WE BACK...I know we always say that but, this time is different...we promise. Happy 2024, welcome and happy to have you hear(wink). 2023 was...well..you'll hear about it here.
WE BACK...I know we always say that but, this time is different...we promise. Happy 2024, welcome and happy to have you hear(wink). 2023 was...well..you'll hear about it here.
Because ain't nothing but a cheap bang, bang, bang To blow them jeans. So we crazy Death grown gets the label that pays man Unfaithful. So please don't try to fake this. But I'm back to the lecture at hand. Back to the lecture, or legend, at hand. What's good with y'all.
Speaker 1:There was a time where I used to love, love, love, love, love New Year's Eve, like I used to try to get out the house quick, fast and in a hurry and typically when I did that it was just because I was trying to get fucked up. You know, like, for whatever reason, I don't know why, as a country we decide that the last day of the year Some of us is gonna drink till we can't drink no more and you know be all over the place, you know throwing up, doing all whatever. But this year was different. This year I was in the crib, I kicked back, I enjoyed the peace, the relaxation. Honestly, I just enjoyed not being outside, because I feel like I've been outside all year. I like to tell people now that I'm no longer outside, I'm just sitting on the park bench. But yeah, you know, with the new year happening, it would only be right for Day G and Yemi to talk about Not knowing who year's goals resolution cause. That's corny To you. It's corny to everybody that has a podcast.
Speaker 2:To you.
Speaker 1:It's corny to everybody that has a podcast. But yeah, we're talking about the new year, we're talking about the amalgamation that was 2023 and we're gonna talk about what to expect in 2024. Hopefully it doesn't bore you, but I know I'm already knowing that it won't. That's why y'all here, that's why we love y'all. Just a quick update. I know we were terrible at posting our publishing content, but I'll just give you a quick stat. We posted three episodes in 2023. I know terrible, but those three episodes got over 2500 downloads. So shout out to y'all If y'all want quick math. That's about 786, 790-ish per episode that y'all tuned in to us, with the highest listen episode with almost 18,000 downloads, or 1800 downloads being getting left by Day G again. So it's a common theme, it's not a common theme.
Speaker 2:It makes sense that that's the highest, because people love to hear stories of abandonment I think.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. I never left you. Yemi always likes to steal like she'd be left out for good, for dead, but in a lot of ways we could say that you have surpassed me this year.
Speaker 2:Well, I wouldn't say so necessarily, because I don't really know. I'm not in competition, we're not in competition, it's not about competition.
Speaker 1:I just think that there are some things that you did this year that like, okay, everybody thought that it would be something I did, but you ended up doing it, not in like a bad way. I say this because for the longest time, niggas and the family been calling me the LeBron, like I'm supposed to get everybody out of poverty, but we was never.
Speaker 2:You were supposed to get us out. You were supposed to use that basketball football. You're supposed to use that football stuff that you do to get us out the hood.
Speaker 1:See what I'm saying, see what I'm saying, see what I'm saying. And now I'm over here saying that you have surpassed me this year. And now you over here talking about some well, Niggas love to be humble, but I don't love to be humble, excuse me.
Speaker 2:I just like to be realistic.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what was unrealistic about what I said?
Speaker 2:I don't think I'm there yet what does that mean?
Speaker 1:I don't think I'm there. I don't even think I'm in. I told you this I don't even think I'm in my bag. This year actually taught me how much I'm not even in my bag 2023?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I did holistically good year. Obviously, the end of the year was a little bit rough, but holistically, it was such a treat to live 2023. For me. It's very weird and very surreal when you think about the type of person that you've always wanted to be in life and then you actually are living and actualizing that in real time. But you're actually aware enough to actually know that. And that's what the first half, the first almost seven, eight months of 2023 was. I was really living as a beautiful black man. Why not? Yeah, I was having a time. I was really in, I had a glow about myself. I was just filled with so much gratitude. Amen, yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Gratitude. Why can't that be the name of the episode?
Speaker 1:Probably because we already used it. Maybe, so but yeah, that's kind of what 2023 was.
Speaker 2:At least the beginning of it.
Speaker 1:You said yeah, towards the end very, very, very rough polar opposites. But you know, we live and we learn 180.
