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Grumpy Wizdom - On The Point - Episode 11

talib-jasir--he-him-_2_07-23-2025_160344 (00:06):
[00:00:00] AYO. Welcome back to Grumpy Wizdom. This is actually the last episode of this season, and I wanna thank you all for joining in listening to the conversation week after week. It's been my joy and excitement to be on this mic and share these stories with you all. To date I'm over a thousand downloads and streams, and I have you all the listeners to thank for that for sharing it and letting people know that it exists.
For also listening, for also sharing your feedback. Just today I woke up to a text message telling me how great the podcast was, how well it was done, and what they loved about it. Then later on in the day, I got another affirmation that said, this podcast makes me happy.
So that makes me happy. I thank you all for listening and we'll be going into season two after the Afros & Audio Podcast Festival. 'cause a brother needs to focus up so much work still to be done. And, we're still pushing it [00:01:00] uphill. Fortunately and unfortunately, fortunately, because I'm still in the journey and therefore so is Afros in audio.
when this conference can be done without stress and less anxiety. That's when I will say I made it. Until then, I have not arrived. We are still working very hard. And it's still stressful as hell because this world don't love us.

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And for those of us who love us it's a good fight, but it's a fight nonetheless. So I digress. This has been a great experience and exercise for me to see what I can do, see if I can be consistent. There's a few brothers that will understand what I mean by this. Some of us have had this rite of passage of, working overnight shifts for UPS or some other similar jobs where we had to figure out am I actually about this life? Because if you do overnight at UPS putting boxes in the back of a UPS truck [00:02:00] and every once in a while they throw some bullshit in the mix just to make sure you're paying attention. So when you scan it, is it going to the right city? Is it in the right truck?
Is it damaged? They'll throw those in there just to test you and see if you did it right. But beyond the test, you're in there with one other person and you start with a cornerstone box in the back of the truck and the cornerstone box is where everything else gets built onto it. And that was a interesting concept
I was living in Raleigh at the time. Working at UPS at night and I remember a little remarks about why you working here?
I was working in pharma at the time, but pharma contract ended, so I needed to do something. And they're looking at my salary there and what I'm making at UPS and they were all, trying to treat me away because I have earning potential that was beyond that. But I'm looking at them like, bro, I'm sitting on ass at my pharma job, like sitting on ass. I'm doing work, but this is not manual labor. [00:03:00] And I get here and the manual labor is so intense. That I'm actually pissed off that I make the money I make sitting on ass and don't make it here and y'all are not making it here because what the fuck?

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This shit hard. That shit is regular, so anyway, this cornerstone package in this truck was a life lesson for a lot of things. If you don't put the cornerstone in there accurately, then you're gonna have a hard way to go. Making sure that as you add more boxes because you're gonna fill it up from the back of the truck all the way to the front.
And if you don't do that, then as you're building up your walls, they risk falling on you. They risk falling in general when you turn your back and you went into to get another package to put in and your whole little wall just crumbled and now you gotta start again. It's not efficient. It doesn't support your time because you got a lot of work to do and you can hurt yourself. And that's why this episode is [00:04:00] called On the Point. Let's wrap it up because the last episode I said, fuck your purpose. What's your point?
And so this is the point for me personally. I don't know what it is for you. That's your discovery. Isn't that exciting? But for me, I learned the point, and I won't say I learned it in the UPS truck, putting a cornerstone box up, but I did recognize what Cornerstone meant. I come from a church background, which I might have mentioned before.
I'm not religious now, I'm not Christian now, but. Grew up in the church, Like most of us did. And there's a gospel song that we used to sing at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, DC, Dr. H. Beecher Hicks presiding, the young adult fellowship choir

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With Grammy Award winning Richard Smallwood on the piano and that's where I grew up; a major edifice in Washington, DC where I had the pleasure of meeting Dr.
Maya [00:05:00] Angelou Nelson Mandela, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Betty Shabazz. Marian Barry. of course.
Diplomats from all over. And I was one of those kids who was all up in it. So I had the opportunity to be in the back office, knowing more than I should know at that young ripe age about what goes on in a church.
there's a song that we would sing,

