cable TV Impact
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But you sent me a video on Instagram, and this guy was explaining why millennials remember pop culture from a time before they were born, and how this new generation just doesn't have any pop culture references before they were born. If it happened before they were born, never existed. They have no clue.
00:03:39
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Right. But for us millennials, and to a... and a smaller extent, younger Gen X and older Gen Z, we knew about pop culture stuff before we were born. And I thought it was interesting how he explained it. Do you remember all the details that he gave?
00:03:58
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So basically, when we were growing up, It was really the rise, the true rise of cable television. Because if you remember when we were kids, TV used to go off.
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They were it would go off around midnight. Like, that was it. There was no more TV. We were at the tail end of the going off, though. We were literally at the tail end. But I do remember channels going off in my childhood. So it's the rise of cable TV. Now, cable TV 24 hours.
00:04:31
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But there is not enough original content to fill those 24 hours. So what do they do? They grab old shows and old movies ah from, I guess, from syndication or whatever, and they fill time slots with that. And so that's when you get us growing up and one of my favorite shows being Green Acres. Mm-hmm.
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yeah Right? That's where you get us growing up watching the Dick Van Dyke show. Mm-hmm. Dragnet. Dragnet. Basically, Nick at Night. Basically, Nick at Night. Nick at Night. Nick at Night. Woo! Let me tell you. But not only that, though, old cartoons, because all those Hanna-Barbera cartoons were before... Hell, the Jackson 5 cartoon.
00:05:20
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A lot of people didn't know there was a Jackson 5 cartoon. Yes. Well, some of these Gen Z people don't even know who Jackson 5 is. but Yes. But... Gen je Alpha definitely don't. They barely know who Michael Jackson is. They got a fake kind of idea of him. But we had all these things. It was being shown to us.
00:05:37
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Yes. And so we're watching old movies. Like, we have the Channel Turner Classic Movies, right? And we're like, we're watching old movies. We're watching old television shows. And so that's how... And also, this is something he didn't bring up, but I thought about those compilation CDs. Yeah.
00:05:57
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that they used to sell, where it'd be like all the hits from the... And it'd just be like all these old songs that not... They're not hits from today. no Like, you know, but it would be called Love in the 50s or some something like that. And it would be a bunch of old love songs from the 50s and these compilation CDs and they would they would be like... What's those commercials with like the shopping commercials where it's like... QVC?
00:06:25
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Not the Home Shopping Network. where it was like It was like little programs where they're like trying to sell you a product. Infomercials? Infomercials, yes. It was that. And so we would have a bunch of old music coming in, into and you would hear something, and you'd be like, I wonder if they play that in the oldie station on the radio, because back then there was no Spotify or Apple Music. We had to wait for it to come on the radio stations. until LimeWire and Napster came around. who um And Kazaa. Don't forget about Kazaa. And
Generational Media Consumption
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Kazaa, yes.
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And so what he what he was saying is that by the time you get to gen z There's a lot more original content.
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So they don't need to fill time with older shows. So a lot of them, unless they catch it streaming, don't know really any of the TV shows from the ninety s Yes, this is true.
00:07:29
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So I just thought that that was really interesting that I never thought about it that way, but it's absolutely true. Some of my favorite shows growing up as a kid were shows that were 20, 30 years old, sometimes older. Like, they were in black and white. Like...
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But they were some of my favorite shows. so I just thought that that was interesting of why we have this reverence and understanding and knowledge of stuff that came before us. And also, you know, you was in them long car rides and you was listening to Earth Wind and Fire the whole way.
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now it wasn't just a car ride. We had to go to a concert. Yes. You had to go to a concert. You had to you had to sit through it. You had, you know, where where I feel like maybe, i don't know so much millennial parents.
00:08:23
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Because I feel like millennial parents are really good at like playing old school stuff or what's... because consider an old school This is what I know for sure, because there is a correlation with entertainment, not just TVs and movies of the younger people not understanding stuff behind them. And also the point that he made was in today's society, things move so fast. Like yes you get something that's hot.
00:08:48
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it's hot for a little while, and then it's not hot no more. You know, 50 Set talks about how albums don't have the life that they used to have. It used to be a point where an album, you could tour off an album for like two years. Now it gets to a point where They're not even putting out full albums really like that. Not really. It's a lot of EPs. What are they, EPs?
00:09:12
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EPs, yeah. And they're short, right? yeah To catch along, to get make sure they get the money from the streaming. So things move so fast, a lot of times people can't keep keep up. So what's new becomes old real fast. So what's old is really old.
00:09:27
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But... yeah One thing that the younger generation, Gen Z, definitely has a hold on is 90s music. Yes. And I think that's from their millennial parents.
00:09:41
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Probably. Yes, probably. Yeah. so Because not what did we hear when it was Saturday, Sunday morning and our parents are up cleaning up?
