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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jay dot il, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi. Hi,

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Speaker 1: everybody's welcome to Jay dot Elder Podcast. Uh, it is

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Speaker 1: a glorious day to be a black woman here. Feel

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Speaker 1: good right. I feel like my my feet have been

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Speaker 1: beside you, even though they haven't. I feel like I

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Speaker 1: have had a wonderful afternoon of just stimuli. I'm titulated.

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Speaker 1: So welcome to Jay dot Elder Podcast, and I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: that we titulate you all today. I'm here with my

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Speaker 1: sister friends, Ada graydon Donza. I just feel like you

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Speaker 1: would saying Diddy for everybody you know me. I was

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Speaker 1: just at the I'm sorry, hello everyone, how are you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're going to titty late, let's do it, and and

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Speaker 1: then tentifying like yes sink Claire as they say a

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Speaker 1: DC A tenny ball. I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry. We

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Speaker 1: are having a good day. Okay. I hope that you

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Speaker 1: all are having a good day too. It's funny like

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Speaker 1: this is the way we want to feel. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we want to feel like joyful and energetic and you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of reason to smile. It's funny though that we

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Speaker 1: will suck around on this Beyonce's Internet, and out of

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Speaker 1: all the fantastic things that there are, people are you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of positive energy, a lot of positive

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Speaker 1: things to say. We say, we look at these things

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Speaker 1: and scroll right on buy and wait for some chaos,

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Speaker 1: wait for some train wrecks, for some foolishness. Really like, seriously,

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Speaker 1: something that a fool would do, you know, to make

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Speaker 1: the king laugh. You know, that's what we're waiting for.

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, I'm wondering why we do that. We

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Speaker 1: have a guest today that is going to talk about

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Speaker 1: these things with us eight Ja Graden Dance. If you'd

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Speaker 1: be so kind, y'all know that I if you listen

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Speaker 1: to show, you know, I'd be on the internet, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'd be on the social media's and you know, and

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Speaker 1: certainly it is, you know, not a place that doesn't

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Speaker 1: have more than enough charismatic people who will pull in

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Speaker 1: the vibe and before you know it, they like all

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Speaker 1: the way social media is famous. But they are absolutely

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Speaker 1: and one hundred percent probably mad tick And the worst

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Speaker 1: problematic earth that you can do is then tell their

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Speaker 1: loyal and I mean fanatical audience that they are a problem.

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Speaker 1: And there you have it, it becomes a war outside.

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Speaker 1: No man is safe safe, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I want to introduce y'all to our guests

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Speaker 1: for today. His name is f D Signifier. He is

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Speaker 1: a former educator and researcher turned content creator who specializes

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Speaker 1: in analyzing black culture and black experience through media analysis.

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Speaker 1: His previous experience is working with boys and men and

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Speaker 1: researching behavioral health. Has continued in his work discussing issues

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Speaker 1: of gender and masculinity in his content. So y'all know,

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Speaker 1: he gets really talked about real bad on the people's

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Speaker 1: social media's you know what I'm saying, and they come

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Speaker 1: for you. Finally, I want y'all to know right now

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Speaker 1: that he is a loving husband and father of two

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Speaker 1: black boys. Him invested interest in contributing to a better

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Speaker 1: world where his boys can feel safe, actualized You're gonna

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Speaker 1: underline that, and fully realized humans underlining quote unquote strong

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Speaker 1: black men. In between content creation, FD is a media

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Speaker 1: junkie and Chicago Bears fan, which you want to talk

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Speaker 1: about because we and a gamer. So anyway, I heard

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Speaker 1: this guy and he really, hands down has one of

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Speaker 1: the best analysis that I've seen on the people's internet,

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Speaker 1: and they can't come for him and call him all

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Speaker 1: the names because he fits into all of the stereotypical

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Speaker 1: But welcome, welcome, welcome FD signifier to Jay by Area.

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Speaker 1: I love the name. Thank you so much. Don't even though,

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Speaker 1: like I gotta get the nerves out, especially after you

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Speaker 1: read them a little bio. I'm like, oh shit, I'm

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Speaker 1: really here? Are we cursing? Yeah? Okay, cool. We didn't

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Speaker 1: have a whole titty roundtable moment to get into the

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Speaker 1: is dope. This is uh a dream come true in

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Speaker 1: a weird way. Like I'm gonna tell when I tell

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Speaker 1: my boys that I was on a zoom call with

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Speaker 1: Jill Scott. No, no shade of a lady in the room.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just keeping the room. You know. It is

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Speaker 1: I got my most medium shirt. You know what I'm saying, Like, no,

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Speaker 1: thank you so yes, yeah, So this is just like

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Speaker 1: a wild experience to be here to talk my ship

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Speaker 1: to people that I admire, this is this is crazy

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Speaker 1: hope that I can contribute what y'all want from my presence.

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Speaker 1: This is her social media is as wild is a

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Speaker 1: just leave like like real talk. I am twittering less,

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Speaker 1: that you're not thinking too hard about will haunt you

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Speaker 1: for a whole week, you know what I'm saying, and

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Speaker 1: I'm it, Twitter hacks your brain. So I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: reduce my presence there, you know, but you still follow

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Speaker 1: me as if they sitting on Twitter. You at. One

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Speaker 1: of the things that I always find interesting about the

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Speaker 1: way that you you look at things is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: tied into charismatic people. You know, we talk about out

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Speaker 1: so do you see like a connection between what are

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got the pastors and and you know why,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Samuel's where it's like there's an image, especially for

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Speaker 1: this image. To answer your question, I think black folks

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Speaker 1: see blackness that hasn't been ruined by white supremacy. You

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Speaker 1: know what I experience. And so if you show them that,

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Speaker 1: that's maybe the thing we want to pursue. You go

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Speaker 1: back to Fred Hampton, you know what I mean. You

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a rhythment. Maybe it's in our bones.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's in the melan I don't know, but it's

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Speaker 1: we're seeing things like toxic relationships, and we're watching it

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Speaker 1: and it is fascinating. It's fascinating in the middle of

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Speaker 1: so much of our consumption of media now is controlled

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Speaker 1: by algorithmsifier thank you. I don't know how deep, y'all

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Speaker 1: I get into it, but like, like YouTube, Twitter, TikTok Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Like that's just they've they've tested this, and so world

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Speaker 1: looked at all of the you know, I've heard it

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Speaker 1: from five different sources. When the app is basically saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know country, everybody likes strawberries. No one's allergic, you

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Speaker 1: So like, right now, my audience has been really like

426
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 1: I made a Lauren Hill video a couple of months back,

427
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: and so like people keep searching for Lauren Hill and

428
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: find my video. So like the algorithms telling me, hey,

429
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: making another Lauren Hill video, and I'm like, I don't

430
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 1: know if you understand that that's not going to really work.

