Now And Later

Allow me to reintroduce myself or allow you to remind yourself.

Episode Transcript

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I spoke about the Israel Palestinian conflictwhen it first occurred months ago. I
made my opinion at the time clear, and I encourage all of you to
do as I was doing, toallow for those voices that are at the
heart of the conflict to rise andto speak to you, to be wary

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of people, especially American people,sorry media or otherwise be wary of them,
to allow influence upon you with theiragendas, and just to do some
research to attempt some understanding of thismulti generational conflict, multigenerational. And I

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think as a host of a showwith the platform like mine, I've modeled
that for you. I ain't runningmy mouth, I'm not sharing shit without
knowing the source I'm watching. I'mlistening, prioritizing those voices that I mentioned.
I'm donating, and I'm praying.We are advocates of peace over here

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and condemn violence and terrorism. Andthat's that, that's all. That's that.
But when something happens like it didat the beginning of this month,
killing seven people working on behalf ofthe world's Central Kitchen that are working to
bring food an aid to innocent peopleof Gaza that are being bombarded with violence

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and just unspeakable shit. Caught inthe middle of a war between those that
seem to think that human life isa fucking joke. Well that means that
I have to poke my head outagain and just say what it is,
and what it is or what itshould be is cease fire. Cease fire

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now, right now, because ifwe are wrongly killing the innocent people that
all sides have agreed are meant tohelp the other innocent people being wrongly annihilated,
shut it down, Shut it alldown. The bosway and the army

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is nice. I'm gonna keep itfly is on the line, kicking have
the lost so craverled. For thoseof you new to the show, First

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off, welcome, Welcome, Welcome. But second off, my name is
David Thomas. David Gerard Thomas,better known as DT but also known as
the one and only Big Broccolini.Shit, put your money in my motherfucker
poo's that boy's bad. Yeah,the one and only Big Broccolini, which

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is a nickname that seems to somehowbe forming, as nicknames often do,
into Big Blacollini. If you knowyou know type shit. Welcome. I'm
thirty three years old. From RogersPark, which is the northernmost tip of
a city called Chicago, where niggasenjoy a melting pot of cultures, but

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will call your food nasty until theytry it, and then they won't stop
asking you to bring them some.A place where niggas crack jokes on people
like their writing for deaf comedy jamor SNL or Second City Mad TV type
shit, and a place where niggaswill rob your narrow ass with a pocket

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full of money. Mind you thatthey've been saving just to grab a different
color of laces for their new jays, or so they ain't got to pay
for their single order at Buff Joe's. You know, decent, degenerate type
shit that said. I was raisedon the west side of the neighborhood in
a single family home with both parentsand, depending on when you jump into

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my childhood, a combination of grandparents. I'm a Libra bordering on Scorpio.
They call that a cusp. Yeah, in the zodiac world, they call
that a cusp. I was raisedby a loyal and loving Scorpio and a
charming textbook old school Gemini. We'llget to that later. I am blessed

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to have been deemed gifted at ayoung age. Whatever that means, however
you take that so, I'm highlyeducated, sufficiently motivated, and can do
just about anything I truly put mymind to, including but not limited to
be a child model, a LoyolaPark basketball champion, and Ken Would Academy
concert choir member, a B minusstudent with the flair for writing, a

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D one football prospect and player,and just in my lifetime, just an
overall fly little nigga, a poloRalph Lauren in every color, and some
fresh white Forces type shit. Thatlittle fly nigga is not an adult with
the career that has spanned over adecade that has put me in nearly every

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single seat of the integrated digital marketingtable. That's right, from media and
sales to consulting, strategy and socialcontent creation. And I have the show
a podcast. Y'all gonna get thispodcast. I'm of the culture, but
never willing to exploit it type shit. And yes it's some of the people

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y'all champion, y'all think are aboutwhat I'm about that sold they sold for
the look in the cloud. Ifyou're new here, please don't group me
with them, niggas. Please donot group me with them, niggas.
There's some shit out there that's meantto send my people down the wrong path.