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The stone that the builders have rejected has become the cornerstone. Jesus is. Jesus is the cornerstone. The cornerstone jesus is the cornerstone. I already knew about what cornerstones were from church, and then at UPS, I'm just doing the job. So I'm present with the cornerstone. I don't want my wall to fall down. And if you know me for real, you know that Talib Jasir is all about excellence. It ain't about black excellence. I'm just about if I did it, it needs to be something.
It needs to look like something, it needs to do something. And if it don't do something, it don't be something that don't [00:06:00] look like something, then I don't want no parts of it. So this cornerstone became what I recognized life to be and hence the point,
in 2015, I turned 40,

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For my 40th birthday, I invited all my friends over for a
costume party. I think I was the only one in costume, but
that's not rare for me. I showed up last year at podcast movement and for eighties happy hour, and I was the only one in my black Adidas Tracksuit, sneakers, gold link chain, and. Run DMC, big frame glasses I would've had on my kango, but my daughter had ripped me off maybe a few years before that.
So I didn't have the whole gear, but I had enough, and I had on this, star Trek, Alf t-shirt that I got from a thrift store, and I'm pretty fucking proud of it.

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So anyway, this won't be the first time that I'm at a party and I'm the only one dressed up. But it was still fun. I was dressed up in this [00:07:00] Purple Pimp suit. it was a with the purple hat I had on a afro. I had a cane. I had this purple with leopard collar. when I say leopard fur collar, It's some dots on some white, fluffy fabric. And this purple velvet cape that was, on my shoulders and went, calf length had on this this vintage button up some hard, some black hard bottoms.
I was happy as hell, I was in the man cave before people came, setting up the YouTube to, with a playlist of Blackula and JD's Revenge. There's two Blackulas. If you only watched one, then you ain't missing nothing.
But there's two Blackulas, had some Pam Greer Coffy. The vibes. just looping one blaxploitation movie after the other. I mean I was born in the seventies. What you want? the cooler? This is where we got the gold. The cooler is filled with Schlitz Malt Liquor, Colt 45. I got Wild Turkey on deck and

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I had some [00:08:00] old English in there and some steel reserve. Okay. We was getting lit and every time a friend rang the doorbell, I'd get in front of the garage door. I'd make sure that my stance was right. Now, let me say this. I respect sex workers and their profession, and I mean that genuinely, but I've never had any desire to be an employer.
So I turned this pimp costume into a Blackula costume. Like I had the fangs also, right? Ain't nobody doing that. I'm not a pimp. So I'm ready. And every time somebody came to the door, I'm standing there with my cane in my hand, and I gotta come outta character long enough to push the garage door button.
So as the garage door is opening up, they're just taking it all in. I got on my hard bottoms, my slacks, and then they start seeing this purple cape. I wish somebody would've yelled out, what is that velvet? But nobody did. And as it comes up, I'm there standing in all of my glory.
And they got on regular [00:09:00] clothes. Like, come on in, Come on In ,

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It's a good time. But as I mentioned. With this being the beginning of my forties in 2015, how lonely I felt in a crowded room.
comedy is a mask for me. I learned early on that if I could keep people laughing, that could possibly keep me safe. And so I started to use that as a tool, for protection.
So I'm doing what I know to do, being fun and life of the party and smiles all around and just, making sure that everyone else is having a good time.

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And though I'm in the moment, I still know that I'm lonely. I'm lonely with a partner. I'm lonely with a child. I'm lonely with friends, and it had nothing to do with none of them. It was still my shit.
And that was my cornerstone for my 40th, was building on top of what had already been shoved into [00:10:00] place for so many damn years. And Now I'm happy to report that I've worked extremely hard to make sure that
i've made these 10 years count. I've already told you what I did in order to shift my mind and change my situations and shift the narrative and become, learn, understand who I am, why I am,
why I'm an active participant in everything that I dislike and hate and wish were different in my life, but I'm actively saying give it to me. I'll take it. Yeah, that too. I don't like that shit either. Gimme that. What else I hate? Yeah, I'll take some of that too. My 40th being the cornerstone for what will eventually turn into the next decade of my life?

