1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Yo, we back. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,480 This is Clint Doulton, Fuji for short, and I'm your esteemed host for what is the cognitive 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:29,760 of the large podcast. And this is episode four. Hope everybody had a good week. Hope everything 4 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:37,680 played out in your favor. It's getting redundant at this point, but I gotta say it, man. Like, 5 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:46,760 had me a good week again. I've been stacking just good weeks, good days, good moments. And I 6 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,280 think a lot of that comes from, I guess I could say like a new family mindset. 7 00:00:52,280 --> 00:01:00,640 Lately, man, I just, I just been picking intelligence over emotion. And I mean, I've been 8 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:10,760 more, more cognitive, no pun intended, of how I and the actual people, the things that I say, how 9 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,240 I respond to things, even down to like mannerisms and facial expressions. Because like, sometimes, 10 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:23,840 as a person say, dude, some shit that I don't necessarily agree with, it's hard for me. Like 11 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:29,720 the hotter, like my nostrils might slay, I might bunch my eyebrows, I might just give you this blank, 12 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:38,600 nonshu long look. But I say all that to say, I haven't been experiencing any of that. Probably 13 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:44,840 well over a month now. And I think my new mindset is probably the reason why I got this podcast 14 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:50,280 started. Because I've been talking about doing it for a long time, because obviously I'm a fan of 15 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:57,840 the genre. This podcast in the genre, I mean, I guess so, it has its own, its own category, if 16 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:04,080 you go into like streaming sites, you can get so I'll call it a genre or a category or whatever. 17 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:10,320 But I used to always make excuses of why I couldn't start it. And I mean, I would just put it off, 18 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:16,600 like, I'm too busy, I work too much. I'm doing stuff in the studio too much, I need to be too 19 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:23,680 much, I write too much, I got family sick on it. I would just always find a reason not to do this 20 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:34,200 thing. And I love it. I absolutely love it. And with that being said, I believe, I don't know if I 21 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:41,120 said it already, but again, whoever's listening, I hope you guys had a great weekend. I hope you 22 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,240 have a chance to listen to, or I hope you're a new listener, man, like, we trying to grow over here, 23 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:55,560 you know, can be a part of this family. So I want to start this podcast with 24 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:12,960 James Amos recently passed. And if you guys aren't familiar with James Amos, if I'm saying his name 25 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:22,760 correctly, he was the father from the old sitcom Good Times. It was Florida Avenge and Jimmy Walker, 26 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:29,840 and I know Florida Avenge isn't her real name, it's the character name, but he recently passed, 27 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,120 and I want to say like a week before that, like James Earl Jones passed. And I can't say that either 28 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,400 one of part of my generation, but growing up, I mean, I would watch reruns of Good Times, 29 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,800 and if I'm being honest, I should be scared of James Earl in Good Times. He just seemed mean as 30 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,880 shit. But like as I watched it, you know, recently, now I'm older, it's like, damn, James is just trying to fucking 31 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:59,120 best. We're in the projects, three babies, your fucking life got a haircut like a microphone, 32 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:05,760 and that nigga was making the work. And then I remember when they like, they wrote them off the 33 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,280 show. I forgot it was like some behind the scenes real life shit, I guess they were going in a 34 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,160 direction he didn't agree with. They wouldn't be a part of it. So I remember when the new season 35 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,040 started, but not that I remember, but when I watched like the new season without him, like, 36 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,280 they just said that this nigga took a job in Alaska some shit and died on the job. And that's 37 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:33,400 where you get the famous down, down, down, this from that episode. And then, like I said, James Earl 38 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:40,000 Jones recently passed. And that's the voice of Star Wars. He's the father from coming to America. 39 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,640 He's the voice of Mustafa and Lion King. Like he played an integral role into my childhood, 40 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:54,280 whether I knew it or not. And, you know, he was well into, I want to say, late, late 80s or early 90s, 41 00:04:54,280 --> 00:05:03,200 but he lived a full life. And obviously he was impacted. I'm speaking to him right now. And I 42 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:08,320 got to think like, you know, because we all have our number that's going to be punched at some point. 43 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:16,760 It's like what legacy? You know, saying like what impact will I have on the people around me? 44 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:22,920 Because I'm not even thinking about what level of impact I would have like on a nationwide scale 45 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:28,920 or worldwide scale. Like if I'm being honest with myself, I don't think I'll ever reach that level 46 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:36,080 of popularity or significance in the grand scheme of things to where like somebody in a small town 47 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:43,560 like Iowa would be aware that I passed. But then again, you never know, man. Life is unpredictable. 