November 24, 2023 • 50 mins
The Cris David Show #guytalk Men’s Discussion Panel is back with a brand new episode! Put us on while you’re on your way to the mall for Black Friday shopping or recovering from last night’s rum punch. With Joey Baston and Khai Thomas.
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I'm gonna tell you guys this, somebody DM'd me and they asked me, did I want to be on
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this reality show?
And like it was legit.
Like it was a scout.
They were like, you fit the criteria, the demographic we're seeking, DM us back if you
be, you know, considered, you want to be considered for casting.
And I'm like, nah, man, I'm not going to be impin’ and simpin’ on some damn Fuckboi Island
2.0.
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Like the Zeus Network. So yeah, like I'm not doing that stupid shit!
Come on.
Nah, you know, it's funny.
So during the pandemic, during the pandemic, I made it to the final round of Love is Blind
season two.
And I was all about it.
Like I want to show love for, you know, be a plus size male, all this other stuff.
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But then thinking through it, right?
I didn't realize, yes, maybe I could find the love of my life and this would be perfect.
This is my story, but can I deal with the backlash?
Right?
And that was gonna love me.
Right?
How are you going to edit me?
And can I be like, you know, trying to home also, I see the comments like, fuck that man,
like this random person, can my ego handle that?
And honestly, I backed out because I didn't know if I was ready to be a public figure
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for something that wasn't trying to be a public figure for.
And they show this like, well, I actually believe in the science or whatever he's doing.
But then do I believe that person in Kansas was wrote a whole blog about me?
Right?
That was tough.
So I backed away from it because I couldn't handle the fact of my life's a public figure.
The more I go, I go to work.
Oh, you're the Love is Blind guy.
LA.
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Like, no, like, you know too much about me.
I don't want you to know that.
And I just couldn't handle the public figure.
And I think that's the big thing with fame or anything is like, no matter how big or
small, I’m not ok with random people commenting on my life the way they want to.
Okay.
Khai what are you doing for the holidays?
What are you doing for Christmas and New Year's?
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Christmas right now.
It's a double dip between spending time with some friends in DC family and New Year's.
I'm trying to be out somewhere in a tux just out and about just living up.
I'm trying to get, you know, a Black, great Gatsby.
Nice.
I feel you.
Listen, listen, you find this the place you invite your boys.
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All right.
Let's do it.
What are you doing?
What are you doing for Christmas and New Year's?
If we do, we do family stuff, then I end up going, just staying more local.
And then we'll, I'll probably be in Pennsylvania.
You can find me at your local King of Prussia Mall.
Probably. Best mall in the world.
Nice.
Well, I mean, I traveled all summer, so I've just been on my chill.
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I'm reclaiming my Black time.
I'm off work till next year.
So I'm just going to be on the couch watching a Black Cake and some cheesy Christmas movies.
Well, do you all watch those cheesy Christmas movies?
Joey, I know, I know Britney has you watching those movies.
Yeah.
You got to watch a Christmas story.
A Christmas Story has to happen at least one time every Christmas.
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You got to shoot your eye out every, shoot your eye out every Christmas.
You know, you know, you're gonna do the black, you got to do the Black versions the ones that are on BET.
So honestly, my new like favorite genre is the hood movies on Amazon Prime, where it's
someone from Detroit, 20K budget.
You see the boom mic in it, but it's always about like plug love or something like that.
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You're just like, I want to turn away, but this is fire.
It's the Tubi movies.
Like, wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was about to say that the Tubi movies.
Yeah, those are, those are, those are kind of crazy.
They're really good though.
Like some of them are really good, like the plot lines are just, they remind me of African
movies.
They are.
Nollywood and the Ghanaian movies.
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Yeah, that's what they remind me of.
I mean, I watched the holiday movies, but they start to be predictable after a while
because it's like he or she has a big important job, comes home for the holidays, links up
with the guy or the girl they liked in high school, can't stand each other, love each
other, fight, get engaged end scene.
But you know, now I can share this with you guys.
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Something dawned on me the other day and this isn't even with the Christmas movies.
Like don't, don't, but, but, but don't those regular lifetime movies look like Blacked porns?
Ah, see, see, see it's the same lens filter.
Like it's the same lens filter.
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The actresses are like nondescript.
The music be the same.
I was watching one the other night with the crazy psycho yoga instructor and it was
the scene where they had the threesome and I'm like, yo, it's giving Blacked.
IYKYK.
Speaking of porn, have you guys seen the AI porn that people are generating now?
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I've never seen AI porn, but because I'm a porn enthusiast, that's like a, don't tell
anybody.
Oh Joey, they know now.
Joey, they knew when you came on the camera.
They knew.
Oh, that I'm, that I, that I'm into the occult life.
Yeah.
I'm into everything.
Everything that’s bad for you I’m cool with it.
They know about Khai too.
I'm cool with it.
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So they have anime porn.
I'm into anime, so they have that too.
So I guess that's like AI porn also.
I mean, but this Khai, have you seen it?
Have you seen the AI porn?
I haven't.
I'm like, I'm more of a vanilla guy, mad gas, a little exotic, but nothing too crazy.
All right.
All right.
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I hope you guys are ready because I'm going to show you something.
I'm not going to put this up in the video, but I'm just going to.
Okay.
So this is what's going, this is what's going on in AI porn.
Look, look, look, look, look at her head.
360? This is what's going on.
And then they got, I mean, this is, see, this isn't for me because this shit is real uncanny
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valley. That looks more like 3D porn.
They have 3D porn.
That's like that.
But it's nuts though.
Like why is her head like completely swiveled around like on some Exorcist shit?
And look at this.
They got things coming out of places that shouldn't be like that.
Oh, they got hand penises.
A hand cock.
That's a hand cock.
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I can't.
No kink shaming. No kink shaming.
This is too much.
This is way too much.
I mean, anyway, but with the Christmas movies, I mean, Tatyana Ali or Keisha Knight-Pulliam
are in the movies I'll watch because Ashley and Rudy are still my crushes.
I love a brown skin cutie.
All right.
But Joey put me on to this documentary called Torn and Torn is about a rock climber named
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Alex Lowe, who perished in an avalanche in Tibet back in 1999.
His best friend and climbing partner, Conrad Anker, survived the avalanche and after Alex's
death, Conrad and Alex's widow, Jenny, fell in love and married.
Now here's the question of the day.
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Question of the week, probably the question of the century.
If you want to die in a freak accident, Khai, does your homie get your blessing to link
up with your mate?
That's a tough one.
But if they find comfort in overcoming and remembering me together, I guess so.
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Like, hey, I'm not there to stop their happiness.
I mean, you dead.
How can you?
Oh, exactly.
But honestly, though, I think even in relationships, right, you protect your boy's girl, right?
If my boy's not around and his girl, I'll make sure she's all right and she's good.
In the same way, this is them doing the ulitimate respect of doing so.
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I'm not around to protect her and make sure she's all right.
You know, I think honestly, it's tough because I'm not there.
But like, it's like if I ever got like moves on, life's gonna go on with them here or not.
So hey, more power to them, you know, make sure my kids remember me.
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Joey, what about you?
Are you allowing your homie to take on the beautiful Britney?
After seeing that movie and reflecting on it, it's like there was a lot that was going on.
So it was like a perfect storm.
One day, one, the dude had survivor guilt while the widow, she was really grieving hard at
the time.
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And they had a trauma bond connection that brought them together.
And then because basically, the question is, do you believe in trauma bonds?
And is that a is that a real is that a real thing to like, like, is that real love or
just because they were like in that trauma bond?
That's the reason why they're together.
It can be a lot of different ways that you can digest that.
But also she had small kids.
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She had a lot going on with her that the absence of that male figure was very prevalent, very
like, he was a big part of their lives.
He was a provider.
He helped them establish the life that they did have and things like that.
They also have three small children together.
And him not being there was definitely a big blow to the family dynamic that they had.
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So the best friend actually stepping in kind of helped facilitate, like, basically, their
family can continue to roll on as normal because that place was never vacant.
It was a it was only vacant in that that spot got refilled very quickly.
So in that sense, it worked out where I think it gets kind of problematic is that those
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kids are the the guy that died.
But because they were so young, the only father figure they know is the new guy.
So they call him dad, which that blew my mind.
I'm like, that's not your dad, my dude.
That's definitely not your dad.
That's not your dad.
But that is his dad because that's the only father figure I ever knew.
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The other guy wasn't there because he was always climbing and then he died prematurely.
So I can see how it happened.
And I understand.
And I just think it was a lot of different circumstances that came that court like that
came together at the same time to make it be like that.
But it's still a very crazy story.
So I mean, would you be cool with your homie getting with your lady after you're dead?
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Also I'm dead.
You can do whatever you want.
You're not going to come back from the dead and, you know, shake and rattle chains.
I mean, they also because if you at the towards the end of the movie, they they gave him his
respect.
They didn't like spit on his grave.
Like once they found out they could find his body because he was he was lost to the mountain
and then they end up finding his body and they had a whole base.
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They basically had a whole goodbye ritual for him, like as his last like as a last peace
offering type of thing.
And I think that's I think that's where it is.
They at least respected like they at least respected him enough to at least give him
a final goodbye.
And the way the friend made it seem he said that I'm doing all of this.
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I guess it also is it also is a little bit selfish that basically because that guy always
wanted that type of dynamic in his life.
He wanted the family life.
You know, like he was single that dude.
Like basically he saw his friend's life and he always wanted all of that.
And then when he died, he kind of embraced all of that, which is like more for him.
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But also it also helped everybody else out.
So it's kind of like one hand washes the other type of thing.
So I think a tragic situation and a little bit of selfishness end up helping everybody
else out.
So I mean, it was kind of sus though, like how he just moved in on Jenny and the kids.
But I mean, for me, I wouldn't care because I'm not here.
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You have my blessing to go and be happy even in life.
Like say I lost function of my penis or I no longer had sexual desire.
Go find someone that you can be fulfilled with on some Hulk Hogan and Bubba type time.
But Torn is a tearjerker.
And Joey, I know the Cancer-crab and you had you bawling like a baby.
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No, I just thought it was at first when when they were talking about it, because I thought
it because they do look similar.
Also, I thought that he I thought he was the dad at first.
Yeah, he was like the kids look more like him than they did their father.
Yes.
