October 9, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Motherfucking mini episode, mini episode, motherfucking mini e a sel.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
There it is there, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep
into the pockets of black conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And we finally worked to prove the theories that you
motherfuckers have at home. It's a motherfucking mini episode. Uh,
we have an email. We got an email from a
person named Alex. Alex sent us a very long, very
hefty email.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I skimmed it, you skimmed it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But the subject line reads USA Army using video games
to recruit black youth question mark exclamation point. So a
very a very damn I mean, if true subject line
right from the start, right, and Alex says, greeting the
most hanced to the most handsome and talented guys to
(01:09):
ever hosts a podcast, Thank you, and they go on
to say I needed to draw your attention to something
that piqued my interest when I encountered video game ads
that included digital avatars of very famous rappers holding some
big ass guns. Turns out that right now you can
fire up Call of Duty and become the three D
(01:29):
embodiment of Snoop Doggie, dog Nicki minaj or twenty one Savage,
down to their voices and everything. I think these goddamn
video game makers are in cahoots with the US Army.
They're using the likeness of popular black rappers to convince
kids that it is cool and fun to be a
part of the armed forces. The entertainment industry has definitely
been glamorizing the military industrial complex for a long time,
(01:51):
but these recent developments have shown me that the man
is really giving his all to yasify Western Imperial list.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
First of all, Yosir Leicester has nothing to do with this.
He's a good it's a good man. So I don't understand.
You seen these comm I under see, It's just like
it's like two chains playing Call of Duty.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I guess what he's saying is that, uh that it's
not about just the commercial. He's saying that in the
game itself, you have the option to play as Snoop
Dogg with all the weaponry that a military person would have.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, but they don't give you the option to be
Garth Brooks. There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, as you say, Taylor Swift, Yeah no, that's that's
not an option, it's it's uh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Ah, I like where your heads? I mean, what do
you think? What do you go first? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So to the question of whether or not I believe
that this is meant to be recruitment, I do. I
do think that, Like there's a there's a fair amount
of evidence in every facet of our society that military
and certainly like the US government supports military propaganda, that
they're trying to constantly get poor people and young people
(03:15):
and whoever they can't aim for to sign up for
this shit, and that's underwritten and everything we do. The
fact that we stand for the national anthem during fucking
basketball games and shit is crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Did you ever not stand?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So I grew up in a house where we didn't stand. Ah,
military bro, and it it gets real wild.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I bet it goes fucked up. I bet it goes.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Crazy because my dad he meant that shit, and we
would go to basketball games and it just be me
and that white man sitting.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Next to me. I everybody even wonders what you guys
are doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And they're already confused about what's happening here, Like that
white man and his foster child are not standing for
the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's good on your dad, though, you know, I like
that that he stuffed his guns like that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He's here and he never will. He's not gonna stand
for this ship. He's not gonna play around in it,
none of that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I love that I met your dad. Nice guy.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I love him, but but yeah, it gets fucking embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's hard though, That's a hard stance. That's like, that's
how you know he was with the ship.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, it was really no, He's like, I'm not playing
y'all game. I'm not gonna stand for this ship. We
had to and then I would, you know. It was
like how I sort of grew to understand the thing,
and so I would do it at school and I
had multiple teachers like pull me aside and be like,
you know, try to tell me how I'm I'm better
than this, I'm smarter than this, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Like which that's where it gets scary though, because that
is ind.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But that's what I'm saying. I think they they all,
we all get raised to believe that shit that somehow
we are besmirching the honor of this country by not
like you know what I mean, serving at it. It's
fucking flapping flappity flaps.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't call the flag pussy. They look at you
got them love it. I mean I never I always stood,
but I remember, and because you know, yeah, we were
both in high school during nine to eleven. I remember,
like right after when all the bush it was popping,
a bunch of the like I don't know if they
were gothapunks. I couldn't tell. I was too busy playing football.