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Fate willing and The creek does rise. I used to say, God willing, and the creek don't rise. And then I changed it to fate willing, and the creek don't rise. And then I said it to a friend once, shout out to Zen, and I was [00:11:00] like, everything is cool, fate willing and the creek don't rise.
And he says, actually, we want the Creek to rise. I'm like, what? We want the Creek to rise because the creek means Creek Indians. And the Creek Indians needed to rise to kill the savage Westerners. And I was like, oh okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Let's get the creek to rise.
So fate willing and the creek rises. I'll turn 50, October 2025.
I remember maybe a few months ago sitting right here yelling out loud and distressed and frustration. I don't wanna go into the next decade the same. Whatever's out there understand me. I don't want to go into the next decade the same.

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The point is to go different. Lighter. lessons learned
station in life, elevated.
And in this moment, I can honestly tell you that though mentally and emotionally, I won't go into the fifties next the same.
in three short damn months. Not only [00:12:00] will the seventh annual conference occur October 16th through the 19th, but I'll be turning 50.

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Lucky number seven, big age 50. And
I've worked hard y'all. I've worked hard to even be able to say I've worked hard because a year ago, I still wouldn't have acknowledged it
I ain't done shit in my life ever, in my mind. I've been robbing myself of every accomplishment. And that's a part of ADHD. diminishing accomplishments.
It's not all me. It is all me, but it's not all just me being a drama king, right? Melodramatic. I am again, Scorpio. So that drama is there. My all or nothing is there. And so because I didn't have this result, then I have nothing.

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My daughter said to me after the fifth year when she was saying, congratulations, you did it again. And I'm like, I guess, you know, I guess. and she was like, I knew you was gonna do that. I'm like, do what bro? I knew you was gonna [00:13:00] equate
what you've done in your life with what didn't materialize, or the result or the outcome that you desired and didn't receive. I knew you was gonna do that. And she said to me, with tears in her voice, I could hear them. She said, I wish you knew what I know. I wish you knew.
what people think of you. I wish you realized that you were loved regardless. And I wish you understood
that. Nobody cares about that but you. We see you. You're one of the most kindest, generous, and most loving people that I know and you don't see it. And because she was raised by me and I was raised by older people who.

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Had a hard time suffering fools, and therefore, I have a hard time suffering fools, and therefore she has a hard time suffering fools. She's like, I gotta go. And she hung up and I was just left there with my raw ass emotions, feeling like, am I the asshole? The answer [00:14:00] is and was yes, because the point isn't any of what happens as a result.
To be very plain and not evasive about the conversation the conference cost a lot and at the end of the day, for six plus year, there has been no break even, there's only been debt.
And lack, and because I'm insanely optimistic every year that something will change and that people will see What I see. That this community that's been built through Afros & Audio is important work. It's necessary, and that is worth investing in.
I'm left at the end of it accomplished in the intention of bringing people together and curating one of the best conference experiences but I was feeling like, why does this shit gotta be so hard? Damn, when is it gonna change? What when will it be my turn and not my turn in comparison to anybody else but my turn? What else do I gotta do?

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I'm like, Seymour with fucking Audrey One. What do you want from me? Blood?
I was sitting there with my daughter's words, I knew you was gonna do [00:15:00] that equate your self-worth with the fact that you still didn't achieve the level of, support. 'cause for me, level of support was evidence, you're not worth supporting and nobody cares. It doesn't matter.
So I was just allowing that to be a part of the conversation. A part of the narrative. and it became evidence, and so as I let those words sit with me and I'm a person, my dad told me back when I was younger and he was comparing me to the other siblings that I have, and says the one thing about you is that you will listen.
Like you'll listen. UnLike these other knuckleheads, you will listen. And he's right. I listen. We can only do as much as we know to do until we learn how to do something differently.

