April 11, 2024 • 52 mins
Dramos dives into trending stories from the week including a new abortion band in Arizona, Biden's new student loan forgiveness plan, J Cole vs. Kendrick Lamar, womens basketball breaking records, an underdog story and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk. Here we go. He said
he live in life as a gringo, where you question
when you fit in. Every time you mingle, they say
you do this withou, not that this life as a gingo. Yes, Hello,
and welcome to another episode of Life as a Gatingo.
I am Dromos, of course, and it is Thursday, so
(00:28):
I mean it's time fact with Thursday Trends episode and
I'm Flying Solo on today's show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We've had a bunch of guests I think the last
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Maybe not on Thursday Trends, but I know I've been
doing very guests heavy this season thus far. So Flying
Solo talking about a couple of different things that caught
my eye this last week. We will touch on I
feel like this is like a broken record at this point,
but Arizona has a new band on abortions upholding in
ancient laws. We will talk all about that. We will
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also get into on the positive. I guess a positive
side of things here. Obviously it is positive. I guess positive.
Biden announcing a new student loan forgiveness plan, so we'll
talk about that. I also wanted to touch on something
that I made a video about on my Instagram and
it's this j Cole Kendrick Lamar battle. Now, if you
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are not a fan of either or not a hip
hop head this, don't worry. This isn't like me deep
diving into it from a music perspective. I just think
it's a really interesting conversation about somebody protecting their piece
and I wanted to dive into that. And on the
positive side of things, Man, we will celebrate women out
here getting the credit they deserve in the sports world.
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Will do that, and Army hit this segment. But first, man,
let's just dive into some of the heavier topics, the
non sense, the bs and a segment call for the
people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Of the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot for the people of.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All Right, So I feel like again it's groundhog Day.
History continues to repeat itself in this weird world that
we are living in in today's date age. But on Tuesday,
the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a law from eighteen to
sixty four that would ban nearly all abortions in the state. Now,
this is a one hundred and sixty year old law
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which predates Arizona even being a state. And this makes
performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison,
except when the mother's life is at risk. It does
now not allow exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
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The extremists be extremely right, That's really what it comes
down to at the end of the day. And even
though the majority of Americans believe in the right to choose,
I think even in Arizona that number was like six
out of ten people pulled believed in a woman's right
to choose, we still have the extremists doing their bidding
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based upon their own religious views at the end of
the day, right, And this leads to a whole nother
conversation about religion and religious extremism. And for the record,
I'm not like an atheist. I believe in God. I
go to church every once in a while, you know,
I believe in all this stuff. But I also believe
in not pushing our own beliefs onto other people and
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affecting their way of life to basically have to adhere
to what we personally believe. And I think this is
a lot of what's happening here is you're seeing this
religious extremism on the right, this evangelical extremism, and and
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really it's it's like white evangelical extremism, and they're trying
to push their own thoughts and belief systems onto all
of us. And it's ironic because they're also the same
crowd that claims we're trying to make everybody be gay
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by selling pride merchandise in Target during Pride Month. That
that's literally these people were talking to that by having
Pride merchandise and having a Pride Month, we're trying to
push a gay agenda and force them to adhere to it. Meanwhile,
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they're literally creating laws and supporting laws and supporting politicians
who want to create said laws that would not allow
a woman to choose what she wants to do with
her body. And it's the hypocrisy of it all that
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continues to have and listen to me, fair, there's hypocrisy
on both sides, that there's extremism on both sides. But
I really don't see how you can make those types
of arguments and not get the hypocrisy that exists within it.
You're saying, this is America, We're free to do whatever
we want, say we want freedom of speech, the freedom here,
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freedom there, right, but we also want you to adhere
to what a particular group of people believes in. You
don't have the freedom to dictate what you do with
your body, right, or they want to put, you know,
more religion in the schools, or make America a Christian country.
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And therefore, yeah, it's freedom. America is all about freedom,
except when it comes to anything we don't agree with. Right.
And this is what makes it so difficult to even
have these conversations with people who have opposing views, is
because they don't even see their own hypocrisy, and when
faced with it, they try.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
To figure out a way to argue out of it
rather than acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can't have it both ways. You can't say this
is the freest country in the world, and you know
this is America, we could do what we want, what
we feel, and then you're trying to impose your own
belief systems on the masses. That's literally what they do
in other countries that we look down upon that aren't free. Right,
You have no choice but to adhere to what the
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status quo dictates is the right way to live.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yet that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
With these abortion bands or banning books or or you know,
everything else that's going on, and it's just, you know,
I don't know. I'm I'm like the typical man in
this scenario, Like you know, when like you're anybody's in
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a relationship and like for me, dating a woman and
she's venting about like her day, I would go into
the stereotypical male thing of like trying to fix it
right and be completely unaware of the fact that like
she just needs to vent right and just wants a
place to vent, She's not necessarily looking for me to
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fix it right. And I go into that when I
talk about politics and things like this, where I'm like
I feel like if I'm bringing you a story here
on the podcast or having a discussion, I want to
have like a happy ending where I fix the problem.
And with this it's like there obviously never is. We're
just kind of like talking about what's going on to
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make ourselves aware of it and to have the conversation.
But like there's no happy ending here. There's no conclusion
to it, you know, I wish there was. That's how
I operate. I'm looking for, like where's the silver lining here?
And I guess you know, there is a little bit here.
I mean, so they to finish out the story here,
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the court has put the law out of hold for
fourteen days and set the case back down to lower
courts to hear additional arguments about the constitutionality. On top
of that, there is a forty five day period before enforcement.
So this new band or this this reinstatement of a
law from eighteen sixty four is not going into effect
right away now. In the majority opinion, the judges from
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the Arizona Supreme Court stated that quote, policy matters of
this gravity must be ultimately resolved by our citizens through
the legislative or the initiative process. So, as it says
here on BBC dot com, this puts the ball in
the court of state legislators who could cancel the band,
and it also opens up the possibility for voters to
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decide on the issue in November, should abortion rights groups
in Arizona succeed in putting the question on the ballot.
So there's hope here right in this story. It's not
like this is all said and done and now everybody
has to live by that. But this is just becoming
a popular thing happening around the country. People wanted to
make noise or people wanted to enforce their own, you know,
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extremist views. And this is a state of the United
States that we live in right now, the current state
of this country. And yeah, I again here I am
trying to like bring it out like okay, but here's
the you know whatever, here's the ending of this. It
just sucks, man, it's just weird. And again and again
it's the hypocrisy because you're actually trying to put laws
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in place here to force people to live by your
your thoughts on lifestyle essentially right, what you think is right.
And I think this is again the hypocrisy. This is
the irony of the arguments where they make it seem
like when we're asking for things like more inclusion and diversity,
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we're forcing our lifestyle onto them.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And it's just that's just a completely different case us.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Having more diversity and inclusion in the workplace or a
media or any of these things doesn't actually affect your
quality of life in any real way. You can change
the channel if you don't like what you see on TV.
You can find another job if you want to. When
it comes to these sort of abortion bands, the woman
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has no choice. Her life is changed forever by this, right,
there's no oubt for her. She can't, you know, especially
if she doesn't have means. They can't just get up
and go to another state where it's allowed, right because those, again,
those A people are gonna affecting the most, those who
can't afford to have the means to go somewhere where
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this is allowed, where they can make a choice of
their body. So yeah, it's obviously incredibly frustrating that we
keep having to have these conversations. But here we are
Baby America. On a more positive note, here we have
President Biden announcing a new student loan forgiveness plan. Now
he has revised his original plan, and it targets specific borrowers,
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including those who are eligible for debt cancellation under an
existing government program but having yet applied, have been in
repayment for twenty years or longer on their undergraduate loans,
or over twenty five years on their graduate loans, attended
schools of questionable value are experiencing financial hardship. So if
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you meet that criteria, you could have your student loan forgiven.