So I was like I was like I didn't think he died until they said, well, when did you and
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mom really start to get together?
And I'm saying, what?
That's not the husband.
Like, no, that's the best friend.
Like, oh, now now I got set back.
Now I got OK.
Now we're cooking bacon.
I mean, me personally, I'm not exploring like that.
I'm good.
The most I'm doing is Prospect Park on a Saturday night.
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I damn near died doing that.
But the lesson is to not ignore your instinct.
Alex ignored his instinct.
He said he didn't want to go that time.
So right.
And then him and David and Conrad ignored their instincts.
They went out, you know, instead of staying at camp.
But you know, Torn reminded me, Joey, of this other movie I saw as a kid called Alive.
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It was about the rugby team and their plane crashed in the Andes.
They ran out of food and they had to eat their friend who had died to survive.
And it used to be a commercial for Andes Mints.
And they were mimicking that shit like it was horrible.
Like they were looking for food and the guy starts popping Andes.
And then it was it was pretty bad.
But then 127 Hours.
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That was another movie.
It reminded me of with James Franco.
When had to cut his arm off.
Because he was in the ice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, sometimes you just got to cut things to free yourself or save your show.
I guess I needed to go with my instincts as well.
If you know, you know.
But thanks for the recommendation, Joey.
And guys, check out Torn it’s on Hulu.
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You know what else is a tearjerker, though?
The Whale.
Did you guys see the whale with Brendan Fraser?
No, I heard that man.
I mean, aside from it being shot so well and Brendan Fraser definitely deserved that Oscar.
There was this binge eating scene and I don't want to give away too much.
But oh, my God, like that shit was so accurate.
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Like for anyone who struggled with their weight, like, you know exactly what that shit was
about.
But you know, I got to say this because this has just been on my mind since you told me
about this movie.
Torn reminded me of Brokeback Mountain.
In a way.
And this is I'm just going to say this.
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This is what I learned at my big age about sex its not about the actors.
It's about the act.
When you're in a space with someone like a long isolated trip, or prison, you're human.
And eventually you act on urges.
It doesn't make you sus.
I mean, people always talk about a mindfuck and that's just what sex is.
It's a mental, physical connection.
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But anyway, we've got this new segment here on the show.
It's called It's Giving.
And I know that's a phrase that everyone uses now, but it originated, like most things,
in the Black LGBTQ community.
And, you know, we like to be informative and insightful here.
So I'm going to show you guys these pictures.
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They're these two guys from Atlanta, Brian Sanchez and Dynzel Sigers,
who got leg lengthening surgery.
OK, so this is the one guy.
This is Brian.
So you can see he was 6’.
Now he's 6’6”.
And now this is Dynzel.
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Dynzel was 5’5” and now he's 6’.
So the surgeries are done in Turkey.
They cost anywhere from 80 to $100,000.
Now social media went in on these dudes talking about they got
knee-BLs and calling them mentally ill.
So Brian said that despite being taller than average, he thought his legs made him look
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like the character Thumb Thumb from Spy Kids.
He wanted to be significantly taller than his wife so that they wouldn't be at eye level.
And Dynzel said he was tired of women rejecting him for his height.
Joey, what's it giving?
It's giving that.
It's giving that they they they everybody has a self its giving self-esteem issues.
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That's what it's giving.
It’s Giving self-esteem issues because I know this Haitian dude that's 4’11”.
He's small, dude, but he has a beautiful family.
He could use the he could use the weight of the world of him being short.
Like, oh, no, but no, he like I'm just short, but I still do everything like a regular person.
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It's almost like a midget.
Do we feel bad for midgets being midgets?
No midgets are people, too.
And yes, they might have different obstacles to go through, but at the end of the day,
they still have they have to they have to live through that experience.
So how they navigate through that is how they navigate.
So they have to get a stepping stool or whatever to help them get to navigate through that
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life.
Then that's perfectly fine.
It's pretty much the same thing.
These guys felt that their height is too small.
There's a there's something that they can do about it.
There's nothing you can do about it, but if there's something that they can do about it
and they have the means to do it, then there's nothing wrong with that.
And body modification.
It's only cool when it's piercings and tattoos.
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But now if I cut my tongue in half or if I start looking like the tiger or lizard man
and now I'm going crazy or now if I if a girl gets a BBL, that's cool.
But if I get if I get cool sculpting because I want my six-pack to pop out now, I'm a weirdo.
I think the body modification only works as if it's an accepted part of the modification
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field.
You know what I mean?
And that's where it's like that's where I feel like it's problematic.
But I'm also very I'm not the tallest guy.
I'm only 5’6”, 5’7”.
That's that's a little bit below average, but I think I'm funnier than the average person.
So my funniness and my coolness make up for me for my lack of [shortness].
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So when I was back in the dating game, I used to tell people I'm shorter than what I was.
So I used to like I said that would be like my little gimmick.
Like yeah, I'm like I'm five foot nothing.
Like I don't like guys that are five foot nothing.
Well, then you're not going to like me then.
And then the people that would give me a chance.
You're not five foot nothing.
Why would you tell me that?
Because it will show you if you would care or not.
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Obviously you don't care.
And obviously we're here and I'm not five nothing.
And now all of that pre all of that preamble type of mentality is going to be gone because
you don't because I'm not that you know what I mean?
Khai, what's it giving?
Mental health. Mental health is real.
Like honestly, I think with my medications, what is it about me that physically if it's
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cause if it's non needed cosmetic surgery, what is it that I can't get over?
Right.
I mean, I can get the knee surgery, but am I still attacking?
I still can't get women.
Right.
So what is it now?
I'm tall enough, but I still can't get women or you know, people that, oh, I got the surgery,
but I regret it.
Right.
Okay.
All the people that have like the botched surgeries, right.
You're doing it, but you're not doing it safely.
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There's a reason I need to get society, my partner, someone's telling me that, hey, let's
talk through the issue.
Why do I feel this way?
Maybe help me feel better about how I see myself in the mirror.
If not, let's go straight to the surgery table and then we get exhausted.
I really like, you know, we look at the show, Botched.
And the first one, okay, cool.
The second one, now why are you in your first surgery and now you're just getting some fix,
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fix, fix, and now you're adding to the issue you had already.
Good.
Now what you want to fix is now uglier.
It's honestly just mental health.
Manifest self-loathing in so many different ways.
You know, either have major problems, low problems.
You're like, hey, I'm a short man.
How do I feel?
How do I feel more confident in my life if I am short?
Maybe my therapist can help me through that, but honestly, doing all these different things,
you know, my wife to be taller, you know, I'm not going to be able to do that.
I'm going to be able to do it.
I'm going to be able to do it.
Who said he looked like thumbs?
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That's you coming out of left field.
That's still not...
And he's clearly like into his look because he's a bodybuilder, this guy.
I didn't see anything wrong with him, but okay, so this is what it's giving to me.
It's Giving South Park, I'm a dolphin.
Do you guys remember that episode?
None of us even know.
Oh my Lord.
So the dad gets like this surgery to become a dolphin.
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One of the other, Mr. Garrison, I think he got his legs lengthened or something.
Anyway, jokes aside, I'm not even going to go in on these two.
They're good looking dudes, but everyone has something they're insecure about.
And the message in the music is to be kind.
Some chick told Dynzel she didn't like him because he was short and he internalized that
shit for years.
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So I mean, we got guys out here telling girls their pussies are ugly.
I mean, only toxic people weaponize things that people can't change.
But like I said earlier, technological advancements are going in the wrong direction.
Like can we regenerate limbs already?
What about organs or hearing or sight?
But there should be nothing wrong with it.
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If a girl can get a BBL, then I can get a fake six-pack. You can get a BBL.
Or I can get a BBL or whatever.
I should be able to get my fake six pack if a girl can get a BBL.
I agree.
I mean, listen, anyway, these guys are brave as hell.
Like I've done elective procedures myself, and that's a big risk in general, being put
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under and then having to recover and then you run the risk of infection and clots and
all of that.
Then to be roasted by social media.
I mean, that's another thing in and of itself.
But while we do need to normalize men getting work, I don't know, my mind just always goes
back to the active shooter.
Like I just imagine one of those guys is at the mall, you know, shopping or trying to
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get some exercise.
And if they had to run and they're not fully healed, their legs would break and they'd
be trampled.
I mean, I can't help that my mind works like this, but you know, like this, we live in
America.
But now as far as me, like as far as my height, like I always wanted to be 6'3", 6'4".
So I bought these stupid, like sneaker boots from ASOS thinking they would give me like
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the two or three inches I wanted but ASOS lied.
But I only got an inch, but I mean, they're comfortable so I wear them like everywhere.
And by the way, I put the pics back up of the guys who had the surgeries.
And you can see that their arms are still proportioned to their original heights.
And also I see like some edema in the pics.
But anyway, unless you were born with a defect, everything on your body is proportionate.
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Like your forearm length is the length of your shoe size.
Here I go with the science lessons.
Listen, you know I keep coming with deeper and more shit. I can’t help it. I can’t help it!
But no, seriously, look, look, look.
And then if you do this, if you go from your elbow to your fingertips, that is one quarter
of your height.
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So if you go from your elbow to your finger, to like the longest finger that you have,
that's one quarter of your height.
Like if you take your thumb, if you do this, look at what I'm doing right now.
If you do this, this is the length of your nose bridge.
So someone who had a nose job, they can't do this.
But if you go like this.
Interesting.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
See?
And then your nose is halfway between your hairline and your chin.
And the space between your eyes right here, that's one eye.
And then the space between your eye and your ear, let me go this way, eye and your ear,
that's one ear.
And that's like just on your face.
Because now your chest is like halfway between your genitals and the top of your head.
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And it's as wide as a quarter of your height.
And so like think of it this way.
If the standard door, right, is 80 inches or that’s six foot six, then a six foot person's
head is going to come to like the top of the inner square.
And I hope you app daters are paying attention for when the folks lie about how tall they
are.
But I mean, I haven't even gotten to like scapular positioning and shoulder to crotch
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length, crotch to heel.
Like listen, I be dropping science, like Cosby drop babies.
I'm gonna need you to put this up on a PowerPoint slide for me like just.
Yall I'm telling you.
Like somebody, listen, somebody's got to drop facts on these platforms.
I mean, listen, SAG AFTRA is off strike but Hollywood still using AI.
ASOS is out here lying.
