Rebirth Stories: Unveiling a New Millennial Dawn Feat. Visionaries Tee Seals & Ron

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And just like that, we areback for another podcast series podcast album.
This is the fourth one, y'all, can't you believe it? The first
one was I don't know who needsto hear this, The second one was
Bold, the third one was quarterLife Crisis. And now we're at the
Industry Plan. Shout out to myboy Ronnie calm Down aka Kyle, who

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gave me the joke and called theIndustry Plant. Look at me now.
I took it it ran with itall right. So the first episode is
centering around seed. So with IndustryPlant, every episode starts from like the
base form of a plant. Ahigh plant is done and then grows up
and then each episode is like thedifferent part of the growth stage of the

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plant. So the first part isseed and in this episode we talk a
lot about seeds as oar as plantingseeds and new beginnings. And it features
two people who are in stages oftheir life where they are kind of going
through a new beginning. Include andthen of course me, which features two
people. T sALS who's been onthe show. I think this is her

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third time. And then in Iranself Love Apparel, who's been on the
show. Now this is his fifthtime, and I wanted to kind of
take an old and make an oldtoo old school PSA where we had group
discussions with friends and although, don'tget it twisted, we're gonna have some
high level and high name people onthis project, but I don't want to
lose that group dynamic kind of thingand where it's just like it's not really

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an interview, it's more of justa group discussion on camera and of course
with some structure. So this whenwe talk a lot about social media came
up and I was surprised about thatsocial media came up. We did a
long discussion about everybody on social mediaand pick impactice how social media has affect
people. T sALS made the clevercomment about how social media is somebody see.
We talked about, you know,tin life transitions. We talked about,

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you know, some cases feeling goodenough growing up black and middle class
versus growing up in the hood.We talked about so many different things came
up and all of them sent aroundthis stage of our life. And I
end up with a question that,you know, I think it's interesting,
but it's one that you'll have tokind of tune in to see. So

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as always sit back, relax andenjoy because it's one thing to copy fashion

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and trance. That's that's that's beengoing off the beginning of time. But
when you are basically now, itseemed like these like somebody's in a factory,
and just like the next one,it was like the same. Well
you've been following them point. No, you follow people that follow points,
because I don't follow the ill writey'all. What's going on? Is your

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boy? Easy bank over? What'sup y'all? So today it's a little
different, all right now, Yeah, I used to hear ads run through
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can take care of all of thatfor you too. Peace. I'm back
and PSA and guess what, I'mback in the studio after all y'all complaining,

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like, yeah, they really likedthe first episode. It was a
lot of hate mail, especially onYouTube after they told me I lacked critical
thinking me of all people, Ohit was somebody to think. It was
like I think his name was Batistethree to six seven, and then I
clicked on his page and I couldn'tsee nothing because you know how they go.
But you get in trolled on YouTube, that mean you're doing something.

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Yes, we don't get into that. We getting today. I'm off Celsius
today make me feel like I'm drunkwith all the sinning, So I feel
pretty good. It's the first trackof a new album, new podcast album
track one. You know you justput it in your car the ride all
right, So y'all, I'm happyto be in here again. Um.

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A lot of new updates in lifeand to July, the second half of
the year, so we gotta getsome things going. So let's go ahead
and go get started, all right. So today's episode centers around um planning
to seed, because this is industryplan that you didn't seen with all the
promotion that I did and talked aboutfor a while, and I'm the industry

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plant. Apparently somebody, Ronnie calmedDown said that under one of my pictures,
Kyle and I take it it ranwith it. So that's funny because
that's a I don't know his realname, I know him as Ronnie calmed
Down. What has Kyle been.I haven't seen him. Kyle of us.
If you see this, we're lookingfor you. He don't owe us

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no money or nothing, but youknow he's looking for you. Yeah.
Um. But this episode is thefirst part. So each episode kind of
similar to the last two years.Each episode in the album is gonna tell
a story. So this is thefirst part of the Plant. Is gonna
start from the beginning of c formand go all the way down to the
final form of the Plant. Wehave eleven tracks set up and for the

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next eleven weeks, prepared to seesome bomb interviews in great group conversation.
So let me get into the meme. So this week's meme reads today's let
Me See will create the same harvesttomorrow as Gucci Man as e Lemonade did
in two thousand and nine. Inspirationfor this episode comes from episode eighteen of
season two, featuring a beautiful ladyto the left of me. We're gonna
get into introduction for those that don'tknow later, but I was actually reminiscent

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on that episode the other day whileI was at the gym. While I
was working out. When at thegym, it was episode eighteen of season
two featuring T and my homeboard crashBandicoot, and we talked about suicide and
black thoughts, and I really liked. What I liked about the episode,
it is besides the horrible audio andthe lack of comes time of structure because

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I didn't really have segments back then. But what I liked about it was
the group dynamic and just the groupconversation. So it still was a good
message if you go listen to it. A quote by Syneca says, every
new beginning comes from some other beginnings. End Ecclesias, He's wanted too and
say they says that there's a timefor everything, a season for every activity
under the heavens. They time tobe born, they trying to die,

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trying to plant, and a timeto uproot. And then a last one
by Socrates, the secret to changeis to focus all your energy, not
on the fighting the old, buton building the new. All right,
So let's go into just jump rightinto the Happy Hour segment. Team.
So, because I have two peoplealready on camera, I'm not gonna wait
to do the introductions. I'm gonnaget that out the way now. So

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we're gonna start with the lady.First, tell the people your name,
where you're from, and then tellthem what you do. Okay, I
am t I'm from Houston, Texas, and I am in the army.
Okay, soldier, all right,what's going on? Run from Houston as

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well? And I work in telecom? Okay? What else do you do?
Uh? I try to do likea social media presence. I have
a calloth the brand called self LoveApparel, the Instagram for the self Love

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Apparel on Instagram and self Love apon TikTok. It's like a side thing.
Try to do social media with clothes. But and I'm a father and
a husband, so that's about everythingwrapped up on one in motivational speaking training.
I just have to mention I donot represent DoD. I did not

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represent dd Army. Okay, shejust had to put the up, all
right. So it's July before weget to two heavy into today's topic,
and it's the happy I was.So we just talked. So I have
a question for the July. AmI sellout for eating a burnt hot dog?
Well, it's not the burnt hotdog, it's just the fact that

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it's the four the July. Youknow, they're saying that, you know,
black people shouldn't be any which they'retechnically right, But is it bad
if I'm going to a barbecue becausea lot of these holidays, well now
I'm pretty much a pretty pagan,right, But the issue is is eating
at somebody's house or celebrating. Isthat celebration if you put a title on

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it, if you make it celebratory. But if you say, oh,
I'm gonna eat this hot dog incelebration, then maybe it's not a cell
Like if I grab if I'm atyour house and you got like a pickle
in the refrigerator and I eat it, that doesn't mean I'm celebrating nothing.
Well, yeah, because I mean, it's not like I'm feeling to decorate
the house with American flags. Youknow, I know you had that American

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flag jumpsue waiting. Who's to selloff for eating a hot dog? Why
do you have an American flag jumpsuit? Yeah, I'm talking about me.
Yeah, why would I having postedit on your story and was like,
um, ready for the next function? You don't remember doing that? No,
I don't. I don't wear that. I don't have one of those.

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I don't have one of those.Man you put in your close friends
because you didn't want people to stealthe swag? Are you making this?
Yeah, I don't even have.I don't think there's anything wrong with doing
what you want to do. Ifthat hot dogs make you happier than who
called you, I want to knowwho says to sellout? Is it because

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it's burnt? That's why you selloutpeople. I don't think the hot dog
ben't burnt. Hain't anything to dowith Okay, Yeah, it's just the
fact of it's the holiday. You'reat the cook out, and it's like
we look, he's saying that hefeels as a black man, he shouldn't
be celebrating it, that's all youknow. I get it now, I

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get it. I get it.Well, I'm celebrating it. I got
the day off, so I ain'teven worried about the fourth July. It's
day off for me. And that'sthe thing too, because they talk about
how Thanksgiving the stuff here. Sothen my question is are we celebrating the
holiday or are we just celebrating ourday off? Because my mama cooked Thanksgiving,
were celebrating good food, right,So when we worry about things getting
we worried about sweet potato pie,turkey, macaroni and cheese. When we

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do things giving like we actually likego around the table and say what we
give things for, thankful for?So we just eating once football, I
mean we eat. We pray beforeI mean everybody got blessed the food.
Un when she blessed the food.You know that prayer because normal prayers before
you bless the food about thirty seconds. Thanksgivings like the super Bowl of blessing
the food. So of course thatprayer gonna be about the good five maybe

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ten minutes, and then after thatbecause that's where you say what you thankful
for, eat food and watch footballand maybe taking that celebrate Thanksgiving if we
go around and say what we're thankfulfor. I want the people to let
me know in the comments. Ireally want to hear about that. I
want to hear what they're saying andwhat they take on for the July and
just in general, because I rememberSaint Louis back in the day and we

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got to get off this. Peoplewill go down to the river front and
put on the chemo shots and theirAmerican flag tanks from an American eagle.
So it's like they didn't know anybetter than Well that's true too, So
like I think at this point somepeople do know better now, but they're
so acclimated to celebrating in a waythat they know how that they continue to

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do that until someone is just like, okay, let's celebrate differently this year.
But somebody got to step up andsay that, So let's celebrate differently
this year? Easy, Okay,So off that. So now let's jump
into the what's going on? SoI'm gonna start with Ron this time.
What does the phrase or the quoteNew beginnings are often described as painful endings,

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meaning you when I when I Iguess, when I hear that,
I hear grief. I hear grief. I think when you especially the painful
endings part, meaning that before youstep into a new beginning, so you're
aware and conscious that it's about tostart, but before you step into it

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and actually put into place the planthat you have set out, you got
to take a minute to really justlet go. So you got to reflect
on that old season and see ifyou need to let go of anything,
see if you need to h what'sthe word I'm looking for? You said,
reflect dtox from it. Basically it'sbasically like dtox from that old season.