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So I'm always here for learning something different.
the meaning of my name, Talib is seeker, and student
Jasir means brave, bold, and courageous. I think my life speaks for itself. I'm brave as hell. I'm also [00:16:00] seeking, always. I'm student and teacher at all times.
but there's a certain lull when you don't have any awareness. You ever heard that saying, ignorance is bliss? That's 'cause it is. If you don't know shit, you ain't got to worry about shit. You know what I mean?

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James Baldwin said to be Black in this society and have any level of awareness can induce rage. He ain't lying. And so there's a certain false sense of everything is good when you don't have no awareness. So up until the forties I was chilling. I was really chilling. I worked, I was a little upset that I was there and not doing creative work, but I was cool.
Like I was doing what was meant to be done. Everything is all right with the world. Bills are getting paid. I'm limiting myself into my box. And sometimes we have to realize when we are the box and not anything else that you could start thinking about as a box.
When they say, think outside the box, sometimes the box is actually you
I saw this movie once called The King of Boys. If you haven't seen it, it's a great movie. And I think there's a series [00:17:00] that they put out afterwards. It's a Nollywood film and there's this upfront scene, that caught my ear. And it was a bunch of, fellas hanging around each other. and one of the men in this crew was the son of the main character.

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He's chilling. He's living in an estate. He's got everything he needs. He's got the cars, he got the women, he's got The bread. He ain't worried about nothing but his crew, they're talking about their grind and their hustle, for their come up.
And they ask him bro, what you getting into? And he was like, I don't really know. I'm chilling. And one of the homies said, ah, I guess when not having any problems is the problem.
And I was like, what? Say, Say that again. When not having any problems is the fucking problem. You chilling, or at least you think you chilling and that's your problem. There's so much life to live and exist in. I'm not talking about hustling and grinding. Fuck that, that's all a part of this.
Machine that we're in. I'm [00:18:00] talking about exploration and discovery and adventure and understanding that as long as you have life, then you want the creek to rise. you wanna do what you came here to do. You wanna Take What's Yours. Become a liberated, creator of your own life. plug to the book.

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I thought that was prolific as hell because sometimes even when we have everything we need. we go into cruise control I'm very guilty of it myself.
And so what shook me up about that was Wow. Okay. One was that I was clear that the things that I do that looks like a hundred percent to the outside world is really at a 45 and 50%.
And the only person that actually knows that is me. And that's enough. 'cause sometimes I wonder what would've looked like if you actually gave 80 to a hundred percent of yourself to this. What could have happened then? You don't know because you didn't do it. But let's try it on.
And this last year has been me operating fully at 80, a hundred percent. Really wanting to see and stretch myself even further.

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I'm a brave dude. Like I'm willing. And [00:19:00] I'm with it.
Malcolm X once stated, if you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom outta your vocabulary. If you ain't willing to go all the way for whatever your liberation looks like, Don't utter the word
because freedom is everything. And sometimes when you think you have a false sense of freedom,
that's the problem.

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And so the point of Grumpy Wizdom, the point of Afros & Audio
is to
examine. Explore and discover the life that is your possibility. I get feedback from some of the things that I say as a life coach, where people are just like, nah, that's not it. I've tried it, shit ain't working. You got anything else? And I'm like, bro, I've been doing Afros & Audio for six years, almost seven.
And I get it, but picture me folding, picture me quitting. every year I learn how to navigate that sidewalk a little bit better because I found the cracks. And I maneuver different I navigate [00:20:00] differently.

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I want us all to know what's happening in the world because it matters. People matter. It's all a part of it. But I had to learn a long time ago that my footprint is mine, and that while I could be in great despair, because I feel it.
Like I don't watch the news. I make myself be aware of things despite every reluctance in my being to know it because it hurts my heart through and through. There was a time where I was suffering great depression because of it. And one of my homies, shout out to big bro, Troi, when I told him, listen man, I'm losing it because look at what's happening here and look at what's happening there, and I wanna be everywhere to support everybody, and I can't, and it's fucking me up. And he said, you can only focus on your own footprint. There's nothing more you can do, but see who you can be in this world, in this life, and do the best that you can
with everyone and everything that you commit yourself to. Okay, I can do that. [00:21:00] One individual can create extraordinary results. That's true. If you look at anyone that you admire and you say, wow, all they did was the same thing that you have access to, which is
choose to take that action. Choose to be brave, choose to be courageous, choose to jump off that cliff. My mother used to say something to me as a kid when, I would get in trouble and every once in a while it would get to a point where I felt like I wanted to buck up because- the fuck.