(05:38):
A bunch of kids wearing black didn't stand up, and
I remember because I didn't give a shit, but I
remember being surprised how mad some other kids at school
got at them, Like there was this girl who was
like damn here crying like screaming at them, like during
the national anthem. I remember whoa Yeah, yeah, she still
dms me sometimes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
She's like, do you remember when those devils didn't stand by?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah? It was like but it was like because I
remember being in high school like thinking like I didn't
know everybody believed in stuff. I thought everybody felt like
the same way I did.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It, Like yeah, I'm I that's I think in part
why I felt comfortable not standing it originally was like
I just presumed none of us really gave a shit,
but we were just sort of acting in tradition. And
then come to find out a bunch of people I
knew really gave a shit and it felt so crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, Like yeah, that's how I I was like, Wait.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What like nine to eleven was sad because people died,
not because I, like I a the besmirching of our
honorable you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Like I never even thought about it from that angle.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
No, And instead there's a lot of people who I
thought were just saying this for political when it relation not,
you know what I mean. Like I always presumed that
the Republicans were just manipulating us with those stances. But
then it became like people who fervently like yelled at
me and wanted to like have real important conversations with me.
(07:16):
It's like, oh, this is oh y'all are nuts, all right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right? Oh? Okay. I think it's also though, but to
be fair, my mom's not from here and your dad
is a gangster about his Maybe we were maybe we
were not even raised to like we were never gonna
be those people, you know what I mean, Like we
we already were gonna be dissillusioned by you know, what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, No, I never had a chance to believe in
this country in a way that maybe wouldn't you know
what I mean? My mom My mom was black and
also like fucking around with like socialist ideas, although not
like nearly as practicing as my father was. And it's
like my dad's you know, he believes in this more
than anybody I've ever met. What am I gonna do
(08:01):
become a fucking sergeant?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That would be Do you think there was any situation
where you ever would have turned and done that? Like,
were you gonna have gone to the army or been
like a police officer or something.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I think that would have been my father's greatest disappointment.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't think that he's that type of dude who
like actively like you know, even in the way that
he frames his thinking about us is not like my
son shamed me, My kid's embarrassed, you know what I mean.
Like I think he just sort of is like, no,
this is what my kids are, it is what it is.
I'm I'm at peace to approach at least. But I
(08:38):
do think if I joined the military, he would have
actively felt shame and probably expressed it every chance he got.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Damn letting your father down and serve your country. Yeah,
that's backwards.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And that, you know what, not enough twenty twenty specials
about that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Nobody ever talks about it for real. Yeah, never comes up,
never comes up.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, he joined the military, and we fucking hate it.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah. I don't think my parents would have been They
would have got it less than they got stand up comedy,
which was not much. You know what I mean, I
gotta what are you talking about? Okay, hey, big man
with the gun. Yeah, don't tell about don't tell them
(09:26):
about our taxes. I'm just kidd My whole family pays taxes.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Uncle Sam, you know, Uncle Sam's always listening.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's not not listening. That's fair. Come on, you're a communist,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I guess I do believe in it. Alex goes on
to say, I've done a bit of light research. I'll
leave the heavy lifting to the experts. That's a bad
idea because we can't research this.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Research.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You're doing it. And there seems to be a pretty
concentrated effort for US Army recruiters to target gamers, especially
to become drone operators who will use their gaming skills
to bomb pour black and brown people on the other
side of the world. Now, granted that the image of
pink haired Nicki Minaj wielding an AK forty seven implanting
(10:26):
explosives on a helicopter is hilarious, I can't help feeling
that having these black icons portrayed in this way is
great for the army, but ultimately detrimental for the black community. Also,
their selection of rappers feels like some old white guys
had an executive meeting and they said, we need a
rapper for the older crowd Snoop Dogg one for the
ladies in LGBTQ crowd, Nicki Minaj one for the gen
(10:48):
Z kids, twenty one Savage, and now they have assembled
the perfect digitized hip hop posse to get the kids
on their way to becoming real life soldiers.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, I wish I had like a good counterpoint,
but I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's It feels fairly pretty obvious
obvious that this this is like a very intentional sort
of like recruitment strategy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
At the very least, it is meant.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
To soften your discomfort with the idea of militarized violence.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What I get annoyed with it. Within this whole thing
is like how easy rappers give it up? Bro? You
ever noticed you everyone? I watched a lot of documentaries
about scams and shit like that. It's always it's always
Rick Ross, and he was like, we knew it was
a scam then so and so through a party and
Rick Ross was there, so we thought it. Here's my
(11:46):
other issue.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And I think that for years, rappers sort of got
away with like these weird, fucked up endorsements under the
premise of like they are of the streets, they are surviving,
they are making it out of the the sort of
like bad ship that they grew up in. Snoop Dogg
has been famous for seventy nine years.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Longer than he he he.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He's been rich, he has been famous, he has been
educated in every facet of this industry. Nigga, you know
you're not supposed to sell your likeness to the fucking military.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Come on, that's what came that, bro, You just do it.
