1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,840 Yo. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000 I'd like to welcome everybody back 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 to a brand new episode of the Cognitive Collage podcast. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 I'm your host, Quinn Goldin. 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 We're friends and family. 6 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,000 They called me QG for short. 7 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 And if you feel like we're friends and family, 8 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 you can do the same. 9 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Yeah, today is a little bit different than my normal thing 10 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 because I'm usually in here like solo, 11 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 but I actually got my homeboy here right now. 12 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 My nephew is here. 13 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 My nephew, Mark, I call him M.Dub. 14 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 So your Mark, introduce yourself, bro. 15 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Hey, y'all, what's going on? 16 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 My name is Mark. 17 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 You know, I'm on this podcast with my uncle. 18 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I'm excited. 19 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 I just got back from college like a little yesterday. 20 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Nice. 21 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 I'm just happy to be here. 22 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Yo, how does it feel? 23 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Because we just going to get right into it. 24 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Yo, how does it feel to be back home from college? 25 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Man, it feels good. 26 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Man, it feels good. 27 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Like, I don't know. 28 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 There's a saying that, like, you know, there's no place like home. 29 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Yeah. 30 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Like, I never believed it till now. 31 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Like, I go outside. 32 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 The air feel different. 33 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Like, yo, I can relate to that because, like, you know, 34 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 being born and raised in Baltimore and shit, 35 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,000 like, I never experienced anything outside of Baltimore 36 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 until I moved to California. 37 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 And it was like culture shock. 38 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 And then when I got back home, I was like, holy shit, 39 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 I can recognize the differences, you know what I mean? 40 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Like, I don't know. 41 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 So what would you say, you know, I mean, granted, 42 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 you just got back home, but what would you say is the biggest 43 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 difference from where you went to school in South Carolina 44 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 than from back home? 45 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Like, what you think the biggest difference is? 46 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Well, one, I'm used to just having my own room. 47 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Thanks. 48 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 And now, I mean, I have, sure, I live in a dorm. 49 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Yeah, before, but it's like, I can't, it's different because now 50 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 I can hear my mom's more clearly and all that. 51 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 And I was like, dang, there's really people here. 52 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 But there's also people there. 53 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 But I don't know, the people at my house, 54 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 that has a lot more weight to it. 55 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Which, what you mean? 56 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 You know, I don't know because I'm used to just hearing them 57 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 all the time. 58 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Right. 59 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So now all of a sudden when you go like a few months not 60 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 hearing like anything else like that, because normally in my 61 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 suite, it would just be me in there for the most part. 62 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Gotcha. 63 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 So I was mostly like just basically on my own, except for 64 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 when my suite mate came in like every now and again. 65 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Gotcha. 66 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Now, all right, let me ask you this. 67 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Like, what do you think you're going to miss the most about 68 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 college and what you think you're going to miss the least 69 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 about college? 70 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Um, you know, honestly, this could technically go for both 71 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 with people. 72 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Yeah, that's a good answer. And that makes a ton of sense to me. 73 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Because like, it's really a coin toss because when I went to 74 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 school down in South Carolina, you know, I met a lot of good 75 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,000 friends that like, I've really messed with, you know, and now 76 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 that I'm back here, it's like, I'm really going to see them 77 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 every day. 78 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Like I used to, the semester's basically over now. 79 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Yeah. 80 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 And on the other hand, and there's some people, you know, I just, 81 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 well, I didn't like, we may have fell out over something done 82 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 and I still have to see them like every single day. 83 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 But now that I'm home, I don't got to worry about it. 84 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So that's real. 85 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Yo, um, Dan, what's up, brother? 86 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh, uh, what's something in South Carolina that you could get 87 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 that you can't get up here? 88 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Let's see. 89 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Let me say, because there's the South Carolina, they got on the 90 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,000 South in general, they got a couple of, you know, places where 91 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 you can get food at, like this one place. 92 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I'm trying to think of what it's called because I ain't been there 93 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 in a minute. 