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Today is the release of Cowboy Carter by Beyoncé! Also, ain't Diddy in some hot ass mess... smdh 😩
The Infographics: Sinking Car - Here's What You Need To Do
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Speaker 1:Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Gather them Podcast. I'm your host, jerome, and we're back for the last week of March and I can't believe it's spring, because it's been. At least here in Philly. It's been pretty chilly still. We had like one really good, nice week and that was it. I think that April might be better, because it's usually, I feel, like when things start to warm up, but again, we don't really get a spring anymore, like global warming, blah, blah, blah, all of that. So, yeah, but I'm back.
Speaker 1:Today is, of course, beyonce Day. We will talk about that later on in the media lab. Um, and some other stuff. I got some other stuff planned as well. Uh, what else we got on the on the on the agenda? Um, let's see, wait a minute, hold on, look at me, I'm prepared, Not pulling up the shit, all right?
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it's been like a very interesting week, honestly, because, first of all, I forgot that it was spring break, uh, for the kids. Um, I knew that easter was coming up and that good friday was coming up, but I've just like, I feel like the beginning of the year is such a clusterfuck, uh, after christmas and new year's, um, like the beginning of, you know, our, I guess, new Year and, you know, around the world, you know, we all agree, I guess, that the New Year begins. And I say we, as in the people that control the calendar I don't know what those people are, you know, control the calendar. I don't know what those people are, you know, I don't, I don't know. Anyway, I don't really think that's the beginning of the new year. I think that it really does start in April, because I feel like the, or at least like, yeah, I think April, because I feel like it almost like aligns with the way in which the seasons work. I think I talked about this before, but just the way in which the seasons work and the way in which, like death, the death and dead of winter would not signify to me a new year, the spring would, I think. Like that to me makes more sense. So I don't know. And then I also think about how in other countries, like the shit is, you know, kind of different from ours, because if you live south of the equator, it's like winter right now or like fall, I guess, becoming winter. So I don't know. That's just my thought about it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, again, this week was just really weird because like no one was really like around at work like the providers a lot of the providers were all schools were closed. It was pretty easy getting to work all week. There wasn't a lot of traffic or commotion. Dreading that for next week because I know it is going to be hell getting back in anywhere across the city, honestly. So I'm just kind of enjoying this low key vibe this week and I'm really embracing it Like at work. I'm doing kind of the bare minimum because I know it's going to be pretty busy, like I'm trying to get straightened up.
Speaker 1:I throw a lot of paperwork out and, um, just kind of sorted things on my desk, sorted things on my desktop. Um, I still need to go through a couple more things like my computer files and, uh, throw some stuff out, get rid of things, because I just been uh stockpiling paperwork and it's not like it's bad. Like you know, those social workers, like when you see like in the movies, like how those social workers have those piles and piles of folders and files, like it's not like that for me and my coworkers maybe social, like the people that have the title social worker, but for me, being like a navigator, it's not that bad. But I do have to like print out stuff and I like to save documents and you know all of that good stuff, so that people you know that people have their shit together. Because I think is I hate when I throw something out myself when I, you know, need it or realize I needed it.
Speaker 1:And then I hate when it's like hard to get something from a patient and then you throw it out, you don't make a copy, you don't upload it to your computer, anything like that. It's like what the fuck? So I try to like upload a lot of shit that I know is going to be really important later on for a person, but the minute something is complete or approved, I just be like all right, trash, that's done, yeah. So I realize I don't know I'm thinking about this as I'm looking at other opportunities. I'm just kind of like I don't know if I could work, do a job that's solely in person anymore, because it's something about the way in which and I feel like I'll talk about this a little bit more when that time comes but like it's just something about the way in which social workers get treated at jobs and how we just are all on top of each other all the time and the rooms be like real little, and it's just like I don't understand how we can't have space or we can't get like dividers or we can't I don't know relocate or something like in you know, our health system or health systems, because I worked in multiple health systems where you know the space is tight or it looks crazy and I want to navigate into a space I think that is that allows at least remote some of the week, like at least. Like at this point it's starting to feel like two, like at least two days a week, preferably three, to be in person at an organization, because it's just too much.
Speaker 1:And the thing is, traffic is crazy in the city. It's not like you live in East Jablip somewhere where there's a parking lot and you don't have to pay to park there, or like. That's how it was when I worked at lower bucks hospital. Um, it wasn't like there was a parking lot, that like it was one up there where you could just park for free. You'd have to pay for parking. But the fact that, like here in Philly, like places will like charge you literally $13. Like employers will charge you like $13 to like $30, $20, whatever they, you know, decide they want to charge, um, just so that you can park like get to work, like.
Speaker 1:First of all, you're already in a situation where you're traveling is really busy, um, traffic's crazy, everything like construction's happening everywhere, everybody on the road is everywhere, can't drive and God forbid it fucking rains or snows. Like you, and I don't like the idea of having to like plan extra time to go to work, because commuting is already a fucking headache. So a lot of what I've been doing lately has just been when things look crazy outside or if I notice that the expressway looks bad or, like you know, getting into West Philly looks bad, I just end up taking or end up walking nine times out of 10 because it's not that far, like it's really not that far to get from my house to my job. I think in the summertime that's going to suck if I have to do that, but I am hoping that you know, some things happen and move and shake and that'll fix that situation. So, um, but yeah, that's what I was thinking about.
Speaker 1:Lately I'm just like so repulsed and drained by like navigating, it is just like through the city. It is like so much work and I think people think that like everyone was all before, like oh, safer at home and like you know you can do work remotely and blah, blah, and it's like now everyone wants us to go back into these jobs because they have all these offices that they can't do anything with. When I'm like y'all really could just fix the homelessness problem in the city by creating more, even if it was like apartments or condos, duplexes, whatever for people that are homeless, and it's like low income housing, like I really don't understand the reasoning behind just not doing that, or creating like more programs in the city that are like funded to actually like help people instead of like these big corporations that don't do anything, or these you know people that create these like high rises that you know no one can live in except for people from maybe New York city. It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just be so disgusted with the city sometimes and I I'd be ready to get the fuck out of here daily. Um, I came in to work on Monday, which I usually don't do. I went in to work on Monday, which I usually don't do, and that was fucking draining as fuck. I love having Mondays work from home because it just makes the weekend feel a little longer, even though it's not longer, but it's like a way to ease yourself back into the work week. Um, but I had to work from home on Wednesday, um, cause I had some stuff going on.
Speaker 1:Um, but, yeah, sometimes I'd be thinking, no, I'd be like I don't be feeling strong enough to survive this world, like everything just be feeling so wow, like it's just so much. Um, I guess I'll talk about that too little bit later. Um, cause I have only two nudes topics I really want to talk about, but they're very like big topics, um, and so I just want to kind of talk about those a little bit later on. But, girl, I'd be like I don't even know, I'd be like it'll just be feeling too exhausting to survive sometimes because everything is just like so underhanded and messy and insidious, like that just is so scary to me, like to live in a world where you can't trust the people in charge, you can't trust your neighbors, you can't trust there's just so much like mistrust and and you know the system and and the you know civilians that it's just like mental gymnastics just to get from day to day. So I don't know, we're going to talk about that a little bit, um, but on the bright side, I will say two things to. Well, I can't say one of the things. There's actually like four. No, I'm going to say this. I can't say like for two of the four things that happened this week. I'm like the math was just not math. And I can't say two of the four things that happened this week, cause I'm still kind of holding on a little bit and just like not trying to put all my eggs in one basket and get really hype about it or whatever. But I will say um, actually it might be five things. I also can't talk about that either. So, anyway, um, but it has to do with the podcast, so that's a good thing. Um, it does have to do with the podcast, so that's a good thing. It does have to do with the podcast, so look out for that to come. Yay, congratulations to me. Clap for me.
Speaker 1:I was just like I can't do this anxiety thing and I'm like so tired of living in this state of constantly switching between medications to figure out which works, what works, when I know what actually does work and what does help me. And, as we like, a lot of times when I'm like high stress and I'm feeling crazy, if I like pop an edible or, you know, hit some concentrate, whatever tincture, whatever, I feel so much more relaxed and I'm thinking to just start doing lower dose THCs and just looking more and trying to diversify it a little bit, because I was doing that a little bit like back in January Well, kind of like before, I would say between January to last October like I started to look at different strands. Like I started to look at different strands I still don't know everything Like I don't know how people retain information in a way in which that's another sidetrack. But like the fact that Purple Kush, pineapple Express, girl Scout, like all of these things, I'm like how would you know what this? Like I would need a fucking chart and that's what I might have to do is I might have to make a chart and just refer to it, because I can't keep that information in my brain. I'm not that deep into it. I could see it maybe if I was selling or something, but I'm not even doing that. So you know, and it's illegal in Philly to do it. So you know, not saying like no shade, like listen, I appreciate the folks that do, you know, get your bread, but I mean, and it's not legal to do in Philly.