You just wanted to do that, So come on, man,
Yeah rappers, Ronald Reagan of musicians.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, no, y'all all, I'll pop that pussy for any
motherfucking that gott a dollar time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It's every time they make a scam and rappers, that's
why you can't listen to it, Like like DJ Vy,
of course I wouldn't listen to DJ What the fuck
are you talking about? Why would I listen to D
to Envy about the besting in real estate? What are
you talking about? You know?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What's so funny is that I just this morning was
watching a supercut of people going onto the Breakfast club
and calling him a scam artist. And there's a bunch
of people being like, Nigga, you selling houses but you
don't know nothing about houses.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He's like, nah, but I'm trying to educate my communion.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They're like, yeah, but you're taking the money right, like these.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Are your houses? Say you're ranked.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's like every It's just a massive, massive list of
people being like, Nigga, what are you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't believe famous people when
they say the word's real estate, that's fair. I tune
out immediately. Yeah, I'm like, no, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
In that supercut, there was a video where Envy it
says that when he first got in touch with this
Caesar dude to potentially sell these uh, these houses and shit.
The first three people he called were DJ Clue, Fabulous,
Oh Joe, and Joe Button and he said Joe, Butden
said you're going to jail and he said Fabulous said
(14:09):
huh what, I'll call you back, and then DJ Clues
said it's not for me, and the fact that he
didn't hear that and go, damn, maybe maybe I got
to chill.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Have you seen the clip where he's like, yeah, he'sar
went to prison. That's where he learned about real estate.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, you're right, okay, Like, yeah, no, that's not where
you learn about real estate.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You don't own anything? No, you what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
This is the one time where you literally don't own anything?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah I don't. Yeah, that shit was like I don't
think I would have fallen for that. I like, I
get scammed on low levels because I like it, But like,
I'm not just giving my millions to some dude.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Do you maybe this is a fair line of questioning.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It probably doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Do you believe DJ Envy when he says he didn't
know that this was happening?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, yeah, I mean no, I think he was. You
were making too much of it off of it to
not understand the inner working. If he was getting paid
little two thousand and five thousand dollars here there, if
you're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know where
and how that money comes in. It's just too much
(15:32):
money to not you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, his cut was too big for his knowledge to
be that that small.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was. Yeah, it's just
is not I think. I think I don't.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I don't think. Maybe he did a lot of the
dirty work, right, Like I think that he probably was
just a consenting party to whatever, like the however the
money was made. But I don't buy that he truly.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Was, like.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He's arrested. No, we weren't lightning our community, but we
were business partners. But hey, you know, good all of you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You worked for a while, and I worked for a while,
and and you know, the breakfast club had its run.
Maybe maybe Charlemagne will call you collect every once in
a while and you'll kind of collect.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And I think that's what's gonna happen. Yeah, I don't
have a correct call from Blank County Correction Facility.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
J V and Angela, Ye, Charlemagney, God, we are at
the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I always never understood how the how you got that job.