94 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Yeah. 95 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Yeah. 96 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Because that's kind of how it was. 97 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Like, when I got there in like California and shit, they had 98 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 like in and out burger, which is really, really good. 99 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 And then they had this place called like Jack in the Box and we 100 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 don't really had it on the East Coast and they had this shit 101 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 called like zagbys that was like really good, like just chicken 102 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 ton of spot, but we don't really got shit like that. 103 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Yeah. 104 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 All right. 105 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Random question, but what is your top three movies at all times? 106 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Top three movies. 107 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Yeah. 108 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I'm not much for a movie person. 109 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I'll give you some like, uh, my favorite movie, um, that's 110 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 fireman like beyond the spider verse. 111 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Oh, yeah. 112 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 That's your fire. 113 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I messed with that heavy, like, maybe cause it's kind of 114 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 relatable in a sense. 115 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 How so? 116 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I wanna, you know how like when Miles was in the, um, the 117 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 place of all the other spider men, and it's like, and all he 118 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 was ever told is like, he's different. 119 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 He's anomaly. 120 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Yeah. 121 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 And I kind of like resonate with that because like throwing 122 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 up, I kind of struggled to like find the people wherever they 123 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 like fit in with. 124 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Yeah. 125 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 So I'm used to just being like an outcast, but like Miles 126 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 learns just embrace it. 127 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Yeah. 128 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Just keep on going. 129 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Yo, that's, that's some real shit because like, uh, you 130 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,000 know, everybody got this like foul, the leader, sheep, 131 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 kind of mentality type of shit. 132 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Like, yo, it's cool to be a standout. 133 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Like it's cool to have like individualism is cool to like, 134 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 you know, not foul societal norms and shit. 135 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Like, you know what I mean? 136 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Like we not a monoblique. 137 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Like it ain't one size fit all. 138 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Like, and I think that's the shit that make life interesting is 139 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 that everybody is different because if everybody was the same 140 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 or did the same shit, like we'll be born and shit. 141 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 And like the fact that, you know, you can go, they got me. 142 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 It ain't nobody walking around like me. 143 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000 You know what I mean? 144 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Like, yo, take pride in that shit. 145 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Like that's, that's important. 146 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I take heavy pride in like who I am as a person, what I stand 147 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 for, what I believe in. 148 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I feel like that's what gives you power. 149 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 That allows you to be like far greater than you would be 150 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 normally than if you always like, like, you know, forsaken 151 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 yourself for others people's sake. 152 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Yeah. 153 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Now, all right, let me ask you this, like, never ran a question, 154 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,000 but yo, top five NBA, if you had to make it top five starting 155 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 NBA lineup, like who's your top five? 156 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 See, I have some great elite ball knowledge as they know back 157 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 in the day. 158 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 So, you know, all right, but now I'll say this, no, let's see 159 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 at my point guard. 160 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Let's see, it's either step or magic because you can't go wrong 161 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 with either one. 162 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Right, Steph has crazy gravity and then magic, but you know, 163 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 generational, traditional point guard, well, not really just 164 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 because the man's like six foot nine, but you know what I'm 165 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 saying. 166 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Yeah. 167 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I mean, I feel like that applies to stuff too. 168 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Like he's like generational, like it ain't going to never be 169 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 another stuff. 170 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 All for sure. 171 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 But the thing about Steph game is that with enough hard work, 172 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 you can be like replicated, like you can't replicate size. 173 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 So, you know what I mean? 174 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 So, if you had to come down to it, is it magic or stuff? 175 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 See, right now, that's tough. 176 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I mean, I guess right now, I go magic. 177 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 All right, magic. 178 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 All right, who your two guard? 179 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Two guard. 180 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Let's see. 181 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 I guess, well, if they were going all time, you know, God go 182 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 on the goats, like with Jordan. 183 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I respect that. 184 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Because like, be so serious, not many, there really ain't many 185 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 people really put on him to stop him if at all. 186 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Right. 