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So a lot like one thing I'velearned, especially in my quote unquote
new but the endings like in anold season. If your old season wasn't
as fruitful as you would like ittoo, that doesn't mean that there wasn't
stuff about the old season that youdidn't like. YEA, so painful endings,

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even if it's an old season whereit's like, well, you know,
I'm stepping into something new. Whatwas back in the old wasn't good
for me anyway, there was stillsome parts of it that probably you liked
about it, whether it's an oldrelationship, old job, oh something.
So, yeah, I hear whenI hear when I read that, or
hear that, I hear grieve.You got to take a minute to just

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detox and that it out first.I like detox, what about you?
So the painful endings, I thinkthat comes from when we get into a
routine of something, we become complacent, and in order to get out of

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complacency, you have to have anew beginning. Right. With those new
beginnings, you have to lego someof those old things that you did,
like about where you were complacent it. So with that new beginning, it's
just like I have to let thisgo in order to get the fruit of
whatever else that I'm trying to getfrom this tree. Right. So,

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I think that when it comes tonew beginnings, that past is scary because
it's comfortable, you know what's there, and when it comes to these new
beginnings, it's just like everything hereis new. And me personally, I
used to be scared of new beginningsbecause it's just like anxiety, Oh my
gosh, what's to expect? Likeare they gonna like me? Hell?
Am I gonna like them? It'sjust a lot of unknowns and uncertainty that

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comes with new beginnings, And Ithink that's why some people are afraid to
try new things because of their complacen. I think that's the whole reason.
Like, that's why you have togrieve, because I've learned it's like four
stages of grief, and one ofthose stages is like acceptance. So if
you don't accept that that old seasonis over with, you're walking to this

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new season still with all that anxietyand all that pressure and all that old
all that backers that comes from theold season all on your backing. You
won't be able to appreciate or reallytake on the new thing that's in front
of you. Yeah. So it'sjust it's very important, like you gotta
deal with the past, or dealwith those painful endings first before you really

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take action in the new season.For sure, I would like to be
selective with like the things that Ibring into my new projects or my new
beginnings, because although I do knowthat there's some aspects of my past that
I do need to let go,there are some great aspects of my past
that I would like to take withme. So most of the time I
take what I learned then with meand just keep adding on to it,

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and the things that I didn't like, I let them drop off because it's
just like this aspect is good.Why in the hell am I letting they
go with like we're gonna do thistogether. Like we're gonna do this together.
So I like this first time wehad a serious conversation. Every time
we're right, we're always joking.Yeah, we need to get back,

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all right. So okay, sowe're gonna get more to it as we
get along, of course. Butso I got real quick. I got
a few words, and I wantyou to tell me the first thing to
come to mind. There's no rightor wrong answer, all right, don't
matter what what do y'all speak out? Just so okay, So when you
hear the words seed, what's thefirst thing that comes to mind? Seed?
Time? You said time? Ijust I think it's something small.

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I think of faith. Okay,okay, when you hit the seed,
hold on, hello, hold on, hold on. When you hear the
word investment, what's the first thingthat comes to mind? Um, what's
the word I'm looking for? Patience? No? I mean, well,

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um, like taking a chance,that's what I think of when I hear
investment. That's not chance, isn'tthe word but risk risk okay, risk
versus reward man. Okay, whenyou hear the word harvest, what's the
first thing that comes to mind.I'm not gonna know how to think of
like form oh McDonald's code. Okay, okay, all right. So the

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definition of seed everything is from websto shout out to them. A flowering
plants unit of reproduction capable of developinginto another plant investment. This is an
act of devoting time, effort,or energy to particular undertaking with the expectation
of a worthwhile result. I likethe worthwhile in front of result. And
then harvest the product or result ofan exertion or labor game reward um a

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reward and I like reward um.So since this is industry plant, I
have to ask and I've gotten now, y'all. This is the first episode
of the album, but I've recordedpretty much all of the episodes, so
I get a different answer when Iasked this every time. Okay. When
you hear when you hear the wordand I hear the word if you could
be a plant, what would yoube? And why? Like this the

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plant like like the type of plantsstage of the plants, not stage,
but any type of plant you couldthink of, oh, bamboo, a
bamboo tree, or a bamboo plant. So I didn't notice, but I've
learned that bamboo plants or bamboo trees, um they grow roots underground first and

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that can take by the year ortwo and then when it's finally time to
like grow above ground since they've grownall the roots underground first. When they
grow above ground, it can takelike maybe three to six months, and
they'll be like one of the tallesttrees in the I don't know what you

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call the forest of space. Idon't know, and I probably could be
saying that. I could be sayingthat all for wrong. I am paraphrasing,
but I do know like they taketime to sew in the ground first
before they spring out, and that'swhy they bamboo tree is like one of
the strongest trees in the world,I guess, or that that bark or
whatever. Yeah, so I wouldsay that one. Okay, what about

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you, I would say a peacelily. Haven't heard that either? One
peace lily Because if you've ever hada piece lily, one of the dramatic
at hill, if you don't feed, it will not feed. It if
you don't give it water enough sunlight, like they would droop really bad.
But what did you give it thenourishment that indeed it like springs bake up

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like easily. They go through phaseslike they don't have the actual sprouted flower
every year. So I think that'svery important to know that all those things
die, they're gonna come back.Most times when my piece literally die,
it come back with more lily.So he's just like pul like preaching.

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Okay, cool, So that's goodbecause they're basically saying, even if you
die, you know, it's anot die literally but like something sometimes have
to die, but when it comeback and come back with more metaphorically speaking,
which goes back to your first statement, uh, new beginnings with painful
ending or something like that. Iknow I say the wrong but yeah,
it's fine, it's here. Wegot it all right, all right,

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So let's move to the next section, which is what does this have to
do with mental health? So first, I got a few statistics from some
things, all right. So thefirst one is building resilience and self um
efficiency I can't pronounce. So startingnew beginning often involves overcoming obstacles and dealing

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with uncertainties. This can then strengthenresilience among young millennials. According to the
American Psychological Association, resilience plays crucialroles in mental health and it helps to
better manage stress and also helps withsetting goals and working towards them. And
this is from psychology today as well. The second one is promoting personal growth

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and self understanding. Initiating a newbeginning often requires introspection and self understanding.
According to a study publishing a journalof Adult Development, personal growth is strongly
associated with positive psychological functioning. Engagingin a process of self exploration can help
millennials understand their strengths and weaknesses anddevelop a strong sense of identity and enhance

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their mental health. We're gonna comeback to the word identity in a minute.
And then encouraging healthy lifestyle changes.New beginnings often involved making lifestyle changes
such as adopting a healthier diet,exercising regularly, or improvements lee pappets.
And then, according to Anxiety andDepression Association of American certain lifestyle changes can
result and can be as regular asphysical activity and getting enough sleep. And

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you know, we don't really gotto go to the rest of that.
All right, So I know you, I know you're flowing, but I
just got to say that this isGod is crazy, yeah, because this
basically, like this whole episode isessentially talking about patients, and I'm kind
of in the season where I'm havingto learn about patients and I got reading
a book about patients, Like Ijust downloaded a book yesterday about patients and

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I'm reading that and I didn't evenknow. I wasn't even supposed to be
on the podcast today. No,we were shout out to e j Um.
They didn't get her fee to herproperly in time. I'm just saying,
I LoveJ I really I really wantedher to talk about with her experience.
But I'm gonna get her on thisseason again, maybe bring you back

