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Grounded Show Ep. 47 - The Lonely Lester · The Grounded Show

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What do y'all what is going on? It is I alone by myself,
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no cohorts, no ami goes, just me today, Quincy's traveling, Joe
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is just wrapping up traveling. So it's kind of like a perfect storm of
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imperfectness. But I am here, have no fear. I sent out the
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bat signal just in case, by any chance, they're available right now,
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because sometimes little pockets of time be opening up and they can definitely pop in
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if they so choose. But let's say this just a full transparency. I'm
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listening to Maxwell right now. I've been kind of like in a little funk,
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and I wouldn't even say a funk. I would say I've been kind
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of wrapped up in a lot of different projects, and you get kind of
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lost in this shuffle of life. A lot of stuff is going on,
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but it's a lot of it is unfinished slash, a lot of it is
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in process, so you're not really achieving anything per se. You're just taking
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steps and digging away at the projects. And I'm in like that little weird
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space where like right now I really don't gotten on the show for it with
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either of the projects. So it's a little weird space to be in.
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It's like you're working hard, but you're not really feeling the benefits I guess
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of the work. But that's why we pushed through shout out to the boy
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freddie Man. I had a conversation with him earlier and we were just kind
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of going over different things that have been going on SLASH, you know,
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situations that have been arising SLASH changing, and we were just talking about,
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like, hey, a lot of that work be the difference sometimes of you
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know, you being in a situation you're in and somebody that might be in
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a situation where they're looking at you and they want to be in your shoes.
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They don't know that all that work got you there and you're still not
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done, you know what I mean, especially nowadays with social media where for
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example, with music, you could take a trip to Atlanta and if you
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got money, you can go to a studio. Even that sometimes it's something
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that you post. Some people are like damgn man, he's doing big things,
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X, Y and Z is happening, but you really ain't doing nothing.
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You just took the trip and you spent some money, you know what
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I mean. And that was something that we went through as like we were
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kind of navigating our way through the music, and now, you know,
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something like five years later in this iteration of the music, it's like people
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look at you a certain way and they almost think that it's like you might
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have just discovered something that they don't know yet, and all you need to
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do is kind of give them that secret. But that's definitely not the case.
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It's all about the journey. It's all about the work, you know
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what I mean. Just something that's been coming up a lot, like in
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my personal life, just with people I've been dealing with, and just people
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in my life even you know what I mean, where you kind of can
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see people are aiming for something, but they might not know how to take
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that first step, or they might be thinking a lot about that first step
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when there's no right way to take it. And even if you do take
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it the right way, it's not gonna matter in the long run, you
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know what I mean. You just gotta take that step and take that leap
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and go through that ugly stage. You know, something we talk about on
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this show all the time. You know, you gotta go through that ugly
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stage. There's just no way around it. You know, somebody that is
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an Olympic diver. You see them at the top of that platform and hitting
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this crazy spin and hitting the water and it barely makes the drop. But
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you ain't seeing the belly flops, you know what I mean. You ain't
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seen the eight hours in the community pool where they just shriveled up. But
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they just keep working to keep building that muscle memory and they keep you know,
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building those muscles period just to be able to perform, you know.
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And it's something that people find I wouldn't say they find it fascinating, but
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it's definitely something that people kind of overthink and maybe make it bigger than what
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it is. But most of the time, the difference between people that do
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stuff and don't do stuff is the people that do stuff actually do it,
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you know what I mean. It sounds kind of simple and dumb, but
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it always goes back to something I always think about and I mentioned on the
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show before, but it's something that was really impactful once I realized that later
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on, and I always forget yet things and I don't even remember who told
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me this, but the actual idea stuck with me so much, you know
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what I mean. But when I was first, not when I first started
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making music because I've been making music a long time. I used to rap
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before. I was actually like in a little rap group. We got signed
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to a hometown record label. We ended up opening up for three to six
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Mafia at the House of Blues, and you know, that was a cool
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little ride and there was a lot of twists and terns with that. We
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learned a lot of different things about you know, business and kind of seeing
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those red flags, you know what I mean. Fast forward to now and
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you know you still kind of deal with that same kind of stuff. But
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back to what I was saying with the music thing, It's like somebody told
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me a long time ago when I asked kind of like advice on you know,
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things you should do to kind of move forward, good habits, things
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like that, and they told me keep recording, you know, And it
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was something that at the time seemed very dismissive. It seemed like they was
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trying to, you know, brush me off and tell me some generic thing.