Radio cats is catching RICO charges.
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DC niggas is trying to carjack Secret Service.
Horses is getting loose on the planes.
ShopRite’s got their seafood department escorting customers with crab legs up to the registers.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket.
But I mean, listen, at least they got Turkey legs.
Yeah, let's go.
Well, wait, did you get it?
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At least they got Turkey legs.
They went to Turkey to get the leg.
Okay.
Well, by the way, shout out to the other guy, Dynzel.
He's a Navy vet.
Yo, man, I got to take a nap after this.
Like I was up early this morning, Black Friday shopping.
Yo, they jumped a cashier this morning.
So listen, this is how it went down.
This is how it went down.
I'm like three spots back in the line with my cart.
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And these five girls just roll up and they on the cashier and they just start punching
her in the head.
So at first I'm thinking it's like, you know, like a neighborhood beef or some shit, you
know, because this is this happened at Club Walmart and Joey, you know, this is the Walmart
everybody and their mom goes to.
You in Philly.
You know which one I'm talking about.
So I'm in line and these sisters is just molly whopping her.
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And before you all get started with, why didn't you break them up?
Like I don’t jump in beefs.
You don't break people up.
I don't jump in beef.
But I did call 911.
I did call 911.
So they're just rolling on her and she's not even really like fighting back.
Like she just had her hands up, like trying to protect her face.
And so the girls got like a bunch of windmills in and you know, then they bounced.
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But wait, but wait, why did one of the girls when she was running out, she just grabbed
like a handful of plastic bags.
Like she damn near broke the bag holder, like trying to steal the bags.
And I guess her instinct was like, let me steal something before I get out of here because
I ain't never coming back.
So we're all just in shock.
So the lady in front of me, she had like this little flip phone out trying to record and
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I'm like, you not getting no 4K.
So then this other lady, she comes up and I think she was like a manager or something
and she like waddled over and gave her like a bottle of water.
I'm like, that's not going to help her.
She just her ass beat.
Like that's not going to do shit.
So listen, so this is the crazy shit.
How about 911 had me on hold?
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And when the dispatcher finally picked up, she's like, oh, we got that call already.
And then she banged on me.
Like just real fucking nasty and surly.
And I really hope the city council really does do something about that.
But anyways, I'm in line and I see my frat brother.
I'm like, oh shit Phi, I didn't know you worked here.
He come over like, Cris, what you doing down here?
So I'm telling him what happened.
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And he works there in loss prevention.
And so he said that earlier, one of the girls who came there, she to fight the girl, she
was in line checking out and she felt like the cashier had an attitude with her.
So they exchanged words or whatever and then the girl said, oh, I'm coming back with my
Friends and or my cousins or whatever.
And cashier said, do it.
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And she just went on about a day.
So he said the manager did ask her, did she want to finish her shift at another store?
And she said, I ain't on no punk shit.
And so she stayed.
And I mean, at least they offered because some stores would have just let their staff
get washed.
And I mean, I just, I always say those who leave are those who win.
But anyway, I was like, you know, the girl stole some bags and he gonna say, nah, they
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stole her.
Shout out to my frat brother.
I'm not gonna put your name out there, but you a nut Phi.
It's crazy because I usually don't like going out when I know it's going to be crowded,
like especially with, like I said, with these mass shootings and everything, like I'm on
high alert.
But the moral of the story is stop thinking it’s punk ass to get out of dodge, protect yourselves.
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Those who leave are those who win.
And yo, he said they would have escorted her to the other store if she wanted to go.
And also, I'm gonna lean in on this one.
If you're a Black cashier, speak to other Black people when we get in your line.
Don't just be pleasant with the white folks.
Be pleasant with us too.
Like don't get Keith Lee’d at work, even though that's probably not the worst thing that could
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happen.
Like the worst thing is getting jumped at your job by six crack baby hood rats who ain't
got nothing to lose.
But I didn't even buy anything, honestly, that I couldn't have waited until Cyber Monday
for.
I'm like, man, I gotta get home.
I gotta get out of here.
I gotta do the show.
But the other thing is too, I could have gone to self-checkout.
And I don't know if you guys have noticed, but they have these scanners now.
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They look like phones.
And what they're doing on those phones is they're watching everything you buy and scanning
and they checking your total.
And like, let's say somebody shoplifts, all of those phones jam up and then they got to
go to everyone's station.
And it's just a whole fiasco.
And I'd rather just honestly just have somebody else bag up my stuff and scan it so I can
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get out of there.
And one more thing, FYI, Black Friday is not tied to slavery.
Stop believing everything you read on Facebook and the IG gossip sites.
Like you gotta do your research, like seriously.
But I saw this meme on Black Friday and it said, Dear Black Friday, we all have flat
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screens.
Put those groceries on sale. Yeah for sure.
Like facts.
I mean, bro, milk is $7.
Like I'm straight about to just be vegan.
Have you seen the price of oxtail?
Yo, all right, Joey, this is for you.
There's a spot in Philly that my homegirl told me about.
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They sell an oxtail cheesesteak.
The shit is $35 though.
No.
It's because the oxtail being the $35, I can see why it's $35.
But here's the deal.
It's not full of oxtail.
It's a cheesesteak that they put a little bit of oxtail on top of.
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It's not like you get full oxtail on the cheesesteak.
$35.
Yeah, I'm good.
Shout out to my homegirl who told me about that.
Let me know how that steak was because that's all you ma.
But anyway, before we go, before we go, I'd be remiss if I did not acknowledge that 2023
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marks the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop.
Now, The Cris David Show was on break during the summer while all the festivities were
underway.
But I wanted to ask you guys, what are some of your favorite Hip Hop records?
My brother raised me on Nas.
Like that was his favorite guy.
Like we were anti-Jay Z and stuff like that.
Of course, we respect Jay Z work and stuff like that.
I grew up on a lot of New York Hip Hop and things like that.
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And what's funny about that is that some of the stuff that comes to my mind isn't some
of the most mainstream stuff.
I like some old 50 Cent.
Some of that stuff still rocks.
You know what I mean?
You're just talking about some older stuff.
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Nas has newer stuff.
He has like Magic, I, II, and III.
Those albums are all fire.
He had the King's Disease, I, II, and III.
He's been putting out good quality music.
And also, and these are more recently, these aren't super old.
This is not Stillmatic, Illmatic, Hip Hop is Dead old stuff.
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This is more recent stuff.
So that's always good.
I bang with Drake.
That him in Sexyy Red, that Hands on Your Knees shit.
That shit good.
That's a club banger.
Hands on Your Knees I’m telling you
I went to a Sexyy Red concert.
That was just so much energy and live.
But I think it's not their records.
It's like things about the culture of Hip Hop.
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I miss Datpiff.
The mixed tape culture, Wayne, Dipset, like these iconic moments
of faction where you can go back and be like, man, remember when Juelz was supposed to save
the game?
Juelz Santana was supposed to be that guy.
It didn't happen.
But still those ones where you hear this hype for Clockwork, that when Jeezy first down the
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scene, really seeing when Gucci lost the weight, Waka, all these iconic moments where again,
our old school now, you put, Oh Let's Do It on, we all go ham on it.
Just those iconic moments where they were new and felt fresh.
And now looking back, it's nostalgia, a lot of stuff.
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And so that's what I miss where I grew up in Hip Hop, what it was, what it is.
I want to see someone body someone else's beat.
You know, I don't want to see all these little EPs, the drills, the remixes of the remix of
the remix, all this other stuff.
I want to see someone go bar for bar, hot 32 on something real quick.
You know, we had your favorite rappers, four people on the beat, who's going to end it?
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But honestly, I think that's what Hip Hop is meant to evolve.
And we haven't scratched it, DJs my first game.
So what it is, and maybe that's me being my old head is where if I don't get it, I just
don't like it necessarily.
And so I'm learning how do I adapt because Jay aint getting younger, Fab aint getting younger,
you know, Weezy, he had one, two or three drugs left, but where, you know, I go over
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time, but I think, you know, I will be seeing little Wayne when he's 60 on stage rap.
Like, I'm gonna be there.
I'm gonna go do it.
You know, Weezy, yes, baby, the F is for phenomenal.
I'm gonna be there.
Now see you guys know I'm with the shits.
You both know I'm with the shits.
It's the culture, you know, I think it's not the music, it's what it represents, you know,
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the fashion, the way we talk, the way we interact, you know, Future is still a menace out here.
It's all that and above, but that's, I think what it represents more so just a specific
song.
So this is what just always blows my mind about Hip Hop is that what we know was born
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in a community room.
And that's just very symbolic because how many times have we gone down to the community
room or to a community center for a birthday party or going away party or baby shower or
to some other get together.
And I mean, you couldn't get in unless your name was on the list.
So but for me, I like anything that fuses Hip Hop with another genre, specifically like
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Dancehall, R&B, House, like I still go hard for my straight up Hip Hop records.
But for me, it's the records like The Jam, P is Still Free, Dolly My Baby, Ghetto Red
Hot, Take It Easy, Think, Romantic Call, Nothing But Love and I mean, rest in peace to Heavy
D. He was actually the first one to do the video with all the models.
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Some people think it's Q-Tip, but it was heavy, shout out to Q-Tip too.
But Funk Dat, shout out to The Illustrious Blacks, they remade Funk Dat.
I used to get in trouble for rapping that shit in class.
I knew all the words and I would add words and I'll share that sometimes, it's not today.
But what else?
Buffalo Stance, The Chubbster, Rhythm Is A Dancer, The Power, 3AM Eternal, which is
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like truly an early dubstep record, like guys like Skrillex studied that record.
I Can't Stand It, which is legendary obscure banger.
Lovebug Starski, You Gotta Believe and yo, when I was a kid, I had this toy called a
Talkboy.
It was a tape recorder that Kevin had in Home Alone, remember that?
Yep.
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Remember the tape recorder?
So I'd be on it, right?
You Gotta Believe playing in the background.
And it was like the playoffs.
It was like the Mets playoffs or something that everybody's running around talking about.
Yeah, you gotta believe.
And so I had a record on and I'm in the Talkboy.
I'm like, yeah, fuck the Mets, you gotta believe in my big cock.
And you hear my mom in the background going Cris, watch your mouth.
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That record is wild.
That record was in D minor and my D was a minor back then.