431
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust my own instincts and then try to

432
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: do like Lauren Hill all the time and lose a

433
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 1: lot of people. So it gives you data. So yes,

434
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 1: like my next video, the video, I got a video

435
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: coming out in two weeks that's just gonna be all

436
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: about drama and like a lot of what I'm talking

437
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: to y'a all about, right, So I know that's gonna kill.

438
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: And then after that, I'm going to talk about men's desirability,

439
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: which I know I have a strong male fan base

440
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of women that want to learn

441
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: and understand men better, So I know that video's gonna

442
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: do well. After that, I'm talking about black leftist movements

443
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: and black political movements from like you know, I'm explaining

444
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 1: how Mark the King and Malcolm X are really socialists

445
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That'll be good, right, the same audience,

446
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: And exactly I'm gonna wait for that video, right right,

447
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: you have worried about my drama videos. I'm gonna talk

448
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: about these white folks thisssing me on the back end,

449
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: right I know they are. But then I'm gonna come

450
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: back to give you some life when I get back

451
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: to this Fred Hampton, Uh the King stuff, w boys,

452
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: black nationalism stuff. It's like, okay, now, I gotta pull

453
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: y'all back in, because that's that's why I want to

454
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: say anywhere this is mind blowing because people don't really,

455
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, people respect content creators enough to know that, Like,

456
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,959
Speaker 1: do y'all realize that this man just said he has

457
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: already prepared for four shows, like he's a month ahead

458
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: and it's more than that months? How many months? I'm

459
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: four videos down right now? So four months if I

460
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: release one one a month, okay, you know my and

461
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: then all of that to the thing is one for

462
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: the algorithm, one for the fans, one for you, hold

463
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: on right, one for the did your school listen? Write

464
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: it down? Down? One more time? The man has damn

465
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: there half a million subscribers. That's done a year and

466
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: a half. One for the algorithm, come on. Two one

467
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: for the fans, one for the fans, one for you,

468
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: one for you. I'm doing like I'm doing like two

469
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: for the algorithm, one for the ands, and then one

470
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: for me. Um And that last one is uh is

471
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: a I almost don't want to say it because I

472
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: just wanted to be a surprise with people. It's about

473
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: a rapper. It's about a rapper that don't nobody talk

474
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: about no more. But he's low key one of the

475
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: most influential rappers to ever spit but like he was

476
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: such a a weird, unique figure that like he just

477
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: kind of disappeared. Nope, Nope. When I tell this story,

478
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like you right, You're right. I don't.

479
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: I still like them, but because I don't like him,

480
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: he's hilarious to me. But when I when I went

481
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: through his story, I was like, Yo, this story is like,

482
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: this is like one of the most important figures in

483
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: hip hop is alive. He's still alive. He's still making

484
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: music too. But you gotta wait till like March March,

485
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: March April ish. That's when the show, that's when you're doing.

486
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: That's when that video is going to Oh my god,

487
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 1: I gotta get my min together. That is a beautiful planning,

488
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: it is. But this is the thing, right, So, if

489
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: you're gonna be righteous, I'm sorry, if you're going to

490
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: even try to be righteous in these on these platforms,

491
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: in these streets, you have to be very intentional. And

492
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: what that has to tell you is that those who

493
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: don't mean you any good are also intentional. Who if

494
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: who who claim to be righteous, but everything about them

495
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: says that they are feeding the algorithm. They want the

496
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: algorithm to reward them. And so these are things I

497
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: need to be clear on. Yeah, is this so, is

498
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: this an entire world of for lack of a better phrase, sellouts.

499
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's selling out now though, but it for

500
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: different purposes. Yeah, I would say it's for the same purpose.

501
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: It's just easier to do it now. And it's more

502
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: like the rewards are more instant, you know what I mean, Like,

503
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: can you talk about that? Can you talk about the rewards?

504
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: The rewards are clout, fame, money, you know what I'm saying,

505
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: and low effort like the thing that's the other thing

506
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: that's crazy. So let's you know, insert I'm much again.

507
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to not throw shave it. Insert like

508
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Raggedy Nigga here with a platform, right, you know, just

509
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: putting in your head and then think about how much

510
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: work I put for agencies. You've watched, You've seen how

511
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: much work I'll be putting in my videos. You know,

512
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm writing ten thousand words scripts. I got a whole editor,

513
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: I paid for per project. I got music direction from

514
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: my head, I got art direction. I'm on Twitter. I'm

515
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: managing like I'm doing all kinds of stuff because I

516
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: know the algorithm. I gotta keep showing it's it's really

517
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: on some twice as good for half as much shit.

518
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: But if I was a coofye nigga that just wanted

519
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: to shoot on black women, I could easily make the

520
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: same amount, do the same numbers, and and with like

521
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: a fraction of the effort. Like you look at you

522
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: look at Kevin Samuels's rise, like he never even had

523
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: decent audio, Like he never got he never figured out. Yeah,

524
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: but no, right he show up, he says. And the

525
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: funniest thing is when you hear people say, the excuse

526
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: that most folks would make for Kevin Samuels is that

527
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: he just really wanted to help black people. You know

528
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, He's just running black men and women

529
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: to get right and get married, et cetera, et cetera.

530
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: Which if you, if you stretch, you could you could

531
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: pull that out of his content. But what you what

532
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: you realize if you do the research, is that whatever

533
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: positive he was doing, what didn't nobody care? What nobody

534
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: paying attention until he started embarrassing black women. And when

535
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: he started embarrassing black women. Yeah, suddenly the floodgates opened

536
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: for him to get more attention. He started going viral

537
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: over and over again, and then he became this prophet

538
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: to people. You know what I'm saying, it's like, oh

539
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: were you what did you come for? When did you?

540
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: When did you get there? Because he would talk bad

541
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: as he would talk just as bad about black men

542
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: as he did black women on at times. It's just

543
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: that those pieces wouldn't always take it out of the

544
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: into virility. And is this cross cultural? What I'm asking

545
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: is if an Asian man did the same to Asian women,

546
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: if a Latin like is it just asked the question? Yeah, sorry,

547
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: it's number one? Is this cross cultural? Where it occurs?

548
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: And number two, would they be as successful or are

549
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: we just the most successful at this because of black

550
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: women being in the target. It's it's so this a

551
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: both end. So yes, it's cross cultural. However, shitting on

552
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: black people is like the top tier. That's the that's

553
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: the code, is it, Kobe b for that's the that's

554
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: the top of the top of the food chain. One

555
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: thing I realized, so within the manisphere, there are no

556
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: major white figures, none of the major figures in the

557
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: manisphere that have been successful over the years have been

558
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: white men. They've all been South Asian. Um uh, we'll

559
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: say racially yea South Asian, not East Asian. That's a

560
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: very clear thing. They're a South Asian racially ambiguous, right, Well,

561
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: we're talking about as a guy, one of the new guys.