48 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:50,480 Which is kind of one of the best parts about life. Like I said, the fact that I'm even doing this 49 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,560 podcast right now is like speaks to the unpredictability of life. Because like I said, I would always 50 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:04,160 just make excuses not to do it. No, I'm doing that shit. And I'm loving it. And I've been getting 51 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:12,240 good receptions, man. Like I was checking like my analytics and I didn't got listeners from San 52 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:19,720 Francisco, from Atlanta, from different parts of Virginia, from New York, from Connecticut, from Texas. 53 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:26,280 I even seen one from the United Kingdom. And I was like, who the fuck is listening to me in the UK? 54 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:31,840 Could have been a bot, if I'm just being honest. But I don't know, because I ain't even paying for 55 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:37,040 no box and no shit like that. My numbers are my numbers. And they're not like some grand numbers 56 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:44,400 or some shit like that. Not enough to get sponsorship. We need to get started. I'm talking 57 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,920 notifies man. But at the same time, I'm grateful for a nine to five because there's a bunch of people 58 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:56,080 who don't have it. And if they do have them, it's not one to where they can, you know, probably provide 59 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:03,440 for themselves, let it on that family. Speaking of the dock workers nationwide recently, like had a 60 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:13,760 strike. And I think the strike was based on, you know, having like robotic, robotic equipment, 61 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:20,960 like for the loads and, you know, move around the shipments and all that type of stuff. So they 62 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,000 went on strike. And the way the news made the same, which did have the potential to become this way 63 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,880 but they made it seem like this shit might be the end of the world. I need to run out right now, 64 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:36,240 get everything off the shelves. Because once it's done, it's gone. And then like, that should last 65 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,360 for about three days for this. And then they came to some level of agreement. I don't know all the 66 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:48,400 particulars, but I know they was going from making, I think $38 an hour. And now they're about to start 67 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:56,560 making $63. I'm about to be a dock worker. Fuck that. And I live in Baltimore. So basically the dock 68 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:02,320 situation in Baltimore is seasoned to a wire. That shit is legit too. It'll be all kinds of shit. 69 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:10,080 Fucking drugs, human trafficking, I'm not saying this shit like I know to be for sure. But the way 70 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,840 the show painted it is seeing fucking feasible that it could happen, which I hope it isn't happening. 71 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,520 Because all that shit is like, it's just terrible towards like humanity. You want to see motherfuckers 72 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:29,920 drunk out. You don't want people forcefully put into those type of situations. But I might get 73 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:36,560 me a fucking job at the dock. And I go down there in a fucking light yellow vest and hard hat and 74 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:40,320 tell motherfuckers what to sweep up. And they tell me what to sweep up and what to move. 75 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:46,320 We'll figure it out. $63 an hour and a slot of fucking money. But if I got to be honest, my dream 76 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:53,440 job is to hit the fucking lottery. Yo, if I hit the lottery, I'm naked. I ain't starting no businesses. 77 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,760 I ain't doing nothing. That shit. If I hit the lottery, if I'm being honest with myself, I'm 78 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:03,440 going to request like that I can remain anonymous. And if that shit comes with some type of fee, I'll 79 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:12,320 happily pay it. I want to be off the radar. I just want to just, you know, go out, buy my little 80 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:19,360 shit, go back to my house, eat the food, travel a little bit, but not so much travel internationally. 81 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:26,000 And my biggest reason for not traveling internationally on my, because I have a passport. 82 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,280 I've been out the country before and all that type of shit. And I had a good experience when I went 83 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,920 out the country. I was in Costa Rica. Granted, I was staying at a full season's resort in Costa 84 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,160 Rica. So it was probably a little bit different than, you know, dealing with the locals and shit. 85 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:46,320 So I still enjoy it. But my biggest fear of traveling internationally is the fucking cuisine. 86 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:54,000 Yo, my best friend, Ty, be showing me these videos on IG and like, I don't know what country 87 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:01,280 or what countries these videos are from. But I watched one dude take a set of like, 88 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:12,800 things was like, like a little small, like, like the balls used like a pool game billiard. 