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But all this time later I really understood what they really meant, just
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from the point of view of like, if you're in the lab cooking,
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creating, and you're consistently doing that, that's how you learn how to break
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through those ruts. That's how you learn the tricks. That's how you learn.
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All the stuff you're looking for is in the work, you know what
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I mean. And that's kind of what the concept of, Hey just record,
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that's anything else. Anything you're trying to do, you're trying to get
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better out of. Do it more practice, spend more time in it,
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let it consume you, you know what I mean. That's another thing too
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about just learning things and getting better at things and being a type of person
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that's going to push forward and grow in what they do is actually doing it
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and taking the time and creating that habit in your self of actually putting the
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time aside actually being able to have the energy to push through because perfect example,
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shout out to Unk when me and him first kind of locked in and
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you know, he saw something and what I was doing where he extended his
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hand. It was something where it was like, hey, I want to
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work with you, but I got this time, and the time is like
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almost overnight, you know what I mean. I got a family, I
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got a business, you know what I mean. So this is the kind
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of thing where it's like, dagn I'm gonna have to be doing them kind
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of hours. But it's like either you do it or it doesn't get done,
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you know what I mean. The opportunities be popping up, people just
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don't want to recognize them as opportunities because they're not ideal, you know what
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I'm saying. And it's like, you got you gotta make those sacrifices.
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You gotta know that anytime you trying some extra, it's going to be extra
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work, you know what I mean. Nobody's ever just going to get a
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job and work nine to five and then come home and chill and do something
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extraordinary, you know what I mean. It's not the nine to five that
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will limit you or put you in a box. It's yourself. It's the
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crazy thing about work to me, is like and one of the reasons why
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I was never the type of person. I was real big on school.
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And man, I didn't go to college. I didn't even graduate high school.
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I got a gd like a couple of years after. And you know,
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it's not for lack of knowledge, and it's not for lack of seeking
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knowledge. It's just right or wrong. I just didn't see any value in
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it, you know what I mean. And the idea and later on in
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life, I really learned what I didn't see value in was the followers that
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sometimes associates with that not saying that everybody that goes to school or whatever is
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a follower, but just because you go to school doesn't mean that your path
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is already paid for you. You know what I mean. It's a lot
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of people that go to school, you know, have a plan for their
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life and they kind of get in this zone or rhythm where they don't think
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about what they're doing anymore. It's just like this is what I'm think,
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this is what I think I should do, and it kind of stops there.
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And that kind of thing is like where it kind of drives me crazy
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seeing it from the outside looking in with certain people where it's like, Dan,
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you just work, you consume by work, you come home, you
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don't get enough energy to do anything with your family, your significant other,
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boyfriend, girlfriend, kids, whatever it is, whoever you got in your
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life. The work takes so much away from your actual life where the work
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becomes your life, you know what I mean. You see it with so
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many people, and you know a lot of people have that mindset of like,
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oh, I gotta do it because I gotta provide this is and that,
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and it's like nobody's saying it donna work. All I'm saying is figure
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out how to feed yourself in that process and figure out how to make your
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life, slash your situation, make it work for you, you know what
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I mean. I'm gonna look this up because I've seen it online and I'm
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not sure if it's one hundred percent true, but it's something I saw about
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working that kind of not necessarily opened my eyes. But it's a good example
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here it is. It's a good example of what I'm talking about and kind
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of like my concept behind it. So by now, a lot of people
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have heard about Jamie Fox, you know, prayers up. They said that
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he went through some serious health problems and there was a lot of different things
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coming out. He was in the middle of shooting a movie. He had
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to stop as an emergency, you know, and just really focus on his
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health because it was something that they say that he almost passed away from,
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you know, the movie. Just got a stunt double to finish the stuff
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that he was doing. They're own a schedule, you know, They've got
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a whole bunch of money riding on that and Jamie Fox, being almost dead
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doesn't stop the train, you know what I mean. And I say that
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just to say the idea that, you know, there's so many people that
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give so much to their jobs and so much to a corporate lifestyle, or
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they give so much importance to their career advancement that it becomes something that kind
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of they neglect and put to the side the things that make them human,
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you know what I mean. You gotta figure out a way to balance that
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the right where you gotta figure out a way to be in a situation where
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your work doesn't define you. And when I say work, I mean your
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literal job, like the things that are trivial in your day that are just
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things that you have to do because it's part of the whole system that we're
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all in, you know what I mean. And it's just sad a lot
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of times to see people kind of just living their lives and they're just kind
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of letting it, you know, they're just kind of letting the days float.