562
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: It's his name is Hamza. He's not as overtly toxic,

563
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: but he is a South Asian man from the UK,

564
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: very dark skinned, very good shape, and it's it's something

565
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: about how we consume. One thing people don't think about

566
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: is how everybody We talk about patriarchy in general, and

567
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: understandably so we're usually thinking about how patriarchy affects women

568
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: because women are usually on the receiving end of the

569
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: worst effects of patriarchy. But we don't always we don't

570
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: always have a good breakdown of how patriarchy is fueled

571
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: by the bodies the humanity of men, and the most

572
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: useful fuel is always going to be men of color,

573
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: because patriarchy of a self is a white supremacist construct.

574
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: So white men don't want to see other white men.

575
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 1: We don't want to see other white men acting crazy

576
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: towards their women. That ruins the mystique. We are on

577
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: a pedestal, so you're not supposed to do that. You

578
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: can't be doing that. So if you are a white man,

579
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: you can talk crazy about and trust me, those dudes

580
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: are out there, but they'll never be big because they

581
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: will be like there's an internal element especially and proud

582
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: boys don't do that. They do they do on the load,

583
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: but we just do that doesn't make it out. There's

584
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: plenty of like proud boys have done, they do on

585
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: the load, but that doesn't make it. That doesn't make

586
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: it out. What that doesn't go viral, that doesn't go

587
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: to the top their success? Yes, what gives them? Do

588
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: they get out? You know with the racism and the qcause.

589
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: But for for misogyny, we have it because it has

590
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: to be men of color, because misogyny is only really

591
00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: okay against women of color who are real them in

592
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: to begin with, I can't deal with these truths. Put

593
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: this to these people. No, no, seriously, listen, Oh babay,

594
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: my edges are tangling because they're growing. A tan is

595
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 1: coming in. It's so thick to see the hair growing.

596
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: It's like a y and silky Jill Okay, I think

597
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: I think she is shocked. Ladies and gentlemen, Jill, I

598
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: think she. I don't know. We're gonna take a quick

599
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: break and then we'll be right back. I want you

600
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: to keep going about the humanity of men and how

601
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: patriarchy really affects them as a black women, because no,

602
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: seriously no, because this is something we don't talk about.

603
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: There is there does seem to be to be an

604
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: uptick and black men who are starting to express just

605
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: how heavy this load has been. Unfortunately some of them

606
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: tend to express that frustration towards black women. But help us,

607
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: help us to help them or help them to make

608
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: this connection as to who is really at fault for

609
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: the fact that you don't feel human and that how

610
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: patriarchy is really like chilling on your shoulder's head neck

611
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: back on a chess daily. So let's let's be clear.

612
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: The source of this problem is white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

613
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: Now us, that's your good old Bill Hooks. And some

614
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: brothers hate hate on Bill Hooks. But like I ain't

615
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: one of them. You know what I'm saying. Every every

616
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: scholar has their flaws. Bill Hooks as less than most

617
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: and gives and gave gave life when I needed it

618
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: as a black man, when I was having my sons

619
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: um And so it starts with that because black people

620
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: were never meant to like embody these gender norms and

621
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: like ideals as we strive to do. And I'm not

622
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: saying you should do that. I'm I am a heterosexual man,

623
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: bread winner. Now offer YouTube money. Two kids, two boys,

624
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: were raising them as boys until further notice, Like I

625
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: am not put pulling the classic nature of of what's

626
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: it's safe is to do as a human in this country.

627
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: It's safe is to just go with the flow unless

628
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: you can't do it right. But what happens is we

629
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: start to think, and this is something, this is a

630
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: survival tactic from black people. We say, yo, you keep

631
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: doing this other shit. We can't stop stop that. You

632
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. As little girls, it was you

633
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: acting fast. Pull you know that skirt too short? You

634
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. The attitude is too loose, whatever

635
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: it is, and that is a protective like that's a

636
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: goal of protecting you, but it's an attack on your humanity,

637
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. At the same time, and

638
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: we don't always have the language to say you know,

639
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, big Mama didn't have the language to say, yo,

640
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm trying to protect you from these streets or from

641
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: those people, from the boys, whatever that little big Mama said.

642
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: If you don't sit your ass down, I'm gonna get you,

643
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, and so without unpacking that,

644
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: these things just become regular, normal statistical stuff does. And

645
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: so with boys it's worse because over time a lot

646
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: of women, you all develop a you all have more

647
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 1: opportunities to develop a critical lens on how you're treated

648
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: because you're you're you're you want to survive, right, You're

649
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: like trying to survive situations that I ain't. Like when

650
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 1: my all let my wife get gass here in Atlanta,

651
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: Like if the guards gotta get gassed up and I'm not,

652
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: and I'm not, Like my wife will take off the garbage,

653
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 1: but she won't get gas. You know what I'm saying,

654
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: I'm not even knowing that like a real man whatever,

655
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: I don't do that. But I know that if somebody

656
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: gonna get if I might go to the gas station

657
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: get robbed, my wife might go and get robbed and

658
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: kidnap you feel me, So it's a different set of risks. Yeah,

659
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: And so women develop this critical lens there's so much

660
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: out there for women to develop this critical lens um

661
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: at different stages in life. There's just so much there.

662
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: But for men we are kind of held to this no,

663
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: but you gotta be the men. And and a real

664
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: man does blank, And it's like, what if I don't

665
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: do that, does that make am I no longer real man?

666
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: And from that unfill so much trauma. And because of

667
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 1: the nature of emotions among men, we can't even unpack

668
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: that trauma. So we drink it, we smoke it, we

669
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: beat it, you know what I mean, we take it

670
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: out on y'all. Um. Like the thing a thing that

671
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 1: every every brother, So two things that almost every brother

672
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: you talk to will tell you is he probably he

673
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 1: was told he had to stop crying, and a woman

674
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: probably told him, and a woman probably told him ye.

675
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: And then he probably lost his virginity well before he

676
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: was ready to be engaged in sexual activity to a

677
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: woman that was way older than him. And though and

678
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: and and like, so you have men and so these

679
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: are like foundational experiences that black men, in particular, we

680
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: are more um exposed to these risk factors. Um, And

681
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: we've been dealing with this for as long as y'all

682
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: been dealing with everything y'all have been dealing with. We're

683
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: talking about general rate, we're talking about posts reconstruction, we've

684
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: been dealing with this ship and we still like the

685
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: sex thing, the the the habitual, the the the ritual

686
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: rape of black boys still hasn't entered this conversation. We're

687
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: at least talking about the crime, about the heaviness, right

688
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: we have, Yeah, we had a whole episode about this. Yeah, yeah,

689
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: y'all Black men and losing verity so young to older women,

690
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: and brothers ain't ready to have that conversation. I still can't.

691
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: It's still hard for me to get a brother to

692
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: think about whether or not him losing his virginity at

693
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 1: thirteen to a thirty year old was a healthy thing

694
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: for him, you know what I mean. And you look

695
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: at some of the brothers, brothers, and this is and

696
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: this is where it gets complex, right because because we're

697
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: talking about the problem, right, why supremacist superstructure, right, But

698
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: we in community together. So when I start yelling who

699
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: I'm ana hit first, I'm a yellow one of y'all.