Here under President Biden, he also discussed his plan to
cancel quote runaway interests for millions of borrowers. Consumer advocates
have long criticized the fact that interest rates on federal
student loans make seed eight percent, which can make it
tough for borrowers who fail, who fall behind, or are
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on certain payment plans to reduce their balances. Some end
up owing more than they originally borrowed, even after years
of repayment. The Biden administration estimates that if its new
plan is enacted as proposed, borrowers will get up to
twenty thousand dollars of unpaid interest on their federal student
debt forgiven, regardless of their income.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Certain low and middle income borrowers could have the entire.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Amount of interest that has accrued on their debt since
they entered the repayment canceled. Now this is Biden's Plan B,
essentially his Plan B student loan forgiveness. They're saying it's
narrower than his initial effort. Tens of millions of borrows
may still see their balans as erased or lowered if
programs survive the illegal challenges this time around. Those so,
even though it's narrower them the initial idea that he had,
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you still could see tens of thousands of dollars erased
or lowered, and the administration is confident believing that it
is protected under this updated plan that will survive legal
challenges this time around for several reasons. Okay, positive stuff
right now. Obviously we're still waiting for this to go
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to effect. Still process, but in an election year, Biden's
out here sling at some plans that would help out
the everyday person. And I've heard so many arguments on
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either side. I've had this discussion with people in my
own family who are right leaning, and they're under this
idea that if we make it too easy for people,
no one's going to want to work hard. That's like
the notion I think the general consensus oftentimes for a
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lot of people on the right. So if we do
things like forgive student loan debt, we're teaching people that
they don't have to work hard, right, And it's also
sort of spitting in the face of those who did
pay off their student loan debt. And this is again
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the hypocrisy of this wing of people, of this group
of people, because wanting others to suffer just because you
may have doesn't sound very Christian. To me like I
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was gonna go on some biblical uh, some biblical examples here.
I'm trying to be respectful. But at the end of
the day, I don't think God would say to us, hey,
you suffered a lot in this life, therefore, or you
should just try to make it harder for others as well,
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Make others have to suffer as much as you did,
make it as difficult for them as it was for you.
It's counterproductive to everything. That's like morally what we work
for as human beings, beyond even religion. I mean, when
you think about parents, what's the goal of a parent?
I want my kid to have a better life than
I did, right, I want them to have an easier
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time at this thing called life than I did. And
we do that because we have a love for these people.
Shouldn't we have a love for mankind, for humankind as
a result of that as well? Like in the same
context of that, that sounds Christian to me, love Thy brother, right,
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or Bible stories of Jesus hanging with the the people
who are the most down and out in society, right,
the ones whose society had cast it aside. He spent
time with and shared time with he didn't judge them right,
because they deserved to have a better life as well.
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So this is the hypocrisy of the arguments against this stuff.
And again even just like let's talk about like numbers
and what's right. Look, these loans are predatory by nature, right,
the fact that you have what they call runaway interests,
the fact that people end up paying more than they borrowed,
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that they are continuing to get buried under more and
more debt because of the predatory interest that happens, right, Like,
this system is fucked. This system was designed to take
advantage of the everyday person unnecessarily. Because this still could
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be a win win for people. Colleges could still make
their money. The student loans, the companies, the banks the
program is putting them out there could still make a profit.
But instead of being happy with it being a situation
where everybody potentially won, they all decided to be as
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predatory as humanly possible. Colleges, Let's make it incredibly expensive.
Let's make all these prerequisite classes that literally add no
real value to the student's life, but let's make it
a prerequisite so that we could gouge them for more money,
so they have to spend more money with us to
fulfill the credits needed to graduate. Like when I went
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to my first college was a county college, one of
the prerequisites was gym or health class. I had to
pay to take a health class. Some people pay to
take a gym class. In what world does that make sense?
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That's high school stuff, things you did through all throughout
high school. But now the college is doing that. Why
are they doing it? You're an adult. They don't need
to make you work out or teach you about health,
especially when you went through health class all throughout middle
school and high school. That's a means to gouge you
out of money, right that's one thousand dollars right there
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or whatever it is for your school. I can't remember
how much each credit was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what that was.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's predatory by nature, the student loan companies gouging the
share to you, predatory rates, all these different things.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's predatory. And now we're trying to repair that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And yeah, maybe you paid off your loans and maybe
you feel type of way about it, But why would
you want everybody else to suffer just because you did? Like,
if that's really the case, Sorry, if anybody falls under this,
but really look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself,
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is this the type of person that I want to be? Do?
I want to be the type of person that weaponizes
my own suffering and wants everybody else to feel as
miserable as I did in this particular situation, because that's
not what I want. Listen. My path to getting here
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to having you listen to me today has been tumultuous.
I can't begin to explain to you the ups and
downs that has led up to me broadcasting this podcast
to you today. I had to earn every second of
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every word, every conversation that I have here on this show.
And just because my path was so incredibly difficult doesn't
mean that I want everybody else's to be the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That's why I want to give you as much information
as I can.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I want to educate people, want to coach, people, want
to help people, want to pass it down. When I
have the opportunity, I do my best to put other
people in positions to win younger than I ever did.
I take pride in that. I take pride in the
fact that my original photographer and videographer and graphic designer
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I was able to get him a full time gig
doing something that he enjoys doing. He got to quit
his engineering job basically within a year of having it,
right within a year of graduating college. Now this kid
gets to live out his twenties doing the work that
he loves to do as a full time job. I
couldn't say that at his age. I couldn't say that
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for probably almost ten years after the fact, roughly, depending
on what we're calling, you know, my creative job that
I loved. But that doesn't mean that I want to
hang that over his head. Hell no, I want him
to be able to get to the good parts as
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quickly as possible, cut out the bullshit that I had
to go through. But that's what it means to care
about other people, not just care about yourself. And that's
too much of the culture that we live in this country.
We're very selfish individuals by nature in this country. I
think it's a cultural thing, and I think human beings
to a degree always have that in them. But I
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think we as a country, our society, the moral standards
we have in place, the cultural sort of standards we
have in place, is a very selfish one. That's what
capitalism is essentially based upon right, where it's the idea
of profit, profit, profit success, success, success, and you're regardless
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of the fucking fires that you're leaving behind you as
you create this profit or as you achieve this success. Right,
we celebrate people on Forbes List and these billionaire lists
and all these things. We make them out to be heroes,
regardless of the fact that they are creating their products
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on the backs of child slave labor right or predatory wages,
or the fact that in their company the CEO is
making tens of millions of dollars if not more, while
the average employee is struggling just to get by, and
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that they are fighting tooth and nail to not have
to pay people fair wage. Meanwhile, they're buying a private
island somewhere, and we celebrate those people.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Those are the people we hold about a pedestal.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh my god, how amazing are they Look at the
look at the success, look at the wealth. Meanwhile, they
did it on the backs of people who are struggling
to get by when they have so much.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That is the norm in our country. That's what we celebrate,
and that's why.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So many people are miserable in this country, and so
many people are angry and disenfranchised because we've created this culture.
We've allowed the wealthy, the elites to normalize these ideas,
to tell us, well, you just have to work a
little bit harder, and you too can then be in a
position to shit on the everyday person. That's what we've normalized.
They've fed us the koolaid and we've drank it up.
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But it doesn't have to be this way. We could
demand better, we could demand people actually giving.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
A shit about one another. That's what's missing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So yeah, I just want to hold tangent here, but
biden student loan forgiveness, plan to step in the right direction,
and anybody who doesn't understand that, you can play them
the rant that just went on. Now. I also want
to get to a lighter topic that I think is
a good conversation piece, this rap beef and protecting your piece.
We'll talk about that, but let's take a quick break
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and then we'll be right back. All right, we are back,
and I want to touch on this J Cole versus
Kenjack Lamar rap beef again. If you're not a hip
hop head, it's okay. This is more than just about
the music. I think it's an interesting conversation to be had,
but we'll just do the backstory, quick context backstory here. Right,
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you have Jake Cole, you have Kendrick Labbar, and Drake
are essentially at the midst of this drama. They're known
as like the big three of the hip hop world,
like currently right of still doing it at a high level,
and there's always this discussion of who's the greatest, who's
the best, and they've all sort of taken shots or
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claimed that title of the best. And then randomly Kendrick
Lamar drops a verse on Future and metro Booman's album
and goes at Drake and j Cole essentially right claiming
himself as the greatest and all these different things.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right, so the internet obviously is going crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
More than anything, people are really interested in hearing Jake
Cole's response because he's known as like, you know, a
real EBC, a guy who really can get things done
on the microphone if you will. And he then drops
this surprise project last week, and the last song on
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the album is his distrack his response to Kendrick Lamar,
and for context, he didn't really go personal. What people
call these these warning shots. Neither one of them really
dove in and said to anything below the belt. You know,
we didn't get like the extreme moment of a rap beef.
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This was kind of warning shots essentially, and with that,
Ja Cole, you know, kind of like diminished some of
Kendrick Lamar's albums as not being as good as people
hyped him up to be and blah blah blah. Right,
he put out his response. Then over the weekend you
had the Dreamville Festival, which is Jay Cole's music festival.
On stage, he actually speaks to the crowd and talks
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about how he doesn't feel right about dropping that diss.
