July 14, 2025 • 32 mins
🎙️ Welcome to the Culture Collective ThoughtCast — Pilot Episode!
Hosted by JuniorTheTruth™ | Powered by The Simple Truth Network™ In this groundbreaking pilot episode, we officially launch The Culture Collective ThoughtCast — a dynamic space where self-mastery, stoic philosophy, and unapologetic cultural commentary merge into an ongoing conversation. 🧠 What does it mean to “Think Out Loud”?
📚 How do we reclaim discipline, purpose, and authenticity in modern culture?
🎯 Why is self-mastery the new form of resistance and empowerment? JuniorTheTruth™ — The Culture and Self-Mastery Provocateur — sets the tone, lays the foundation, and invites listeners to challenge narratives, examine values, and engage in a deeper conversation about what it truly means to thrive in today’s world as a Black man or woman in America. Whether you’re 35 or 65, if you’re ready to lead yourself first and reshape the culture from the inside out — this is your ThoughtCast. 🔥 Subscribe, Like, and Share
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🌍 Join the conversation at www.TheSimpleTruth.network #TheCultureCollective #JuniorTheTruth #SelfMastery #BlackCulturePodcast #StoicPhilosophy #TheSimpleTruthNetwork
Hosted by JuniorTheTruth™ | Powered by The Simple Truth Network™ In this groundbreaking pilot episode, we officially launch The Culture Collective ThoughtCast — a dynamic space where self-mastery, stoic philosophy, and unapologetic cultural commentary merge into an ongoing conversation. 🧠 What does it mean to “Think Out Loud”?
📚 How do we reclaim discipline, purpose, and authenticity in modern culture?
🎯 Why is self-mastery the new form of resistance and empowerment? JuniorTheTruth™ — The Culture and Self-Mastery Provocateur — sets the tone, lays the foundation, and invites listeners to challenge narratives, examine values, and engage in a deeper conversation about what it truly means to thrive in today’s world as a Black man or woman in America. Whether you’re 35 or 65, if you’re ready to lead yourself first and reshape the culture from the inside out — this is your ThoughtCast. 🔥 Subscribe, Like, and Share
💬 Comment below and let us know what topics you want covered next.
🌍 Join the conversation at www.TheSimpleTruth.network #TheCultureCollective #JuniorTheTruth #SelfMastery #BlackCulturePodcast #StoicPhilosophy #TheSimpleTruthNetwork
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Man, I'm just not sure really.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How to get into this and and really how to
get it goomed Man, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I guess we'll just fade in here and then then
we'll just get started.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Salute to the family.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man. Thank you all so much for taking the time
to be here. Man, thank you, and I want to
officially welcome you to the pilot episode of the Culture
Collective Thoughtcast, Man or the cast for sure. I am
indeed your host, Junior, the truth, your culture and self
mastery provocateur extraordinary if.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You ask me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And this is where the culture comes to think, y'all.
Loud Man, thank you all so much for taking the
time to tune in. I really, true, genuinely appreciate you.
If I had a million tongues, I couldn't tell it all.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But this platform, man was was was really truly built
out of necessity and a need for us to reclaim thought,
to challenge narratives, and to push into our individual and
collective purposes, if you will. We live in a in
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a culture that promotes consumption over consciousness and trends over
the absolute truth. And it's it's it's noise over nuance.
But here at the Cast. Man, we are here to
absolutely shift the paradigm.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I am so glad that you're here, so glad
that you're you found your way here to us.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thank you all so much. And I'm I'm I'm not
gonna lie to you. Man, I'm I'm I've been accused
of being country and and I just appreciate stuff, Man.
I appreciate things. I appreciate support, I appreciate positive energy. Man,
I appreciate I appreciate contribution, I appreciate interaction. And I know,
(02:14):
in this world where there's a constant pull on your attention,
it is so very powerful and so moving to me
and so humbling to me that you would take the
time to tune in and spend just a few moments
with us here man at the cast.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So thank you so much. Man, really truly genuinely appreciate it.
And I just really wanted to try to get in here,
man and just officially introduce this thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So, so, what is the culture collective thought cast and
what is it really about?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So? What it is? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It is it's almost like, if you're familiar with think tanks,
the old school model of the think tanks. It is
just a think tank symposium in motion. It is an
inclusive conversation space, but it really is targeted for the air.