89 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,440 Well, I don't know what they call it. But this nigga like, boiled them, broke them down, and then 90 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:22,320 he made a soup out of it. And then he showed me a girl, this lady, who was cutting up a fucking, 91 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,680 like giraffe. And she took the fucking giraffe face and made like lasagna with it or some shit. 92 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,200 Yo, I can't handle that type of shit. Like, I don't like to see animals hurt. And I get it. 93 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,760 Because I'm not a fucking vegetarian. Like I eat burgers and all that type of shit. But 94 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,000 I'm getting the end result. Once it's cleaned and packaged and all that other shit. I'm not 95 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,880 looking into that motherfucker. I was like, I can still see that. So and then cut that neck, cut the 96 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:52,880 head off. And then turn them niggas to be through like, I can't handle watching that type of shit. 97 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:59,360 And I can't watch anything that involves like piss of feasts. Like I just, it grossed me out. 98 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:05,040 Because I can say I was a thing. So when I see those type of videos and shit, in my mind, I can 99 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:13,360 smell it. I can't. But the funny thing is, on the foot side of that, I can fucking watch an autopsy 100 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:20,400 and eat a full course meal and not have any type of reaction to it. And I'm going blaming on my 101 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:27,520 older brother. So when we were younger, my older brother was about maybe 12 years older than me. 102 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:33,520 I'm saying something to that. Like, or 11 years older than me. Something along those lines. And I 103 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:40,000 remember he used to like stay in the basement at the house. That's like an older brother like 104 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,160 write a passage or some shit because he could have easily had a bit of a mess, but he chose the 105 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,760 basic texture. That's like a man cave first department type of experience. But long story short, 106 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:58,000 he had these videos called faces of death. And like, I don't know, he might have been out playing 107 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:03,600 basketball. I don't remember where the fuck he was. But if I'm being honest, he's had the dirty 108 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,320 magazines done and shit. So I really was on a hunt for some dirty magazines and stumbled across this 109 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:17,040 fucking GHS. And I was like, face the death. And then I put that shit in. And I saw some shit that 110 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:22,880 you cannot unsee. But I wasn't afraid of it. And I wasn't necessarily intrigued by it. Because at 111 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:28,640 first when I watched it, I thought it was fake. And then in a Mr. Me watching, he comes home, 112 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,760 but I'm so enthralled into this fucking video. I'm watching people getting the lecture chair. 113 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,400 I'm saying, fucking lady, get hit by a train, all kinds of all that shit. He can't have sex. 114 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,880 Like, what the fuck are you doing? You start, you know, older brother shit. And I was just like, 115 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,680 Oh, I just like, man, why are you watching that? You too young to watch that shit. 116 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,080 And then he looked inside long, I was watching. I've been watching this like 40 minutes ago. 117 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:56,880 You not afraid of this? I was like, I don't know. He's like, there ain't no one I got. 118 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,560 He's like, I got like faces of death from value one to value like five. 119 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:05,360 And I just sat there with that nigga and we watched it. And we kind of had like a bonding moment. 120 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,960 Also, brother brother is like the sole reason I'm into like hip hop. Because you know, 121 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:18,400 I'm born in the 80s raising the 90s. So, yo, my brother was like, not was he is, but I'm saying 122 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,560 was for the time period I'm speaking of, like the quintessential hip hop here. I'm talking. 123 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:29,120 This nigga had everything from Wu-Tang clan, the brave diggers, the Trobacall quest, 124 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:35,360 the leaders of the new school. He had some Ergy rock Kim shit. Like this is back when like, 125 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,080 if you had like Comcast cable or whatever the cable services called and whatever reason you 126 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:45,360 listen to them. But the Baltimore was like Comcast. I forgot what it was called prior to 127 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:52,720 Comcast. I don't remember. But like, it was this music channel called the box. And with the box 128 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:59,040 where you had to call this number and each video had like this like three digit code assigned to the 129 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:04,960 video. So, you would just watch the channels and I guess people were calling. I don't know if you 130 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,400 had to pay like small fee like 50 cents or a dollar or some shit, but you could request 131 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:13,280 what video you wanted to watch. So like the channel was like completely like randomized. So it could 132 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:20,320 go from hard rock to some R&B to some light rock to some super hip hop shit to vanilla ice or 133 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:25,680 whatever. And it was almost like a game for me and my younger brother. So because you could see 134 