But anyway, Rest In Peace, The Lovebug Starski, I gotta see if I still have that tape.
I probably bring this record up every time we talk about music, but Crash Goes Love,
Loleatta Holloway was Planet Rock and Play At Your Own Risk.
And those were freestyle records.
I'll say it again, specifically to the Hispanics in Miami.
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Freestyle came from the same place and people as Hip Hop did.
We can't forget the love Chaka showed to Hip Hop either.
Chaka stayed having Hip Hop break beats.
This is My Night, which It Takes Two samples.
Kid-N-Play sampled Ain't Nobody on Last Night.
De La had Chaka on All Good.
B.I.G. said what he said about Chaka on Dreams and I'm not going to repeat it because the
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cuss bank is looking crazy already.
I don't need any more strikes.
She was definitely in the Hip Hop clubs back in the day, Latin Quarters.
We love Chaka here at The Cris David Show.
But the R&B influence in Hip Hop is a whole show in itself.
Shout out to Mack Wilds and Nathaniel, Staten Island, BK, stand up.
Anyhow, guys, get those health screens.
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Prostate and testicular, but also get those physicals.
Get those A1C’s and lipids checked.
Get that blood pressure in check.
If you're 50 today, Happy Birthday.
You need to be scheduling that colonoscopy.
If you have a mouth, schedule that dentist visit.
If you have a head, schedule that eye exam.
It's our job to look out for one another and hold each other accountable.
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Also, next Friday, December 1st is World AIDS Day.
This is your official Cris David Show reminder to do your big one and go out and get tested.
For more information, visit HIV.gov or contact your health care provider.
You don't have anything to be ashamed of and there are people here to support you.
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Like Domo Jones says, wrap it up.
I need to make a retraction, though, from our episode, the front of the show, Chandra
Smith, Ms. Wheelchair America 2024.
We mentioned that Chandra was the first Black Ms. Wheelchair America in the organization's
50-year history.
That statement was not true.
Dr. Gaynell Colburn of Baltimore, Maryland became the first Black woman to win the title
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of Ms. Wheelchair America in 1984.
Ten years prior to winning the title, Dr. Colburn became paraplegic after she was hit
by a drunk driver in an auto accident at 16.
Dr. Colburn, Ms. Wheelchair America 1985, has a PhD and an MD certification in health
science and pediatric wellness.
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She is also an accomplished percussionist and vocalist, Essence Award winner, teacher,
and motivational speaker.
On behalf of The Cris David Show, Dr. Gaynell Colburn, we celebrate you.
And before we go, I usually end the show asking our guests, you know, the time machine question.
But since it's the end of the year, I want to ask you guys the $20 question.
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What did you learn about yourself in 2023?
You know, it's funny.
You see the meme, like, God, I'm not your toughest soldier.
I'm done fighting battles, but I'll say resiliency.
You know, we all have our personal battles, things happen.
But honestly, when it gets tough, you just keep going.
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And knowing that adversity, power through, but also just saying pace and grace.
Grace was something I had to really learn this year.
To know that it's okay where I am.
I'm going to get to where I need to be.
But in time, enjoy the journey.
Give myself the grace that, hey, it's not a two week process.
It might be months, but that's okay.
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And at the same time, I'll still get the same result.
So I learned a couple of different things.
One, like from like a work standpoint, you like everybody talks about job security and
everything like that, but you don't really want a job that is only going to like if your
job doesn't appreciate you or do anything like that, why do you care if you're secure
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at a job that doesn't appreciate you or care about you?
You know what I mean?
So I literally had like at the beginning of the year, I was at one job.
They didn't appreciate me.
I left.
I was working at another job.
They seen the value that they lost and they end up offering me a bigger compensation and
everything like that just to get me back.
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And that's when I really like looked at it and like, you're way more qualified and you're
way more like than you think.
Like I just thought that I'm just a regular guy.
You're average guy.
I'm just as replaceable as anybody else.
But just because you're replaceable doesn't mean that you lack value.
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You know what I mean?
Anybody can do a job, but not everybody is going to be able to do the job with the certain
soft skills that I have.
You know what I mean?
I know how to talk to people.
I know how to interact with people, connect with people.
Those are soft skills that not everybody has.
Everybody can be just as technical as I am, but not everybody will have that type of skills.
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Also another thing is that I am a party animal.
My thing is that I can't just take one shot and just be chill about it.
I'm going to have to drink half the bottle with you so that I can, I want to feel something.
What I learned is that because I'm hot and cold, either you gonna, you have to be, if
it's going to be like that, then you have to follow it through.
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If I'm going to be responsible and be focused and things like that, then I can't have partying
on my mind or vice versa.
If I'm going to party, then make sure that partying is like, you're going to just party
and then know when to let the party stop.
Because the party has to end at some point and you have to get back to reality and stuff
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like that.
It's all good to have a good time, but too much of anything is always a bad thing.
One thing I learned is that I like to drink, I used to drink every day.
Now it's more of a special occasion type of thing.
One, you'll see how your body will feel better and your weight and everything like that because
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people love to drink and I love to drink too.
I'm not shaming nobody.
You want to drink every day, that's fine.
I’d drink two tallboys and a couple of shots a day for months, for months.
Was that the best thing?
Probably not.
Am I sharper now that I'm not drinking as much?
Yes, I'm a lot more focused, I'm a lot sharper.
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I'm a lot more there mentally.
So if you feel that you're going through something a little bit mental, you don't know why you're
in a funk, you don't know what is really going on with you, just take a break from the drink
a little bit.
Take a day or two.
Maybe once you stop drinking a little bit, then you'll see maybe where you can, maybe
it's not the drinking.
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Maybe it might be like, oh, me drinking on top of me being sad is the reason why I'm
really depressed right now.
You know what I mean?
But why are you sad?
I'm sad because I have no friends right now.
My relationship is not going the right way.
My job life is really stressing me out.
You know what I mean?
Then you're adding drinking or drugs or anything else on top of that and now you have a whole
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mixture of different emotions why you don't know why you are where you're at.
Then some people lose themselves.
I lost myself.
How did you lose yourself?
You are always the same person that you've always been.
So how can't you find your grounding point?
How can't you go back there?
If that's hard for you, then you might need to start cutting back some stuff and seeing
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where some of those issues lie at.
Then you'll be able to grow from that.
That's what I seen.
I was able to put a little bit of the drinking down in the partying down and then from there
I seen that I'm a lot more focused and I'm a lot more, I'm just a lot better in every
aspect.
Congratulations on pulling it together and figuring that out because we've all been there.
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We've all been there with some things harder than others.
So, I'll keep mine brief.
And yall know I'm really not going to keep it brief, but I'mma try.
When I first started this show at the top of the year, I thought things would go differently.
I thought my friends would be more supportive of me pursuing my dream.
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I thought that people that I've interacted with would be as willing to support me in this
field, in this field of human endeavor as I had supported them and theirs.
I was given excuses, I was ghosted and people who know me pretended to not know me.
I learned who really see it for me and everything I'm giving.
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I learned that regardless of what anyone says or does, I am living in the light and the
right and the way.
And I know it's best for me, my family, my life and my show.
I learned to be kinder to myself and give myself grace because I'm doing my best.
I learned not to compromise my comfort.
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I learned to let people be loud and wrong, even when they weren't interested in learning
facts for just being the loudest person in the room.
I learned to not let squatters who don't belong dictate how I exist in my space.
I learned that only I define my peace, my success and my happiness.
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I learned to no longer let others move my goalpost.
I learned to leave people alone who don't prioritize facts over foolishness.
I learned to stop trying to prove myself to people who were committed to misunderstanding
me.
I learned that I choose family.
I learned that setting boundaries isn't a punishment.
I learned to leave old relationships in the past.
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Don't reach out, don't add, don't message.
Just leave them in the past.
And if it's meant to be, if it's meant for us to reconnect, we will, but don't go seeking
them out.
If anything, let them reach out and really reach out via text or call, not some
waving hand emoji or this stupid thing down here.
The googly eyed emoji.
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I learned that there's always a brand new street to turn on with new people to get to
know and build community.
I learned I don't have to share spaces or walls with people who steal my joy.
I learned not to coddle low hanging food and not to take those seriously who don't take
themselves seriously.
I learned that people who always have to be right are usually always wrong.
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I learned that I'd rather be happy all the time than to be right all the time.
I learned to embrace peace and joy and that I don't have to hide my happiness out of fear
of someone taking it from me because I learned to finally take my own advice for once and
not to invest in anyone who doesn't give me interest.
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I learned that I won, might not be the fav, but I won.
Lastly, I learned that Black don't crack, but we gain weight. Ok?
And I learned that Sativa is the ops.
No, but I learned more about me in 2023 than in any other year of my life.
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And I plan to learn even more in 2024.
All for the good, all for the better.
Khai and Joey, thanks for being here.
We're going to do this again because this was a hit.
And everyone clap it up for our guys, Joey Black, aka Joey tha Heckler and our official
Cris David Show mixologist, Mr. Joey Baston and your favorite person's favorite person,
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Khampagne Kola Papi.
Wait a minute.
I have it all written down, but I got it all here.
Khampagne Kola Papi, the chunky Jaden Smith, black Khyna, Supreme Khai, LL Cool K, Mr. Khai
Thomas.
All right.
I like the Supreme Khai.
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I'm like all of them, man.
I was like, I got to see, I'm just, I was going to try to pick one, but I was like,
nah, I'm just going to read the whole list.
I am your host, Cris David, the light skinned Malcolm Jamal Warner, the hood Lenny Kravitz,
the Afro futuristic magical Negro version of Joan Hamburg.
We are a vibe.
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Thanks for listening.
Oh wait, wait, wait.
I need to make an announcement.
Wait a minute.
I need to make an announcement.
So here's the deal.
I am so impressed with how you guys helped me with those questions earlier in the show
that I'm pleased to announce that in 2024, the Cris David show will be starting a new
segment during our Men's Discussion Panel called Ask the Guys.
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So sending your questions for that info@thecrisdavidshow.com.
Remember to put Ask the Guys in the subject line and send in those Sex Coach questions
as well.
Thanks for listening and watching.
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the show.
Be safe and be smart out there in those Black Friday streets.
I am Cris David and this is The Cris David Show.
Be kind and be well.
I'm gonna tell you guys this, somebody DM'd me and they asked me, did I want to be on
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this reality show?