(03:13):
Quote Black American men and women, particularly ages about thirty
five to sixty five. That's the demographic for all intents
and purposes. When you hear me say the culture, that
is the specific demographic that I'm talking about. Now, don't
get me wrong. You know, other people are going to
consume this content. Other people are going to be around,
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other people are going to feel inclined to contribute their
thought to the conversation, and that's cool. Thus this being
an inclusive conversational space. But just so that we're clear,
and I make no bones about it, this space is
indeed intended for the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If you will.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is it is kind of set up and going
to be ran kind of like a cultural mirror or
a mind jim, if you will, we are going to
literally get in here and go down through it in
each and every episode.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So I'm telling you, I am in this space, and
the space that I've gotten into is I'm just out
of I don't want to use the word. I won't
say crossroads, but I'm at a very volatile place in
my life with regard to modern culture and how it
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has impacted the identity, the mental health, the progress of
the culture. You know what I'm saying, Like I am
literally in this space where just modern society, all of
the happens, happenings, the current events, things that are going
on in modern times, just how it impacts the identity,
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mental health, and and our progress as a collective and
the concept of the culture collective as a it is
a community of people who are devoted to thought leadership,
to growth, to legacy, to self mastery, and to us
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really pushing the envelope and moving the needle as to
how can we positively impact the social and economic progress of.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The culture and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Our descendants and our kids and our kids kids and
so on and so forth. Like this is these are
for real grown men and grown women bars, And this
is what you're gonna be faced with here man at
the at the cast Man, we're here to to We're
not here to trend, man, We're here to transform. That's
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just the best way I can explain it. Man, We're
not here to trend. We're here to transform. And whatever
it is, whatever comes with that, Man's gonna be what
it's gonna be. So I want to talk about the
engine behind the vehicle right now. So for me personally
and anybody that's been following my content all throughout all
of the different spaces, whether it's the YouTube channel or
(06:25):
the live streams, or the Black Gentleman podcast or even
the Punch Junkie podcast, however you follow me or however
you found me. Right those of you all who follow
the content, you know, I've been on this very strong
push for self mastery and its relevance today. I feel
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like it is one of the most pinnacle pieces that
is going to allow a person to successfully pursue their
purpose this side of the realm. And so I've really
been pushing this health mastery really, really really, and I
really have dedicated my platforms to the pursuit and the
promotion of self mastery also various components of stoicism and wisdom, principles, discipline, purpose,
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self awareness, and intentionality. And for me, I think it's
just also a great opportunity for me to share using
my social media platforms to share my personal antidotes as
it relates to navigating fatherhood, business, how to really promote
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positively black masculinity here in modern America, and we all
know what that means, Like we can stop playing like
we don't know what that means. And I'm here to
literally positively promote black masculinity and all of its splendor
in modern America, just like I do every day in
my life, right and I'm dedicating my platforms to that.
(08:06):
And it's not always popular, it's not always easy, but
it is very much necessary. Self mastery is just the
art of no longer being a slave to your impulses
and external influences. It's the muscle that moves you from
who you are to who you want to be and
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meant to be. Who you are, want who you want
and meant.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Let me slow down.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Self mastery is the art of no longer being a
slave to your impulses. It's the muscle that moves you
from who you are to who you're meant to be
and who you want to be. So all right, let
me let me give y'all, let me get you, let
me get get your engagement plug. I need you all
(08:59):
to hear the comments section and tell me what self
mastery means to you in twenty twenty five. And that's
no matter where you're getting this content, if it's over
on YouTube, if it's any of the podcast platforms, please
let me know what do self mastery mean to you
in twenty and twenty five, And also be sure to
hit the heart or the like or whatever it is
(09:21):
to approve to show that you're really truly inapproval thus far.
All right, man, So the cast, and when I say
the cast, I'm literally talking about the culture collective thought cast. Man, here,
why is this necessary? First of all, it's necessary because
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the culture is not a monolith, even though media treats
are like one. Even though people everybody treats it like one.
They believe that the culture is a monolith. It's just
one band, one sound, and it couldn't and that could
not be further from the truth. That's one of the
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major things that we're going to be here challenging is
showing that, man, you have just a myriad of thoughts
and personal practices and personal beliefs, and a lot of
times you'll have all of these varying components, but it's
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all in the pursuit of the same outcomes, and it's
really your beautiful thing. But I feel like spaces for
critical thinking and collective growth are very rare. If you
understand all of the spaces that are taking all of
the spaces that are very popular with regard to our culture,
everything is so divisive, there's always there's just an argument.
(10:49):
You have the Democrats versus the Republicans, now you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You have the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Liberal voices of the culture versus the conservative voices of
the culture. You have the women, the feminist voices of
the culture versus the traditional voices of the culture. You
have the female or the women voices of the culture
versus the men's voices of the culture. You know, you
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have people who have so many conflicts over roman so
many conflicts over households, so many conflicts over parenting, so
many conflicts over education. Everything is just so very devices
and it's all and a lot of it is divisive
based off what people have allowed themselves to be told
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what to think. But spaces for critical thinking and collective
growth are rare. So critical thinking for me as a thinker,
and the way that I am and the way that
I operate is I am so open to different points
of view, different perspective, different thoughts, different philosophy, because I
feel like you can bring your conversation. I mean, you
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can bring your thoughts to the conversation, and then I
bring my thoughts to the conversation and we have an
exchange of ideas. And in that exchange of ideas is
where that's where the magic happens, you feel me, and
that is where for me, I take those opportunities to
really push myself towards self mastery because I'm not gonna
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have all the answers. I believe what I believe, And
of course I have my coldes, and I have my
virtues and my principles, and I have absolute deal breakers,
you know what I mean, and things that I'm not
compromising on. But then there's a lot of things that
I've never thought about in different ways, and so I
love being exposed to new information and so on and
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so forth. So just having a space for critical thinking
and collective growth is just it's that's just rare. And
this is the opportunity that we have here with the cast. Also,
I'm not gonna hold you. I know y'all not gonna
be feeling this, but we need to have intergenerational dialogue,
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not just entertainment. We need to have intergenerational dialogue. We
have to figure out from my generation, we have to
figure out how to effectively communicate with others from the
other generations. We have to figure out how to communicate
from I'm a Gen X or so from Gen X.