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You know what I mean. Time is it's something everybody knows. But
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obviously time is something that you can't get back. It's time is something you
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can't create. You know what I mean, no matter what you find valuable,
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time is always going to be that thing that's going to be the most
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valuable because even when you're even when you're working, your time is worth more
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money the more skill you have, which means that the time of somebody that
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has a very strong and smart mind that can get things done, that can
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create, that can produce, that can move companies along, the time of
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that person is worth so much that they're going to pay you more, I
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mean a crazy amount more than somebody that's going to be doing a lower level
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job, you know what I mean. And that's something that a lot of
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people also lament with, like people working hourly jobs. It's like they want
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to get paid more at certain jobs, but it's like you're doing something that
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anybody can come in here and do you know what I mean. If you're
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looking to get paid more, you need to figure out a way to add
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value to yourself and to be valuable in whatever situation you're in and have an
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actual skill that you can bring to the situation. And that's the part of
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the schooling thing that I missed as far as my thinking as a kid,
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which obviously wasn't one hundred percent the right thinking. But you know, going
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to school and learning these things and actually using it to your benefits, to
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add value to you later on, that's what you should be thinking about when
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it comes to school. When it comes to these jobs. I mean,
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I've heard of people that got jobs that, you know, you can go
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to work and get paid to learn how to let's say, you know,
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fix things around the house. You know, if you're a maintenance man,
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you can go, you know, go to school to be an electrician and
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become an electrician and basically you're getting paid to figure out these situations that whenever
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you need them done for you, you have those skills and you don't have
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to pay nobody else. And not only are you making money doing something for
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other people, but you're saving that money doing it for yourself because you're not
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having to pay it to anybody because you already have that skill. And I
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just find it super valuable. I've always been the type of person that wants
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to learn anything I can learn, as far as like doing things with my
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hands, as far as like building, fixing, anything that has to do
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with tools, even just having tools. I've always been the type of person
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that if anybody offers me like, Yo, I got this extra two,
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I got a new one. Do you want it? I'll take it?
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You know what I mean? Because the more tools you have, the more
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options you have to just get things done, you know what I'm saying.
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I know I'm kind of rambling right now, but this is like one of
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them shows where I can kind of just ramble on uninterrupted because I'd be interrupting
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myself even sometimes. Like I was listening to last week's episode and I was
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trying to cut the clips to put them on my Instagram and the TikTok and
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everything, and I just couldn't find like a clip where I could just cut
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like fifteen seconds or something, because every two seconds, I'm like starting to
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talk about something else or remembering something or cutting to another part of the story.
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And it was super frustrating even just hearing myself. So I'm gonna try
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to be better at that, because if it was frustrating for me to listen
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to, I know I had to be frustrating for people to listen to.