And like it was legit.
Like it was a scout.
They were like, you fit the criteria, the demographic we're seeking, DM us back if you
be, you know, considered, you want to be considered for casting.
And I'm like, nah, man, I'm not going to be impin’ and simpin’ on some damn Fuckboi Island
2.0.
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Like the Zeus Network. So yeah, like I'm not doing that stupid shit!
Come on.
Nah, you know, it's funny.
So during the pandemic, during the pandemic, I made it to the final round of Love is Blind
season two.
And I was all about it.
Like I want to show love for, you know, be a plus size male, all this other stuff.
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But then thinking through it, right?
I didn't realize, yes, maybe I could find the love of my life and this would be perfect.
This is my story, but can I deal with the backlash?
Right?
And that was gonna love me.
Right?
How are you going to edit me?
And can I be like, you know, trying to home also, I see the comments like, fuck that man,
like this random person, can my ego handle that?
And honestly, I backed out because I didn't know if I was ready to be a public figure
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for something that wasn't trying to be a public figure for.
And they show this like, well, I actually believe in the science or whatever he's doing.
But then do I believe that person in Kansas was wrote a whole blog about me?
Right?
That was tough.
So I backed away from it because I couldn't handle the fact of my life's a public figure.
The more I go, I go to work.
Oh, you're the Love is Blind guy.
LA.
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Like, no, like, you know too much about me.
I don't want you to know that.
And I just couldn't handle the public figure.
And I think that's the big thing with fame or anything is like, no matter how big or
small, I’m not ok with random people commenting on my life the way they want to.
Okay.
Khai what are you doing for the holidays?
What are you doing for Christmas and New Year's?
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Christmas right now.
It's a double dip between spending time with some friends in DC family and New Year's.
I'm trying to be out somewhere in a tux just out and about just living up.
I'm trying to get, you know, a Black, great Gatsby.
Nice.
I feel you.
Listen, listen, you find this the place you invite your boys.
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All right.
Let's do it.
What are you doing?
What are you doing for Christmas and New Year's?
If we do, we do family stuff, then I end up going, just staying more local.
And then we'll, I'll probably be in Pennsylvania.
You can find me at your local King of Prussia Mall.
Probably. Best mall in the world.
Nice.
Well, I mean, I traveled all summer, so I've just been on my chill.
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I'm reclaiming my Black time.
I'm off work till next year.
So I'm just going to be on the couch watching a Black Cake and some cheesy Christmas movies.
Well, do you all watch those cheesy Christmas movies?
Joey, I know, I know Britney has you watching those movies.
Yeah.
You got to watch a Christmas story.
A Christmas Story has to happen at least one time every Christmas.
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You got to shoot your eye out every, shoot your eye out every Christmas.
You know, you know, you're gonna do the black, you got to do the Black versions the ones that are on BET.
So honestly, my new like favorite genre is the hood movies on Amazon Prime, where it's
someone from Detroit, 20K budget.
You see the boom mic in it, but it's always about like plug love or something like that.
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You're just like, I want to turn away, but this is fire.
It's the Tubi movies.
Like, wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was about to say that the Tubi movies.
Yeah, those are, those are, those are kind of crazy.
They're really good though.
Like some of them are really good, like the plot lines are just, they remind me of African
movies.
They are.
Nollywood and the Ghanaian movies.
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Yeah, that's what they remind me of.
I mean, I watched the holiday movies, but they start to be predictable after a while
because it's like he or she has a big important job, comes home for the holidays, links up
with the guy or the girl they liked in high school, can't stand each other, love each
other, fight, get engaged end scene.
But you know, now I can share this with you guys.
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Something dawned on me the other day and this isn't even with the Christmas movies.
Like don't, don't, but, but, but don't those regular lifetime movies look like Blacked porns?
Ah, see, see, see it's the same lens filter.
Like it's the same lens filter.
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The actresses are like nondescript.
The music be the same.
I was watching one the other night with the crazy psycho yoga instructor and it was
the scene where they had the threesome and I'm like, yo, it's giving Blacked.
IYKYK.
Speaking of porn, have you guys seen the AI porn that people are generating now?
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I've never seen AI porn, but because I'm a porn enthusiast, that's like a, don't tell
anybody.
Oh Joey, they know now.
Joey, they knew when you came on the camera.
They knew.
Oh, that I'm, that I, that I'm into the occult life.
Yeah.
I'm into everything.
Everything that’s bad for you I’m cool with it.
They know about Khai too.
I'm cool with it.
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So they have anime porn.
I'm into anime, so they have that too.
So I guess that's like AI porn also.
I mean, but this Khai, have you seen it?
Have you seen the AI porn?
I haven't.
I'm like, I'm more of a vanilla guy, mad gas, a little exotic, but nothing too crazy.
All right.
All right.
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I hope you guys are ready because I'm going to show you something.
I'm not going to put this up in the video, but I'm just going to.
Okay.
So this is what's going, this is what's going on in AI porn.
Look, look, look, look, look at her head.
360? This is what's going on.
And then they got, I mean, this is, see, this isn't for me because this shit is real uncanny
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valley. That looks more like 3D porn.
They have 3D porn.
That's like that.
But it's nuts though.
Like why is her head like completely swiveled around like on some Exorcist shit?
And look at this.
They got things coming out of places that shouldn't be like that.
Oh, they got hand penises.
A hand cock.
That's a hand cock.
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I can't.
No kink shaming. No kink shaming.
This is too much.
This is way too much.
I mean, anyway, but with the Christmas movies, I mean, Tatyana Ali or Keisha Knight-Pulliam
are in the movies I'll watch because Ashley and Rudy are still my crushes.
I love a brown skin cutie.
All right.
But Joey put me on to this documentary called Torn and Torn is about a rock climber named
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Alex Lowe, who perished in an avalanche in Tibet back in 1999.
His best friend and climbing partner, Conrad Anker, survived the avalanche and after Alex's
death, Conrad and Alex's widow, Jenny, fell in love and married.
Now here's the question of the day.
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Question of the week, probably the question of the century.
If you want to die in a freak accident, Khai, does your homie get your blessing to link
up with your mate?
That's a tough one.
But if they find comfort in overcoming and remembering me together, I guess so.
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Like, hey, I'm not there to stop their happiness.
I mean, you dead.
How can you?
Oh, exactly.
But honestly, though, I think even in relationships, right, you protect your boy's girl, right?
If my boy's not around and his girl, I'll make sure she's all right and she's good.
In the same way, this is them doing the ulitimate respect of doing so.
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I'm not around to protect her and make sure she's all right.
You know, I think honestly, it's tough because I'm not there.
But like, it's like if I ever got like moves on, life's gonna go on with them here or not.
So hey, more power to them, you know, make sure my kids remember me.
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Joey, what about you?
Are you allowing your homie to take on the beautiful Britney?
After seeing that movie and reflecting on it, it's like there was a lot that was going on.
So it was like a perfect storm.
One day, one, the dude had survivor guilt while the widow, she was really grieving hard at
the time.
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And they had a trauma bond connection that brought them together.
And then because basically, the question is, do you believe in trauma bonds?
And is that a is that a real is that a real thing to like, like, is that real love or
just because they were like in that trauma bond?
That's the reason why they're together.
It can be a lot of different ways that you can digest that.
But also she had small kids.
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She had a lot going on with her that the absence of that male figure was very prevalent, very
like, he was a big part of their lives.
He was a provider.
He helped them establish the life that they did have and things like that.
They also have three small children together.
And him not being there was definitely a big blow to the family dynamic that they had.
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So the best friend actually stepping in kind of helped facilitate, like, basically, their
family can continue to roll on as normal because that place was never vacant.
It was a it was only vacant in that that spot got refilled very quickly.
So in that sense, it worked out where I think it gets kind of problematic is that those
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kids are the the guy that died.
But because they were so young, the only father figure they know is the new guy.
So they call him dad, which that blew my mind.
I'm like, that's not your dad, my dude.
That's definitely not your dad.
That's not your dad.
But that is his dad because that's the only father figure I ever knew.
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The other guy wasn't there because he was always climbing and then he died prematurely.
So I can see how it happened.
And I understand.
And I just think it was a lot of different circumstances that came that court like that
came together at the same time to make it be like that.
But it's still a very crazy story.
So I mean, would you be cool with your homie getting with your lady after you're dead?
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Also I'm dead.
You can do whatever you want.
You're not going to come back from the dead and, you know, shake and rattle chains.
I mean, they also because if you at the towards the end of the movie, they they gave him his
respect.
They didn't like spit on his grave.
Like once they found out they could find his body because he was he was lost to the mountain
and then they end up finding his body and they had a whole base.
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They basically had a whole goodbye ritual for him, like as his last like as a last peace
offering type of thing.
And I think that's I think that's where it is.
They at least respected like they at least respected him enough to at least give him
a final goodbye.
And the way the friend made it seem he said that I'm doing all of this.
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I guess it also is it also is a little bit selfish that basically because that guy always
wanted that type of dynamic in his life.
He wanted the family life.
You know, like he was single that dude.
Like basically he saw his friend's life and he always wanted all of that.
And then when he died, he kind of embraced all of that, which is like more for him.
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But also it also helped everybody else out.
So it's kind of like one hand washes the other type of thing.
So I think a tragic situation and a little bit of selfishness end up helping everybody
else out.
So I mean, it was kind of sus though, like how he just moved in on Jenny and the kids.
But I mean, for me, I wouldn't care because I'm not here.
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You have my blessing to go and be happy even in life.
Like say I lost function of my penis or I no longer had sexual desire.
Go find someone that you can be fulfilled with on some Hulk Hogan and Bubba type time.
But Torn is a tearjerker.
And Joey, I know the Cancer-crab and you had you bawling like a baby.
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No, I just thought it was at first when when they were talking about it, because I thought
it because they do look similar.
Also, I thought that he I thought he was the dad at first.
Yeah, he was like the kids look more like him than they did their father.
Yes.
So I was like I was like I didn't think he died until they said, well, when did you and
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mom really start to get together?
And I'm saying, what?
That's not the husband.
Like, no, that's the best friend.
Like, oh, now now I got set back.
Now I got OK.
Now we're cooking bacon.
I mean, me personally, I'm not exploring like that.
I'm good.
The most I'm doing is Prospect Park on a Saturday night.
