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Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Selective Ignorance. However, before we get to this week's episode, I want to remind you guys to purchase my book, no Holds Barred, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power. So feel free to go to your local bookstores, preferably queer owned, black owned or woman owned, to support them, but also just click the button on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, or wherever you read your books. Again, that is no Holds Barred, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power written by yours truly and my co host of the Decisions Decisions podcast, Wheezy. Make sure y' all get that. Now let's get to this week's episode. This is Mandy B. Welcome to Selective Ignorance, a production of the Black Effect podcast network and iHeartRadio. Welcome, guys, to another episode of Selective Ignorance. Before we get started this week, I want to let you know and remind you that in order to watch this episode, you need to head on over to our YouTube page. That's right, head on over and subscribe to YouTube.com withmandyb and if you are listening to this as a wonderful audio experience, baby, you better hit that. Subscribe and you better go. Rate us five stars. Help us climb the charts. Ok? Ok. Well, this week on Selective Ignorance, y', all, we are getting into all the ignorant things. Really. This week in this Is America, we are talking about podcasters now sitting with. I see dead people. Dead people. That's right. We're talking Glenn Beck, who recently sat with an AI version of George Washington.
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Come on now, dawg.
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Why? We don't know. But also, are there any dead AI people we would want to sit with? We're going to let y' all know. And then one of the coolest names ever, don't come for me. But yes, we're talking Donald Trump widening the war with Netanyahu. Come on. I'm sorry, I just gotta say Netanyahu like that because that's kind of a cool name. Not a cool person. Not a cool person.
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Get that straight.
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Netanyahu. And then, guys, we are adding a conspiracy corner. Blame a king for this one. Apparently, if you got the COVID vaccine, you may actually be akin to Epstein.
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Why are you gay?
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I can't believe it either. And then, as celebrities say the darnest things, we're not talking angry black women during Women's History Month. No. But Terrence Howard shared some advice he got from Denzel Washington and leans into the trope of the angry black man. And luckily, I have two that sit with me every week, so we're going to get into what that means as well. And just so y' all know, we was outside this week, so we are getting into all of our ignorant thoughts. So sit back if you at the core. Sit back if you at your work desk and enjoy, because this is selective Ignorance with Mandy B. Joined with my super producer, Gang Gang.
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Gang, Gang, Gang, gang, gang.
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And we have Jason Journalism Jason here because of course, I sent him an email invite this week. Thank you for joining us, Jason.
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I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
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By the way, before we start too, y', all, Jason is very booked, very busy, and we have to give a round of applause and a celebration for his new job as the executive producer over on Hot 97 Mornings with Mero.
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Appreciate that, y'.
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All.
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Appreciate that.
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Y' all is a fellow selectively ignorant friend over here. Oh, wait, shit. As well as Kaz. I forgot we had Kaz on the pod too.
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Yep, yep, yep. Kaz and me and Bell, too.
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Yeah, yeah. Let me ask you, does that mean you literally have to get up every morning at like 3am and be at the studio? Or is this like something where you got lucky and it could be remote?
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No, I gotta go in. I gotta get up at 4:30 every morning and then get my ass into the city every day.
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Ooh. So y', all, we gotta. If Jason is not on the pod, it's because he had to go to work. Sometimes we do record on Monday, so we gonna try to keep it to Sundays. So y' all could get the Latino flair. Over here on Selectivita, they kind of did some reverse.
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I think the band over there did some reverse dei.
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What's reverse dei? Who did that?
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Could have got a Dominican or Puerto Rican. And the black. They got the black first. Going backwards, I don't think we got any token whites over there either.
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I gotta check. I gotta know why. Yeah, you know what? We don't have any tokens. I gotta go investigate either.
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That's true.
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Oh, wait, I'm lying. We got a Croatian shout out to
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GP oh, there we go.
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There you go. But that's spicy white. Y' all know over there on the mic too, we also got the pod legend himself a king. What up, Ak?
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I'm chilling, man. It's a beautiful day. I'm here with the team. And you know, we get some of that aura from J Rod, you know what I mean, sprinkled around the room,
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you know, by the way, aking a king is a typical man. So I hit him asking for his ETA today because he was already late. And so he responded, 30 minutes. So hold on. So you ready? So I'm like. I text him and I'm like, we about to fight. And then I start talking shit about him.
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Yep.
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The N was at the door.
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I was tippy toed. Cause I knew it was wild shit. And the door was cracked. Cause I didn't want her to hear my shoes. So I was like. Cause you know, I got outside parking. I was like, all right, cool. Let me tiptoe. She. I felt it too. I was like, why she gonna be like. She said, when you. What's your ETA? I said, 30 minutes. As soon as I saw the number 30, I was like, oh. As soon as I saw it, I was. Perfect number to say to set her off. I know what this is about to
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be to set me off. Y' all not listen. Can y' all not act like I'm very strict around here, okay?
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Oh, no, you run a tight shit.
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Hey, you run a tight shit.
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You're professional. Yeah, yeah. Hey, you know what? I feel like we gonna have to get to a point where we doing late passes and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even think she would take a doctor's note, though. I don't think she. Nah, nah, nah, nah. She would be like, oh, you wrote that on ChatGPT. I see your stories, nigga. You was at the spot last night. Fuck your sickness, nigga. You will get punished for being late.
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I was late.
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We had Sid and Reezy, and I
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came in late, son.
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I was silenced. Oh, that's right. Yo, and she wouldn't let it go. She's like, no Michael mute.
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Okay. Not too much on me. I'm sorry, Mandy. I got the research over here. King of headlines Jason J Pop blessing
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all the yap N. What up, what up, what up, what up, what up? What it do?
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What it do? So, Jason, it kind of sucks. Maybe we could hang out this week when I'm in New York. Cause I literally was hanging with both Jah and a king this week.
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We was outside a little bit.
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That's where our ignorant moments are coming from, I guess. I linked with Jah first. We ended up going to a listening session for Young Miami, which Is I
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thought ancestor protected me that night.
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Nah, I ain't gonna hold you. So I pull up, they invite all of like, the DJs and radio folks in Atlanta. And, you know, I happen to be on radio.
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Say that, you know, what station is that that you be on radio?
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You know, Hot 179.
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Oh, Hot 107.
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Off the clock, you know, six to eight every Saturday. But I went with my DJ, DJ Jazzy T. Shout out Jazzy T. And it's crazy, cause she', yo, all of these sessions be all men. And I said, it gets young, Miami. If it's all men, it's gonna be the boys or the girls.
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Technically the girls.
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The gorals, mind you. So I hit lake. I say,
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the gorls is in that bitch.
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So I hit lake. And I'm like, hey, nigga, is there finna be some food? Cause the bitch is hungry. But then I realized I'm also in Atlanta. So I said, whatever it is gonna have too much sodium for me. So.
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Good call. You know, they put lemon pepper.
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I thought it was gonna be lemon pepper wings. Fries. I ordered fucking okra the other day. It was lemon pepper okra. It was fries. I was like, what the fuck? Why y' all putting lemon pepper on okra? And that's my favorite vegetable.
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You know, as much as we miss a king there, I was kind of glad that a king didn't make it over there.
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Oh, you were glad?
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Because they had that big ass plate. A big ass tray of salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. And I knew that. I was like, if he walked in here right now and seen this big ass niggery plate of farm raised fish. Farm raised, farm raised fish. I knew good and goddamn well he'd have been in there salmoned out. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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That's an inside joke, this Jason. But after last week, after recording, we went to one of my favorite restaurants. We went to Roomie's Kitchen and we ordered. This nigga literally was asking all the servers, hey, do you say salmon or salmon?
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Like he was cute.
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Research out here.
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Like I was in a social experiment.
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I said, can you not make this nigger y table be any more nigger? Yes. By asking all these motherfuckers how to say salmon.
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All the white people, what's the social experiment? All the white people, yo, king, what's the social experiment? What's the roots of the experiment? So I figured we had a period of time where I think we should unlearn and relearn. And I think if the advent of us you know, getting back to writing cursive again, we gotta. We should be able to pronounce the shit we see. So why are we not pronouncing the L like mayonnaise? Why do we have the A Y O in there if it's not mayonnaise?
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See what I mean? Outside of the U.S. outside of the U.S. they say mayonnaise.
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Yeah.
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Well, what's the crazy.
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This is a. So in Latin culture, they say mayonnaise.
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This is a sober ass conversation. He's literally going down all the words.
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But peep game, though. We at the restaurant, so we order some shit, and they. Who ordered the. I think.
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No, you wanted.
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Jot. Ordered the salmon.
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No, no, don't remember.
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You really going with it? You're going with the L. No, we
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ordered it for you.
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I'm not going with the L. Oh, when it came out, I heard it, though. I heard it. It came out, and it looked good and it was shareable. And Mandy said, wait a minute. Is that farm raised? Oh, yeah, that was all right. Yeah, that was the other delineation. And the woman, the raider, was like, yeah. I was like, oh.
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I said, e y. You need wild caught. I said, farm raised. I said, this may as well be tilapia.
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They don't have wild caught like that in Atlanta. I see.
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Well, yeah, because nobody gives a fuck.
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Or they do. The. What's the other part of the. Depending on where you go. If you go to, like, a bougie.
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That is a bougie restaurant.
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Not bougie enough. They got forum raised. I know they got down here. They got the wild caught. What do you call that? The pink shit.