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We have to figure out how to communicate to the
baby boomers, our parents. You understand what I'm saying. We
have to figure out how to communicate with the what
is it? The gen zs and the millennials and all
of these these different generations. We have to figure out
how to have intergenerational dialogue because we're aging, and we're
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aging quick as fine as I am one great rapidly,
you feel me, And man, I know you know, you
know the sisters in the ooh that song Pepper Junior,
Oh that song Pepper look good on you, June, Like,
I get that, But I do know that I am
aging rapidly, and intergenerational dialogue is has to be at
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the forefront of what it is that we're doing. You understand.
We have to figure out how to communicate these messages
and get on the same page.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But but.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So as far as the categories and how the episodes
will kind of flow, We're gonna have guests and conversations
with these guests, we're gonna have thought leaders, elders, doers, thinkers,
and people who you know, have a message that they
wanted to get out. They'll have the opportunity to get
in here. Also, we're gonna have deep dies, We're gonna
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have thoughts of wisdom, mental health, cultural shifts, slash history like,
we're gonna be addressing cultural shifts and our cultural history
as well as current events. And this last one, man,
is gonna be This is gonna be the crux of
what it is that we do, and this is going
to be the thing that it's going to make and
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or break your experience here. I'm here to check the culture.
I'm really truly here to check the culture. I'm here
to give honest breakdowns, my honest feedback with regard to
things that are going on, what has happened and why
it matters. You understand what I'm saying. I'm here to
talk about what's happening, what has happened, and why it matters,
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and how is it affecting us and impacting us in
twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm here for all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A lot of it's gonna be difficult to deal with
It's gonna be difficult to hear, you understand, but somebody
has to tell the truth, and not just tell the truth.
But we have to begin to work toward resolutions. We
gotta figure this out, we gotta feel get this out
all right.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is this is one that you know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I have to address this and I have to address
this within myself. Every man and every woman needs a
code the men. It raised me. I was raised to
uh under the philosophy that a man has to have
a cold. You have to have a code of operations
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you uh. You have to have a set of values
and virtues and practices that guide and govern your entire life,
and that cold. You can't be compromised on that cold.
I have my my personal code, and I'm not going
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to share my personal code today, and my personal code
will come out in future episodes and over the totality
of the time that we spend together in the cast.
But I have a personal code, you know what I mean.
And also realizing that there's a difference between rules and
a code. You understand like rules are the rules. Rules
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theoretically are external rules. Laws those are external. Your code
is internal, You feel me like your code is internal.
You have a code or some people don't have a cold.
It's more than obvious with where we are with regard
to the culture. Some people have absolutely no code. There's
nothing that governs the things that come out of their mouth,
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their actions, activities, so on and so forth. But theoretically
those of us that have a code that is very
much internal, you understand. And another thing that you know
we have to address. And my true belief is just
the the cost of being value driven in a cloud
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driven world.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There's a huge price attached to that.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
They are and I say that, and I say that
in all honesty, and this is something that I deal
with in this space as a podcaster, as a cultural
and self mastery provocateur. Extraordinary if you ask me. But
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the world does not want you to be aware. The
world does not want you to embark on self mastery.
The world wants you to be very much distracted. The
world wants you to pursue clout. The world wants you
to worry about all of these things that are outside
of yourself. And so, as a person who promotes the
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concept of mastering yourself and plugging into your purpose, what
are you here for on this side of the realm.
I believe that my dedication to be value driven as
opposed to coming on the Internet or coming on these
different platforms and talking about Diddy and all of these
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other things that are going on and just sports in
general and Lebron James and you know, all of these distractions,
and that purely being a source of my content. Don't
get me wrong, We're gonna work that into what it
is that we do. But it's not about It's about
that information and being able to extract pieces of that
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information to provide value to your everyday life. It's not
about clout. I could give a damn about clout. I
could give a damn about and I say this all
the time. I could be give a damn about having
millions and millions of subscribers. I would much rather have
a thousand supporters. I don't want people just looking at me.
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I want people who are ready to pick up their
own pick up.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
There their their pick up, their baggage.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You feel me in their tools, and let's get on
this journey together and let's work. Let me ask all this,
let me give y'all another prompt to actually another comment
in the chat. What's one principle that you refuse to
compromise on. And this is for all my cold bearers.
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This is for the people who have a cold. What
is one principle that you absolutely refuse to compromise on.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So we said earlier that this is where the culture's
gonna be able to come and think out loud. What
does it mean to think out loud?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
To think out loud is to give a voice to
the thoughts that most of us keep tucked away in silence.
You know, y'all be thinking some stuff and y'all scared
to say it. You know, you think some things and
you are scared to say it. It's about thinking out loud.
It's about unpacking the unspoken, questioning the unquestioned, and holding
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a mirror up to the culture. Holding a mirror up
to the culture. It's about being truthful, and it's about
and and self. Man, it's about self mastery and real time.
That's what thinking out loud is about. It means that that, man,
we're not hiding behind perfect I'm not hiding behind being polished.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
If those of you all listening, you hear.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Me on here stuttering and thinking and giving you all
kind of ums I'm not editing none of it, none
of none of it out you see, I just stuttered again.