Speaker 1:But this is the whole point. Like, the whole point is just that at the end of the day, I want to feel more balanced and I feel like dealing with my anxiety and how bad it's been lately, to the point where I'm not sleeping, I'm ruminating constantly, I'm not like I feel paralyzed, like between that, my ADHD and depression, like I feel like I can't function to my best ability because the medication, you know, is just temporary, like it's one day, one hit of you know, dopamine for an extended release with ADHD meds and then I'd be feeling like the anxiety med I'm on isn't like the one that's supposed to boost the depression, the SSRI isn't working, it just is like it's too much and I'm just tired of switching between meds. I really want to do the ketamine therapy thing, like I really would love to do that. I would need a therapist and I would need more money to afford ketamine treatment. But if I had more money I definitely would. Or when I get more money, I definitely want to invest in that and try to reestablish therapy care and what else. Reestablish that Because it's so much.
Speaker 1:There's like all the benefits I kind of talked about on a previous episode, about how it creates these new neural pathways and all of that jazz that normal you know medicine doesn't do. It just creates more chemicals. Those you know create more chemicals in your brain so you can function. But I just get tired of it. I get tired of like taking meds and like experimenting and you know being on one and then coming off of it and um, I don't, I mean withdrawal is pretty bad too like I don't really like dealing with that. I know for me, like withdrawal just makes me feel like I get sick, um, and I start to feel like having more bad days than not. So it is is like helping in some ways. It just doesn't help with everything and I just need to find a balance and I feel like medical marijuana is that. And so, yeah, we're going to see how that girl go and we are.
Speaker 1:Also, I hate when people be texting you and you just be like stop, and they don't like their little companies and stuff. You'd be, they'd be texting you and you'd be like stop, and they just still be texting like what the fuck is wrong with y'all? Um, also, the other thing I realized is that my, I realized, oh, my god, I got so excited and this kind of motivated me and pushed me through the week. But I got really excited about the fact that I have like 37 more weeks until I can apply to getting my license for, or start the process anyway of getting my license for my LCSW, which is feels like a dream come true, because I've been working on this bitch for like literally since I graduated, in a way like not at first, not the first year and a half, but I definitely started, um, like I graduated in 2019 and then I started in 2021 and it's been on and off supervising me and my coworkers for free, for individual and group soup.
Speaker 1:It's just like amazing, like it almost feels faded and I'm starting to even I know, I know I complain a lot and I really have to work on that but I'm starting to really, I think, understand a little bit better the way in which the universe functions or how life functions and manifestation and you know, karmic energy and like all of those things. But again, it's my anxiety, like it's my anxiety that won't just shut the fuck up, and it's the ADHD that like paralyzes me, like or that function of you know, adhd is like the thing that paralyzes me and keeps me stagnant and not feeling like motivated or inspired sometimes, or reaching for like hits of dopamine, or reaching for like hits of dopamine. So I really do want to go on a social media cleanse. I don't know how that's going to work with like the podcast, but or at least I'll just, maybe I'll just like cut back or like something. I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I have a couple more days to think about it, cause I really just want to cut off and just not even focus on social media, to be honest, or, like you know, doing a bunch of like internet searches or certain like reading comments, cause comments have just been like so nasty and bad, like I feel like even the comments about the quiet on Set, nickelodeon, the Dark Side of TV documentary.
Speaker 1:I feel like people are just so negative about the things that were said and that have come up, insightful in how I think people either received it or didn't really process it fully. You know what I mean. So it's kind of like one of those things where I feel like people are just kind of passing judgment. And I finally watched the rest of it with like drake bell and uh, josh peck their relationship and why josh never said anything. And then I saw something today about keenan uh, yeah, it was keenan thompson um, about his experience, which you know. He was saying like I didn't realize all this stuff was happening and people were just like, well, you knew something. It's like, first of all, he's a fucking kid. Like what the fuck are you talking about? Like he was a kid at the time when all of this was happening. Like y'all act like he was gonna do something. Um. So again, like looking at comments like that have just made me like really frustrated, um, and I feel like I can't keep.
Speaker 1:There's only so much you can take, like in terms of hearing everyone's thoughts, opinions, like social media is a place where you just hear thoughts and opinions all day, and a lot of them are stupid, a lot of them are shallow. A lot of them are stupid. A lot of them are conspiracy theories that don't really make sense. A lot of them are accusatory or victim blaming and it's just like like I don't know, I just be feeling like some of y'all just need to get shot. I probably am not supposed to say that, but I don't care like.
Speaker 1:I just kind of feel like, unless some people get pew pew, we're not going to move anywhere as a society. Like some people just got to get like really shook in the fuck up anywhere as a society. Like some people just got to get like really shook in the fuck up or something for something to actually change, because it's getting really ridiculous that we're, in 2024, dealing with the same issues we've been dealing with like literally for the past two decades, going on two and a half Like. That's insane to to me and not and even more than that, like, if you look even further back, it's like we look at racism, you know, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, all of it, like it's even further than that, but it's a lot of the same conversations that we've even been dealing with within the past, like 14 years, since 2010. So to me, it's just getting really ridiculous and I'm just frustrated and tired of everybody in the system and it all just needs to go to fucking the trash, if you ask me. So that's where I'm at, and I think I'm gonna just take a little cleanse to reset my brain, um, and then try to do some other activities.
Speaker 1:Like I'm I'm trying to, uh, put some library books on the um, on my Libby or whatever, but I don't understand too. Like just one more thing before we move on. But I don't understand how, like, you can have a library book that's digital, but you only have a certain amount of copies of it, so you have to create a waiting list, Like I don't understand that. Like it's fucking digital, like even if you had to have original copies of the ebook, just buy more. And I don't know, maybe that's just me and maybe it's just the funding or whatever, but I feel like there shouldn't be a wait list of like 40 people for a digital book, like months for a digital book, like months for a digital book like that does not make sense to me. Um, but yeah, I digress, we're moving on.
Speaker 1:So, uh, one of the things that really happened this week that was really sad was the um key bridge uh, you know incident that happened in balt Maryland. Like it literally feels like the world is just falling off the bone, like that's not to make light of it, but like literally that's what it's starting to feel. Like like everything around Egyptians, indian mythology, hindu mythology, Native American mythology, having had a class in that and understanding the way in which these cycles work, of creation and death, um, and how you end up creating again, um, it feels like we're in a death period, like we are I mean, we're, we are. You know, things are bad, things are like really bad, like everyone's barely hanging on by a fucking strand of hair, like it's so bad. So I think we are in a death period where we're seeing a lot of chaos in the world. Um, and also there's like the thing about people that man in new york punching people in the face that that's not even on the list, but like crazy as shit, like crazy ass. Stuff is just happening in the world and, um, I think, know for me, like being an outsider kind of looking in, I guess something had happened to the ship in terms of losing power or experiencing some kind of electrical problem.
Speaker 1:I'm curious too of how the ship was able to navigate under the bridge, because I couldn't figure out. I kept trying to research and figure out the path that the bridge normally takes. I don't think the bridge was that high. I mean the ship was that high. I don't think the cause it was like a carrier ship, um, like the one that got, uh, caught in that canal, uh, during a pandemic. It looked like one of those types of ships, but it didn't look as big or like as tall, I should say. But the bridge itself didn't seem that big or, you know, tall to me either. So I was a little confused by that. But anyway, I just have to assume I guess it was set up to go underneath, because I looked at the area and there was no other route that it could really take. So I felt like that was the only thing that you know for the ship. That made sense.
Speaker 1:And then again, I'm not sure if everyone was accounted for was like maybe two bodies found, uh like, as of thursday, wednesday night, thursday, um, I'm also curious how someone like found or had this footage just on hand I don't know like what that was about uh, like the fact that we actually got to see the ship collapsing, you know, into the bay. That was odd to me that, unless I don't know if someone's like security had a security camera or a camera for just kind of watching the the area, because it happened at like one in the morning. So I'm like huh, who was out there that late or you know whatever? Um, I don't know. So, yeah, I was also like kind of wondering, let me just see really quickly, cause I thought I wrote something.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then also too, before I even get into this, I wanted to just kind of talk about really quickly Mayor Brandon Scott. Like I love the way he spoke about the diversity and inclusion situation with people you know referring to him and that like, oh well, this is diversity and inclusion, this is what you get when you you know blah, blah, blah, x, y and Z. It's not a good thing, and how he basically was like yeah, you guys are just calling me the N word and like you're scared to actually do it. And the thing is is that you know he's not going to stop, uh, being himself and not going to just give up on moving people forward, and I just really was in awe of listening to him and listening to him speak Like I think that you know a lot of times this is what I mean about the internet. Like this is literally what the fuck I'd be talking about.
Speaker 1:Or like I just talked about was the fact that people would blame something like diversity and inclusion in why a ship lost power and crashed into the structure. Like the structural piece that's holding the bridge up. Like that does not even make sense, like that's the synapsis is not synapsizing, the neurons are not neuroning. Like I don't understand how you would come to that conclusion. If anything, it does make more sense that it's a power failure or was a power failure, or someone didn't do their job. Um, but that's not on him, like that's on whoever the shipping company's staff are.