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The pink shit?
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The sockeye. Oh, yeah. Part of the salmon. Well, I don't know. Like, I feel like salmon is the only fish that is industrialized in that kind of way.
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Well, it's industrialized because niggas was braiding it, shrimp marinating it, molesting it. Have y' all seen the videos of all the things?
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Like, I don't understand the braid shit, bro.
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The chefs be literally hunching salmon while they make it. Like, what are we doing here?
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Yeah. I don't understand.
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Like, they be slapping it. It's like. It's too much. It's too much.
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It's like spanking salmon is crazy. It's wild.
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But anyways, so we're at the listening party. Let's go back to the listening party.
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Okay. Yes.
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We finally get there. We decide we not eating this Alfredo or this salmon, but we do. We drank and you Come so late at the bar. For whatever reason, young Miami got there. They decided to pull the liquor.
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So late is also relative because this thing started at 8. I got there, like, 9:15, 9:30. And the bar, it was no more liquor. I'm like, I've been to a lot of listening sessions in Atlanta over years and years and years. I never. I haven't seen nobody run out of liquor in an hour.
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Yeah, no, they just hit it from.
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Had one bottle.
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No, they hit it. So he comes and sits over with me as they're playing the music, and I say, hey, man. I say, this is gonna make me sound really old, but I am not here for the sagging of pants.
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He's out of control.
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So there's this guy in a Nike tech suit.
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Of course. Of course he was in a Nike tank suit. You know how that goes.
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And so he's like, what do you mean sagging? And I said, look over there. And we look and baby, de whole ass. De whole ass is out. Okay? Wiling like, whole ass. So damn, we're not even lit. Next thing you know, we start remixing the Little Mermaid song. How did we get there?
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Do you remember? I think. I think. I think what happened was. See, my brain is like a weird place. So I think you said, like, his pants is under his cheeks. And when you said under his cheeks, in my mind, I heard under the cheeks. You heard the melody, and it was just like, it just clicked. Under the cheeks.
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So under the cheeks, we literally start potting. And I say, we have to remix that.
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We absolutely have to remix it.
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And the king of headlines gives it to us. So go ahead. I need you to give us the gay version of under the sea remix.
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Under the cheeks. Ah, under the cheeks. Hey, you tripping. Your ass is sticking out. We can see. Make Bill Cosby proud of you. Oprah might even love it too. Boy, pull your pants up. That is not fashion. Under your cheeks. What's the little. What's the little. With the little bag?
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Little clamshells, not dead ass.
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And we were like niggas out of control.
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It was so, like, wow.
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Like, I remember, like, I'm old. I feel like I'm from the generation where sagging, like, really began. And I don't remember n really having a whole ass out.
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And that was an invitation. And they do say that. Sagging guys, here goes.
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Prison culture. That's a signal.
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Apparently. It came from prison, y'. All.
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Yeah.
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And so you would sag your pants to let the boys know that your open for Business was open for action.
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It was like the Krispy Kreme light in the 80s. Oh, no. Hot and ready. Like come on in.
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Get it hot and ready.
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Crazy. But it's. But I don't. But I don't. Like. I remember seeing like sagging back in my day was like a little bit. You have a little boxer showing at the top of your.
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You are not.
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Not cook. Jon. He's right. That's what sagging was. Sagin was never like, pull out your entire ass. You never seen Tupac ass. You never seen trench whole ass.
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Hey guys, our demographic just went to 40 and up. We gotta chill.
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I'm saying, like, this is what it is. You know, that ain't history. You know, we gotta bring it back.
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I don't know if this is an advertisement. Safety.
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I don't do the same video. But I saw IM Ray, you know, Ray Ray, Ray Ray on Instagram, he always does his shorts. He posted a video of. There was a Y N wearing. He might have had a Nike tech suit on. But he had laced underwear.
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No, he didn't.
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Yes, he had laced, laced drawers and his pants were sagging. And it was a whole thing. He did a whole video like, yo, come on man, this is what we're
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doing in 2020 was.
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Yeah. About to say that. Like, that's not like a. But I didn't know they even had that they got laced underwear for dudes.
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Well, yes, they do.
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For alternate. Yeah. If anybody was gonna make them, I would say, leave it to Robinna. Robin gonna make sure everybody got a little piece of something. You know, she waits. Very inclusive. Everybody gonna get what they want. Fucking with Robin.
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Well, it was a good night. It was cool. We ended up rapping from there.
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I thought we was gonna go see some titties, but yeah.
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Yeah. So we were supposed to go to Onyx. And mind you, here we go. Demographic 40 plus. So it's 10 o'. Clock. Uh oh, Listening session ends. And Jazzy's like, yo, let's go to Onyx. And I was like, ooh, I ain't been to Onyx in a minute. So she's like, okay. But my person said, we can't pull up till one. I said, three hours from now. Oh, absolutely.
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Not gonna make it.
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Not gonna make it.
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Good night. Not gonna happen. That sound like a pre Covid function. Oh my goodnight. After Covid. No issue was not happening.
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Well, Ja was supposed to also join me and Aking the next day. So we pulled up on our friend yousef for his 40.
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Yes.
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40th birthday. Look at demographic aging.
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Look at that.
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I was gonna say that's just the
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number of the episodes. Happy born day.
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Happy born day. Yousef AKA Yui. We all know him. So mutual friend come to the show for a long time. He's a Philly jom.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how I met him. I met him through all my people in Philly.
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I met him. He used to manage Jidenna. So I met him right Pre pandemic from a mutual friend. Anyway, pull up on him. A king comes, you know, quite late. And I literally was just waiting on the.
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Wait, wait, wait. There was no set time for me to be there.
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Okay. It started at six.
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Yeah.
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What time you got there? Nine something.
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And you know what I was doing? Hey, you know what I was doing? Real talk. I was editing the show. I'm gonna say, you're probably editing the show. There you go.
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He only said that to make me conclude. Because I was tired, I had a long day, I did a photo shoot. Y' all know I have another magazine coming.
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Another. More. Say that. More POD blessings, more business blessings.
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So I go, and this is one of those birthday parties where it's like people haven't seen each other in years.
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Yeah, I haven't seen Youstive in years. I should have went there.
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Everyone knows each other. So a king's making his way to me and he's like, yo, my guy, I just. He on the phone and he stops. And so I see him talking to this white guy. And so I go up to the white guy.
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Go up to the white guy?
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Yeah, and he'll explain who this person is. But so I walk up to a king. A king's like, you know, Mandy, you know, Akin does the introduction, the whole spiel. The whole spiel. And then, you know, this is a white guy. Probably the only white guy at the whole fucking event. Maybe. Yeah, he's like the only white guy. So he has on this fire ass 1996 Atlanta Olympics windbreaker.
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Oh, classic.
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And I just saw like, I just saw one on the MLS site that I wanted and nigga, it was sold out, but it said 96, 2026 Atlanta with all the rings.
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So hard. Yeah, that's hard.
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So I'm asking him and he's like, yeah, you know, I was going through my parents boxes and I saw this and you know, cause it looks a little worn as vintage. I said, nah, that shit fire. I like that. I said, you got a little. A little something. So then we start talking about the Olympics. Cause you know World cup is coming to Atlanta.
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Yup.
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So this is where my ignorance comes in. Uh oh, I'm tiptoeing the conversation. Cause he's a white man, okay. And I realize now the political landscape of this, you know, country has me a little uncomfortable talking to white people.
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Cause you don't know nothing about him.
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Said you should be uncomfortable. It's not like he had a Confederate flag or anything, but the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, he was just white. And we're in Georgia, you know what I mean? So we talking to him and I'm like, hey, yeah, so what's the traffic gonna be like? Like. Cause, nigga, we just. All of us got late last week. They had a fucking marathon here, right? I said, what is traffic in Atlanta gonna be like for the World Cup? And he goes and turns into him. He's like, you know what's crazy? We got that dumb ass motherfucker in the office. So I don't know what it's gonna be. I don't know if anyone wants to come here because of the fuck boy running our country. And he, like, starts going in on Trump and I.
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And he was happy.
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I could breathe.
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Now you be safe.
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I said, oh, oh, you cool. I know that's right. And then I felt like, okay, you got.
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Now we can.
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Yeah, mind you. Who then.
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Yeah, I don't.
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Tells me who the guy is.
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And I'm like, one. I think you should have been okay. Because I was talking to like. Because I'm not tolerating that shit. Like, fair, fair. I don't want to talk to no maggots. Like, that's not going to happen. But. And I wanted to she's ecosystem. So I wanna make sure that everybody know that we family, right? So the good brother, Mike Wahlberg.
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That's who it was.
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Oh, shit. That's who it was. You know who that is?
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Jason.
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He used to run. He used to run the A3C Festival in Atlanta. Very big factor behind the scenes in Atlanta for a number of years before they sold it to the gathering spot.
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Really huge. And I'm like, a 3C. I know of that because when I first met a king, he used to try to, like, for anyone who doesn't know a 3C, it's pretty much the super black culture version of south by Southwest. But in Atlanta.
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Yes, off the coast. Off the coast. That's where we could get. You remember how that was a very microcosm version, except we were, you know, for a birthday. Right. But imagine you Know, for three days. Actually more than three days, because it started early in the week. After three days, we outside and we're networking and we building and collaborating, and that's what's missing right now. But that's all.