He goes on to essentially apologize to Kendrick for the
things that he said and that it doesn't sit right
with his soul and because of that, he's going to
take it off the album and basically you know, never
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perform it or anything like that. So of course, the
response on the internet is for the most part, not everybody,
but I think it's kind of been it into two camps,
where one camp feels like this is rap, it's a sport,
it's a blood sport. Essentially, J Cole is it's a
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paraphrase what some of the conversation has been is a
bitch for apologizing after putting out this disc right? And
then the other side of it, where I fall in
this camp is this is just a man, excepting that
he had a moment where he stooped lower than he
would would have wanted to, or became somebody that he
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didn't want to be, was triggered, responded, and now says
to himself, I think I'm good. I'm I'm I think
I'm better than going down this whole rabbit hole of
participating in a rap beef. And I think it's a
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great lesson in the idea of protecting your peace right.
Because let's say they go down this hole. Let's stay
with me. If you're not a fan of music, I
probably will get into something a lesson here. But let's
say they go down this whole path of back and forth.
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Rap disc is rap beasts, blah blah blah, and J
Cole ends up having the the you know, kill shot
if you will. Where it ends it, it's like, oh,
he's the clear winner here, and everybody knows that it's undeniable.
The internet is co signing that what did he gain
out of that situation? Like, what do you really gain? Yeah,
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in the moment, you're getting the accolades, you're getting the
high fives, you're getting the social media responses in your
favorite it feels good for your ego, But truthfully, what
are you getting out of that? Personally?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't see it as gaining much. Now, what did
you lose?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
You lost a lot because for however long this would
have gone on, let's say it went on for a
couple of months. Now, having to deal with the negative
energy that comes from being in a beef with another
human being, You're constantly having to respond to something. You're
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constantly living in this place of anger. You're having to
hear what they say about you. Right, they're gonna say
something hurtful to you. You're then gonna have to go
dig up something negative about them. And you're literally just
inviting more and more negativity in your life because you're
participating in a negative situation. And again for what so
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that social media speaks highly of you, so that the
Internet crowns you as the best, even though in your
heart you already feel like you are, like there's no
winning here. And I use the example in the video
I put out, It's like arguing with a troll on
social media.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I stop doing it, and every once in a while
I get roped up into to it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Somebody says something and I get triggered and I respond,
and then I'm immediately reminded of why I never respond
to negative comments, because it never ends. And these are
people that don't know you, so they're literally taking shots
at you, saying things, doing their best to trigger you.
You're then triggered and feel the need to respond, and
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you're wasting all this time and energy on somebody who
literally doesn't know you, has no real value, has no
you know, wait on your life in a real way.
But you're giving them your precious time and energy. You're
stressing over it, you're trying to find a response, you're
getting angry. You're then fucking up your day right there
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to respond. Now this becomes the focus of your day.
And as I said in the video, even if you
end up getting the last word, you still lost because
you wasted all this time for no reason, responding to
somebody that really doesn't matter at the end of the day.
And I think this is a lesson of like how
we have to kind of look at our lives and
really ask ourselves is the juice worth the squeeze in
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every situation? Because we only have so much energy in
a day, right, we only have so much time.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And how many people have like started their.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Day on a bad note, right, It's like, oh, I
overslept and then that sets your day into fucking chaos.
I overslept. Now I'm rushing. I spilled coffee on myself.
I've got to get changed even more late. Now I
locked myself out of the fucking house because I was
rushing and I forgot the keys. Now I have to
go find the spear. Keep more chaos, right, And it's
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like it's for whatever reason, when one thing happens, it
feels like everything just fucking comes crumbling down, right, And
it's because your energy has immediately been shifted into this
place of like stress and frustration, maybe anger, sadness, whatever
it is. So now everything that happens that normally would
happen throughout the day, right, that might not be that
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big of a deal, it's magnified ten times because you're
living in this place of a like this heightened state,
you know what I mean, And that is I think
what people are missing out in this situation and just
life in general. When you allow yourself to invite negativity
into your life, it's going to weigh you down. It's
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going to put you into this heightened state of anxious
awareness where you're gonna notice every negative thing that happens.
You're gonna be even more stressed than you would have
been by a particular situation. And that's why I give
credit to somebody like j Cole, because he is a
admitting I put myself in a situation where I reacted
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and became the type of person I don't want to be.
But then b is saying, I'm the bigger man here,
or I'm gonna be a bigger man in this situation,
be a more evolved person in this situation, and publicly.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Take myself out of this, knowing the ridicule is.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Coming because I'm publicly doing this and people are going
to have backlash in this world. But I'm saying to myself,
I'd rather bear a bit of that embarrassment and shame
than invite this negativity into my life by participating in
something that I have no real interest in or adds
no real value to me other than feeding my ego.
(33:38):
That's big right to do it. On that stage, on
that level of putting your ego aside and saying, you
know what, y'all are gonna clown me for this on
a high, high level.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But I refuse to let my ego take the wheel here.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm gonna do what's best for me in the long run.
And that's why you salute him. That's why IOLU do,
I should say, because that's not easy, that's difficult. Too
many of us are so concerned with the opinions of
others that we will allow ourselves to keep participating in
situations that do not serve us. We would rather avoid
(34:22):
the momentary ridicule, the short term ridicule that might come
from people judging us. We'd rather avoid that and live
a life of misery or lack of fulfillment just to
avoid that one moment. So we'd rather have our entire
(34:44):
life be unfulfilling and living it for other people than
just having to have the hard conversation and accept the
momentary ridicule that might come from us expressing ourselves against
the popular opinion. That's the lesson here. You have to
protect your peace, and sometimes that might come at the
(35:04):
cost of your ego, of validation of your you know,
peers coming at you in some sort of way, but
in the long run, it's worth it. It's far more
important than having superficial acceptance from a bunch of people
who really don't matter at the end of the day.
So that's the lesson. I wanted to touch out with
(35:25):
that and expound upon. Thank you for indulging me. If
you're not a fan of like music in general, and
this isn't that interesting from that perspective, so I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Now, with that said, we're talking about some positivity.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Of course, we'll do it in our hente segment, but
first we'll take a quick break and then we'll be
right back. Okay, So this really doesn't have anything to
do with our community, but I just thought it was
(36:00):
incredible to see in general. And this was the women's
NCAA championship game. You had Iowa versus South Carolina, and
they crushed the TV ratings. They crushed like the men's
(36:22):
TV ratings like they're The final. Game between South Carolina's
game Cocks and the University of Iowa's Hawkeyes averaged about
eighteen point seven million viewers and peaked at twenty four
million combined on ESPN and ABC, making it the first
time in history that a women's final has drawn a
larger TV audience than the men's And this is according
(36:43):
to ESPN, And they were also some other stats out
there about how this actually had better ratings than many
NBA games, and they're saying, in contrast, the Yukon Huskies
and Purdue men's final game averaged about fourteen point eight two.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Million on TBS NTNT, so.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The woman's final for the first time crushed the men's
NCAA Final four competition here.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
And this is, you know, much impart to someone like
Caitlin Clark who.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Plays for Iowa. Unfortunately IOA lost, but she's gotten a
lot of attention for her play and has been drawing
audiences to come see her play in person, celebrities as
well as a lot of these record numbers that we
are seeing. And it's just, I don't know, it's a
cool moment to kind of see. At the end of
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the day, I think a lot of groundwork has been
laid out for these these athletes and the you know,
female basketball players who have come before them really fighting
to get the attention that their male counterparts get. And
obviously there's still a long way to go when it
comes to the WNBA and things like that, But I
(38:09):
think this is progress at the end of the day, right,
this is all that many of us are fighting for
and working for. And I think, yes, at the end
of day, it's just a game, it's just basketball. But
as I always say, these are the kinds of things
that begin to trickle down into every aspect of our society.
When you have things in media and entertainment sort of progressing,
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that's where society gets a lot of its cues from,
a lot of its social cues come from what we
see on television and movies or in sports, you know,
that's where trends come from and things like that. And
that's why moments like this are so incredibly powerful because
they transcend the norm and give us a different point
(39:01):
of view to look at and a group of people
who have been marginalized now are gaining the attention that
they so rightfully deserve. And that's you know, women athletes
and women basketball players specifically here. So I think it's
just a beautiful, beautiful thing to see that wanted to
kind of celebrate and touch on also if I can,
(39:22):
I know I'm getting into very niche topics to a
degree with the uh not niche, but like you know,
this isn't like a hip hop podcast my other podcast,
The Street Stoke.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Is, but also wrestling like WWE.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And bear with me here because I haven't watched wrestling
or WWE in years, Like I don't. I probably said
as a teenager was the last time I would actively
watch it. I haven't really cared much about it. But
TikTok has kind of like from Afar, I've been paying
attention and I'm really inspired by one of the stories
(39:59):
and I'm gonna quick quickly touched on this. I just
think it's in krebly aspiring. So WrestleMania happened over the weekend.