00:09:52
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We're listening to their music. So now we're the parents. We were listening to our music. Hold on Our parents were playing our music.
00:10:04
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Okay. The Don't Be Cruel album. Yes. Okay. Yes. And Back on the Block.
00:10:13
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That still felt... That didn't feel like youthful music. Quincy Jones don't come across to me as youthful music. That's true. Yeah, I don't think so.
00:10:26
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but But I just think that that was really interesting. And honestly, like, parents, we got to do a better job of schooling these kids on all in on the past because you don't want to end up in a situation where your kid comes to you and is like, what if what if we just had, like, one cell phone for the house that just stays in the house that everybody uses?
00:10:50
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You know, stuff like that. You'd be like, you made a house phone and the fact you don't know about that speaks volumes about me. But it it speaks volumes about me. Because I didn't tell you about my experience but and the dream that you had as a teenager to have your own phone line.
00:11:12
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Yeah. We never had... None of us ever had our own phone line. Never had my own phone line. Never. We was all sharing, fighting. Fighting for minutes on that phone. if Fighting to get Hey, I made that! And when internet came in, no.
00:11:25
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When this... if Something happened in my algorithm where there was a bunch of reels that were showing me just like 90s nostalgia. And I had this interesting... Because I was born in 1980...
00:11:39
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I was a little kid in the 80s. huh But at the beginning of 1990, I was still on the cusp of a little kid pre ah preteen. But then by the end of the 90s, I'm fully in college. So there's a part of me that definitely was an 80s kid and definitely was a 90s kid. So when they do these...
00:12:01
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taking it back to the 80s and the ninety s It's like, oh, wow. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I remember this. Yeah, I remember that. yeah i Because I'm on that border between Gen X and millennials, i actually think this is that's the best generation because because we got to experience UHF channels. I can't even explain it. But yeah but that and and cable and then pay-per-view. That was like all coming of age. And we was outside.
00:12:34
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right and then he was huh and and the internet. We you started getting internet in the home. Yo, I'm the first generation that got that was getting video games in the home. I'm yeah also of that generation where the arcade also was popping and then died.
00:12:53
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So... it's It's just, I feel like my generation, I know people are going to take shots, but my generation, our generation is the dopest because there will not be another generation like us. there will We were both analog and digital. Right. that yeah That will never happen again. Maybe something else will come along that ah that's the next evolution of technology.
00:13:16
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But the generation before us and the generation after us didn't get to experience the and ninety s like we did. Yes. and And that that, look, I'm so happy that I came up in my time. Don't get me wrong. that at The advancements in technology is really dope, but also extremely overwhelming performance.
00:13:37
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for Look, I have a really difficult time sitting down and finding something to watch while having my brunch on Sundays. It is yes the worst. So ah sometimes simplicity is better. yeah Lack of choice is actually better than so many choices.
00:13:55
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I also think because of technology, it's the reason why people aren't getting married. You got too many choices. Our pool of people to choose from is so vast nowadays. Isn't it? Yeah. Well, the amount of people. I'm not talking about the quality. I'm talking about the amount. So you're talking about volume. Volume, yes. The volume of people.
00:14:19
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if you had but If you ain't had but 10 people to choose from, you got to choose between those 10. You're like, all that one work. But when you've got thousands.
00:14:30
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Yeah. Right? Thousands. It becomes very difficult to hone in and be like, that's it. That's the one. And that's the same thing with music, technology. I mean, with music, movies, TV shows.
Technology's Influence on Lifestyle
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Yes, it is great that we have all this choice. But man, does it suck that we have all this choice. yeah It's like going to a cheesecake factory. That menu's too long.
00:14:56
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First of all, why are you going Cheesecake Factory? I have not been to Cheesecake Factory in, I promise you, at least 20 years. I did go to Cheesecake Factory because I was dating a woman that had a little bit of hood in her and was like, you should go to Cheesecake Factory. And I was like, come on. That ain't no... All right. It satisfies everybody because the menu is so ginormous. It is, but it's like a... it's ah All right. now No knock Cheesecake Factory if they want to sponsor us. I would gladly go.
00:15:28
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Because some of their brand is delicious. Yeah. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, we gave y'all a little bit of laughter and nostalgia. yeah Now we're going to get into something heavy.
00:15:40
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It's what my sister wanted to talk about. Well, she sent it to me. She said, I have thoughts. And I said, well, it's going to be the second segment. And that is the Kanye apology. And we're to get into that next.
00:16:00
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, Kanye came out with a statement in the Wall Street Journal, and it's an apology. And I'm going to read the entire statement.
Kanye West's Apology and Mental Health
00:16:10
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So bear with me because my lisp has been extra lispy today. So I don't know how this is going work because my sister had thoughts. And damn it, I kind of know what her thoughts are. And i want to give my own thoughts. So here is the statement.
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To those I've hurt, 25 years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on visible damage, the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
00:16:44
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Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a front frontal lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type 1 diagnosis.