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That was also one of, like, if I'm not mistaken. Was that not, like one of the first festivals even? Cause did they invite the Combat Jack show?
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Yeah, we was.
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That was one of the first festivals.
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Jai was our. That was our consigliere. Yeah, we come down every year. It was Jai and Shout out to Ty St. Boogie. Those are the ones come to Atlanta and they like, hey, we going. This is y' all itinerary. And we just be out in Atlanta. But Mike was a part of that too. But. But even that's. To see that love there at that moment is like, damn, we gotta restore the feeling somehow. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, it was really.
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And that's how I know Yousef.
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Yeah, Yousef. I said, yusuf, I know it's your birthday, but you might need to throw one of these once a quarter, nigga. Yeah, I got business. Like, literally, someone was like, you were just on my mind. So now I gotta work next week. I said, now I'm going to work
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and party and getting some work, getting a shift. Not mad at all. That's how it's supposed to be.
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It is. That's how it's supposed to be. It's dope.
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Well, let's get into the things because y', all, we gonna get a little ignorant here. Yeah, just a little bit. By the way, I know last week we said it was a kind of slow news week at first.
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Oh, that shit is turned up now. That shit is cranking, Jason.
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I hope you tell your wife that it's us texting you as ladies. Yo, I know it be going bing, bing. It be 11:30 at night. N sending fucking out.
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Shit is going on. Shit is happening.
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Well, let's get into. This is America.
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Don't got you slipping, though.
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All right, and let's start with. We have a clip, y'.
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All.
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There's a podcaster by the name of Glenn Beck. Yes, of course, he's a white man. And he did a podcast with an AI George Washington. Here's a clip from that episode. George we are trying to not fight foreign wars and not be involved in the world's policemen. But there are times that we have to demonstrate strength in order to prevent conflict. But I. I don't know where the foreign entanglement begins and where it ends. When I was president, I did not
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crave power in my uniform, dreaming of conquest.
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In fact, I begged several times to not be the general and not be the President. I didn't want it, but I understood my responsibility. And I also understood that some things that are easy to forget when you're staring down bayonets. Peace is not the default.
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It has to be guarded deliberately.
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With foresight and strength,
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water is used to generate response.
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You know what's crazy? I was just about to say now I know I was all here for ChatGPT. The amount of water used for this.
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Yeah, that's a lot of water.
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That's a lot of water.
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Just like some fuckery. Like, all right and beyond. I wasn't ready for the Hanes T shirt.
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Yeah, that's what.
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As soon as I saw it the first time, I was like, this nigga's in a T shirt. Like, first off, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. Facts. 1732. And it got him looking like he's 65 years old, bro.
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Oh, no, no, no. They even took the pressed curls. The regular white people here, not like lemon tree phase. I'm not gonna lie. I saw this. And that's the thing, too. Not only was this an AI generated voice and prompt, but they used AI generated video where he set himself up like he was actually talking to him. And in post, they added this motherfucker off.
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That's a lot of water.
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No, it was a lot. I'm not gonna lie. Who you dropped this in the chat, right? A king. And I was like, when we talk about our likeness and voices being used, clearly his estate probably don't even exist to, you know.
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Yeah, I don't even know who.
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But I was just like, this is scary. This is now a scary place where we're heading. And of course, I'm gonna bring up the fact that we saw what an apology would sound like from Tupac and Biggie in the cold. But, like.
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But even go before that. And I don't want to go to the beef. But even during the Kendrick and Drake beef, when Drake put out the Taylor Mae freestyle and he rapped and he rap the Tupac voice, they had that software early. Cause that sounded like Pac rapping. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know where we go, man. I don't.
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I mean, creatively, I ain't gonna hold you. And here's my hypocrisy. Every week, I come in here and talk about my side nigga, Grok, my husband, chatgpt. Apparently, they want me to divorce him and go to Chloe and go lay in bed with Claude. And I'm doing my research. I don't know.
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Poison water for a N also, maybe you get enough.
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But I was like, this is kind of scary.
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Very scary.
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And then I don't think. I. I'm not really here for this. But then I was thinking, I like, okay, if I could have a conversation with someone who did and someone AI generated, who would it be? Now, as a woman who cried this week because Y' all out here calling me a Jezebel. I would like to, like, talk to Marilyn Monroe. Cause she was like, the face of hoes and the face of, I'm finna fuck who I wanna fuck, and I'm
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a bad bitch and who got something to say about it?
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And then she became this icon in death. You know what I mean? And so I was like, okay. And then I was wondering, like, if there's anybody y' all would wanna sit with. AI generated wise, informal podcast with the only person.
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Like, I would only wanna talk to people who I can, like, talk shit about and troll in real life. Like, if I had to talk to someone, if I did an AI interview with Charlie Kirk, I would just bring up all the people smiling and laughing.
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That is crazy.
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All the memes, all the jokes. That would be the only reason that I would do that shit. Because I'm like, even with this interview, what are you supposed to learn? What is George Washington supposed to say? To be like, oh, I never thought about that before.
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But from a consumer standpoint, I'm also like, like, who wants to listen to this?
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Like, but what's the rap? It's on brand for Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck used to be on Fox News, and he was, like, mad performative. He had, like, the.
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The.
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The. The whiteboard and. And the cowbells and doing everything. Like, red face, screaming at the camera. He's in a.
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He's in his bag doing this now. He's in his bag. Wow, that's crazy. I'm not. I'm not.
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Ramifications. Because, you know, over time, if we get used to this thing, that part, then we just gonna start believing random shit. We kind of do that now on social media, they just be throwing out shit and be like, oh, yeah, you see what happened? What?
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Yeah. No, I'm not gonna lie. They get on me on Twitter. I be retweeting. They be like, God damn it, Mandy, it's a fake. This is a fake post.
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Stop believing.
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And I'll be like, damn, my bad. Like, sorry that I didn't ask Grok first if it was AI, if it was fake, if there was any.
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I've seen an AI MILF page on Instagram, but it wasn't an AI. It was a woman. It was this one girl. This one woman. She might have been like, listen, she might have been 60, but she had on lingerie. And I was like, what the. So here's the thing. No, no, no, no, no.
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I know, I know.
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Hey. I'm just saying.
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He sends Us.
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I know it's wild.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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It's not solid, but it's that one. That's why. That's why I went to it. Because I'm like, oh, this stood out, right? So I go to it and I'm like, how long was it?
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And then I'm looking, I'm like, how long?
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I was like, what, did you have to wash your hands? No, but here's the interesting part. It I'm looking at who's following the page.
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Wait, who's following an AI Mil?
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A lot of the homies. And I'm like, y' all following the AI milf? Bruh. Liking this commenting. The whole nine wasaac hay on. There was Isaac Hayes on there.
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Don't do.
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I just had to ask. I just had. All right, he probably was. I guarantee you he probably DM'd like you. I feel like he might have been interested. He might have been DMing. I'm not playing with you, fan base Influencer. We went from one week last week, we did the AI the Hell's Kitchen Cafe with the AI dates. Now we got interviews. We got the interviews and we had yo shout out to all of the. But, but, but. Do y' all like. Like, when y' all get a post sent to you? Do. Do you like. Man, you said you just like post and stuff. Y' all don't like, stop and check? Like, what's the. What's the level of effort that y' all put into making sure the shit is taken out?
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Depends if it's for research or if I'm just scrolling. Like, if I'm just scrolling, I one ear out the other or through my head to the back of the brain, whatever. But if it's like, oh, I wanna talk about this. Oh, let me. Like, if it really piques my interest, I do go down the rabbit hole of things to see how legitimate it is.
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For me, it depends on what is the thing about, right? If it's something supposed to be news or purporting to be like a world event or something, then I'm gonna have to like, look at the video, Google it, do some due diligence. But like, yesterday I almost got got because I saw it was a video of. It was like the longest water slide. Longest, fastest water slide in the world, whatever. And it was basically like it had a guy in a little raft and there's a robotic arm that's pushing him up this big ass hill. And then the robotic arm basically like slingshotted him into the water. Tunnel. So he's going fast, and at some point, he flies off of one, and now he's just in the air tumbling. And so it makes it look like there's somebody with, like, Ray Ban glasses on who's flying through the air and, like, crash lands 200ft below him and dies. And the guy is reacting to the video, screaming, and, oh, my God, I can't believe I'm looking at him like, my nigga. Like, soon as dude went up in the air 500ft, you should have known. Like, this is like, they got you, gang.
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I'm not gonna lie. I kind of enjoy some of the fake AI Videos, though. Like, there was, like, a Loch Ness monster that came out.
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Oh, I seen that one. Yeah, I seen a Loch Ness monster.
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And I was like, oh, my God. And then it was like, yeah, this is AI.
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Oh, my God.
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But I was like, it got me. I was like, oh, my God. Not a Loch Ness monster. Anyway, let's get into the war that we are dealing with.
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So you gave us homework on this one.
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No, there wasn't. I did. Hold on. By the way, I said, watch this video. I highlighted y'.
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All. Watch this video.
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Get some information. Well, basically, I don't know who sent this video either, but Adam Mockler with Midas Touch Network.
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Who, by the way, I sent that. Yeah, who?
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Which, by the way, very dope YouTube page.
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Oh, yeah. He's so cool. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Adam Mockler does not fuck around. Yeah, he doesn't fuck around. Adam Mockler. That kid is serious.
