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I Ride the Short Bus to School By Brett Keane · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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The oh, hello, ladies and gentlemen,
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My name is Brett Keene and you're watching, Listening to
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the Brett Keene Show. Every Monday and Friday at 7:00
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PM Central, we do a live show. And I'm also going to be doing a
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show with Mr. Laba Gordon, my Co host.
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Lucifer. Yes.
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So make sure you guys all check that out.
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That'll be fun. And yeah, let's get into it.
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So as many of you know who've been watching my channel for
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years, and some of you that's been around for a few months,
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maybe a couple weeks, you probably come to the realization
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that Brett Keynes had a pretty tough childhood, that I had a
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pretty rough upbringing. I originally lived in Saint
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Louis for a long time and then I ended up moving out into the
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country. And I've been all over the
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place. I've been a lot of places in the
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world too, and not voluntarily. I'll give you an example of
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something as many of you know, whenever I was around between 12
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and 13 years old and I watched my grandmother die from cancer
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at the around the same time, whenever my mother needed a
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support framework or somebody to be there for her, my father
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ended up taking off. My mother was going through a
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really, really hard time and she was a bit rougher than usual and
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her sickness was starting to take hold of her and her
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depression, Well, my father couldn't handle it.
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He took off and he left her with me.
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She was now a single mother. Well, because she lost her
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mother, she eventually ended up having a nervous breakdown.
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She was very, very close with her mother.
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And when I say close, I'm not saying that they got along or
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anything, but she admired her mother and loved her mother.
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But her mother on the other hand did not share the same mutual
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respect back. In fact, her mother was quite
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abusive and mean as hell to my my mother.
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But you know how it is. You know how it is.
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Whenever you have somebody that you care about or you somebody
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you love and they may not feel the same way back.
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And then that moment comes when that person is gone out of your
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life and you don't have the opportunity to say goodbye to
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them or be able to work out any differences.
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They go into the great unknown and you have no closure.
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Well, that's what my mother went through.
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And because of this, a nervous breakdown followed.
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Due to her depression, anxiety, and a lot of other issues, and
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also a terrible divorce issue being abandoned by my father,
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she eventually decided to give me up to the system, basically
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the government, to do something with me and they ended up
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putting me in foster care off and on.
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My mother would improve and then I would get to leave the foster
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care or wherever they put me and then I'd get to come home for a
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little while and off and on. This went all the way up until I
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was just starting to reach 17 years old.
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I really believed for a while there that I was going to end up
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until the point I was 20 years old.
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They told me that I'd become an adult at 18, but if the system
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decided to, they could actually keep you longer.
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And of course, if you did something crazy or stupid or
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something, they could sign your competency away and you'd be
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gone forever. As long as they want to keep
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you. It was very scary.
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So I can't, I can't even describe to you the fear that
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went through me whenever this was going on, not knowing when
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I'm going to see my mom again, Am I ever going to see my dad?
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And of course I knew for a fact I was never going to see my
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grandmother again. So I got put in this foster
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care, and the foster care was mostly a majority black kids
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because in this I was still living around the city area and
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they were all racist. They all hated the little white
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boy. And I got the shit kicked out of
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me quite well many, many times. And then on top of that, because
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the where I was at was right between the line of the
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countryside as well as the city. They didn't have big buses that
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came out that way in that direction.
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So in order for me to be able to go to school, I would have to
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have a little short bus come get me Now this caused a lot of
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problems in itself. It didn't mean I was disabled,
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it didn't mean I was retarded, it didn't mean there was
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something wrong with me mentally.
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But it meant that if you ride on the short bus, it got the
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reputation for if you're on one of these things, then you're
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automatically going to wear that label.
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So I would be driving basically in one of these vehicles and I
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would be surrounded by, you know, about five or six kids
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who, you know, we're either in wheelchairs or who were deformed
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or had some kind of issue or mental issues.
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And then they'd pull up to the front of the school as close as
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they could get to the door for the kids who were in the
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wheelchairs. And there's was no way to be
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able to sneak out of the bus and and get out of this.