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to I don't know, but um, I'm gonna get her to come back
to see she has some stuff comeon last minute and I'm upset, but
it's okay because we're gonna get itback. But it is just crazy how
this is just all aligning with everythingthat I'm trying to learn and everything that
God has been talking to me about. I just had to point that out
because this is just yeah, weird, absolutely absolutely, But no, let's

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get back to I want to reallykind of unpack the whole identity thing when
it talks about young millennials and gettingtheir identity. I think social media plays
a huge part of that in anegative way. And I didn't plant on
speaking on it, but I reallywant to talk about that because I feel
like social media. I read abook. I didn't read a book,
but there was this book that cameout Media Notes. I read the Twitter

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version, and it was a booktalking about in the later years. I
can't think of once, say,came out maybe late nineties, early eighties,
something like that. They said inthe future that the future of the
people would be the same person.If you look on social media. Let's
let's get into it. You lookon social media, everybody is the same

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person, same occupation, the samelooks. All these surgeries, people look
exactly the same. Everybody go lookand see what little Dirk doing, and
they gonna do their hair like him, dressed like him. It's like the
same thing. Because it's one thingto copy fashion and trends. That's that's
that's been going off the beginning ofthe time. But when you are basically
now it seemed like it's like somebody'sin a factory, and just like Trump

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the next one, it was likethe same. Is that is that new?
Like that? It's really not becauseif you think, like if we
think it just like on a simplisticpersonal I mean out out or appearance perspective.
I mean everybody had an afro andthe seventies, yeah, everybody had
like the you know, the buzzcut in the nineties. And we're just

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talking about appearance. So it's like, is it is it that everybody looks
the same or is it that peopleare more aware of it because we have
social media, So it's not asituation where back then you didn't know that
you lived in Texas somebody live onHio or you didn't know that this dude
in a hio or afro just likeyou. And now we have social media
where you know, I can findout this dude, you know how it

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has the same haircut as me becauseI can just look his name up on
Instagram with TikTok. So I don'tI don't think like because my wife she
kind of does that a lot too. She'd be watched, she'd be on
TikTok too. Much. I'm like, oh my god, the world is
ending, and it's like, youknow, back then, you know,
back in the sixties, black peoplewas getting chased by dogs and firehost It's
like, it's not I don't thinkit's a situation where it is as bad.

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It's just that we see it now. Yeah. I think I have
a love hate relationship when it comesto social media because it does expose the
youth in ourselves to a lot ofmore things that us as kids wasn't exposed
to because we didn't have social media. But if you think about how you

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grew up, most of the thingsthat you did in some households were based
off of what your parents wanted youto do. So we cam these young
adults and we're trying to find ourselves. For me, that one of the
easiest ways that I learned things arefrom social media, from other people posting
about, Hey, this is howI grew up, how my mom did

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a handle conflict within her kids.Like I learned a lot from social media.
You have to have some level ofdiscernment when it comes to what you're
in taking and what you're applying toyour life. Is I mean I equated
to like back when like, solike my mother and father in the sixties,

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so like their time will be likethe seventies and eighties. So what
their SoC social media was for them back then, it was like the
daily news, everyday news. SoI'm pretty sure back then you have to
have or the paper, you wouldhave to have some discernment like hey,
you know, you know Channel eleven, Ch twelve, Channel thirteen are always

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showing bad stuff, so we probablyshouldn't watch tonight, or let's not pick
up this paper because they only showingus the bad They're only showing us what
will bring up sales, and typicallythat's drama stuff that's causing intrigue, giving
you like a dopamine hit whatever.So it's like, um, do I
think that our age, especially likelate late millennials, because millennials is two

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different decades. It's nineties, theyoung ones, because the young ones the
nineties sold like ninety two, ninetyone, and like ninety five. The
label lite young millennials is the youngestmillennials twenty seven, so that would be
ninety five then right, that wouldbe the last year or ninety six er,

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making me so it's like us andthen the generation after us, um,
this is our uh our everyday newsare like we don't have to go
to Channel eleven and get information,We just go to shade room. But
like back then, I'm pretty sureit's like, don't let the paper or

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don't let every day Lose identify you, or don't let MTV raps or don't
let whatever was popping back then identifywho you are. Same thing here,
right, It's I know that it'snot okay for social media to build your
identity. What I don't like isjust people making it seem like it's like

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social media is just hell right,because it's not. You miss out on
the good parts that she was bringingout. A lot of people are starting
a lot of you you starting thispodcast, my wife with her her makeup
business. Social media was the anchorfor that. Yeah. Right, So
it's a lot of good that comesout of it, and I think we
get focused on the bad so muchabout the negative that social media brings,

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which I'm not saying it doesn't bringa lot of negative, but don't forget
that social media does help out alot of people to a lot of people
have lost their jobs or quit nonthe files and actually doing things that they
love because of this tool or socialmedia. So it's just, oh,
it's a love hate. It's alove hate, and I just don't like
when people put so much just focuson the negative so much, right,

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And then it's also I know I'mrambling, but you know, the whole
build identity part. You got tothink about the foundation of where this person
comes from. If the home lifewas bad growing up, if bother and
father won't around, if you know, school system won't presented well. But
then the only tour that you havea social media and social media showing you

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something positive about life when all youdo is grew up a negative I can't
expect somebody not to be at thatidentity off of that. Now, that's
just I feel like social media givesyou such a broad range of different stuff
that you can play with you becauseyou don't have to listen to with everybody
else listen to it, especially Instagram. Yeah, or even if you do

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start listening to it, you canbe like, Okay, I hear it
is not my vibe. I'm goingto try something else. I heard that
not my vibe. Neither like thateveryone is supposed to be the same person
for the rest of their lives,including our parents. Like, we get
exposed to all of these different things, and some of those things that we
get exposed to, we keep withus and we take it to the next
place, to the next place,to the next place. So I think

(31:15):
that it is very important to understandthat social media exists for a reason.
Use it to your advantage. Ifyou want to copy this person one day,
that person the next day, Idon't give it them. If you
do a third, whichever one makeyou the happiest, stick with it.
That's just what it is. Ithelps people explore themselves, find them to

(31:38):
You think I'd be trying to goto Bali if I didn't see it on
Instagram. Hello, you think I'llbe trying to throw a drink on somebody
if I didn't see them? Now, Seriously, Like, I never want
to drink on somebody until I seeit a living hip hop gotta stop that.
To do that. I've started thisclothing brand. But it's like because
I'm seeing people do it on socialmedia. Like I see the influences that's

(32:00):
being presented to me on social media, right, So it's just you see
that God start working in your mind. Hey, I can do that for
you too. But it's like ifyou don't have that tool, you don't
get that. It's just like anythinganything, everything has something bad, like
a car. It gets you whereyou want to go, but then you
got to think about the maintenance ofa car, and that's and rex and

(32:21):
stuff like that. It's always anegative to a positive, and we just
focus on the negative so much thatwe miss what and we focus on the
people who use a positive tool fornegative resource for negative reason so much.
Somebody see, hell, oh,if I drop, I don't know how
to speak in tones, but ifI could go social media is something maybe

(32:44):
get out to say that that wasgood. It just lets people know because
I know for myself, I grewup in the hood, so I thought
that there was nothing beyond that.I thought that I would always have to
struggle because I'll struggle, and Ijust felt like I couldn't make money because
this is the life. That lifeis supposed to be hard. You're supposed
to have everything on your back.And then I seen on social media and

(33:06):
although it's not one hundred percent realistic, but I know that it exists.
I know that I can have anotherlife outside of the one that I grew
up because I see other people doingit. I see the opportunities that they
have. I see the opportunities they'remaking for other people. Like social media,
you call with me sometimes homeway likesometimes if anything? Twitter is the
devil dancing? You open? Areyou open Twitter at work? You're just

(33:32):
chilling point Twitter? Twitter? Ifanything? Twitter? Yeah, y'all got
me. I don't have a Twitter. People you've be following them? No,
you follow people that follow point becauseI don't follow this Twitter. That's
the only one. I'm like,Yeah, I'm gonna lead that. Yeah,
that's what guy's in the trouble.But no, for real, like

(33:57):
I had, if you don't deleteyour Twitter, at least take a break
from it. This is my callaction really for the show, all of
that stuff. Y'all know, I'llpop off on Instagram back, don't really
because I need I'm popped off.I'm on break. I wish I could
this show. I'll be you know, but I'm a you can't this show
job. Like my wife, shecan't really pop off because this is her
job. So that's why her wegotta like, okay, at a leven,

(34:20):
let's put the phone down because she'llbe scrolling all night. If you
let her just add a phone,you need her risks. Yes, she
needs it for a job. Youneed it for this so the people who
use it, she need a risk. I thought you said you need risk
was a bar. All right.So now in the earlier episode, we
talked about the meme and I comparedthe lemon seed to lemonade from Gucci.