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Also, so intentional with the information he posts almost every six hours.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. He updates to update.
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He updates. He'll watch something. Break it down his page. If y' all haven't been on there yet. Millions.
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He does a really good job. He be pissed off. He be so, yeah, he be mad, but he doesn't.
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This is a white boy that I'm
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like, okay, yeah, no. Cause he saw Adam be on Abby Phillips show on CNN cooking Scott Jennings. Oh, cooking. Cooking they ass. He goes on all of these political shows, whether they're YouTube or vertical TV and just, like, smashing. Smashing all the bullshit. But he does a really good job at synthesizing information. It might be something that maybe you don't know about, but he does a pretty good job of explaining this is what this shit means, and this is how it affects you.
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And we hope that you're not here to get your political updates. But he recently did a video where he talked about Donald Trump being pulled into this war on Iran after The Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu. Which, by the way. No, Netanyahu. I really. Netanyahu is all I hear. I did not know that nigga's name was Benjamin.
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Yeah, didn't know.
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He only calls him Netanyahu. But then also Jason brought up, too, his nickname, Bibby. And of course, this is not a sports podcast, but me and AK was like, the only one we acknowledge is Mike.
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Yeah, no, Netanyahu was like the.
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That was a light bright. Was he biracial, Mike? Bibby was a. Oh, yeah, that was a light bright. He was one of his mom.
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Yeah. His mom might have been white. It's crazy. He didn't come out named Jalen. So if the mother's white, it goes into my narrative again. His father. Yeah, she's white, but her name is Virginia. What's that? What's that? What's the end of that?
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Virginia is a very white name. I don't know no black woman named Virginia.
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Yeah, there's a lot of biracials you don't know. Black woman named Pusha T's wife. That's it.
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Oh, Pusha T's wife is named Virginia.
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That's the only. I think that's the only. Y' all don't know a bunch of
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black women named Jenny? Jenny.
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Like Jenny G I, N, N, Y, G I N, N, Y. Oh, you know what? That's a lie. What's her name? Well, she's white, too, though. Never mind. I was gonna say Clarence Thomas wife is a Jenny. He's very white.
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Uncut white.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the Colombian.
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Well, let me.
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Let me.
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That. Basically, the administration strategy by limiting potential successor leaders that the United States has identified has left Trump trapped between escalating retaliation from Iran. This is the thing that you were talking about before rising oil prices and pretty much a rapidly deteriorating geopolitical situation, which to me lends to y' all not getting me. Y' all not seeing me in the Middle east sometime soon. There is literally a war happening in the Middle East. All we're seeing is missiles. And speaking of AI, earlier, did you see how niggas are getting got by, like, AI shits and wasting missiles or something like that?
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Yeah. There was a report that Iran was painting fields with shadows of jets. So it looks like a target, and allegedly they're dropping bombs on. Just on ground, wasting this. Yo, if that is true, bro, that is the most. That shows the incompetence.
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Yeah, yeah.
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All right. But that's also modern warfare. Like, that's big time. That's what you. That's where we're at now. That's three steps ahead. Waste all them niggas. What's gonna happen is allegedly what happens when you waste shit. That's when your time is now. Oh, they ain't got nothing. Yeah. So let's show them what we got next week. Yeah, let's pull out the shit.
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Yeah.
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And it was. I don't know if you saw the. I think it was a Southwest flight. They had a bomb scare.
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Yes.
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Oh, yeah, I saw that. That shit was scary. Like, that's when I looked up, though. Cause I saw that. Like, is this A.I.
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okay, wait, do y' all want to know my ignorant take? I saw it. So basically, if y' all haven't seen, there's a video going around where a flight that was. I forgot where it was heading, but basically.
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And it had to divert in la,
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so they come to Atlanta, and there's a video where everyone has to have their hands up. I guess this is protocol. I didn't know what to do.
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Oh, I think it came from Nashville. It was going to Nashville to Florida then.
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And so they stopped in Atlanta because apparently there was a bomb threat. And this is where I'm like, this is. Given that the government set this up. Because of course, the man who did the bomb threat was clearly a Muhammad.
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Well, you know what? It was.
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And I was like, we don't even know if he.
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They just pulled him off, right? Yeah. Yeah.
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And apparently, like, they didn't have anything. I don't know. There were people in the comments that were like, damn, this is a lawsuit. Because clearly this is like, is. Is this really the nigga who said bomb threat or. Nah. So I was like, this is.
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Well, there's gonna be a lot of sketchy. Cause people have their feelings about the shooting that happened, that the government. They were trying. The headline was, oh, this mass shooting might have been in reaction to the Iran war. And they had the black guy with the sweatshirt that said Property of Allah on it. And it's like, are y' all niggas even trying to fool us anymore? Because this shit looks super fake.
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No, that's what I'm saying. It looks like they are planting stories into our media to get us thinking a certain way about, like, people aren't
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wearing merch with Muslim on it. They're not saying. Just they practice the faith in how they live. Is that against. Like, correct me if I'm wrong. Cause I don't even begin to know the first thing about Islam. But I thought for some reason that you weren't even allowed to have those type of representations. Like, you couldn't have Allah and have symbols and things like that on your clothes. You're not supposed to do that. It's supposed to be for sacred books.
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Same with Buddha. Yeah, yeah, Buddha and the. The Buddhism religion. When you go to. So y' all know I've been all over the world.
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My passport has a lot of stamps.
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And dude, you know, no, actually, you just. Again, age just 41, because they don't even do stamps anymore. Everything is fucking electronic. And I be having to go to a window like, nigga, where my stamp at?
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Oh, they gave me stamps in Amsterdam.
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Really?
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Maybe there's Dutch people still on.
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Mexico doesn't. London doesn't.
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Interesting.
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Even Dubai. Like, everything is electronic.
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And I'm like, I ain't been no more flexing.
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No more flexing.
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Hey, J Rod, I was with you with that, like, rich nigga, rich nigga, rich nigga, rich nigga. Why you got so much money up there, rich nigga.
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But no, you might be right. But yeah, to me, what's happening right now is really scary because they are telling us, hey, America, y' all niggas not safe. Y' all next.
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But I wanted to bring up specifically what's happening. They pretty much locked down the ports. That's holding out about 20% of the straight of Ormuz.
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The straight of Ormuz.
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Which is why, y', all, I don't even have a car. And fucking this guy right here. A king is in the group chat, literally dropping us screenshots of gas prices across the country.
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Facts getting crazy. Holding it tight right now for two seconds.
A
What do you mean holding it tight? Like they haven't.
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Well, that last checkup, it was still 289 and rising down here in the south is 319 and up. Now this reminds me, and California is already $6.
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And you know what this is reminding me of back when Bush was in office.
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Yeah.
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Like when I had my car back in like 0607. And right before we hit the. What was the crisis?
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Oh, the housing bubbles, the housing bubble,
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the depression, the banks, the.
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Yeah, everything. Everybody defaulted. Real estate shit. Yeah.
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I remember at one point, gas prices in Florida getting to almost $4 a gallon, which is what you see especially on the west coast.
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That's regular. They actually, some places would be happy in the west coast. And listen, if you got a six cylinder vehicle, you're putting premium. Yeah. So you're not.
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$4, very long.
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289. You're like, all right, I could do. I could fill it up. Yep. Now, yo, $20. And it's up now because it's. It's going up now. But we're not even in peak season. Like, this is just as soon, as soon as we get past Memorial Day and we're in the summer and people are traveling and plane tickets and all over the place, it's going to get crazy. That's the marker for when it jumps a little bit. Yeah. And it kind of settles. And then after like September, then it kind of dipped back down. But now it's like, what does that increased Memorial Day look like? Don't be surprised. Are we gonna get to six' seven in the east coast?
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Six' six, seven.
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We might.
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That weekend I'm at birthday bash, baby.
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Y' all gonna be eating firefly sandwiches. Fire festival sandwiches. Fire festival. Michelin star fyre festival food.
A
By the way, Jason, to get into the conspiracy corner. I know I didn't put put clip, but this is another clip I wanna play. Cause this is a black man who sat on a mic and said, this conspiracy. Now, again, not sure what a king's algorithm is, but he said, yo, guys, look at this. So there is a conspiracy, and I want to know Yalls thoughts on it. But the conspiracy is that Epstein injected his DNA into the COVID vaccine. So basically, they're saying that's a good conspiracy. That if you got the jab.
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Yeah, you got a little bit of Epstein in there.
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I ended up, you know, getting the 23andMe that Epstein may be on your family tree. If you could pull this clip up so we could get into what this conspiracy is. And then I do want to know Yalls thoughts on it. And this is where. Fuck hipaa. I want to know if y' all got the jab.
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Oh, we doing that.
A
Oh, yeah, we are.
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He said, fuck hippa, yo. Fuck HIPAA is hilarious. Use. Which one is this? I'll have part about. Wait. Yo, you gonna be judging people now? Like I love judging DNA. I found it.
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You pulling it up? My guy. Sorry.
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Yeah, I got it.
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This was bad pre production on my. On my behalf. I didn't highlight this here o.
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Get in.
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Oh, hold on.
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I'm trying to grab the link. I was trying to find. There was a.
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Sorry. Now we have an edit. Because of you, Jay.
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Because of me.
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Yeah, we. This is too much dead space.
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All right, here it goes. No, but you know how we clean it up?
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Yeah, I know it's gonna sound good.