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And she would say feel froggy leap. And in my mind I genuinely feel froggy but I know better than leap. And so I won't leap, but let the record show that I absolutely feel froggy.
And now anytime I feel froggy, I can leap. There's nobody stopping me. There's nobody checking me. There's nobody saying, Talib, I know you wanna leap off that cliff but I'm gonna advise you strongly not to do it. And I'ma be like, Geronimo, I'm out. Gone, I'm gone. This is gonna be on my terms, or it ain't gonna be nothing.
And that's how I want [00:22:00] all of us to exist because for most of us that live in this experience, the opportunity to, have adventure early on just wasn't there. We were surviving, we were going from point A to point B, but we weren't going down ski cliffs, at four years old. We wasn't flying in them, damn Wingsuits off of mountains with a GoPro.
You know what I'm saying? We weren't. Hiking in nature. The things that I do now and that I'm a part of now. Shout out to Camping to Connect, Manny and 'Los and David and Andy and Omari and JD and all my brothers who we go out and camp as men, but we also take out young men from New York and Colorado and we take them out to the woods and we show them a sense of adventure.

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And first night where we got a night hike, they're all grumbling and pissed off "this dangerous!" what the hell we doing? 'cause they're scared, let's go there. And then they look up in the sky, especially our New York kids. And they've never seen [00:23:00] stars like this before in their lives. And then by the end of the weekend, some of 'em are bawling, crying because they're so grateful that they had this experience where they didn't have to take care of somebody else or.
Navigate the streets or hop the train or be around adults that were like, no, stop. Shut up. You can't,
This is adventure now. And you get to have that. And I encourage you to do that if you have the capacity to do it. And even if you think you don't, find it, go to your waterfront. go
sit in nature and do a forest bath. Like it's possible even if you don't have the greatest mobility or an opportunity to go and jump off a cliff in a wingsuit, which I wouldn't do if I had the opportunity. But maybe if I was brought up in that.

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But I digress. This opportunity that we have, the point of life is to experience it head on. like your life depends on it. Because guess what? It does? It does. There's a saying change your mind.
You change the situation. My [00:24:00] theory is that if you change your mind, the situation inevitably changes itself because you're gonna move different. You are gonna surround yourself with folks who are on your level.
You're going to expand. Your worldview and your understanding of things and begin to learn and stop being so selective with people because of their body types or because of their identities or their sexuality or their appearances, you're gonna stop that bullshit because what you know beyond anything is that people are the point and you're limiting yourself because of your own repressive and oppressive and suppressed mind state from getting to know people who have the ability to make you laugh and feel and understand, and believe and learn, once you really are ready to adventure this world and break free from this tunnel that we call society, and these constructs and these socializations, you'll get it.
But [00:25:00] you gotta be willing to go and get it. You gotta be willing to find your point. And for me, as I alluded to in the last episode, the point is fulfillment. Not the purpose that I may or may not ever find. And once I find it, then what? I'm done. Are you complete then? Not if you still living.

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So the point for me is fulfillment. The point is what I do in this day that makes me feel like I did something, anything? There was a stone that I pulled from my backyard, when I lived in Jersey City, and it was long enough for me to write on and I got it, around 2016, 2017 I'd already written my first book, but knowing that I threw it out there and then I came back behind the curtain.
I put on the rock on one side, "do something". And on the other side, "anything". do something, any damn thing. I don't care what it is, but I need you to do something. Anything towards the goal. Kaizen a little bit at a time. Better and better each day. What does it look like?
Body, mental, social circle, [00:26:00] opportunities, seizing the moment. What does it look like to do something? Anything.
towards fulfillment, peace, love, courage. That's the point.