He made sense, and Charlemagne made sense. I never understood
how DJ. Do you think you made sense? Yeah, because
she was on. I had known of her before the
Breakfast Club, and I knew about Charlotte and the God
because of Wendy Williams. And then he was just like
always online saying wild shit. I had never heard a
(17:14):
Envy before that, though.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I think for me, both Angela Yee and DJ Envy
felt like the choice the radio station planned for, and
then Charlemagne just ended up being what made them.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He was the Breakfast Club. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I think the other two are real useless dumb dumbs
that offer very little to anything. And I think that
had he not been this provocateur and fucking antagonist with
the Breakfast Club, would have just died off.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And that's that, Yeah, I think. So it wouldn't have
been it wouldn't have had anything.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And there's never been a single clip featuring just DJ
Andvy or just Yee that was that isn't them getting
cussed out by another person, right right, That's the only
time that it ever goes popping is if they're either
trying to cust somebody out or getting cussed out by
somebody else that people give a fuck about.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That. That's true, that's true. Well, what do you think
I think we've done it? I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No, I think I think, Alex, it feels fairly obvious. Obviously,
Drone technology is becoming more and more rooted in what
the military sort of like focus is. And a person
that is good with the video games and are so
comfortable with blood splatter from you know, some uh, some
(18:43):
fucking foreign civilian is probably a perfect recruit for the military.
So yes, that makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, the only issue is these nerds are going to
make it through basic training. I don't think I.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Don't even know that they're going to give a fuck
about basic training at that point. Yeah, I think we're
moving into a way a world where like basic training
doesn't matter the same way it used to, you know
what I mean? Yeah, Like they're probably gonna like have
sections of the shit where it's just like, all right, yeah,
he didn't run, he didn't run his mile in under
six minutes or whatever the fuck it is, but we're good,
(19:17):
he can he can come all right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, I'm with that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, they're gonna figure it out. Well, shit, that's that, Alex.
I hope this was satiating for you. I hope hope
all of it felt good.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You want to tell the people where they can find
you and what cool shit you have going on?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
A cool guy joke Citty seven on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Fuck yeah, And as always, you can follow me at
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Speaker 2 (20:05):
They make me feel good. Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And occasionally they're mean spirited and and that's also funny.
I laugh at those, maybe much more than the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, it is is because sometimes hurting it you know
you're alive.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, oh I still matter, Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah all right, I just like to feel But yeah,
that's that's the whole thing. Bye, bitch. Look at your
nighbor said he's on meat stretch of he'll stretch on me.
Hallay Lujah, Hallelulia Church.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Man, Mother fucking Mini Your Soul MANI episode, Mother fucking
Mini episod, motherfucking Mini Your Soul Many episode while the
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
There it is there, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep
into the pockets of black conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And we finally worked to prove the theories that you
motherfuckers have at home. It's a motherfucking mini episode. Uh,
we have an email. We got an email from a
person named Alex. Alex sent us a very long, very
hefty email.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I skimmed it, you skimmed it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But the subject line reads USA Army using video games
to recruit black youth question mark exclamation point. So a
very a very damn I mean, if true subject line
right from the start, right, and Alex says, greeting the
most hanced to the most handsome and talented guys to
(01:09):
ever hosts a podcast, Thank you, and they go on
to say I needed to draw your attention to something
that piqued my interest when I encountered video game ads
that included digital avatars of very famous rappers holding some
big ass guns. Turns out that right now you can
fire up Call of Duty and become the three D
(01:29):
embodiment of Snoop Doggie, dog Nicki minaj or twenty one Savage,
down to their voices and everything. I think these goddamn
video game makers are in cahoots with the US Army.
They're using the likeness of popular black rappers to convince
kids that it is cool and fun to be a
part of the armed forces. The entertainment industry has definitely
been glamorizing the military industrial complex for a long time,
(01:51):
but these recent developments have shown me that the man
is really giving his all to yasify Western Imperial list.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
First of all, Yosir Leicester has nothing to do with this.
He's a good it's a good man. So I don't understand.