Speaker 2:Yeah for the people who began to mess up with 360.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that means you're in the same spot.
Speaker 2:That means you're in the same spot. Which is, I mean, if you end up in the same spot, there ain't no problem, because no progress is not negative progress. Yeah, sure, we can say that, but yeah, 2020, but is negative progress?
Speaker 1:a oxymoron. Negative progress is the end of oxymoron, and that's if you're going backwards. So then, that is an oxymoron, which you just said yes. But I guess what you're saying is that it can be negative as long as it's not where you started from. You feel me Like when they say you take two steps forward.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly that. That's where I was getting at with that one.
Speaker 1:So then, the question I guess I would have to pose it to you is 2023, what was it for you?
Speaker 2:I think it was a cluster F, cluster F. I feel like it was all over the place. I feel like, as I was doing my end of year reflection, how long do you do for your end of year reflection? How long I'm going to keep reflecting, I feel like, until the first quarter is over.
Speaker 1:That's valid.
Speaker 2:I feel like for me, I was sitting with myself Like yesterday, the day before yesterday, and I was like I wish I was journaling 2023. Because, it would have been good to look back at the year and be able to pinpoint specific days.
Speaker 2:Where I felt one way or where I felt another, because when you look back at the year, the only thing you really have is maybe your photos, memories, and I would love to be able to tap back, or would have loved to be able to tap back into the emotion or just being in this space that I was at and feeling that or looking back at it.
Speaker 1:That's a very good point.
Speaker 2:So I think this year one thing I want to focus on is journaling. It might not be an everyday thing, but when I feel the spirit of getting stuff out I might go run to Twitter, because sometimes that's what I tend to do. But then you're limited, you know. Twitter is only how many characters? And you're limited because you don't want to say certain things, because you don't want people to judge you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't want people in my business, so I really want to be intentional with writing stuff down and getting it out and then reflecting. So yeah because I don't really remember too much of like I know what happened because I was there, but being able to be like, oh, on this day, at this time, I was feeling this and it was because it is.
Speaker 1:And I don't feel like that. 2023 was more like. I hate to say it, but in a lot of ways 2023 lived me.
Speaker 2:I saw something on Twitter was like For 2024, I'm not being good, the year need to be good to me, or some shit like that, like I'm not doing too much Because the year need to prove itself to me, because yeah, type shit, like I try my best, the year need to try its best too this year, something along those lines. But yeah, I feel that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I only say that because, towards the end of 2023, I realized how many people was actually going through it in my immediate life and I was like, damn, what the hell are we all going through shit at the same time, like what is it about life that has us all struggling emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, spiritually, any forms of it? And I just feel like, yeah, it was that first year that it was completely, 100%, normal. All breaks was off and people was living a life, we was out and about, we was having a time. But I was tired and, like April, I'm not gonna hold you. I was tired in April and then I just found a way to carry it through.
Speaker 2:I feel like it hit me in like October. I remember before that.
Speaker 1:I was cashed by May, like literally, I was thinking about it, I was like I was giving myself, I was giving myself a little to no time. That's why I said it was so interesting that you said you journaled. I wish I would have journaled at those moments where I was like, wow, I really set out to be everything that I thought I was gonna become, but then, on the flip side, see how fast the decline happened because I was spreading myself too thin, because that would have been an interesting journey to see from a day-to-day perspective. But I guess it is what it is. You know we live and we learn. You know, as I go through this thing called the Saturn Return.
Speaker 2:Fact, in 2023, I entered mine.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and my Saturn Return has been a motherfucker honestly 2024, dg turns 30.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tunde turns 40.
Speaker 1:He turns. Yeah, he does turn 40.
Speaker 2:He does so it's big stuff coming up the, and I wanna use that as like motivation or like as like. Let this year be serendipitous in a way, right like for whatever I don't know, like for like accomplishments, for success, for like recognition, for enjoyment for life, for love, for light. Let this be the year 2024, because, like 20, like yo, yo, yo, yo Elders brother is turning 40,. That's a milestone. I don't know what they call it, if it's like a Jubilee or like a Diamond. I think those are a little bit older, but it's a celebration. Like that's a big deal. And then you're turning 30, which is also a big deal. So I think, like, let this year be the culmination of like amazing things and we get to celebrate them for, and not the only thing we celebrate be birthdays.