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:32,560 the numbers pop up on the screen as it was being requested. So let's say is biggie. One more chance 135 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:40,880 was like the number four was like 335 and it would be sitting there looking at like the bottom 136 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,800 of the screen. It'll pop up and it'd be like three three and then there'll be something like 337 137 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:53,280 some shit and then it'd be like smashing pumpkins and some shit. But because of that that opened 138 00:14:53,280 --> 00:15:00,080 our ears up to like New Jersey. So I'm a kid in like third grade who's like fully aware like 139 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:08,480 Metallica. I'm fully aware of like Sound Guard. I'm fully aware of Nirvana and all that type of 140 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:13,600 shit. And I remember kids used to tease me like man you like white boy shit. And I remember I used 141 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:19,440 to be ashamed of that shit. But then the old I got to realize you know people classify some shit as 142 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:25,840 black music or white music or well man music is expensive. Except for like reggaeton like that's 143 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:32,640 like Latin which is obviously but I don't think any genre of music belongs to anybody regardless of 144 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,920 who the creator might be. It's just who makes the best version of it. I'm a rock with that shit. 145 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,480 And I don't believe that there's a bad genre of music. I listen to everything from fucking 146 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,520 hardcore. I don't like EDM. I don't like electric dance music. That's just 147 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:55,600 I don't know. That's just a thing weird but these are all. But I listen to Bluegrass. I listen to 148 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:02,080 Franklin. Reggae. I don't really get to the reggaeton type of shit. And I don't like drill music either. 149 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:09,920 Like it seems I don't like I like the creativity of the sound of it because like the sound really 150 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:15,120 like originates from like the UK. And they got like a genre called Brown which is basically like 151 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:22,320 drill. But drill excuse me. Let me rephrase that drill originated in Chicago with you know the 152 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:30,160 younger guys speaking on what they were actually doing. And they took that with the drum sound 153 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,680 of Brown in the UK and merged it. And once those two merged it pretty much created like 154 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:41,680 the Brooklyn drill sound. Pop Smoke, Trabio-Farn sound type of you know 20 few G's. 155 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,680 And these motherfuckers got talent because like I had made a couple drill beats. I haven't 156 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,160 rapped on it but I had made them to see if I could make them. And it's a particular way to go about 157 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:59,280 that shit. You know what I'm saying. So like yeah man I applaud all the guys who made that type of 158 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:04,800 music. I just wish it wasn't so reality based. I mean because like when they talk about smoking on 159 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:09,680 this person or that person and you just rapping along with that shit. That's somebody child. 160 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,760 That's somebody's father. Somebody's brother. Like that niggas is like two step dancing to like 161 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:21,680 on niggas graves. You know what I mean. But oh yeah. Like I said like my older brother we had like 162 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,400 a real bonded moment. You know what I mean. As far as like faces of death or all the fucking things. 163 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:33,760 So now when like like I said my best friend to show me like I guess like koalas and shit 164 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:38,480 being eaten and whatever the fuck that I can't watch this shit. But if it's like some gruesome 165 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:44,800 shit to like the human like I can watch it and not feel the way about it. And I think that's 166 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:50,560 I think that's probably because of my belief. As far as that's concerned like I don't do that. 167 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:58,080 It's a bad thing. Not even close. Like it's essential. I mean like I mean yeah it's sad. 168 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:04,480 And you know that comes from like our personal attachment to like people things like that. 169 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,120 But if you take the time to think about it everybody who ever lived was still alive. 170 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:15,200 This world will be fucking chaotic. It will be fucking unbearable. It's not enough resources. 171 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,440 Another place to live. Just like right now as you listen to this whatever helps you live in 172 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,760 them unless it's like new construction. Even if it's new construction somebody probably lived 173 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:30,160 that before. Even if these motherfuckers were like in PPs or tents or whatever type of structure it was. 174 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:37,440 Like you know I mean all this land has been used at some point so like you know. 175 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,880 But again like I said if everybody was still alive like you can't tell George Washington to 176 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,440 fucking move out. Like I've been here for 500 years or 200 years or whatever the fuck. 177 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,760 And I mean so that's essential. So it makes way it makes way for the new. 178 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:57,440 You know what I mean. Like when you see the trees start to turn from