Speaker 1:Um, and then everyone's like, all of a sudden, a fucking engineer, like out of nowhere, structural architect, engineer, whatever, like out of nowhere, talking about, like damn engineer, whatever. Like out of nowhere, talking about like damn, they need to build these bridges better and damn, they need to do this better. And I'm like part of that is true, like I'm not going to lie. Like sometimes that is the truth, like sometimes these bridges suck, but it literally crashed into, like a big ass boat that weighs so much, crashed into one of the pillars holding up the bridge. So why, that doesn't make sense. You know what I mean. Like that's like fucking. If, like Godzilla just ripped that shit up off the ground or something like I but I digress again, that's people. Um's just scary, though, to know that you could be in a situation like that, that you could potentially be in a situation where you're on a bridge and a bridge collapses into the water. Even on the ground would be worse. I don't know, I would have to look that up. Actually, like hitting cement, like would it be like that? So maybe it wouldn't make a difference? I don't know. Does anyone know that? Any? Anyone that listens to the show? Are they a scientist? Uh, physics scientist? Um, specifically, I don't know if anyone's a physics scientist listening to this, but, um, I would just really be interested in hearing that opinion, but it did have me wondering, needless to say what you should do if you are inside of a car and it crashes into the water.
Speaker 1:So I attached in the show notes one of my favorite YouTube channels, uh, the infographics, um, and it is basically a, I guess, or channel. A lot of what they do is they talk about different things that are happening and or history whether it's history, science, I don't know. It's different things, like it's a bunch of different things. Like they'll talk about animals. They'll talk about, like people, human body facts, different things that you might think about. Like it's like the other YouTube channel what If? Their YouTube channel, what If? But I feel like this one is a little bit more educational in the sense of these are facts versus what if this thing were to happen. From an educational standpoint.
Speaker 1:But basically, based on that and some research I did watching different news stories of this happening in the past, of cars just kind of falling into the water or driving into a body of water, the two top things you're going to want to do is the first one is unbuckle your seatbelt, don't reach for your phone, don't try to call 911. That's going to actually be the very last thing you do If no one else around has done it. If people are not around and no one sees this happen, of course you're going to call 911. But the first two things again you're going to unbuckle your seatbelt and then you're going to roll down a window like quickly as you can and then try to escape before the cars fully submerge, which takes anywhere between 30 to 60 seconds. And that's because and the thing is is like you want to unbuckle your seatbelt as quickly as you can and roll all of the windows down If you have a car full of people just as quickly as you can, because once the water gets into the car, it will be impossible to get out, not like impossible, impossible, but uh, it's going to take a lot of work and you're going to have way less oxygen once you're fully submerged in water and you're going to have to depend on um being able to hold your breath. Get out of the car with the windows rolled down again, swim to the surface. Out of the car with the windows rolled down again, swim to the surface and you might not make it Like that's the point. So definitely go watch that video.
Speaker 1:I think it was like really cool and really interesting. It was funny in the beginning. They had this like thing about Mothman. See, that's what I love about it. I love that it creates these like scenarios of huh, you're thinking about this thing and then all of a sudden your car falls into the water. It's like how did that even happen, like how did?
Speaker 1:At first, when I was watching the video, I was like what? Like how did he go from talking about Mothman? And I was like, am I on the right video? Cause they will talk about things like the Jersey devil and stuff like that. But I was like how did they even like get from A to B? And then it worked. And I was like, okay, makes it more entertaining. And then again, last thing you want to do is call the police.
Speaker 1:But if you have people in a car, like children specifically, you'll want to get the oldest ones out first, which is very interesting to me. It makes sense, because you want to get them out first and then get the baby or the youngest and carry them. If they're like an infant, you want to carry them with you out of the car. And the thing about it is, too, is that a lot of times I know cars have that thing where the back windows don't roll all the way down. So you'll even have to like if you're in the back seat, you'll have to maneuver to the front of the car in order to get out the front windows which roll all the way down. That's wild to me. I it is so scary, like I hope I'm never in that situation. But you have to remain calm because you start using up oxygen once the car fills up and there's a chance that you know panicking, you are taking in less air so that if you are more so submerged in the car, like you're not going to again be able to get out, depending on how deep the water is. That'll be also another thing to consider. And yeah, so I'm glad I watched that.
Speaker 1:There's also like these things. I didn't know this, but there's like these tools that easily break glass windows. If you are in a situation where the windows are rolled up and you have to break them, or you can't get the windows down and you have to break them, of course they advise that that tool is within reaching distance, because once you go under like that's kind of it and you can't open a car door from underwater because water pressure is crazy, like you would not be able to do that. So, yes, I highly suggest, if you have a fear of your car going into the water, I definitely recommend that you are prepared and if you're going over bridges a lot, be prepared. Like it's always better to be prepared than to panic later on.
Speaker 1:And I think that, again, we don't prepare enough for things. So it's nice to have knowledge about these different things that could happen, because no one's immune. Like it could happen to anyone. Like anyone could have been on that bridge at that time. You know, in that area could have been on that bridge. And I think about it and I'm like sometimes we have the luxury of thinking like okay, it couldn't have been our family members, because we imagine that they have these routines and who's out so early or late at night or early in the morning for something like this to happen. But I don't, like anything can happen, like anything can happen, and that is so scary to think about, that anything can happen to you. So definitely rest in peace to the people that did pass and also, if there is anyone left, I hope that. I mean at this point I don't know, but you know, I just give thoughts to the families and, you know, hopefully the state of Maryland can help with funding efforts, especially when it comes to, like, funerals or hospital care. I think someone did get injured, um, but they survived. Uh, that was like one of the first two people that came out of the um the water, like around the time it happened. So all right.
Speaker 1:And then, moving on to the second thing we are going to talk about, diddy chow. Um, I'm not gonna. I'm to try to do my best to not do too much, but there's been a lot that's happened over the course of this week, starting on Tuesday. Maybe I don't know, maybe it was Monday, but I feel like it was Tuesday because, or Monday night, maybe, because I just feel like it's been a whole week of nonsense. Maybe because I just feel like it's been a whole week of nonsense Good nonsense, but also like some other nonsense as well. So there's just so much to discuss. So earlier in the week, his homes were raided and, of course, he was nowhere to be found Both his homes and was home in LA. And then it I think he has two homes in Miami and they were all raided by Homeland Security. They only found his children inside. I don't know if it was at the LA one or if they were kind of scattered or what that was like.
Speaker 1:Didn't pay too close attention to the details, but the thing that did come up was this commotion about him not being there, because he was on his way to Antigua, which I was like huh, like where'd that come from In a world of you know, cameras and technology, I don't know. Something just be seeming off to me about that, or like the way in which these things kind of happen, or like the way in which these things kind of happen. Um, I imagine he was tipped off at some point, because I don't know how that antigua thing happened unless um antigua I said antigua antigua um thing happened, unless he was like tipped off, honestly, um, and he like sent, like my. I was looking at some theories online and some people were saying that like he probably has someone in a boat on there or not a boat, on a private jet on their way there, because I imagine he has more than one private jet he's Diddy and I imagine he has someone on their their way there with like tapes and money and like all of that stuff. Because, of course, they did a raid, they went all through everything. I don't know if they found anything? Um, I mean, honestly, I don't think they would admit it, even if they did right now, because it's all evidence and you know we'd have to wait until, like, the court, you know, opens up the documents.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, it's like looking bad, like it's really really looking bad, and I just kind of feel, like everyone that knew he was kind of doing dirt in the light and I don't know, he just used like these tactics to intimidate people. Like it is a lot, I think, for us, for the U? S government, like Homeland Security, oh my God, these sirens outside um Homeland Security to show up to your house to do a raid Like I'm side-eyeing a little bit because I'm like you really had to have done some shit. And someone was like he probably violated the man act, which is um an act that's supposed to protect women from being trafficked across state lines. And uh, I was like, okay, wow, that's like wild. Um, I mean you're not supposed to traffic anyone, period. But like you're really not. You know that that's a law. Um, I didn't know, I didn't know that. Uh, what else was I gonna just say about this? Um, also too, like this is one of my earlier points.
Speaker 1:It's just amazing to me, like how much people do in the shadows that we don't talk about or like we don't openly talk about. Like people are coming out the woodworks now to say, like I have information about this, I have information about that, like trying to, some people are trying to save themselves. That's what I think is happening. I saw one thing about how someone was saying that if they confess to something, they would hope that they wouldn't get jail time or something about confessing about the minors that were trafficked, which I'm like feeling a little dirty about that. Like I get it. That, like you know, you're supposed to. Like I get.
Speaker 1:Like I kind of get how like the world works. Like I get it, it's not perfect, it's grimy and it's fucked up. Like I get. Like I kind of get how like the way the world works, like I get it, it's not perfect, it's grimy and it's fucked up. Like I feel like, if you know about kids getting trafficked and you're not doing anything about it, or knowing about people like being human trafficked and you're not doing anything about it, like I don't know, I just kind of look at people different and I feel like I'm the kind of person that, even if there was any kind of like inkling you know what I mean Like any kind of whatever I'm putting, I have to put a tip in, I'm sorry, and I would just have to be pew, pew, breaks, cut, whatever.
Speaker 1:Because I just feel like people don't just stand for nothing and I get like people try to protect themselves and you know, again, it's the money, it's the fame, it's the notoriety, it's the. You know again, the money, like that's the big thing it all always comes down to. And you know, maybe even protecting your family members, which I can get to. But I'm just like, just like, shoot me down, child, because I'm not going to lie about like that's not, that don't even sit right with me, like that does not sit right with me. Lying about a child or minors being in messy, nasty situations like that. It's barely okay for me to be even okay with that with like sex workers. But you know, that's like a whole maybe different thing or whatever. That I kind of feel like gets a little bit more nuanced.
