Yo!
I'd like to welcome everybody back to a brand new episode of the Cognitive Collage podcast.
I'm your host Quentin Golden.
We're friends and family, they call me QG for short.
And if you feel like that's what we're becoming, you call me the same.
So it's been a very eventful week.
I mean, a lot of it should happen.
Socially, politically, entertainment wise.
Um, what do I want to get out the way first?
Oh, let's entertain.
So, I think I spoke on this the last podcast where academics had this weird interaction with this 15-year-old kid and all that shit.
But then afterwards, when he started receiving all the backlash, he started posting shit like,
I'm unstoppable, nobody built me, I built myself up and gone crazy out of shit.
And then he lost like all of his sponsorships.
Twitch, I can't call the other names, but like his main source of income outside of monetizing his YouTube, like, it's crazy.
So, Kendrick last night at the Grammys was nominated for five awards for his disc record, not like Dustin's Drink.
And he won in every single category he was nominated in.
So, he won best rap performance, best music video, record of the year, song of the year, and I can't recall the last one, but he swept.
So, as I'm watching this shit in my head, I was like, I can't wait to see the ad responses.
And when I tell you, this was the most humble I've ever seen academics.
Like, he actually was saying like logical shit, he was like, I can't even hate, he did his thing, blah, blah, blah.
You know, he said, you know, Drake is still his favorite artist, artist of shit.
But he had acknowledged, he goes, man, Kendrick Lamar, he just, like watching it was crazy.
So, when you go up to accept this award, you get here to not like us being played in the back line.
So, you hear, why you trolling like a bitch, ain't you tired, trying to strike a chord and it's probably a minor, you know what I mean?
But the entire audience is like screaming a minor.
I'm talking Jay-Z, Beyonce, Dr. Dre, Swiss Beats, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, they all screaming a minor.
Insane.
And to add insult to injury, like, you know, not sympathizing with Drake at all.
But that motherfucker is down in Australia doing concerts and shit, because he didn't want to be in the States when this shit was happening.
So, but to have a room full of your peers fucking two-stepping to your pedophile and screaming a minor and shit like, that shit is devastating.
Especially when you thought that some people in this room might have been your friends or that you were above some of these people in the room.
So then, you know, Kendrick O'Dan, it's cool nigga, you know, shout out to different communities in LA and LA County and then he gave his condolences to like the victims of like the wildfires and the palaces and all that.
And then he had all denim on.
Denim jacket, denim jeans, which I didn't understand the significance of. That's the watch the people break it down.
So when you add denim top and bottom, it's called a Canadian tuxedo.
And it's a whole backstory about the guy who originated it. He tried to come to a world show back in like the 60s or the 70s and they said he was underdressed so he wasn't allowed to come in.
So then the next award show, whatever that he attended, he had his denim jacket and shoes like more or less turned to like a tuxedo.
And mind you, despite the try to block him from like anyone was like in like Ontario, Canada, it might have been like fucking.
I can't recall what part of Canada it was. It wasn't Toronto though.
It might have been like Nova Scotia. I don't remember where it was. So that's why I got coined the Canadian tuxedo like as a fuck you to the people who didn't let him in.
So him win the Canadian tuxedo while receiving five Grammy Awards for a disc record and it's the first disc record to win a Grammy.
Now drink was nominated for a Grammy for back to back, but he didn't win.
Funny enough is he lost to Kendrick Lamar that year in that category for whatever it was like rap song or he is something.
And Kendrick went with the song All Right also to Pivot Butterfly album, which also won like a Pulitzer Prize Award.
I'm probably such a butchering that word.
So I started with the act shit transitioning to like the Kendrick shit.
The thing that made it worse to drink why he had this concert.
He wore this like hoodie that was covered with like bullet holes and had a little smoke machine underneath with smoke coming out his back all this other shit.
It's like, oh everybody took the shot. He plays the victim. Kendrick said whatever he said they'd be having a little small shit back and forth.
He said, you know, he's gonna be on the future song. He just go fuck the big three is just big me. And then he said, all your dogs getting buried.
That's the cable all these nines that will see past cemetery.
I guess like jab is like some battleship.
So Drake come back and my journey did that shit because he had a song called first person shooter with J Cole.
So he told J Cole that Kendrick was supposed to be on the song, which Kendrick never agreed to be on the song.
So you had like Drake kind of sending shots in that song and Cole mentioned Kendrick other type of shit.
So Drake even started it with that shit.
So like but now my strict start driving this records and Kendrick's taking this time not responding to me. He's saying shit in the song.
It's like, no, no, no, don't try to run away. You're gonna stand up for this one.
And then he's dropping some drop drop drop again 50, which he was trying to implicate that he got 50% of like Kendrick publishing all that shit.
And then Kendrick came back with you, Florida. Fuck.