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When you stepped off the bus, crowds of kids were waiting on
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the sidewalks for the school doors to pretty much open and
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have access. So everybody knew who it was
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that got off the short bus. And here I am, my big ass,
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coming off of that thing. So that was one of the first
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reasons why people started jacking on me and basically
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giving me shit. Oh look, that's the retard that
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got off the short bus. You know, at this point I was
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just, some people would say that I was hefty for my age.
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Some people would say I was a little small guy and everything.
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I guess I was a little miniature bowling ball.
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According to some people. I was short, but I was also
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rounded. And all that because before my
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grandmother died, she used to cook the greatest meals.
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And boy, I fed well. But after she was gone, all
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those good meals, all those pork chops, all those damn Twinkies,
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all those awesome pork steaks and all that, that just went
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right out the damn window. And it took me until I was about
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1415, before I started losing a lot of weight and I became a a
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thinner kid. But I started getting taller,
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and my mother used to joke that all that weight basically
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dropped down to my feet and basically sprung me up to
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gravity. So I discovered right away I
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learned the concept of tribalism as a child.
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I didn't know such a thing existed before actually really
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getting to school and being a part of other people.
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But it turned out that everybody had a clique.
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The black kids, they hung out in their clique.
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And then you had a bunch of white kids who were into metal
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and rock'n'roll, and they would have the long hair and all that.
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And this particular school I was going to at the time, though, it
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was mostly all African Americans.
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It was mostly black community. And man, I look like a a fucking
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Chucky doll Raggedy Ann or something running around there.
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I totally stood out like a what is it called?
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A sore foot or a big toe or something like that?
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Yeah, something like that. Well, over and over and over.
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It just seemed like the beatings were happening every damn day.
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If you came home or you came back to the foster care, there
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was hittings, beatings, all this kind of shit.
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And finally I managed to, after a while, be able to convince the
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people that I should be moved somewhere else.
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And they thought it would be a good idea to move me out towards
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the country and all that. And then eventually my mother
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ended up moving out of a shelter and then finding finally getting
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herself a place around the same area that they had moved me and
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I got to stay with her for a little bit and then go back into
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foster care. But now I was out in the
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countryside and things totally changed.
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As we're in the city, it was mostly All Blacks and then
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little white me. Now I'm living out in the
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country where it's mostly whites and very few blacks and all
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that, but the tribalism was still there.
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All that crazy shit was still there.
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People still found a reason why they wanted to pick on you, or
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why they wanted to fight, or they wanted to do shit.
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It seemed like no matter where you went in the world, kids
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would always figure out something they were going to be
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Henry about. Either you were too skinny, or
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you were too fat, or you were gay, or you were stupid, or you
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were ugly, or you, you know, just whatever the fuck they
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could come up with. You're too stupid.
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You're too smart. So you're a nerd or a geek.
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Oh, you're one of those metal heads.
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You listen to that fucking devil's music and shit.
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Oh, you're you know, you have a weird smell about you.
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You got a funny look, you got a twitch to your eye.
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Your nose is too big. Your hair is too fucking Gray.
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Why is it Gray? For you're only, like, fucking,
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what, 1314 years old, but you look like Moses.
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What's up with that? Oh man.
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That's probably one of the reasons why nowadays, whenever
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I'm doing my live shows, I'm so snarky and I come up with all
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these different ways. If somebody jumps on me first,
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I'll roast the hell out of them because I've been called so many
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fucking names and shit. I've literally, yeah, I've got
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books worth of content in my head and creativity of how I can
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bring a person's self esteem down like in Mach 4.
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Because of that some things I've.
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I got this really weird problem too, ladies and gentlemen, where
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I've been insulted and kicked so many fucking times while I was
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down that nowadays if I roast somebody I might not even be
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trying to be fucking mean or hateful, but because to me, I
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have like different levels. Do you know what I'm talking
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about? Where you have different levels
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of what do you think is hateful or painful or mean to do to
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another person? And to me, I had the highest
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levels done to me all the time, but I didn't realize that the
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lower levels were just as bad as the highs.
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You know that it's one thing when somebody calls you fat so
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or ass wipe or something like that, and then you know another
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where somebody tells you that your mother sucks cock in hell
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or something like that? Well, unfortunately I'm not able
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to differentiate between what's the most mean assass thing you
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can say. And sometimes shit just flies
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out of my mouth. Don't try to be abusive, don't
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try to be mean. It's just when you've had that
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kind of childhood, I guess it's just some of that fun.