You had Cody Rhodes, who is the son of the
legendary wrestler Dusty Rhodes. He has been kind of in
and out of of ww' and again I have a
loose understanding of this. It's just basically what TikTok has
told me. But basically, Cody had been fighting to become
(40:23):
like one of the top dogs in WWE for a
long time, never really quite did it. He ended up leaving.
He started his own rival company called aew which ended
up blowing up. It's now like, you know, the biggest
competitor to WWE, if I'm not mistaken. He starts his company,
then leaves that company that he started that became big
(40:44):
to return to WWE, and his whole thing has been
to finish his story right. His dream has always been
to be the WWE champion, and he felt like nobody
was giving him an opportunity. Nobody saw the star that
he saw within himself. That's why he left started his
own thing. It blew up, and he came back to
(41:04):
now compete at the highest level and to finish his story,
finish his dream, his goal right. And all these obstacles
kept happening throughout the time. You know, he fought last WrestleMania,
ends up losing right the fight, so he doesn't get
to win the title there. This year, he's gonna get
the opportunity again. All of a sudden, the Rock comes
(41:25):
back and messes that up. It seems like, but finally
we end up getting the title fight and Cody ends
up winning the belt. And let me tell you this,
I again am so not invested in this. I know
it's fake, but when I saw this man win that belt.
(41:46):
I shed some tears. There wasn't a dry eye in
the damn house. And it's because it's the underdog story
at the end of the day. And I resonate with
this so fucking much, man, And I'm sure many people
listed this podcast resonate with that. And here is the
moral of that that I want to take away for anybody.
(42:08):
If you're not a resting fan, I think we could
apply this to our life. This is what I saw
it as why I was so inspiring to me, even
though scripted. Right, it's the idea that sometimes people are
not going to see the greatness that we have inside
(42:28):
of us. For some of us, and I'm speaking to
my younger self right now as well, for whatever reason,
our greatness isn't as obvious to others as it is
to ourselves, right, And we see sometimes our peers getting
(42:55):
celebrated and people being able to see the greatness within them,
and we wonder, why is it that nobody can see
the same in myself. I know I'm capable of this,
but nobody sees it. Nobody wants to give me an opportunity,
Nobody appreciates all the work that I'm putting into this
(43:19):
and it's easy in those moments to give up, to
lose faith, to think to yourself, maybe this isn't for me.
And this is where you have to dig deep and
really have the belief in yourself that you are meant
(43:44):
for greatness that regardless if everybody around you sees it
or no one does, it doesn't change the greatness inside
of you. And yeah, maybe your path is going to
be more difficult, as I said, mine has been incredibly tough,
but that shouldn't stop you from living out your dreams
(44:08):
and achieving your greatest potential. And that's what this story is.
This kid felt like nobody saw him for the star
that he was and could be in WWE, and a
lot of people would have been happy to just be there.
(44:28):
They would have said, you know what, I get to
compete in the majors of my industry. Maybe I'm not
the top tier, maybe I'm not getting a lot of
opportunities a lot of camera time, but I'm here, I'm
in the building. If I'm not mistake. I think he
actually got fired at one point too so, but that
could have been part of the storyline. I'm not sure,
(44:50):
right but either way, whether he got fired or whether
you know, he could have stayed and just sort of
been a lower tier guy. Regardless, he picked himself up
off the floor and said, if you're not going to
see it in me, I'm going to go off and
(45:11):
do my own thing and build it up so much
that you're not going to be able then deny it anymore.
And that's what he did. He went and built a
rival company that blew up, and then from there, and
(45:34):
some people critiqued him for this, but then from there
said I want to prove to myself that I can
compete at the highest level and I want to finish
my story. And then he went out and.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Had the patience to essentially take the loss the first.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Year at WrestleMania and then go along with the current
storyline to eventually finish it. And to me, it's just
so inspiring to have that level of patience and to
just keep on fighting and to have that sort of
(46:22):
belief in yourself to just keep going, to just keep
fighting for what you know you deserve. And I think
for me, I get emotional whenever I see people getting
there just do because I know what that feels like,
I know what that chase feels like, and I hunger
(46:46):
for that feeling, you know, and I think maybe it
never really comes, you know, or for some people like him,
it did. It really he was able to really live
out that moment, you know, where he was able to
say I did. There's no questions about it. I did
exactly what I set out to do. I'm here and
I arrived, And I think maybe I'm still waiting for
(47:10):
that moment to a degree as well. Maybe that's something
I need to work on or or figure out what
that actually looks like for me at the end of
the day. But that's a conversation for another time. I
just wanted to share that sause thought that was really
inspiring as well for you if you're not a wrestling fan.
Like again, I'm just watching through TikTok clips and I'm
just like crying for no reason. But I think because
(47:33):
it speaks to me. It speaks to the underdog in
me and my love for the underdog at the end
of the day. So yeah, that's that. Now we're gonna
quickly tie everything we talked about today in a neat
little bow. In a second. We call conclusions to time
for conclusion, all right, so quickly touch on all we
(47:55):
did the right is just tripping right now. Man, another
Arizona like the Arizona Supreme Court reinstating in law from
eighteen sixty four about abortion bands. This is the world
that we live in, man. People are really going to
(48:16):
the extreme on everything, and it's quite scary at the
end of the day. That's all I could say about it.
Hopefully this ends up on the ballot in November. But yeah,
just the hypocrisy of it all, man, it really is
just like, it's not surprising, but it's disappointing. Biden announcing
that the student loan forgiveness plan great stuff. Here Again,
(48:39):
if you have a problem with this, look yourself in
the mirror and say, why do I want other people
to suffer? These student loans were obviously predatory. The idea
of college in general has been predatory. That's the top
of another conversation. Why wouldn't we want to try to
add some relief to people? Life is already hard as
it is. Right If you paid off your student loans,
already bless you, but also understand that you did it
(49:02):
in a time where home buying was still probably affordable.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I was reading something where they were talking about the popularity.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Of million dollar homes in the United States, and I'm
seeing it in New Jersey like areas that I grew
up around that aren't the best areas, houses going for
like six hundred thousand dollars, and then the areas that
are like nicer. And when I say nicer, I don't
mean like you're going and living in a mansion in
(49:29):
a gated community. Million dollar homes. Nice homes, but to me,
not worth a million dollars based on where they're located.
But that's the life, you know, the life that we're
living in right now in this country. The reality of it,
so now the cost of living is far higher.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Pay hasn't really caught up to that. People need relief.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Why punish them or why not try to provide them
with some sort of relief for circumstances they could have
planned for, but also.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Programs that were predatory by.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Nature, Like yeah, I don't care if I do or
don't have student loans, if I paid them off.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
I want everybody's life to be a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I want this country to be a little bit better
of a place and people to be a little bit happier,
regardless if it helps me or not. I don't qualify
for this, So at the end of the day, like
this does nothing for me, but I support it because
I know a lot of people it's going to be
a huge game changer for them. So that's that. And
then they told j Cole and Kendrick Beef, listen, protect
(50:32):
your peace, man, even if it comes to the expense
of being slightly embarrassed by other's opinions. People's opinions do
not matter. They should not matter at the other day.
What matters is how you're spending your time energy and
if you're using it in a way that is productive
and a way that you can be proud of. And
that's the decision that Ja Cole made by dropping out
of this and apologizing. He knew that he didn't want
to invite negativity into his life. He knew that wasting
(50:55):
more time on this would be, you know, a disgrace
of of all that he's built and the legacy he
wants to leave behind and what he wants to do
in his life. And he bowed out publicly, and he's
gonna take the ridicule, but his life is gonna be
better and more peaceful for it.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And then, man, women out here just crushing it.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Kaitlin Clark really leading this charge with the NCAA Championship
TV ratings out pacing the men. Just absolutely amazing stuff.
Honorable mentioned shout out to Cody Rhodes finishing the story. Again,
I'm not a wrestling fan, but fuck, I just love
when the underdog wins. That's it. That's where I'm at.
And with that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in. Man,
we dropped some new Just Be merch. I'm really proud
(51:35):
of this Just Be That NYC. That's my wellness brand
and it's really cool. It's not like you know, logo
type of thing. It's literally like a positive message I'm
trying to instill it into people is be you. So
we have some beautiful embroidered sweatshirts, we have some cool hats.
I'm actually if you're watching the video version with these
beautiful broidered hats, it's say be on them, right, so
just be just be you at the end of the day,
(51:56):
I'm proud of them.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
They come in a bunch of colors perfect for spring.
And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Just That NYC. If you want to check those outs.
With that said, I'll catch you on Tuesday with a
brand new episode. Until then, stay safe, we'll talk soon.
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Let me talk about talk. Here we go. He said
he live in life as a gringo, where you question
when you fit in. Every time you mingle, they say
you do this withou, not that this life as a gingo. Yes, Hello,
and welcome to another episode of Life as a Gatingo.
