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Code Switching, From Subway To The Trap #116 · The Grounded Show

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Speaker 1: Yo, So funny little thing that came up recently when
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Speaker 1: I was watching some videos on TikTok. Mark Norman, the comedian,
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Speaker 1: he's like real dry, real like a risk a type
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Speaker 1: of material. I don't know if it's his podcast or what,
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Speaker 1: but I saw him on a podcast with Blake Griffin
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Speaker 1: and they were just kind of talking about random things obviously,
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Speaker 1: and also like racial questions because Blake Griffin is half
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Speaker 1: black and half white. So Mark Norman asked him a
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Speaker 1: couple of questions like just kind of like when you
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Speaker 1: tap into either side or whatever. He was basically saying,
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Speaker 1: in a nutshell, when you're in an interview with the media,
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Speaker 1: do you wipe it up? And when you're in the
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Speaker 1: locker room do you black it up?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh that's that's a big that's.
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Speaker 1: He asked that straight up, like he was like can
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Speaker 1: I He asked first, like, Hey, can I ask you
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Speaker 1: just you know, like a racial question and that's yeah,
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Speaker 1: And he told him basically yeah, like you know, on
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Speaker 1: the interview, he would be one way. He's like, after this,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing Mellos podcast and I'll probably be in there
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Speaker 1: with some shades, probably some chains on. I'll probably be
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Speaker 1: leaning back like say, yeah, exactly. So it was just
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Speaker 1: a funny thing to bring up and a funny thing
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Speaker 1: to even think about just from the point of view,
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Speaker 1: Like for me, Bro, I'm Puerto Rican and I don't
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Speaker 1: act Puerto Rican. I don't act why I don't act black.
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Speaker 1: I just act how I act. And it's like it's
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Speaker 1: like a funny thing for people because they're always kind
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Speaker 1: of like trying to pinpoint me. I guess, but it's like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: like I'm this, I came up like this and this.
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Speaker 1: You know, this is just how it is, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I say that to say, for me, I've never
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Speaker 1: really had an issue feeling like I needed to act
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Speaker 1: a certain way to fit in with a certain pout
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Speaker 1: or whatever, you know what I mean. I just be
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Speaker 1: how I be and that's it. So it reminded me
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Speaker 1: of a story from when I used to work at
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Speaker 1: Subway when I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: Bro. So, and it's a story you say one day
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Speaker 2: you want, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Fact, this is a story that like I've always wanted
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Speaker 1: to turn into like a movie or a short film
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Speaker 1: or something. I took some steps to like actually like
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Speaker 1: put it into action before, but I didn't realize like
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Speaker 1: how involved it was, and I'm like, bro, what am
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Speaker 1: I doing? Like I'm not no movie tycoon or something,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But basically what happened was
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Speaker 1: I used to work at Subway and this dude that
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Speaker 1: like the guy basically that like trained me. He was
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Speaker 1: a student, like because you know, I was like nineteen
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Speaker 1: or something at the time. So everybody that would work there,
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Speaker 1: we worked by UCF, so everybody that worked there was
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Speaker 1: pretty much just students, you know. So he was a
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Speaker 1: dude that came from like suburban like Upper New York,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like out on the outskirts
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Speaker 1: of the city, you know what I mean. So he
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Speaker 1: was a biracial kid, half black and half white, and
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Speaker 1: he was very he was a very quirky individual to
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Speaker 1: say the least, you know what I mean. Like he
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Speaker 1: was a big fan of like older kind of hip hop.