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I was trying to find this thing I saw. Here we go. Damn.
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We're actually doing really good on time, guys. Conspiracy corner, then the angry black.
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No, as soon as you said it, I was like, oh, actually have a legit platform.
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Hold on, hold on. Because. Yep, we're gonna play. And I. Jake play that clip was
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walking around with a jab. They got a little bit of Epstein in him.
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No way.
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Epstein is main funder of the MRNA mb Gates Fauci. And what he did was he put a little bit of his own genetic code in each one of the jabs. What? Yeah. How did he pull that off? It's all in the files, man. He was doing experiments and funding that CRISPR and that MRNA technology back in the day. And he said in the same document that he wanted to have his code in all of it. So anytime anybody injects, they got a pie. Him inside of him.
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Is that his consciousness being transferred or what?
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Exactly. Just a little code. It's a little ego thing, you know. How much of an effect is it going to have on a person? Who knows? But for him, consciously, it's like. I mean, everybody. Every single person's out here. I'm inside of, you know, half the population. Right. Sick.
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I'm not going to lie. That is some wicked shit.
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But also very wicked.
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Looking at the Epstein files, that was a wicked man.
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Yeah.
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And probably also thought that he could get away with whatever, do whatever again. If y' all read into the documents, they were removing, like, the teeth out of children. They were eating babies. They was. It was. It's nasty stuff. So fuck hipaa. Did y' all get the jab?
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Hell yeah. Hold on.
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Hey, ak.
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Hey, jb. So before we do that, that was actually. I definitely got it. The gentleman, Billy Carson from Forbidden Knowledge. That's his platform. See, even that name is sus.
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As soon as you start talking.
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Forbidden Knowledge. That's a n. Who think he's smarter than everybody. They're trying to convince you of some shit that. Fuck out of here, Billy. However. Billy Carson. Fuck out of here, Billy Carson.
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Talk to me, by the way, can you.
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I'm going to take Aaron Rodgers route. I'm going to take the Aaron Rodgers route. Okay. All right. A Ron stick together. I think he. I think whatever. Aarons unite all across the globe. All right. All right, here we go. I didn't get the. I have. I took a holistic approach.
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The holistic approach.
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Oh, he CMOS'd it out. Not the jab, but the badge. The bodge.
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What's the bodge?
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Just the opposite, I guess. I don't know. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Oh, no. I might have. Allegedly. Allegedly. According to some false paperwork that I filled out some.
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Let's be very clear, like going back to that time. The fact that. Hold on. The fact that they really just made it an unlaminated card that you could write in pen, any pencil.
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The cards were janky.
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The cards were so janky.
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The cards were very janky.
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Mind you, the only reason I got it is because at one point, because. So when Covid started, we were supposed to go on tour. We had to cancel a tour. So when venues started opening back up, they opened. They wouldn't even let you book the show without everyone on your team having the vaccine. Baby, the way everybody had them cards and wasn't getting the jab and was
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just figuring it out. I knew.
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You knew. Here we go. I knew.
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Our people are so diligent. When I say our people, us, the culture, we are diligent as fuck. I said, yo, we always gonna find a way to get through this shit. That's why they say, oh, microchip. I'm like, man, that mark was. There's always gonna be a workaround.
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I will say they trying to workaround like this. New York was ahead of the curve. So everywhere else, clearly red states didn't give a fuck. But in New York, they started making it to where they had the electronic system. So you had to download the app and show the app.
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Oh, yeah. But here's the thing, people. And you had to do a rapid test. They was on it. They was selling cards.
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I was doing screenshots of my test, sending to other motherfuckers.
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Well, they were taking. You could buy the. You could purchase somehow, allegedly, the blank cards. And then people were screenshotting or showing pictures of their card. Oh, and somebody else. All you had to do is.
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Oh, I ain't gonna hold you. Very ignorant here. But when you traveled during the time where you had to test negative to travel, baby, I ain't never photoshopped so many negative results for people. Allegedly.
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Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Sources say.
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Now, real quick, let's get into the conspiracy. Would it matter to you? Would you feel away? Hey, King, you can't speak here because allegedly, see y'. All.
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Y' all gonna be biased. Cause y' all might have Epstein DNA in y'. All. See, y' all not. Know what I'm saying, Jason?
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Two times. And me, do we care if maybe there is some Epstein DNA inside of us?
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Yeah. You feel me? I mean, it can't do nothing. Well, first of all, here's the thing I don't understand. Like, I don't know that DNA works that way. Like, I don't. Like, I'm already born. I exist. So, like, you can't add nothing to my actual DNA. Yeah, well, the MRNA apparently has, like, the vessels where they can just code. And your blood.
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I can't wait to get you off camera. Only because it's a video.
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The 3D, He was on there. Like, he had a DNA and the MRNA and the thing. And I'm like, what we talking about, Estee and you on this. I'm like, hey, hey, hey, hey. I came on here for a podcast that they use for Covid. The ball with the little spicy Spicy. One of them is the ft. No, but I'm saying, like, you can inject something in you that affects your body, but my DNA is my DNA. Like, I'm an existing person already. Now, if Maybe if someone had gotten it, and I don't know if. If. If a pregnant woman got it and she got a. A. A Epstein injection. I know. That's what I'm saying. So I. My thing is, like, what do you.
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We all done had DNA in us, Paul. But if you clinch somebody, Hey, we done had DNA in us, all of us. You know what I mean, Nick? Okay, baby.
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Wow. Why are you gay? Why? Why, why? Why you? Why you? Why you? Why you?
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Why are you gay?
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But the thing about that, right, is a facet. I don't put nothing past none of this shit. That's one. Of course not. The other part of it is, unless we're gonna test to find that shit out, like we have a sample of Epstein's. They compare it with your blood work.
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Yeah.
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No, like, when you get your comp. What they call that shit? The. When you get your cbc, differential, labs, or whatever, your blood work, they gotta have, like, a line in there, like. Like at blood or something. And if the markers show is insanity. But I don't know if I believe none of that shit.
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Blood. Next time we have a virus, the jab ain't gonna see me. Cause at this point, they are playing with us, like, everything. And didn't Fauci. Fucking. Hold on. That's the other thing I wanted to bring up.
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Oh, yeah, the company.
A
So could you bring that up real quick?
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Let me see if I can.
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I sent it in the chat.
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Yeah, it was in the chat.
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I did a screenshot of it. Hold on. So he sends this, and I'm like, man, I don't believe this shit. What you talking about? What you talking about? And so, of course, the algorithm. Algorithm and algo.
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Big algo.
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Hold on. Do you see it?
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Where is the shit?
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Did I screenshot it or drop the thing? Thing. All I know is an important. Literally that had to do with the jab. Resigned.
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Oh, here it goes.
A
You see it?
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It is Dr. V. Prasad. Oh, Indian. She's Indian. Or Guyanese. Yeah, he. That's a good question. He might be.
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Prasad is 100% Indian.
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Guyanese? Yeah, Prasad. Yeah. He might be. Yeah, he could be. Maybe he could be Pakistani. Is this, like, a recent resignation because of, like, RFK or something like that? I'm looking at the screenshot. He said. He said the polarizing figure from the Food and Drug Administration. Oversaw vaccines, leaving the agency at the end of April. He's a vaccine regulator. So why he gotta leave? Why he can't just leave? No, but what's his ties to rfk? Wasn't he like a. Wasn't he a loon that RFK put into. Let me see here.
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I love. I love our journalists doing the journalistic research on. On the Man. Yeah, read what. What you reading?
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All right, so, okay. July Prasad was briefly forced from his job after running the file of biotech executives, patient groups, and conservative allies of Donald Trump. He was reinstated less than two weeks later with the backing of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Yeah, he.
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He's alone.
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That's. That's a whole different. That's a whole different. Yeah, it's a whole different bucket.
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Conspiracy. This is a good conspiracy, though.
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Putting a little bit of Epson in you like. That's a good one. Yeah. I don't know how these originate, but this one, it's a good one.
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It's a good one.
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And you can't put it to your point, though. He's an evil dude, right? So, like, you can't put it past him that he would try to do some megalomaniac type like that. But also, what is a lot of money.
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Yeah. Obsessed with science.
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Like, whoever. I smoke enough weed to, like, balance out whatever's in my blood. Yeah. I could burn that out. I ain't gonna lie.
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The weed that I smoke must not be hitting because my don't go here.
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Oh, yeah. You know, they out here somewhere in Atlanta selling Epstein old school weed. Old school weed. I dig a burn all that Epstein runs in Atlanta somewhere. Somebody got a pack. Somebody got that Epstein pack. Somebody gave them an idea, you know what they on out here? Some fuckery.
A
That's funny. All right, well, let's get into, guys. Celebrities say the Dornest things. By the way, if you are new here, we do have bonus episodes, and this week we are leaning heavily into the fact that this is not a sports podcast. But.
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But.
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So if you want to hear us talk all the things sports, make sure you check out the Friday episode. But let's get into celebrities say the darnnest things. So I came across this clip and it was really interesting because I don't think I ever thought of how men show up in a room based on how I perceive masculinity and power, but also didn't understand it from the lens of black men in Hollywood. Black men in corporate space go a
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little bit deeper with that though.
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Well, I want to play the clip first, and then this is where my mind went after I listened to this. So Jason, play the clip of Terrence Howard talking about the advice he got from Denzel Washington about his aggression in Hollywood.