700
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: And if I get hurt, who I'm gonna get hurt,

701
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna get hurt by one of y'all. And

702
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: so like, it becomes complex because we we we see

703
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: who we see in the news on a regular basis

704
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: as black Man, Nick Cannon, the baby Chris Brown once

705
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 1: upon a time, Mike Tyson, all of those brothers, Little Wayne,

706
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: all of those brothers are victims of child sexual assault

707
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: that they that they r Kelly, I forgot about. Did

708
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: I call it? Did not call it? Yea call it? Yeah? Yeah, Oh,

709
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You asked me what was wrong with me earlier?

710
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: Nothing's wrong with me. I'm just receiving all of this information,

711
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: and it's hiding. It's it's heavy, it's it's very very heavy,

712
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 1: because you know, they're absolutely incredible men that I love,

713
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: and I have a son, and I have nephews, and

714
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm watching this negative energy towards all of us, towards

715
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: all of us. Bitches ain't shit, niggas, ain't worth nothing.

716
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: You gotta get that money, get money off them. Niggas.

717
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: They're not people anymore. They're not human beings in any way,

718
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: shape or form. There are means to an end and

719
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: that is all. And that is very painful to me

720
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: for just just for the future. It is very painful

721
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: to me as a woman. I'm like in anytime. Okay,

722
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: for instance, um, something very close to me is an

723
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: incredible philanthropist on a regular basis. And I'm and I'm

724
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: not saying once a month, I'm talking come out once

725
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: a week. It's a whole effort to get homeless people

726
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: food and shelter and shoes and socks, you know, supplying

727
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: you know, crates and crates of socks for people like

728
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: you don't even think about it, but if you don't

729
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: have anything warm feet, like really really matter it, really

730
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: really mad. It's okay, So all of these gestures to

731
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: be kind and on his social media he'll get like

732
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: sixteen likes, sixteen, But that girl over there, who is

733
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: in a different outfit with you know, the same background,

734
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: is clapping her booty cheeks and she's about thousands of likes. Well, Jill,

735
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: have you seen anything when people do now they put

736
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: the little they put a girl who's like dancing tantally

737
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: with a little outfit on to get your attention and

738
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: then need to get your attention. And that's I think

739
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: that that's genus verse. Every time I see that, I think, Yes,

740
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: Lupa had a verse of one of his mixtapes where

741
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: he was like, Niples is nuclear missiles, Uh, you know

742
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: Loupelupe and so like it's on an old mixtape, and

743
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: he was talking about like, if I want to really

744
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: get some shit out, I gotta put it next to

745
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: the sexy to the sex syed right right right. And

746
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out, Okay, we know we're

747
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: aware of all the harms because the Adam motherfucker, so

748
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: niggas hear me something like that I got on the shirt.

749
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: So so how how on earth do we make this

750
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: work for our benefit? Like, I think that that's an

751
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: excellent suggestion. I've actually suggested that to them before, like

752
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: get to get a big booty Judie, let her dance

753
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: for about zero seven seconds and switch over to these

754
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: people are hungry in the country, right, and this is

755
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: what we're doing, and we'd appreciate some more support if

756
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: you could just you know, because it could be you

757
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: at any time. There's a conversation about you know, the

758
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: quote about the Master's tools, um, and yeah, I always

759
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: I'm always like, yeah, but I don't know, man, these short,

760
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: these swords are sharp, like these these tools is efficient

761
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:17,959
Speaker 1: and so like there's I mean, like number one, intercommunal

762
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: local organizing is like it's key for anything you're doing

763
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: because you always be more beholden to the people who

764
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: you see I rl um or or online. You'll I'm sorry,

765
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: that's okay, Like and I'm forty, Like I ain't that

766
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: young personal zomig, we don't know that us us No,

767
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: that's fine, but as gen xers anyway, we are in

768
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: the height of having to keep up. So I'm not

769
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: surprised at your forty because we're the ones that got

770
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: to balance all this ship. Yeah, you're just a geriatric

771
00:44:52,520 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: midillennials beyond my ass, boy, I mean, you ain't got that. Yeah,

772
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: what's that? Can you can? You can you email that

773
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: to me? Email? Like right right? But yeah, they they

774
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: we gotta you know, local organization is useful, you know

775
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, just it starts with community because

776
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: communities will have like the research shows that the communities

777
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: that have the least amount of problems are the ones

778
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: that are the closest. Because you're not gonna rob the

779
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 1: store of your homeboy, auntie. You know what I mean.

780
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: You're not gonna break in your and your and your

781
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: sister's boyfriend or baby daddy house unless unless you're you know,

782
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: unless that was the plan. But you get my point.

783
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: Like generally, community is always a key, Yeah, But beyond that,

784
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: while we're in here, while we're on these platforms, we

785
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: gotta just we gotta step up the game, and we

786
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:54,439
Speaker 1: gotta really like learn and understand how these systems work,

787
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: how they are not built and it's not And I

788
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: want to be clear, the system is a reflection of society.

789
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: It's a reflection of the people's reflection of where we are.

790
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: And let's I want to people want people say I

791
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: keep talking about the system, and I'm like, yeah, well,

792
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: if he fixed the system, the people will follow. But

793
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: I got to be clear, the people are there as well. Um.

794
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: But if we take advantage of how these systems work

795
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: and we understand how they maneuver, we can get certain

796
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: messages out there and grow. Like Kendrick Lamar is a

797
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: good example. Like when you when you like Kendra Lamar,

798
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: ain't did a whole song about trans understand the trans people.

799
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: This biggest rapper in the world did a whole song

800
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: about understanding trans people. It wasn't the perfect like you know,

801
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: like academic understood everything, but it's started the conversation you

802
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: never expected to come from the biggest rapper in the world.

803
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: I almost wish he would come outside more, but I'm like,

804
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: in a social way, just to fight some of the

805
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: other stuff like that. I saw him on a commercial

806
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: recently and I was like, damn, he don't do commercials.

807
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: This is crazy because you don't come out. But but

808
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: I think it's because of what we're talking about. It

809
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: is just the fact that it's like if you engage

810
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: too much, it can you can open yourself up to

811
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: the toxicity of it all, and it can shift you motivation,

812
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: it can shift what your you know, your ideals and

813
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: what's important to you. To have to kind of retreat

814
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: is important because you talked about community, but also think

815
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: it's that place to retreat, to pull out and to

816
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: reconnect to what it is is truly important to you

817
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: because and to reassess what your actual values are, like

818
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: why am I here? Why am I doing this? What

819
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: is my purpose? You know what I'm saying, because unfortunately

820
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: it's the quiet of it all. Another thing that we had.