And Drake come would I don't remember what the fuck was that today, but they get to going back and forth and then Kendrick just like big hand smack in this nigga around all palm just smack in this nigga face.
Then all of a sudden all the drinks sympathizers and supporters. I mean, what was he supposed to do?
And now Drake went and fucking bully, hoodie with bullaholes in it like he's the victim like just clown shit.
I just clown shit.
But anyways, congratulations to Kendrick Lamar. I'm not surprised by the wins.
He's just smoking shit.
Drake tried to do the definition of shit to try to avoid that song being played as a super bowl.
And that is one every fucking award that it can win. It's 100% gonna be played at the Super Bowl with his other smash.
You got it right now called TV of.
I know the Super Bowl performance is gonna be fucking insane.
But that was that whole shit was just crazy.
But we're gonna go.
So they released the new trailer for the Fantastic Four.
It's coming out in July. It looks comic book accurate.
It looks fucking amazing. I can't lie.
My biggest concern was like with Ben Grimm, the thing.
Like he's like made a stone or less and every iteration of him has been one.
The original Fantastic Four. He just looked like a nigga covered in styrofoam that got painted.
That was bad. And the next one when they did the Fantastic Four was fucking Michael B. Jordan is like the human torch.
That movie wasn't that bad, but it wasn't good even.
But that Ben Grimm, they made him like try to look realistic with the CGI.
So he just looked like a bunch of rigid rocks, but he didn't wear a uniform.
So he basically just like naked fight and shit. Terrible.
This one, Ben Grimm looks exactly like the comic book.
And he wants to like this alternate universe where like Dan New York in the 1960s,
but like the makeup of the city is different type of shit.
And oh, on the side note, I just saw some shit today where Marvel was considering bringing back Jonathan Majes,
Kane and Conqueror.
You know, initially he got like put to the side because of some white girl he was dating, trying to out of his cheating.
Got to try to fuck him up. He ran away from them.
But they said with him trying to get restrained her from attacking him, he was too aggressive.
So he's supposed to stand there and let her fuck him up to fake injuries, lied, all this other shit.
And Marvel dropped him on some bullshit.
But I only think they dropped him because like at the time, the public reception of Kane and Conqueror was a favor.
So I think if that shit had been like Thanos, Iron Man, Endgame, they would have, well, we're going to let it work.
We're going to work with him until all details come out.
They would have saved, you know what I mean?
But then I guess because his character was in doing as well, they like pretty much like turned his world off.
Like, all right, we down with your type of shit, which was fucked up.
Especially like once all the surveillance videos came out and the Pruders bitch lined and he never broke her finger and all this other shit.
His videos after the altercation shows are at the fucking club, party and drinking, grabbing the rail with that hand that's supposed to be broken.
Grabbing drinks, taking her fingers, running it behind, pushing her head behind her ear.
You know, white girl shit.
She found out he was like fucking with Mac and Good and started trying to go crazy on this nigga inside of the cab.
And even the cab driver was like, I'll testify to this bad.
She attacked him, knocked the other way around.
And they still was like, fuck that, get him out of here and so there was some bullshit.
I said all of that to say that fantastic four trailer drop and it looks very promising.
I'll say that.
Onto some more serious shit.
This past week, there was two days of back to back plane crash.
So the first one happened in DC and it was like a private jet that had like,
I think like some figure skaters on there.
I think like some kind of politician from.
Damn, I don't want to get the strong because I'm not trying to disrespect the disease, but he may have been from like, oh, Wichita.
He was from Wichita, Kansas.
I was about to say Wisconsin, but he was from Wichita.
And it's about 8 p.m. at night.
They bought the land and it's fucking Black Hawk military chopper.
Which why the fuck would that even be at like a commercial airport?
Like they have military bases for you to land at.
So them trying to land at a fucking, you know, commercial airport.
Maybe that's something they do at that particular airport.
I've never heard that and I'm open to being wrong, but it just seems fishing.
So the initial videos like blurring and like you can see the the Black Hawk helicopter had three soldiers and they flew directly into it.
They collide, explode, fall into like the Potomac River.
He was trying to recover bodies.
Sad situation.
And like recently, as recent as yesterday, they released the HD version from a different angle.
Bro, I don't want to be that guy, but that shit looked very intentional.
And I'm not saying that it was just how would I know, but the way it looked very intentional.
And the thing that makes me just scarier than that is that the New Year's attack in New Orleans, the guy who did it, Trump initially came out and he was just like, yeah, you know, this is why we got to get these people out of here and deport these people all this other shit.
Come to find out, born and raised in Texas and he was ex-military.
Crazy.
Then the following day or it might have been like the same night, a guy in a Tesla truck at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas blows up the fucking truck with itself inside of it, hoping that I guess it would have caused more damage, but it really just like kind of fucked the truck up.