I'm not adjusting it and none of that. I'm finna
give it to you like it came to me. You
understand what I'm saying. So it's not about that. It's
not about polished answers, it's not about being mainstream, it's
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not about approved scripts. Instead, we're inviting truth, discomfort, wisdom, vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability, pain,
our experiences and we're going to invite all of that
to come in here and share the same space and
hopefully come out with something with things that are gonna
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propel us to be able to move the culture forward.
Here at the cast, man thinking out loud, like literally,
and for me personally, that is my resistance to shallow conversation.
I do not mess with shallow conversation. I don't mess
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with surface level convo I don't mess with small talk.
It's not that our thinking out loud is that is
our resistance to that. You're gonna have to resist small
talk if you're gonna be in here, and if you're
gonna be around me, you're gonna have to resist shallow conversation.
You're gonna have to come in here, and even if
you don't say a word, you're gonna have to listen,
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and you're gonna have to soak this up, and then
you have to think about it. You feel me and
then you should be inclined to apply this to your
personal life and information. When people come up here and
share information that you can use, when you feel inclined,
you should be connecting with them. You should be reaching
out to them. You should be you should be literally
leveraging this information to help you in the pursuit of
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your purpose, to help you in your life. That can
help you on your route to pursuing your purpose. But
it is thinking out loud, man, I'm telling you, it's
the resistance.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's our declaration that we.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Will engage deeply in here, not just with ideas, but
with who we are and who we're becoming. We're gonna
engage deeply. It's a conversation, but it's also a practice.
And ultimately, man, it's how you free yourself. I'll give
you that little nugget. Thinking alloud is how you free yourself.
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Really becoming comfortable with who you are and actually living
your truth is how you free yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Period.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You have a lot of people have absolutely no idea
what it is to operate in your authenticity and to
really truly be your authentic self. It's one of my
biggest flexes in the world. Is I am exactly who
I say I am. Twenty four seven, three sixty five.
I am who I am. Sitting here in my studio,
I am who I am. When I go upstairs to
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my office to edit. I am gonna be who I am.
When I take my daughter to volleyball practice or volleyball
camp in the morning, you feel me swim lessons in
the evening. I am exactly who I am when I
talk to my people all throughout the day tomorrow, when
you see me and Kroger, or if you pull up
on me at the fights in Georgia in a couple
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of weeks, you feel me like I am exactly who
I say I am. And that is just the ultimate
freedom of the ultimate freedom. So once again people are
asked a question like, well, why does internal conversations need
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to become external? Because if you keep it internal, then
it loses its power. You understand what I'm saying, You
give some of the things that we think right are
things that are transformatives you understand, so like you might,
I'm gonna give you an example of dealing with a youngin. Right,
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you might look at a youngin and you might think
something about a YOUNGI, and based on the way that
they're dressed, you understand what I'm saying, and.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You have the opportunity to share.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That information with that youngin, but you keep it internal,
and that information could very well be the information that
are young it needs to transform their life.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Internal conversations have to become external in our culture. You know,
the old folks will come up to you and say
any damn thing to you. They don't have their internal
conversations that It's like you hit a certain age. I
think that age is about sixty five, sixty two to
sixty five somewhere in there, and the old folks just
start saying, whatever come to their mind, whatever come to
their mind. Yeah, we need that, but we need to
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roll it back, and we need to be doing it
now because we have to have a shift. Yeah, we
have to have a shift. A shift. Somebody else might ask,
why how does vulnerability and reflection build legacy? If you're
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vulnerable to something, you think you're the only one and
when people come together and they work and they work
at overcoming a vulnerability, you understand now you can build
a legacy that you can share with somebody who is
sharing of vulnerability or who might actually come up behind
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you and might be dealing with the similar vulnerability. But
it is huge opportunities for us to build together. Yeah,
but any white man. Once again, the truth don't need
a script. The truth does not need a script. But
the truth needs a seat at the table. We have
to get to operating in the truth and that is
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something that we don't do. But welcome to the culture,
collective thoughtcast man. So as far as how we plan
on rolling the episodes out, I'm thinking right now is
going to be two to three episodes weekly and it's
going to just kind of be more or less. My
vision is for this to be an ongoing conversation. It's
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going to be an ongoing conversation, and weekly we're gonna
pick up the conversation and continue going on with the
same variations of or variations of the same conversation. I
believe that the power is going to be in community involvement.