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And when I was in iPEC, we were gifted this green stone, I think it's manmade, but on one side it's etched "solution". And on the other side it's "problem". meaning that for every problem there is a solution and. I'm gonna let you in on something as I let you all go before I come back in my next decade.
'cause quite possibly the second season of Grumpy Wizdom will happen after my birthday. one thing to know about me, is that I'm a gamer. Video games specifically I should be in an addiction group circle for gamers, but I'm not because I'm not ready to quit.
So until I'm ready to go cold Turkey, then y'all can miss me with y'all. Whatever y'all talking about. So I've played every game since Atari pitfall. the PC [00:27:00] game, prince of Persia . Every GTA there is, I probably played San Andreas 10 to 12 times until I finally gave that game disc up to my my homie Stewart "Squirt" Holly of Turn around podcast. I finally gave that disc over to his brother one year, just please take it from me, because if not, then I will play this 15 more times.
But GTA helped me get through a breakup. I didn't give a shit about nothing else. All I cared about was GTA sun up to sundown. I'm not calling outta desperation. I'm not accepting no phone calls outta desperation. And San Andreas is gonna help me get through it, and it did.

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I play The Last of Us, Fallout, these new shows that you see. I've played 'em all.
Anyway, as a gamer, I play complex games. I play Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid games are so complex and intricate and intellectual that once I finish those games, I'm accomplished. Like I've done something, I've done nothing [00:28:00] but sit here and couch rot with a controller in my hand.
But I've accomplished something of great challenge. One of the things about games that I begin to learn early on is that for every problem there's a solution. Every time I'm stuck at a point, or a big boss, that I've got to beat and I am passionate about video games.
Like I'm passionate about everything that, I love, I have thrown that controller halfway across the room out of anger and frustration because g dammit, like Resident Evil where you gotta have all the resources that you're gonna have at that final boss. Else, you just gotta start over at a point before you meet the boss and start gathering up stuff again.

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'cause you are not beating it with these 12 bullets in the revolver that you have. What I learned as I played video games for years and years is that as I got stuck and I got frustrated, I can't beat this level or I can't beat this game. Something occurred to me, that the developers of this [00:29:00] game didn't create it without there being a solution to beat this level, it just wouldn't have happened. Why would they put out a game where you can't get past a level. that's stupid. They wouldn't have done that. So what I started learning in my formative years as I was playing video games and then as I continue to get older I used video games as an escape for all the times that I was.
not enough for my own genius. I'm a lightning rod of ideas, and I would think of an idea, I'm like boom, I'm about to do that. And then I would get on a video game and the sun was up, and the sun went down and I was still on the video game and I did nothing. So I recognized it as an escape.
But now it's, yes, still an escape. It's also a place where I'm able to process and think through things. And sometimes I can't even wait to put the controller down because I gotta go do work, or I've gotta go write something down.
That's me as a creative. But back in the day, I would even suppress that. Just keep playing. If we keep playing, then we don't have to be concerned about the world. If we keep playing, then we don't [00:30:00] have to Address the problems that are in your relationship or in your life.

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If you just keep playing, then you get to hide right here in your man cave with your big screen television and not face the world if you just keep playing.
So I've learned a lot through gaming , but the biggest lesson was there's always a solution. There's not one thing in life that cannot be overcome. There's not one thing that we feel the shittiest about that won't also pass at some point. I tell my youngins all the time that.
What's troubling you so much, and I know because I was troubled by things as a 20-year-old, frustrated things not happening, I got no patience and I hate waiting. I'm all of that, been all of that. "Hurry up, shit."

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what's so important at certain points in our life becomes a blip on the journey. if you think about those movies, that they do those [00:31:00] dotted lines from one point to the next point, eventually that dotted line is way back here and you are all the way up here and it becomes in your rear view mirror.
There's certain things that become core memories and things that hurt you to your heart that you might not heal from subconsciously, but consciously, you done moved on, you on to the next thing. And as we move through life and we are, hitting up against these obstacles and these things that make us say, you know what?
Fuck this. Throw the controller across the room and be like, I'm done. That game's stupid.
And we go and we pick it back up because we are addicted.