When they get him out, he's obviously deceased.
They are deemed born and raised in Texas, I believe as well, ex-military.
So the soldiers that was on the plane from that second video look very intentional.
Born and raised, military.
You can just chop it up as a coincidence, but very scary, very suspicious, very, I don't even want to say.
I just worry about my pay grade, but that shit looked, it looked away.
Then the following day of the fucking plane crash in DC or the plane collision and fucking Philadelphia fucking plane crashed in like the middle of the city, like near like a shop amongst the residential neighborhoods and that got caught on video.
And the way that the plane hit the ground, from the first video when I looked at it, it didn't even look like a plane, it looked like a fucking missile because it was traveling so fast that just when it hit the ground like movie level fucking mushroom cloud explosion, you had people screaming.
Two plane crashes back to back.
It's very reminiscent of another time two planes crashed back to back. Like it's just scary times man, scary shit.
So I ain't trying to make anybody sad shit, but Trump is pushing this deportation shit and I mean he's actively doing this shit like across the country, Chicago, California, Minnesota, you name it.
Even here Baltimore so like I'm leaving out like this is like last week, like last Friday or Thursday I can't remember but there's a McDonald's that I drive past on my way to work and there's a Home Depot that I pass on my way to work.
And I want to say it was like on Thursday, I met the light about to make a make a left the heads of woods like my job and like ice was out there and full force just locking up dudes at Home Depot and this one guy they had him on the ground at his hands around his back and then they had like his legs handcuffed or his ankles handcuffed.
And when I tell you this dude was like, like the way he was crying it was like just this deep guttural just screams, eyes running, nose running, like he looked like a person who was about to die he was crying at that intense like that shit was like heartbreaking.
It's just like, you know, I get it there's the proper channels to go through shit and all that but at the same time, they say that America is like, they said in the shit give us your give us your give us your we give us your poor we blow off the salvation all these other shit.
Now I make this racial thing but we had plenty of like people from like Eastern Europe, the scent Russia, Poland, all this other shit will come here legally. Not a issue. And I put you for them to get out they pushed it for like Hispanics and Haitians and it's just a fucking mess but seeing that guy go through that like I can't allow like it.
I'll be honest, I usually don't give a fuck about people and shit if it don't personally affect me if I'm being honest but I guess the older I get the more mature I get like I can like, I guess empathize with people and it's just like, that's some scary shit like what if he's at home Depot, trying to get work for the
day so he can feed his family or send money back home wherever the case may be. And now he's on his stomach on a concrete fucking parking lot getting hogtied more or less and like his crowd was just devastated devastated.
And then the next day, like McDonald's I drive by. Ice had the doors blocked off had the entrance and access to the parking lot blocked off and they just bringing people out. Women and men who's working at McDonald's like cuffs on them this shit about the deported like
some scary shit like they shown up to elementary schools. Thankfully the school didn't like let them in but they were like trying to force that way in the school to take students.
Well they, I guess, assumed or believed that parents were mad. This isn't supposed to be deportation for just if this is your race. It's supposed to be if you're confirmed criminal that you have a warrant for your arrest because you've done some egregious shit.
Robert we murdered fucking rape whatever the case may be. These things is just like locking them on fuckers. It almost seemed at random like it's, it's a terrifying shit. But then this makes it even worse with this Trump situation by he's pushing this like turf shit like way like you text the people who attempt to import things to the
country. So the companies like Walmart or Target whoever is like buying these things from Mexico, Canada, wherever China like the Turks, Texas them.
And then in return, the people who's actually selling the products here in America. Let's say our let's say they typically buy whatever this product is for about $2. And then they'll sell it here for like $10. So that way, they kind of pace for itself and they can turn a profit which means they
can get more of these shipments moving forward. But now with the turf shit, because the countries are being taxed for trying to ship shit here. That country doesn't pay the tax that goes on the person that's like the company that's buying it. So now, this product I used to buy for $2 and I sold for 10.
Now I have to purchase for 10, which means in turn, I have to raise the prices to make a profit. So if I was getting tomatoes, and I get them for like $1. Now something's like $4. But now I'm being charged $6 to receive these tomatoes.
Now you go to the grocery store and you go oh fuck I need a tomato and you go over there and it's fucking 10, 11, 12 dollars for a singular tomato. Like the price of cutting the eggs all this shit like, like, I wouldn't necessarily call them essentials, but they kind of are.
But it's like, bro.
Now we as the people we suffer from some shit that we have nothing to do with. Because everybody keep thinking like oh the other country's going to pay the terms that not.
That shit gets shipped here. And then whatever company sends their guys down to receive that shit from a loading dock, they have to pay for that merchandise to be released.
Whether it's food, whether it's material, whatever the case may be. And in turn, the people who receive it, who utilize it to manufacture products or whatever the sense of the public has to raise that price so they can maintain or we just lose that product.