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The power is going to be in you all submitting
questions and information that you want to talk about. The
power is going to be in the shoutouts. The power
is going to be us and be in us collectively
working and connecting with one another.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This is also a good.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
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Be sure to come join us man, and you have
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Also those of you all who are looking to connect
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You have the ability to connect with me. I'm not
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So you have to come over to the Simple Truth
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The fact of the matter is, man, this is indeed
the Culture Collective Thought Cast, hosted by Yours truly Junior,
The Truth. This is the place where the culture comes
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to think out loud. This ain't a podcast for everybody, man,
That's just the truth. It's not for everybody. And the
chance is all right, if you're still listening right now,
this is for you, and this is the place. The
mere fact that you actually found me and you're still listening,
it's a good chance that this is for you. If
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you're trying to grow, if you're trying to lead, if
you're trying to live out your code in real life. Man,
welcome to the cast. Man, Man, you've been listening to
the Culture Collective Thought Cast, hosted about Yours Truly Junior,
The Truth. The inaugural pilot episode. Man, I am so
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excited about this. I can't wait to upload this. Hopefully
I can get it done by midnight, but we'll see
it'll be shortly after midnight. But this is where the
culture comes to think out loud and growth is always
on the table. Man, thank you all so much. I'll
be sure if you haven't done so, subscribe to the
Junior the Truth YouTube channel. You can subscribe to us
on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Man, we everywhere. Also be sure
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Speaker 1 (31:14):
It is our very own super information exchange. Man. Were there?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Man, use the hashtag the Cast twenty twenty five Man,
and stay up and stay tapped in. Man, I just
really want to thank you all once again for taking
the time in tuning in and really truly genuinely appreciate
you all. If I had a million tons, I couldn't
tell it all. And this is Junior the Truth sanding off. Man,
I'm giving you your daily reminder to view your life
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like a pair of dice until your life looks like
a pair of life. Man. I'm ohio borne player made.
If you don't know anything else about me at the
end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby man.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Y'all be cool. The patent Chilly, patent unt
Man, I'm just not sure really.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How to get into this and and really how to
get it goomed Man, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I guess we'll just fade in here and then then
we'll just get started.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Salute to the family.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man. Thank you all so much for taking the time
to be here. Man, thank you, and I want to
officially welcome you to the pilot episode of the Culture
Collective Thoughtcast, Man or the cast for sure. I am
indeed your host, Junior, the truth, your culture and self
mastery provocateur extraordinary if.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You ask me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And this is where the culture comes to think, y'all.
Loud Man, thank you all so much for taking the
time to tune in. I really, true, genuinely appreciate you.
If I had a million tongues, I couldn't tell it all.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But this platform, man was was was really truly built
out of necessity and a need for us to reclaim thought,
to challenge narratives, and to push into our individual and
collective purposes, if you will. We live in a in
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a culture that promotes consumption over consciousness and trends over
the absolute truth. And it's it's it's noise over nuance.
But here at the Cast. Man, we are here to
absolutely shift the paradigm.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I am so glad that you're here, so glad
that you're you found your way here to us.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thank you all so much. And I'm I'm I'm not
gonna lie to you. Man, I'm I'm I've been accused
of being country and and I just appreciate stuff, Man.
I appreciate things. I appreciate support, I appreciate positive energy. Man,
I appreciate I appreciate contribution, I appreciate interaction. And I know,
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in this world where there's a constant pull on your attention,
it is so very powerful and so moving to me
and so humbling to me that you would take the
time to tune in and spend just a few moments
with us here man at the cast.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So thank you so much. Man, really truly genuinely appreciate it.
And I just really wanted to try to get in here,
man and just officially introduce this thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So, so, what is the culture collective thought cast and
what is it really about?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So? What it is? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It is it's almost like, if you're familiar with think tanks,
the old school model of the think tanks. It is
just a think tank symposium in motion. It is an
inclusive conversation space, but it really is targeted for the air.
(03:13):
Quote Black American men and women, particularly ages about thirty
five to sixty five. That's the demographic for all intents
and purposes. When you hear me say the culture, that
is the specific demographic that I'm talking about. Now, don't
get me wrong. You know, other people are going to
consume this content. Other people are going to be around,
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other people are going to feel inclined to contribute their
thought to the conversation, and that's cool. Thus this being
an inclusive conversational space. But just so that we're clear,
and I make no bones about it, this space is
indeed intended for the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If you will.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is it is kind of set up and going
to be ran kind of like a cultural mirror or
a mind jim, if you will, we are going to
literally get in here and go down through it in
each and every episode.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So I'm telling you, I am in this space, and
the space that I've gotten into is I'm just out
of I don't want to use the word. I won't
say crossroads, but I'm at a very volatile place in
my life with regard to modern culture and how it
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has impacted the identity, the mental health, the progress of
the culture. You know what I'm saying, Like I am
literally in this space where just modern society, all of
the happens, happenings, the current events, things that are going
on in modern times, just how it impacts the identity,
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mental health, and and our progress as a collective and
the concept of the culture collective as a it is
a community of people who are devoted to thought leadership,
to growth, to legacy, to self mastery, and to us
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really pushing the envelope and moving the needle as to
how can we positively impact the social and economic progress of.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The culture and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Our descendants and our kids and our kids kids and
so on and so forth. Like this is these are
for real grown men and grown women bars, And this
is what you're gonna be faced with here man at
the at the cast Man, we're here to to We're
not here to trend, man, We're here to transform. That's
(06:01):
just the best way I can explain it. Man, We're
not here to trend. We're here to transform. And whatever
it is, whatever comes with that, Man's gonna be what
it's gonna be. So I want to talk about the
engine behind the vehicle right now. So for me personally
and anybody that's been following my content all throughout all
of the different spaces, whether it's the YouTube channel or
(06:25):
the live streams, or the Black Gentleman podcast or even
the Punch Junkie podcast, however you follow me or however
you found me. Right those of you all who follow
the content, you know, I've been on this very strong
push for self mastery and its relevance today. I feel
(06:46):
like it is one of the most pinnacle pieces that
is going to allow a person to successfully pursue their
purpose this side of the realm. And so I've really
been pushing this health mastery really, really really, and I
really have dedicated my platforms to the pursuit and the
promotion of self mastery also various components of stoicism and wisdom, principles, discipline, purpose,
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self awareness, and intentionality. And for me, I think it's
just also a great opportunity for me to share using
my social media platforms to share my personal antidotes as
it relates to navigating fatherhood, business, how to really promote
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positively black masculinity here in modern America, and we all
know what that means, Like we can stop playing like
we don't know what that means. And I'm here to
literally positively promote black masculinity and all of its splendor
in modern America, just like I do every day in
my life, right and I'm dedicating my platforms to that.