Speaker 1:Amen. Amen In Jesus' name, Because I'm just turning another year older, but I mean. I'm definitely looking forward to 30. I've been telling people for years I could never, I could not have waited long enough, but also I've been enjoying my 20s. I feel like people be like oh, the 30s is where you finally have.
Speaker 2:Take off.
Speaker 1:I was like, if that's the case, I don't even know where I'm gonna be. Right, that's a fact 30, you say that's when you start getting your money, and I was like, well, I've already, I've already been getting my money, but we still have more to go, but we still have way more to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's interesting, because now I look at it very holistically and we just take it day by day. But yeah, no, 30 is. It's gonna be a time you know what I'm saying when we doing what we need to do throughout the course of this year and it starts to build and it starts to compound on itself. I already know I'm built for it. I just wanna make sure that I get to a standpoint where, again, at the end of the day, nobody is ever gonna be checking for me, right, which I understand. But I think the most important thing is that if I'm not checking for myself, what am I really doing?
Speaker 2:in this world. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta you gotta make sure you write with it.
Speaker 1:Correct, you know my home girl, lauren Lauren. What's her name?
Speaker 2:I don't think that's your home girl if you don't know her name.
Speaker 1:Lauren Hill.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Home girl Lauren Hill. She said I gotta get my piece of mine. Is that the name of the song? I gotta get my piece of? No, huh, anyways, let's move on.
Speaker 2:I thought you was going with how you gonna win if you write with I ain't right with it.
Speaker 1:Ain't right with it. How you gonna win if you ain't right with it? Cause I gotta find my it all you got it, but yeah, no, I mean the piece of mine is Hunky door, but what would? I would say, because I don't want to be too corny what is a moment in 2023 that doesn't, that doesn't involve you, that you really enjoyed this year? Yeah, you see how I got her, cause she only tend to only think about herself.
Speaker 2:Well, you answer the question for yourself and then maybe I can use your answer to answer the question.
Speaker 1:No, that's not how it work, ladies first.
Speaker 2:I don't even think about Ladies first. So like something good that happened in somebody else's life.
Speaker 1:That you were a part of.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, but you just said that I wouldn't have been a part of.
Speaker 1:No, I said that you weren't a part of meaning.
Speaker 2:That I had nothing to do with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wasn't about you is what I was trying to say when I wasn't the main character Correct.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I was going to say my niece, my niece, birthday party.
Speaker 1:What do we do for a birthday party?
Speaker 2:served.
Speaker 1:Oh, we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let you know that the kids is all right. The kids are all right, some of them, not all of them, because I just seen a video of some babies wrapping on.
Speaker 1:Then baby daddy, and then we did the trampoline park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, I mean the kids are so biased.
Speaker 1:What about TJ's birthday?
Speaker 2:I was in Puerto Rico on a beach.
Speaker 1:See what I'm saying, just like you were. See what I'm saying, just like you were Just see what I'm saying, just like you were. What you love a ride.
Speaker 2:I was in Puerto Rico on a beach. Where were you when?
Speaker 1:was. I Answer the question. I was at the crib. I was with. No, I was definitely in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2:I was in Puerto Rico on a beach with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely it was a lovely time. Yeah, it was a wonderful time. Shout out to hey, shout out to P Rico. I'm not going to hold you, I would go back again.
Speaker 2:Is he passed?
Speaker 1:No, P Rico has a Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, so you say Puerto Rico, then that's what?
Speaker 1:people say P Rico.
Speaker 2:I've never heard anybody describe Puerto Rico, the island.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shout out to Puerto Rico, man. Lovely time, lovely vacation, lovely people. You know what I'm saying, so it was a good time. What else happened in 2023? Nothing to really talk about. I mean, I'll probably saw it on Instagram, honestly, and if you didn't, you need to be following us on Instagram because I'm confused and YouTube as well, but if not, you could always catch up on YouTube. There was a lot going on. Like Amy said, it was very much a cluster F. Yeah, that was. I felt like for the first time, for the first year out of the pandemic, people didn't know how to act. That wasn't this year, though?
Speaker 1:No, it was the first year where everything was like Back open, yeah, back open. There was no regulation, no stipulations, it was like it was up up.