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Speaker 1: He was a fan of because at the time, it
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Speaker 1: was like like it was a time when like Rick
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Speaker 1: Ross was popping and stuff like that. So you know,
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Speaker 1: he was a fan of those kind of newer rappers,
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Speaker 1: you know, the ones that were still lyrical and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. But he was very much like nineties and
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Speaker 1: early two thousands hip hop dude, you know. But then
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Speaker 1: he was also very like, hey, you know, so it
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Speaker 1: was just funny like to talk rap with him because
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Speaker 1: like even when he would recite certain lyrics and stuff,
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Speaker 1: it just sounded funny, you know. Yeah, And he was
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Speaker 1: so like at the time, this wasn't even a thing,
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Speaker 1: but he was such like a Karen you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, Like like we bro. Sometimes like we will
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Speaker 1: be working that night and it'll be like, let's say,
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Speaker 1: like three or four people will walk in and it's
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Speaker 1: me and him working, right, one of them might have
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Speaker 1: three or four Bro. If somebody told him they had
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Speaker 1: like three or four subs, dog, he would literally go
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Speaker 1: to the back and call the manager for reinforcing.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: He was like, He's like, Yo, there's a long line here.
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Speaker 1: I need you to come. Because he lived mad close
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Speaker 1: and she would always say, Hey, if you guys are
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Speaker 1: ever like mad he or something, or you need something,
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Speaker 1: let me know. I'm just right around the corner. Nah.
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Speaker 1: He took that to heart, bro, Like if there was
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Speaker 1: three people online he was calling her. She was coming
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Speaker 1: tight boy, like super mad, because you know she's coming
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Speaker 1: from home to help you do to it in sandwiches, dog,
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Speaker 1: like this is what you hear. He would always like
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Speaker 1: have like long conversations with the customers like, oh hey,
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Speaker 1: you like this, you like that, like laughing all crazy
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Speaker 1: and stuff. He would be like, bro, what is wrong
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Speaker 1: with this guy?
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Speaker 2: Dog?
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Speaker 1: So he was cool, you know, but he was just
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Speaker 1: like a little extra, you know. So he would start
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Speaker 1: seeing like my homies pull up and everything. He was
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Speaker 1: a certain way with me, but then when he seen
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Speaker 1: my homie start pulling up, it was kind of like
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Speaker 1: he started trying to like act real like hood, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. He started kind of switching into
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Speaker 1: like another mode like New York. You know, I was
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Speaker 1: this and you know we used to smoke and this,
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Speaker 1: this and that, and it's like, bro, I didn't even
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Speaker 1: smoke at the time, So it's like, why are you
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Speaker 1: trying to gain points with me with this?
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Speaker 2: Like you I already saw who you are. You're not
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Speaker 2: showing yourself as a person to me at this point.
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Speaker 1: And that was really funny to me too. It's like, bro,
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Speaker 1: like you don't think I hear you and talk to
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Speaker 1: you all this time, like I already know what you
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Speaker 1: about where you are. But he took a liking to
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Speaker 1: my friends, so he would hook them up when they
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Speaker 1: would pull up. So finally when he's like, yo, man,
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Speaker 1: I've been thinking lately that I might want to finally
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Speaker 1: smoke again. He had been like talking about it for
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Speaker 1: like weeks, you know what I mean. And then finally
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Speaker 1: we were having like a little chill session like studio
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Speaker 1: session one night, like you know, we would get together
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Speaker 1: at my boy's crib and like record. We had a
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Speaker 1: little studio that we record just yes, you know whatever
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Speaker 1: it was. It was a trap, bro, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Like there was no kitchen literally, like there
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Speaker 1: was no appliances, nothing. We was just there doing whatever.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He didn't really know that,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He just he just seen me,
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Speaker 1: he seen my boys.
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Speaker 2: That seems like an all right thing to do.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: don't like thinking back, bro, I don't know what he's
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Speaker 1: ever been a part of where he's been, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So like to me at the time,
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Speaker 1: it's like i'dn't even mention it to him, like what
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Speaker 1: the setting was, because it's like you talking to me
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Speaker 1: like you about this life. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, bro, you know he mentioned him
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Speaker 1: banning to come over my boy. Say he's good because
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Speaker 1: he always hooked up my boy with subs and cookies
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Speaker 1: and stuff. He said, Yo, just make sure you bring
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Speaker 1: some stuff, you know what I mean. So he got
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Speaker 1: his little like you know.