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Meeting with Denzel once, and he told me it was like, look at your hands, man. You're always like this. Your fists all balled up. He said, and all these producers want to do is they try to open your hand and so they can put money in it, but you won't do it. You keep your hands off tight like this, and you're blowing it. And this is 20 years ago. Holy moly. What kind of vice. So 20 years ago, were you at your. Were you come. 20 years ago would be what, 19?
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No.
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Yeah. Like, who was you 20 years, 2006
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or 20 years ago?
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It was right before. It was maybe about 20, 28, 20. It was right before I did Hustle and Flow. It was right before because I ended up going back into the chitlin circuit. I was no longer being supported by the studios again, you know, because I was. Happened how many times? At least eight times. Times. I've had a number of opportunities and, you know, but my aggression, you know, my need to be a man. You're going. You ain't gonna talk to me like that. You know, instead of learning how to diffuse, are you. Are you still getting the knock of bigger projects coming your way?
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Oh, no.
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After I sued Fox and Disney, you go into the blacklist permanent you. Until there's a new change of everybody inside of there. So you're. You're. You're no longer on their main list
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of calling because you've broken the cardinal
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rule, which is you never talk. You know, even if you're being screwed
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over, you never talk.
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You know, you're supposed to keep that quiet and. And keep working as a good slave. And I didn't do that. I fought about, you know, some injustices that I felt was happening with me. I had a.
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By the way. He further goes on to say how he pretty much lost out on the opportunity to be an iron man. Even now. My mom went to a lot of places with this. Okay, first off, and I don't know, Jason, if you could pull it up. I'm not sure what he sued Fox and Disney for, but I do know that. And a king. I know you're a part of the academy. But he did sue because apparently he got nothing for the Hustle and Flow song. Or was that. Was that three, six. Who didn't get There was something to where. Oh, no. I think Terrence Howard said he made no money from that.
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He said he only got paid 60. He said he only got paid 60 grand to do that movie.
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60 grand to do the movie. And he didn't even get any of the. Any credit or any for that.
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I think that's a point in negotiation issue. How do you not.
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Yeah.
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Did he. Did he have faith in the movie from the beginning or he just took the role? This is gonna be some. I just need to take this money.
A
Jason, what did he sue Fox and Disney for?
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So for the Fox lawsuit. It was against Fox and his former agency, caa, and it was. He alleged underpayment and unauthorized use of his image for Empire. Okay, okay. And then he also said that he was allegedly underpaid from Hustle and Flow.
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Yeah.
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And used on merchandise without about proper compensation. And then for the further Disney stuff, he was saying again, like underpaid and things that he was promised for, like the sequel of Iron man because he got. Remember, he got replaced by Don Cheadle. Right.
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So I'm not gonna lie. I wouldn't have even put Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard going for the same Damn.
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Damn.
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Ah, that's a little iffy.
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But. But look at the range, though.
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Yeah, no, definitely, definitely. I mean, he is.
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I like Dachi, though, in Iron man, though.
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He got the range of his fist, too. So it's weird. Talking about the ball up fist. We know he was hitting on his ex wife, too.
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Well, the context, too, I want to add to what Terrence Howard was saying. Cause there's a longer clip that I watched of that interview, and there's a larger conversation to be had about black men and that kind of thing. But specifically, when it comes to him, Terrence Howard more. Seems like it's a him thing. Like in the clip before that, he was talking about how he got to that place where he was getting blackballed is because he did a movie with Jodie foster called Brave One.
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Okay.
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That was in 2008. 2007, something like that. And he tells his story about being on a red carpet. And an interviewer asking him, hey, how come your name isn't up there above the title with Jodie Foster? And he said his reaction was like, oh, shit, how come my name isn't up there? So he said, he starts making calls, he talks to Joel Silver, and Joel Silver, the producer of the film, comes to him and just really keeps it a buck with him. Your name isn't above the title Terrence, because you're not the star. This is Jodie Foster's movie, okay? If you win an Oscar for this movie, you'll win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor because you are a supporting actor in this movie. So, no, your name isn't above Jodie Foster's or next to Jodie Foster's above the top.
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That's also a bullshit answer, though, because if we think about what's the movie that got really good awards with Leonardo and Teyana Taylor and Chase, One battle after another. Teyana Taylor was support.
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They got to negotiate that, though,
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back to him.
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Probably just all negotiating every time. Complaining after the fact, complain after the fact, complaining after, complaining after the fact. Yeah. But I will say add some context, because he was talking about, like, 20 years ago, and I remember hearing he got the advice from Denzel reminded me, like, when I used to work at Vibe magazine, we had our movie issue. I think it was like, April, like, 2007, and 50 Cent was on the
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COVID And we did this big feature
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of Terrence Howard inside, and the article is really positioning him as the next Denzel because he had a couple movies coming out. And obviously, like, you know, some of it is related to, like, behavior in his personal life for why things didn't happen, but also, like, some of the things he's not wrong at, like, he's done the things that he was supposed to do. It's like the Isaiah Thomas meme. Like, I did the things required of me. Yeah, right. And it doesn't turn out that way. And so that's why I think it was really interesting to hear that, like, that comment from Denzel about, like, you know, your hands are like this. You need to open up, because I want to put money in there. But it's also like, yo, there's a lot of fight to what you're dealing with as well.
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I mean, especially as a black man in Hollywood. So I guess, like. So when I saw this, even him referencing the slaves, like, to not get out of line, you said you feel like he was positioning it around himself, but I think he did bring it more to the bigger picture. At least that's how I listened to it. And I was like, wow. I know that there's a conversation about how we as black women have to show up in certain rooms and in corporate. And we've heard, look, thinking of Empire, we've heard a lot of the black actors as well talk about having to fight, fight for their value and their pay. And if you guys haven't yet, there's A really good documentary, I want to say. It might be on Apple. Apple.
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Yeah. First off, the call sheet.
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Really good.
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Excellent, excellent, excellent documentary.
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But it's night and day hearing from the top leading black actors, male actors. And then when you hear the women actors speak. Right. And so when I saw this, I was like, whoa. I guess I never realized the context of an angry black man. Or how because, again, I view men walking into a room. And when you demand things, when you seem powerful, when you're masculine, when you fight for. You get it?
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You put your dick on the table,
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you say, as a woman, you kind of are taught to be demure. And if you show up as this powerful person demanding, you not gonna get nothing. Cause you should just be happy. I didn't think that this was the same fight for me in these spaces, essentially.
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I mean, it's America. Yeah.
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So it is just a black man thing.
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Yeah. I think it transcends amongst different industries, professions. We always got to fight harder.
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But fighting harder is. I get fighting harder. But is there a way that you have to mask how to do it? Because clearly that's what Denzel. But that's what Denzel was. Oh, it's the code switch.
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Code switch. Think about Denzel and his emotional intelligence, what we know to, you know, he's very charismatic. He knows how to talk to people. That's learned practice. Right? That's practice. Maybe Terence Howard came in on some what the fuck, motherfucker? And they like, ah, you, nigga.
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Yeah, you doing the terrifying voice, though. That wasn't.
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Fuck you, man.
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I didn't know.
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Hey, man, fuck you, man. So I can see with Denzel being the, you know, the. Is he older?
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Yeah.
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The elder in the room saying, hey, listen, you got to navigate around these people. They all controlling the gate. They control their gatekeepers. Well, I mean, in regards to, like, black women and black men, like, in the hierarchy of the isms, like, patriarchy will never beat racism. Like, patriarchy has no chance against racism. You could be a man all you want to, but you still a nigger. So, like, we gonna handle you how we handle you. And then whatever happens after that, happens after that. Maybe you have a leg up on how we're going to treat Octavia Butler and how we're going to treat Kerry Washington. But, like, don't start coming in here acting like you just going to tell us what is going.
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Have y' all had any of those experiences where you felt like you had to tone down even what you had to say? I mean, I'm not gonna lie in terms of even the space. And I just would like to give a shout out to the lovely network that I am on. Shout out to Black and FEC network. Shout out to them. I had a discrepancy that I saw or just I questioned it, by the way. Shout out. Because over there you can question accounting. I know in other podcasts you can, but I had the opportunity. I was looking at numbers and you know, and I did. I was like a king. I don't want to shake the table too much, but do you think it's okay for me to come with my. With my questions? He was like, yeah. And when I did, I was met with, like, just open arms. And they were like, wow, thanks for catching this. Let me see. And it's just been. It's great, because here I am looking at something, and I was like, ugh. But do you think they reassigned me?
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If I ask these questions, am I gonna.
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Yeah, because in corporate, you're even told like, hey, you know when you have the meeting and the partner comes in and everyone's at the table and they're like, hey, guys, is anything wrong with. You know, do you think that we could do better?
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Mm.
A
And everyone that fucking complains at lunch
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doesn't say a fucking word.
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Doesn't say a fucking word. And I was always the one, which is probably why my quarterly ratings look this good. But I was like, yeah. Oh, so y' all niggas not gonna talk? Well, I'm finna talk. And this is what people are complaining about. But you're seen as like a disruptor or somebody that you're not supposed to question. Your execs, your problem.
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You become a problem. It's always about how you do it. And that's so me and her had that Denzel turns. How Conversation.
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Ooh, that you being Denzel Aki.
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Hey, you know Mandy, you know, I'm going hot.