Speaker 2:The bulletinations was off. Yes, correct, it was, nothing was off.
Speaker 1:OK, so what was your favorite trip?
Speaker 2:Not even relations that we took this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Probably Puerto Rico, but Afro Tech Afro.
Speaker 1:Tech, the experience, yeah, wow Amazing.
Speaker 2:It was a good experience, like it was good for, like, just like Out of opening you know what I mean, Like putting things in perspective showing what life could be, you know, but also like setting. I think it was a catalyst for inspiration.
Speaker 1:For what exactly? What is the inspiration you're talking about?
Speaker 2:Just like get into the bag Okay If I'm speaking in baddie's terms so just like being like a network or a socialite, somebody who's a move maker for lack of a better words Like and also just DJ outside of Chicago, like in reaching a different audience a different market because I feel like there is a lot of redundancy and that's no shade, but I just feel like for me, I don't want to be just a Chicago DJ.
Speaker 1:So I want to be outside.
Speaker 2:And I feel like being able to DJ somewhere that was not Chicago did wonders for my brain and also, hopefully, how so.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Cause. Now I'm thinking like, okay, where can I go to next? Cause? Also cause one of my goals for the for the for 2023 was to DJ outside of Chicago and I did that only once, but you know it's a check. If I had a list, I don't know if I actually wrote anything down, but if I had a list that was on there for sure. So this year it's like festivals and also continuing to DJ outside of Chicago and touching places that I have not been before, even in Chicago.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that. That pertains to.
Speaker 2:DJ, I don't really care too much about the money. Yes, the money is great, but I'm trying to. I know that the money will come, so right now I'm focused on, like, really expanding and building my reach.
Speaker 1:Hmm, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Kind of like a little. Well, I mean, did you?
Speaker 2:say what was your happy moment that wasn't related to you, where you weren't the main character?
Speaker 1:You didn't ask me so.
Speaker 2:I'm asking you now my favorite, that's actually a really good question, though like to ask other people to see, like, how they think. Yeah, but I bet you would probably be, for a lot of people family related, like for something that happened with their family.
Speaker 1:I told you mine, though you know it, it was when we was at Afro Tech. Oh, because?
Speaker 2:of me.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:So how is that unrelated to you?
Speaker 1:Oh wait, I was a main character in that moment, but we shared that moment together, so I didn't make it. We were both main characters in that situation.
Speaker 2:Then that does not.
Speaker 1:Okay, that does not count.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm okay with that being your risk, because it still has something to do with me and you know I love me.
Speaker 1:but if you want to pick something else, but that's fine, I can pick something else because, you're right, my favorite moment where I was not the main character would probably have been yeah, it was Puerto Rico. I think when we went to Puerto Rico, it was probably the height of me being so stressed out, at least the peak of it. I didn't know it at the time, but work was really getting to me.
Speaker 2:Like you were working on the trip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the times where I was not working and I was actually able to the times where I was not working, I was actually able to engage. No, I had a really fun time, especially the last day. The last day where I was not working, I was not doing nothing, I was like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we literally woke up, went straight to the excursion, was almost left by the bus Because it was taken too long. Because when they say 9.30 on excursions, they mean 9.25.
Speaker 1:And my stomach was acting up that whole time, was it?
Speaker 2:Is that why we was late? Because you was on the toilet.
Speaker 1:No, that was not me. That was not me. That was not me that made us late. I was in that bus waiting, but yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I was just so upset because I bought the waterproof camera like phone cases.
Speaker 1:And you forgot.
Speaker 2:And I left them in the fucking. I was so mad about that Because I would have been cool to get it. Yeah, to be able to have your phone, which also, like we was in a moment. We was in a moment. I remember that moment very vividly. Yeah, I won't forget that. No, because that was fun, like just being in nature, in the jungle, really. Where I'm from, because you're not from the jungle for real. Sure, sure, so being amongst the trees and the leaves and the soil Sure In the water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that water, the water was fun Jumping off the.
Speaker 2:I always want to make sure for my birthday buy water, because I am a cancer and I feel like water in the ocean and bodies of water grounds me Means absolutely.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm just joking, hey, no, it was when you start talking about your Jesus, we let you.