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Speaker 2: Invest thing like those kind of people they're open, you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Oh he fucks with you. We
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Speaker 2: fuck with him, like come through.
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Speaker 1: And it was good vibes, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Just he was just a little like lost as a person.
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Speaker 1: I would say, you know what I mean, Like he
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Speaker 1: an't really know what he was a mess of people
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Speaker 1: like you know what I mean. So he pulls up, right,
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Speaker 1: he pulls up, He hits me, yo, I'm out front.
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Speaker 1: I come out and get him. He was already looking
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Speaker 1: kind of like you know, looking back and forth and
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Speaker 1: feel like out of weird. Like I can already tell
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Speaker 1: because where he was at, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Like we worked by UCF, but I had him come
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Speaker 1: out to Golden Rod, you know what I mean, Like
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Speaker 1: you already know in Orlando, like gold Cemarron, that's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's what goes down, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: So he pulled up. He was already kind of suss.
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Speaker 1: He comes in. We go to the little makeshift studio
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Speaker 1: in the back. It was just basically a room that
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Speaker 1: we painted black and there was a laptop and a
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Speaker 1: mic in there. It wasn't a studio and we just
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Speaker 1: called yeah, we just called it the black room. It
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Speaker 1: was literally a couch, a painted black room, a mic,
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Speaker 1: and and the laptop wasn't even there. It was my
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Speaker 1: I would bring the laptop, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: It's more of the area of recording exactly exactly. So
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Speaker 1: we set up back there. They start passing on blunts
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Speaker 1: back and forth and stuff. At this time. I didn't smoke,
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Speaker 1: so I'm just chilling, you know, I'm there for the music.
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Speaker 1: I'm there for the vibes. He starts feeling nice, he
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Speaker 1: started free styling. Everybody's laughing because they was high and
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Speaker 1: they could tell he was high. Just feeling high, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know when you were like hanging out with somebody
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Speaker 1: that you could tell they never hung out like that before.
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Speaker 1: So they're acting like real amp different. So we were
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Speaker 1: just kind of looking at each other like bro he's hype,
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Speaker 1: you know, like he's hype right now.
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Speaker 2: Ya.
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Speaker 1: So they're recording, right, he gets high, he's feeling good.
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Speaker 1: He's going back and forth with my other boy, like
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Speaker 1: they're catching a vibe and like he didn't really know him,
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Speaker 1: but they're getting cool, you know what I mean. All
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, we hear like banging at the door.
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Speaker 2: It's a night time is that night?
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Speaker 1: It's dumb late because we came after work.
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Speaker 2: Bro, you know, we were nighttime on Golden Ride. We
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Speaker 2: were bangs, are in good bangs.
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Speaker 1: Yep. I left early, like I had like a short shift,
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Speaker 1: so I left like at nine or something. He had
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Speaker 1: the closing shift. He would leave like at eleven or something.
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Speaker 1: So I was already at my boyscrip, but we had
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Speaker 1: work that night, you know what I mean. So he
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Speaker 1: pulls up at this time, it's probably already like one
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Speaker 1: two in the morning something like that. So we hear
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Speaker 1: the banging. We start coming outside to see what's going on.
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Speaker 1: So what happened was some of my home, some of
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Speaker 1: my other homies up because they would come hang out
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Speaker 1: there too, because one of them lived there, and then
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Speaker 1: he had like his friends would come over. It was
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Speaker 1: all our friends, you know what I mean, he specifically
9:07
Speaker 1: hung out with them more. You know. So they had
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Speaker 1: pulled up, they had got back home, but as soon
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Speaker 1: as they pulled up, like six seven cop cars surrounded
9:15
Speaker 1: them as soon as they parked up. So when we
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Speaker 1: came out, what we had seen was when the cops
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Speaker 1: pulled up. And I guess he was I don't know
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Speaker 1: if they knew the cops were coming or what, and
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Speaker 1: that's why he was like coming to the door like that.