(08:06):
And it's not always popular, it's not always easy, but
it is very much necessary. Self mastery is just the
art of no longer being a slave to your impulses
and external influences. It's the muscle that moves you from
who you are to who you want to be and
(08:29):
meant to be. Who you are, want who you want
and meant.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Let me slow down.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Self mastery is the art of no longer being a
slave to your impulses. It's the muscle that moves you
from who you are to who you're meant to be
and who you want to be. So all right, let
me let me give y'all, let me get you, let
me get get your engagement plug. I need you all
(08:59):
to hear the comments section and tell me what self
mastery means to you in twenty twenty five. And that's
no matter where you're getting this content, if it's over
on YouTube, if it's any of the podcast platforms, please
let me know what do self mastery mean to you
in twenty and twenty five, And also be sure to
hit the heart or the like or whatever it is
(09:21):
to approve to show that you're really truly inapproval thus far.
All right, man, So the cast, and when I say
the cast, I'm literally talking about the culture collective thought cast. Man, here,
why is this necessary? First of all, it's necessary because
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the culture is not a monolith, even though media treats
are like one. Even though people everybody treats it like one.
They believe that the culture is a monolith. It's just
one band, one sound, and it couldn't and that could
not be further from the truth. That's one of the
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major things that we're going to be here challenging is
showing that, man, you have just a myriad of thoughts
and personal practices and personal beliefs, and a lot of
times you'll have all of these varying components, but it's
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all in the pursuit of the same outcomes, and it's
really your beautiful thing. But I feel like spaces for
critical thinking and collective growth are very rare. If you
understand all of the spaces that are taking all of
the spaces that are very popular with regard to our culture,
everything is so divisive, there's always there's just an argument.
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You have the Democrats versus the Republicans, now you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You have the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Liberal voices of the culture versus the conservative voices of
the culture. You have the women, the feminist voices of
the culture versus the traditional voices of the culture. You
have the female or the women voices of the culture
versus the men's voices of the culture. You know, you
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have people who have so many conflicts over roman so
many conflicts over households, so many conflicts over parenting, so
many conflicts over education. Everything is just so very devices
and it's all and a lot of it is divisive
based off what people have allowed themselves to be told
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what to think. But spaces for critical thinking and collective
growth are rare. So critical thinking for me as a thinker,
and the way that I am and the way that
I operate is I am so open to different points
of view, different perspective, different thoughts, different philosophy, because I
feel like you can bring your conversation. I mean, you
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can bring your thoughts to the conversation, and then I
bring my thoughts to the conversation and we have an
exchange of ideas. And in that exchange of ideas is
where that's where the magic happens, you feel me, and
that is where for me, I take those opportunities to
really push myself towards self mastery because I'm not gonna
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have all the answers. I believe what I believe, And
of course I have my coldes, and I have my
virtues and my principles, and I have absolute deal breakers,
you know what I mean, and things that I'm not
compromising on. But then there's a lot of things that
I've never thought about in different ways, and so I
love being exposed to new information and so on and
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so forth. So just having a space for critical thinking
and collective growth is just it's that's just rare. And
this is the opportunity that we have here with the cast. Also,
I'm not gonna hold you. I know y'all not gonna
be feeling this, but we need to have intergenerational dialogue,
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not just entertainment. We need to have intergenerational dialogue. We
have to figure out from my generation, we have to
figure out how to effectively communicate with others from the
other generations. We have to figure out how to communicate
from I'm a Gen X or so from Gen X.
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We have to figure out how to communicate to the
baby boomers, our parents. You understand what I'm saying. We
have to figure out how to communicate with the what
is it? The gen zs and the millennials and all
of these these different generations. We have to figure out
how to have intergenerational dialogue because we're aging, and we're
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aging quick as fine as I am one great rapidly,
you feel me, And man, I know you know, you
know the sisters in the ooh that song Pepper Junior,
Oh that song Pepper look good on you, June, Like,
I get that, But I do know that I am
aging rapidly, and intergenerational dialogue is has to be at
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the forefront of what it is that we're doing. You understand.
We have to figure out how to communicate these messages
and get on the same page.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But but.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So as far as the categories and how the episodes
will kind of flow, We're gonna have guests and conversations
with these guests, we're gonna have thought leaders, elders, doers, thinkers,
and people who you know, have a message that they
wanted to get out. They'll have the opportunity to get
in here. Also, we're gonna have deep dies, We're gonna
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have thoughts of wisdom, mental health, cultural shifts, slash history like,
we're gonna be addressing cultural shifts and our cultural history
as well as current events. And this last one, man,
is gonna be This is gonna be the crux of
what it is that we do, and this is going
to be the thing that it's going to make and
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or break your experience here. I'm here to check the culture.