Speaker 1:Or you know, like some people maybe wanting to be at those parties, like getting the money profiting, but then other like like consenting legal adults you know what I mean and then maybe some other people getting mixed into it that are abused, you know, in it along the way, you know which I imagine a lot of those people were like abused, you know just along the way, and ending up in these really messy, fucked up, um, because it's ditty, you know. So, yeah, I just, I don't know it just, and again, like I don't really understand, like the government at this point where it feels like the government only gives a fuck if you're poor and you're, you know, if you're poor, like basically, like you know if you're poor, like basically, I feel like these allegations have been going on for years and years and years and because it's not, because it's just rumors, people let that just slide under the rug for so long. And it seems like when Cassie made her came out, you know, statute of limitations, all that stuff we talked about, but like and no, you know, it seems like things started to unravel for a lot of people and DAs, you know expiring things like that, and that made the government turn and look at them. But I'm also just like it's a little too late. The damage is done to a lot of people. A lot of people's families probably are really fucked up. A lot of minors are probably or are not probably, but are fucked up.
Speaker 1:It's just wild to me how we could do things like in this country where we can have the human trafficking campaign and I got extensive, like extensive training for a program in my current job and I've done it in like previous jobs in grad school about like identifying the signs of human trafficking and you know what to kind of look out for when you are meeting with like a minor or someone that is in a really crazy like situation that you might have to just kind of go based off of feeling or the things that they say, their behaviors. You know all of these things and we have these programs that identify these individuals. And it's like this person is just sitting up here like millionaire I guess, almost billionaire sitting up here harboring people in the house, allegedly Like. That's crazy to me. Like at 3 am, because I think his neighbor was like I don't know who this man was, but he the cameras, the paparazzi was outside and he was yelling out a car about how it gets wild at 3 am, how there's kids, you know minors, coming off the buses and like all of this and that and a third and it's just like so just repulsive and nasty, like I don't know how people can live with themselves, honestly.
Speaker 1:And again I think, like him admitting that was, again, it's interesting how, like people, there's like this bystander effect, but there's also this like amplified version of oh, I know this person is into some shit and I could get pew, pew, but again I just be feeling like I gotta stand on something sometimes and I don't know. I feel like that's probably why people don't be liking me, because I'd be like shit, just don't like be making me. Like I'd be feeling like Emma Nelson from Degrassi, like I'm doing a Degrassi rewatch right now, but I'd be feeling like her when it comes to shit like this, because I'm like, if you don't stand for nothing, then what do you stand for? What do you stand for? Like I have to like in my brain, like I have to believe that like, even if something doesn't work out in this life, there has to be something else. Like there can't, that can't just be the end, like life and death just cycle and cycle and cycle, just like the seasons. And I feel like people are so attached to the material world that it's scary to think that like okay, if I die, then, like that's, it Lights out, but I don't know Like, I just feel like we need to do a better job of looking out for each other.
Speaker 1:That's kind of where it boils down to, of, even if it's like, you know, it's been years, like it's been years and a lot of this shit has been kind of blatantly obvious or just kind of out in the open or speculation or whatever, but no one's really done anything. And I also just kind of look at our government. I'm like what the fuck is happening? Because it takes forever for someone to get acute or to get first of all to get even on trial. It takes. The legal system is so imperfect. It just takes forever to get anything done. Yet we can get like the National Guard shipped out to a city in no time.
Speaker 1:Like that doesn't? It's not adding up to me. I mean, that's just me Again. I don't. I don't claim to know everything. Maybe someone could, you know, educate me or point me to the right sources or whatever, and I'll read up on it.
Speaker 1:But I just be feeling like shit don't just add up to me. It just seems so contradictory as to what happens in the world and who gets punished, who doesn't get punished and even things getting slid under the rug Because it's going to be, whether it it's like too much for the American citizen to handle and they're not going to be able to do this and it's going to lose faith in the system. Like it just it all ends up being fake and I think people value the truth and I think that we value when the collective I think values when justice is served. I think values when justice is served. I think most people do want to live in a world that is peaceful and that is loving, caring, where we look out for each other, but I think like just so much has happened to where shit is just so fucked up right now, like it is just so bad and so much stuff is just going unnoticed.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I also feel like the gay stuff is like shrouding people's view of this whole thing, because it's like setting this tone for this discourse around people not understanding that, like this man you know allegedly drugged and raped and you know trafficked people like and blackmail people you know just to keep up this like sadistic lifestyle. It just feels like it's a red herring, like everyone's falling. Everyone that is homophobic is falling for a red herring like everyone's falling, everyone that is homophobic is falling for the red herring. Because, at the core, if you really look at it, being gay, you know, with like two consenting men that are of age, you know, even if they were consenting teenagers, but they both have to be teenagers Like it can't be no fucking weird shit Like being 25 and 16, like that's fucking crazy. Um, it can't be anything like that.
Speaker 1:But I feel like if it's two consenting people of the same you know, around the same age, um, I feel like it's like what does that have to do with you? Like that doesn't do anything to you, no one's harmed, no one's impacted by your decision to be with who you want to be. It does not involve you, it does not do anything for you. But the idea of being gay or at least homosexual or whatever, like you know, for two men to almost like surrender their quote, unquote masculinity card, when, again, like these are all of these concepts are things that we make up, like we make up what a gender role is, like we make up what a societal norm is, but again, it's like just this idea that like, oh, you would give you know your masculinity card up, just so that you can be with another man. It's like girl bye, like get out my fucking business. Like I don't got the fucking time, leave me the fuck alone. You know, I just get it's so annoying, let me see. Oh, also, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1:The last thing I'm gonna talk about is just, I thought it was funny about the whole thing with Young Miami and how she, like literally today, the day of the raid, she's like on twitter talking about oh, santana puts, you know, chose some wig out for me or whatever and I'm aggravated because I hate it or whatever while this is literally happening, like while tmz is live, like on Diddy's house as the kids are coming out, she just like that's like a real Aquarius, right there, like just to be, like not even focusing on the shit, or like tweeting during the actual, the bad shit that's happening, like I feel like that might be something I would do, like I thought that was hilarious. And then the fact when somebody was like Karisha girl, where you at, and she was like I'm right here. I'm like girl, stop, um. I thought that was funny. I'm interested to know how much of a part she's maybe been involved in all of this.
Speaker 1:I feel like there was a whole thing about her being, you know, one of Diddy's quote-unquote sex workers. Again, another red herring, a thing that you know people just seem to want to care about. And again it's men. You know they're like, oh well, you know, why do you men? You know they're like, oh well, you know, why do you? When you know women are sex workers, why is a man always blamed and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and X, y and Z? And I'm like, because he did fucked up shit, like that's why, like that's end of story. He did fucked up shit and I imagine me and my coworker were talking about this and I imagine that she probably didn't know there's this allegation that she was transporting those pink pills that Diddy had or whatever, the ecstasy and cocaine pills, and how she probably was transporting them, but didn't know, like she was probably a drug mule.
Speaker 1:He's probably like, oh, you know, grab that bag for me right quick, you know, or take that bag with you when you go to you know such and such and so and so, and she probably just was like again, like I just see, I see how you can easily fall into the trap of that. I'm not really sure, like how that works if you are from the streets. But I also kind of feel like again, that's why JT was like and I'm glad someone said this out loud, because I was a little scared to say it myself, but I just noticed it too I'm like JT's got her own songs coming out, she's got a tour coming up. She's been like in social media photos like by herself, and I think I didn't want to say it because I didn't want to come off as I don't know, I didn't want to speculate, because the thing is is that if it was my friend, like I would still want to love them from a distance if they was in some fucked up shit like that, or if I could recognize the shit and like try to convince them, pull them out or get them out or whatever, and they just still weren't seeing it I think for me I would be like all right, well, I got to kind of distance myself, like I went to you know jail before, prison before, like I can't do this again, I can't be mixed up in this shit. So I feel like that is the reason why she's been pulling away. Now she hasn't made a statement or said anything. I don't think she needs to, but I don't think they're not friends because of that. I think it's just JT was seeing stuff and she was just like girl, I don't like that. And I got to get up out of here because I ain't going back to the feds, I'm not getting clink, clinked, none of that. So, yeah, I just kind of feel like it is what it is with that.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, that's it for the news topics, um, moving into the rest of quiet on set, I don't have too much to say about this. I kind of wrote some stuff out, but I also don't really. I just kind of want to highlight the key points, and I don't even know what I do with my book because I forgot to write this stuff down in my notes. But just off the dome, let's see. Oh, off the dome, we're just gonna go right off the dome. Um, and I forgot.
Speaker 1:I had this golden crust, jamaican style spicy uh patty beef patty um, beef patty um, sitting right next to me. I can't wait to eat this. It's um, beyond me. It is uh, not promo or nothing like literally. Uh, probably be the last time I ever say this, but um, they make these like vegan beef patties um, by golden crust and they are so fucking good. They're only in like a few stores, but if you can find them bitches, I definitely recommend. They are so fucking good. Takes forever for them bitches to cool down, but they are so fucking good. All right, yeah. So I'm kind of looking right off, just right off the dome. We just kind of going like making it like referring a little bit, but we're not doing too much because I I can't with this whole thing again.