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Speaker 1: But when we come out, we see the cops pull
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Speaker 1: up and everything. We locked the door, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Because my boy that owned the crew, he
9:37
Speaker 1: had a call. Yeah, he had already been arrested so
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Speaker 1: many times dog that his lawyer had him trained.
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Speaker 2: Bro his trap house protocol right in.
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Speaker 1: Fact, So he locks the door. They're outside, my boy
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Speaker 1: from subway is tripping, Bro. He's looking out the window.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. And he's the first time I expected
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Speaker 1: for the first time. B don't think. I really don't
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Speaker 1: think he has smoked before that. Like even the way
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Speaker 1: he's smoking. I mean, you know, when you see somebody,
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Speaker 1: even the way he did, it was kind of like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking this is his first time really, so imagine, bro,
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Speaker 1: this is your first time smoking. As soon as you
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Speaker 1: get done getting high and chilling, bro, mad cop cars.
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Speaker 1: So the cops start coming to the door asking to
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Speaker 1: come in and stuff. My boy mad belligerent, like my
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Speaker 1: my boy. That's the owner of the house. So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say subway dude, and I'm gonna say.
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Speaker 2: My boy, So my boy.
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Speaker 1: He's tripping on the copsy y'all some bams.
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Speaker 2: Oh not the first interaction between them, Yeah, like y'all
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Speaker 2: ain't coming in if you don't got a if you
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Speaker 2: don't got a one f y'all piece, get out of here,
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Speaker 2: like going crazy, bro, super belligerent.
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Speaker 1: The cops are banging on the door. Once he starts
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Speaker 1: yelling at them like that, Bro, the subway dude starts
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Speaker 1: going same.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: He was tellingim, Bro, just open the door, Just open
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Speaker 1: the door.
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Speaker 2: Oh. He was trying to interfere.
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Speaker 1: Bro. He was like, we got to get arrested. And
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Speaker 1: my other boys like, dog, you need to chill out. Dog,
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Speaker 1: Like we know what we're doing. We ain't doing nothing wrong.
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Speaker 1: They're coming for them whatever they got going on, Like
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Speaker 1: we're good, Bro, we just got to wait it out. Bro.
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Speaker 1: We're there probably till like six seven in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and the whole time, like buddies just trip and trip,
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Speaker 1: and he's like about a cry. He's out loud, like
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Speaker 1: thinking out loud, like, bro, why did I come here?
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Speaker 2: That's when you know he fuck around and found out.
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Speaker 1: He definitely found out. So what ended up happening was
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Speaker 1: when my other boys came in. We were young at
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Speaker 1: the time, you know what I'm saying. Eighteen nineteen, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So they were sneaking over some
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Speaker 1: girl's house. So when they snuck in, one of the
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Speaker 1: neighbors seen, gotcha, and the neighbor called the yo, somebody's
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Speaker 1: robbing this house. Because the neighbor knew that the parents
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Speaker 1: were out of town, which is why the kid was coming.
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Speaker 1: You know, the dudes were coming over because the parents
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Speaker 1: were out of town. She had a couple home girls there,
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Speaker 1: so they came through. Bruh. When they left the house,
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Speaker 1: the cops were like they already there waiting for them
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Speaker 1: to leave to follow them back. So as soon as
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Speaker 1: they pulled into my boy's crib that's why they were
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Speaker 1: already there, and it got them because like they were
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Speaker 1: already following from the girls neighborhood, and they ended up
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Speaker 1: letting them go because it was a misunderstanding, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like they ended up explaining, like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: we was just there messing around with some chicks, you know,
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Speaker 1: the neighbor misunderstood. They kind of verified the story, checked
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Speaker 1: everything out, whatever, and then they eventually left and they
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Speaker 1: gave up trying to come in my boy's crib because,
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Speaker 1: like I said, my boy already knew they can't come in,
12:47
Speaker 1: you know. So after everything happens, I ended up getting
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Speaker 1: a ride back with my homie from from work the subway. Dude, Bro,
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Speaker 1: on the way back, it's like the morning time, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like aggravated that I had to
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Speaker 1: stay there all night, you know. I mean, I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to go home, you know, I how to wait.