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And I know the motherfuckers who arethe agents of making that happen.
I do. I know them.I know them well. And them the
ones that y'all put on the list, the forty under forties, the taste
and change makers and all that shit. I told you where I'm from.
I let y'all know Rogers parked theWest Side. We spot food from a
mile away type shit. So forthose of you that are new again,

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welcome, That's who I am.For those of you that are not new
to the show but needed that reminder, you're welcome. But this portion is
especially for you, especially for you, because I think it's easy. Let
me get in my bag real quick. I think it's easy for someone to
listen week in and week out tothis show, and because this is ultimately

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going to be viewed as entertainment,though try as I may to make it
deeper than that. Y'all come,get a quick message, y'all kiky with
me, and then y'all slide.That's just how it goes. This is
the name of the game. It'seasy to miss who is behind the stories
and the shout outs and such.It's easy and these episodes can be viewed

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as soliloquies. If you don't rememberwhat that is from English class, look
that shit up. It could beviewed as a soliloquy, or you can
take something special from it. Thechoice is always ultimately yours. But for
those that want to know, here, I got, y'all, I got
said earlier, I told you we'dcome back to it. I'm a libra,

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aware of the facts, the truth, a conclusion seeker, So you
should say, who will not berushed to make that conclusion? Friendly,
complimentary companion that will make you feellike you're the only one in the room
when we lock eyes and speak.That's me. But I came from my

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mother, And remember I'm a cusp. I'm a cusp now with a P
at the end, not a cuss, a cusp. I came from my
mother, who is the smartest,strongest, sharpest of us all y'all know.
If y'all know, a pure heartwith selfless intentions, and it will

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hold it down like nobody else inthis world. When you see that in
me, you see her. That'sa fact. That's just what it is.
That's her reflection looking back at you, when Big Broccolini did something for
your ass out the kindness of hisheart. Because I've deemed you one of
mine. I hold you close,I hold you true. But if you

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find yourself in any way, shapeor form, fixing, to let that
get you comfortable enough to take thatkindness for weakness. Whoa baby, baby?
It ain't nothing to cut that bitchoff. It ain't nothing that cut
that be. I think my mamabroke that for k cappin them Kate Campanill

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got that written by Marie for sure. Forgive sure, maybe, but forget
huh oh Negro, please, Iremember the punk shit you did thirty years
ago. Never forget. I remembersomeone telling me about some shit that two

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people did to me once that Istill want to smoke with twenty years ago.
This happened almost twenty years ago,and I will have my smoke when
it's time. And that, myfriends, is where my father, the
Gemini, the hails, Franciscan,black spartan, smooth talking ads nigga comes

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in. You did some punk shitand the timing isn't right for me to
make it right. That's okay.I won't. I can wait. You
won't know that anything is changed.The Gemini, the Twins. I possess
the ability to keep the mask onnow and later. I can be here

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to entertain you. I can sharemy thoughts, my perspectives. You can
laugh with me, you could chimein, you could hit me up,
you could do whatever it makes sensefor the show. Of course, this
is a community, this is graba glass. But if you don't know
me, if you don't really knowme, you won't be ready for what
comes with you doing some bitch typepunk type shit. You will listen.

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I don't. I don't have ananalysis on the wrap beef of today besides
one small conclusion which I'll share ina second. Because this isn't rap city
the basement or Twitter or x orthis ain't that. This is a grab
a glass, This ain't that.If you're looking for an analysis of some

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niggas who do poetry, that's allrap is is poetry. Yeah. I
think it's funny when niggas you wantto get violent over some poetic shit.
But that's that's fine. You wrotesome rhymes about anyway. Because I'm not
DJ Academics or Joe Budden or mathhafa. Let's let's leave the analysis to

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that nigga at your barbershop with thestereo headphones around his neck. What I
will say, what I will sayis what's the most sad when it comes
to beef? I would say,we all not just rappers. All of
us seem to get into it withthose most like us, because ain't no

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way that Kendrick Germaine, I gottause anthing. Kendrick and Germaine, two
kings, two real ones, shouldbe into it basically because of a Canadian
named Aubrey. That's a Canadian namedAubrey that has not delivered a meaningful generational
thought to our culture, not once. A lot of slaps, great music,

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it's never about the real it's neverabout the beats and the raps.
Never delivered a generational thought to ourculture. That's nuts. But again,
some of the people y'all, champion, y'all think are about what it really
should be about. That sold,they sold for the look in the clout.

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I got someone to drink