You seen these comm I under see, It's just like
it's like two chains playing Call of Duty.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I guess what he's saying is that, uh that it's
not about just the commercial. He's saying that in the
game itself, you have the option to play as Snoop
Dogg with all the weaponry that a military person would have.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, but they don't give you the option to be
Garth Brooks. There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, as you say, Taylor Swift, Yeah no, that's that's
not an option, it's it's uh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Ah, I like where your heads? I mean, what do
you think? What do you go first? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So to the question of whether or not I believe
that this is meant to be recruitment, I do. I
do think that, Like there's a there's a fair amount
of evidence in every facet of our society that military
and certainly like the US government supports military propaganda, that
they're trying to constantly get poor people and young people
(03:15):
and whoever they can't aim for to sign up for
this shit, and that's underwritten and everything we do. The
fact that we stand for the national anthem during fucking
basketball games and shit is crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Did you ever not stand?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So I grew up in a house where we didn't stand. Ah,
military bro, and it it gets real wild.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I bet it goes fucked up. I bet it goes.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Crazy because my dad he meant that shit, and we
would go to basketball games and it just be me
and that white man sitting.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Next to me. I everybody even wonders what you guys
are doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And they're already confused about what's happening here, Like that
white man and his foster child are not standing for
the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's good on your dad, though, you know, I like
that that he stuffed his guns like that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He's here and he never will. He's not gonna stand
for this ship. He's not gonna play around in it,
none of that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I love that I met your dad. Nice guy.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I love him, but but yeah, it gets fucking embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's hard though, That's a hard stance. That's like, that's
how you know he was with the ship.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, it was really no, He's like, I'm not playing
y'all game. I'm not gonna stand for this ship. We
had to and then I would, you know. It was
like how I sort of grew to understand the thing,
and so I would do it at school and I
had multiple teachers like pull me aside and be like,
you know, try to tell me how I'm I'm better
than this, I'm smarter than this, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Like which that's where it gets scary though, because that
is ind.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But that's what I'm saying. I think they they all,
we all get raised to believe that shit that somehow
we are besmirching the honor of this country by not
like you know what I mean, serving at it. It's
fucking flapping flappity flaps.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't call the flag pussy. They look at you
got them love it. I mean I never I always stood,
but I remember, and because you know, yeah, we were
both in high school during nine to eleven. I remember,
like right after when all the bush it was popping,
a bunch of the like I don't know if they
were gothapunks. I couldn't tell. I was too busy playing football.
(05:38):
A bunch of kids wearing black didn't stand up, and
I remember because I didn't give a shit, but I
remember being surprised how mad some other kids at school
got at them, Like there was this girl who was
like damn here crying like screaming at them, like during
the national anthem. I remember whoa Yeah, yeah, she still
dms me sometimes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
She's like, do you remember when those devils didn't stand by?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah? It was like but it was like because I
remember being in high school like thinking like I didn't
know everybody believed in stuff. I thought everybody felt like
the same way I did.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It, Like yeah, I'm I that's I think in part
why I felt comfortable not standing it originally was like
I just presumed none of us really gave a shit,
but we were just sort of acting in tradition. And
then come to find out a bunch of people I
knew really gave a shit and it felt so crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, Like yeah, that's how I I was like, Wait.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What like nine to eleven was sad because people died,
not because I, like I a the besmirching of our
honorable you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Like I never even thought about it from that angle.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
No, And instead there's a lot of people who I
thought were just saying this for political when it relation not,
you know what I mean. Like I always presumed that
the Republicans were just manipulating us with those stances. But
then it became like people who fervently like yelled at
me and wanted to like have real important conversations with me.
(07:16):
It's like, oh, this is oh y'all are nuts, all right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right? Oh? Okay. I think it's also though, but to
be fair, my mom's not from here and your dad
is a gangster about his Maybe we were maybe we
were not even raised to like we were never gonna
be those people, you know what I mean, Like we
we already were gonna be dissillusioned by you know, what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, No, I never had a chance to believe in
this country in a way that maybe wouldn't you know
what I mean? My mom My mom was black and
also like fucking around with like socialist ideas, although not
like nearly as practicing as my father was. And it's
like my dad's you know, he believes in this more
than anybody I've ever met. What am I gonna do
(08:01):
become a fucking sergeant?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That would be Do you think there was any situation
where you ever would have turned and done that? Like,
were you gonna have gone to the army or been
like a police officer or something.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I think that would have been my father's greatest disappointment.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't think that he's that type of dude who
like actively like you know, even in the way that
he frames his thinking about us is not like my
son shamed me, My kid's embarrassed, you know what I mean.
Like I think he just sort of is like, no,
this is what my kids are, it is what it is.