Speaker 1:Um, so the rest of the documentary, like it kind of talked about um drake and well, it did talk about drake and and that relationship with the, you know, with Brian Peck. I hate that he has the same last name as Josh Peck. That bothers me, I don't know. Does that bother anyone else? That bothers me. It's like I know y'all aren't related, but it almost feels like too coincidental, you know, because of the way in which you know nepotism works and things like that. So yeah, that was that was bugging, that was bugging the shit out of me. You know would be invited to his house.
Speaker 1:How you know, the relationship between him and his dad started to erode because of Brian Peck trying to force his way into Drake's life to the point where his dad, he told his dad. He was like I don't want you to be my manager anymore and his mom ended up managing him. And the dad gave this warning of if you, you know, whatever you do, like, even at the, I'll give it up, whatever. I'm not going to fight this or whatever, but, um, even if you, you know, do manage him. Like, keep him away from Brian. But of course, the mom was not as hands on as the dad and a lot of you know this abuse started because of that and Drake was getting older. He was like 15 at the time of when this first started happening, first started happening and it's just so disgusting and sick how people like him can just work on a set and, oh my god, he was in the return of the living dead.
Speaker 1:No, I love that movie. Oh god, I just want to like lose my fucking mind. Um, the funny thing is I'll be recognizing people until like later on. Um, damn, I fucking can't like. That's nasty shit. Um, what hold the fuck up? Hold the fuck up. I'm just reading some shit that I had not. That is not sitting well with me. Why was he hired to do after prison? Hired to be on the sweet life of Zach and Cody. Like he did a voiceover for three episodes but was later fired by Disney executives after they learned of his conviction. Like this is the shit I'm talking about. Like this shit is like driving me insane because it's not right to me.
Speaker 1:How, like social workers and, you know, medical staff get held to the standard of working with kids and you know you can't have this like child abuse record and yada, yada, yada. It's not that I'm mad about it, I'm just mad that other people aren't held to that standard too, because I think that should be universal. That other people aren't held to that standard too, because I think that should be universal. Like you can't have a history of child abuse or be a sex offender working with a child as a social worker. Like that could never happen because the laws would never let that happen.
Speaker 1:I don't understand how in the industry, like working in the industry, we don't have social workers or therapists, counselors, coaches, like nobody that has a mandated reporting responsibility to be on these sets. But again, it comes down to money. It comes down to places like Nickelodeon. They are big corporations that have a bunch of money. They're not going to do a background check because they want talent that's going to sell, they don't want to turn someone away that is going to be very profitable to them and that is fucked up because then things like this happen, where the children suffer whether it's physical, verbal, emotional, sexual abuse, like it's really just nasty and fucked up, like I don't know, and then they get fired, like he already probably done, got the money, like convicted, they eventually replaced his voice and his lines and all of that, but they just like, it's just like. Why even waste that time? Like you might as well do a background check, see what the fuck is going on.
Speaker 1:If it was, if you have to work with kids, because the thing is too like, if you work with kids like whatever set I think they said this on the documentary but whatever set you work on, at some point there's going to be a child on that set. So if everyone's not clear, like some, you gotta get off. Like you gotta get written off the show or taken out. Something's gotta happen. Because that's not okay. Like because that's not okay, like that's not all right. Um, again, I don't know if, like it's just like, I don't know. People just don't be giving a fuck about kids the way in which they claim like that's just it, people won't be giving a fuck about kids.
Speaker 1:Um, I feel like the dad, drake's dad, um, oh my god, I hate when that experience happened to him where he talked about, uh, how his dad, when he told his dad about him getting a beat or no, about how the you know brian peck was fired because he was, you know know, a creep how his dad was just like, oh my God, like I knew it. I knew it and I'm so glad it wasn't you. And that, to me, cuts deep because you hold, that puts again like so much responsibility on the child to decide whether or not they're going to tell you. And then either decision is hard, like to say something like that out loud. I know that sometimes we think things like that or whatever, but I feel like saying something out loud like that or making an assumption of that nature is just so harmful because again you live with this guilt of damn. My dad like knew this guy was like a fucking creep and I, you know, broke up our relationship or, you know, put that, drew the line in the sand because of this person. And now he's like really upset and, like you know I have mixed feelings essentially about how you know I'm happy this guy got put away, but now my dad is disappointed and it's like feeling again like it's you're taking on that burden. So me personally I just feel like, again, watch what you say, because that's another thing.
Speaker 1:The girlfriend's mom was the one that caught all of the, or at least picked up on that. Something was going on which, again, it takes one good adult to just be asking questions, trying to figure out stuff. I remember we were, like I was in a situation like this at one one of my jobs but, um, trying to figure out how a 14 year old got herpes, um, and that was like some, it was wild because it kind of opened my eyes to how I, you know, did evaluations with children, especially teenagers, because teenagers like I used to hear about people doing stuff in middle or in high school like very not up to par, like in 20 something, a mid 20 something, dating a teenager Like I would know stuff about this, but I would be in a position where I'm like, I feel like, is that normal, is that not normal? Um, you like, and when you're a teenager you always think about, like, what it's like to date someone that's older, um, don't really like you're not responsible, like for that. Like you know, if you tell someone, you tell an adult and the adult decides to file a report.
Speaker 1:But I feel like even in my situation where I knew a classmate that was dating somebody in their 20s, like people knew but didn't do anything, like adults knew and didn't really do anything about it in retrospect, which was fucked up again because as I look back on that, I'm like I was like, oh my god, you have like a 16. I'm like, oh my god, you have an older boyfriend, blah, blah, blah, and like he has a car and yada, yada. But then it's like you look back and you just be like, why the fuck was he interested in you? Like that's my adult brain kicking in like full frontal lobe, develop nasty, disgusting, like why was he into you? Why all of that? And, oh my God, the student teacher situation at my school. I'm not going to bring that up, but that whole thing child.
Speaker 1:But it reminded, reminded me like at least of the parental part, like their relationship being fractured, as like Brian Herney and his mom had talked about, um, how their relationship was fractured because he was, um, basically essentially not. You know, his contract didn't get renewed, um, when she started to speak up. And again, this is another tactic, even though Dan Schneider, to our knowledge, molested anyone or sexually assaulted anyone, it's again a tactic that he used, that Brian Peck used, which is to create division between whether it was intentional or not intentional, to create division between parent and child by causing resentment, trying to get the parent to stop being so overbearing, trying to get the parent to shut up and staybearing, trying to get the parent to shut up and stay in their place, be manipulative and gaslight all of those things. So I feel like that was like such a um, interesting kind of overlap um between those two families, um, and one was for racial, racial discrimination and the other was for, uh, sexual assault, like that's wild um, again, the females or the women of course weren't safe. Uh, when it came to dan dan schneider, um, it seemed like he congratulated or not congratulated, damn, that's not the word um empathized with drake, more so than he did in any other case, um, because he was still ragging on women, like very bad, and he was just doing all of these like sexual innuendos with minors. It wasn't. It's like he hated women so much that he was able to almost sympathize I should say not empathize, but sympathize for Drake, because he hates, again, women and I imagine he's probably on some level, you know, homophobic and, I know, definitely misogynistic.
Speaker 1:And the idea of, you know, a man violating a boy is, um, even though it's not gay behavior, it's like I mean the same sex, whatever but it's not consensual, like it's abuse. You know, it's not, this thing of you can't ever be like. They would never do this with a guy where they would be like, can't ever be like. They would never do this with a guy where they would be like. If I feel like, if the role was reversed, um, or if drake was a girl, um, I feel like they people would start being like questioning oh, how was she dressing? Like, how was she presenting, how was she, you know, doing this to any other? Or she always seemed to be blah, blah, blah, whatever, like they would come up with these like things or these reasonings and to blame women. But because drake's a boy and you know, a straight man, like, didn't want this, um, you know to happen to him. Or you know, didn't, um, you know we just discouraged, like those acts between the male species. Like I feel like he gets sympathy points for from Dan because of that, but he still continues to torture the girls on his set with the vulgar, nasty sexual innuendos and really playing into that sex horny teenager factor. That was interesting to watch.
Speaker 1:Alexa I forget her last name, it's like Nicola, but she was on Zoey 101, and she felt so uncomfortable around Dan. She was like I would not return back for after the second season and I remember that. I remember being like, oh my God, I love Nicole, her character on the show. I love Nicole, where's she at? Oh my God, I miss her. Yada, yada, yada. And it was because she felt so uncomfortable around him. Like she felt like she was crying. She knew, she like somehow knew that the stuff that he was having her do was just very inappropriate, um, very derogatory and very sexual and that like just nasty Um, they talked about the goo that was spit, that was shot out on Jamie Lee's face, and I'm just like when you look back at stuff like that, you just be like damn like as an adult like you.