I'm really truly here to check the culture. I'm here
to give honest breakdowns, my honest feedback with regard to
things that are going on, what has happened and why
it matters. You understand what I'm saying. I'm here to
talk about what's happening, what has happened, and why it matters,
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and how is it affecting us and impacting us in
twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm here for all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A lot of it's gonna be difficult to deal with
It's gonna be difficult to hear, you understand, but somebody
has to tell the truth, and not just tell the truth.
But we have to begin to work toward resolutions. We
gotta figure this out, we gotta feel get this out
all right.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is this is one that you know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I have to address this and I have to address
this within myself. Every man and every woman needs a
code the men. It raised me. I was raised to
uh under the philosophy that a man has to have
a cold. You have to have a code of operations
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you uh. You have to have a set of values
and virtues and practices that guide and govern your entire life,
and that cold. You can't be compromised on that cold.
I have my my personal code, and I'm not going
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to share my personal code today, and my personal code
will come out in future episodes and over the totality
of the time that we spend together in the cast.
But I have a personal code, you know what I mean.
And also realizing that there's a difference between rules and
a code. You understand like rules are the rules. Rules
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theoretically are external rules. Laws those are external. Your code
is internal, You feel me like your code is internal.
You have a code or some people don't have a cold.
It's more than obvious with where we are with regard
to the culture. Some people have absolutely no code. There's
nothing that governs the things that come out of their mouth,
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their actions, activities, so on and so forth. But theoretically
those of us that have a code that is very
much internal, you understand. And another thing that you know
we have to address. And my true belief is just
the the cost of being value driven in a cloud
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driven world.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There's a huge price attached to that.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
They are and I say that, and I say that
in all honesty, and this is something that I deal
with in this space as a podcaster, as a cultural
and self mastery provocateur. Extraordinary if you ask me. But
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the world does not want you to be aware. The
world does not want you to embark on self mastery.
The world wants you to be very much distracted. The
world wants you to pursue clout. The world wants you
to worry about all of these things that are outside
of yourself. And so, as a person who promotes the
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concept of mastering yourself and plugging into your purpose, what
are you here for on this side of the realm.
I believe that my dedication to be value driven as
opposed to coming on the Internet or coming on these
different platforms and talking about Diddy and all of these
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other things that are going on and just sports in
general and Lebron James and you know, all of these distractions,
and that purely being a source of my content. Don't
get me wrong, We're gonna work that into what it
is that we do. But it's not about It's about
that information and being able to extract pieces of that
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information to provide value to your everyday life. It's not
about clout. I could give a damn about clout. I
could give a damn about and I say this all
the time. I could be give a damn about having
millions and millions of subscribers. I would much rather have
a thousand supporters. I don't want people just looking at me.
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I want people who are ready to pick up their
own pick up.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
There their their pick up, their baggage.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You feel me in their tools, and let's get on
this journey together and let's work. Let me ask all this,
let me give y'all another prompt to actually another comment
in the chat. What's one principle that you refuse to
compromise on. And this is for all my cold bearers.
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This is for the people who have a cold. What
is one principle that you absolutely refuse to compromise on.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So we said earlier that this is where the culture's
gonna be able to come and think out loud. What
does it mean to think out loud?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
To think out loud is to give a voice to
the thoughts that most of us keep tucked away in silence.
You know, y'all be thinking some stuff and y'all scared
to say it. You know, you think some things and
you are scared to say it. It's about thinking out loud.
It's about unpacking the unspoken, questioning the unquestioned, and holding
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a mirror up to the culture. Holding a mirror up
to the culture. It's about being truthful, and it's about
and and self. Man, it's about self mastery and real time.
That's what thinking out loud is about. It means that that, man,
we're not hiding behind perfect I'm not hiding behind being polished.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
If those of you all listening, you hear.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Me on here stuttering and thinking and giving you all
kind of ums I'm not editing none of it, none
of none of it out you see, I just stuttered again.
I'm not adjusting it and none of that. I'm finna
give it to you like it came to me. You
understand what I'm saying. So it's not about that. It's
not about polished answers, it's not about being mainstream, it's
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not about approved scripts. Instead, we're inviting truth, discomfort, wisdom, vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability, pain,
our experiences and we're going to invite all of that
to come in here and share the same space and
hopefully come out with something with things that are gonna
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propel us to be able to move the culture forward.
Here at the cast, man thinking out loud, like literally,
and for me personally, that is my resistance to shallow conversation.
I do not mess with shallow conversation. I don't mess
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with surface level convo I don't mess with small talk.
It's not that our thinking out loud is that is
our resistance to that. You're gonna have to resist small
talk if you're gonna be in here, and if you're
gonna be around me, you're gonna have to resist shallow conversation.