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Shit just comes right out. By the way, I don't know if I'm
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going to be able to continue to record the show because my wife
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warned me that there's a tornado warning on the area and she said
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that she's a little concerned. And I said, honey, don't be
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concerned. God wants to keep me around for
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a little bit longer so I can be tormented, so don't worry about
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it. So one of the things that I this
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tribalism thing that I discovered while I was going to
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school was I remember kids picking on each other and
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beating on each other. And of course I found myself in
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the position, especially whenever I was smaller.
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Towards about 1516, I started getting bigger.
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I started really, really splurred out, went from like 5
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foot tall to 6 foot 4. Nowadays I'm 6 foot five and a
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lot of people are surprised at that.
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Anybody on YouTube or the Internet that's met me in real
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life, they're absolutely shocked because I look like a normal,
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average sized person on video. But in real life I'm pretty damn
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tall and pretty, you know, thick and got some muscle and all
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that. So people are like, whoa, holy
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shit, this guy's this guy's a fucking Sasquatch.
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Holy shit, where'd this ape come from?
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So, but that tribalism thing, getting back to it, I remember
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because I had went through so much bullshit with my family and
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also with the school system. I remember whenever there were
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guys who would be making fun of a girl in the hallway with their
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the cheerleaders and shut they would say, oh look at the
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fucking zits all over her face. She's so ugly.
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You know the type of girls that their hair is kind of raggedy
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and the they got the thick glasses and that, you know, the
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hormones are starting to come out and unfortunately it's
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exploding all over their face. While the people would pick on
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the girls like that and me, I decided something clicked in me
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where I was like, I don't like this.
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I I don't like the way if this is the world then I'm not going
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to participate in it and I'm not going to just sit back and let
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shit like this go on. I knew what it was, what it felt
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like to be hurt and insulted, but something inside of me, and
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I don't see it happen with a lot of other people, but I'm one of
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them type of people where I just can't sit back and let shit go
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down like that. So at this point I'm wearing a
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leather jacket, I wear cheap ass Goodwill Levi's and say, you
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know, hand me down clothes, but I'm looking like a like a
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fucking metalhead and looking like a, you know, something a
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biker would be proud of. And I remember saying to these
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people, why don't you leave her alone and they'd be like, what'd
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you say? What'd you say?
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I said, you heard what the fuck? I said I don't have to repeat
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myself. You keep on fucking with this
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girl and I'm going to knock the fucking stupid out of you.
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So I started getting a bit of a reputation if I seen like a
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nerdy kid getting picked on or I seen a metal head getting spit
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on by a bunch of jocks. Jocks are basically what you
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consider the athletic clique, the people who are in The Who do
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races and shit like that and country crossing type of stuff.
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And some of the people who play football and all that.
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And I became the guy who basically said no, you're not
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going to fuck with this guy, you're not going to fuck with
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this girl. And I would deliberately at
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lunchtime, I would sit next to all the people that I knew were
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being picked on and given shit. And I found myself in a lot of
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times where a lot of these people, they realized they
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couldn't take me one-on-one. So they would get groups and
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they would meet me out at fucking recess or meet me out
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whenever people were taking a break at lunchtime.
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And then they'd want to all basically get their jab or their
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kicking and shit like that. But I didn't mind.
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I didn't mind even if it didn't feel or seem as though I was
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getting the best of them or I did.
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There was some kind of pride in me, the pride to know, because I
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remember when I would be surrounded by people and they
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would attack me. I remember looking around past
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these people and wondering why is it everybody else's is
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standing there? Why is everybody else allowing
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this abuse to happen and nobody's standing up?
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Why am I the only one 'cause I literally was every single
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fucking time. It's like everybody knew that
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this event was going to go down. They knew that a an attack was
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going to happen. They knew that these people
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intended aren't harming me as well as the people that I was
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protecting. And they did nothing.
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They just stood there like they wanted to watch, like it was
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some kind of performance or Gladiator or theatrics or
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something. Sometimes some of these people,
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they weren't even a part of the group, but they wanted to get a
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kick in or a swing too. I can't tell you how many times
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I got to go to the principal's office over that ship.