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But going back to last week, last week we had the episode when we
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talked about the barbecue that we had for just to get together, and we
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ended up turning it into Quincy's video shoot for Good Days. He's doing real
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good well with that song and it's one of his better performance songs, and
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it's definitely a vibe that we want to hear more of from him because it
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definitely like just fits them perfectly. And man, that story about the barbecue
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was just so hilarious and it was something that everybody that was involved just Man,
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hearing that podcast was just ridiculously funny, and just hearing from the people
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that was there afterwards was hilarious. And I'm hoping we can do a lot
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more events just for the podcast and for the people that listen, for the
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people that have been listening, for new listeners, even just stuff that we
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can do for people that don't listen but can benefit from, you know,
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the type of event that we put on, because you know, we want
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to kind of build like this community type of vibe with the show, and
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it's something that hasn't really been cultivated yet, but I know we're on the
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right path because what we're talking about and the way that we've been structuring things
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in a way that we've been rolling has been how I've hoped that it would
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go. You know what I mean, so as things un roll and as
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we start, you know, kind of expanding and figuring out what we really
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want to do with this, it's going to get a lot doper and there's
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gonna be a lot more exciting things coming and exciting as far as like just
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interactive and community type things, you know what I mean. With the podcast,
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we're coming up on fifty episodes. We've actually already dropped fifty actual audio
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recordings because some shows we've split in two, so they were technically two different
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podcasts, but it's really one show. So we're past fifty actual episodes that
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are out. But as far as like official titles, you know, counting
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the one, the Part one and two is as one episode, we're episode
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forty seven, so three episodes away from fifty episodes, and like I said,
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we've had part ones in two, so we're already past a year.
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And the fact that we're pasted a year is so dope, just because the
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idea that we've been so consistent with this and have rolled it out the way
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we have and it's been growing and then by no means is it at some
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crazy level, but it's definitely been growing, and get into a dope level
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there's been a good amount of people that are tapped in and tuned in.
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We're not just speaking into the void, which is super dope. But more
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than all that, it's just the fact that this is kind of like the
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last thing on everybody's plate right now, you know what I mean. Like
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Quincy's got a lot of stuff going on with his engagement. You know,
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he's still pretty fresh with his move to Georgia. So even though he's settled
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in, he's still not one hundred percent settled in, if it makes sense,
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you know what I mean. He's not so acclimated into the community.
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He's not you know, one hundred percent set up in his place where how
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he wants to be. And just the fact that he's juggling that with also
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a lot of different professional changes that are happening in his life and a lot
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of goals that he's trying to cross off as far as going up in his
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job and just you know, becoming a professional with a portfolio and assets and
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basically like the dynasty that he's trying to build for his future family and family
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now is super dope. And just the plan he has with that is super
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dope. And just how he kind of sees his legacy as being kind of
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like the foundation of the future. His family is really dope, and it's
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a big task. And I say that to say all that stuff he's doing,
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he's still making sure that the podcast gets done, you know what I
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mean. And that's something that like, there's people that all they want to
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do is start a podcast, you know what I'm saying, and can't find
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the time to record an episode a week or two episodes a week, you
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know what I mean. You got people like Joe that's you know, traveling
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like crazy for either work or just other stuff that he got going on.
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He's in the Las Vegas time zone, so he's three hours behind us.
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So just imagine just the time difference how much that effects what's going on.
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Obviously he has his everyday regular life. He's in the middle of basically working
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out the logistics of a move back from Las Vegas to Florida that he announced
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last time that he's coming back. He's in the middle of I don't I
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can't even say what it is because I don't know what I can say.
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But the types of projects Joe works on is just like and then the job
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that he does and everything is like super like advanced kind of stuff and stressful
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projects that sometimes the last six months, you know what I mean, it's
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you know, a team of like twenty people working on something every day for
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six months. I mean the amount of stuff this guy got on his plate
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and still finding the time to do the podcast. And again there's people that
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all they want to do is start a podcast and can't find the time to
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record their podcast episodes. So, you know, I like to associate myself
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with people like that because I'm the type of person that I just can't stand
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sitting around and hearing excuses, you know what I mean. I don't like
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dreaming, I don't like giving excuses anything that doesn't have action attached to it,
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I don't like being associated with it. I'm the type of person that
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I'd rather do something wrong because we jumped into it and at least learn how
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to do it better than next time. Then I'm not the type of I'm
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more like that than the type of person that's gonna sit and plan forever and
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either not do it or finally get it done years later, you know what
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I mean. And at the end of the day, I say that to
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basically just say which is the overall theme of what I'm talking about today is
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get up off your ass and do something. At the end of the day,
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all you got is this life, and the time that you spend is
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gone. The time that's coming. You don't know how long it is,
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how much it is, but you have to cherish it and it's all you
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got. All you got is the time that's coming, and you don't even
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know how much that is. Think about how profound that is. There's so
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many people that bank on I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do this, Nah
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man, you banking on something that you have no clue about. You have
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to make it happen. There's no excuse. You can wait for the perfect
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moment. It's never gonna happen. You're just gonna keep waiting. You can
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wait, you can't wait, you know what I'm saying. I could lay
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out all the scenarios, but realistically, you just can't wait. You gotta
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make it happen now. And just be realistic with yourself. If you realize
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that you're not the type of person that's gonna do X, Y and Z,
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at least do X you know what I mean, figure out how to
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at least do a little bit of figure out how to stimulate your mind and
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give your life more meaning than just the meaningless drivel that has been given to
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you by society. At the end of the day, this whole go to
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school, get a job, save up for it, to all that that
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wasn't even how I mean, that's how we live in right now, and
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this iteration of life. It's not even how people are living on other continents.