(34:45):
Man, because that's the only pleasemake this work, we acknowledge. So
as I did some research, thisis going to be talking about saying,
I remember it was a meeting thatsaid that though many years ago, and
I'm just asking lemonade is the one? Yeah, God, I want to
say, how you make this work? Because? Okay, So Lemonade by

(35:07):
Gucciman is a song filled with metaphorsand symbolism. Okay, so here's a
brief breakdown in the meaning the song. Lemons and lemonade repeatedly use metaphors to
represent money and wealth. Okay.The color yellow is associated with limits.
This is used to symbolize goal andmoney. All right. When Gucciman talks
about this, all right, hetalks about selling lemonade, he's referring to
turning sour situations lemons into profitable outcomes, which is lemonade. All right,

(35:31):
Then, for instance, in theline lemonade diamond bracelet, put it in
your face, Gucciman is brightened abouthis wealth and success symbolized by the diamond
bracelet and applying he's turned the limitsof his life into very profitable lemonade.
This then means, as we continueto go, that the making of the
song is largely about making the bestof what you have and turning negative situations

(35:53):
into positive outcomes. And this isa common theme in many rap songs,
and it is about the flaunting wealthand success that one is achieved, which
is another frequent motive. Now motifexcuse me, Now, I'm gonna give
them a challenge to that I'm explainingin the next part. So let's move
to the next section, which isI challenged that, right, And in

(36:16):
this section this is where I prettymuch challenge the notion of whatever we're talking
about. So first, let's unpackthe song. So obviously we did that
part, and that's the good sideof it. Now, if we're challenging
that, I believe that what Idon't want is and there's a time and
season for everything, But what Idon't want is when we plan a seed

(36:36):
in that case, because in somecases with them wrap lifestyles, they plant
them seeds, but then they instantlyget a harvest based off of whatever it
is it took to do it.So like sometimes it's not all of them
but scamming or sometimes because that's instantmoney, you know you're gonna get that
right away. I'm okay with doinga project at this point. I don't
want like a microwave thing. AndI feel like sometimes we talk about social

(36:59):
media and just life stops that areglamorized. I think that sometimes we make
it to where we see the successof something happening overnight, and it seemed
like it happened overnight, but you'vebeen playing it for a long time.
And even what you said earlier aboutyou seeing it with other people, if
you see them videos, I've seenthem people they tell they testimonies of them
businesses and talk about how they workfor five, ten, fifteen years,

(37:21):
ten months, you know it isnot gonna happen right away. And I
think sometimes that we can kind ofget caught up with these seeds and trying
to plant stuff that we like,Well, why is it not here yet?
Why I ain't come yet? Areyou ready for it? If it
did come? And that's the questionI was gonna ask. Let about my
ask. Now, if your opportunityof a lifetime came today, I'm gonna

(37:42):
start with you, would you beready for whatever that is? No,
I'm not ready. That's why Ihaven't pursued it. Like, I have
to give it time. I haveto think about the semantics, the logistics
of whatever it is I decide todo. That's something that's simple as faz
in the mornings like it. Stufftakes time, and I'm okay with being

(38:04):
patient, Like I'm not. Iused to be an instant gratification person,
but now that I know that thingscome better when they take time versus then
okay, boom. Let's say Iget famous tomorrow. I ain't gonna know
what to do with that, andI'm a flop just like anybody else.
They just randomly got fame off ofnothing, no work. No I didn't

(38:27):
earn it. I just posted avideo and boom, I'm famous. I
don't know how. I don't knowhow to work to get to that because
I was just bullshitting. So I'mgonna keep bullshit and y'all keep being bullshit,
be like, all right, that'senough, girl Like it takes time
off time, and that's when youget into that vicious cycle of I'm trying
to get the audience attention because youdon't know what got it in the first

(38:51):
place, because you're bullshitting and wesee a lot of that today. I
mean, it's and that's another thing. I didn't expect this to be the
social media talk, but it's comingup a lot, but we are.
Yeah, I wasn't planning on thatone, but I think that there's a
time I have to ask the question. There is ever a time when we
have a new beginning where something shouldn'tbe tolerated or celebrating. So the first

(39:12):
thing I can say, like,let's talk about your body faces. First
time working out, you don't workout, you go jogging after them first
five minutes, you know they meanManini when she running, then she fall
up to the slide. That's howyou're gonna be looking because you ain't never
done it. Your body is notused to this. What's you about to
say? I was laughing. Ithink there's a few other scenarios too,
So I got some more information.So negatively affecting others. So in a

(39:37):
study by Deloite on millennials and businessbusiness ethics, forty nine percent of respondents
said that they rejected assignments at workthat go against their personal values or anthtics.
This suggests that there is an understandingthat new beginnings like job promotions or
new assignments come at the expense ofethical behavior shouldn't be celebrated. I agree
with that wholeheartedly. If something isagainst who you are as a per saying

(40:00):
no job, should you know go. I hate to say it, but
I actually think about, like,um, those celebrities and you see those
those skits, which we all knowas satire because it's making fun of something
that actually goes on. But thoseskits are like the women. It was
one on Family Guy and it waslike, oh, you want just the
show, right, It was like, well, you gotta you gotta do

(40:20):
something for me, and then shestarted crying and she was like taking down
her shirt and then he was likethey started laughing. And obviously that's dark
humor, but it's satire of insome cases, wasn't like I've sent it
off. When Jada had to getyeah, what she had to do?
The old dude, she needed moneyfor like her brother or something, and
she was like, I need thismoney. He's like, well, you

(40:44):
know what you gotta do, andthen she was crying. The next scene
she was crying in the bed.It was nasty, but that's the unfortunate
reality. I think that we peoplebut then that to get you know,
get to that you know. SoI feel as though if you do,
like, I love using this analogy. Um, when what was it?

(41:04):
I'm pretty video te else back inthe day when Keilly was about to get
the breast the breasted plants and shesaw somebody getting the surgeon, she ran
out. She felled to the kneesand looked up in the sky. So
she she didn't do it, shewas about to do it because the storyline
of the video was she was insecureand she had you know. Now that
leads into the next good point,which I like. Um. The second

(41:25):
one is escaping responsibility. It saysstudent loan dead, which apparently Joe Biden
that got canceled. Y'all should haveknown he wasn't canceling those student loans,
he said, saying he was shouldhave went to the army. I ain't
got no student loan. D watchthis. According to the Federal Reserves,
the outstanding student loan dead in theUnited States is a stagger at one point
seven trillion. They're gonna ask mefor money, and they ain't trillion dollars

(41:47):
of dead. I ain't give y'all. Yeah, I can't give me y'all
nothing. It says Millennia was topursue a new beginning by neglecting that financial
obligations neglect I'm sorry, such asdefaulting on their student laws. This would
need to be be responsible enough,something that should be celebrated. I can't
agree with them because I'm not payingmy back. My daddy said he gonna

(42:09):
keep going to school. That mantake a class every semester. He almost
sixty, so he probably liked twohundred. That's that's twenty, that's point
one point. Say, now we'retalking about stuff that shouldn't be celebrated in
new beginning. So I had afriend, one of my penpals online,
and she was telling me about howshe lived in Chicago and she was somebody

(42:32):
who wanted her roommates just moved toFlorida. Didn't tell her now, it's
not like that, it's not likethat. But she said one of her
roommates moved out and moved to Florida. Didn't tell him. That's escaping responsibility.
That is and that's bad. Thatis communication skills, piss pool.

(42:53):
That's just yeah, that's terrible.That's an evil human being that does stuff.
Is um. The second one I'mgonna skip through was just talking about
promoting unhealthy behaviors, and we obviouslyknow that could means, you know,
can we do this? We canso. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administrations to s A m h SAreports that millennials are prone to higher rates

(43:15):
of substance use disorders compared to oldergenerations. New beginnings that promote such behaviors,
like moving to environments with high substanceabuse rate, such should not be
tolerated or celebrated, like and that'swhat is substance. That's kind of skewed,
because what is substance abuse when youconsider alcoholic substance? Absolutely so back

(43:36):
then, alcoholism was hot back inthe day. Here's what you say.
It was hot back in the day. So watch this. Old people.
They'll let you drink, they don'tcare about you being a drunk, but
you better not smoking no weed?Oh please, I know old people to
be smoking weed stronger than they do. But like my grandma, she don't
care about people. My mama islike that. Yeah, they'll let you

(44:04):
feel like if I take a drink, Lord forbid. If we think we
just got to give it time,what's the smell? Getting to the point
to where weed is becoming like alcohols, where people are starting to accept the
need to give it. It's gonnabe the same, like we the same
way that they look at all.Who was in front of that study?
He gonna be the old ones thatwas. Yeah, they don't celebrate perk

(44:28):
thirties. Yeah, they're gonna seethe health benefits. Who was who was
the people? Who? Who isthe age range of the people who did
this study? They did it overyoung I read it. I I'm not
saying so yeah they did the studyover young millenniums. But the people who
are in charge of the study problemactually did the studying yea, Like they