fall to winter and they fall 179 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,160 you don't grieve the leaves because you know they making room for the new shit that's going 180 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,320 hitting the spring. I mean I feel the same way. Now how a person 181 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:12,800 pairs might change how I view the stuff. But I still understand the importance of it. 182 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,760 And I spoke on this before on here but you know that's the reason why like I'm so 183 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:27,920 I'm so so focused on time and how I use it. You know what I mean. What I use it on. 184 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:33,200 Who I use it with what I use it for. You know what I'm saying. Like time is important. So 185 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,520 even with that like that teaches me as far as like 186 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:44,960 like even with like losing like relationships or whatever it's a friendship or whatever. 187 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:50,720 You know what I mean. Just like all right. That's the moment in time that we were pooled connected 188 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:56,080 whatever. But there's going to be a time where like I'm a dog. So until I reach that time I can't 189 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:01,600 spend my time like laying around or feeling sad or worrying about it. I got to keep it pushing 190 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,160 because time ain't going to stop just because I will. And this is coming from a person where like 191 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,000 in the past I experienced like deep levels of depression like deep levels of depression. 192 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,440 And I see that I can't pinpoint where my depression came from but I absolutely can. 193 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,640 Now is the time to get like I want to indulge in or like get deep on. No. 194 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,000 But I can't even say no. Not right now though because I'm in such a good 195 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:44,720 heads. But I think it's great. And that's equally great. Like I heard this guy say this before. 196 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:50,160 He's like you know why all skulls look like they're smiling. And I was like why. He's like 197 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:59,200 he's like he's a joke. I heard that from a guy was like on the plane one time I was flying from 198 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:06,000 from California back home to Baltimore. But I think I had like a layover or something like 199 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,520 Phoenix. And then when I like got back on the next plane I sat next to this guy. He was cool man. 200 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,640 And like I said I'm usually not the person who would just like spark a conversation up with like 201 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:24,240 a random like stranger. You know I'm usually like reserved to myself. But the way me and this guy 202 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,520 got the conversion is like I'm into playing chess. I love playing chess so much so. Like I don't 203 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,640 play like Candy Crush or whatever the fuck people play on that song. I don't know. I do 204 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,960 used to play Angry Birds. But outside of that I only played chess and I played solid straight. And 205 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:46,320 I played this one game like seeing how many words like it might be like they'll scramble word and 206 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:52,160 then it's like how many words can get out of this scramble word. I like that shit. I like to make 207 00:21:53,360 --> 00:22:00,160 that I'm sitting there playing chess and I like one against the computer whatever my son. So the 208 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,720 guy goes let me see what you can do when it's not on easy mode which made me laugh when he 209 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,640 laughed and then I showed him I had it on the highest level possible. So then he goes to two 210 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,400 players and I'm like yeah it is. So we just sit down the plane got like a little trace look down. 211 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,320 I got my phone on that and I'm just playing chess against a random stranger and we get talking. 212 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:24,080 And he told me like from Nebraska and how like he was into like his family business. They own 213 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:29,520 like some kind of factory that makes like I think like nuts and bolts or some type of shit. 214 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:35,600 And he was saying like how lucrative it was. And you know if I can get a little personal like I'm 215 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:43,120 like a mechanical engineer. So like I have a high mechanical attitude for like repairs and 216 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:50,560 fixes and troubleshoot and all that type of shit. So I use you know nuts bolts screws all that 217 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:57,200 shit on the regular base time never stop to think. Who the fuck make these. Who owns. I mean obviously 218 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,400 like they come in a package with a name on it. Who the fuck decided yo I'm gonna start a nail. 219 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,200 But they did. And I sat next to the guy who was like if I can add to it. 220 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:14,320 I was doing the richest shit. You can't even really tell. And trust me I didn't just take that 221 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,920 shit. Like when he first said I took with a grain of salt because when he said that I was like 222 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:24,640 he pulls all the phone like he's showing me like the warehouses and how he's on his way to DC. 223 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,640 The negotiation type of contract and all that. And he just like showing me shit. 224 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,880 And he should be like this big ass late house on his phone. I was like that's pretty cool. 225 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,080 So I'm just this kid from like West Baltimore. It's this older guy who's probably like 226 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:44,880 maybe like in his late 50s at the time. And we just on the plane playing chess talking about 227 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:52,160 fucking schools and shit. I wonder where he is right now. I wonder if he's still alive. 