187 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 So you got magic as one, you got Jordan, you got three. 188 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 I see. 189 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Well, well, my little goat LeBron, you know, go goat. 190 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Yeah. 191 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Yeah. 192 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 He's handed down to me. 193 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Like for me, it's not even, I don't even, I tried not to debate 194 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 with Nick. 195 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 It's nothing. 196 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Anybody can say that could like waiving me from that, from my 197 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 stance on LeBron. 198 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Like he's just, yo, this nigga's an alien. 199 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 All right. 200 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 So, yeah. 201 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Oh, definitely. 202 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 That man still put on MVP stat lines, then he like 40. 203 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Yo, this nigga had four straight games with a triple double. 204 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 This nigga has never scored less than double digits in any time 205 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 he laced up the step on the court, not once. 206 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 That's crazy. 207 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 You got niggas like Clay Thompson, who won, who scored 208 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 zero points in the game that he started. 209 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Like that's just crazy. 210 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 All right. 211 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 So you got magic, Jordan, bro. 212 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Who's your four and your five? 213 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Okay. 214 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 So my four, let's see. 215 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 This team going to Eastern space and I'm not going to. 216 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 So there's two choices here. 217 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Like, well, if I need spacing, I'd go Katie. 218 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Okay. 219 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 I'm not mad at that. 220 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 So Katie at the four and who, who's your five? 221 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Five. 222 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Hmm. 223 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Hmm. 224 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Let me think. 225 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Um, my five. 226 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 There's two choices. 227 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Well, I either go on team or check. 228 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I came a check. 229 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 You don't want those two. 230 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Um, I'm not mad at that. 231 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I guess. 232 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I guess for me, it would depend on what style of game like we 233 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 want to play. 234 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Cause like what a Jordan, he going to get to the rack or hit 235 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 a midi. 236 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 LeBron want to get to the rack. 237 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Katie gives you spacing. 238 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Magic is not. 239 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Yeah, that's not much offensive. 240 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 So like he would like more or less set everybody up. 241 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 But I feel like magic and LeBron have like a skim. 242 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 A similar skill set. 243 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,000 So I think I would go check, but is he going to crowd the 244 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 paint? 245 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Hmm. 246 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 And is he a liability when it comes to like the free throw 247 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 line? 248 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Yes. 249 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 I'm saying like every this, I guess that you can say it just 250 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 depends on like what's the situation here. 251 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Sure. 252 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 But the upside to it is that no nigga physically can stop 253 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 check. 254 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 So even if you put them at the free throw line, we going to 255 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 get your center, your four and like fail trouble because they 256 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 can't do shit with this nigga. 257 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Hmm. 258 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 So yeah. 259 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 So if you come down to a Hakeem and check. 260 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I guess check most cause who'd be so serious who stop and 261 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 check? 262 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Like, yeah, I respect that. 263 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Like, yo, my son five. 264 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 I'm going at point guard. 265 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 I'm going stuff at the two guard. 266 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I'm going Kobe. 267 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Cause I think he's the stronger version of Mike LeBron is 268 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 three. 269 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I'm going dunking at my four. 270 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 See, I was thinking about dunking. 271 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 If I didn't go dunking, I might go KG. 272 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Okay. 273 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But I think I'm gonna stick with Duncan and then for my 274 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 file, I'm a go shot. 275 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Oh, yeah. 276 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Oh, yo, true. 277 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 I might go. 278 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Yo, but I think it's too early to put your kids all time like 279 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 that. 280 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 But I might go. 281 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I mean, so Duncan, your kids LeBron, Kobe stuff. 282 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 That's tough. 283 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 No, let's talk about the color. 284 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Yo, kids then because he's different. 285 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 I never see you just such a clear cut MVP player. 286 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Like, why would you think? 287 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Cause like this off season, the Nuggets, they lost KCP. 288 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Yeah. 289 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 He was the one, right? 