821
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: You know, obviously, you know we all you know, our

822
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: members at the church and in that ministry. You know

823
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So even when we talk about rest

824
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: and that that kind of taking that moment to be

825
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,280
Speaker 1: able to have space to think about our ideas because

826
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: there's so much rick, there's so much noise, there's so

827
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: much going on that you know, you don't even have

828
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: a chance to decide what you feel or think about

829
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: a thing. It's being dictated to you every single day,

830
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: all day long, and you'll be sitting up there spitting

831
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: an opinion. It's not even your opinion, it's it's the

832
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: shit you heard three or four and that's something that

833
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: you heard. You don't even know you know heard. You

834
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to really think about how those

835
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: things affect the person to your left. You're right, your

836
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: front and your back. I tell people all the time,

837
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: people be talking about all this stuff about relationships, and

838
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: they grandma and the women ain't how they used to be.

839
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: I said, tell me, you ain't never had a conversation

840
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: with your grandma without telling me you ain't never had

841
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: a conversation with your grandma. Come on, tell me that

842
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: tell me you have never had a conversation with your

843
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: grandma without telling me that you ain't never had a

844
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: conversation with your grandma, right, say shit like women ain't

845
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: how they used to be Grandma, grandpa, stay together, y'all

846
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: came like you ever hear what grandma? I have to

847
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: deal with the statement exactly. And somebody tweeted this and

848
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: I will not take credit for this. Ign't remember the

849
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: girl's neighbor, she said, first of her. The reason why

850
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: some of us don't do the same things our grandma's

851
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: did because some of our grandmas pulled our asses off

852
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,959
Speaker 1: to the side and said, don't do this, don't do that.

853
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's like it is

854
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: that the beauty of conversation, you know, and not to

855
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: not to be on our whole, Like let's turn it

856
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: full circle to what we do here at Drey darn Ill.

857
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: But that is what we do here. We're having a

858
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: conversation because at the end of the day, the culture

859
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: part of it is the harder part to change. Yeah, yeah,

860
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: it's because people some of the factors. And one thing

861
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: you said that also, I think connects to something Jill

862
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: just said, like a lot of brothers are in survival

863
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: more in a way that I don't think, Like, I

864
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,479
Speaker 1: think women want to understand, and I think women think

865
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: they understand what I'm telling y'all, y'all don't understand. No,

866
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: we know, we don't understand. We know, we just want to.

867
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: We do want to. I think you, like a lot

868
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: of women do know that. But I think the nature

869
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: the energy, especially on social media, it feels like a

870
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: lot of brothers just feel like they're being talked down

871
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: to and talked over when they're trying to speak to

872
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: certain things. But even before that, right, Like, that's like

873
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: when we get into these frivolous, you know, gender wars conversations,

874
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: and I don't give a lot of credence to that

875
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: because so much of that is just for low key entertainment.

876
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,959
Speaker 1: When I'm talking about like Jill's nephews, right what they what?

877
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: What has to be recognized. I talked about this in

878
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: the video I can't if y'all want to watch me

879
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: like this conversation with another brother from Chicago who like

880
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: is also deep into this um I talked about, y'all

881
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: remember the story of Yummy Sandiford. I don't he was

882
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: he was a thirteen year old Chicago, and I guess

883
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,439
Speaker 1: this would have had to be ninety five, ninety six.

884
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: That guy, that guy he was. It's it's it's a

885
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: horrible story. I don't want to get too deep into

886
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: the story, but like that story haunts me because that

887
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: at thirteen, even in the sub birds, it hit me

888
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: like what black male humanity was really worse. I had

889
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: heard the Immett Till story before, which is also like,

890
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, a scarring thing, and I had, you know,

891
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: heard such and such gang violence, whatever, whatever. But when

892
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: that boy's face popped up on the news, it took

893
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: a piece from it, like it took a piece from

894
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: me that I have yet to get back because I

895
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: see it in my son's eyes. And by the way,

896
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: my son just had a little boy died. My son

897
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: and we go to a good school. Little boy got

898
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: shot at the bowling now a couple of weeks ago,

899
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: soever years old. They didn't gone, and my son came

900
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: out of school. He was like, Dad, you did you

901
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 1: hear about the little boy that got shot? And I'm like, yeah, man, well,

902
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: and I almost said, like I didn't say this, but

903
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: it's like it was like I here, we go, this

904
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: is the beginning of this conversation. And so what these

905
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: boys need, what your nephews need, your sons, is they

906
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 1: need opportunity to take off that armor that they're building

907
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: because they see this, they see what just happened in Memphis.

908
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They see how how black

909
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: men are depicted, how we depict ourselves, and they start

910
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: they start adding plis, they start adding shelves, and that

911
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: allows them to be callous to women. That allows them

912
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 1: to be callous to each other, you know what I'm saying.

913
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: And like that is and that's why I, even though

914
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm critical, I try to hold space because I'm lucky

915
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: enough to have had a relatively emotionally engaged father and

916
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: a lot of of like emotionally engaged men and strong

917
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: black women who said I not really though, like like

918
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: you be okay, protect you, mentors, access whatever. So I've

919
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: never had to armor up like some of these brothers said.

920
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: This typeree thing is really making I feel like two,

921
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: it's a whole other level of brother's arm armor, Like

922
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: this has just been heavy for all of us as

923
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: a community. But you know, yeah, because I think that

924
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: the thing is that like the humanity aspect, you said,

925
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: like you like here, it goes right here here, here's

926
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: the beginning of it. For me to look at my

927
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: son's and think, you know, I think a similar thing happened.

928
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't say similar, but a somewhat similar thing

929
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: happens with women. The first time that you have to

930
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: talk to your daughter about what's going to happen when

931
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: she goes outside, regardless of what she's welcoming or not,

932
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: right that that that moment that you look at your

933
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: twelve year old daughter and you're like, damn it, I

934
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: gotta talk to her about cat calls. I got to

935
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,919
Speaker 1: talk to her about creepy looks. I got to talk

936
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: to her about right, I got to talk it's and

937
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: and you've got to talk about old If you say

938
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 1: no that you're gonna be called a bit, you're stuck

939
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: up bl blah blah blah blah blah. So there's it's

940
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: similar somewhat, But I understand that the humanity aspect of it,

941
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: the life or death aspect of it, it is beyond

942
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: the understanding of not being able to live in that

943
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: body and live in that experience. And I want this

944
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: so badly for black men to be able to be

945
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: to understand their humanity, and for us to celebrate their

946
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: humanity and not in words, in action and understanding all

947
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: of these systems. If you're not having a conversation for me,

948
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,399
Speaker 1: and much love to you, it doesn't affect my love right,

949
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: But for me, you can't have a conversation with me

950
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: about racism, about white supremacy, if we're not having a

951
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: conversation about gender patriarchy, if we're not talking about its

952
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: effect on your humanity in mind, then unfortunately, it is

953
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: not the level of conversation to which I'm interested in

954
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: engaging with you about. Like I can love you, I

955
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: can want the best for you, but we are not

956
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: able to have that conversation because it is one in

957
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: which I know it's never going to end up in

958
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: your liberation. You're not going to feel like a human

959
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 1: if you're not going to consider this part of the experience.