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I go in hot with shit.
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Hey, man, Denzel Howard. Mandy was on this phone and all of her pir. And I'm like, you absolutely slacking.
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Hey, gang, gang.
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I was like, no, listen, it's valid, right? But this is why. Conversation in question.
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Sorry. Hey, it's my trauma. I think everyone's out to get me, right? I said, you think motherfucker's playing with me, right?
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Cause I feel like I'm dealing with niggas. I mean, you're light skinned, like Terrence Brown, like Denzel. So, like, there's a lot. There's a lot of play. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of play.
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This is all my life.
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I had to fight.
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Like we put.
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That's baby W. I ain't no ass ho.
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You feel me?
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Give her 20 bonus points for quoting a Kendrick Lamar. How about that? How about. Wait, what?
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Wait, wait, what Kendrick bar did I.
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All my life, I had to.
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That is from the color Purple.
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It's color Purple. We definitely need to put a over
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40 warning on this.
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It was a old going on.
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Hey, if we had had any gen zers decide to tune in, they're like, hey, got a man.
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They don't work.
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I ain't gonna hold you. I'm sure the younger people listening feel like how I felt watching the samore stand up. Probably samor was getting some more.
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Did you see the Gen Z did a TikTok with the Gen Z. Or were like, yo, hey, 40, 50 year olds, we need some help. It's crazy. Y' all got the answers. And in the Stitch video, and a 50 year old dude was like, like, hell no. Y' all n gotta deal with that shit. Young nigga, yo ass got. Yep. Get off your ass. Are you talking about.
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Are you talking about. So I just saw an article where they said that there's been a spike in clearly not only vinyls, but CDs.
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Oh, yeah, CDs are back.
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And so someone millennial was like, hey, man, we not gonna help them when that shit starts skipping. Don't tell them how to fix it. Cause them niggas don't know shit. Nope. And you know you gotta get the alcohol.
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Wipe. Wipe your shit down.
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Hey, hey, let Gen Z figure out how to make they album not together.
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Cause we had to. Ain't nobody tell us, hey, learn how to nigga rig some shit. Yeah, that's what we did. We forgot.
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But wait, where are they putting CDs? Or are they just collecting?
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No, they just are.
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They're CD players.
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They have Bluetooth. They have all the things, but actually just like the new turntables. With Bluetooth.
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With Bluetooth. Oh, I'm not gonna lie. I have a record player at home.
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The record player, right.
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And there's Bluetooth on it. I ain't gonna hold you.
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It's nice integration.
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I connected to my. To my Alexa. It's kind of cool.
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Yeah, it's all right.
A
Yeah, yeah.
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But y' all gotta figure it out. Read them fucking manuals and the instructions, nigga.
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Yeah, read. By the way, I don't even think they come like that anymore. Or maybe they do, but I got this very high tech coffee maker and I was looking for the manual. I was looking for the instructions. I said, it wasn't in the box.
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It wasn't a QR code.
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Nigga, there was a QR code. I said, where the fuck is my manual pamphlet?
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Yeah, yeah, no, hold on.
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And then, then, not only that, I scan the QR code. They give me a woman. And she looked AI, but the woman was telling me how to.
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How to walk through it. Yeah.
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I was like, nigga, an instructional one with a video. I said, oh, this is.
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Well, that's a reaction to YouTube University. Like you can learn everything on YouTube. So it's like now they just assume that you'd rather be talked to and shown than read the words insert tab A into slot B and all of that. So, yeah, that's what it Is. But I do wanna go back to something real quick with Terrence Howard and Denzel, I imagine. I don't know. Terrence Howard's his whole background as far as how he grew up. But just as a black man, I'm sure he went through whatever he went through. And coming into Hollywood, I understand his mentality of maybe being defensive or like, he was saying, like, oh, you can't talk to me that way. I ain't no bitch. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Two parts of that is that, yeah, you can't let anybody disrespect you. And it's kind of what. It kind of reminds me of what TI Was talking about about King in an interview he did with Ebro and them. I saw that he was talking about, you know, they asked him, how do you feel about them being in this? And TI Was basically like, hey, I've been trying to tell. I've been trying to tell this kid to, like, keep it cool or use discernment into how you do these things.
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Even Damani on the Breakfast Club said, we ain't even asked for permission. We both inserted a.
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We just did it. But he said King's response when he would always tell King, like, use your discernment everything. You don't have to pop off over his response. King's response is, well, you told me, don't let nobody disrespect me. You told me, don't let nobody talk to me. Don't let nobody handle me any kind of way.
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And T. I was like, that's how
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we are brought up. That's how you're brought up. But you also. You have to use discernment about how you go about popping off and what you pop off over. And with Terrence Howard, I feel like maybe instead of using a scalpel, he always wanted to use a buzzsaw. And, like, that's not gonna make you. That's not gonna ingratiate you into any type of circumstance. Sure, if somebody is disrespecting, you handle the disrespect. But also the white producer of your. Of a movie that you're in, telling you that you're not the star of the show is just the fact that. And he had to accept that. He said in the interview, he was like, okay, well, I had to take that. Now after I accepted that, I told him if he ever talked to me like that, I break his teeth. And I'm like, oh, wait.
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He said, yeah.
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So he acknowledged the fact that, okay, this guy was right. But I don't like how that shit feel. He trying to make me feel like a bitch. Everything telling you the truth is not making you a bitch. Everything that's telling you the truth is not making you lesser than or a diss or that's just what it is.
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But I guess that's where. Yeah, but it's still like, watch your tone. Like, watch your tone.
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Yeah, watch your tone. Yeah. Just say it respectfully, any kind of way to me. But if I'm telling you, hey, Terrence, you're not the star of this movie, hey, xyz, this is happening. Because you're not that, you might gotta eat that. You need to have enough self reflection to be like, all right, well, this ain't my show. This ain't my progress. I'm not that person in this situation. And if that hurts your ego, that hurts your ego. But don't.
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But ego and manhood, I guess, are tied in, right? So for a bitch nigga, as men, y' all are.
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Y' all are.
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Y' all are talk taught to, like, a. A can't play y' all like, no. Right, Right. When we get, like, when we're disrespect, like, as a woman, we're not taught to respond the same way. Like, it's like, you know what I mean?
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We don't have the. But would a woman teach a woman that?
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I mean, we're just taught to say no if we don't want to do something, and hopefully the person listens.
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But maybe so you know what I mean? But because, like, protecting ourselves is what we're taught.
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We're not taught to respect, defend ourselves. We come from a lens of just protect, keep everything locked and closed and da, da, da, da. But if someone disrespects you, there's no lessons for a woman on how to stand your ground or demand respect. Because again, when you sit and even kind of demand some respect, you're seen as kind of aggressive. Aggressive or angry.
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How dare you?
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Or, yeah, like, bitch, who are you? And there's a really good episode. I can't remember which one or which season, but you see it in this show called Reasonable Doubt on Hulu, where she's the only black lady at this all white law firm, but she has the highest paying clients. And even the way she speaks, they almost make it seem like, girl, you still a black woman and you can't tell us white men how to do shit. And so it's really interesting seeing that dynamic because as black women, it's really hard to be in a room and demand respect. Respect without looking like a fucking lunatic. Which, yeah, on the opposite end for men, it's like, oh, nah. Like, I demand my respect and you gonna respect me, motherfucker.
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And you know, well, that's why powerful women who have the ability to do and say things like, Tyra Banks should do their job and stop being. But I'm gonna stop bringing up old shit. I'm gonna stop bringing up old shit. Yeah, but that's why when you have the juice, you put your dick on the table and you tell them, this is what it is and this is what it ain't gonna be, and let the chips fall where they may. But I will stop bringing up.
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Thank you.
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Or. Or ja, to your point, like, if you have the juice, create a company that operates that like, like, like, like bandy. Like, you're saying, like, with Black Effect, you can go and talk to them like that. Like, I think often the times comes like people want to speak up for themselves. And then it's like, you know, you get labeled a problem, and that'll stick with you. And then instead. And instead of like, I feel like sometimes, like, these companies or whatever scenario you're in, whether it's Hollywood or industries, it's like, they'll label you a problem. And from there, their problem is like, I need to get you out now.
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Right. Which was, let me solve this. And that was my concern. I was like, dang, if I bring this up, like, you think they gonna resign me? They probably think I'm like. And I didn't want to be like, a problem child.
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Because I'm sure that's happened to you as a job.
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It has. So for me, again, shout out. Like, I was just glad that I realized I was partnering with a company which where if something didn't sit right with me, I have the space to literally talk to the president. And it become like, you know, like, I just. Cause yeah, oftentimes you're seen as the problem when something doesn't make sense. I mean, shit, I just finished Industry. Sorry, I'm referencing all these television shows, but I just finished industry. And there was a guy who literally brought up a problem, and nigga, they came out trying to kill the nigga. Cause he realized that there was. Was line items on something that wasn't making right for the shell company. And he literally went on the run because they realized he caught something that he wasn't supposed to catch. And so, yeah, when you bring up things with companies, yeah, you're seen as the problem where you could literally you risk losing your job. Oh, wait, that happened.
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I was gonna say that, but I was like. But the morning show, the exact same thing happened where it's like, you see something and be like, oh, hold on. For real?
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We might have to do that for a bonus episode.
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A bonus episode.