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And what was really sad is that a lot of teachers would also
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just stand there and let things go.
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It was nothing like the schools nowadays, where if somebody does
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something to somebody, you can get in trouble for assault.
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You can get in trouble, like if you call somebody, make fun of
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somebody because they're gay or make fun of somebody, 'cause
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they're fat. They call it fat shaming.
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And you can literally get suspended just for hurting
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somebody's feelings nowadays. But back then, this was the idea
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of what school was. You know, if you went home and
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you told your mommy and daddy and you said mommy, daddy,
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things are bad, things are mean, People are wanting to hurt me
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and shut they'd be like, well, you're just going to have to
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learn how to fight there, Sonny boy.
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You're going to have to learn how to be tough, because the
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world's tough. You got to be tough.
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Well, that's the attitude. I mean, you all heard your
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grandparents and your parents talk about what it was like when
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they went to school, right? I used to have to walk 20 miles
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from the snow. We didn't have floss.
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We had to use rusty nails on our teeth, and we didn't have clean
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clothes and nice clothes and Nike shoes and Air Jordans.
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We had to spray paint our T-shirt in order to give it a
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look of being something new and fresh.
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You know, we didn't get buses to ride when we were kids.
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We had to ride on comets and meteorites more.
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You know the bullshit stories that parents and grandparents
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tell about the fucking adventures they went through
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whenever they had to go through shut.
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But I will say this, Even in the City Schools I used to go to, I
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don't recall there having to be cops outside the door or a
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security chains and shit are are fucking metal detectors in order
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to find out if somebody's got a knife or a gun on them.
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I mean, it did seem like that's where the school's direction was
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going towards, but it didn't. It wasn't like it is nowadays.
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You didn't hear about school shootings and shit like nowadays
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school shootings all the fucking time back then.
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If somebody was pissed off or they wanted to whoop somebody's
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ass, here's how it went. Well, they'd say 3:00 PM as soon
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as the bell rings, meet me out in the fucking on the
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playground, basically, Or meet me behind the school.
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And then you get behind there and you're either going to find
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your ass whipped or somebody's going to get their ass whipped.
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But nobody shot each other. Nobody stabbed each other.
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They just fucking beat the piss out of each other.
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Blood was all over the place and then the next day would come and
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people would consider if they want to get into it with that
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person anymore. Usually, usually if a really
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major ass kicking stopped, this changed the whole perspective of
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a person. You know once you punch somebody
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in the head a few times they got it in their in their brain that
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ah fuck, I don't want to be hit by that anymore.
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I'll just leave this guy alone, you know.
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And same vice versa. That was how things were dealt
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with. It was kind of like the Wild
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West. Yeah, That's when I started
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finding out about tribalism, that people picked certain
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groups to be in, and sometimes they don't just do it because
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they identify and relate with the person.
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It also depends on who's rich and who's wealthy and who's
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poor, 'cause the rich kids always hang with the rich kids,
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The elites always hang with the elites.
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And then there's the, you know, the underground people, There's
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the, you know, the metal heads, the burnouts, the, the.
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At the time, the rap was kind of a a mystical thing.
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Nowadays, not so much. I'm talking back in the day,
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gangster rap and shit, That was something you had to sneak into
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your room and listen to without your parents hearing it, 'cause
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they would have thought you crazy listening to shit like
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that. Nowadays it's like, OK to listen
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to everything, see everything you want.
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Fuck, I've seen over 1000 murders this this month alone,
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just by flowing through fucking Twitter.
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So the world has changed quite a bit.
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A lot of people have become more desensitized, but I'll be honest
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with you, back then, I could honestly say that it didn't seem
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like most people gave a shit anyway, especially adults.
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I remember, you know, going to mainstream classrooms and you'd
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have like 30 kids and dusk who didn't want to be there.
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And I remember I was diagnosed with hyperactivity and the
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teacher didn't like the extra questions.
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When I went to school, it was pretty much do your fucking
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work, do what I tell you to do, but if you ask a bunch of
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questions then we'll I'll start getting mad type of deal.
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The teacher gets mad at you for wanting to know more shit than
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what is on the program when you do that.
