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Episode 300, September 19, 2026 -"Walking talking dead, though we think we're living-We just copy-cat, following the system”
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That's Nas. "Black Zombie."
He wasn't talking about horror movies. He was talking about us.
Walking talking dead. Breathing, but on autopilot. Alive, but not living. Bodies moving through days somebody else designed. And that middle line — "though we think we're living" — is the dangerous part. We think we're alive. We think we're free. We mistake movement for direction.
Then the second line lands harder. We just copy-cat, following the system. Not building. Not questioning. Copying. Following a system we didn't write and don't control.
But that same song has another line…
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