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Speaker 1: So we're going back. I just I still remember just
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Speaker 1: like looking out the window, like kind of leaning on
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Speaker 1: the door, and this dude is just kind of like
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Speaker 1: like reflecting on what happened, talking about how He's like, nah,
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Speaker 1: I think I think I'm not gonna smoke, bro, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because it's like the first time
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Speaker 1: so he just he was like, nah, bro, it was
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Speaker 1: so funny to me, dog, because like the way everything
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Speaker 1: went down was like like an after school special, like
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Speaker 1: you making the decision, like your teacher told you, now,
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Speaker 1: I don't do it, and then as soon as you
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Speaker 1: decided to do it, it's like every worst case scenario.
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Speaker 1: Because that's how I'm after.
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Speaker 2: He got that battery in his back. But that's why
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Speaker 2: if it was a movie, that the part where the
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Speaker 2: cops are knocking on the door and everybody's wild and
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Speaker 2: he's yelling, that's when the record scratch and he's like.
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Speaker 1: You probably wonder what I got here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably want to be a guy here. I made
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Speaker 2: the wrong decision, bro.
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Speaker 1: The funny thing is the reason that I never smoked
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Speaker 1: until I was like twenty six twenty seven was because
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Speaker 1: I seen one of them after school specials. It was
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Speaker 1: three kids, White boy, Black boy, Spanish boy. They all
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Speaker 1: go up to the attic of the house, right, I
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Speaker 1: forgot what specific. I think it was like a bong
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Speaker 1: or something like they found like a bong or something
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Speaker 1: like that. They start smoking. White kid takes a hit, chilling,
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Speaker 1: Black kid takes a hit, chilling. Spanish kid takes a
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Speaker 1: hit dies, Bro, like he's coming out like in the
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Speaker 1: in the ambulance and then like the scene stops and
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Speaker 1: then like the words and the narrators like Carlos had
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Speaker 1: a heart condition he didn't know about and that smoke
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Speaker 1: activated something in his lungs and dying. I was like
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Speaker 1: in fifth grade I watched.
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Speaker 2: I was like, no, Bro, and I'm in the room,
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Speaker 2: never in the room.
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Speaker 1: Dog and I'm Spanish, so that YO, that's stuck with me,
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Speaker 1: Bro till I was like, like I said, until I
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Speaker 1: was like twenty five, twenty six, Bro, I thought.
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Speaker 2: I was like, dang, that's why they put those kind
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Speaker 2: of things out, because that those message actually here for
15:14
Speaker 2: sure it works.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that them after school specials work their works,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because that shirt was hard.
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Speaker 2: Bro, the their shirt, I wasn't there, YO did their
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Speaker 2: shirt with the little louse and you know I didn't
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Speaker 2: follow it, but I wasn't there, Bro.
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Speaker 1: When they offering you a shirt in like school or something,
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Speaker 1: Bro that you know. I went to Water for Lakes
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Speaker 1: one time, which is like the little town Center area
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Speaker 1: of Orlando, and they were doing like some kind of fair,
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Speaker 1: like some kind of educational fair and there was a
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Speaker 1: tent there that had like a little bouncy house and
15:44
Speaker 1: you could go in the bouncy house and then they
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Speaker 1: gave you a shirt that said Wired Science. It was
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Speaker 1: like one of the Corneas shirts, but it was a
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Speaker 1: free shirt. Bro. I wore that shirt. Out standing, Bro,
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Speaker 1: my Wired Science shirt. And the funny thing was thog
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Speaker 1: that Wired Science shirt taught me how stupid people was,
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Speaker 1: because they will always say that my shirt said Weird Science.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. Well, that was a show,
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Speaker 2: so it probably was similar to the logo of the show.