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One of the big popular things that they used to do to kids
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back then that many of you don't know is that if you were
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energetic and you were the type of people that would finish your
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work really quickly, they would send you to the school, would
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advise your parent or the foster care to take you to a doctor or
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a therapist, and they would get your kid on Ritalin or lithium
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or major shit. You ever wonder why Nirvana's
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got a song Lithium for or why people talked about Ritalin?
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It was basically a way to take energetic children who were
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really smart and then dope them up so whenever they come to
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class they'll fucking fall asleep, that they'll be
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zombified. They won't have hardly energy.
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They'll be zapped. And then of course once the kid
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is on the Ritalin and he can't fucking function anymore, then
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the school is going to say, ah, your kid sleeps in class all the
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time. Why does your kids sleep in
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class when they should be doing their work?
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It's like they're totally rebelling.
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Are they not sleeping at home? Is something going on with the
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home type of bullshit? So then suddenly it becomes a
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parenting problem or the foster cares problem.
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Foster care's like, no, you told us to put him on Rudelin.
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You told us to do this. You told us to do that.
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Well, until he gets that figured out, we're going to let him go
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home with you now and we'll see him in a couple weeks.
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You know that type of bullshit. That's what they used to do to
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kids back in the day. They would medicate them.
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They would diagnose you with something and then fuck with
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your education. So if you were a kid back then,
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you had to be smart. You had to just sit back, be
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quiet, answer any questions that the teacher ask you.
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Don't ask any questions, don't ask for extra credit.
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None of that shit. Just shut your fucking mouth, do
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the work and then leave. You know that's all they wanted
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to do. They didn't want any extra.
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No extra level shit are you regard and if you sat in front
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of the principal, don't tell stories, don't explain your
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fucking side or try to justify why a fight happened or why it
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was that you might have got a little shifty in your desk and
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shit. Just say, you know, I made a
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mistake. I apologize and I will do
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better. And then the principal could
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say, well, that's great, that's wonderful.
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I expect good things from you and then send you back to the
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class. Try to tell stories, try to
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justify why you did what you did, try to defend yourself in
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any kind of way. You'll be suspended immediately
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because they didn't want to deal with smart kids.
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They didn't want to deal with that.
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And that's one of the reasons why nowadays we don't have a lot
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of innovators. It's one of the reasons why we
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don't have inventors and creative people.
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If you were a creative person and you were drawing in class or
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making shit, you get in trouble for it.
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You know, the teacher would actually come over and wad up
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your fucking drawing or your or what you were doing, even if you
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didn't have any other work to do, and throw it in the fucking
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trash. None of what you did had any
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value. The teacher wanted you to just
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simply do what they tell you to do, and that was that.
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That was it. So nowadays it's really weird
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because it seems like the opposite.
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Now all of a sudden. Teachers supposedly care about
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your sexuality. They care about your feelings.
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They care about if you feel like you're in a safe zone or not.
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But strangely enough, things have gotten more violent and
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people's brains are all fried now.
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Now everybody thinks that all the evil people in the world are
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now the good people, and that the very country that they live
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in is absolute garbage. Not very many patriotic young
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people anymore. And it's gotten so bad that
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young people don't even want to go into the military anymore,
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served. They don't want to be the best
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they can be. And you know, honestly, I don't
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fucking blame them. Why does anybody want to go in
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the military? Could you imagine that?
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You go to serve in the military because for some reason you've
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been taught that that's a good thing to do?
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To go over to a foreign country, blow shit up, kill a bunch of
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people you don't even know, and then you come back and get spit
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on by the people in your neighborhood and community.
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And then eventually you need to seek therapy because you have
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PTSD and eventually no one will trust you with a home or
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residence and put you out in the fucking street where you will
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live out in the cold. That seems really odd.
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It just it doesn't seem like it has a future, a past or a
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present to it. It just seems like a shut
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sandwich, and I don't know how anybody could be proud or
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patriotic about it. A lot of people have asked me in
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the past. They go, Brett, you seem pretty
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clever. I love some of the snarky
29:55
comments. How did you get so smart?
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You know? Well, I realized whenever
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teachers weren't going to teach me anything that they were just
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going to give me the the program, the diarrhea that
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everybody is looking at. I decided to start reading a lot
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of books myself for whenever I was younger.
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All the way up until about 30 years old, I was reading all the
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fuck time. I just would consume.