Speaker 2:We let you Excuse me. When you start talking about your Jesus.
Speaker 1:Don't come from.
Speaker 2:When you start talking about your Bible.
Speaker 1:When do I talk about my Bible? When you?
Speaker 2:start talking about your disciples.
Speaker 1:Who are my disciples? I'm not. I'm not God.
Speaker 2:All 12 of them.
Speaker 1:OK, right.
Speaker 2:I'm your homies when you start talking about John Jacob, jingo Hymer Smiths.
Speaker 1:Jesus, do not shun her, for she does not know what she is talking about. No, please, I got people praying for me. Let them keep praying for me.
Speaker 2:I've been winning. Man I've been losing too. I'm OK with admitting you know took a couple of L's, I think it's life.
Speaker 1:Oh, so what was your?
Speaker 2:If you don't mind sharing what was your biggest L, you don't have to get into detail, but you could be as I won't talk about it in detail, but I did feel like there was a moment of I mean, I feel like for me, I think personally, anytime there's like something that happens in Chicago when it comes to DJing and I don't get the call for the opportunity, I'm like damn, especially when it comes to DJing. I feel like, if I feel like it's an event that I know I would, kill kill, kill, or I would like, would love to be a part of it for me.
Speaker 2:I feel a little bit about that, but I'm like you know, like what's for me will be for me. But I do feel, especially when I see it going to people, that I know or that I feel personally don't have the genocide quality as Suke Jesus has, because nobody has that. But I feel like I'm at the, I'm at the position now in it's just because, like, what do I do outside of, like working in DJing, just like living life, and that's why you're here, because you know that's what we do.
Speaker 2:So yeah so I just feel like for me right now, where I am in my career, I want to be in the position to, and I want to be in those spaces. I want to be in those positions. I want to be doing that because that's why I feel like I am, and the only person or people stopping me from doing that are the people who don't the events. So it's like I was having a conversation excuse me with another DJ friend of mine. She has like over 10 K followers on Instagram and she's like, yeah, like this DJing stuff is so political, like you could have all the followers and people still won't book you because, like it's about who they want to DJ their parties and I'm not kissing no ass, it's no D, but no, no, no position, it's really not, it's not that because, hey, I still got my day job that I'm going to complain about.
Speaker 2:right after this, when I tell you this story, I'm going to tell you another L, but yeah, I just feel like for me that's, that's that. So, yeah, I just feel like, you know, sometimes I've been thinking I'm being slided, but people aren't thinking about me. So hopefully this year 2024. So Jesus is a name that people are considering.
Speaker 1:How am?
Speaker 2:I going to get there? How am I going to do that?
Speaker 1:I don't know but I got motion.
Speaker 2:I have 12 months to figure it out. Shout out to motion. We got, motion we got motion, big motion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got motion. You're funny, you definitely got motion. I don't I feel like if everything it doesn't even need to go as planned. But I think if you, if you accept the risk and you're willing to be patient, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I definitely think you will.
Speaker 2:I'm not really a patient person.
Speaker 1:So it's a hard thing to learn.
Speaker 2:I know patient.
Speaker 1:It's a hard thing to learn, it's the thing. It's the thing. But you had another L to share with the people.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say I, not L, but a moment where I felt humbled and we was talking about this yesterday, when we was driving home from China Buffet, because that's what we do on New Year's hey, I'll go with China Buffet.
Speaker 1:I'll give it a go.
Speaker 2:And this China Buffet. We don't have to tell a story about this for a different day. We don't tell a story about this China Buffet for a different day because my friends we got to talk about our China Bay.
Speaker 1:We used to. We got to talk about our China Buffet.
Speaker 2:We're going to make an episode dedicated to China Buffets and Buffets.
Speaker 1:We might have to do it straight into China Buffet. I swear for you.