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I damn near died doing that.
But the lesson is to not ignore your instinct.
Alex ignored his instinct.
He said he didn't want to go that time.
So right.
And then him and David and Conrad ignored their instincts.
They went out, you know, instead of staying at camp.
But you know, Torn reminded me, Joey, of this other movie I saw as a kid called Alive.
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It was about the rugby team and their plane crashed in the Andes.
They ran out of food and they had to eat their friend who had died to survive.
And it used to be a commercial for Andes Mints.
And they were mimicking that shit like it was horrible.
Like they were looking for food and the guy starts popping Andes.
And then it was it was pretty bad.
But then 127 Hours.
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That was another movie.
It reminded me of with James Franco.
When had to cut his arm off.
Because he was in the ice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, sometimes you just got to cut things to free yourself or save your show.
I guess I needed to go with my instincts as well.
If you know, you know.
But thanks for the recommendation, Joey.
And guys, check out Torn it’s on Hulu.
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You know what else is a tearjerker, though?
The Whale.
Did you guys see the whale with Brendan Fraser?
No, I heard that man.
I mean, aside from it being shot so well and Brendan Fraser definitely deserved that Oscar.
There was this binge eating scene and I don't want to give away too much.
But oh, my God, like that shit was so accurate.
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Like for anyone who struggled with their weight, like, you know exactly what that shit was
about.
But you know, I got to say this because this has just been on my mind since you told me
about this movie.
Torn reminded me of Brokeback Mountain.
In a way.
And this is I'm just going to say this.
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This is what I learned at my big age about sex its not about the actors.
It's about the act.
When you're in a space with someone like a long isolated trip, or prison, you're human.
And eventually you act on urges.
It doesn't make you sus.
I mean, people always talk about a mindfuck and that's just what sex is.
It's a mental, physical connection.
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But anyway, we've got this new segment here on the show.
It's called It's Giving.
And I know that's a phrase that everyone uses now, but it originated, like most things,
in the Black LGBTQ community.
And, you know, we like to be informative and insightful here.
So I'm going to show you guys these pictures.
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They're these two guys from Atlanta, Brian Sanchez and Dynzel Sigers,
who got leg lengthening surgery.
OK, so this is the one guy.
This is Brian.
So you can see he was 6’.
Now he's 6’6”.
And now this is Dynzel.
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Dynzel was 5’5” and now he's 6’.
So the surgeries are done in Turkey.
They cost anywhere from 80 to $100,000.
Now social media went in on these dudes talking about they got
knee-BLs and calling them mentally ill.
So Brian said that despite being taller than average, he thought his legs made him look
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like the character Thumb Thumb from Spy Kids.
He wanted to be significantly taller than his wife so that they wouldn't be at eye level.
And Dynzel said he was tired of women rejecting him for his height.
Joey, what's it giving?
It's giving that.
It's giving that they they they everybody has a self its giving self-esteem issues.
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That's what it's giving.
It’s Giving self-esteem issues because I know this Haitian dude that's 4’11”.
He's small, dude, but he has a beautiful family.
He could use the he could use the weight of the world of him being short.
Like, oh, no, but no, he like I'm just short, but I still do everything like a regular person.
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It's almost like a midget.
Do we feel bad for midgets being midgets?
No midgets are people, too.
And yes, they might have different obstacles to go through, but at the end of the day,
they still have they have to they have to live through that experience.
So how they navigate through that is how they navigate.
So they have to get a stepping stool or whatever to help them get to navigate through that
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life.
Then that's perfectly fine.
It's pretty much the same thing.
These guys felt that their height is too small.
There's a there's something that they can do about it.
There's nothing you can do about it, but if there's something that they can do about it
and they have the means to do it, then there's nothing wrong with that.
And body modification.
It's only cool when it's piercings and tattoos.
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But now if I cut my tongue in half or if I start looking like the tiger or lizard man
and now I'm going crazy or now if I if a girl gets a BBL, that's cool.
But if I get if I get cool sculpting because I want my six-pack to pop out now, I'm a weirdo.
I think the body modification only works as if it's an accepted part of the modification
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field.
You know what I mean?
And that's where it's like that's where I feel like it's problematic.
But I'm also very I'm not the tallest guy.
I'm only 5’6”, 5’7”.
That's that's a little bit below average, but I think I'm funnier than the average person.
So my funniness and my coolness make up for me for my lack of [shortness].
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So when I was back in the dating game, I used to tell people I'm shorter than what I was.
So I used to like I said that would be like my little gimmick.
Like yeah, I'm like I'm five foot nothing.
Like I don't like guys that are five foot nothing.
Well, then you're not going to like me then.
And then the people that would give me a chance.
You're not five foot nothing.
Why would you tell me that?
Because it will show you if you would care or not.
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Obviously you don't care.
And obviously we're here and I'm not five nothing.
And now all of that pre all of that preamble type of mentality is going to be gone because
you don't because I'm not that you know what I mean?
Khai, what's it giving?
Mental health. Mental health is real.
Like honestly, I think with my medications, what is it about me that physically if it's
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cause if it's non needed cosmetic surgery, what is it that I can't get over?
Right.
I mean, I can get the knee surgery, but am I still attacking?
I still can't get women.
Right.
So what is it now?
I'm tall enough, but I still can't get women or you know, people that, oh, I got the surgery,
but I regret it.
Right.
Okay.
All the people that have like the botched surgeries, right.
You're doing it, but you're not doing it safely.
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There's a reason I need to get society, my partner, someone's telling me that, hey, let's
talk through the issue.
Why do I feel this way?
Maybe help me feel better about how I see myself in the mirror.
If not, let's go straight to the surgery table and then we get exhausted.
I really like, you know, we look at the show, Botched.
And the first one, okay, cool.
The second one, now why are you in your first surgery and now you're just getting some fix,
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fix, fix, and now you're adding to the issue you had already.
Good.
Now what you want to fix is now uglier.
It's honestly just mental health.
Manifest self-loathing in so many different ways.
You know, either have major problems, low problems.
You're like, hey, I'm a short man.
How do I feel?
How do I feel more confident in my life if I am short?
Maybe my therapist can help me through that, but honestly, doing all these different things,
you know, my wife to be taller, you know, I'm not going to be able to do that.
I'm going to be able to do it.
I'm going to be able to do it.
Who said he looked like thumbs?
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That's you coming out of left field.
That's still not...
And he's clearly like into his look because he's a bodybuilder, this guy.
I didn't see anything wrong with him, but okay, so this is what it's giving to me.
It's Giving South Park, I'm a dolphin.
Do you guys remember that episode?
None of us even know.
Oh my Lord.
So the dad gets like this surgery to become a dolphin.
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One of the other, Mr. Garrison, I think he got his legs lengthened or something.
Anyway, jokes aside, I'm not even going to go in on these two.
They're good looking dudes, but everyone has something they're insecure about.
And the message in the music is to be kind.
Some chick told Dynzel she didn't like him because he was short and he internalized that
shit for years.
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So I mean, we got guys out here telling girls their pussies are ugly.
I mean, only toxic people weaponize things that people can't change.
But like I said earlier, technological advancements are going in the wrong direction.
Like can we regenerate limbs already?
What about organs or hearing or sight?
But there should be nothing wrong with it.
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If a girl can get a BBL, then I can get a fake six-pack. You can get a BBL.
Or I can get a BBL or whatever.
I should be able to get my fake six pack if a girl can get a BBL.
I agree.
I mean, listen, anyway, these guys are brave as hell.
Like I've done elective procedures myself, and that's a big risk in general, being put
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under and then having to recover and then you run the risk of infection and clots and
all of that.
Then to be roasted by social media.
I mean, that's another thing in and of itself.
But while we do need to normalize men getting work, I don't know, my mind just always goes
back to the active shooter.
Like I just imagine one of those guys is at the mall, you know, shopping or trying to
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get some exercise.
And if they had to run and they're not fully healed, their legs would break and they'd
be trampled.
I mean, I can't help that my mind works like this, but you know, like this, we live in
America.
But now as far as me, like as far as my height, like I always wanted to be 6'3", 6'4".
So I bought these stupid, like sneaker boots from ASOS thinking they would give me like
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the two or three inches I wanted but ASOS lied.
But I only got an inch, but I mean, they're comfortable so I wear them like everywhere.
And by the way, I put the pics back up of the guys who had the surgeries.
And you can see that their arms are still proportioned to their original heights.
And also I see like some edema in the pics.
But anyway, unless you were born with a defect, everything on your body is proportionate.
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Like your forearm length is the length of your shoe size.
Here I go with the science lessons.
Listen, you know I keep coming with deeper and more shit. I can’t help it. I can’t help it!
But no, seriously, look, look, look.
And then if you do this, if you go from your elbow to your fingertips, that is one quarter
of your height.
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So if you go from your elbow to your finger, to like the longest finger that you have,
that's one quarter of your height.
Like if you take your thumb, if you do this, look at what I'm doing right now.
If you do this, this is the length of your nose bridge.
So someone who had a nose job, they can't do this.
But if you go like this.
Interesting.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
See?
And then your nose is halfway between your hairline and your chin.
And the space between your eyes right here, that's one eye.
And then the space between your eye and your ear, let me go this way, eye and your ear,
that's one ear.
And that's like just on your face.
Because now your chest is like halfway between your genitals and the top of your head.
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And it's as wide as a quarter of your height.
And so like think of it this way.
If the standard door, right, is 80 inches or that’s six foot six, then a six foot person's
head is going to come to like the top of the inner square.
And I hope you app daters are paying attention for when the folks lie about how tall they
are.
But I mean, I haven't even gotten to like scapular positioning and shoulder to crotch
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length, crotch to heel.
Like listen, I be dropping science, like Cosby drop babies.
I'm gonna need you to put this up on a PowerPoint slide for me like just.
Yall I'm telling you.
Like somebody, listen, somebody's got to drop facts on these platforms.
I mean, listen, SAG AFTRA is off strike but Hollywood still using AI.
ASOS is out here lying.
Radio cats is catching RICO charges.
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DC niggas is trying to carjack Secret Service.
Horses is getting loose on the planes.
ShopRite’s got their seafood department escorting customers with crab legs up to the registers.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket.
But I mean, listen, at least they got Turkey legs.
Yeah, let's go.
Well, wait, did you get it?