228 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,560 I wonder if he's still in the business. If he's retired. It's probably retired. This is this is 229 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:05,760 the least at least maybe 10 years. But who knows. And I haven't thought about this motherfucker at all 230 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:13,680 until this very second. And I don't even know I got to that. I got to that. Oh yeah. About like 231 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,080 time and all that shit. But yeah. Do you ever do that? Do you ever have like those moments where 232 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,680 like you just think of random interaction. It could be with strangers. It could be with somebody 233 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,560 that you know from your past and just stop and go. I wonder what they doing. Man I think about it. 234 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:34,080 I probably should have fucking invented Instagram but my brain is in wire like that because as a kid 235 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:40,000 I used to do that shit like I be sitting there and just like playing Super Nintendo with my brother 236 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,360 and some shit. I might just like walk into the corner store and I stopped and think like 237 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:49,920 I wonder what Steve Herp is doing right now. This is like in the 90s and shit. And now with 238 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:55,120 Instagram and go. Yeah. I wonder what my cool Jordans doing right now or whatever celebrity 239 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,280 you pick. You open up your phone and then you can see two hours ago they posted themselves eating 240 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:07,440 spaghetti. You like oh shit. That used to not be a thing. Yo before the internet became such 241 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:14,560 just normal day to day thing. Yo you go ask your parents questions like your mom was the capital 242 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:21,360 of and then she was like I don't fucking know. I'm on the phone and you just didn't know. 243 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:29,760 And then you just wonder about the rest of your fucking day. A simple time man. Damn what 244 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,800 would life be like without the internet right now. Most of these motherfuckers probably had meltdowns 245 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:41,440 especially because you know nowadays a lot of people revenue is generated directly from social 246 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:46,960 media specifically. I guess Instagram and Facebook and all that type of shit. I can sell your product 247 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,760 on there. It's a way to send people to like the link like shit on my Instagram page. You got to hit 248 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:57,120 the link to sign this shit. So I don't know. I wish I would have fucking been in social media 249 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,720 but I would have did though is I would have put a limit on it because I feel like we too consumed 250 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:08,960 by it. Like I watched a video of this dude get hit by a car because he's just like he's just like 251 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,640 looking down at his phone and that's literally people standing around him going hey sir it's a 252 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,840 red light. It's a red light. Oh it's a green light whatever it was and he never even looks up on the 253 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:24,000 screen. He gets hit by the car and then the video just stops. But the crazy part is he's walking 254 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:31,920 past he's walking past you but nobody reached out to grab him. They let him walk in the streets 255 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,680 and he got hit by a car. I don't know if he died on the video pretty much stops at the bad. 256 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:45,920 But yeah man. Oh also I've been a super creative space lately man. I've been writing and recording 257 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:52,320 and producing and mixing and engineering and I've been having a fucking ball. I feel like 258 00:26:53,120 --> 00:27:01,520 I just got a new just lease on life. I just knew just like spark of creativity and you know 259 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,800 I have things going on in my life personally that I could be upset about sad about the press about 260 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:14,240 but man again time is important and I'm getting better at learning how to control my time. I'll 261 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,840 start with the things that I'm forced to do like nine to five and all that type of shit. 262 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:24,160 I'll start with that shit man. Like I'm controlling my time. I'm taking advantage of it man. So 263 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:34,480 damn it's almost been 30 minutes already. Well with that being said I ain't gonna hold y'all 264 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:41,760 much longer man. I'm in and out. So thank y'all for listening. This has been episode 12 of the 265 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,880 Cardin Tick the Large Podcast. If you got any questions or comments you can hit me up on my 266 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:54,080 Instagram at QGMusic as QGMU as I say. Give me almost a good night's go music and shit. 267 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,760 I hope y'all have a great week. I hope y'all be productive. I hope y'all chase whatever dream 268 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:17,440 you chase and I hope you get one step closer to it if you don't catch it. Peace.