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But the way that said, nigga, we watching TV shows. It aligns so much with life that I realized sci fi ain't fiction. But that's a whole. Another rabbit hole.
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But it ain't fiction.
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The way Obama like, yeah, these aliens been here? My guy. What you want me to do? Like, Obama didn't let us know.
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So that's why it's not hard to believe that the Epstein DNA exists.
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No, that's what I'm saying.
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It's not hard to believe that's given
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a Black Mirror episode for sure. And it's.
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It's like, you know what the thing is? If it mutates and y' all see y' all acting weird, I'm off. You know? And now that I'm thinking about it, another TV show.
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I mean, that might be why they're trying to make pedophilia a disorder and not a crime.
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Pluribus. Yes.
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Wait, Pluribus.
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It's the Epstein with that. And it's also. I don't know if y' all have watched the Beauty, but it's kind of like the Beauty too, where it's like, these things are. Aren't. None of this is created in a vacuum. Like, it's creative work, but the people aren't pulling this out of nowhere.
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It's why I blinked twice. It literally is a representation of what an Epstein island rendezvous might have looked like. And that was from Zoe Kravitz.
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If this had to get you.
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She knew some shit.
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She knew some shit. She's heard some stories.
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She heard it.
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But if there's a way to get the Epstein DNA out, you would you do it?
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Man, I done have so much DNA in me, I don't give a fuck.
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Wait, like a blood. Like a blood transfusion?
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Like what?
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Bring me a towel.
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I already told y'. All, if it gets where we all become zombie.
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And I'm gonna give me some zombie dick.
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I'm just not gonna sit here and try to outrun.
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Can you imagine zombie dick breaking off like you in a machine? Zombie dick just snapping? I'm not gonna lie.
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And I put it in my pocket. Hopefully it's a big one. Hey, car it around right on with me.
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I love this podcast ass.
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Anyway, this was a good pace show. Guys.
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Oh, yeah, we kind of.
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We kind of ate with that, as usual. This was fun. Y' all were kind of funny, guys.
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Oh, I didn't do my. Oh, I didn't do my freestyle.
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Oh, my God. Take us out.
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Take us out with the freestyle. You know what?
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We got some time. Jamaican crab. Under the cheeks, under the cheeks. So now you got to hold on, hold on. Is it giving an Atlanta flow, a New York flow?
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It's a. It's a. This is a. You know, last week, we talked about, like, what if we had, like. Like a pod Battles. Yeah, this is like a battle rap. This is like.
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You gotta talk shit about podcasters.
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No, but the flow is like. I want to. The flow is like a battle. A more battle rap type of. You know what I mean?
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Okay, so let's go. Hold on.
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Aggressive.
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He might get fired from his tongue. I know. Like, you know, you old school. We don't need the beatbox. Wait, do any of y' all know how to beatbox?
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No, no. I could ba boom like shit like that, but not. I can't do the. All that shit. They be a acapella. I'm not hydrated enough.
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Acapella. Freestyle, y'. All. Y' all getting it special. Right here. We got Jason J. Coming to the mic. Give it up, give it up, give it up. Wait. Jaha the prince.
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Saha the French. Jaha the French.
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Which, by the way, Shout out, shout out.
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Saha cooking up, boy. How you feel about that?
A
Well, first off, I love that he's in the booth. The was supposed to start a podcast year ago. Go to. I. I'm actually about to send him a invoice. We talk for about an hour.
B
Oh, send an invoice for a. I'm
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about to send that an invoice. Since he want to drop this music.
B
We should probably get Saha on a bonus episode or something. But how you feel about him going after Cole?
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I'm not acknowledging.
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Okay, no problem.
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Listen, listen. We. I don't.
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Yo, shout out to Dre, man. Shout out to all you said. I put in the chat with Cole. He went to visit Punch from tde. Oh, yeah, yeah. She was like, scram. It's all community. It's all fan the way.
A
You want to bring up TDE everywhere.
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Nah, I fucks with. Listen, I want to let you understand that the ecosystem is a real ecosystem, and these are real friends. I'm not talking about Lawbree. I'm saying those individuals, they all felt cool. There was some turbulence.
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I'll let it Be known right now. Now yomi's the only one getting an invite to the fall off concert. Okay, that's crazy. I don't talk too much shit about my biracial brethren.
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No, J. Cole is fired.
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J. Cole is the voice going high as well.
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No, it's not. It's Lawbre that's the issue.
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All right?
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Yeah, he's the real opp. Su Pac, Su Pac.
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Su Pac. All right. You on a roll today. Look, the slopping of the knee. Y' all were so old in here. Oh, my gosh. He said Supac. That's the oldest slapping underneath. All right, let's go.
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Hey town, hey town.
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All right.
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Fresh off a plane straight from Amsterdam. Who's that?
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Him?
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He's the man. Everything black coming watch my plans expand. But right now I'm on this mic with my yapping clang Yomi a king and journalism Jason. My name Jason, too, but I prefer abbreviations. Call me Ja. Don't forget our two interns. You can't believe this nigga flow. Cold as the winter. You niggas vogue, you pose, you Anna Winter, you raise young ninjas. But you rat Master Splinter, I can name a podcast for every phrase that he just did. I got a podcast for every bump on your face.
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Ah.
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That's all I got.
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And scene. And
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yo, podcast with Big Cruise. Call them temp agency. Mandy said that, so don't throw that shot to me. I ain't on camera, so don't make.
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Can you see me, by the way, I can't take credit for that. That was a. That was a tweet to say giving temp.
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That is crazy.
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And then I say, yo, I just choked. That was funny.
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That was funny. That was funny.
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That was funny.
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But shout out to those guys.
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Listen, listen.
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Shout out to.
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Shout out to the 1099 people.
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Yo. Shout out to the independent contract. Keep that tax money you going. Oh, Oh. All the who.
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Who.
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Not on that show. It's quite not all.
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Don't do that.
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More recent. What are you talking about, dunzo?
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No, it's not. Yes, who. They can hear you.
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I'm second.
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Listen, dog, we can't comment. We can't. Can't. They gonna come for me and be like, I'm a woman hater sitting with. Talking about women on Women's History Month? We're not gonna do that. We'll wait till next.
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Oh, yeah. This. Yeah. Wait till. Wait. Yeah. Wait for the jumps.
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Okay, National Women's Day.
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Yes, yes, yes. While we recording. Yes, yes.
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Shout out.
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Shout out Shout out to all the luminary women out here creating and doing dope for the culture and just holding this thing together. We definitely appreciate you. We need you. But April 1st.
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Mandy's coming for all.
B
Yeah, yeah, back.
A
Maybe April
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give you all her fecal dust. April 1st.
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I'm not a misogynist. I'm a feminist. Anyways, guys, this was fun. This was fun. There's so much happening in sports. So, y', all, if you want to hear our thoughts on the James Pierce story, the California school coach that hired a pimp, and the league trying to play Jaylen Brown against Jayson Tatum with his return this week, we're talking about all of it. So make sure you tune in to our bonus episode on Friday. And again, without further ado, if you are listening to this podcast, make sure that you subscribe wherever you are listening to it and make sure you go into the reviews and rate it five stars. If you got one star from me, pussy asshole, you can keep that shit
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Thanks for tuning in the Selective Ignorance with Mandy B.
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Selective Ignorance is executive produced by Mandy B. And it's a full Court Media Studio
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Podcast: Decisions, Decisions - Selective Ignorance
Hosts: Mandii B & WeezyWTF (with guests A King, Jason Rodriguez, Kaz)
Original Air Date: March 10, 2026
Produced By: The Black Effect Podcast Network & iHeartPodcasts
This week's episode is a lively, “ignorant” dive into contemporary issues blending culture, technology, conspiracies, and candid talk on race, masculinity, and Blackness in America. Hosts Mandii B and her regular panel (A King, Jason, Kaz, etc.) dissect bizarre news—from podcasters interviewing dead presidents via AI, conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine and Jeffrey Epstein's DNA, to deep conversations on the "Angry Black Man" trope in Hollywood, and hilarious detours into Atlanta nightlife and generational culture. The tone is bold, irreverent, funny, and self-aware.
Timestamps
[64:53] - [71:56]
Episode 54 of Selective Ignorance balances its self-proclaimed “ignorance” with sharp cultural critique, humor, and authentic insight into contemporary Black experience. Through satirical riffs on AI deepfakes, wild conspiracy theories, and personal/professional anecdotes, Mandii B and crew spotlight the challenges of existing, thriving, and surviving in a world where both technology and old prejudices continue to shift the terrain underfoot. This is a must-listen for fans of unapologetic, culture-savvy, and deeply funny podcasting.
Want all the jokes and musical moments?
Check out [16:40] for the hilarious “Under the Cheeks” song, [96:25] for the closing rap battle, and the ongoing jabs between Mandii, A King, and Jason for constant laughs.
For business/deepdive listeners:
Threads on representation, “being a problem,” and challenging gatekeepers run throughout [74:58] (patriarchy vs. racism), [80:48] (speaking up as a Black woman), and the Terrence Howard case ([65:38] onwards).
For tech skeptics/conspiracy buffs:
The segment on AI-fueled misinformation ([30:35], [35:05]) and the wild Epstein DNA theory ([53:13]) offer both laughs and genuine concern.
Quote of the Week:
“Patriarchy will never beat racism… you can be a man all you want to, but you still a n*gger.” – Jason [74:58]