Speaker 1:Really it just makes you think. It makes you think about you know, being a child, it makes you think about seeing that stuff and just maybe not brushing it off or not thinking too much into it, because you think again like adults are supposed to protect you and they're not going to do something so horrible like that. You know you think about that as a child because you're supposed to, you're told that you're supposed to, you're told that you're supposed to trust adults and uh, yeah, I just nope. It was very hard to watch, especially because I wanted to go to uh, what's that place? Um, pca, because I was a beautiful ass campus, beautiful ass school. I would have loved to have gone there Away from parents again. That's another thing.
Speaker 1:Another theme being away from your parents, having this autonomy. The teachers are barely around. They went to class but their teachers were barely around when they were walking campus late at. I guess this was a school where you could literally walk around late at night and not get in trouble for it. Like it was college for, I guess, high schooler, middle schoolers, which was very odd, like that you know wouldn't exist in real life. That's very odd, but it was as a kid.
Speaker 1:It looks enticing because, you know, when you're a kid around that age, your parents suck, like you don't want your parents to really be around. You want to be around your friends and you want to be, uh, more adult and you want to have these, like you know, experiences that you probably should wait for, um, until you are an adult, um, um, to have those experiences. So, yeah, um, I just want to see if there's anything else, um, not too much else, honestly. Oh, I do, I did, will say, like, this is maybe one of the things that I feel like that resonated with me. But I also feel like, is this reaching the people that see it? So, like the actual, like producers, the board, the people that are, you know, the managers, the people that are in charge of hiring these people Is this impactful for them? Is it like they're just like, okay, whatever, you know, it's an, it's eyeopening for us. And, again, I think that's where, um, we come in, because we give our attention to these shows.
Speaker 1:I think that, um, by us making statements of being like I'm not supporting them, I'm not, you know, I'm not sending my kid to nick studios, blah, blah, blah, xyz. Like I'm not doing none of that. Even I don't think nick studios exists anymore, but, um, I'm not going to be supporting a company that does some shit like that, like you're not watching nickelodeon fuck that shit. Because they barely fucking apologize like they was like, oh, we're doing things differently now and it's like, well, y'all should have been doing it before. Bye, and who's gonna check y'all?
Speaker 1:So I feel like by the public not tuning in to a documentary such as this, I feel, or not a documentary, a network such as this, like it, starts to create this chatter around, like how do we, moving forward, ensure protection for children and make these figures visible and do background checks Like hello, like it doesn't like hello, like it doesn't like your billion dollar, million dollar company, whatever you can afford to screen every single employee for a child abuse clearance or some kind of a background check or something of these people, especially if they're going to be working so closely with children Like any prior history. There should be staff on site that are monitoring the relationships that are happening, that are like, if you see, like a kid wrapping their arms around an adult's waist for too long and like it's not just like a regular hug or even if like putting hugs on the back, like we can't hug each other up in here, like none of that, like I just feel like there needs to be boundaries and people that enforce those boundaries, um, to make sure that kids are safe. Point blank, period. That's it. That's all moving on.
Speaker 1:Um, what was the other thing I had to talk about in the media lab? I had a couple other things, but i'ma just oh, I wanted to talk about pet cemetery um as well, but I feel like that could be held for a different conversation. Um, I'm gonna just keep this uh on my radar to talk about, because I feel like I still have other stuff I want to talk about when it comes to pet cemetery um, I just need to do some more research um, a little bit too, but it was a good movie. I was the first time I watched it this past weekend. I watched that when a stranger calls the 2006 version, I've seen your uh, whatever was it? The 1970 something version? Um, which I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1:Uh, and this one I didn't not enjoy either, like it was pretty good. I just felt like when the phone kept ringing, I just would have been like, come get me, like tell him, pull up, because you just have to come, fucking get me, come, fucking find me. Like I'm gonna have my weapon ready in the fucking corner and you just have to fucking come in and try to get me, because I'm not going to keep answering the fucking phone for you to be fucking weird and breathing on the phone like that shit was pissing me off. Um, and I also watched, uh, what was the other movie? I got? Kujo. I I watched Cujo as well, which was an interesting watch. I didn't know this, but it was about I was doing research about that one too, online and it was about, or at least a metaphor for, stephen King's addiction issues, which I thought that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1:I know some about Stephen King, but not a lot. I know mainly stuff about when it comes to these books and movies, but I don't know too much about him. And then also I wanted to talk about, briefly, cakes to Killah and Tierra Whack. They both put out albums this month, really good albums. I like on um, tierra Whack's album the latter part of the album more, I think so. Uh, I love the imagery of the like Joker uh card and the the, the moon, and you know there was like on the back of the vinyl. There's a uh thing that's kind of set up like the moon and it has the different like. It's almost like astrology the way it's set up um the back of the cover. I really enjoy the way that looks. I also enjoy.
Speaker 1:My favorite songs, I would say, are Movies, difficult, 27, club and Numb and Misbehave. I think those are all really good songs. I'm trying to figure out After Numb on the album until like around X, or movies, is that like that couple run of songs or few songs that run between those? Those tracks on the album are a little meh to me, like I'm not as tapped into them. But as a whole I enjoyed the album and tapped into them, but as a whole I enjoyed the album and um, again 15 songs.
Speaker 1:Philadelphia shout out to her really emotional album too. Like that was the other thing about this album. This album is very heavy. Um, I think I've been well, I know I've been reading a lot of or watching people talk about um, the way emotions come out in this album and I almost feel like when, because I can't listen to 27 club without feeling like I'm gonna cry, like it's almost like to the point where if I listen to this and when I'm really depressed I might start bawling. Um, so every time it comes on on the album, like when I had the album, or repeat whenever the song comes on, I get really. I start to feel really emotional, um, because of the tone of the song and then the uh lyrics as well. Um, people, would you know, I've been saying that like, wow, I think that song was. You know, it should have hit me more, but it didn't. But I just feel like when you're going through something like depression, suicidal thoughts, and especially if you're currently going through that, it's like really impactful to me, or if it lands a certain way for me to oh, oh, I'm going to read this later but it's just really impactful to me because, like, as someone that struggles with depression, someone that goes through this kind of like cycling pattern of being fine one moment and that's what I like about the album there's times where it's like kind of goofy and like silly and you know, very tiara whack and even the sad parts are like very tiara whack, like they're very um, they're not gonna like.
Speaker 1:I feel like she's not the person that's gonna be like Alana Del Rey and just completely fall apart. You know, behind the microphone, you know there's going to be some quirkiness behind the pain, because that's how I feel, like Black people have dealt with it, like we've dealt with pain in this way of like, we just kind of laugh it off and it's not going to be this like one linear way of how we feel about ourselves or, you know, see our situations, like I'm always making fucking like dark jokes or, and I know that's kind of like, you know, like it makes people kind of be like like a little nervous, but like that's the only way I feel like I know I can deal with the pain sometimes is by saying something that's really off the wall, crazy, because I think, well, one, I think it's funny and it's my pain, like I can fucking laugh at it if I want to, um, to cope, and I again I just feel like it's. Everyone's situations or ways of dealing with things are different. So it's not like it's not going to be a thing where she is, you know, going to present a specific way, or the lyrics are going to present in a specific way to tell a very like depressing story. There's going to be some twinge or some quirk in there that makes the appeal of it different and that's again, that's the artistry, that's how her art works and I got it. It landed for me Another album, the other album that came out was black sheep by cakes the killer.
Speaker 1:Uh, really good album. Um, I love how grown and sexy it is. Uh, I love cakes to kill that. Like he should be where santana is at. I'm just gonna say it. Um, I think a lot of people love santana because of how messy he can be and how. I guess on some level that's relatable. But Keksa Killa is also very relatable and a really good rapper Like that's. I think that he would wrap circles around Santana I hate to say it but he would and I can understand his feelings of resentment towards the industry and the public. Like sometimes he tweets about you know this feeling, this need of like from the public to be more mainstream, and I know he could do it if he wanted to Like, if he really wanted to, he probably could.
Speaker 1:But when you're a real artist, like you don't just sell out. Like you don't just say, fuck it, like I'm just going to do what everyone else is doing, just to get streams or to get sales or to get tours or whatever brand deals and stuff like that. Like you just keep doing. You, you keep plugging along and then you know, maybe one day, like you find more people to that are going to listen to you or connect to you, or maybe not, and you just have your people and that's that's that. In that, that's how I kind of feel about my podcast. I'm like, if it ever got to a point where I got more, you know, followers or more people, that's well, cool and fine. But, like, I'm also cool with the people that are here. So you, you know, that's that's how I feel about that.
Speaker 1:But, um, yeah, that album, uh, black sheep really good. Uh, my favorites on there are mind reader, uh, global entries. Oh, my god, that's one of my favorites. Uh, on the album, I love the part when he is like and it's like literally like 20 20. I think it's the last like uh, 20 seconds um of the song where he just is like, you know, spitting his shit going off. Um, I can't even think of the lyrics off the top of my head, but it's yeah, they're not even on nothing yet. That's crazy. They're not even on Apple Music. That is wild. I was just going to say the lyrics, but the last 20 seconds of that song is my favorite. But the whole, I love the whole song and I love then the transition into Downtown Jay Catwalk and Crushing in the Club. Crushing in the Club is so much fun. I kind of like that one too, because it's very flirty, it's adult, it feels adult, it feels grown and sexy. A lot of this album reminds me of, uh, sven Garley, or Sven Garley am I saying that right? Um, that album is good.