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Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality, you're losing grip entirely.
00:17:18
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Once people label you as crazy, you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when, in fact, this is the very serious debilitating disease you can die from.
00:17:30
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According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy expectancy that is shortened by 10 to 15 years on average. And a two to three times higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer, all lethal and fatal if left untreated.
00:17:56
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The scariest thing about this disorder is how pervasive it is when it tells you you don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced that you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, unstoppable.
00:18:08
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I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. i said that I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I loved the most, I treated the worst.
00:18:19
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You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to have someone who was, at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.
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In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold t-shirts bearing it. One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type 1 are the disconnected moments, many of which I still cannot recall, that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that often feels like an out-of-body experience.
00:18:52
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I regret and deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and I am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did. I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite.
00:19:04
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I love Jewish people. To the Black community, which held me down through all the highs and lows and the darkest times, the Black community is unquestionably the foundation of who I am.
00:19:15
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I am so sorry to have let you down. I love us. In early 2025, I fell into a four-month-long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid, and impulsive behavior that destroyed my the destroyed my life.
00:19:28
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As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn't want to be here anymore. Having bipolar disorder is notable state of constant mental illness.
00:19:39
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When you get into the manic episode, you are ill at that point. When you are not in an episode, you are completely normal. And that's when the wreckage from the illness hits the hardest. Hitting rock bottom a few months ago, my wife encouraged me to finally get help.
00:19:53
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I have found comfort in Reddit forms of all places. Different people speak of being manic or depressed or depressive episodes of similar nature. I read these stories and realize that I was not alone. It's not just me who ruins their entire life once a year despite taking meds every day and being told by the so-called best doctors in the world that I am not bipolar but merely experiencing symptoms of autism.
00:20:17
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My words as a leader in my community have global impact and influence. In my mania, I lost complete sight of that. As I find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy, exercise, and clean living, I have found newfound, much-needed clarity, and I am pouring my energy into poville positive, meaningful art, music, clothing, design, and other new ideas to help the world.
00:20:43
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I'm not asking for sympathy or a free pass. Though I aspire to earn your forgiveness, I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.
00:20:54
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With love, Yeah. All right, Jay. Yeah. I'm gonna let you, gonna let you go with it. Yeah, so I think first to talk about this responsibly, you have to start with what bipolar 1 actually is.
Understanding Bipolar 1 Disorder
00:21:11
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So just a little note, I am not a mental health professional. So this is just my own research. I'm sure that there's probably nuance that I'm going to miss. and And I might phrase things incorrectly. So please have some grace. So bipolar 1 disorder is defined by at least one full manic episode.
00:21:35
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And so what I want to make clear is that mania is not creativity, it's not energy, it's not eccentricity. It is a medical state where mood becomes abnormally elevated or intensely irritable.
00:21:55
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Energy increases dramatically. Sleep becomes unnecessary. Thoughts race. Speech speeds up. Judgment breaks down. In some cases, the person loses touch with reality through delusions and paranoia. And these episodes can last at least a week.
00:22:13
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and sometimes require hospitalization. They can disrupt work, relationships, and a person's ability to function in the world. And so depression can come, you know, because they talk about bipolars, that you're at both poles, right? So depression may come before or after, but really it's the mania that defines the disorder. Right?
00:22:37
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So the causes of bipolar I are not fully understood. But researchers believe it's a combination of genetics, brain chemistry, environmental stress, and life events.
00:22:51
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So traumatic brain injuries... which is what I'm assuming that ah Kanye is implying he sustained in his 2002 car accident, are can are considered a risk factor.
00:23:09
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for mood disorders. It can disrupt the brain networks involved in emotional regulation and sometimes lead to what clinicians call secondary mania, which can resemble bipolar symptoms, but it's not the same as primary bipolar disorder. So most people with bipolar disorder have never had a TBI, a traumatic brain injury. And most people with a TBI will never develop bipolar symptoms. So that distinction matters.
00:23:39
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And I go through all of that context, one, because I think it's important when we talk about what he wrote here. When someone is manic, they can appear confident, charismatic, convinced they're seeing the world more clearly than everyone else.
00:23:55
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They may feel powerful, certain, unstoppable. They may make impulsive decisions, say reckless things, and sincerely believe they're right while losing their grip on reality.
00:24:08
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So... I wanted to talk about, like, give a little timeline to also give some context to this. ok So the accident, the car accident Kanye was in was in 2002. That's where he claimed there was neurological damage that went untreated.
00:24:30
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Reporting from Rolling Stone indicates as far back as 2003, he was already bringing up Nazis and Hitler in conversations. In 2016, he was formally diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Timeline of Kanye's Controversies
00:24:44
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That same year, he publicly defended Bill Cosby amid dozens of sexual assault allegations. In 2018, he said he stopped taking his bipolar medication because he believed it negatively affected his creativity.