(44:49):
probably was like fifty sixty some ofmy years old. So it's like,
because it's like a substance abuse,yeah, by America's definition of substance,
because le weed is considered like what'swhat's the grade? It's like one of
the highest graded drugs or whatever.So it's like, of course they're gonna
say it's substance abuse, but weedis safer than alcohol. See. The

(45:10):
thing is is that this is justsaying substances. It's not saying what substance.
It's not saying oh, they couldbe talking about aderall. So these
people going crazy, you know what, you know what? You got me
on that one. They go crazyon the purpose that, let's think about
it, how many how many seventysixty year olds you know, popa fills

(45:31):
unless it's for diabetes, not many. That's not money, Okay. The
next one is unrealistic expectations. Theysurvey conducted by TD merrit Trade found that
on an average, millennials expected tobe fully financial independent about the age of
twenty five, yet the reality formajority was quite different. Rushing too a
new beginning like moving out of stuntedbusiness based on unrealistic expectations may lead to

(45:54):
financial instability or emotional distress, andshould not be celebrated without proper planning.
Yeah that was me. Yeah,and you've seen that picture Jerry Tom and
Jerry's I mean and he was cryingand it said me thinking how it was
gonna be at twenty five meat twentyfive and it was some crime and they
had a photoshop, some soap andthe kind of filling up to get the

(46:15):
last little bit of soap out inthe shower. But I think we have
to be mindful of when we thoughtthat we would have everything together about the
age of twenty five, because ifwe think about it, our parents had
most of their stuff together, soto say, by the age of twenty
five because of the times that wewere living in then. Now we're in

(46:36):
the time where people are afraid tohave kids because our parents did it at
a young age. People are afraidto leave their job or no, people
are not afraid to leave their joband start a new one because our parents
stayed their jobs for fifty years andthey were unhappy. So I think it
just depends on because at twenty five, thous don't have everything altogether. You
know what also is this might thismight sound supremely cliche. I am sorry,

(47:00):
but I'm about to say it.TV movies. Absolutely, that's what
our influences. We're gonna get tosomething in the minute. Commun No,
we're gonna being okay, So nowwhat happens if it's a bad seed.
So I think of like when playinga negative seed to someone else, to
somebody else, or you might say, oh, you know Ron, he's

(47:21):
a little crazy. She don't know. You don't know Ron, But going
up with the bad seed, they'dbe like, oh, so I'm going
in thinking you crazy. That's abad seed. When it comes to meeting
new people or people that I alreadyknow, meeting someone else that I've already
had encounters with, I don't liketo tell them what my encounter was because
my encounter with that person is notgoing to be the same as yours.

(47:43):
So I try to not tell themlike they experience them for yourself. Our
experience wasn't great, or our experiencewas, but we missed will y'all might
not, So just experience them.Experience that for yourself, because like people
ask me about the army all thetime, and it's just like, Babe,
it's gonna be a different experience foryou. Everything that I went through,

(48:04):
everything that got me here, it'snot going to be the same stuff.
You're not gonna have that same path. But yeah, so you to
figure that out. It is.That's why I don't like saying nothing neither
like I just I mean, hecool, she cool. That's that's she
cool. He cool. I definitelydon't want unless it's like if they like
if it's like bad bad, it'slike, yeah, nah, I gotta

(48:28):
war na bro, you we ourpersonalities. Just don't mention this. It's
like, I mean, you mightlike them. I don't know. I
don't really know what your steelo is. But it's because everybody is just so
different. And I don't think thatpeople realize that because they want everyone to
like the same thing and be intothe same stuff, and when you're not,
it's just like, are you reallymy friend? Yes I am.
I'm just not that friend for you, sweetheart. Exactly. I'm the friend

(48:52):
that you call when you want towatch the BT Awards. I'm not the
friend that's going to go to exactly. Okay, so now let's get into
something else. So another quick question. What happens when others around you don't
like the new you? You madea comment earlier you talked about your parents

(49:13):
and like, sometimes your parents don'tlike to have a friend. Shout out
to my homegirl, Christian. Shestopped drinking, and when she stopped drinking,
so many people started acting weird withher. So many people stopped talking
to her like that. They usedto be like, don't come if you're
not drinking. Okay, So that'svery toxic. Nakenly, I think that

(49:37):
we meet people in phases of ourlives, and we have to accept that
this particular phase we messed very well. But going forward, we just don't
have to let it be what itis. There's no our feelings or anything
like that. It's just that whereI'm going, you can't see the same
vision that I do. Yeah,everybody's timetable is not the same. So

(49:57):
y'all timetable. Let's talk about thedrinking thing. Y'all timetable might be I'm
gonna be stopped drinking when I getforty. Well, I don't want to
wait that long. I realized howmuch it ain't no telling where she's been
or he or she. I don'tknow if it's I don't tell her.
Ain't no telling where she's been throughwhen it comes to that area. So
she probably thought it was necessary forme to put a pause on it.
Now, you'll find people that don'tdrink, and that will us upt her

(50:17):
for who she is because it's somany people in this world, she's just
gonna have to take that friendship thatshe had previously appreciated for what it was
and move on the perfect dude beginnings, perfect partial thingful end have certain conversations
with those friends, but clearly thosearen't the friends that you can go out

(50:38):
with because they're going to pressure youto drink. And if you don't want
to do that, like that's gonnacause, Yeah, just go get you
some new friends that don't drink,or find you some hobbies that don't be
okay with. That's a that's aprocess. So that means that some that's
probably going to be a point intime where you're gonna be by yourself.

(50:58):
Don't quit on the I said,just because it's uncomfortable being by yourself and
you cannot heal in the places thathurt you exactly. You can't be at
grooves talking about I'm gonna quit drinkingwhen they got twenty five cent bourbon and
coke. I'm just saying, that'sa hard that's yeah, that's a little
temptation. You can't buy some forthe table. Yeah, no, that

(51:19):
gen and Timy for a dollar.You know, I said, I wan't
gonna drink but you can't beat this. It's a dollar, you know for
sure. It ain't just drinking,it's food too. Yeah, I'm gonna
eat y'all. So if you wantsome trying to cut back on weight and
you ain't got no self control,don't call her. I ain't come back
on weight, but I have likea stomach thing, so I gotta watch
what I eat. We'll talk aboutgood health of all. Right, So

(51:44):
now what happens. I don't knowwhy you're laughing at but when the new
beginning isn't or wasn't as expected.So in in some cases, you know,
there's been I feel like Emma brieflytalking to this, coming to get
to the next point. But Ithink about what if, for instance,
you got you went to sleep onenight, you woke up, you know,
had the cold still in your eye, and you got a phone call.

(52:07):
Hey it's wrong, it's me.Hey, this is Zara. We've
seen what you've been doing. Wewould love to feature your things in our
store. Man, we need youto fly out next week so we can
have a meeting. Whatever happens thatfast. And that's why I asked early
if opportunity of a lifetime came,would you be prepared. And so preparation
is not always external. A lotof times it's internal as well, and

(52:30):
I think it's more internal than external. And sometimes my question is, like
one, if it happened, wealready asked, what would you be ready?
But also if it's not how youpictured it, because you could say,
oh, I'm ready for marriage,I think I am. But what
if it's not how you pictured it? I got to change the picture.
So let's talk about the movie.It's the picture something that like, is

(52:52):
the change very different from the picturethat I already have in my head?
Or yeah, if you're talking aboutmarriage, yeah, it can't be well,
yeah, obviously before what you're gonnamake your marriage to people? Two
people? It's not a what didyou call it? Cookie cut cookie cutter?
Yeah, it's not cookie cut.So I think about the movie that's

(53:13):
out right now and everybody's talking aboutit. It's called The Perfect Fine with
Gabrielle Union and Keith Powells. Soyou don't have to watch the whole movie
to get the gist of it.But long story short, she was married
to some man DV. Woodside.She was they was together for ten years.
Oh okay, they wasn't married.They was together for teen I missed

(53:35):
that part of the movie about Blue. She was married to Blue. I
don't know, it's really don't normalBlue. They wasn't married. They together
two years. Yeah, yeah,they was by law though common law marriage.
She uh, I adn't get nothing. She was getting half of keep
out. But so then she shewas um. She left. They end

(54:00):
up breaking up. She ended upmeeting a young man, um Keith Powers
at a party in New York.That sounds like New York. If you've
been in New York, you knowthat's some New York stuff for real,
something between forty and just just she'sfifty, but in the movie she was
forty, but she looked good.So it Gabriel, you know, but

(54:22):
she's fifty. In real life,she don't look it because you know it's
Gabriel. I think I'm I'm mightoff. My question is I'm sure I'm
a thousand percent sure that businesswoman didn'tsee herself. We're gonna support the movie,
y'all getting married at the end.Did they get married? The baby
she got pregnant by that young manthey was together. It was just supposed

(54:45):
to be her sneaky link that turnedinto a real link and a Cuban link,
and and basically, I'm a longstory. I'm a thought. Sure
she did not see herself being withno younger man, especially where she was.
Maybe she didn't see herself in witha younger man. But you know

(55:07):
how, like you write your goalsdown and they're pretty vague. You don't
say, oh, well, thisis the type of woman I want.
I want her to be this age, I want to be this color,
I wanted to be this. Youdon't do that. You just say,
oh, I want someone that's compassionate. I want someone who's loving, who
likes kids, who's you do itlike that? And so when this person
that comes to have all of thesequalities, you don't take into consideration that

(55:29):
there're ten years like yeah, likeis that she never asks like we can't
see here and say she didn't wanta young man. We can't see here
and say, oh, she neverthought that she would be married and pregnant
by her boss and son. Wedon't know what she asked for. We
just know that she asked for akid in marriage and she got that.