I am Dromos, of course, and it is Thursday, so
(00:28):
I mean it's time fact with Thursday Trends episode and
I'm Flying Solo on today's show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We've had a bunch of guests I think the last
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Maybe not on Thursday Trends, but I know I've been
doing very guests heavy this season thus far. So Flying
Solo talking about a couple of different things that caught
my eye this last week. We will touch on I
feel like this is like a broken record at this point,
but Arizona has a new band on abortions upholding in
ancient laws. We will talk all about that. We will
(01:03):
also get into on the positive. I guess a positive
side of things here. Obviously it is positive. I guess positive.
Biden announcing a new student loan forgiveness plan, so we'll
talk about that. I also wanted to touch on something
that I made a video about on my Instagram and
it's this j Cole Kendrick Lamar battle. Now, if you
(01:24):
are not a fan of either or not a hip
hop head this, don't worry. This isn't like me deep
diving into it from a music perspective. I just think
it's a really interesting conversation about somebody protecting their piece
and I wanted to dive into that. And on the
positive side of things, Man, we will celebrate women out
here getting the credit they deserve in the sports world.
(01:46):
Will do that, and Army hit this segment. But first, man,
let's just dive into some of the heavier topics, the
non sense, the bs and a segment call for the
people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Of the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot for the people of.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All Right, So I feel like again it's groundhog Day.
History continues to repeat itself in this weird world that
we are living in in today's date age. But on Tuesday,
the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a law from eighteen to
sixty four that would ban nearly all abortions in the state. Now,
this is a one hundred and sixty year old law
(02:32):
which predates Arizona even being a state. And this makes
performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison,
except when the mother's life is at risk. It does
now not allow exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
(02:53):
The extremists be extremely right, That's really what it comes
down to at the end of the day. And even
though the majority of Americans believe in the right to choose,
I think even in Arizona that number was like six
out of ten people pulled believed in a woman's right
to choose, we still have the extremists doing their bidding
(03:21):
based upon their own religious views at the end of
the day, right, And this leads to a whole nother
conversation about religion and religious extremism. And for the record,
I'm not like an atheist. I believe in God. I
go to church every once in a while, you know,
I believe in all this stuff. But I also believe
in not pushing our own beliefs onto other people and
(03:46):
affecting their way of life to basically have to adhere
to what we personally believe. And I think this is
a lot of what's happening here is you're seeing this
religious extremism on the right, this evangelical extremism, and and
(04:06):
really it's it's like white evangelical extremism, and they're trying
to push their own thoughts and belief systems onto all
of us. And it's ironic because they're also the same
crowd that claims we're trying to make everybody be gay
(04:27):
by selling pride merchandise in Target during Pride Month. That
that's literally these people were talking to that by having
Pride merchandise and having a Pride Month, we're trying to
push a gay agenda and force them to adhere to it. Meanwhile,
(04:49):
they're literally creating laws and supporting laws and supporting politicians
who want to create said laws that would not allow
a woman to choose what she wants to do with
her body. And it's the hypocrisy of it all that
(05:12):
continues to have and listen to me, fair, there's hypocrisy
on both sides, that there's extremism on both sides. But
I really don't see how you can make those types
of arguments and not get the hypocrisy that exists within it.
You're saying, this is America, We're free to do whatever
we want, say we want freedom of speech, the freedom here,
(05:32):
freedom there, right, but we also want you to adhere
to what a particular group of people believes in. You
don't have the freedom to dictate what you do with
your body, right, or they want to put, you know,
more religion in the schools, or make America a Christian country.
(05:52):
And therefore, yeah, it's freedom. America is all about freedom,
except when it comes to anything we don't agree with. Right.
And this is what makes it so difficult to even
have these conversations with people who have opposing views, is
because they don't even see their own hypocrisy, and when
faced with it, they try.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
To figure out a way to argue out of it
rather than acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can't have it both ways. You can't say this
is the freest country in the world, and you know
this is America, we could do what we want, what
we feel, and then you're trying to impose your own
belief systems on the masses. That's literally what they do
in other countries that we look down upon that aren't free. Right,
You have no choice but to adhere to what the
(06:47):
status quo dictates is the right way to live.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yet that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
With these abortion bands or banning books or or you know,
everything else that's going on, and it's just, you know,
I don't know. I'm I'm like the typical man in
this scenario, Like you know, when like you're anybody's in
(07:16):
a relationship and like for me, dating a woman and
she's venting about like her day, I would go into
the stereotypical male thing of like trying to fix it
right and be completely unaware of the fact that like
she just needs to vent right and just wants a
place to vent, She's not necessarily looking for me to
(07:36):
fix it right. And I go into that when I
talk about politics and things like this, where I'm like
I feel like if I'm bringing you a story here
on the podcast or having a discussion, I want to
have like a happy ending where I fix the problem.
And with this it's like there obviously never is. We're
just kind of like talking about what's going on to
(07:57):
make ourselves aware of it and to have the conversation.
But like there's no happy ending here. There's no conclusion
to it, you know, I wish there was. That's how
I operate. I'm looking for, like where's the silver lining here?
And I guess you know, there is a little bit here.
I mean, so they to finish out the story here,
(08:17):
the court has put the law out of hold for
fourteen days and set the case back down to lower
courts to hear additional arguments about the constitutionality. On top
of that, there is a forty five day period before enforcement.
So this new band or this this reinstatement of a
law from eighteen sixty four is not going into effect
right away now. In the majority opinion, the judges from
(08:42):
the Arizona Supreme Court stated that quote, policy matters of
this gravity must be ultimately resolved by our citizens through
the legislative or the initiative process. So, as it says
here on BBC dot com, this puts the ball in
the court of state legislators who could cancel the band,
and it also opens up the possibility for voters to
(09:02):
decide on the issue in November, should abortion rights groups
in Arizona succeed in putting the question on the ballot.
So there's hope here right in this story. It's not
like this is all said and done and now everybody
has to live by that. But this is just becoming
a popular thing happening around the country. People wanted to
make noise or people wanted to enforce their own, you know,
(09:25):
extremist views. And this is a state of the United
States that we live in right now, the current state
of this country. And yeah, I again here I am
trying to like bring it out like okay, but here's
the you know whatever, here's the ending of this. It
just sucks, man, it's just weird. And again and again
it's the hypocrisy because you're actually trying to put laws
(09:47):
in place here to force people to live by your
your thoughts on lifestyle essentially right, what you think is right.
And I think this is again the hypocrisy. This is
the irony of the arguments where they make it seem
like when we're asking for things like more inclusion and diversity,
(10:11):
we're forcing our lifestyle onto them.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And it's just that's just a completely different case us.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Having more diversity and inclusion in the workplace or a
media or any of these things doesn't actually affect your
quality of life in any real way. You can change
the channel if you don't like what you see on TV.
You can find another job if you want to. When
it comes to these sort of abortion bands, the woman
(10:38):
has no choice. Her life is changed forever by this, right,
there's no oubt for her. She can't, you know, especially
if she doesn't have means. They can't just get up
and go to another state where it's allowed, right because those, again,
those A people are gonna affecting the most, those who
can't afford to have the means to go somewhere where
(10:59):
this is allowed, where they can make a choice of
their body. So yeah, it's obviously incredibly frustrating that we
keep having to have these conversations. But here we are
Baby America. On a more positive note, here we have
President Biden announcing a new student loan forgiveness plan. Now
he has revised his original plan, and it targets specific borrowers,
(11:20):
including those who are eligible for debt cancellation under an
existing government program but having yet applied, have been in
repayment for twenty years or longer on their undergraduate loans,
or over twenty five years on their graduate loans, attended
schools of questionable value are experiencing financial hardship. So if
(11:41):
you meet that criteria, you could have your student loan forgiven.
Here under President Biden, he also discussed his plan to
cancel quote runaway interests for millions of borrowers. Consumer advocates
have long criticized the fact that interest rates on federal
student loans make seed eight percent, which can make it
tough for borrowers who fail, who fall behind, or are
(12:04):
on certain payment plans to reduce their balances. Some end
up owing more than they originally borrowed, even after years
of repayment. The Biden administration estimates that if its new
plan is enacted as proposed, borrowers will get up to
twenty thousand dollars of unpaid interest on their federal student
debt forgiven, regardless of their income.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Certain low and middle income borrowers could have the entire.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Amount of interest that has accrued on their debt since
they entered the repayment canceled. Now this is Biden's Plan B,
essentially his Plan B student loan forgiveness. They're saying it's
narrower than his initial effort. Tens of millions of borrows
may still see their balans as erased or lowered if
programs survive the illegal challenges this time around. Those so,
even though it's narrower them the initial idea that he had,
(12:54):
you still could see tens of thousands of dollars erased
or lowered, and the administration is confident believing that it
is protected under this updated plan that will survive legal
challenges this time around for several reasons. Okay, positive stuff
right now. Obviously we're still waiting for this to go
(13:14):
to effect. Still process, but in an election year, Biden's
out here sling at some plans that would help out
the everyday person. And I've heard so many arguments on
(13:35):
either side. I've had this discussion with people in my
own family who are right leaning, and they're under this
idea that if we make it too easy for people,
no one's going to want to work hard. That's like
the notion I think the general consensus oftentimes for a
(13:57):
lot of people on the right. So if we do
things like forgive student loan debt, we're teaching people that
they don't have to work hard, right, And it's also
sort of spitting in the face of those who did
pay off their student loan debt. And this is again
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the hypocrisy of this wing of people, of this group
of people, because wanting others to suffer just because you
may have doesn't sound very Christian. To me like I
(14:40):
was gonna go on some biblical uh, some biblical examples here.