I'm I'm at peace to approach at least. But I
(08:38):
do think if I joined the military, he would have
actively felt shame and probably expressed it every chance he got.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Damn letting your father down and serve your country. Yeah,
that's backwards.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And that, you know what, not enough twenty twenty specials
about that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Nobody ever talks about it for real. Yeah, never comes up,
never comes up.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, he joined the military, and we fucking hate it.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah. I don't think my parents would have been They
would have got it less than they got stand up comedy,
which was not much. You know what I mean, I
gotta what are you talking about? Okay, hey, big man
with the gun. Yeah, don't tell about don't tell them
(09:26):
about our taxes. I'm just kidd My whole family pays taxes.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Uncle Sam, you know, Uncle Sam's always listening.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's not not listening. That's fair. Come on, you're a communist,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I guess I do believe in it. Alex goes on
to say, I've done a bit of light research. I'll
leave the heavy lifting to the experts. That's a bad
idea because we can't research this.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Research.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You're doing it. And there seems to be a pretty
concentrated effort for US Army recruiters to target gamers, especially
to become drone operators who will use their gaming skills
to bomb pour black and brown people on the other
side of the world. Now, granted that the image of
pink haired Nicki Minaj wielding an AK forty seven implanting
(10:26):
explosives on a helicopter is hilarious, I can't help feeling
that having these black icons portrayed in this way is
great for the army, but ultimately detrimental for the black community. Also,
their selection of rappers feels like some old white guys
had an executive meeting and they said, we need a
rapper for the older crowd Snoop Dogg one for the
ladies in LGBTQ crowd, Nicki Minaj one for the gen
(10:48):
Z kids, twenty one Savage, and now they have assembled
the perfect digitized hip hop posse to get the kids
on their way to becoming real life soldiers.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, I wish I had like a good counterpoint,
but I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's It feels fairly pretty obvious
obvious that this this is like a very intentional sort
of like recruitment strategy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
At the very least, it is meant.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
To soften your discomfort with the idea of militarized violence.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What I get annoyed with it. Within this whole thing
is like how easy rappers give it up? Bro? You
ever noticed you everyone? I watched a lot of documentaries
about scams and shit like that. It's always it's always
Rick Ross, and he was like, we knew it was
a scam then so and so through a party and
Rick Ross was there, so we thought it. Here's my
(11:46):
other issue.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And I think that for years, rappers sort of got
away with like these weird, fucked up endorsements under the
premise of like they are of the streets, they are surviving,
they are making it out of the the sort of
like bad ship that they grew up in. Snoop Dogg
has been famous for seventy nine years.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Longer than he he he.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He's been rich, he has been famous, he has been
educated in every facet of this industry. Nigga, you know
you're not supposed to sell your likeness to the fucking military.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Come on, that's what came that, bro, You just do it.
You just wanted to do that, So come on, man,
Yeah rappers, Ronald Reagan of musicians.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, no, y'all all, I'll pop that pussy for any
motherfucking that gott a dollar time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It's every time they make a scam and rappers, that's
why you can't listen to it, Like like DJ Vy,
of course I wouldn't listen to DJ What the fuck
are you talking about? Why would I listen to D
to Envy about the besting in real estate? What are
you talking about? You know?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What's so funny is that I just this morning was
watching a supercut of people going onto the Breakfast club
and calling him a scam artist. And there's a bunch
of people being like, Nigga, you selling houses but you
don't know nothing about houses.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He's like, nah, but I'm trying to educate my communion.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They're like, yeah, but you're taking the money right, like these.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Are your houses? Say you're ranked.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's like every It's just a massive, massive list of
people being like, Nigga, what are you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't believe famous people when
they say the word's real estate, that's fair. I tune
out immediately. Yeah, I'm like, no, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
In that supercut, there was a video where Envy it
says that when he first got in touch with this
Caesar dude to potentially sell these uh, these houses and shit.