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It's not even how people are living in other countries. It's not how
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people were living in other times. This is how we're living right now because
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that's the construct that was put before us. The idea that you're going to
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dedicate your life to a lifestyle that might be obsolete in five years is crazy
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to me. It's just nuts, and I will never understand it. Work
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is a means to an end, regardless of how much you even, let's
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say I end up being able to one hundred percent, just just make my
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money off music and that's it. Right at the end of the day,
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working in music is a means to an end. What I really want to
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do is make timeless music that will stick around for centuries to come. And
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the same thing Quincy's trying to do as far as being that first generation in
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my family that sets up the dynasty for years to come. Even that and
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even my musical goals have nothing to do with working as a music aian for
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a living. What you do for a living is just you working to satisfy
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what you're really here to do. So remember that, always give that extra
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effort to think every single day what am I doing? And sometimes and I'm
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gonna tell you, like this, it's not something that you're gonna ask yourself
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that one day and it's gonna just reveal itself to you, or you're gonna
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feel clear minded because of it. Because there's plenty of days where I wake
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up and I'm like, what am I doing? And I have no answer
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to it. For whatever reason. That day, I might just be super
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down on everything that I've been working on. I might hear the last five
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songs I did and just the weight my ears work that day, they're all
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trash. I wonder like why am I even trying to sing? Like this
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is garbage? Like I have those days. Everybody has those days, man,
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Like, don't don't get caught up in romanticizing things and forget that we
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all people, We all humans. At the end of the day, it's
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the same idea of people working in fast food, and we talked about it
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on the show before. No offense to those people, ain't nothing wrong with
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it. But at the end of the day, when you get so caught
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up in your job that you're treating people like shit just because that's the corporate
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policy, or you know, you're thinking about hitting your target numbers of how
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many burgers you're supposed to make in an hour, like all that stuff is
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irrelevant. You're a person first. We all people. First, satisfy the
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person, and you satisfy your soul. That's so important, and people lose
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that so much and then they wonder why they feel the way they feel is
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because you've lost your soul. You're not a person anymore. You're just a
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unit, you know, running through every day and just being a statistic in
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the sense of you're just one of the stats in the news. You know
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what I'm saying. Just as far as you know, eighty or six percent
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of Americans smell like cod as cheese, you're just one of them people,
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you know what I'm saying. If you're not spending your time to really build
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yourself and understand how to satisfy your soul. You're wasting your time. And
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I strongly believe that. You know what I mean. It's something that has
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been on the forefront of my mind for a lot of years. It's something
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that I don't necessarily talk about with a lot of people, and I don't
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I don't necessarily talk with a lot of people period. I'm just not a
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people person. It sounds crazy because you know, I make music and I'm
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posting every day. I promise you, if I didn't make music, I
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would not have social media because before I started singing, I didn't have social
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media. I didn't have Facebook, I didn't have Instagram. My wife had
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it. I was just had be just being off the grid. And I
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still am happy being off the grid because I'm not big on things that ain't
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real, you know what I'm saying. And at the end of the day,
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this phone right here, when I put it upside down on my desk,
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it has no bearing on my life. If it dies, that's it.