Speaker 1:I didn't listen to that album until last year, honestly, um, because Cakes to Kill it had gotten away from me a little bit, mainly because I was, you know, into a lot of uh. I went through a really wild rock phase where I was like, really into rock, for, like, getting into a lot of old school rock and 90s rock. I was, you know, getting into Korn and different artists that, like I, you know, metal artists that, like I, had not really listened to, um, before, like Korn I'd never listened to Korn, for example and I was like, okay, I kind of relate to this because it's really feeling like my mood and I feel like this year has been my year where I've been giving more of my attention to uh, black artists, so R&B, uh, hip hop, um, this album dance, uh, electronic, uh, you know. So I'm giving like pop, like I'm giving more of my attention to a lot more Black artists, um, whether mainstream or not, um, and and you know, it feels like I'm finding so much more creative expression or ideas. Um, even for myself, like as I'm, as I'm doing this or as I'm going through this, like journey through um different black artists's uh catalog and Cakes to Kill it.
Speaker 1:Like he Svengali came out in 2022, so I wasn't too late to, you know, catch one last year. But even on that album, I look at songs like Rabbit Hole into Svengali, like that song is so good and like like I just I just feel like there needs to be more cakes to kill. Like sorry, point blank period. He's one of the best rappers, um, I think, in the game and I love this kind of switch to being um, he's not as like hardcore, like or not as like he's not as like hardcore, like or not as like spitting fire in the same way that he was when he was first coming out. It was very like Little Kim Nicki, like inspired kind of rap, and I feel like now he's kind of carving out his own lane in music and that's exciting. I think it's exciting to see his progress. I don't know why all his albums aren't on Apple Music.
Speaker 1:But I got a couple of the mixtapes from the mixtape days, a couple of the mix mixtapes from the mixtape days, like the real listen, the real remember, um, easy bake oven. Like if you was there, like you remember, easy bake oven, that's my shit. Like I'll put that on sometimes and it's just that ep was just so good, um, um, that one. And then what's the other one? Oh, the eulogy, that one that's. I think that one is on, um, it might be on there, but it might not be on there.
Speaker 1:I know like they have like cakes to kill the essentials or something like that, but that's not the same. Like you gotta kill, you got killer essentials. Like you had to just be there. Like there's some songs that were on the eulogy and on um the other tape, uh, fuck, hunger pains, which again like and hunger pains. I don't even think that one is on the cakes to killer essentials. I'm rambling, but I'm just kind of looking at this right now and I'm just like Hunger Pains is my shit, like that is my fucking song. I don't know how that didn't end up on Apple Music. But I digress, there needs to be more Cakes to Kill and I'm so glad that mixtapes, um, if you got them, you got them, you know. If you missed out, you maybe could find them, but you know, yikes if you can't.
Speaker 1:Um, also one more thing before I move on. I just want to say that, uh, someone had mentioned I saw that khalif um, formerly known as leaf uh, had reposted someone that had said, now I'm just gonna be like not trying to be shady, not trying to whatever, but like I know he reposted some white guy that was talking about, uh, dark york and and praised like how futuristic the album was or something of that nature. But he praised the album and he responded in like a positive way about it. It seemed to me reading it responded positively to it. But when I said a few years ago on my old Twitter account that I was like really into that album still and how good it like held up, like because it still holds up to this day I don't know if you're going to be able to find Dark York, but it's really good um, I think he just said something along the lines of uh, like it sounds like a you, something about a washing machine, or like the sound quality is bad, which is not I mean, it's not false. The sound quality isn't great, but I think it was very ahead of its time and it was one of the things that did draw me in to his music, because it was very different. Like it was very different, and that's what the thing was for me at the time.
Speaker 1:When it came to rap music, I was really tired of rappers that were doing the same things, which, again, like I'm looking at rappers now that are doing the same things because it sells or whatever, and like so many, there's so many people that people name and I'm just like y'all listen to this like turn that down because it don't sound good and it sounds the same as everything else. Um, there's so many guys that sound like future, for example, and I'm just like turn that shit down. Um, but yeah, for like that. I was just like all right girl, like I I don't know I'd be feeling like I don't know. I'd be feeling like I don't know, I don't want to get into that too much, but I just be feeling like when it comes to people white fans I'd be like they'd be getting all this grace and everything, and I'm just like I'd be showing love to the artists I like and I appreciate when I get recognized.
Speaker 1:Cakes to Kill is one of those people that recognizes me when I tweet, when I talk about him. I remember when I met him here in Philly Johnny Brenda's oh my God, I haven't been there in years, actually, as I think about this but when I met him, when he performed there, we took a picture together and he was like I, you from social media, and I'm like, yes, like, yes, you know me from social media. I imagine if, because Bat for Lashes is another one that I love, another artist I love and I'm like, if I met her in person, I wonder if she would say that, something similar or to that effect, like, have I seen you before? And I'm like girl, I follow your social media. I like all of your posts, I'd like comment on all your posts, like you know. So I just love that when artists can like, appreciate all of their fan base, um, especially when we're the same freaking race, like I don't know, I feel like it's also like politics and that like in terms of, um, attractability or like likability and all of those things.
Speaker 1:But I love, like a lot of the artists I listened. This is why I will never want to meet like a lot of the artists I listened to, but, um, I just like the music. Like, I like the music, I don't really need to know you as a person, I don't need to, um, get too tangled up with you, like I don't need to do any of that. But yeah, um last thing in the media lab. We're just going to just do this, um, really quickly, cause I was going to do this at the beginning of the show but then I decided to move it and I feel like it was maybe a stupid idea. But I saw this post earlier and the post was and I'm doing this here because it's, I guess, in this segment and why it will make sense, because it's the Media Lab and we are talking about movies, music, tv, all of those things and it says this meme says you are Apocalypse. So you are Apocalypse from the X-Men Create your own four horsemen from any universe.
Speaker 1:And I was like, oh my God, like that's a really good icebreaker, or like a good question If you were to create your own horsemen, who would they be? And it took me all day since I saw this to even come up with an idea about what my horsemen would be, and so I would say for sure war would be Buffy. I think that Buffy being like one of the strongest, most agile, like superhuman, it almost makes sense like healing factor. I imagine all of those things would amplify if she were one of my horsemen. So I think that deciding who uh eats who doesn't, you know, if the weather is just really thrown off, I feel like that creates chaos and has the potential to like kill the world Um, it's like game over or kill society, uh, life on earth, um, so I feel like that would be a good choice for her pestilence.
Speaker 1:I would choose probably rick sanchez, because it's funny how he's like basically killed so many people in various universes, um, killed so many people in various universes, turning them into like different things or, you know, poisoning people or whatever. I feel like he would be good at pestilence because he just the scientists in him could create a bunch of different things and I feel like the experimentation can get like really crazy if he's spreading disease and I think between him and Storm they would do some fucking damage without death. I think that they would do some fucking damage and create death essentially on Earth. So I would choose Rick Sanchez, I think as Pestilence and I think about that too, on like biological warfare, like that'd be crazy. And then I would also, lastly, pick for death. I feel like I would pick Kenny, and I feel like I would pick Kenny from South Park.
Speaker 1:I feel like I would pick Kenny because he is essentially the master of death. He's died so many times. I feel like, on some level, that should maybe give a window into corrupting his soul. He also isn't immune to death, like that's. The other thing I read about death is that, at least in the X-Men, that death isn't really immune to their own powers. They're resistant, but they're not completely immune. So I imagine if he died he'd just come back or something, uh, like he does in the show. But I think that he would take out a lot of his um, frustration and revenge and be tempted to go to the dark side, um, to get back at everyone for not remembering one that he dies all the time or died all the time, because he doesn't really do that anymore. But, um, one of he dies all the time and it was because of this satanic, uh ritual his parents did, or had him mixed up in. And two, um, I think that he because he's experienced death so many different ways that he would make a really good death when it's all said and done. So, yeah, that would be my team Buffy, storm, rick Sanchez and Kenny from South Park.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, we're going to move into the final thought y'all and wrap this up. My final thought, essentially isall and wrap this up, um. My final thought, essentially, uh, is basically about the beyonce um album, the pre the pre-album release. By the time you hear this, it'll be beyonce, you know, album time um.