The first three people he called were DJ Clue, Fabulous,
Oh Joe, and Joe Button and he said Joe, Butden
said you're going to jail and he said Fabulous said
(14:09):
huh what, I'll call you back, and then DJ Clues
said it's not for me, and the fact that he
didn't hear that and go, damn, maybe maybe I got
to chill.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Have you seen the clip where he's like, yeah, he'sar
went to prison. That's where he learned about real estate.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, you're right, okay, Like, yeah, no, that's not where
you learn about real estate.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You don't own anything? No, you what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
This is the one time where you literally don't own anything?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah I don't. Yeah, that shit was like I don't
think I would have fallen for that. I like, I
get scammed on low levels because I like it, But like,
I'm not just giving my millions to some dude.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Do you maybe this is a fair line of questioning.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It probably doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Do you believe DJ Envy when he says he didn't
know that this was happening?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, yeah, I mean no, I think he was. You
were making too much of it off of it to
not understand the inner working. If he was getting paid
little two thousand and five thousand dollars here there, if
you're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know where
and how that money comes in. It's just too much
(15:32):
money to not you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, his cut was too big for his knowledge to
be that that small.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was. Yeah, it's just
is not I think. I think I don't.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I don't think. Maybe he did a lot of the
dirty work, right, Like I think that he probably was
just a consenting party to whatever, like the however the
money was made. But I don't buy that he truly.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Was, like.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He's arrested. No, we weren't lightning our community, but we
were business partners. But hey, you know, good all of you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You worked for a while, and I worked for a while,
and and you know, the breakfast club had its run.
Maybe maybe Charlemagne will call you collect every once in
a while and you'll kind of collect.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And I think that's what's gonna happen. Yeah, I don't
have a correct call from Blank County Correction Facility.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
J V and Angela, Ye, Charlemagney, God, we are at
the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I always never understood how the how you got that job.
He made sense, and Charlemagne made sense. I never understood
how DJ. Do you think you made sense? Yeah, because
she was on. I had known of her before the
Breakfast Club, and I knew about Charlotte and the God
because of Wendy Williams. And then he was just like
always online saying wild shit. I had never heard a
(17:14):
Envy before that, though.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I think for me, both Angela Yee and DJ Envy
felt like the choice the radio station planned for, and
then Charlemagne just ended up being what made them.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He was the Breakfast Club. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I think the other two are real useless dumb dumbs
that offer very little to anything. And I think that
had he not been this provocateur and fucking antagonist with
the Breakfast Club, would have just died off.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And that's that, Yeah, I think. So it wouldn't have
been it wouldn't have had anything.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And there's never been a single clip featuring just DJ
Andvy or just Yee that was that isn't them getting
cussed out by another person, right right, That's the only
time that it ever goes popping is if they're either
trying to cust somebody out or getting cussed out by
somebody else that people give a fuck about.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That. That's true, that's true. Well, what do you think
I think we've done it? I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No, I think I think, Alex, it feels fairly obvious. Obviously,
Drone technology is becoming more and more rooted in what
the military sort of like focus is. And a person
that is good with the video games and are so
comfortable with blood splatter from you know, some uh, some
(18:43):
fucking foreign civilian is probably a perfect recruit for the military.
So yes, that makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, the only issue is these nerds are going to
make it through basic training. I don't think I.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Don't even know that they're going to give a fuck
about basic training at that point. Yeah, I think we're
moving into a way a world where like basic training
doesn't matter the same way it used to, you know
what I mean? Yeah, Like they're probably gonna like have
sections of the shit where it's just like, all right, yeah,
he didn't run, he didn't run his mile in under
six minutes or whatever the fuck it is, but we're good,
(19:17):
he can he can come all right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, I'm with that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, they're gonna figure it out. Well, shit, that's that, Alex.
I hope this was satiating for you. I hope hope
all of it felt good.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You want to tell the people where they can find
you and what cool shit you have going on?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
A cool guy joke Citty seven on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Fuck yeah, And as always, you can follow me at
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Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, we gotta like.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Leave your comments on the Apple subscriptions. We read those
and we laugh heartily. Uh those are always fun.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
They make me feel good. Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And occasionally they're mean spirited and and that's also funny.
I laugh at those, maybe much more than the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, it is is because sometimes hurting it you know
you're alive.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, oh I still matter, Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah all right, I just like to feel But yeah,
that's that's the whole thing. Bye, bitch. Look at your
nighbor said he's on meat stretch of he'll stretch on me.
Hallay Lujah, Hallelulia Church.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Man, Mother fucking Mini Your Soul MANI episode, Mother fucking
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