I'm trying to be respectful. But at the end of
the day, I don't think God would say to us, hey,
you suffered a lot in this life, therefore, or you
should just try to make it harder for others as well,
(15:03):
Make others have to suffer as much as you did,
make it as difficult for them as it was for you.
It's counterproductive to everything. That's like morally what we work
for as human beings, beyond even religion. I mean, when
you think about parents, what's the goal of a parent?
I want my kid to have a better life than
I did, right, I want them to have an easier
(15:24):
time at this thing called life than I did. And
we do that because we have a love for these people.
Shouldn't we have a love for mankind, for humankind as
a result of that as well? Like in the same
context of that, that sounds Christian to me, love Thy brother, right,
(15:45):
or Bible stories of Jesus hanging with the the people
who are the most down and out in society, right,
the ones whose society had cast it aside. He spent
time with and shared time with he didn't judge them right,
because they deserved to have a better life as well.
(16:11):
So this is the hypocrisy of the arguments against this stuff.
And again even just like let's talk about like numbers
and what's right. Look, these loans are predatory by nature, right,
the fact that you have what they call runaway interests,
the fact that people end up paying more than they borrowed,
(16:31):
that they are continuing to get buried under more and
more debt because of the predatory interest that happens, right, Like,
this system is fucked. This system was designed to take
advantage of the everyday person unnecessarily. Because this still could
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be a win win for people. Colleges could still make
their money. The student loans, the companies, the banks the
program is putting them out there could still make a profit.
But instead of being happy with it being a situation
where everybody potentially won, they all decided to be as
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predatory as humanly possible. Colleges, Let's make it incredibly expensive.
Let's make all these prerequisite classes that literally add no
real value to the student's life, but let's make it
a prerequisite so that we could gouge them for more money,
so they have to spend more money with us to
fulfill the credits needed to graduate. Like when I went
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to my first college was a county college, one of
the prerequisites was gym or health class. I had to
pay to take a health class. Some people pay to
take a gym class. In what world does that make sense?
(18:05):
That's high school stuff, things you did through all throughout
high school. But now the college is doing that. Why
are they doing it? You're an adult. They don't need
to make you work out or teach you about health,
especially when you went through health class all throughout middle
school and high school. That's a means to gouge you
out of money, right that's one thousand dollars right there
(18:26):
or whatever it is for your school. I can't remember
how much each credit was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what that was.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's predatory by nature, the student loan companies gouging the
share to you, predatory rates, all these different things.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's predatory. And now we're trying to repair that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And yeah, maybe you paid off your loans and maybe
you feel type of way about it, But why would
you want everybody else to suffer just because you did? Like,
if that's really the case, Sorry, if anybody falls under this,
but really look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself,
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is this the type of person that I want to be? Do?
I want to be the type of person that weaponizes
my own suffering and wants everybody else to feel as
miserable as I did in this particular situation, because that's
not what I want. Listen. My path to getting here
(19:31):
to having you listen to me today has been tumultuous.
I can't begin to explain to you the ups and
downs that has led up to me broadcasting this podcast
to you today. I had to earn every second of
(19:52):
every word, every conversation that I have here on this show.
And just because my path was so incredibly difficult doesn't
mean that I want everybody else's to be the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That's why I want to give you as much information
as I can.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I want to educate people, want to coach, people, want
to help people, want to pass it down. When I
have the opportunity, I do my best to put other
people in positions to win younger than I ever did.
I take pride in that. I take pride in the
fact that my original photographer and videographer and graphic designer
(20:31):
I was able to get him a full time gig
doing something that he enjoys doing. He got to quit
his engineering job basically within a year of having it,
right within a year of graduating college. Now this kid
gets to live out his twenties doing the work that
he loves to do as a full time job. I
couldn't say that at his age. I couldn't say that
(20:53):
for probably almost ten years after the fact, roughly, depending
on what we're calling, you know, my creative job that
I loved. But that doesn't mean that I want to
hang that over his head. Hell no, I want him
to be able to get to the good parts as
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quickly as possible, cut out the bullshit that I had
to go through. But that's what it means to care
about other people, not just care about yourself. And that's
too much of the culture that we live in this country.
We're very selfish individuals by nature in this country. I
think it's a cultural thing, and I think human beings
to a degree always have that in them. But I
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think we as a country, our society, the moral standards
we have in place, the cultural sort of standards we
have in place, is a very selfish one. That's what
capitalism is essentially based upon right, where it's the idea
of profit, profit, profit success, success, success, and you're regardless
(21:59):
of the fucking fires that you're leaving behind you as
you create this profit or as you achieve this success. Right,
we celebrate people on Forbes List and these billionaire lists
and all these things. We make them out to be heroes,
regardless of the fact that they are creating their products
(22:20):
on the backs of child slave labor right or predatory wages,
or the fact that in their company the CEO is
making tens of millions of dollars if not more, while
the average employee is struggling just to get by, and
(22:43):
that they are fighting tooth and nail to not have
to pay people fair wage. Meanwhile, they're buying a private
island somewhere, and we celebrate those people.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Those are the people we hold about a pedestal.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh my god, how amazing are they Look at the
look at the success, look at the wealth. Meanwhile, they
did it on the backs of people who are struggling
to get by when they have so much.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That is the norm in our country. That's what we celebrate,
and that's why.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So many people are miserable in this country, and so
many people are angry and disenfranchised because we've created this culture.
We've allowed the wealthy, the elites to normalize these ideas,
to tell us, well, you just have to work a
little bit harder, and you too can then be in a
position to shit on the everyday person. That's what we've normalized.
They've fed us the koolaid and we've drank it up.
(23:43):
But it doesn't have to be this way. We could
demand better, we could demand people actually giving.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
A shit about one another. That's what's missing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So yeah, I just want to hold tangent here, but
biden student loan forgiveness, plan to step in the right direction,
and anybody who doesn't understand that, you can play them
the rant that just went on. Now. I also want
to get to a lighter topic that I think is
a good conversation piece, this rap beef and protecting your piece.
We'll talk about that, but let's take a quick break
(24:15):
and then we'll be right back. All right, we are back,
and I want to touch on this J Cole versus
Kenjack Lamar rap beef again. If you're not a hip
hop head, it's okay. This is more than just about
the music. I think it's an interesting conversation to be had,
but we'll just do the backstory, quick context backstory here. Right,
(24:38):
you have Jake Cole, you have Kendrick Labbar, and Drake
are essentially at the midst of this drama. They're known
as like the big three of the hip hop world,
like currently right of still doing it at a high level,
and there's always this discussion of who's the greatest, who's
the best, and they've all sort of taken shots or
(24:58):
claimed that title of the best. And then randomly Kendrick
Lamar drops a verse on Future and metro Booman's album
and goes at Drake and j Cole essentially right claiming
himself as the greatest and all these different things.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right, so the internet obviously is going crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
More than anything, people are really interested in hearing Jake
Cole's response because he's known as like, you know, a
real EBC, a guy who really can get things done
on the microphone if you will. And he then drops
this surprise project last week, and the last song on
(25:44):
the album is his distrack his response to Kendrick Lamar,
and for context, he didn't really go personal. What people
call these these warning shots. Neither one of them really
dove in and said to anything below the belt. You know,
we didn't get like the extreme moment of a rap beef.
(26:04):
This was kind of warning shots essentially, and with that,
Ja Cole, you know, kind of like diminished some of
Kendrick Lamar's albums as not being as good as people
hyped him up to be and blah blah blah. Right,
he put out his response. Then over the weekend you
had the Dreamville Festival, which is Jay Cole's music festival.
On stage, he actually speaks to the crowd and talks
(26:26):
about how he doesn't feel right about dropping that diss.