00:25:00
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So he's known he's d's known he's been bipolar for quite some time, and he chose to stop treatment in 2018. By 2022, his behavior escalated dramatically. He wore a, quote, White Lives Matter shirt at ferris Paris Fashion Week and claimed Black Lives Matter was a scam.
00:25:24
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He suggested his bipolar diagnosis was a misdiagnosis from a Jewish doctor and that he was actually autistic instead. In December of that year, during an interview on Infowars, he openly praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and declared himself a Nazi.
00:25:42
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So these are not offhand comments. What I'm trying to illustrate is then, these are not all of the things that he has said and done up until this point. This is just some of the things, right?
00:25:55
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They are explicit, repeated, sustained. So that's what I want to make clear. In 2023, he says the neurological damage from his accident was finally diagnosed.
00:26:10
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In early 2025, he describes entering a four-month manic episode. During this time, he posted extended anti-Semitic tirades on social media, sold merchandise featuring swastikas, ran a Super Bowl ad that directed viewers to a site selling Nazi symbolism, released songs referencing Hitler, wore KKK-inspired clothing, collaborated with known white supremacists, and used Nazi imagery in album art and branding.
00:26:40
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He apologized, then reversed course, then apologized again, then doubled down again. And then later in 2025, he had that meeting with an Orthodox rabbi. He expressed remorse.
00:26:54
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Some people saw that as meaningful. Others questioned whether it was just image repair, which I guess you can make that ah you could you could probably make that same statement with this letter, right? So then he releases the letter.
00:27:10
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And in this letter, Kanye attributes much of his behavior to undiagnosed frontal lobe injury and bipolar 1 disorder. He describes mania as persuasive, sometimes that something that convinces you that you don't need help.
00:27:27
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He writes about, quote, disconnected moments he can't remember. He says that in a fractured state, he gravitated towards the swastika as the most destructive symbol he could find. And this is where this apology starts to become difficult to sit with.
00:27:44
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Okay. He never explained why that symbol.
00:27:50
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Hmm. You gravitated toward the most destructive symbol you could find. Why?
00:27:57
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Why? Well, and he does. Go ahead. Go ahead. He never directly apologizes to the Jewish community.
00:28:08
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He apologizes to the black community, but he never directly apologizes in this letter to the Jewish community. He just says, I love Jewish people and I'm not an anti-Semite. He emphasizes... Go ahead. Okay, so i i I hear everything that you're saying. I hear everything you're saying. And you know me, God played devil's advocate. Mm-hmm.
00:28:30
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the When I heard, when I saw the headline for the apology, he said, let me read this thing. As I'm reading it, I'm like, okay, lot of this makes sense. I literally, last week, talked about how
00:28:46
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people were acting during the snowstorm, yeah running and buying up all the milk and eggs and and bread, right? And it's because there's an overload of our prefrontal cortex that makes us rational and gives us rational sense. It becomes overloaded.
00:29:08
Speaker
And you become irrational. And you make decisions that you wouldn't normally make because the thing that holds and controls the rational thought in your mind is gone. Right. Right.
00:29:22
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You remember when they came out with those studies of all the football players, soccer players, boxers, professional wrestlers that somehow, someway, either were committing suicide or had complete personality changes or became violent, and they said there is a correlation yeah between brain damage and these actions.
00:29:47
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yeah One of my favorite wrestlers of all time, Chris Benoit, was a God-fearing man. He used to sit up there and read the Bible. And not one of these fake Christians. The stories, I didn't know him personally, but the stories go. They were holding Bible classes and not that fake, I hate everybody, love everybody. Nobody has a bad word to ever say about them.
00:30:08
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He killed his wife, child, and himself. yeah It came out of the blue. Nobody saw a coming. yeah They did a scan of his brain and said that he had the brain of an 80-year-old person suffering from severe dementia.
00:30:24
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yeah So when Kanye says these things... And he says, well, this is the reason why I did that. You were like, why did he run to that symbol? He says it in a letter.
00:30:35
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He says, you get to a point in these stages of mania where you're right and everybody else is wrong. And people call you crazy so that you get, you become more emboldened.
00:30:49
Speaker
to prove that you're not." And I'm like, oh, yes, there is a pattern to all his behavior. And you said 2003 was the first time he started talking about these symbols of white nationalism and anti-Semitism?
00:31:03
Speaker
Once again... Well, according to Rolling Stone reporting. According to Rolling Stone. Once again, when was the car accident? 2002. So the idea... so the idea That he had brain damage. Let me give you another example.
00:31:17
Speaker
This is personal, okay? Not me personal, but somebody I know. Got into two car accidents. They didn't have their seatbelt on. Rocked their brain.