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At least they got Turkey legs.
They went to Turkey to get the leg.
Okay.
Well, by the way, shout out to the other guy, Dynzel.
He's a Navy vet.
Yo, man, I got to take a nap after this.
Like I was up early this morning, Black Friday shopping.
Yo, they jumped a cashier this morning.
So listen, this is how it went down.
This is how it went down.
I'm like three spots back in the line with my cart.
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And these five girls just roll up and they on the cashier and they just start punching
her in the head.
So at first I'm thinking it's like, you know, like a neighborhood beef or some shit, you
know, because this is this happened at Club Walmart and Joey, you know, this is the Walmart
everybody and their mom goes to.
You in Philly.
You know which one I'm talking about.
So I'm in line and these sisters is just molly whopping her.
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And before you all get started with, why didn't you break them up?
Like I don’t jump in beefs.
You don't break people up.
I don't jump in beef.
But I did call 911.
I did call 911.
So they're just rolling on her and she's not even really like fighting back.
Like she just had her hands up, like trying to protect her face.
And so the girls got like a bunch of windmills in and you know, then they bounced.
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But wait, but wait, why did one of the girls when she was running out, she just grabbed
like a handful of plastic bags.
Like she damn near broke the bag holder, like trying to steal the bags.
And I guess her instinct was like, let me steal something before I get out of here because
I ain't never coming back.
So we're all just in shock.
So the lady in front of me, she had like this little flip phone out trying to record and
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I'm like, you not getting no 4K.
So then this other lady, she comes up and I think she was like a manager or something
and she like waddled over and gave her like a bottle of water.
I'm like, that's not going to help her.
She just her ass beat.
Like that's not going to do shit.
So listen, so this is the crazy shit.
How about 911 had me on hold?
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And when the dispatcher finally picked up, she's like, oh, we got that call already.
And then she banged on me.
Like just real fucking nasty and surly.
And I really hope the city council really does do something about that.
But anyways, I'm in line and I see my frat brother.
I'm like, oh shit Phi, I didn't know you worked here.
He come over like, Cris, what you doing down here?
So I'm telling him what happened.
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And he works there in loss prevention.
And so he said that earlier, one of the girls who came there, she to fight the girl, she
was in line checking out and she felt like the cashier had an attitude with her.
So they exchanged words or whatever and then the girl said, oh, I'm coming back with my
Friends and or my cousins or whatever.
And cashier said, do it.
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And she just went on about a day.
So he said the manager did ask her, did she want to finish her shift at another store?
And she said, I ain't on no punk shit.
And so she stayed.
And I mean, at least they offered because some stores would have just let their staff
get washed.
And I mean, I just, I always say those who leave are those who win.
But anyway, I was like, you know, the girl stole some bags and he gonna say, nah, they
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stole her.
Shout out to my frat brother.
I'm not gonna put your name out there, but you a nut Phi.
It's crazy because I usually don't like going out when I know it's going to be crowded,
like especially with, like I said, with these mass shootings and everything, like I'm on
high alert.
But the moral of the story is stop thinking it’s punk ass to get out of dodge, protect yourselves.
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Those who leave are those who win.
And yo, he said they would have escorted her to the other store if she wanted to go.
And also, I'm gonna lean in on this one.
If you're a Black cashier, speak to other Black people when we get in your line.
Don't just be pleasant with the white folks.
Be pleasant with us too.
Like don't get Keith Lee’d at work, even though that's probably not the worst thing that could
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happen.
Like the worst thing is getting jumped at your job by six crack baby hood rats who ain't
got nothing to lose.
But I didn't even buy anything, honestly, that I couldn't have waited until Cyber Monday
for.
I'm like, man, I gotta get home.
I gotta get out of here.
I gotta do the show.
But the other thing is too, I could have gone to self-checkout.
And I don't know if you guys have noticed, but they have these scanners now.
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They look like phones.
And what they're doing on those phones is they're watching everything you buy and scanning
and they checking your total.
And like, let's say somebody shoplifts, all of those phones jam up and then they got to
go to everyone's station.
And it's just a whole fiasco.
And I'd rather just honestly just have somebody else bag up my stuff and scan it so I can
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get out of there.
And one more thing, FYI, Black Friday is not tied to slavery.
Stop believing everything you read on Facebook and the IG gossip sites.
Like you gotta do your research, like seriously.
But I saw this meme on Black Friday and it said, Dear Black Friday, we all have flat
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screens.
Put those groceries on sale. Yeah for sure.
Like facts.
I mean, bro, milk is $7.
Like I'm straight about to just be vegan.
Have you seen the price of oxtail?
Yo, all right, Joey, this is for you.
There's a spot in Philly that my homegirl told me about.
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They sell an oxtail cheesesteak.
The shit is $35 though.
No.
It's because the oxtail being the $35, I can see why it's $35.
But here's the deal.
It's not full of oxtail.
It's a cheesesteak that they put a little bit of oxtail on top of.
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It's not like you get full oxtail on the cheesesteak.
$35.
Yeah, I'm good.
Shout out to my homegirl who told me about that.
Let me know how that steak was because that's all you ma.
But anyway, before we go, before we go, I'd be remiss if I did not acknowledge that 2023
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marks the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop.
Now, The Cris David Show was on break during the summer while all the festivities were
underway.
But I wanted to ask you guys, what are some of your favorite Hip Hop records?
My brother raised me on Nas.
Like that was his favorite guy.
Like we were anti-Jay Z and stuff like that.
Of course, we respect Jay Z work and stuff like that.
I grew up on a lot of New York Hip Hop and things like that.
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And what's funny about that is that some of the stuff that comes to my mind isn't some
of the most mainstream stuff.
I like some old 50 Cent.
Some of that stuff still rocks.
You know what I mean?
You're just talking about some older stuff.
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Nas has newer stuff.
He has like Magic, I, II, and III.
Those albums are all fire.
He had the King's Disease, I, II, and III.
He's been putting out good quality music.
And also, and these are more recently, these aren't super old.
This is not Stillmatic, Illmatic, Hip Hop is Dead old stuff.
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This is more recent stuff.
So that's always good.
I bang with Drake.
That him in Sexyy Red, that Hands on Your Knees shit.
That shit good.
That's a club banger.
Hands on Your Knees I’m telling you
I went to a Sexyy Red concert.
That was just so much energy and live.
But I think it's not their records.
It's like things about the culture of Hip Hop.
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I miss Datpiff.
The mixed tape culture, Wayne, Dipset, like these iconic moments
of faction where you can go back and be like, man, remember when Juelz was supposed to save
the game?
Juelz Santana was supposed to be that guy.
It didn't happen.
But still those ones where you hear this hype for Clockwork, that when Jeezy first down the
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scene, really seeing when Gucci lost the weight, Waka, all these iconic moments where again,
our old school now, you put, Oh Let's Do It on, we all go ham on it.
Just those iconic moments where they were new and felt fresh.
And now looking back, it's nostalgia, a lot of stuff.
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And so that's what I miss where I grew up in Hip Hop, what it was, what it is.
I want to see someone body someone else's beat.
You know, I don't want to see all these little EPs, the drills, the remixes of the remix of
the remix, all this other stuff.
I want to see someone go bar for bar, hot 32 on something real quick.
You know, we had your favorite rappers, four people on the beat, who's going to end it?
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But honestly, I think that's what Hip Hop is meant to evolve.
And we haven't scratched it, DJs my first game.
So what it is, and maybe that's me being my old head is where if I don't get it, I just
don't like it necessarily.
And so I'm learning how do I adapt because Jay aint getting younger, Fab aint getting younger,
you know, Weezy, he had one, two or three drugs left, but where, you know, I go over
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time, but I think, you know, I will be seeing little Wayne when he's 60 on stage rap.
Like, I'm gonna be there.
I'm gonna go do it.
You know, Weezy, yes, baby, the F is for phenomenal.
I'm gonna be there.
Now see you guys know I'm with the shits.
You both know I'm with the shits.
It's the culture, you know, I think it's not the music, it's what it represents, you know,
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the fashion, the way we talk, the way we interact, you know, Future is still a menace out here.
It's all that and above, but that's, I think what it represents more so just a specific
song.
So this is what just always blows my mind about Hip Hop is that what we know was born
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in a community room.
And that's just very symbolic because how many times have we gone down to the community
room or to a community center for a birthday party or going away party or baby shower or
to some other get together.
And I mean, you couldn't get in unless your name was on the list.
So but for me, I like anything that fuses Hip Hop with another genre, specifically like
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Dancehall, R&B, House, like I still go hard for my straight up Hip Hop records.
But for me, it's the records like The Jam, P is Still Free, Dolly My Baby, Ghetto Red
Hot, Take It Easy, Think, Romantic Call, Nothing But Love and I mean, rest in peace to Heavy
D. He was actually the first one to do the video with all the models.
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Some people think it's Q-Tip, but it was heavy, shout out to Q-Tip too.
But Funk Dat, shout out to The Illustrious Blacks, they remade Funk Dat.
I used to get in trouble for rapping that shit in class.
I knew all the words and I would add words and I'll share that sometimes, it's not today.
But what else?
Buffalo Stance, The Chubbster, Rhythm Is A Dancer, The Power, 3AM Eternal, which is
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like truly an early dubstep record, like guys like Skrillex studied that record.
I Can't Stand It, which is legendary obscure banger.
Lovebug Starski, You Gotta Believe and yo, when I was a kid, I had this toy called a
Talkboy.
It was a tape recorder that Kevin had in Home Alone, remember that?
Yep.
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Remember the tape recorder?
So I'd be on it, right?
You Gotta Believe playing in the background.
And it was like the playoffs.
It was like the Mets playoffs or something that everybody's running around talking about.
Yeah, you gotta believe.
And so I had a record on and I'm in the Talkboy.
I'm like, yeah, fuck the Mets, you gotta believe in my big cock.
And you hear my mom in the background going Cris, watch your mouth.
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That record is wild.
That record was in D minor and my D was a minor back then.
But anyway, Rest In Peace, The Lovebug Starski, I gotta see if I still have that tape.
I probably bring this record up every time we talk about music, but Crash Goes Love,
Loleatta Holloway was Planet Rock and Play At Your Own Risk.
And those were freestyle records.
I'll say it again, specifically to the Hispanics in Miami.
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Freestyle came from the same place and people as Hip Hop did.