290 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Yeah. 291 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 He a good three. 292 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 He a good three and D guy for real. 293 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Then the season before they lost Bruce Brown after winning 294 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 the championship. 295 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Yeah. 296 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 So you're thinking, okay, the Nuggets going to slow down a 297 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 bit. 298 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Lo and behold, this man just goes crazy. 299 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 He going crazy. 300 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Like every time he plays, you should see some wacky stack 301 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 line. 302 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Answer like, how is that possible? 303 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Like in Jamal Murray, right? 304 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I mean, I was Jamal Murray back. 305 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 I think he's back. 306 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 We ain't been playing that well from what I've seen. 307 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Every time Yoki's plays is like anything is possible. 308 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Like, without them and, uh, you know, rest was a great 309 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 addition to that team. 310 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Oh, I was thinking about that. 311 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 He a good energy guy. 312 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Like, yo, Russ is tough. 313 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 He get a bad rap because he takes some bonehead ass shots. 314 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I know how you felt about that in the league. 315 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Yeah. 316 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 But you know what? 317 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 The Lakers Russell Westbrook experiment, I think it falls 318 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 more on coaching. 319 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Like they didn't utilize Russ the way they should. 320 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 They try to make him a spot up shooter. 321 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 And that's never been his game. 322 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 You know what I mean? 323 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 I feel like having Russ on the team, they should have took the 324 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 ball out of LeBron's hands. 325 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Because LeBron has a broader skill set than Russ. 326 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 So the shit they was asking Russ to do that he couldn't do, 327 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 LeBron could, but you know, they had the system that 328 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 a formula that worked at one point. 329 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 So they just like, fuck it, we're going to keep running 330 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 the formula. 331 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 But if I'm cooking a dish and I add new ingredients, it's 332 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 going to taste different. 333 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 So you got to adjust to, you know what I mean? 334 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 The new ingredients. 335 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Mm-hmm. 336 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 You know what I mean? 337 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 You can have a cheeseburger and then like substitute the fucking 338 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 hamburger for chicken sandwich and then expect it to taste 339 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 like a hamburger. 340 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 It's just like, you change the recipe. 341 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 And what do you think? 342 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Well, since you're a Lakers fan, what do you think about JJ 343 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Wright being your new head coach? 344 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Love it. 345 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 And I'm going to tell you why I love it because he's passionate. 346 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Like he's kids. 347 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Like, yo, with Darvin' Ham, like I wouldn't say he was afraid 348 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 of LeBron, but he just, he pretty much just let the players 349 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 do what they want. 350 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Like, I think prior to JJ being hired, with him and LeBron 351 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 doing that podcast, the governs, shit, people thought, 352 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 oh, they're going to be too buddy-buddy. 353 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Like, I like the fact that like he called out D-Lo, which made 354 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 D-Lo step his game up. 355 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I like that. 356 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Like, what a, like, all right, perv is that with Darvin' Ham, 357 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 like if a call didn't go the Lakers way, I'm not fucking 358 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 just standing there with his hands in his pocket like, 359 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 all right, well, next play. 360 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 JJ got a technical already, barking at the rep, like, 361 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 yo, he has a passion, but he had that same passion as a player. 362 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Like, he has a level of arrogance to him, but like he really 363 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 knows basketball. 364 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 And like, that shit shines through like in the coaching 365 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 and the press cover. 366 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 And I like the fact that like he hates the lose. 367 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Like, I heard like Doc Rivers, you know, the buck started 368 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 off kind of slow this year. 369 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 And he goes, I ain't worried about it. 370 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We're still going to make the playoff. 371 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Like JJ Redick, like after that first Lakers loss 372 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 of the second loss of the season, he was in the press 373 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 conference holding himself back from cursing. 374 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 He was fucking, he was pissed. 375 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I was like, oh yeah, I like that. 376 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I like to see that. 377 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Yo, do you think Donovan Mitchell finished his career 378 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 with the Cavs? 379 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Or do you think he goes somewhere else? 380 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 And if he goes somewhere else, where would you want to see 381 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Donovan Mitchell go? 382 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Oh, that's the, you know, Donovan Mitchell, that's my favorite 383 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 player. 