00:31:29
Speaker
Yeah. I know for a fact they had a concussion the first time. When I saw him the second time, I was like, I think you got a second concussion. This person was so messed up in the head, they literally peed themselves. And in a panic, when they were house-sitting, put on somebody else's clothes, not thinking, not calling or asking, just putting on somebody else's clothes. And when they told me the story,
00:31:56
Speaker
Because they got fired from this job. When they told me the story, I was like, what were you thinking? And like, I don't know. I was just in a panic. And I was like, I really think you need to do a neurological scan because your actions lately have been forgetful, have been all over the place. And I know this is not you as a person.
00:32:14
Speaker
So the idea that Kanye does have brain damage that has affected his behavior. Mm-hmm. I believe that can be the case. I'm i'm open to that being the case.
00:32:28
Speaker
Right? Sure. Yeah. I'm not discounting the fact that what you're talking about is chronic traumatic encephalopathy. So CTE. Right. now I wasn't going to try to say that. is Yeah, it's linked to repeated head trauma. It can involve, you know, mood swings, impulsivity, aggression, emotional instability.
00:32:49
Speaker
it can only be, can like, the diagnosis can only be confirmed after death, unfortunately. And so, yeah, there could be some overlap, right, in the symptomology that could that could definitely, like, complicate his case.
00:33:05
Speaker
Here my... my issue this what i'm trying This is what I'm trying to get to. So he never explains the why.
00:33:20
Speaker
And let's just say he's just in a manic episode and he just gravitates toward that symbol. It's not the first time
00:33:29
Speaker
when he when he talks about putting it in his album art on clothing, right, that's not the first time that he referenced Hitler, Nazis, or made anti-Semitic comments.
00:33:43
Speaker
So, this is, like I said, this is repeated but and sustained behavior. he doesn't directly apologize again to the Jewish community.
00:33:59
Speaker
He emphasizes that he cannot recall many of his actions, which creates distance between himself and the harm.
Mental Illness vs Accountability
00:34:09
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he' Like I said, he does apologize for to the Black community, and he says that he's not asking for a free pass, but the structure of the letter does something subtle. It frames nearly all of his behavior through the lens of illness.
00:34:25
Speaker
I was manic. I didn't know. I don't remember. My brain injury. My bipolar disorder. That is an explanation. That's not accountability. So bipolar 1 disorder is real.
00:34:38
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Mania can be devastating. Brain injuries can affect behavior. Mental illness can push people to do things that they would never do when they were, quote, well.
00:34:49
Speaker
Right? But I also believe that harm done while mentally ill is still harm. Mm-hmm. We can hold compassion for someone's illness and still require accountability for their actions. Those two things are not in conflict.
00:35:07
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So it this letter, in my view, he talks about, he says that he's committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change.
00:35:20
Speaker
This letter, in my view, is not the beginning of accountability. Right? It's the beginning of an explanation. If he were truly committed to treatment and meaningful change and making amends, it's not going show up in a statement.
00:35:38
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It will show up in years of consistent behavior and restitution and actively repairing the damage that his words amplified.
00:35:49
Speaker
I definitely believe that grace is possible.
00:35:55
Speaker
But grace is earned over time. It's not granted because of a diagnosis. Mental illness can explain behavior, but it does not erase the responsibility for it.
00:36:11
Speaker
And so that's the distinction that I wanted to highlight that that where I feel this entire conversation lives. Because to me, being accountable is saying, here's the here's the explanation for my behavior.
00:36:29
Speaker
Here it is.
00:36:32
Speaker
But I'm going to own everything that I did and apologize deeply to everyone. And then I will have to just show you through my actions, the same way I showed you through my words and actions that I was unwell, I have to now show you through my words and actions sustained, repeated, consistent behavior change.
00:37:00
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So
00:37:04
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i i have mixed, them like again, like not mixed emotions, but I'm holding space to be compassionate But I'm also saying, don't phrase things in a way that creates distance between you and the harm you caused.
00:37:23
Speaker
It doesn't matter if you say you don't remember. This has been going on since 2003.
00:37:32
Speaker
It's 2026, and you're not existing in a vacuum. You're not alone on an island. People have been telling you something's going on for quite some time. You were diagnosed and you chose to ignore that, ignore everyone else, and for some reason gravitate toward the most destructive and harmful behavior to several different communities that you could possibly find.
00:38:06
Speaker
including communities that you belong to. We don't just forget about that simply because you have a diagnosis.
00:38:16
Speaker
No, I mean, I absolutely agree. yeah Look, you didn't say anything wrong. Nothing wrong. I 100% agree. When you pointed it out to me, it was, yeah, accountability is kind of lacking. And it's a kind of like, yo, I did this all because...
00:38:35
Speaker
yes and And that's fine to explain I did this all because. The thing, the line that really hits me is when he says he's going to make changes, and his changes consist of art, music, clothing.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah. not Not causes. Not better husband, better father. Yes. Right, better citizen. better friend, like, right? it's It's comema is commodities. Because the things he could sell.