Speaker 2:No, we're not going to bring no mics to China Buffet. I just we're going to make a tick tock because my friend was saying that we need to make a tick tock about that. Regardless, regardless, regardless, regardless of how far along you get in your career, there will always be a moment where somebody who is Um titled to be ahead of you or titled to not be your equal, we'll try to humble you. Oh well, I did. So that's not. I mean, it's not really that big of a deal. But, like everybody knows, I love going into the office and I feel like I'm getting to the point now where I know that you know some of the stuff that I'd be doing with first world problems, like some of the stuff, a lot of the stuff that I'd be complaining about. Like, girl, you live a life that many would envy. So I'm not acknowledging, I'm not like dismissing my own feelings, because I know that my life is a little bit better than somebody else's, cause you know that's one thing that your parents will do. Or, you know, just like something that'll even teach you in therapy. You know cause you go there. Um, like, I'm not dismissing my feelings, but I'm just saying like, girl, you know whatever, like just do this, you know we'll get your check and move on.
Speaker 2:But it's just a little annoying to me that there's someone who's pressing something that I feel like has no bearing on my job and it's going into the office. Yeah, like I don't. I don't think that it's a valuable use of my time. To be quite honest, I feel like it does not make a difference in the work that I do, the work that I'm capable of doing, and I really think that it does more, um, bad than good for me. To be quite honest, like even when I say that it sounds like a girl, like well, hey, you complain because you got to go into the office two days a week. But, yes, I'm complaining because I have to go on two days a week because that's like, if you think about it like this, friends and I've been to get on my soapbox for a quick date. You can chime in when you need to, but if I'm going, don't you know don't try to.
Speaker 1:You know, keep rocking, keep rocking. You know, keep rocking. I'm going.
Speaker 2:just agree with me, don't try to interject.
Speaker 2:Going ahead, that's what all I'm saying is this Whoever created here, for fuck nigga, if I ever go to your grave I might piss on it. I don't know if I just committed a crime by saying that, but all I'm saying is nine to five, five days out of seven days out the week. Oh, that shit is crazy. Nine to five, eight hours out of a 24 hour day, you spend eight. If you lucky sleep, you got to get to work. So if you get there, if your job is like mine, you got to get to work. Your job is like mine all the way in the city. I got to be up at seven o'clock to prepare to be at work at nine o'clock, get to work at nine o'clock, work for four hours, get an hour break for my lunch, then come back to work, work another three, four hours, get on the train or I got to drive that's an hour and a half commute back to the crib by the time I get home. God forbid.
Speaker 2:I had children. You know I'm speaking for the people who got kids, somebody at home that they have to feed, make a meal, decompress. It's eight, nine, 10 o'clock, baby. You got to put the kids to bed, shower, do whatever. Where is my time and you got to do that for the rest of your life, until you retire. Oh, somebody got it wrong. Somebody got it wrong.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:Somebody got it wrong somewhere. Hallelujah, and I'm just saying this right now I'm telling y'all and let me be, let me preach the word to you Whoever think that I'm going to do that for the rest of my life, my black ass woman life, my multi-dimensional Sukaraki, what I came from. What a fuck. I came from life to serve the white man.
Speaker 2:Dr Ubar five days a week With just two days break. You can't really do nothing for real on Sunday Because you got to prepare for the next day that you got to go into work. I'm not. I'm not doing enough for the rest of my life. So if it's a way I got to figure out how to do it, and it's by working remote. I'm going to do that because y'all got me fucked up and I'm not saying that lightly, I really do. I really feel like it's a lot to complain about because, you know, I was talking to one of my coworkers and he was like yeah, you know, like before the pandemic, this was just normal and people think normal is right. Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 1:Normal is not right.
Speaker 2:If the pandemic has showed us every anything is that we cannot go back to normal. There is no normal. There's no normal now. There is no new normal. The change starts with me. I'm going to change, I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 2:If I got him go into the office more than I am and they make it a bigger deal than it is right now. I'm going to look for a new job, and I want to look for a new job that is fully remote. I actually might apply for jobs that don't even have offices in Chicago, just so they don't even try to try it on me. Where's your office located? So, korea, absolutely, thank you. Hey, if I got to work at the night time just so I can have my day, how do you not have to be playing with me? I'm not coming to nobody office. I'm telling y'all. I'm not about to be stressing myself. For all that, I don't, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I agree with you because even if I move closer to the city. I'm not stressing myself for that.
Speaker 1:If I had to go into the office and do all this stress, I think I can see why people quit their job Like literally they just be like you know what. It's okay, I don't even care if I don't have a job for a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out, I'll run through my savings.