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Speaker 1: I don't know because I never seen the show. It
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Speaker 1: might be a classic show, but you know the song
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Speaker 1: for sure, it didn't say weird Science.
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Speaker 2: And in my head, I'm like, damn, people kind of
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Speaker 2: dumb though it must be smoking that refrach facts.
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Speaker 1: They must have been not paying attention to after school
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Speaker 1: special Bro and Yo.
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Speaker 2: But it's funny because I still think about one of
16:34
Speaker 2: the main ones. It was a frying pan and it
16:36
Speaker 2: was like and they had an egg, this is your brain,
16:39
Speaker 2: and they cracked the egg in the frying pan. This
16:41
Speaker 2: is your brain on drugs, Like, damn.
16:44
Speaker 1: Remember, Buddy, that was like melted into the couch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that. Now people are like, yo, I
16:49
Speaker 2: want to know where they had that. I want to
16:50
Speaker 2: know what strain they.
16:51
Speaker 1: Had bro That feeling, Yeah, I got that feeling from
16:54
Speaker 1: Mendo breath Og the same bro the same way Buddy
16:58
Speaker 1: was in the couch.
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Speaker 2: That was me.
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Speaker 1: I was at the studio and I called my wife.
17:01
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I'm done with my session, but I'm
17:04
Speaker 1: pretty toasted, so I'm gonna hang out here for a
17:06
Speaker 1: little bit.
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Speaker 2: But I think it was It wasn't. It wasn't nearly
17:09
Speaker 2: as powerful back then. I'm just talking weed. Weed was
17:12
Speaker 2: definitely not as powerful back then as it is today
17:15
Speaker 2: for them to coming out with those kind of message.
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Speaker 1: So that's something that I got lucky with that. When
17:19
Speaker 1: I came into the small smoking era, it was already gas,
17:24
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like shout out to my boy.
17:25
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, he was one of the ones that
17:27
Speaker 1: was there that night. He always says rapper weed, you
17:32
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like there's weed and then there's
17:34
Speaker 1: rapper weed. And it's like I never had a smoke
17:37
Speaker 1: the reggie. I never like I seen it when I
17:39
Speaker 1: was younger, you know, the joint that I like little.
17:42
Speaker 1: It wasn't even like nugs, bro.
17:44
Speaker 2: It was like sheets. It was like molch.
17:47
Speaker 1: It was like mold, bro. It was straight sheets of
17:50
Speaker 1: like grass, bro. It was like the wet That's party
17:53
Speaker 1: why I didn't like I wasn't like attracted to it
17:56
Speaker 1: at that time either, because they were just coming around
17:58
Speaker 1: with Reggie and you looked at it, smelled it and
18:01
Speaker 1: it was like you guys got that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that, and I remember the transition of
18:06
Speaker 2: when people I'm gonna get too deep into this, but
18:08
Speaker 2: I still remember the transition of where people started moving
18:11
Speaker 2: on to crippy. Back then, that's what was the name.
18:15
Speaker 2: It was rags, mids and crippy. And then it would
18:19
Speaker 2: be like majority of crippying, someone like, oh, I'll throw
18:21
Speaker 2: in some rags.
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Speaker 1: Are like nachi to yourself.
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Speaker 2: Keep that right there. Yeah. But but it's crazy because
18:28
Speaker 2: even though back then still that was the most powerful
18:30
Speaker 2: stuff that existed. Back then, Yeah, people never experienced that.
18:34
Speaker 2: And you think you can handle it, and that shit
18:36
Speaker 2: hits you like a moving train. Nah, facts, bro, that's
18:40
Speaker 2: what happened to Dave.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what happened to Dave Man. Shout out to
18:43
Speaker 1: Dave I'll be trying to find him sometimes, like our
18:46
Speaker 1: social media stuff. Like I said, he's a cool dude.