We can't forget the love Chaka showed to Hip Hop either.
Chaka stayed having Hip Hop break beats.
This is My Night, which It Takes Two samples.
Kid-N-Play sampled Ain't Nobody on Last Night.
De La had Chaka on All Good.
B.I.G. said what he said about Chaka on Dreams and I'm not going to repeat it because the
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cuss bank is looking crazy already.
I don't need any more strikes.
She was definitely in the Hip Hop clubs back in the day, Latin Quarters.
We love Chaka here at The Cris David Show.
But the R&B influence in Hip Hop is a whole show in itself.
Shout out to Mack Wilds and Nathaniel, Staten Island, BK, stand up.
Anyhow, guys, get those health screens.
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Prostate and testicular, but also get those physicals.
Get those A1C’s and lipids checked.
Get that blood pressure in check.
If you're 50 today, Happy Birthday.
You need to be scheduling that colonoscopy.
If you have a mouth, schedule that dentist visit.
If you have a head, schedule that eye exam.
It's our job to look out for one another and hold each other accountable.
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Also, next Friday, December 1st is World AIDS Day.
This is your official Cris David Show reminder to do your big one and go out and get tested.
For more information, visit HIV.gov or contact your health care provider.
You don't have anything to be ashamed of and there are people here to support you.
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Like Domo Jones says, wrap it up.
I need to make a retraction, though, from our episode, the front of the show, Chandra
Smith, Ms. Wheelchair America 2024.
We mentioned that Chandra was the first Black Ms. Wheelchair America in the organization's
50-year history.
That statement was not true.
Dr. Gaynell Colburn of Baltimore, Maryland became the first Black woman to win the title
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of Ms. Wheelchair America in 1984.
Ten years prior to winning the title, Dr. Colburn became paraplegic after she was hit
by a drunk driver in an auto accident at 16.
Dr. Colburn, Ms. Wheelchair America 1985, has a PhD and an MD certification in health
science and pediatric wellness.
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She is also an accomplished percussionist and vocalist, Essence Award winner, teacher,
and motivational speaker.
On behalf of The Cris David Show, Dr. Gaynell Colburn, we celebrate you.
And before we go, I usually end the show asking our guests, you know, the time machine question.
But since it's the end of the year, I want to ask you guys the $20 question.
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What did you learn about yourself in 2023?
You know, it's funny.
You see the meme, like, God, I'm not your toughest soldier.
I'm done fighting battles, but I'll say resiliency.
You know, we all have our personal battles, things happen.
But honestly, when it gets tough, you just keep going.
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And knowing that adversity, power through, but also just saying pace and grace.
Grace was something I had to really learn this year.
To know that it's okay where I am.
I'm going to get to where I need to be.
But in time, enjoy the journey.
Give myself the grace that, hey, it's not a two week process.
It might be months, but that's okay.
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And at the same time, I'll still get the same result.
So I learned a couple of different things.
One, like from like a work standpoint, you like everybody talks about job security and
everything like that, but you don't really want a job that is only going to like if your
job doesn't appreciate you or do anything like that, why do you care if you're secure
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at a job that doesn't appreciate you or care about you?
You know what I mean?
So I literally had like at the beginning of the year, I was at one job.
They didn't appreciate me.
I left.
I was working at another job.
They seen the value that they lost and they end up offering me a bigger compensation and
everything like that just to get me back.
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And that's when I really like looked at it and like, you're way more qualified and you're
way more like than you think.
Like I just thought that I'm just a regular guy.
You're average guy.
I'm just as replaceable as anybody else.
But just because you're replaceable doesn't mean that you lack value.
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You know what I mean?
Anybody can do a job, but not everybody is going to be able to do the job with the certain
soft skills that I have.
You know what I mean?
I know how to talk to people.
I know how to interact with people, connect with people.
Those are soft skills that not everybody has.
Everybody can be just as technical as I am, but not everybody will have that type of skills.
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Also another thing is that I am a party animal.
My thing is that I can't just take one shot and just be chill about it.
I'm going to have to drink half the bottle with you so that I can, I want to feel something.
What I learned is that because I'm hot and cold, either you gonna, you have to be, if
it's going to be like that, then you have to follow it through.
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If I'm going to be responsible and be focused and things like that, then I can't have partying
on my mind or vice versa.
If I'm going to party, then make sure that partying is like, you're going to just party
and then know when to let the party stop.
Because the party has to end at some point and you have to get back to reality and stuff
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like that.
It's all good to have a good time, but too much of anything is always a bad thing.
One thing I learned is that I like to drink, I used to drink every day.
Now it's more of a special occasion type of thing.
One, you'll see how your body will feel better and your weight and everything like that because
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people love to drink and I love to drink too.
I'm not shaming nobody.
You want to drink every day, that's fine.
I’d drink two tallboys and a couple of shots a day for months, for months.
Was that the best thing?
Probably not.
Am I sharper now that I'm not drinking as much?
Yes, I'm a lot more focused, I'm a lot sharper.
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I'm a lot more there mentally.
So if you feel that you're going through something a little bit mental, you don't know why you're
in a funk, you don't know what is really going on with you, just take a break from the drink
a little bit.
Take a day or two.
Maybe once you stop drinking a little bit, then you'll see maybe where you can, maybe
it's not the drinking.
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Maybe it might be like, oh, me drinking on top of me being sad is the reason why I'm
really depressed right now.
You know what I mean?
But why are you sad?
I'm sad because I have no friends right now.
My relationship is not going the right way.
My job life is really stressing me out.
You know what I mean?
Then you're adding drinking or drugs or anything else on top of that and now you have a whole
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mixture of different emotions why you don't know why you are where you're at.
Then some people lose themselves.
I lost myself.
How did you lose yourself?
You are always the same person that you've always been.
So how can't you find your grounding point?
How can't you go back there?
If that's hard for you, then you might need to start cutting back some stuff and seeing
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where some of those issues lie at.
Then you'll be able to grow from that.
That's what I seen.
I was able to put a little bit of the drinking down in the partying down and then from there
I seen that I'm a lot more focused and I'm a lot more, I'm just a lot better in every
aspect.
Congratulations on pulling it together and figuring that out because we've all been there.
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We've all been there with some things harder than others.
So, I'll keep mine brief.
And yall know I'm really not going to keep it brief, but I'mma try.
When I first started this show at the top of the year, I thought things would go differently.
I thought my friends would be more supportive of me pursuing my dream.
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I thought that people that I've interacted with would be as willing to support me in this
field, in this field of human endeavor as I had supported them and theirs.
I was given excuses, I was ghosted and people who know me pretended to not know me.
I learned who really see it for me and everything I'm giving.
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I learned that regardless of what anyone says or does, I am living in the light and the
right and the way.
And I know it's best for me, my family, my life and my show.
I learned to be kinder to myself and give myself grace because I'm doing my best.
I learned not to compromise my comfort.
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I learned to let people be loud and wrong, even when they weren't interested in learning
facts for just being the loudest person in the room.
I learned to not let squatters who don't belong dictate how I exist in my space.
I learned that only I define my peace, my success and my happiness.
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I learned to no longer let others move my goalpost.
I learned to leave people alone who don't prioritize facts over foolishness.
I learned to stop trying to prove myself to people who were committed to misunderstanding
me.
I learned that I choose family.
I learned that setting boundaries isn't a punishment.
I learned to leave old relationships in the past.
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Don't reach out, don't add, don't message.
Just leave them in the past.
And if it's meant to be, if it's meant for us to reconnect, we will, but don't go seeking
them out.
If anything, let them reach out and really reach out via text or call, not some
waving hand emoji or this stupid thing down here.
The googly eyed emoji.
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I learned that there's always a brand new street to turn on with new people to get to
know and build community.
I learned I don't have to share spaces or walls with people who steal my joy.
I learned not to coddle low hanging food and not to take those seriously who don't take
themselves seriously.
I learned that people who always have to be right are usually always wrong.
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I learned that I'd rather be happy all the time than to be right all the time.
I learned to embrace peace and joy and that I don't have to hide my happiness out of fear
of someone taking it from me because I learned to finally take my own advice for once and
not to invest in anyone who doesn't give me interest.
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I learned that I won, might not be the fav, but I won.
Lastly, I learned that Black don't crack, but we gain weight. Ok?
And I learned that Sativa is the ops.
No, but I learned more about me in 2023 than in any other year of my life.
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And I plan to learn even more in 2024.
All for the good, all for the better.
Khai and Joey, thanks for being here.
We're going to do this again because this was a hit.
And everyone clap it up for our guys, Joey Black, aka Joey tha Heckler and our official
Cris David Show mixologist, Mr. Joey Baston and your favorite person's favorite person,
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Khampagne Kola Papi.
Wait a minute.
I have it all written down, but I got it all here.
Khampagne Kola Papi, the chunky Jaden Smith, black Khyna, Supreme Khai, LL Cool K, Mr. Khai
Thomas.
All right.
I like the Supreme Khai.
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I'm like all of them, man.
I was like, I got to see, I'm just, I was going to try to pick one, but I was like,
nah, I'm just going to read the whole list.
I am your host, Cris David, the light skinned Malcolm Jamal Warner, the hood Lenny Kravitz,
the Afro futuristic magical Negro version of Joan Hamburg.
We are a vibe.
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Thanks for listening.
Oh wait, wait, wait.
I need to make an announcement.
Wait a minute.
I need to make an announcement.
So here's the deal.
I am so impressed with how you guys helped me with those questions earlier in the show
that I'm pleased to announce that in 2024, the Cris David show will be starting a new
segment during our Men's Discussion Panel called Ask the Guys.
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So sending your questions for that info@thecrisdavidshow.com.
Remember to put Ask the Guys in the subject line and send in those Sex Coach questions
as well.
Thanks for listening and watching.
Tell your friends, tell your mama, tell your daddy, tell your babydaddy, tell your boyfriend,
tell your sister, tell your cat, tell your dog, tell your doctor.
Tell everyone who wants or has a knee-BL and a BBL or both to follow us on Instagram @crisdavidtv
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and follow our show @thecrisdavidshow on Instagram and YouTube.
You can also visit crisdavidshow.com there you'll find everything you need to know about
the show.
Be safe and be smart out there in those Black Friday streets.
I am Cris David and this is The Cris David Show.
Be kind and be well.
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