Speaker 1:I'll run through it. I watched this girl back in the day and she was like whatever job I get for two years, I just live super frugally. I live super frugally. She was like. And then after like two years, whether I like the company or not, if I like the company, I keep working, but if I don't, I immediately quit and I just live off of my savings until I find a job that I actually like. She called it fun employed. She's like yeah, I get to travel, I get to do everything I want and I don't have to worry about shit. Ever since then I was like I need to be that discipline, but obviously with our lifestyle it never should go happen.
Speaker 1:So I just have to figure out how to make more money, which I don't think is a challenge.
Speaker 2:I think we will save more money this year, though, because I'm not going to no more music festivals. I will never Last year we went to two. Yeah, two music festivals seems like a reasonable amount, but I mean there was a year where we went to like five, five or six, five and one year.
Speaker 1:I mean like four, four or five and that's a lot of money to be dropping.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of money to be dropping, like, like, honestly, after one music fest. I don't know if we talked about that experience or not.
Speaker 1:She was a troche of a waste of money.
Speaker 2:A waste of money and I would tell them like to their faces, waste of like if they ever asked for a survey or just asked for anybody's honest opinion still never did the Afro tux over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's probably closed right now. They really got it. They probably got enough of everybody's words, though, because you know what they about black people. If we don't have a pleasant experience, we're gonna let you know. You're gonna know. Yeah, you're gonna know. You are going to know. But yeah, I just feel like dreamville was cool, but I just feel like music festivals festivals in general, terrible are just have just gotten worse, because I feel like it's what everybody wants to do and it's not. It's not as good. Like we went to one music fest. Maybe like the second year they had it, or like the third year, like in its beginning stages, the first one we want to.
Speaker 1:We went when they had the 10th anniversary. That was our first one. Oh well but either way it wasn't really well known.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. Like we was walking comfortable, we was like being it, we could breathe, like none of the stages were too packed. Correct, our Lennox was performing at three o'clock, several Walker was at four. The first year we went, excuse me.
Speaker 2:The last, the last year that we went before this last one, our Lennox was one of the headliners, so that just shows you how far it's come. They've moved locations. It's actually like in a whole park, like a whole ground, giving Coachella type vibes, and it just wasn't good. It just wasn't. It didn't give the same feeling. And I feel like for this year, when I say money is not the motivation for me, it's because I see what money, when money is a motivation, I see what it does to your brand, to your craft, to your, to you. Yeah, and I just want to always lead on the side of passion and experience and leave money as a secondary thing, because it's still important, but not the first thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, you end up going crazy, chasing money. Yeah yeah, that's, that's, that's 100. But yeah, I grew with you wholeheartedly. Yeah that's interesting. Yeah, I mean, it's not often that people talk about the L's, but you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I'm sure there's other stuff that happened, like I know but thanks for sharing, no problem. Would you, would you like to share anything that you feel like was, was, is, is share worthy that I asked the question.
Speaker 1:I mean I asked you.
Speaker 2:Do you have an L that you would like to share?
Speaker 1:Uh, I don't know if I have an L. That's like. Well, I guess I don't know if I can consider an L, because I feel like it's more self-inflicted. You feel me.
Speaker 2:What happened? I just you know so.
Speaker 1:I'll say like this the streets got too hot for your boy.
Speaker 2:You lost your mind a little bit.
Speaker 1:Lost my mind a little bit. I mean you got it back, or you get it back, we get it back.
Speaker 2:You get it back.
Speaker 1:So that's but the but. The streets got too hot for your boy, and so I, respectfully I stepped out the streets and now you on the sidewalk, on the bench on the park bench, on the park bench feeding the birds yeah, yeah, so yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:That was if I really had to be like holistic that really is is without giving detail to to his life, because you know y'all don't, we don't know y'all like that for real. We love you as supporters of the show, but as people y'all could be.
Speaker 1:You don't have to pay for the patron if you really want the full story and maybe this year we'll do that. We'll start, or maybe I'll write it in a memoir one day a book, a TV show on your life? Probably better as a TV show.
Speaker 2:You need a TV. I think Deji needs a TV show on his life, but I feel like they are you just saying that or do you actually?
Speaker 1:are you dead as serious?