So it's like it's fucking shit up.
And then like, oh, man, it's just a fucking mess. Like, I keep trying to tell people it's not about black and white, it's about the haves and the have nots and the shit that's been happening.
It's just they're more or less trying to like destroy the middle class. You're even going to be super rich, you're going to be super poor, there's no in between.
And if I'm being honest, like with salary that I make in my household, not like we are middle class. I wouldn't say we up a middle class, but we are middle class.
I mean, like, I have a hefty car payment. So like a new truck that I got like a year ago, I can easily maintain that payment.
My insurance, my mortgage are that shocking. Easy maintaining.
I might not have like enough to where like if I want to do some super extravagant shit, but I go to the market a couple past me because if I want, I can put fucking $500 aside from a paycheck and it don't affect me on.
You know what I mean? So I wouldn't say that I'm comfortable, but I'm in a, yeah, you can say that I'm in a comfortable space.
Could it be more comfortable? Obviously, yeah.
But I don't, I don't worry about damn, well, I have enough gas for the mar. Damn, can I eat tonight? Damn.
Well, I have clean clothes. That's none of those things in my concern. I'm not worried about coming home and none of my shit being turned off.
Like I'm in a good place from a physical standpoint, like financial standpoint, I'm in a comfortable space.
But a lot of people want and, you know, oh, and with all this deportation, all this type of shit, he was saying stupid ass comments like,
glad people should be on my side. These immigrants are taking your jobs. What jobs are those?
Janitorial shit. And I mean, this is what I'll do respect. But janitorial shit, fucking agriculture, picking fruit, picking vegetables.
Like, I don't know anybody who does any of those jobs, maybe janitorial to a degree, but not even really that.
I don't know too many people personally who was like janitors. And I'm gonna be honest, when I had the job that I worked or previous jobs I worked,
there was never anybody black on the cleaners if I'm just being honest.
So I don't know who jobs that he said that they're stealing, but oh, this is fucked up. Like it's everything is fucked up.
But, you know, oh man, there's so much that I want to say, but I'm just, I'm not going to.
Because again, I don't want this to come off a certain way. And I know I don't have that big of an audience. Maybe I do.
But whatever the case may be, I'm not trying to put out like, I know some inside information or start saying what I think should happen to people and all this other shit.
But I don't know if I started Patreon, I will on my Patreon. I'm a yeah, I'll see what I think should happen among suckers in extreme detail.
But right now I'm building this for the free. No, no, no, no.
It's sad, man. It's sad, it's scary, but I will say this, I've been seeing videos of like, you know, you know, Mexicans in LA, like having protests and all this type of stuff.
And I've been seeing a lot of black people out there, like totally supporting them. And it's just, you know, the black, the brown, the Asian shit, the white.
I think everybody's just like, I wish everybody could just like stick together and focus on what the actual I say enemy is to like the people.
We got these fucking billionaire borderline trillionaires just like they don't identify with us, regardless of what side of the political, how you stand on.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, those motherfuckers have more similarities than they do differences.
But the shit that Trump is doing, this is almost like cartoon movies, villain level shit, like it's a mess, but I'm not going to dwell on that.
I'm not going to focus on that. I'm going to do the best that I can do.
And I hope that everybody around me does the same. And yeah, because dwelling on it, crying about it, it doesn't, it doesn't change what's happening.
So got to make a game plan and adjust.
So with that being said, I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
I hope we'll never hear this. I hope whatever goal you're chasing, I hope you get one step closer to achieving that goal.
If not achieving it all together. And once you achieve that goal, set a new goal and work towards that.
Don't rest on your laurels. Don't go, oh, that was good enough. Keep pursuing, keep pushing, keep progressing.
I hope everybody will hear this. I hope y'all stay safe, stay positive.
You know, live the best life you can while we can. It's none of this shit is permanent.
So, um, oh, before I go, Super Bowl is coming up this Sunday, actually.
Still trying to figure out like where I'm watching, if I'm watching the crib, if I'm going to go somewhere and watch it, if I'm going to go to my sister house and watch it.
I'm still trying to work out those particulars, but I don't know, man. I'm excited for what my rations was in there, but you know.
Oh, fuck, I didn't even talk about some of the biggest shit in sports.
Fucking Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers got traded for the Dell, got traded to the Dell's Mavericks.
The fucking Luka Donchers. Luka Donchers is a fucking Laker now. That's insane.
He was just in the finals last year. He's an all NBA fucking superstar at the age of 25.
This shit is nuts. It's nuts, but I won't even get into all that right now.
But again, man, I hope everybody who's saying this, man, be safe, be productive, be positive. Work towards your goals.
If anything I said today you don't agree with or you want to expand more on, you can always hit me up on Instagram at QGMusic.
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With that being said, peace.