00:39:13
Speaker
he's So it also makes you think, okay, is this so you can get back the things you used to sell? Because now those things aren't selling or you just had business, the rug pulled from under you.
00:39:30
Speaker
Well, you kicked the rug out. They just went and picked it up. Yeah. And took it with them. But like, yeah, that's it. I was with him.
00:39:41
Speaker
And then I was like, mm. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. you You losing me. And then when I did like a just a deep dive into The timeline, I'm like, no, this is this has been a while.
00:39:56
Speaker
Now it's financially affecting you. But both things can be true. Yes. Right? Like, all of this can be true. Yes. And ah you you know me, and you call me on it all the time. Like, i people say sorry, and and that if it comes off as sincere, I'm like, okay.
00:40:16
Speaker
Yes. I just forgive. I give a lot of grace, sometimes way more than I should. I'm giving, I'm making space to give grace. didn't say I gave it.
00:40:28
Speaker
yeah I'm giving space. This is a step. What's your next actions? Because that's going to determine if you get this grace or if you get this mace. Not literally, but you know. You know what I'm saying? I had just come up with some rhyme real fast. But theoretically, yes, if you get this mace, because then I'm i'm off, I've been off you.
00:40:50
Speaker
Even though he still makes good music. But I've been off of you. Yeah. Right? Been off of the things that you stand for. You want to bring me back? don't Don't sell me music. Don't sell me art. Don't sell me clothing.
00:41:06
Speaker
Sell me on the human being that you want to be. Yeah. And if that human being is a good person, I can give you grace. Mm-hmm.
00:41:18
Speaker
But this letter alone ain't going to get the job done. But I've been talking to some people and some people, not you, wanted to completely discredit the explanation and say, nah, he did that. And I'm like, no, brain injuries is real.
00:41:37
Speaker
Yes. and And I've seen people, and bipolar is also real. I've been around people that are bipolar. And I'm like, oh my God, what the hell has happened? I think all Geminis are bipolar. That's a joke. oh That's a joke. but But I've been around people who have been in that depressive and in that manic stage. And it is like, who am Who am I around right now? What is going on?
00:42:02
Speaker
And it they it makes decisions. They make decisions that you're just like, what the hell are you thinking right now? So my point, my counterpoint was, yo, the reasoning he's given is valid.
00:42:20
Speaker
That does exist. Yes. Yes. Is that the complete explanation? I don't know. I don't personally know him. I can't be the judge of that. I can only judge him from his actions here on out.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah. So we'll see, Kanye. We'll see. We'll see. That's all I can say is we will see. It's a good start, though, sort of, kind of, almost.
00:42:42
Speaker
He tried. tried. yeah yeah He wrote them himself, too. don't think had his publicist. Get off Reddit and go right on into that therapist's office. Because confirming your own beliefs that all of your behavior is strictly due to your traumatic brain injury and the bipolar diagnosis. Like, you're just going to continue to confirm your own bias.
00:43:06
Speaker
at the Reddit forms. get you treatment. Okay. Yes. But Reddit forms are a internet space that's not unlike alcoholist anonmous anonymous meeting meetings or drug anonymous meetings. Like it's community of people. Those are moderated a professional. write Reddit forms are moderated as well.
00:43:29
Speaker
Sometimes by professional. By mental health or professional or social worker? Sometimes, yeah. I'm telling you, Reddit. Have you been on Reddit? I know I go on Reddit know you've been on Reddit.
00:43:42
Speaker
I go on Reddit all the time. yeah it's Reddit is a world that's both informative and toxic and helpful and not helpful. It is a mirror of the world.
00:43:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I don't know, Kanye. We'll see.
Reddit Post on Boyfriend's Health Habits
00:44:00
Speaker
Jay, you got any final words or you didn't say it at all? I said it all. Yeah, I did too. said everything was going to say. All right. Now let's get to something.
00:44:09
Speaker
Other type of weird behavior. And this Reddit post about a boyfriend and a girlfriend going through some tough times. We're going get into that next.
00:44:27
Speaker
All right, Jay, speaking of Reddit, like I said in the last segment, I went on Reddit and I found this interesting story. Typically, these are YouTube exclusives, but this was so good I had to put it on the main podcast because it's talking about something that the administration is also doing that I had no idea about. And this is funny and alarming at the same time.
00:44:49
Speaker
So... The title of this Reddit post is, am I overreacting for telling my boyfriend I will leave if he keeps watching Maha content and living like this?
00:45:01
Speaker
First of all, do you know what Maha content is? I've never heard that. I'd never heard of it either. It is make America healthy again. oh boy. Okay.
00:45:14
Speaker
So just from the title, what do you think? Is she overreacting for thinking about leaving? If it's got anything to do with our current president, no, you're not. Oh, so okay. Let me read what she wrote.