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It has no bearing on my life. And the crazy thing is when
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it's not dead and it's fully charged and you know I'm getting notification, it
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still has no bearing on my life. There's so much more to satisfying and
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fulfilling your soul then people's acceptance, people's company even I mean, that's a
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whole another show. But man, I really, I really feel like there's
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so much value and spending time I'm alone to the point where you're just getting
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so in tune with that little voice inside your head that you're just kind of
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operating on a level that people You'll notice people don't understand it, Slash.
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They won't want to accept it because they don't want to accept that you're at
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peace, I promise you. And it's not a thing of like people are
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haters or all this bullshit that you hear, like, oh, they don't
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want to see you win, Like, no, it got none to do
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with none of that. It has everything to do with the fact that everybody's
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living inside their own head. Everybody is their own person, and at the
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end of the day, they care about themselves and there is nothing wrong with
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that. It's wrong when their selfishness affects other people in a negative way.
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But at the same time, if somebody's selfishness is affecting you in a negative
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way but they're not actually doing anything to you, then it's the problem is
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with you. You haven't found that piece in yourself to say, Hey,
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this person don't want to rock with me no more, this person don't got
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time for me no more. This person in their mind they elevated to another
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space and they grew out of me. You can't take none of that personal,
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and you can't feel like that's like a form of disrespect or anything like
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that. That person is doing whatever's best for them, because at the end
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of the day, they lay their head down on their pillow and have their
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thoughts. They're not laying your head down on your pillow and having your thoughts.
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You know what I'm saying. It's just it's so simple, but it
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takes so many people. I don't know, man, I know a lot
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of people that still don't get that. I mean so many people. I
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mean now, I would say nine out of ten people don't get that.
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And when you're going through every day and kind of seeing that, what are
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you supposed to do? I mean, to a certain point, I don't
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even like to waste my own breath. So you know, a lot of
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people will find me real quiet. A lot of people find me like kind
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of like to myself. I have like a certain kind of vibe to me
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that people might feel like it's like standoffish or like, you know, they
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might read it the wrong way, And honestly, what it really is is
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I just have the energy of I'm looking for a specific type of frequency slash
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vibe from the people I interact with. And if I don't see that,
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and I know there's certain elements in there that's gonna not be optimal for me
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to be operating at my best rocking with you, then we're not rocking.
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And I honestly don't feel like I owe anybody in explanation for that, because
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at the end of the day, it goes back to what I just said.
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We live in our lives and we have an obligation to ourselves to feed
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our soul in the healthiest way possible, and it's not gonna happen if we're
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worrying about other people and being lazy. And you know, that's pretty much
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it, man. I just I've been wanting to kind of do like one
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of these episodes by myself, just to kind of get these thoughts off for
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a little while, but I didn't want to force it either, you know
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what I mean. I knew. It's been something that's been on my mind
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that I've wanted to talk about and today just kind of happened to be that
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perfect storm of me being able to execute it. And if you made it
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this far, man, thank you for listening. And I hope people could
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kind of take away something from what I'm saying, you know, if y'all
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got any any time, or y'all just want to leave some comments and just
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kind of talk about it on the next episode, like what you kind of
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took away from this. Make sure y'all hit us up, man. We're
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33:15
this stuff for the people that need it, but we need to know y'all
33:19
out there, So make sure y'all tap in. Signing off for my dog
33:23
Joe and my dog Quincy. It's your boy lest Alone, Sylvesta, lest
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Alone, because I'm alone today I got a new song out called Imagine.
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It's a Delaeto cover. It's been getting a lot of dope feedback. Please
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make sure y'all check it out. I got Comfortable that I released before that.
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That one's been getting a lot of love. Shout out to the YAMS
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playlist, Shout out to Dante. They just threw that on there. Man,
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I'm super hype because that playlist is so dope and so legit, and
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it's just it's one of those things where it's like that hard work that I'm
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talking about, Like, that's the kind of thing that you get to.
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That kind of shows you like you're doing the right thing and you want a
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right path, so stay better.