960
00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: And that's the problem I have with so many soul calls,

961
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: so pro black folk that come out here. They don't

962
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: they're not really actually talking about the humanity of black men. Yeah,

963
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: they're playing a hit, still talking about a character. They're

964
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: still talking about something that don't exist. And that's the thing,

965
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: like imagine, Like, so I don't like to play the

966
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: oppression Olympics because it's it's always going to rail the conversation.

967
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: But the one thing I think that would help is

968
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: we both have this similar experience of like having to

969
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: like the personalized from our humanity as black people a

970
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: man and women as children. But the difference is, I

971
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: think women have developed that conversation over generations y'all, But

972
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: like niggas weren't even Like I'm the like niggas didn't

973
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: even talk to their fathers until like thirty years ago.

974
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: You hit a dad in the home that nigga did

975
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,959
Speaker 1: not talk to you if you was born before nineteen eighty,

976
00:55:54,640 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: that's like and like to do that was to teach

977
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: you how to be a man. Shut the fuck up

978
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: and do the thing. Watch me and suck it up.

979
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: Watch me. Don't say shit till we don't ask for

980
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: a ug don't ask me how I feel. I don't

981
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: got no feelings, nigga, I'm surviving offenses and so like,

982
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: we haven't developed that stuff. And so that's what I

983
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: think a lot of brothers are doing now. And it's

984
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 1: hard because and I'm gonna just keep it real. It's

985
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 1: hard on all lovers y'all can think of. It's there's

986
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: a lot of brothers that's so invested in patriarch and

987
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 1: they're like, these niggas soft, these niggas gay, these niggasist

988
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: is niggas that we need the real man to stand up.

989
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: That's what we need. And it's like, all right, y'all

990
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: been here for a minute, We see what y'all been

991
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: spending your time on. So it's a lot of that,

992
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: right white spens. But a thing that doesn't get talked

993
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: about is women are invested in that caricature as much

994
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: as men are. Oh yeah, yeah man or a strong

995
00:56:53,200 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: man right right then that nigga was emotional, and that's

996
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't do that. You know, it's can balance,

997
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: that's all us I'm saying, as us. The balance is

998
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: all fair. More conversation after the break. Can I can

999
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: I propose how to fix this thing? I don't know.

1000
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think you know, this goes

1001
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: back to how do we eat an elephant? You know

1002
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: one by that at the time deep programming programming process

1003
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: because because because it can go either way, when when

1004
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: you when you're dealing with the man, and then the

1005
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: man is for emotional You know that can't work either.

1006
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: It's irrational. It's a risk for y'all different than us,

1007
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Because yeah, like y'all just

1008
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: needs to be normal, because you never know which dude is,

1009
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: like right, But I need you to have at least

1010
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: five emotions, and not just to please oh please. I

1011
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: don't care about the number of emotions. I just need

1012
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: you to maybe like develop a little bit of your

1013
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: ability to have the words that match them. Thank you,

1014
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: like just say I don't. You can say all the

1015
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: things you want to feel, like bro, but if it's

1016
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: if it's if it's jealousy, if it's an abandoned men,

1017
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: if it's if it's you know whatever, whatever, the words are, happy, joy, whatever.

1018
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: I just when I went to therapy, I got this

1019
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: picture of a yarn, right, and it was called the

1020
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: Ball of Emotions, and on all the little pieces of

1021
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: yarn were different feeling words. And I realize how little

1022
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: feeling word vocabulary I had as an adult person. And

1023
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: that's why I don't fault men or anybody for not

1024
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: having this language. I'm just asking that we all try

1025
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: because if we can communicate with feeling, that changes and

1026
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: it all cooking humanizes you towards each other. If you

1027
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: can say this, this is what I am feeling. If

1028
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: you have to default to happy or sad, angry, happy, sad, angry,

1029
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: oh God in the bathroom, you need more than that. Yeah.

1030
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: I just feel like they don't get hurt. And this

1031
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: is real. As a brother, you don't get hurt if

1032
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: you unless you're angry or lustful or violent, you know

1033
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's when we that's that's a that's

1034
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: a Bill Hooks quote. You know what I'm saying. Black

1035
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: man receive the most attention when they're violetly acting out.

1036
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: And you don't think that's changing a little bit. It's

1037
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: changing because I just said to a brother the other day,

1038
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: I was like, he said, you know, he said he

1039
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: got electric tooth brush and a therapist. And I was like, nigga,

1040
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: you don't know how sexy that's saying. And an electric

1041
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: two brush. You are evolved black man. And that's the frontier.

1042
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: I think I'm one where so things are growing and changing, right,

1043
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: and so some dudes are really feeling, they start to

1044
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: feel insecure about the they status because like dudes will

1045
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: come in the room be like, I'm an alpha male.

1046
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: I'm an alpha male. I don't need emotions. I got

1047
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: ten women, I got I got what the bugattis. That's

1048
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: what Andrew Table was talking about. And it's like and

1049
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: like there are less women have y'all are y'all look

1050
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: at you know, y'all like this, This doesn't look like

1051
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: a healthy brother. The build life went to connect too

1052
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: long term. But this dude over here with the electric toothbrush,

1053
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: in the in the in the plants, Yes, you plant

1054
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: and it's healthy. Yeah. So like you if you got

1055
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: to announce that you're an alpha male, you ain't be

1056
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: an alpha male if you if you, if you'll you

1057
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: know the my video coming up, we're talking about desirability.

1058
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: And it's like the funny thing that I found through

1059
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: my research. It's something I kind of knew but just

1060
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: didn't have the details on. It's like dudes would be

1061
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: on tender right, Dudes will there'll be they'll be in

1062
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: a gym getting it in right. And so they got

1063
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: the all the all the all the extra bumps and

1064
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: veins that you know, somebody love it. Some ladies like it,

1065
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: but they think all the ladies love it, and so

1066
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: they tender thing be like who and it's like ain't no,

1067
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: ain't when they're clicking that bro like if you don't,

1068
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't cook something. That's me

1069
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: and my husband. Me and my husband will talking about

1070
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: this recently about about like R and B music where

1071
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: it's just like the old kind of go tos for

1072
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: R and B male singers to like get women going.

1073
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: They don't work anymore, like if you see it, it

1074
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: just it's not the same that whole humping the stage

1075
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: and you got your shirt unbuttoned down to the belly

1076
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: button and it's like, you know, I've been giving the

1077
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: hey girl, they still work for me. I don't know,

1078
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know for me as for me

1079
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,439
Speaker 1: and my study. So I think I'm going to love

1080
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: for the It's nostalgic, baby, it's nostalgic. You old honey

1081
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: is playing too into the nostalgiob. Okay, have you seen Bobby?