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I used to. Besides books I liked, comic
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books. I liked every single thing that
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I could get my hands on. Especially stuff that was
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artistic, not autistic artistic. But I think that my true
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knowledge is there's two types of smart, ladies and gentlemen.
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There's book smart and then there's street smart.
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Street smart is whenever you're a person who's lived in poverty
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before you've you've been poor and you've lived basically in
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the darkness under humanity. You lived on the lower levels of
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the subhumans, as the elite called them, and you've walked
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the streets, you've been through the alleyways, you've walked in
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the shadows and all that shit, So you know how to survive.
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You know, if there was a fucking nuclear apocalypse and you
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somehow managed to survive, you're going to last a lot
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longer than some rich shit who's got everything going for them,
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who's never known what it's like to bleed or sweat?
31:34
And as far as book smarts, well, I was a bit of a hybrid of both
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had the knowledge of the books and I had the knowledge of the
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streets, but that was a decision I had to make.
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Being book smart is not something that you can just it
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can happen. Street smart can happen
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naturally, because if you're on the street, you're going to
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learn what the fuck's up. You can be like a rat walking
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around. You're going to sooner or later
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find your cheese or you will die.
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The book smart yet book smart. You have to choose.
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For that, you have to actually seek the knowledge and the
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information. So for those out there who
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wondered, hey Brad, how did you get this way?
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How'd you get that way? Well, that's how I did it.
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You know, one thing I mentioned towards the beginning of this
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video is having to ride on the short bus whenever I was
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younger. You know one thing I discovered?
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The kids in wheelchairs and the kids who are disabled and the
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kids that people consider Down syndrome are retarded or
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anything. These people are usually the
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most lovely, beautiful people that you'll ever be around.
32:51
The girl with the thick shades and the pimples and shit like
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that, The nerds, all these people that get picked on and
32:58
treated like shit, these are usually the people, if they
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managed to survive their childhood, they're the ones that
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go R&B in the brilliant motherfuckers on the planet.
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And these people who are disabled and have the issues
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that are on the short bus. These are people if you would
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just give them a chance, could be the best friends that you
33:19
ever had. They'll be there for you.
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They might not fully understand everything that you're going
33:26
through or everything you're talking about, but they'll give
33:29
you a smile and they'll even say you seem like you need a hug and
33:35
it'll give you a nice warm hug and they'll make you feel love
33:39
that you may have not gotten from anywhere else.
33:48
I've always said and it's not even.
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It's not even just biblical ladies and gentlemen, but don't
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allow friendship to stop or the connection with another person
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just because of the way somebody looks or the way somebody sounds
34:07
or based upon their IQ. If somebody seems to be trouble
34:14
and they seem to like to cause a lot of trouble, stay away from
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them. But if a person is kind hearted
34:21
and a person's good, then you should try to connect with them
34:24
and not try to find reasons why you ought to hate them or mock
34:28
them or insult them. Be their friend.
34:31
Be close to them. Had I not been moved around so
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many damn times, I probably would have made really, really
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super close connections with all these people.
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Some of those people I still know, but a majority of them.
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Whenever you're a kid, you don't know where you're going and when
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you're going and you don't know if you're ever going to see
34:57
people again. When you move from place to
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place and do shut hell, even kids that are going through a
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normal life, if you change up schools too many times, you
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start getting to a point where the faces all start looking the
35:10
same, the town's all start looking the same.
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Nothing changes. You just kind of living on a
35:19
prayer. Oh, oh, living on a prayer.
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Well, these are some of my scattered thoughts.
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I know I was all over the place. Hopefully you guys got the moral
35:36
of the story and learned a little bit about and it is what
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it is. I will see you guys tomorrow at
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7:00 PM Central. You're all welcome to come in
35:45
and chat with me if you like. And also, PS, don't ask me about
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all the different time frames I've had people question me.
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At what point in time did this happen?
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At this. When you've been through as much
35:59
bullshit as as I have, there's no way to be able to keep track
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of all the things. Alls I can tell you is that the
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experience has happened. I don't have fucking time stamps
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like a video on when everything is I'm almost 50 years old.
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It's hard to be able to keep track of all the all the fucking
36:18
crazy shit that has happened. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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I love you. I'll be good.