He goes on to essentially apologize to Kendrick for the
things that he said and that it doesn't sit right
with his soul and because of that, he's going to
take it off the album and basically you know, never
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perform it or anything like that. So of course, the
response on the internet is for the most part, not everybody,
but I think it's kind of been it into two camps,
where one camp feels like this is rap, it's a sport,
it's a blood sport. Essentially, J Cole is it's a
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paraphrase what some of the conversation has been is a
bitch for apologizing after putting out this disc right? And
then the other side of it, where I fall in
this camp is this is just a man, excepting that
he had a moment where he stooped lower than he
would would have wanted to, or became somebody that he
(27:31):
didn't want to be, was triggered, responded, and now says
to himself, I think I'm good. I'm I'm I think
I'm better than going down this whole rabbit hole of
participating in a rap beef. And I think it's a
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great lesson in the idea of protecting your peace right.
Because let's say they go down this hole. Let's stay
with me. If you're not a fan of music, I
probably will get into something a lesson here. But let's
say they go down this whole path of back and forth.
(28:12):
Rap disc is rap beasts, blah blah blah, and J
Cole ends up having the the you know, kill shot
if you will. Where it ends it, it's like, oh,
he's the clear winner here, and everybody knows that it's undeniable.
The internet is co signing that what did he gain
out of that situation? Like, what do you really gain? Yeah,
(28:34):
in the moment, you're getting the accolades, you're getting the
high fives, you're getting the social media responses in your
favorite it feels good for your ego, But truthfully, what
are you getting out of that? Personally?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't see it as gaining much. Now, what did
you lose?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
You lost a lot because for however long this would
have gone on, let's say it went on for a
couple of months. Now, having to deal with the negative
energy that comes from being in a beef with another
human being, You're constantly having to respond to something. You're
(29:15):
constantly living in this place of anger. You're having to
hear what they say about you. Right, they're gonna say
something hurtful to you. You're then gonna have to go
dig up something negative about them. And you're literally just
inviting more and more negativity in your life because you're
participating in a negative situation. And again for what so
(29:37):
that social media speaks highly of you, so that the
Internet crowns you as the best, even though in your
heart you already feel like you are, like there's no
winning here. And I use the example in the video
I put out, It's like arguing with a troll on
social media.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I stop doing it, and every once in a while
I get roped up into to it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Somebody says something and I get triggered and I respond,
and then I'm immediately reminded of why I never respond
to negative comments, because it never ends. And these are
people that don't know you, so they're literally taking shots
at you, saying things, doing their best to trigger you.
You're then triggered and feel the need to respond, and
(30:24):
you're wasting all this time and energy on somebody who
literally doesn't know you, has no real value, has no
you know, wait on your life in a real way.
But you're giving them your precious time and energy. You're
stressing over it, you're trying to find a response, you're
getting angry. You're then fucking up your day right there
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to respond. Now this becomes the focus of your day.
And as I said in the video, even if you
end up getting the last word, you still lost because
you wasted all this time for no reason, responding to
somebody that really doesn't matter at the end of the day.
And I think this is a lesson of like how
we have to kind of look at our lives and
really ask ourselves is the juice worth the squeeze in
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every situation? Because we only have so much energy in
a day, right, we only have so much time.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And how many people have like started their.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Day on a bad note, right, It's like, oh, I
overslept and then that sets your day into fucking chaos.
I overslept. Now I'm rushing. I spilled coffee on myself.
I've got to get changed even more late. Now I
locked myself out of the fucking house because I was
rushing and I forgot the keys. Now I have to
go find the spear. Keep more chaos, right, And it's
(31:43):
like it's for whatever reason, when one thing happens, it
feels like everything just fucking comes crumbling down, right, And
it's because your energy has immediately been shifted into this
place of like stress and frustration, maybe anger, sadness, whatever
it is. So now everything that happens that normally would
happen throughout the day, right, that might not be that
(32:04):
big of a deal, it's magnified ten times because you're
living in this place of a like this heightened state,
you know what I mean, And that is I think
what people are missing out in this situation and just
life in general. When you allow yourself to invite negativity
into your life, it's going to weigh you down. It's
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going to put you into this heightened state of anxious
awareness where you're gonna notice every negative thing that happens.
You're gonna be even more stressed than you would have
been by a particular situation. And that's why I give
credit to somebody like j Cole, because he is a
admitting I put myself in a situation where I reacted
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and became the type of person I don't want to be.
But then b is saying, I'm the bigger man here,
or I'm gonna be a bigger man in this situation,
be a more evolved person in this situation, and publicly.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Take myself out of this, knowing the ridicule is.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Coming because I'm publicly doing this and people are going
to have backlash in this world. But I'm saying to myself,
I'd rather bear a bit of that embarrassment and shame
than invite this negativity into my life by participating in
something that I have no real interest in or adds
no real value to me other than feeding my ego.
(33:38):
That's big right to do it. On that stage, on
that level of putting your ego aside and saying, you
know what, y'all are gonna clown me for this on
a high, high level.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But I refuse to let my ego take the wheel here.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm gonna do what's best for me in the long run.
And that's why you salute him. That's why IOLU do,
I should say, because that's not easy, that's difficult. Too
many of us are so concerned with the opinions of
others that we will allow ourselves to keep participating in
situations that do not serve us. We would rather avoid
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the momentary ridicule, the short term ridicule that might come
from people judging us. We'd rather avoid that and live
a life of misery or lack of fulfillment just to
avoid that one moment. So we'd rather have our entire
(34:44):
life be unfulfilling and living it for other people than
just having to have the hard conversation and accept the
momentary ridicule that might come from us expressing ourselves against
the popular opinion. That's the lesson here. You have to
protect your peace, and sometimes that might come at the
(35:04):
cost of your ego, of validation of your you know,
peers coming at you in some sort of way, but
in the long run, it's worth it. It's far more
important than having superficial acceptance from a bunch of people
who really don't matter at the end of the day.
So that's the lesson. I wanted to touch out with
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that and expound upon. Thank you for indulging me. If
you're not a fan of like music in general, and
this isn't that interesting from that perspective, so I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Now, with that said, we're talking about some positivity.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Of course, we'll do it in our hente segment, but
first we'll take a quick break and then we'll be
right back. Okay, So this really doesn't have anything to
do with our community, but I just thought it was
(36:00):
incredible to see in general. And this was the women's
NCAA championship game. You had Iowa versus South Carolina, and
they crushed the TV ratings. They crushed like the men's
(36:22):
TV ratings like they're The final. Game between South Carolina's
game Cocks and the University of Iowa's Hawkeyes averaged about
eighteen point seven million viewers and peaked at twenty four
million combined on ESPN and ABC, making it the first
time in history that a women's final has drawn a
larger TV audience than the men's And this is according
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to ESPN, And they were also some other stats out
there about how this actually had better ratings than many
NBA games, and they're saying, in contrast, the Yukon Huskies
and Purdue men's final game averaged about fourteen point eight two.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Million on TBS NTNT, so.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The woman's final for the first time crushed the men's
NCAA Final four competition here.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
And this is, you know, much impart to someone like
Caitlin Clark who.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Plays for Iowa. Unfortunately IOA lost, but she's gotten a
lot of attention for her play and has been drawing
audiences to come see her play in person, celebrities as
well as a lot of these record numbers that we
are seeing. And it's just, I don't know, it's a
cool moment to kind of see. At the end of
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the day, I think a lot of groundwork has been
laid out for these these athletes and the you know,
female basketball players who have come before them really fighting
to get the attention that their male counterparts get. And
obviously there's still a long way to go when it
comes to the WNBA and things like that, But I
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think this is progress at the end of the day, right,
this is all that many of us are fighting for
and working for. And I think, yes, at the end
of day, it's just a game, it's just basketball. But
as I always say, these are the kinds of things
that begin to trickle down into every aspect of our society.
When you have things in media and entertainment sort of progressing,
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that's where society gets a lot of its cues from,
a lot of its social cues come from what we
see on television and movies or in sports, you know,
that's where trends come from and things like that. And
that's why moments like this are so incredibly powerful because
they transcend the norm and give us a different point
(39:01):
of view to look at and a group of people
who have been marginalized now are gaining the attention that
they so rightfully deserve. And that's you know, women athletes
and women basketball players specifically here. So I think it's
just a beautiful, beautiful thing to see that wanted to
kind of celebrate and touch on also if I can,
(39:22):
I know I'm getting into very niche topics to a
degree with the uh not niche, but like you know,
this isn't like a hip hop podcast my other podcast,
The Street Stoke.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Is, but also wrestling like WWE.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And bear with me here because I haven't watched wrestling
or WWE in years, Like I don't. I probably said
as a teenager was the last time I would actively
watch it. I haven't really cared much about it. But
TikTok has kind of like from Afar, I've been paying
attention and I'm really inspired by one of the stories
(39:59):
and I'm gonna quick quickly touched on this. I just
think it's in krebly aspiring. So WrestleMania happened over the weekend.