00:45:28
Speaker
We've been together a little over a year, and until recently, things were normal. Then he started watching these Maha, Make America Healthy Again podcasts and TikToks, and it slowly turned into his whole personality. At first, it was just questioning Big Pharma, which, whatever, I agree with it partially because questioning things is good for society, and we have a right to do it. But then it escalated fast.
00:45:50
Speaker
Now he's convinced urine therapy is real. He won't shut up about raw milk and he keeps trying to get me to drink it. He stopped wearing his glasses because some guy on online said he could fix your eyesight by staring at the sun.
00:46:06
Speaker
He only eats steak for breakfast because carbs are poison and he won't listen to doctors, won't listen to me. And anytime I bring up safety, he says I'm brainwashed. He stopped using deodorant because it's toxic. He barely uses soap because he he thinks it disrupts his body's natural balance and will bring down his testosterone levels.
00:46:26
Speaker
The bathroom smells disgusting and I can't use it within an hour of him taking a dump in the morning. His body odor is so bad, I don't want to sit next to him anymore. I'm not attracted to him at all at this point.
00:46:39
Speaker
I tried ignoring it, hoping that he would get out of this phase. Then I tried asking him to view scientific literature and not these weird guys on TikTok. Nothing worked. Every conversation turned in him and into him lecturing me about how society is collapsing and how he's ahead of the curve and won't be a slave to Big Pharma.
00:46:58
Speaker
Last night, I finally snapped. I told him this isn't just a difference in opinions anymore. And as much as I don't want to get into politics, this is beyond politics now. It's it's impacting my attraction to him. This affects my health, my comfort, and my attraction to him. I said, if he keeps following this stuff and refusing basic information,
00:47:19
Speaker
hygiene and common sense, I'm leaving. I'm not gonna live like this or pretend this is normal. He got angry and said, I'm controlling, shallow and unsupportive. He said I should follow the same channels as him so I could see the light. I told him my journey does not include living with someone who smells bad, won't take care of himself and thinks staring at the sun is medical advice.
00:47:40
Speaker
This man has a finance degree. How can you think staring at the sun is a normal thing to do? Now I feel guilty, but also relieved for finally saying it out loud.
00:47:50
Speaker
Am I overreacting for drawing a hard line and being ready to walk away over this? Hell no.
00:48:00
Speaker
What? I had to look up urine therapy. That's not real, y'all. I can just tell you right now. Don't be drinking your own pee. There's no health benefit that. Wait minute. That's what urine therapy is? i said He said he was drinking raw milk, but... He's convinced urine therapy is real. Urine therapy is drinking your own urine for health benefits. There is nothing. There's not. no no guy hey
00:48:32
Speaker
Cults are a dangerous thing. Look, I think the president is getting a bad rap on this one because he ain't said nothing about none of this type of stuff. this make America healthy again, don't think it's connected to him. Is it tied to... Okay. It doesn't seem like it. I've heard he smells. It seems like flat earther stuff, which don't even get me started about. Just if you think about the earth being flat logically, who cares?
00:49:01
Speaker
The Earth is flat, the Earth is round, who cares? We still got to pay rent. And also, you're you're saying to me that all of the world, like, space exploration departments, teams, government agencies, all of this stuff, that they're all colluding on this one thing to deceive us.
00:49:26
Speaker
into thinking the earth is round. For what possible reason?
Critique of Pseudo-Scientific Beliefs
00:49:30
Speaker
This is cult thinking, cult logic. This is the people that fall down these rabbit holes. And again, when you keep listening to things that confirm your own...
00:49:47
Speaker
biases you're just in an echo chamber at this point so when you start to go down these rabbit holes and you're watching nothing but these kinds of tiktoks it's gonna start making sense to you because get let me tell you something these people speak with a lot of authority and be but they saying the dumbest Things that you could possibly... Carbs are not poison. You need them.
00:50:13
Speaker
Should we question Big Pharma? Absolutely. Absolutely. You should question any monopoly on things, and anything like that. Yes.
00:50:24
Speaker
And some deodorants are toxic. I can't use Swagger Fiji. I developed a rash underneath my armpit. I'm like, what the hell is going on? I went back to my regular deodorant and it was fine.
00:50:36
Speaker
I believe it's like aluminum in certain antiperspirants. And some people are allergic to that. Okay. This whole thing about water and soap messing with your natural biome.
00:50:50
Speaker
Y'all, the same water you cook with so you can eat it, but you can't wash your body with it. Makes sense. Makes sense. Makes sense.
00:51:01
Speaker
You stink. That's not normal. You stink. You're disgusting. I don't want to be with you anymore because you're disgusting. And nobody's going want be with you because you're gross.
00:51:12
Speaker
And if this is how you want to live, fine, but you're going to do it by yourself because it's gross. She says you can't even go into the bathroom an hour after he takes his morning constitutional because it is so bad. Look, let me tell you something. She must really,
00:51:31
Speaker
Really love this person because i ain't never been around somebody that's funky a lot. Or even a little bit. like to that degree.