384 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Like I haven't fallen since he was in Utah. 385 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Let's see. 386 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 That's an interesting question though, because, you know, 387 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 you know how back in Utah, everyone was like, oh, he's going 388 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 to be a New York Nick. 389 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Like, I mean, I could see that because he born and raised 390 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 there. 391 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Like I think if they don't get jail on Brunson, he definitely 392 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 becomes a Nick. 393 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Yeah, for sure. 394 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Shit, fuck jail on Brunson. 395 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Not fuck jail on Brunson. 396 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I respect. 397 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Okay. 398 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 But I take spite over jailing. 399 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Oh yeah, I would too. 400 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Bigger body, more physical, more athletic. 401 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 He can hit the outside, jump it like, yeah, I take spite 402 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 of Mitchell over Brunson, 10 out of 10. 403 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Brunson nice, but. 404 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Donovan Mitchell turns it up in the playoff. 405 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Nigga, what? 406 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Like even last season, like, he really won them a game 407 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 against the Celtics. 408 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 You know how stacked they was? 409 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Yeah. 410 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Yo, speaking of, yo, I was talking to my, I want to say, 411 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 oh, I was talking to my homeboy, Ty, about it. 412 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 And he think the Celtics might repeat. 413 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I don't think so. 414 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Honestly, I don't think they should have won that first one. 415 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Well, you mean, why not? 416 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:18,000 I mean, the reason why they won it is because of holiday. 417 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Because like, they still the same squad. 418 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 And the issue used to be jailing Brown was there first. 419 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 So he feel like it's his team. 420 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 But you can tell, like the coach in the city, the league, 421 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 they want to make JT, like the face. 422 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 So they got that awkward relationship with the Batman 423 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Robin shit. 424 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 So these things will be up by like seven points in the fourth 425 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 quarter, like three minutes left. 426 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 And they chucking threes like, bro, you're up seven, 427 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 attack the rack because you're both going to hit the free throw. 428 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 So now you bring in holiday who at the end of the game, 429 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 the balls in his hand, he just telling you, like, you'll find 430 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 your spot. 431 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 I can't find your spot. 432 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I got the ability to go get a bucket myself. 433 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 And he's a nigga. 434 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 How they can defend everything from the one to the three. 435 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 But at the same time, last year, Yonah's hurt and B hurt, 436 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 like all the Titans, they would have to go through the East, 437 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,000 potentially going to be here this year. 438 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 So like, you know what I mean? 439 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Like, I don't know. 440 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 I feel, but you know, I can't live on an if and then shit because 441 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 if Kyrie and love don't get hurt, I don't think Stefan them get 442 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 that first championship in 2015. 443 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 See, but the Celtics, I thought they had in the bags and lonely. 444 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 They got for Zengis, to be honest. 445 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Yo, I mean, yeah, posting is like the year in the corner. 446 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 He is solid five. 447 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 But at the same time, he didn't really plan the phones because he was hurt. 448 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Yeah. 449 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 But posing is tough. 450 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Yeah. 451 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 But when they all play, they was unbeatable. 452 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Like the Mavericks had no chance in the world. 453 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I agree. 454 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 You know what it was for me? 455 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 I think the Mavericks was undecided. 456 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 And Luca don't play a fucking ounce of defense. 457 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 If Luca don't play defense, you're not going to get a ring like that. 458 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Like, because they was literally the Celtics. 459 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 The whole game plan was just attack. 460 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Yeah. 461 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Yo, Niggas, Niggas do like high picking role and they keep doing switches 462 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 until they get Luca and then you just have Tatum attack them and you can't do shit. 463 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 It literally because I think he let that whole series and I just blow by us. 464 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Yeah. 465 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 They would just blow by them in this, giving up easy points. 466 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Yo, all right. 467 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 We're going to switch gears. 468 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:29,000 What do you think is, hmm, actually, how do you, how do you feel like you're young? 469 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Like what you like 20? 470 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 19. 471 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 19? 472 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 That look at me not knowing your age and shit. 473 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Yo, you'd be 20 in February. 474 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Correct. 475 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 All right. 