(55:52):
But that's what I'm saying. Shegot everything that she asks. But we
don't know. She specified on whatshe should have did. You got to
be specific next time, real specific, because y'all listen before I left and
then my army stuff, I saidthe next time I moved, I wanted
to be in the house. Iwanted to have a maide service in a

(56:13):
cleaner baby. I moved into ahotel, a maid service in a clearer
I got what I wanted, butit wasn't how I wanted it, you
know. But I rode with thepunches because I'm like, Okay, this
is my new beginning. Like Ihave no say so in where I stay
right now, I have no sayso on what I eat. I don't
have no say so in none ofthat. But I knew I had the
faith that whatever is to come fromthis, it's going to be bigger once

(56:35):
I get done with it. I'manta big part now, Like, yeah,
I didn't see it that way,but it happened. And that's the
thing, because what if it comesnot wrapped how you expect it? But
that's my main thing is just keepingyour mind open to whatever seeds you're planning.
Because you you planned a living seedand you got a batch of watermelon.
Watermelon, She better like watermelon.She got a young sprout watermelon.

(57:00):
She was in the let's go youngman. All right, So let's move
to the next section, which isthe weekly sub batical, and we're just
gonna kind of reflect. So mynext question is when I talk about reflecting
and I look on everything. Aswe talked about investments, we talked about
the earlier down payments. I lookedat this podcast, look at me in

(57:20):
the studio, now me getting trolledon YouTube. I brought that up so
many times this season. I'm sothankful, and honestly, I'm I'm happy.
Here's the thing. And y'all laughing, I'm serious because watched this when
it started happening. If this wouldhave happened to me three years ago,
I would have been pissed. Ifseeing all the negative stuff I'd be seeing
when I get trolled on YouTube,but even Instagram from time to time,

(57:42):
and even a little bit of TikTok, mainly YouTube YouTube as a moneymaker,
I'd be like, I don't care, Like so that's my thing, Like
I legit, don't care. Andthat's why one of my presents that God
made me impenetrable and I already waspretty good with not caring about things people
were saying. But it's one thingwith because people talk about you as a
person, some people care. Idon't. But when people talk about y'all

(58:02):
something you really passionate about, that'sren. It's a different type of trigger,
you know. So when people weresaying stuff about me on YouTube,
when I said, I just lookat it, I don't care. I
don't feel no way. That islike the biggest blesser ever. So that's
I just want people to understand thingscome when they're supposed to. And like
I said, we go back toGabby. She wouldn't have been ready for

(58:25):
that young man probably five he probablyeven a year before she met him,
because he was at the time.I'm sorry he was graduated high school.
He wasn't yet. He's really sneakingLincoln with that young man. That's really
high be it really is, youknow, in life. But she yo

(58:46):
talking about patience. She had towait about twenty five, so that makes
the question. But it is basically, Bob, my man getting his masks
right now. Your man is ineight grade right now, he getting his
algebra one. He pre pre algebra. He's smart, so he's trying to

(59:07):
get ahead of the game. Ithink I need to go to the people
that's sitting at the security office rightnow, because you can go you up
the middle, I can get thedety, I can get the sun.
Take the sun, GABBI, takethe sun. But basically, but I'm
sorry, if we go back towhat that twenty five, have a thing

(59:30):
ready to go at twenty five,Stuff like that movie The Perfect Life can
find Perfect Fine, can twist peoplein mind to think because you know,
at twenty five he had his masters. Uh, he's working at doing that.
But that's that's not everybody. It'speople that's doing that. It's just
letting people know, Okay, peopleknow that, hey, this is this

(59:52):
is possible, Like you can dothis. I know y'all think that it's
not possible, but at some pointthey would see in here looking at somebody
else's social media being like, ohdamn there twenty one and they have all
the time. So what I wantto say is I don't think that it's
not possible, but I think peopleneed to pay attention to the right things.

(01:00:13):
He got his masters before twenty five, so pay attended to the fact
that he got his masters, versuspaying attention to the fact that he got
at the twenty five because the master'sdepending on a certain person. It's not
going to always come at a certainage. Remember, his mother was very
rich, successful woman, so sheprobably was in the position to be able
to pay for his education straight through, so he didn't have to take no

(01:00:34):
breaks and have to worry about wherehe lived or where he ate or I
mean, how he ate how hegot transportation. But that's not the reality
for a lot of people, right, It's not so like my wife because
I'm saying my wife because I didn'tfinish school, but like her last semester
in order to get it at thetime, she wanted to take like ten
classes in their last semester. Rememberthat. And for y'all, I know,

(01:00:54):
I think you you had to dolike five five no, no,
no, I did that one summerschool twenty fourteen, and after that I
only had four classes every semester Igraduated. Yeah, So it's like,
it's not so I'm saying, like, sometimes stuff like that can skew people
if you do not have the rightI'm gonna use a big word herman nudic,

(01:01:15):
which is the glasses division. Ifyou're not paying attention to the right
stuff, or if you're not,if you're not looking at or having your
mind open to the right stuff,don't just pay attention to the fact that
he's twenty five with masters. Alsolook at the whole situation. His mother
is very successful, so he gota lot of opportunities that. Yeah,

(01:01:37):
he's working with his mom in thewhole time. That's not everybody's early you
said, you said, if yougrew up in the hood, so you
probably have to take different routes tomake sure you got where you wanted to
go. Yeah, it wasn't.It wasn't like right. Like my my
my mom she got sick when Iwas fourteen, so that created a lot
of did in finances because you know, we had to pay for her healthcare.

(01:01:58):
So if I can't become and Iused to have, I still kind
of have this problem. I'm workingmy way through where it's like, you
got to pay attention to the wholething. You can't just line up with
everything. So that's why it's like, that's why I say, back when
we was talking about twenty five havingyour life together, I don't know.
For me, I used to growup heavy with TV in my face,
TV and movie so you see thata liar, you think well as possible,

(01:02:20):
and then when real life hit andit don't happen. Now you're feeling
terrible about yourself, when when ifyou would have had your eyes open,
you would have saw that's not everybody'sreality. So don't like, like you
said, she got the man thatyou wanted. Did you? Was it
the man that was the same ageas you and y'all was good or whatever?

(01:02:43):
No, you got the man thatyou wanted. He just came in
a twenty five year old package,right, So it's about paying attention to
what you paying attention to what's importantand paying like looking at the right things,
taking in some stuff and taking outsome stuff as well. I just
had to know you're good. Okay, So let me talk about this because
I'm gonna give yall some tips thatI researched in order to like prepare for

(01:03:04):
whatever news coming, because that's justthe season we in now. I just
feel it a ship. Everybody feelsit, you know. You see it
through you know, like different sermons. You see it with these artists when
they create these projects and it's allabout the you know, the new revival
all that stuff. If you lookat the synonyms A new beginning, that's
a new thing. So um kindof got out of jail new beginning,

(01:03:25):
who didna got out of jail free? Backwards and his backwards? All right?
So now watch this. So alot of people need to get into
alignment. A lot of y'all outof alignment, y'all out of order.
You know. I've seen some onInstagram. I ain't gonna say who,
but I was watching the story andthey was playing a game, and then
the game some content creative people Iknow, and the man that the content

(01:03:49):
the man had to um lick mayonnaiseoff his girlfriend's feet as a dare I
see, we are getting farther andfarther away from uh society where I see
stuff because I've seen that on amovie when I was, you know,
the menis to society when he hadput that high sauce or something and were
not we is it because of thecondiment of choice. It's all it is

(01:04:14):
nasty. But I'm saying I wouldn'tsay we're getting away from it because they've
been doing that nasty stuff. Butmayonnaise that is whipped cream. Back then,
they've been doing that nast I don'tknow. Maybe there was the only
compment that hit in the house.Still girls and Nancy, why are you
linking up for people? Fee youwhere her feet? It wasn't no like
just walking outside the car creek.Probably it wasn't no like kink stuff.