00:51:43
Speaker
You can be, like, if you i've dated women and they come in from working out, smell a little ripe. Or one started using natural deodorant. I was like, don't do that. It's not working. It's not. It's not working.
00:51:54
Speaker
You got to go back. Okay. Natural deodorant don't work for you. You tried. You tried it. Don't do this again. Okay. Yeah. i Look, let me tell you.
00:52:07
Speaker
I'm very particular anyway. You know, I got a thing about smells. So it's the reason why I got so many different types of lotions and Sometimes you're going stink, though. Like, right? Like, you're working out and sweating and stuff. You're going stink after that. That's normal. But you take a shower and you wash your ass with soap.
00:52:25
Speaker
And let me make it even more clear for people out there. I don't give a damn if deodorant and body wash and soap and all that stuff is toxic.
00:52:36
Speaker
Stripping away my pH h balance is slowly killing me. I'd rather die not smelling all to be damned than live a long time smelling like ass. I'm sorry. I don't. That's not the life I'm going to live. I will poison myself to make sure that I don't stink. That's yeah going to the extreme. But I don't feel like this is poison.
00:52:59
Speaker
No, no.
Skepticism Towards Medical Advice
00:53:01
Speaker
ah You know, just ask Typhoid Mary's victims. if You love bringing Typhoid Mary up. Because it's a prime example.
00:53:11
Speaker
It's a prime example. You asked them if soap and water was important. Okay, listen, y'all, get off social media sometimes.
00:53:25
Speaker
Yeah. Get off of it. And this new thing where people are like drinking raw milk. There's a reason why. you don't drink raw milk. There's a reason why they boil out all the poisonous stuff. There's a reason why we take vaccines.
00:53:41
Speaker
Right? There's a reason for all of this stuff. Now, I'm also a person that doesn't, not doesn't believe, but I don't take the flu shot.
00:53:52
Speaker
I don't like when doctors automatically prescribe me antibiotics. Unless it's something that will only be cured from the antibiotic, yeah I'm not taking it. If it's a bacterial infection. Now, a lot of doctors will prescribe antibiotics for viral infections, and that's so they can get you out the office.
00:54:12
Speaker
yeah Stop taking them Z-packs and you don't have a bacterial infection. I believe in strengthening my immune system. hu So um unless it's something that cannot be, look, ain't going to no better unless I take these antibiotics. Right.
00:54:28
Speaker
co yeah But if it's not really helping, I'm not taking it because it's weakening my immune system. I i understand why people take the flu shot. And then people will say, well, I mean, why did you take the COVID shot? That's not the flu. It was different. I had the COVID shot, still got COVID. And it's the worst sickness I've ever had in my entire life. And I literally had mono and bronchitis at the same damn time. yeah And COVID was worse than that experience. yeah And I had that for 30 days. I had COVID for two days. And I would trade that 30 days for that two days any day. That COVID was
Personal Health Choices and Skepticism
00:55:05
Speaker
the worst. Now, me, I had my flu shot and my COVID vaccine yesterday.
00:55:10
Speaker
Got one in one arm, one in the other. Y'all not going to have me out here sniffling and sneezing. Well, and that's good for you. That's good for you. but That's my choice.
00:55:21
Speaker
Ma'am, are you overreacting? Hell to the no. i A matter of fact, you underreacting. Thank you. When I can't go into the bathroom an hour after you done gone to a bathroom, not not five, ten minutes. It didn't air out for an hour.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah. You got to get the hell up out my house. And if I'm in your house, I need to get the hell up out your house. Yeah. Because the way I would have dumped a bucket of soapy water on you while you slept. Oh, I'd ruin the whole bed.
00:55:48
Speaker
Yeah. This will be a waterbed by the time I'm done. Because you stink. I'm not getting in this bed. You... On my sheets? And you ain't washing properly?
00:56:02
Speaker
You know what's going to get him to start washing properly? What? The fact that no woman going to want to be with him. he'll probably He'll probably turn into one of those manosphere guys that say women don't like him for whatever reason. And the reason is...
00:56:17
Speaker
Because your ass is funky. that's But here's the thing. That's the There are women in these rabbit holes, too. Too funky-ass people. And they'll have funky kids and perpetuate funk throughout the globe.
00:56:34
Speaker
Oh, my God. No, you're not overreacting. You're underreacting. You need to get the hell up out of there. But, Jay, what do you want to tell these people before we get up out of here? Y'all got to do, just use more discernment.
00:56:49
Speaker
Right? Like, think things through logically. And I know that that's asking a lot of people who are irrational and illogical. But when confronted with the logic, you can't, don't turn a blind out of it.
00:57:08
Speaker
Use some discernment. Wash your ass.
00:57:15
Speaker
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00:57:28
Speaker
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