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I say all that to say that as a gamer, I've learned that there's a solution. To any and every level that we presume can't be beat. and the point is to keep exploring, you might not be able to beat that level right in front of you, but there's all this open world that's been built around you that you can go and dip off at.
I love Open Worlds because when I'm not in the main mission I can do all these side quests, and if we think about life and most of the things we do, like Afros & Audio is a side quest. [00:32:00] It really is. It's a major aspect of my life right now, but it's a side quest.
I recognize it as a side quest. I recognize my books and my poetry and Grumpy Wizdom as a side quest.
The main story is me. The main story is you, everyone else in this open world, your allies, your companions,

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Whatever they say, their actions, the things that you choose to do with them or don't it all counts towards the end game. But the main story is me, is you.
For those of you who play video games, whether it's pc, Xbox, PlayStation, switch, whatever it is, you'll see the percentage of how far you've gotten in the game. There's only a few games that I've played to a hundred percent, which means I've done all side quests. I've gotten all the booty, booty means bounty.
For those of you who don't know, I beat all the main story missions, and the credits have rolled. I've only gone to a hundred percent with a few of them
because completely beating the game isn't really the point.

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The point was the main story. And the side quests are gonna come [00:33:00] and they're gonna go, they're temporary. Nothing lasts forever. Everything is impermanent. But you. but me,
and of course if you're anything like me, you're not playing the game to lose and you really don't wanna just play the game to get by either, because that presents an option for losing
and if you're just getting by and skating by there's always contenders around you. And it's not about that, but track with me here. And then there's playing a Game to win.
And the point, as I conclude this episode and season of Grumpy Wizdom is to play this game. Game equals life- to win whatever your measurement of winning is, Go for Gold.

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What else is there to do? But leap, when you feel froggy, pick that controller up again when you know there's a way to beat it. You just haven't figured it out yet. And be willing. To fight and fighting doesn't always have to mean a [00:34:00] bad thing.
Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is a growing up. It doesn't have to be a bad thing. It just means that you're in the fight, you're courageous. You are persistent. You don't take no from people who don't have the power to tell you. Yes, I'll say that again. You don't take nos from people who don't even have the power to say yes.
You realize that what your aunties told you back in the day, that what people think of you ain't none of your damn business.
You play the game with the point in mind and the point. My friends is to win.

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I hope you've enjoyed this first season. I'll be honest with you, I have, I've enjoyed telling you all stories and sharing a bit more of my life. for those of you who don't know me from a can of paint, I hope I've given you some insight. Deconstructed what it means to be a leader and a founder and a public figure.
Because,Just because you see what you see doesn't mean a damn thing until you have a full [00:35:00] understanding about what it takes to be, here, now, every day, show up for yourself and others every day.
Commit to peace above and beyond any and everything. Expand your mind, expand your life.
I'm here if you wanna work with me. I'm still a active coach. I love working with people. I love shifting people's minds. It's what I do. It's what I'm great at. It's my superpower. Afros & Audio. We are here to stay. I don't give up easily and I know that I can beat this level too. And despite all the things that I try to make it about and pretend that I wasn't, Mama I made it. not fully, but to be able to still exist in this seat and share my words and my thoughts and my stories when there were times that I didn't know if I could beat

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a life level that had wore me the fuck out. It matters. It counts. And give thanks that I finally recognize that and give thanks if you're [00:36:00] already there and give thanks for the knowledge that if you just keep choosing life and you play it to win, that you'll eventually get there as well.
Do me a favor. If you've enjoyed Grumpy Wizdom and this season, I implore you to leave a comment, rate, review it on any of the streaming platforms that you listen to. This request is all about data and it supports me as a creator. It also supports the work that I'm doing, and it matters towards my end game.
That's my request. I ask that you all take the time to leave a review. Leave a comment for this podcast, because it helps.
Once again, thank you for listening to Grumpy Wizdom and until next season, peace.

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