You had Cody Rhodes, who is the son of the
legendary wrestler Dusty Rhodes. He has been kind of in
and out of of ww' and again I have a
loose understanding of this. It's just basically what TikTok has
told me. But basically, Cody had been fighting to become
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like one of the top dogs in WWE for a
long time, never really quite did it. He ended up leaving.
He started his own rival company called aew which ended
up blowing up. It's now like, you know, the biggest
competitor to WWE, if I'm not mistaken. He starts his company,
then leaves that company that he started that became big
(40:44):
to return to WWE, and his whole thing has been
to finish his story right. His dream has always been
to be the WWE champion, and he felt like nobody
was giving him an opportunity. Nobody saw the star that
he saw within himself. That's why he left started his
own thing. It blew up, and he came back to
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now compete at the highest level and to finish his story,
finish his dream, his goal right. And all these obstacles
kept happening throughout the time. You know, he fought last WrestleMania,
ends up losing right the fight, so he doesn't get
to win the title there. This year, he's gonna get
the opportunity again. All of a sudden, the Rock comes
(41:25):
back and messes that up. It seems like, but finally
we end up getting the title fight and Cody ends
up winning the belt. And let me tell you this,
I again am so not invested in this. I know
it's fake, but when I saw this man win that belt.
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I shed some tears. There wasn't a dry eye in
the damn house. And it's because it's the underdog story
at the end of the day. And I resonate with
this so fucking much, man, And I'm sure many people
listed this podcast resonate with that. And here is the
moral of that that I want to take away for anybody.
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If you're not a resting fan, I think we could
apply this to our life. This is what I saw
it as why I was so inspiring to me, even
though scripted. Right, it's the idea that sometimes people are
not going to see the greatness that we have inside
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of us. For some of us, and I'm speaking to
my younger self right now as well, for whatever reason,
our greatness isn't as obvious to others as it is
to ourselves, right, And we see sometimes our peers getting
(42:55):
celebrated and people being able to see the greatness within them,
and we wonder, why is it that nobody can see
the same in myself. I know I'm capable of this,
but nobody sees it. Nobody wants to give me an opportunity,
Nobody appreciates all the work that I'm putting into this
(43:19):
and it's easy in those moments to give up, to
lose faith, to think to yourself, maybe this isn't for me.
And this is where you have to dig deep and
really have the belief in yourself that you are meant
(43:44):
for greatness that regardless if everybody around you sees it
or no one does, it doesn't change the greatness inside
of you. And yeah, maybe your path is going to
be more difficult, as I said, mine has been incredibly tough,
but that shouldn't stop you from living out your dreams
(44:08):
and achieving your greatest potential. And that's what this story is.
This kid felt like nobody saw him for the star
that he was and could be in WWE, and a
lot of people would have been happy to just be there.
(44:28):
They would have said, you know what, I get to
compete in the majors of my industry. Maybe I'm not
the top tier, maybe I'm not getting a lot of
opportunities a lot of camera time, but I'm here, I'm
in the building. If I'm not mistake. I think he
actually got fired at one point too so, but that
could have been part of the storyline. I'm not sure,
(44:50):
right but either way, whether he got fired or whether
you know, he could have stayed and just sort of
been a lower tier guy. Regardless, he picked himself up
off the floor and said, if you're not going to
see it in me, I'm going to go off and
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do my own thing and build it up so much
that you're not going to be able then deny it anymore.
And that's what he did. He went and built a
rival company that blew up, and then from there, and
(45:34):
some people critiqued him for this, but then from there
said I want to prove to myself that I can
compete at the highest level and I want to finish
my story. And then he went out and.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Had the patience to essentially take the loss the first.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Year at WrestleMania and then go along with the current
storyline to eventually finish it. And to me, it's just
so inspiring to have that level of patience and to
just keep on fighting and to have that sort of
(46:22):
belief in yourself to just keep going, to just keep
fighting for what you know you deserve. And I think
for me, I get emotional whenever I see people getting
there just do because I know what that feels like,
I know what that chase feels like, and I hunger
(46:46):
for that feeling, you know, and I think maybe it
never really comes, you know, or for some people like him,
it did. It really he was able to really live
out that moment, you know, where he was able to
say I did. There's no questions about it. I did
exactly what I set out to do. I'm here and
I arrived, And I think maybe I'm still waiting for
(47:10):
that moment to a degree as well. Maybe that's something
I need to work on or or figure out what
that actually looks like for me at the end of
the day. But that's a conversation for another time. I
just wanted to share that sause thought that was really
inspiring as well for you if you're not a wrestling fan.
Like again, I'm just watching through TikTok clips and I'm
just like crying for no reason. But I think because
(47:33):
it speaks to me. It speaks to the underdog in
me and my love for the underdog at the end
of the day. So yeah, that's that. Now we're gonna
quickly tie everything we talked about today in a neat
little bow. In a second. We call conclusions to time
for conclusion, all right, so quickly touch on all we
(47:55):
did the right is just tripping right now. Man, another
Arizona like the Arizona Supreme Court reinstating in law from
eighteen sixty four about abortion bands. This is the world
that we live in, man. People are really going to
(48:16):
the extreme on everything, and it's quite scary at the
end of the day. That's all I could say about it.
Hopefully this ends up on the ballot in November. But yeah,
just the hypocrisy of it all, man, it really is
just like, it's not surprising, but it's disappointing. Biden announcing
that the student loan forgiveness plan great stuff. Here Again,
(48:39):
if you have a problem with this, look yourself in
the mirror and say, why do I want other people
to suffer? These student loans were obviously predatory. The idea
of college in general has been predatory. That's the top
of another conversation. Why wouldn't we want to try to
add some relief to people? Life is already hard as
it is. Right If you paid off your student loans,
already bless you, but also understand that you did it
(49:02):
in a time where home buying was still probably affordable.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I was reading something where they were talking about the popularity.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Of million dollar homes in the United States, and I'm
seeing it in New Jersey like areas that I grew
up around that aren't the best areas, houses going for
like six hundred thousand dollars, and then the areas that
are like nicer. And when I say nicer, I don't
mean like you're going and living in a mansion in
(49:29):
a gated community. Million dollar homes. Nice homes, but to me,
not worth a million dollars based on where they're located.
But that's the life, you know, the life that we're
living in right now in this country. The reality of it,
so now the cost of living is far higher.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Pay hasn't really caught up to that. People need relief.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Why punish them or why not try to provide them
with some sort of relief for circumstances they could have
planned for, but also.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Programs that were predatory by.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Nature, Like yeah, I don't care if I do or
don't have student loans, if I paid them off.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
I want everybody's life to be a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I want this country to be a little bit better
of a place and people to be a little bit happier,
regardless if it helps me or not. I don't qualify
for this, So at the end of the day, like
this does nothing for me, but I support it because
I know a lot of people it's going to be
a huge game changer for them. So that's that. And
then they told j Cole and Kendrick Beef, listen, protect
(50:32):
your peace, man, even if it comes to the expense
of being slightly embarrassed by other's opinions. People's opinions do
not matter. They should not matter at the other day.
What matters is how you're spending your time energy and
if you're using it in a way that is productive
and a way that you can be proud of. And
that's the decision that Ja Cole made by dropping out
of this and apologizing. He knew that he didn't want
to invite negativity into his life. He knew that wasting
(50:55):
more time on this would be, you know, a disgrace
of of all that he's built and the legacy he
wants to leave behind and what he wants to do
in his life. And he bowed out publicly, and he's
gonna take the ridicule, but his life is gonna be
better and more peaceful for it.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And then, man, women out here just crushing it.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Kaitlin Clark really leading this charge with the NCAA Championship
TV ratings out pacing the men. Just absolutely amazing stuff.
Honorable mentioned shout out to Cody Rhodes finishing the story. Again,
I'm not a wrestling fan, but fuck, I just love
when the underdog wins. That's it. That's where I'm at.
And with that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in. Man,
we dropped some new Just Be merch. I'm really proud
(51:35):
of this Just Be That NYC. That's my wellness brand
and it's really cool. It's not like you know, logo
type of thing. It's literally like a positive message I'm
trying to instill it into people is be you. So
we have some beautiful embroidered sweatshirts, we have some cool hats.
I'm actually if you're watching the video version with these
beautiful broidered hats, it's say be on them, right, so
just be just be you at the end of the day,
(51:56):
I'm proud of them.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
They come in a bunch of colors perfect for spring.
And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Just That NYC. If you want to check those outs.
With that said, I'll catch you on Tuesday with a
brand new episode. Until then, stay safe, we'll talk soon.
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