1082
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: I mean I don't, I don't. I don't know what

1083
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: the young bro boys I mean, I got it. I

1084
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: see it like one of my home he's terb a

1085
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: shout out to home term he got like, you know,

1086
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: pink locks, and he got like the choker with the

1087
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: cross on it, so he like he like a black vampire,

1088
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: and like, I know, i'd be talking to him, like

1089
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: I'd be careful. There's at a certain point once you

1090
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: get enough subscribers, they're gonna come and you need to

1091
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: be responsible and smart about how them dms work, because

1092
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: the dms, you know, it's it's it's it's an interesting experience.

1093
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: And I'm not I wasn't a brother, you know, I'm

1094
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: I'm from the nineties, so like being the thoughtful, intellectual

1095
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: shot brother was not getting the panties thrown at me

1096
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: in high school. But undergrad I figured out how to

1097
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: perform uh masculinity, desirable masculinity, and you know, we got

1098
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: some we learned some things, and then I met my

1099
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: wife and we just grew together and figured it out

1100
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: with each other. But like, if I was to hit

1101
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: the streets again, I'd be like, I don't know what's

1102
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what these folds are doing. Getting all

1103
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: the panties is even a cold like ever since I

1104
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 1: hate that. It's a goal, man. I mean what I

1105
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: said when I said I hate I would prefer you know, honestly,

1106
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, since I'm a mom, you know, and my aunt,

1107
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 1: I would prefer for you to choose well that not

1108
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: get it all quality over quantity for real, And I

1109
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 1: would really love for you to care about your penis.

1110
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: You care about you dick, if you you might want

1111
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: to use that. And that's another thing brothers be, you know,

1112
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: like it ain't possible, like some brothers will look like

1113
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jonathan Majors to look like he looks

1114
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: right now. That ain't natural for most men. I think

1115
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: maybe Michael b might be the only dude that ain't

1116
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: working super super look like that. What you mean, y'all,

1117
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: muscle memory is crazy better than ours, it's better in y'alls,

1118
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: but like it still ain't to look like how Jonathan

1119
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: Major's looks right now. Work on that. You gotta work

1120
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: on that in a way that either you got certain

1121
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: chemicals in your body or you got a ridiculous work ethic,

1122
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: you know that. And that work ethic comes out of

1123
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: costs and it calls certain equipment. Like folks, they won't

1124
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: tell you that, y'all know that that's true, but oh

1125
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: speak the truth. I just heard that, Yeah, and I

1126
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:31,439
Speaker 1: can also attest that there there's certain men that are

1127
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: just blessed that way, just blessed what you do, just

1128
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: like some women are just ridiculously blessed. God knew not

1129
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: to give it to me, He knew she don't know,

1130
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: she don't deserve it. Siana Sailors said, she don't. She

1131
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: don't exercise at all. She just dance. And it's like,

1132
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: clearly that's just a blessing, you know what I'm saying.

1133
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: Some people like it. Some people are like that, I

1134
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: should say, but I'll be trying to tell brothers, like,

1135
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: look y'all out here, you you're gonna need like you

1136
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: like Jill just said, you're gonna need that later. Yeah,

1137
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I didn't think about that.

1138
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: You're teaching class today, sir. People like all kinds of

1139
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: things anyway, you know. Also also blood pressure, So blood pressure,

1140
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: please speak on it. I'm gonna Get'm gonna get a

1141
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: little personal right. I'm forty years old. I was diagnosed

1142
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: so how blood pressure at thirty six ish, and it

1143
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: runs my family runs in a lot of folks families.

1144
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: But also diet, I'm overweight, et cetera. And boy for

1145
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: for like when I had to first get medicine for

1146
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: that first six months, I was like, oh no, we

1147
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: gotta something gotta give because I can't live like this.

1148
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: I can't live like this for the rest of my life.

1149
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: So um, and think I got started exercising, I got

1150
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: to lower my dositch and I got functional and I

1151
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: was like, okay, cool, And like, COVID has not been

1152
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: nice to me in this new job where I'm literally

1153
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:59,439
Speaker 1: doing this for most of my days has put weight

1154
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: on me. But you best believe your boy got a

1155
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,439
Speaker 1: gym membership late last year and I'm trying to work

1156
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: it out for you. Some brothers will function, but they're

1157
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: not in there, like they're not with you. And and

1158
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure y'all of it. Have you experienced that some

1159
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: brothers can can can be there with the equipment that

1160
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: you need, but the connection that you desire during the act,

1161
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: they and they have been in and out of so

1162
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: many women and so many experiences that they just don't

1163
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: even have the valuative. It's very performed because because a

1164
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: lot of brothers. I have a video you can watch.

1165
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: Um it's called a Conservatives are bad at sex um.

1166
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 1: But I get into that we've going back to how

1167
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: black men are are idealized. Um, you know the man Dingo,

1168
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: the pipe layer, you know what I'm saying, the myster

1169
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: fix it, the Jodi, and so a lot of brothers

1170
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: start separating genuine pleasure from sex early on because sex

1171
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: is only about checking off scores, like numbers going up.

1172
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: For a lot of brothers, I don't understand an orgasm,

1173
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: just thinking that it means that something's coming out your body,

1174
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: something coming out body, this feels we want and so like, yeah,

1175
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 1: you got to do that. Hopefully you know everybody different,

1176
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: but like you got to do that for the rest

1177
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: of your life. And like if you start out the

1178
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: bat disentangling like pleasure and connection and sensuality from the

1179
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: act of sex. I know, I know brothers that are

1180
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: interested in sex. Now, I'm sure, y'all. I'm sure, y'all.

1181
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: If it's not you, no shade. But if it's not you,

1182
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: you know a girlfriend that's like such and such I've

1183
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: been with forever, it ain't And that comes from not

1184
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: coming right. Wow, there's a lot into our glasses. There's

1185
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: a lot being poured into there, and you know we

1186
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: are primarily dehydrated anyway, most of us. So what we're

1187
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: getting is a lot of um is a lot of bullshit.

1188
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: And what I'm asking you to do as well as

1189
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: myself shit, all of us. We just pay attention to

1190
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,759
Speaker 1: what is showing up on our social media. Pay attention.

1191
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: If it's a bunch of you know, um, negativity or

1192
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: or or disrespect for black women or black men, you

1193
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: start blocking the shit. I don't know if that, if

1194
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: that works in changing your algorithm. No, you got to

1195
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: change your art. No, it's their fault, it's yours, your faults.

1196
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 1: Start looking at other shit like I do. I am

1197
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 1: really manipulating my algorithm. I'm like, I want the right

1198
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: shopping shit, talk about it. I got friends who their

1199
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: algorithm is everything. They in the cooking shit all and

1200
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 1: shit come up, all the people who cook they're to

1201
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: come up. You know what I'm saying. If you're in

1202
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: the other jewelry and all come up, like you just

1203
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: have to change yo. Shit. It ain't about the internet.