476 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Look at me. 477 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 I redeem myself as own. 478 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 But that's funny as shit. 479 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 What do you think about this election? 480 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 This election. 481 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Yeah. 482 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Like, all right. 483 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Cause you're a young dude during college. 484 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 You about the more or less in the next year and a half or two years, like you're going 485 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 to be in a workforce and all that type of shit. 486 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 So by the time you're getting a workforce, Trump would be like halfway through like his 487 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 second term. 488 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Like, do you think him being in the office is going to affect, you know, your ability 489 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 to get a job? 490 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Do you think the country is going to be so fucked up or do you think it won't make a 491 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 difference? 492 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 So it's an office. 493 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Well, I was worried about the election already because you know, about project 2025. 494 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Yeah. 495 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 That should, that should just terrifying. 496 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 They want to take away financial aid. 497 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 So it's like making it even hard to go to college. 498 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:26,000 So they're trying to get rid of the, you know, I heard this nigga say, uh, he want to give 499 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:32,000 reparations to students, white students who didn't make it to college or the college they 500 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 wanted to because of affirmative action. 501 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Like these niggas get reparations before the people who built the country. 502 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Like that should as, it's just dog whistle shit. 503 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Like that's shit. 504 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:51,000 It's anyways, but yeah, that project 25 shit is, I was really worried about like, I'm 505 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 gonna keep going to school if, you know, the main source of. 506 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 But it's just gone. 507 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Yeah. 508 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,000 But look, I feel like even with your situation, because like you more or less already grandfathered 509 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 then I think anybody who's trying to, you know, make their way into college within the 510 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,000 next year to might be like, yeah, cause like, what about other people who want to like go 511 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 to college and they, without that financial aid, they might not be able to at all. 512 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Bro, I couldn't go to trade school without financial aid, let alone college. 513 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:24,000 So like, you know, my trade school, I want to say my tuition was only like fucking 15,000 514 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 or some shit. 515 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:32,000 And I want to say the financial aid brought it down to like 10 or 11 or some shit. 516 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 But yo, I need, without that shit, like I don't get to go to school. 517 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 I don't get certified in the field that I'm certified in. 518 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,000 So I don't make it to the point where like I am now if you know what I mean? 519 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 So like that's some spooky shit. 520 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Like that's going to affect a lot of people. 521 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Bro, word. 522 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Like, I don't know. 523 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Like I can, man, we kind of something about this like earlier off mic on some like how 524 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 common sense is so uncommon. 525 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Like it's not like, all right, I can see if niggas was like, all right, let's give them 526 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 a chance because we don't know what they're going to do. 527 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 We have four years, probably four to worse years. 528 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Like the plague shit. 529 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 The, you know, it was just terrible. 530 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Like I'll fucking international like relationships with other countries. 531 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 That's important. 532 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 He just shit on and he was trying to start a fucking nuclear war with North Korea calling 533 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Kim Jong-un rocket man or shit. 534 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Like, yo, the North Korea, they do like public marches and that floats is fucking nuclear 535 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 missiles and shit. 536 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 So they not hiding. 537 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000 It's not like with the George Bush shit when he was like, we got to invade them Iraq because 538 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 they might have weapons of mass destruction. 539 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 It ain't no might with North Korea. 540 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 They have them bitches. 541 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 They do parades with him. 542 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 He was trying to pick a fight with them niggas. 543 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Like, bro, yeah, he's a. 544 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Not to mention he's literally a felon like, yeah, that's even crazier, which is now like, 545 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 you know what? 546 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 And this is set the president of precedents that like, all right. 547 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Yo, you can't not hire nobody because they are fellow man, because if he can hold the 548 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:14,000 highest office in the fucking country, being predatory, convicted, all this other shit, 549 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 and somebody might have a gun charge and they can't get a job at Walmart. 550 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Fuck that. 551 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Like, yo, we got to know. 552 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 That's crazy. 553 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Yeah. 554 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Yeah, it's, it's nuts, man. 555 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Like, all right. 556 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Let me ask you this. 557 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,960 Where do you see yourself and where would you like to see yourself and like the 558 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,960 next five years? 