You're gonna have to come in here, and even if
you don't say a word, you're gonna have to listen,
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and you're gonna have to soak this up, and then
you have to think about it. You feel me and
then you should be inclined to apply this to your
personal life and information. When people come up here and
share information that you can use, when you feel inclined,
you should be connecting with them. You should be reaching
out to them. You should be you should be literally
leveraging this information to help you in the pursuit of
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your purpose, to help you in your life. That can
help you on your route to pursuing your purpose. But
it is thinking out loud, man, I'm telling you, it's
the resistance.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's our declaration that we.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Will engage deeply in here, not just with ideas, but
with who we are and who we're becoming. We're gonna
engage deeply. It's a conversation, but it's also a practice.
And ultimately, man, it's how you free yourself. I'll give
you that little nugget. Thinking alloud is how you free yourself.
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Really becoming comfortable with who you are and actually living
your truth is how you free yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Period.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You have a lot of people have absolutely no idea
what it is to operate in your authenticity and to
really truly be your authentic self. It's one of my
biggest flexes in the world. Is I am exactly who
I say I am. Twenty four seven, three sixty five.
I am who I am. Sitting here in my studio,
I am who I am. When I go upstairs to
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my office to edit. I am gonna be who I am.
When I take my daughter to volleyball practice or volleyball
camp in the morning, you feel me swim lessons in
the evening. I am exactly who I am when I
talk to my people all throughout the day tomorrow, when
you see me and Kroger, or if you pull up
on me at the fights in Georgia in a couple
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of weeks, you feel me like I am exactly who
I say I am. And that is just the ultimate
freedom of the ultimate freedom. So once again people are
asked a question like, well, why does internal conversations need
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to become external? Because if you keep it internal, then
it loses its power. You understand what I'm saying, You
give some of the things that we think right are
things that are transformatives you understand, so like you might,
I'm gonna give you an example of dealing with a youngin. Right,
(25:40):
you might look at a youngin and you might think
something about a YOUNGI, and based on the way that
they're dressed, you understand what I'm saying, and.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You have the opportunity to share.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That information with that youngin, but you keep it internal,
and that information could very well be the information that
are young it needs to transform their life.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Internal conversations have to become external in our culture. You know,
the old folks will come up to you and say
any damn thing to you. They don't have their internal
conversations that It's like you hit a certain age. I
think that age is about sixty five, sixty two to
sixty five somewhere in there, and the old folks just
start saying, whatever come to their mind, whatever come to
their mind. Yeah, we need that, but we need to
(26:29):
roll it back, and we need to be doing it
now because we have to have a shift. Yeah, we
have to have a shift. A shift. Somebody else might ask,
why how does vulnerability and reflection build legacy? If you're
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vulnerable to something, you think you're the only one and
when people come together and they work and they work
at overcoming a vulnerability, you understand now you can build
a legacy that you can share with somebody who is
sharing of vulnerability or who might actually come up behind
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you and might be dealing with the similar vulnerability. But
it is huge opportunities for us to build together. Yeah,
but any white man. Once again, the truth don't need
a script. The truth does not need a script. But
the truth needs a seat at the table. We have
to get to operating in the truth and that is
(27:32):
something that we don't do. But welcome to the culture,
collective thoughtcast man. So as far as how we plan
on rolling the episodes out, I'm thinking right now is
going to be two to three episodes weekly and it's
going to just kind of be more or less. My
vision is for this to be an ongoing conversation. It's
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going to be an ongoing conversation, and weekly we're gonna
pick up the conversation and continue going on with the
same variations of or variations of the same conversation. I
believe that the power is going to be in community involvement.
(28:16):
The power is going to be in you all submitting
questions and information that you want to talk about. The
power is going to be in the shoutouts. The power
is going to be us and be in us collectively
working and connecting with one another.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This is also a good.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
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Also those of you all who are looking to connect
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You have the ability to connect with me. I'm not
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The fact of the matter is, man, this is indeed
the Culture Collective Thought Cast, hosted by Yours truly Junior,
The Truth. This is the place where the culture comes
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to think out loud. This ain't a podcast for everybody, man,
That's just the truth. It's not for everybody. And the
chance is all right, if you're still listening right now,
this is for you, and this is the place. The
mere fact that you actually found me and you're still listening,
it's a good chance that this is for you. If
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you're trying to grow, if you're trying to lead, if
you're trying to live out your code in real life. Man,
welcome to the cast. Man, Man, you've been listening to
the Culture Collective Thought Cast, hosted about Yours Truly Junior,
The Truth. The inaugural pilot episode. Man, I am so
(30:46):
excited about this. I can't wait to upload this. Hopefully
I can get it done by midnight, but we'll see
it'll be shortly after midnight. But this is where the
culture comes to think out loud and growth is always
on the table. Man, thank you all so much. I'll
be sure if you haven't done so, subscribe to the
Junior the Truth YouTube channel. You can subscribe to us
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It is our very own super information exchange. Man. Were there?
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Man, use the hashtag the Cast twenty twenty five Man,
and stay up and stay tapped in. Man, I just
really want to thank you all once again for taking
the time in tuning in and really truly genuinely appreciate
you all. If I had a million tons, I couldn't
tell it all. And this is Junior the Truth sanding off. Man,
I'm giving you your daily reminder to view your life
(31:39):
like a pair of dice until your life looks like
a pair of life. Man. I'm ohio borne player made.
If you don't know anything else about me at the
end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby man.
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