Speaker 1:But I was just thinking about, like, the criticism that beyonce has been getting prior to the release of the album and how people have been very critical of her around various aspects of the promotion of this album or the talk about this album um, and I think that like one of the things that I really really stood out to me was Azalea banks's comments like I didn't read the whole post, because I don't never read all everything that she writes or says. I don't have time for that, like I can't do that, but I think the fact that she came up with just such this like dense narrative around how she's seeing this rollout when we don't even have the fucking music yet, like you're judging the book by its cover. We didn't have a track list, we didn't have anything, and people were like including her, like, oh, she's always about, you know, uh, self-empowerment and like, um, black women and like, you know, black culture and black this, but then she's, like you know, dipping her toes and the white women and like being, um, I don't know like just this whole narrative of, like this deconstructing of her persona or her, the way in which she presents, or, um, her, her image. Yeah, like I feel like there's this like deconstruction of her image. If it's like she does something that's really good and interesting, Like I just felt like the fact that she did Renaissance and had so many queer people that were sampled or, um, that had like lines or whatever like, and she had them coming out to her shows, like getting paid, like queer Black, you know, people like getting paid and getting to be a part of, like her experience. Like all of that just gets washed away and a lot of times I feel like too, like with the Renaissance thing, people were like either loving it or hating it. I feel like it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1:I haven't heard the album, of course, yet, but it's just going to be very interesting to see how this album gets received, because it's not the ballroom house type of music that Renaissance was. It's not that community-focused, specific music. It's more open to everyone now in a way, or received by everyone now or could have that potential to be received I don't know People are talking about because it's going to be a country album, even though she said it's not a country album that people or people are like. I don't know if they're going to like it. That's still kind of. The point is that a lot of people are like I don't know, because I don't really like country. Or whenever you ask people if they like or what type of music they like, it's always everything but country.
Speaker 1:So, um, I think that also gone are the days of Beyonce making radio friendly music, because I think she's gotten to a point where she knows that whatever she makes is going to sell, is going to stream, the tour is going to sell out. She has. So it's like an amazing space to be in as an artist, to be in a spot where you can be as creative as you want and it doesn't matter if some people, some people didn't like Renaissance but her tour still sold out, like she still scored high on the charts because people she had the support, she had people listening, like she's able, like beyonce has become a really good master at creating this environment of community and privacy. Like it's all. It's like one minute she's in and one minute she's out, um, and so that's like really interesting to watch from someone like as big as her um to being this like almost like ethereal kind of force and like when she shows up, she's in like her corporeal state, but otherwise she's just kind of floating around. And like when she shows up, she's in like her corporeal state, but otherwise she's just kind of floating around in the background and you know, you don't really know what's going on, but you know something's happening, you know. I think that's like really impressive. And something I would like really admire about her is that she can can, of course, just be who she wants to be and know that at the end of the day, people are going to still listen to the music that she puts out, so it doesn't matter who likes it and who doesn't. Like that's such a flex Like I don't you don't even know as a creative, like that's such a flex to just have continued support, even when, like, people are like I don't know, like that's such a flex to just have continued support, even when, like, people are like I don't know, like I don't know, but I'll give it a listen, like that's.
Speaker 1:I don't think people understand, like, how big that is as an artist. Like I don't think many artists today could pull that off Point blank, period, like I don't think many artists can. And I think that's why a lot of artists do the same thing over and over and over again. And because it's because they can't, they don't want to risk it, they don't want to lose their fan support because they're not able to create a artistic vision. That is that great, if that makes sense. And again, it's like people.
Speaker 1:Again, I think it's a combination of things. I think it's some people aren't really artists in their industry plans or they are plugged to us as this, you know, as these artists that are new, interesting, blah, blah, whatever, but they're not. And you know, we see over the course of albums how they don't really change or things don't really shift or anything. I think it's also interesting how the how do I say this? Like, I feel like it's Like, even as I think about this um, the way in which this whole like thing, like with Beyonce, almost mirrors, um, society like in the way in which, like, society's morals and ethics go out the window when it comes to money, and an artist like Beyonce is fortunate to and I imagine she is like eternally grateful for being in the space that she is in, where you know she's able to even inspire or create artists that are inspirational or interesting or different, or they have some flair or something to them, and a lot of people can't do that, a lot of people can't inspire, a lot of people can't mentor, a lot of people are selfish, so they can't, and so, again, I think that mirrors some of the morals and ethics that are like falling to the wayside.
Speaker 1:And again, um, you know, the world's like literally on fire right now, like people are are dying, and I think that artists that are still just singing about sex and drugs and are not pushing more music that is uh, impactful. Um, like I think about like you don't have to be on no civil rights shit all the time, like even beyonce takes a break from that. Like you don't have to be on no civil rights shit all the time, or you don't have to be like, you know, some kind of a god warrior or some shit like that, like you don't have to do all that. But I think of songs that were impactful, like Army Dreamers by Kate Bush or more popular song like what's Going On by Marvin Gaye and even more modernly, like Childish Gambino with this Is America, like how those songs are like very impactful and they make a statement about a problem that's going on in the world, whether it's like war or you know, some kind of suffering or needing to come together to create community, something like that. It's like it can't just all be hopped into the whip my pussy drip, diamonds on my wrist and a coochie I don't know and a coochie zip clipped. I don't know, girl, I don't know. I'm trying to come up with something off the head, but like it just can't all be that, like it can't all just be gutter rap and nothing of substance.
Speaker 1:And I feel like a lot of artists too, are just making shit up, like rappers are making shit up about where they come from and the things that they dealt with, because again, I think it's industry plans. I think it's industry plans. I think it's people that are copycats. They're willing to copy off of other people's success, their track record. Again, I think, when Nikki talked about because even she's like a little, she's a little chem mini me, but she talks about how she's like, inspired and created a bunch of mini me's, and I think that's true I think nikki was able to do it in a way in which, like, she was able to capitalize off of yes, you know the similar aesthetic that kim was doing, but I also feel like, even in that, she carved her own lane, and I think that that was only able to happen because music in the 2010s was not the same music that was in the 2000s.
Speaker 1:It's a lot more auto-tune, a lot more electronic beats, dance beats, this and to achieve, like pop stardom, um, in that way that I don't think little kim necessarily had um, like, I don't think I'd consider little kim a pop star. I don't think I would. I would consider nikki a pop star, but I don't think I would, uh, consider kim a pop star. But that's just me but um, to grab onto that and then create these new talents that are essentially just ripping off Because, again, music's not moving, it's not going anywhere, it's not moving forward, and I think people need to consider that when making art, that art should be always pushing the needle.
Speaker 1:It should be risk-taking, it should be um, different and interesting. That's why I'm like, girl, I'd be on these edibles and I'd just be my brain be like firing off and I'm like writing all these ideas down and, you know, creating all of these different ideas and, um, I don't know what people be doing. They be doing too much lean. I think that's what be what be going on. They be doing them, them Tucci pills or whatever, and I don't know nothing about that, like I don't know nothing. They be doing them honey packs. They be doing the lean. They be doing the Tucci, the coke and ecstasy pills, like doing all of that, and it's like that's not me, like I don't know nothing about that. That's not me. But yeah, I think at the end of the day, the last thing I'm just going to say is, even if you like, think about these artists like they're going to suffer in the long run.
Speaker 1:I think the artists that aren't keeping up with like a, a creative track, because it's not, the thing is, one day streaming is going to go away and all of that music is going to go where? Because they're not coming out with physical albums. They are like if the internet went out tomorrow, they'd be shit out of luck. I don't think a lot of people would be trying to figure out how to get a Sexy Red or a Lil Baby album. I don't really feel like that would be people's priority. If it came down to all of this social media crap like disappeared and there's, and again, a lot of the music is based in aesthetics and the way you look and the way you come off and the way you do. You do things like. You're not going to be looking for that if the apocalypse happens. You're not going to be looking for you know, diamonds on my wrist if you can barely eat Like. That's not making sense to me.
Speaker 1:So again, beyonce she's a pop artist at the end of the day, or considered pop at least, but I think she's just expanding her reach now and opening up to what is considered not traditionally radio friendly in some ways, or music that's going to play on like a Q101 or Q102 or something of that nature. But I think that, again, no matter what she does, she's going to have people that listen like, whether it's country, whether it's folk. I think she could get people into folk music. I think she could do world music and get people into that. I think she could do like Afro beats and get people into that Like. I feel like there's just so many different things she could do or incorporate in her sound or her music and people are going to listen to it. And also, too, she's been giving a leg up to other country artists, giving them more notoriety as well. You know more Black country artists to be noticed in the genre, because she's even talked about how it's a genre she felt left out of because she grew up listening to country. And again it comes down to like you live. It's like interesting where it's like, again, it comes down to like you live. It's like interesting where it's like you can live in the same area as a bunch of people as like white people and you know, you still don't have any type of claim, even if you do try to participate in that when, again, country wasn't even theirs. So, yeah, that's it for the show. So yeah, that's it for the show.
Speaker 1:You can follow me if you want on the socials. I gather them pod, instagram and X. I also made another account. Guy went and or he's like the board of this alternative twitter platform, which I need to like look into more because I'm like, yeah, this is feeling like way more familiar than x. Like x feels like a hellscape right now. Um, it's like called blueski, I think it is, and um, yes, I'm gonna make an account there. I think even I said I wasn't gonna do that, but I'm gonna do it. Um, yes, I'm gonna make an account there. I think even I said I wasn't gonna do that, but I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1:Um, send letters. You know whether you need advice. You want me to, want to give me a shout out? Want to give someone a shout out, like I don't know? Whatever you want to do, listener letter, send it together. Them pot at gmailcom. And that's it for the show. I hope everyone has a good weekend. Happy Easter I guess if you celebrate, I don't celebrate, but you know to those yay. Also, good Friday. If you're listening on a Friday, because that's when this comes out you know again, if you celebrate, you celebrate, if you don't, you don't, you can celebrate. If you don't, you don't, and that's it. I will talk to everyone later. Peace out, girl scouts.