559 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,960 This question I've heard it's growing up in school. 560 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,960 And it gets worse every time. 561 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:46,960 Before I could just say, oh, five years, I see about something on high school, you know, 562 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,960 but now you're in college. 563 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,960 You know what you, what's your sophomore? 564 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:51,960 Yes, sir. 565 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:52,960 All right. 566 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,960 So then you got junior year seniors who got two years left or two and a half years left. 567 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:04,960 So you don't have to make it like it's a definite thing, but where would you like to be in the 568 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:05,960 next five years? 569 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:11,960 See, I have my own place, own car, you know, working as a management consultant as well. 570 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:12,960 Nice. 571 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,960 Because, you know, that's like my, that's my passion right there. 572 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,960 I've been in businesses, maybe like drafting up plans to found a business. 573 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,960 So that's kind of the game plan so far. 574 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:24,960 That's fine, bro. 575 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:25,960 I fucks with that. 576 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,960 I wish, I wish when I was your age, I had that level of foresight. 577 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,960 Like, I ain't going to lie. 578 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,960 When I was younger, I don't even really think I was living. 579 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:33,960 I was just existing. 580 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,960 Like I had no plans for shit. 581 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,960 I'm just floating through life. 582 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,960 And then I don't know, at some point something happened and I had a fucking epiphany and decided 583 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,960 to get my life together, which I'm glad I did. 584 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,960 And, you know, it was better late than because I didn't go to trade school. 585 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:49,960 I was like 25. 586 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:55,960 I was from like, I guess, preview blessings until 25. 587 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,960 I was just, I don't know. 588 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,960 I was just doing psychopath shit. 589 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,960 So, but now, you know, 590 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Hey man, everything happens for a reason because now I can learn from you. 591 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,960 Yeah, that's a fact, bro. 592 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,960 And you know, you know the relationship we have like, bro, you can always call me. 593 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,960 You can always, and you know, you can always keep it real with me and shit. 594 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,960 Cause I'm like, I'm going to hear you out. 595 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,960 And I'm like, damn, no, I, no, I feel you on that one. 596 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,960 I wouldn't have done it. 597 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,960 But like, I like that we got that rapport, like that we can have those conversations. 598 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:29,960 Cause a lot of times like, I think that's what most of these young dudes out here is lacking is that they don't have anybody that they can 599 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:30,960 really go to. 600 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,960 Yeah, have a real conversation. 601 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,960 That's very true. 602 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:40,960 Cause I feel like, you know what, just in general, like when I've seen in college, people have, people have friends, you know, like y'all joke and hang out. 603 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,960 But like, when it comes to like, Hey man, I need to really talk to somebody. 604 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,960 They're not really like their feature like that, you know? 605 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:48,960 Yeah. 606 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:55,960 I mean, you know, it's like, I don't know, they both still trying to grow. 607 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,960 And like, I can't really put an age on that. 608 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Cause shit, like I'm 39. 609 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,960 I'm still trying to grow. 610 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:09,960 So, but, you know, asking a person who's more or less in the same position that you went for advice is like, letting a horse, like babysitter dog. 611 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,960 It's just like, we basically the same thing. 612 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,960 Like we can't talk. All we know how to do is walk around eating shit. 613 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:21,960 Like, so, you know, you need, you need somebody with some experience and somebody who's not going to mislead you for like that benefit. 614 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:29,960 Like I would never tell you some shit just because, you know, I think man, this is what this is what you should do based on what I believe. 615 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,960 I'll hear you out and I go, All right, now what it sounds like to me is X, Y and Z. 616 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,960 But ultimately the choice is yours, but I would probably lean this way or lean, but because it's still up for you to decide. 617 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:50,960 But I like that you're intelligent enough to have those conversations with me and that, like, you know, you, you have your own individual mindset to where you go. 618 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:59,960 I hear you, like even with the callous thing when I was like, yo, I think you should go to the school of kids and you just like, yeah, but, yo, my mind is telling me to go there. 619 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:01,960 And I was like, I had to respect it. 620 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,960 And the beauty of it now is like, you got that experience. 621 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:12,960 So even like with transfer into like a school back home or whatever, you still got the experience of like, I got to actually say I did it. 622 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:19,960 You don't have to live with the damn I wonder if or damn I could like you actually know like you had that experience. 623 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,960 Yeah, happen doing that going out of state. 624 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,960 It had ups and downs. 625 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,960 Yeah, I'm kind of glad I saw it for what it was. 626 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,960 I don't really regret anything bad that may have happened in shortcomings. 627 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,960 I may have done, you know, yeah, it feels great to be home. 628 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,960 Oh, yeah, I finally remember getting South Carolina. 629 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,960 Yeah, there's a Bojangles everywhere. 630 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,960 I'm yet to see it up here. 631 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,960 Bro, I had Bojangles when I was I want to say I was in even Florida. 