1204
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 1: You are if you aren't interested in changing your shit. Right,

1205
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: there's two or three ways to manipulate your algorithm. One,

1206
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 1: start a whole new account from scratch. If you don't

1207
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: want to do that, Um, you gotta you gotta start

1208
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: intentionally shitting on the bad stuff. So like, if you

1209
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: got YouTube right, YouTube don't like when you watch one

1210
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 1: second of a video and click off. Oh YouTube hates

1211
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: that shit. So if you see some some negative shit

1212
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 1: pop up on your feed, click on that, watch for

1213
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 1: one second, then click off that shittube. They don't like it.

1214
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,600
Speaker 1: They don't like it. We got you, we like YouTube

1215
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: is one of the one of the I talked because

1216
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: I've talked to these people. They say, it's like a

1217
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 1: puppy that just wants to please you. And the puppy

1218
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: when you come in the house, the puppies like, hey,

1219
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 1: I got let me go get you this thing. And

1220
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: they come to the to ther door with you know,

1221
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 1: a bone or something. And if you take the bone,

1222
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: I like, this is great. The puppies gonna wag, they

1223
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: tell and bring you more bones. But if you take

1224
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 1: the bone, but like, shit out of here, the puppies

1225
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: gonna feel bad for a second. But it's gonna find

1226
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: something else for you to you, for you to play with.

1227
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, If you would notice, and

1228
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: I think that I think that even ties into what

1229
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: you were saying about the master's tools. It's like, yes,

1230
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 1: and this is not in any way to discredit you know,

1231
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,799
Speaker 1: argu lord, but to say, at the end of the day,

1232
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: there is a way to engage with these tools so

1233
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: that you can then make your voice heard. So maybe

1234
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: you can't change that system, but you can let that

1235
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 1: system know. I'm not fucking with that right if I

1236
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: don't appreciate it. You want my engagement, stop showing me

1237
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: this shit. Yeah, that's basically what the what the puppy

1238
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: is trying. You know what the algorithm wants to I'm

1239
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 1: gonna want your engagement. I'm gonna have no morals as

1240
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 1: no soul, it has no dislike. But it's only Facebook

1241
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: want with a dislike. Huh dislike. But but the dislike

1242
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: is keep scrolling, keep scrolling, and then when you find

1243
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: something that really feeds you you, when you find that

1244
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 1: thing you want more of stop Okay, a comment, leave alike,

1245
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: heart whatever. That's why you hear YouTubers constantly say like

1246
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: hair and comment, because that is how they keep their

1247
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: engagement up. If you see content that you like, don't

1248
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: just be like, oh that was real good. You want

1249
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: to like it? Share it, x Y and Z. You

1250
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: want to make sure those people feel and hear that

1251
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: in a way that's real, that comes up in data

1252
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: that they can then use to keep moving forward, and

1253
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: they do analysis on like the types of comments you

1254
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,720
Speaker 1: leave too. So if you say I love this, this

1255
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:34,759
Speaker 1: was really somebody to see today whatever, like, they say, Okay,

1256
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: that's that's that's good. We want that. And if they

1257
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,680
Speaker 1: and if you argue with the motherfucking the comments or

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Speaker 1: some shit you don't like, they will keep feeding you

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Speaker 1: all this. They don't they really liked that, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna send them more of that because that will keep

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Speaker 1: them engaged. You got you gotta train it like a dog.

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Speaker 1: Engagement has no morals about everything, y'all, Like you're crazy,

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Speaker 1: you know, don't let me get into my capitalism bag.

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Speaker 1: We only got we only got a few more minutes.

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Speaker 1: It starts and start talking about how the corporations and

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Speaker 1: the plutocracy and all. I don't I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get to autocracy. See I don't want you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying like this. That's why that's why age was

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Speaker 1: like when I get to that that black conservative socialist video,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We got to start that's

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Speaker 1: you know. My goal is to this not to be

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Speaker 1: the last time I talked to some famous people. But

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Speaker 1: I'm scared because I don't know how far I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get before either a I start telling the rich niggas

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Speaker 1: today face that they need to change, or I become

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Speaker 1: a rich nigg and be like, oh no, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: Second part. I'm second part as as a rich niggod.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you money does not make it

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Speaker 1: the man. That's that's the goal I appreciate. Go go

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Speaker 1: get your coins, friend, go get all your coins. We're trying.

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Speaker 1: My wife with a job last year, so she congratulations. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was an amazing She she needed it because she

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Speaker 1: was out there in corporate America, you know, working working

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Speaker 1: in that that whole I was I was saving the world,

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Speaker 1: working with kids and shit, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And she up here talking to these old white men

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Speaker 1: trying to get them to sell and box stuff. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, baby, look we switched. I got it.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, take these naps. Get your skin good. Anytime

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Speaker 1: you offer somebody a nap, that's just a nice time.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to A. J's so funny. She went out

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Speaker 1: with a friend and her friend was asking her about

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Speaker 1: her skin routine and she was like, yo, I take

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Speaker 1: a lot of naps because she stopped wearing makeup in

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Speaker 1: the last like three or four months. And then like

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Speaker 1: your skin is long. She's like, yeah, good jeans in

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Speaker 1: the sleep every once and again. My husband coming, why

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Speaker 1: I'm taking my nap and you know that, okay. Blessings, blessings, blessing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming and spending some time

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Speaker 1: with us. We really really appreciated. Look here, y'all, it

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Speaker 1: just seemed to me like this. If you're paying attention

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Speaker 1: to your social media's and you find that a lot

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Speaker 1: of toxicity and negativity is in it, Number one, take

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Speaker 1: account to the good people that are around you. Take

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Speaker 1: account of the love that you receive, take account to

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Speaker 1: the people that are supportive of you, and know that

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Speaker 1: this is not the real world. The majority of this

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Speaker 1: shit is for show, okay, And you know, for likes.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened when we become people that

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Speaker 1: need likes so much, but it's always the people that

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Speaker 1: are going their own direction that seem to get to

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Speaker 1: the price. And remember anything that you're involved in too

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Speaker 1: much can make you an addict. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you at Jay dot Ill, thank you, mister

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Speaker 1: seg the fire Laura. Don't she liked to do that

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Speaker 1: to them? She liked to do it. Oh, Jill, you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that to me. The city backo stairs

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Speaker 1: like everything normal. I can't. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 1: How do you eat an elephant? One? By it time? Hey, listeners,

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Speaker 1: it's Amber the producer, here to dive deeper into all

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Speaker 1: things media and internets. Please follow f D signifier on

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Speaker 1: all social media platforms, YouTube and Patreon. I'll drop links

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Speaker 1: to all of his accounts and the show notes. And

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Speaker 1: I just want to reiterate you have the power to

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Speaker 1: alter your algorithm by what you can assume the most,

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Speaker 1: so be mindful. Hi. If you have comments on something

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Speaker 1: you said in this episode, call eight six six. Hey Jill,

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Speaker 1: if you want to add to this conversation, that's eight

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Speaker 1: six six four three nine five four five five. Don't

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Speaker 1: forget to tell us your name and the episode you're

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Speaker 1: referring to. You might just hear your message on a

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Speaker 1: future episode. Thank you for listening to Jill Scott Presents

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