18:48
Speaker 1: But that was just a funny experience, dog And yeah,
18:52
Speaker 1: but I always think about that when I think about
18:54
Speaker 1: code switching and stuff, and even like just to wrap
18:56
Speaker 1: it up, like my spin on the movie of that
19:00
Speaker 1: would like emphasize that like the code switching you kind
19:04
Speaker 1: of trying to figure yourself out and trying to see
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Speaker 1: where you belong and stuff, because like for me, it's
19:08
Speaker 1: like even deeper, bro, Like he was half black, half white.
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Speaker 1: Who knows if he just could have fanned somewhere to
19:13
Speaker 1: fit in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he was trying to prove he was
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Speaker 2: trying to navigate and see which side do I relate
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Speaker 2: with the most. You could do that without weed, I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you, Hey, he's in.
19:21
Speaker 1: The college area, so he's leaving his hometown. Like I
19:24
Speaker 1: never That's what I'm saying, Bro. Like when we had
19:26
Speaker 1: that experience, Bro, I was so naive and dumb. I'd
19:29
Speaker 1: even think to like like like, Bro, this is a
19:33
Speaker 1: trap house, Like maybe I shouldn't invite him here, you
19:35
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like even like the fact that
19:37
Speaker 1: he came like for college, Like and the type of
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Speaker 1: person he was like, I should have even been like, Bro,
19:43
Speaker 1: this guy is not built for this, you know.
19:44
Speaker 2: What I mean? And only then I think back then
19:46
Speaker 2: things were experimental. There weren't a lot of people around
19:49
Speaker 2: who did it. It could tell you, like today, if
19:52
Speaker 2: you want something, there's someone around you could tell you
19:53
Speaker 2: exactly what's gonna happen when you take it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fact exactly.
19:56
Speaker 2: Back then everything was like, oh I heard about this.
19:59
Speaker 2: No one's really saying let's see. Now It's like, no,
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Speaker 2: if you take this, this is how you're gonna feel.
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Speaker 2: This is what's gonna happen. So for I think the
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Speaker 2: time that he was in I get it. I would
20:09
Speaker 2: if I put myself in his shoes, I'll probably take
20:11
Speaker 2: the same route. I'm not gonna lie. I take the
20:13
Speaker 2: same route now sometimes just in regular navigating through life. Lord,
20:16
Speaker 2: let me put myself in these positions and I'm in
20:18
Speaker 2: there and I'm like, oh, this same for me.
20:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that was funny, dog and man. Just to
20:24
Speaker 1: wrap it up, my final sentiments on this are thanks
20:28
Speaker 1: to Weed, I've had some of the funniest experiences in
20:31
Speaker 1: my life. Bro, even when I wasn't the one smoking.
20:34
Speaker 2: Bro.
20:34
Speaker 1: Just just watching it from Afar. It's hilarious.
20:37
Speaker 2: Man. I have some of those too. Once I remember
20:40
Speaker 2: like one like that, I'm gonna have to share it
20:41
Speaker 2: on here too, bro.
20:43
Speaker 1: And last thing I'm gonna say, Dog, it's just so
20:46
Speaker 1: crazy to me that you decide to smoke weed and
20:48
Speaker 1: then you get locked into a house surrounded by cops.
20:52
Speaker 1: Like it's just it's just a crazy situation to be in, Bruh.
20:56
Speaker 1: And like now thinking like we were clowning him at
20:58
Speaker 1: the time, but now when you think about it, of
21:00
Speaker 1: course he would be scared.
21:02
Speaker 2: In the mirror before he left the house. Like today
21:04
Speaker 2: is gonna be a good night. Everything's gonna go just
21:07
Speaker 2: fine at night. Weed. Yeah, guys are gonna like some
21:12
Speaker 2: subway cookies and we're gonna have a good time. Bro.
21:14
Speaker 1: Them cookies ain't save them that night.
21:16
Speaker 2: But I'd say you that ain't that good