632 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:44,960 I was in Atlanta. 633 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,960 That shit was that shit was good as shit. 634 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Like that biscuit was real good. 635 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,960 That's not the same. 636 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:50,960 They're chicken. 637 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:51,960 That's tight. 638 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:52,960 Yeah, it's right. 639 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,960 They just got like a raising canes up here. 640 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,960 I haven't had it yet, but everybody rave about it. 641 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,960 Oh, racing came in. 642 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:58,960 It's nice. 643 00:25:58,960 --> 00:25:59,960 It's nice. 644 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,960 Yeah, they got one in like Tulsa and the something. 645 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,960 Like I haven't tried it yet because every time I try to go, it'd be like jam packed. 646 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,960 Or be nowhere to park because it's like right next to the mall. 647 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,960 And it's like, you had to fucking park in the garage, pay and then get out and then walk around. 648 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,960 Like I ain't doing that shit. 649 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,960 Yeah, how am I? 650 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,960 Yeah, so whenever they open up like a location closer to where I live, I'll do a dash of this and shit. 651 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,960 Are you going to get me some too? 652 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,960 100 percent, my boy. 653 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,960 Yeah, like, I don't know, man. 654 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:31,960 I'm excited for you. 655 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:32,960 Like, you know what I mean? 656 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,960 Like I'm glad to have you back home. 657 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,960 And I'm glad that like you happy to be back home. 658 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:37,960 You know what I mean? 659 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,960 Like I wouldn't want it to be a thing where like the family put pressure on you to like come back and like you did it reluctantly. 660 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,960 Like I'm glad that you like, I want to come on. 661 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:46,960 Yeah, I genuinely did. 662 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,960 You know what I'm saying? 663 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,960 Like being out there by yourself for so long, like I got no family out there. 664 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,960 This is me, myself and this is like all I got is the friends I make. 665 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:05,960 If I even make any, of course, because like again, I could just sit in my room all day, go to class, go to band practice, go back to my room. 666 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Yeah. 667 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,960 So it's like if I don't go put myself out there, it's just going to be me. 668 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,960 So like, but you know, at the end of the day, still gets lonely. 669 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,960 Like no one got you like your family does. 670 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,960 And there's one thing I can definitely say. 671 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:18,960 No, that's a fact. 672 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,960 And like, I like the fact that even though you out there by yourself, you know what I mean? 673 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,960 You still got a full point on, you know what I mean? 674 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,960 Like that's that's ball of shit. 675 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:27,960 Like does. 676 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:28,960 Oh yeah, like I respect that. 677 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,960 Yeah, this semester I was like, okay, I'm going to do the absolute best I can now. 678 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,960 And like, oh my God, man, let's get straight A's. 679 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:36,960 Yeah. 680 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:37,960 Got that four point up. 681 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,960 It was not easy man. 682 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:39,960 Some of these classes. 683 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,960 I can imagine bro. 684 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,960 Honestly, I say this for college work. 685 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,960 It works down hard. 686 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,960 You know, if you like your major, it's going to be a cake work. 687 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,960 Sure. 688 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,960 Unless, wait, unless you like a STEM major, like y'all got that. 689 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:53,960 Yeah. 690 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,960 And you can get a major and find it ain't too bad for a guy like you, but got you. 691 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,960 You STEM people, science, biology. 692 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,960 I got it. 693 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:02,960 Yeah. 694 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,960 And with that being said, I want to thank you for, you know what I mean? 695 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,960 Come doing your podcast with your uncle and shit. 696 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:10,960 You know what I mean? 697 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,960 This won't be the last time y'all hear this nigga. 698 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,960 So, uh, yo, Mark, where can they find you? 699 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,960 Like on socials, like where can they find you at? 700 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,960 Um, on Instagram, you know, you can follow me at, um, what's my color? 701 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,960 Um, I'm not, I'm just going to try to get this right. 702 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,960 All right. 703 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,960 Yeah. 704 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,960 You can find me on Instagram at underscore Lord dot mark. 705 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,960 Got you Lord dot mark. 706 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,960 Yo, like I said, man, I mean, for a good time, not a long time. 707 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,960 So with that being said, man, I hope everybody have a productive week, whatever goal you chasing, 708 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,960 and hope you get one step closer, if not achieving it all together. 709 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,960 And if you want to reach out to challenge anything that you heard me or my nephew say today, man, 710 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,960 I can be found at Instagram at QG music. 711 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,960 That's QG M.U.S.I.C. 712 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,960 I almost forgot the spell music. 713 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:03,960 I'm tripping. 714 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,960 Yo, good mood. 715 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:06,960 Peace. 716 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:32,960 Thanks for watching.