(01:04:39):
It was like they was playing somegames and then that was the Derek game.
So for y'alls, we're wrapping up. So so here's the way to
get ready for my young millennials asyour new beginning that is coming. So
the first one is invest in financialeducation millennials financial situations often discussed as a
challenge. According to a serving bythe National Financial Education to Council, young

(01:05:00):
adults age eighteen to twenty four estimatethat they lose one thousand and six hundred
and thirty four on average each yeardue to their lack of knowledge on personal
finances. So this can be andit's a lot of stuff on Instagram,
YouTube everywhere about financial independence, youknow, investing budget. I really don't
know a lot about investing, butI want to start getting into it in
their retirement planning for those of uswho are do have like corporate jobs.

(01:05:24):
The second one is embracing lifelong learning. I'm gonna just say it like that.
It talks about this doesn't include jobspecific skills, but also soft skills
because it's you know, it's y'allsoft girl error. This is communication,
creativity, leadership, and there arevarious platforms like LinkedIn and cooers. It's

(01:05:45):
a few other things, but aform fifty percent of all employees will need
reskilling by twenty twenty five as anadoption of technology increases. I have to
add that chat gpt fing to takea lot of people jobs not mine,
but it's gonna take a lot ofy'alls. The third one I'm just gonna
glaze over is just removing negative influencesis critical for MILLENNIALUS prepayer from new beginnings
to evaluate their personal professional surroundings bythe negative influences. And according to the

(01:06:12):
from the Male Clinic, negative influencescan take a totally your mental health.
And this can come from toxic relationships, people trying to force you to drink
when you're not trying to drink,unhealthy environments, or material possessions, which
I kind of mentioned briefly when I'mtalking about the whole Gucci man thing earlier,
Like they glamorize their lifestyle, andit's so in your face that people

(01:06:32):
will do anything to get it allright. Let's go to the next one,
which is adopting sustainable living practices,and this is according to Nilson report,
we are more willing to pay forextra sustainable offerings, with almost three

(01:06:56):
or four of respondents indicating their preference. By adopting sustainable living practice, millenniums
can only contribute to positivity to theenvironment, but also prepare for their future.
This conclude the right career choices,conservative energy, recycling, all the
good stuff. And this is thelast one. It's a big one.
I think I've definitely been doing,which is making room for personal growth.
I've gotten rid of so many clothesshoes, like I've went through since the

(01:07:19):
end of last year, even upto the other day. I've gotten rid
of so many clothes and shoes andjust things in my house I don't need.
It is so free in it isso free. I had a storage.
Y'all picked up all my stuff andI put myself in the storage.
I came back, I cain't weightThe food was no good because I wasn't

(01:07:40):
supposed to be gone for four months. So I'm just like I put everything
that was in my apartment in thestorage I moved back a year and a
half later. That food was nogood. It was like no imperishables,
but it was no good. Theclothes were too small, shoes there wasn't
my style anymore. So I literallypurged everything. I got rid of the
clothes, I got rid of shoes, I got rid of everything, and

(01:08:00):
I'm just like, Okay, thisis a new start for me. I'm
going to get rid of everything andall things new. Like everything that's going
forward from now is going to beme letting go of all of that extra
baggage that I had because I've gota bad habit of having old stuff and
just adding new stuff to it.But now I'm just like, let it
go, like you get it.And it's so divine because I had these

(01:08:24):
high school sweat pans that I obviouslygave it anymore, and I was just
like, I'll never be able toget this because they don't sell my high
school stuff in stores, y'all.Literally four days later, I found some
shorts they have my high school owning, and I was just like, and
I just threw those other ones awaythat I didn't want to throw away because

(01:08:44):
everything divine time and honey all makessense right. Making room for personal growth
helps to prevent burnout and prove overallwell being and ultimately prepared for new beginnings
by fostering resilience and adaptability. Andthat's the main thing adapted, being adapted,
being knowing how to adapt, becausethat's I think hard for and that's

(01:09:05):
what one of the reason why Istarted this podcast because I felt like our
generation is too young to be sayinglike, oh, I'm good with this.
And I mean so many people whoyounger than me who'll be like,
I'm fine with it just the waythis is. And it's like, twenty
three, bro, what are youdoing? You had too much life and
heady and at such a mild age, you still like a reflection on your

(01:09:26):
parents. You really don't even knowwhat you like for real. Everything yeah,
right now is the stuff that yourparents like, Yeah, you ain't
been out getting really been out onyour own yet. You didn't even hit
your late twenties hit. Yeah,And that's a whole other animal. The
twenty five yeah, that's twenty sevenis different. Wait till you get to
the part of your life where you'rejust like, okay, I'm in the

(01:09:47):
middle. I can't driss not Ican't, but I don't want to dress
too young, like to where Igot like my mid drift out or you
know, something like that. Butit's a it's very awkward stage for me
right now when it comes to dressingbecause it's just like I don't want to
look too aged and I don't wantto look too young. So what is
the middle? Yeah it is.I love it here though, because I

(01:10:12):
can this time, I can makemy life to what I wanted to be
and not have to stick by thewhatever my school is saying my parents like
there's my man, and like,how are you saying making room for personal
growth? I know we're talking aboutclothes, but also just making time to
I know this is gonna sound clichetoo, but like read, but reading

(01:10:33):
certain stuff that's gonna benefit wherever youlack internally, like internal battles that you
lack, whether it's I'm not goodin patience, so I'm not good in
um self control, I'm not goodand kind, and so I'm not good
enjoy. You gotta take time,so separate yourself from your every day make

(01:10:55):
the sacrifices to separate yourself from yourevery day grind to take time and really
learn about these certain things and understandhow you how you can apply it to
your life. So in the samemillenniaus the generation after us too, gen
z TikTokers, you want to talkabout patience, I think I think it's

(01:11:15):
very important to understand that the lifethat you want is the life that you
create. To see that you plantoday is going to be the seed that
grows tomorrow. So whatever you planit today and whatever you you used to
nurture it, that's what you're gonnahave tomorrow. I just so, I
just I just learned this yesterday,So I'm gonna get biblical. I'm sorry,

(01:11:36):
but I think it's Ephesians for versetwo. I'm paraphrasing, but basically
it's saying that you have to bepatient, which is making allowances for the
people that you love. So thatrefers to like, whatever journey that you're

(01:11:56):
trying to grow in, whether it'scareer, whether it's a certain trait or
certain aspect, you have to bepatient with that journey, which is making
allowances for that journey. Since youlove that journey, why do you love
that journey? I love this journeybecause it's going to benefit me, or
it's going to bring me a promise, or it's going to bring me something
that I want for myself. Right, being patient within that journey is making

(01:12:17):
allowances for the fact that this journeywill not be perfect. Sometimes this journey
is going some days, this journeyis going to everything's going to work out
the way you want. So you'retrying to be successful podcasts or some days
you're gonna get to the right amountof view. Some days the right people
gonna find it, the right peoplegonna contact you. But then it's gonna
be some days where you don't hearfrom nobody for a whole month or two,

(01:12:39):
or some days where you even somethingsimple I'm trying to upload the episode
on Instagram or YouTube is just notworking for me. What's going on?
So I know, and I'm sayingthat because I'm personally that's a problem for
me. What's the word I'm lookingfor, Like when something goes wrong,
I quit And that's been like anissue for a longer, So I'm trying
to learn how to get out ofthat. And if I don't or if

(01:13:00):
we don't, make me patient,which is making allowances for the fact that
sometimes it's going to be issues thatthere's something going to go wrong in this
journey. If we don't take accountfor that, then we'll be just like
me, where you're quitting every timesomething goes wrong. So for me,
when it comes to stuff like rollblocks with ever process I'm trying to get

(01:13:20):
through, I always ask myself,is this a stop or is this a
work harder? And it's sometimes it'shard to differentiate the two, but it
all boils down to how bad Iwant the feeling in the process, not
the endpoint, not oh, I'mgoing to get this check in two weeks,
but doing the process because obviously thatmoney at the end is going to

(01:13:42):
be my dopamine release, and weknow how dopamine is. Once you get
it, see you're done with it. So that was a big thing for
me. Once I got my dopaminerelease, I was just like, Okay,
on to the next. But itwas just like I wasn't feeling the
process in the middle, because onceI focused on a process in the middle,
I wasn't too focused on the dopaminein the end because I know that

(01:14:04):
dopamine gonna be there, but Ihave to work with the process in the
middle first, so let the dopamineover to where you're just getting it and
throwing it away. Yeah, andthat's I want to say, lack of
education. It's kind of been myproblem. I haven't learned, which I'm
trying to learn now, but Ihaven't learned that it's not always going to

(01:14:26):
be perfect. It's not gonna bea situation where you can go you go
in headstrong, working hard, andjust because you work hard, you're gonna
get the most positive result. Alot of times that's not the case.
It's about the amount of time thatyou put in beforehand, so you got
to keep that same energy. Butthroughout time you'll be able to see the
harvest or whatever seed that you plan. So that's kind of in the journey,

(01:14:49):
and I just wanted to share thatbecause that's kind of like the journey
that I'm in now, where it'slike, how do I overcome my frustrations
when the journey does not work onmy behalf, when the process does not
work on my behalf, When whenit feels like I'm taking two steps forward
and get knocked two steps back.How do I say to myself, Okay,

(01:15:09):
is this a stop or is thisa work harder. That's also a
gauge, and I'm trying to learnbecause I don't really I don't really learn.
I don't really know the stop workhard gauge. So my gauge for
stopping work hard is if I'm ata point to where I feel like it's
stopped and there's nothing on the otherside that I can feed off of,
I stop. But if there isanother way that I can do this,
because there's always another way, andthat other way still gonna get me to

(01:15:32):
where I need to go, Igo. But you gotta know when,
okay, this is you doing toomuch pace is you doing exactly what you're
supposed to be doing. You'll feelit when you're doing too much. I
usually feel it in my chest.It's a little anxiety. When I'm doing
what I'm supposed to be doing,I get shit like deja vu. I
get my R and B moments likelife is a movie and everything feels good.

(01:15:57):
I just literally listen to everything that'saround me to know if I'm walking
in the right path that I'm supposedto. Because I pray, I do
all of that, but obviously Idon't get words back, so I have
to pay attention to the things aroundme, so that I can know that
what I am seeking is also seekingme. Okay, all right, Oh
no, So we're just gonna jumpto the end of remarks for today.

(01:16:20):
Just a quote, well obviously beforeso Isaiah forty through eighteen and nineteen,
forget the former things, do notdo along the pass, and I'm doing
new thing that springs up? Doyou not perceive it? I am making
away in the wilderness and streams inthe wasteland. So just that last part
alone. If you're making streams inthe wasteland, waters using not in the
wasteland. So that's just being preparedfor whatever is new, allowing that the

(01:16:42):
main part forget the former things,because if it's something brand spanking new,
it's gonna be something you ain't neverseen before, and be open to something
you ain't never seen before. Ilike surprises, so hopefully this is a
good surprise season for a lot ofpeople, and I believe it will be
if you let it. All right, So let's go to the final thing,
which is the question of challenge forthe audience today. I switched things

(01:17:03):
up, and this is what Iwas going to ask with an episode and
y'all can still answer if y'all wantto. But this week's question of challenge,
I want you to ask the audienceif your life was a movie,
not feel life was a movie.If your life, what would you name
the album of your life? Rightnow? What would the title of your

(01:17:24):
life be right now? If itwas an album? I would say God's
Favorite. And the reason I sayGod's favorite is because there were so many
times where I thought that I wasn'tgonna get through it, or I thought
that, oh, the end ofwhat you're going through right now, it's
not going to look how you wantedto look. But it always works out.

(01:17:46):
And that's why I always say I'mGod's favorite because there are so many
things that I got through that Iwas not supposed to get through, and
it's just like dang, like God, you really, you really, you
really fool with me because I couldn'tdo this without you. Home, people
be like, why would you saythat? He told me to say that,
Like that's my boy. We lockedin, like I'm God's back.
You can be God's favorite too,like everybody can be God's favorite, but

(01:18:10):
you know what about you? Iwould say, good kid Man City.
So the reason I would say thatis the whole concept of that album.
That's the Kindrick Tomorrow haven't been analbum by the way, Kendrick basically basically
explaining how can how can you overcomeyour environment? Or him having to overcome

(01:18:31):
his environment. Now, did Igrow up in the hood, No,
but I have grown up um lackof knowledge and a lack and a thought
process of I'll just take what Ican get and settling mediocre. And so
it's like, how can I overcomethat environment? How can I be the

(01:18:57):
one that overcomes the the mediocre,the settling environment and be and actually become
the person that I can see Godhas given me a vision that the person
that our dream. So that's whyI would say a good kid man city.
That's very interesting because we don't usuallyhear about people who did grow up.
You know, we'll all financially havingissues because all we hear is,

(01:19:23):
you know, oh, they camefrom the botoment near at the top.
Don't We don't hear about the middleclass because the middle class is hard.
Middle class is hard. Yeah,yeah, I don't get you don't get
financial health. It's like you gottaget it out the mud. It's it's
it's real, like it's a plugin place. So like my people,
they grew up poor from the hoodthat type. So to them, they're

(01:19:46):
living the life right. But thenit's hard to understand, like my foundation
is not your foundation. So Ididn't grow up that way, you know,
unfortunately fortunately and unfortunately because the reasonI say unfortunately is because sometimes it's
hard to relate with your people sinceyou didn't grow up that way. That

(01:20:08):
age gap and just that that growingup gap. Like if they grew up,
if they grew up suburban when theywere young, they probably could understand.
But we didn't grow up suburban.You know. My pops grew up
shotgun house, six to a house, sometimes growing our food, going our
lights. Mom died when he wasMy mom died when she's giving birth to
him and his twin brother. Soit's like to him, you know,

(01:20:30):
I got a good life. Igot a good life. Imagine where I'm
coming from. And for me,it's it's not only where I'm coming from,
but they're actually being more in tunewith God and how God says.
I just you're not designed to justhave the best that you can get.
Your designed to have or the excellent, exactly what you want excellent, and

(01:20:53):
more like I didn't just you know, I just didn't design you. I
design you to have dominion, anddominion is conqueror rule over everything. So
you know, you get into acertain stage or you getting to a point
is good, but that's not whereyou're supposed to stop, right, you
know, like David, if youthink about it, David Solomon, Joshua

(01:21:15):
Moses, Moses problem was they likethey stopped. They were supposed to become
somewhere else, but they stopped andgot complacent. Right, But Joshua got
them to the promising and he wasa king and the promising Solomon was consider
whining the richest man that ever ruledthe world. Jesus is Jesus, you
know what I'm saying. Like Paulis responsible for basically a third of the

(01:21:38):
whole New Testament. So it's likeit's not just you're not just supposed to
just get boy, You're supposed tohave the top of the top. So
it's that on top of growing upin a suburban environment where you know how
they have to grow not having toworry about what to eat, it's different
struggles, your struggle and financially,your struggle was. Mentally, yeah,
your struggle was. And that's whyI say good kid Man City, because

(01:22:00):
it's like most of my family kindof grew up that way, and to
them, it's like you're good,But it's like, not really, because
I understand that there's kind of moreon the plate that we're missing out right,
even y'all, even even though eveny'all, like even then, even
though they, yeah, I congratulate, I congratulate my papa, my mama.

(01:22:21):
From coming from where they come from, it's just sometimes it's hard because
it's like this one's this is supposedto be like the checkpoint. This one's
supposed to be the finish line,and they kind of they kind of see
this as the finish line sometimes andif you like that. Sometimes though,
especially when you come from where theycame from, you don't see it.

(01:22:42):
It's a lot of factors, Likeit's a lot of factors that go and
you gotta think they grew up inthe time Civil Right movement, Black I
know, it's I know, it'sa whole bunch of stuff that goes into
it. So it's it's it's notlike I'm supposed to make it you know,
I think a lot of people inour generate. That's one thing that
we do that that kind of hurtsus is we're not considering all factors of

(01:23:03):
why people from older generations didn't dothings that we want to do, right,
like civil rights. You gotta playthe civil rights movement, a whole
bunch of stuff playing into that.So it's like, I congratulate y'all for
coming from where you come from.I just wish that y'all would have saw
that this wasn't it though it wassupposed to be more to this on the
plate, Just see it eventually youget there. So I mean, that's

(01:23:28):
stuff I feel like the place thatI mean, I have to be the
person that doesn't and once they seeit, they'd be like, oh oh,
but it's like this is this ispossible for you too. It's not
just it's not just reserved just becauseI grew up that way. Life don't
end just because you hit a certainage. And that's the main thing,
even for the older people too.And like I said, this age that
we have young millennials, I'm coiningthat phrase and then we're gonna end it
there. This age for young millennialsis adult puberty and it goes into next

(01:23:54):
week's episode, which is about thenext phase of the plant, which is
the more of the development the GermanNation stage. I got a great interview
with a big influencer, motivational speaker, tell y'all got the tech tap into
that. I want to appreciate y'allfor coming on the day. I want
to appreciate you for filling me inlast Yes, but jig broke, y'all

(01:24:20):
in my grog out here. HoldI'm plays a sign and I always remember
keep your head up like your neck, Kurt, remember who you are making
mind up, don't let him makeyou. And I love us for real,

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