Speaker 2:I feel like sure, why not?
Speaker 1:What would make it seem that I need to have a TV show on my life because of the circumstances that I be going through?
Speaker 2:or yeah, it would be, it be a dramedy.
Speaker 1:It definitely would be a dramedy. Yeah, it has to be. I feel like I'd have to our comedy drama whatever it would have to have some elements secure. I'm a drum, I'm a dramatic person.
Speaker 2:I realized that the other day we both are our mother sits home and watches Nigerian movies and Nigerian news every day. So, we're a product of that, which is great because I guess.
Speaker 1:I guess I mean, I do have some moments, like when I, when I, when I we went for the interview for Motorola. Yeah that's episode. That's a pilot. I told you that's a pilot right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that would get you picked up for a season for show. I could you pick up for at least at least 10 episodes for show. But, I just feel like there aren't a lot of shows or a lot of instances where you see black men as like multi dimensional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, currently not that.
Speaker 2:I'm like watching TV or studying TV shows, but I feel like that's a place that has not been tapped into a lot and not sitcom, like literally, like insecure, but the main character is a guy Is black but then like maybe the supporting characters or like the main woman in, like the main person. That's not. The main character is a woman, but I just feel like they have shows like that, they've had shows like that and they've not done successful or they've not gone past like a first season or something so like what grand crew.
Speaker 2:There was another show on BET that only had like one or two seasons. That was like based on 30, some things.
Speaker 1:I did not know. Those are the only two I can think of. Yeah, I did not know that. But yeah, that's interesting to hear you say that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I just like black content. Like I, I'm a firm believer and not even watching movies or TV shows that don't have black characters on.
Speaker 1:I agree, I agree with you.
Speaker 2:I definitely was annoying because, like my work, my job is television. I work yeah, I work for TV, but I also work for, like in my team we do like a movie club and we pick a movie and we watch it and review it and I'm like I recommended them.
Speaker 1:One of your movies that you know. Do that movie. Yeah, it was a good movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah it was a foreign film.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, because you know you got to double. But yeah, I mean that's the only L I can really think of.
Speaker 2:You know, I just I played in the street enough to wear like the L had its baby. Else the big L had lower chase.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right, but you know that was so so long ago. I guess that means we should transition into this year. But I mean, I'm not really one of those people that like to talk about the year. I'm just going to say it very simply Y'all just going to see what y'all see. I don't really, I don't really want to talk about it, I don't really want to get y'all it's not even bugging Y'all hopes up. If you're going to be tuned in, be tuned in and watch the manifestation of whatever is coming. And that's it. Truth be told, I don't want to be like, well, we got a lot of things in the place.
Speaker 2:We really don't have nothing planned for real, but just know that, like we are, we're going to put some things in motion Like why not?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What do we got?
Speaker 1:to lose Nothing. But, not really.
Speaker 2:But I say we could get it back.
Speaker 1:The only reason why I say that is because I know for a fact we could probably do something in like a couple of weeks, because you know I have and yeah, you know, life is life is life. But let's get to the next segment of the show.
Speaker 2:Oh, are we done with 2024?
Speaker 1:What 2023? What else is there to talk about?
Speaker 2:Nothing really. I feel like you know we, oh yeah, we're not keeping it regular. We're not keeping it regular and talking about goals and and we're to look forward, to just keep eye out. Yeah, okay, what's that that's fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, keep the energy, you know. Yeah, I just when you, when you see me and you see me. What's the name of this?
Speaker 2:No go ahead.
Speaker 1:What's the song Y'all know? I don't know lyrics. Can somebody help me?
Speaker 2:Period. When you see me and you see me, and you see me, and you see me, and you see me, and you see me.
Speaker 1:The song, the theme, the beat is going on in my head, so I know the song. I just don't know the lyrics to the song Ski no.
Speaker 2:Um, it was not that. No, it wasn't. If you see me and you trying to see what's up ski.
Speaker 1:It was not that song.
Speaker 2:Okay, what the hell are you talking about I?
Speaker 1:don't know. That's why I tell you you know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:the next segment of the show is. It's been so long I don't even remember what the next segment is.
Speaker 1:That's the point. What's the order? Three episodes in 2023. Y'all yeah. At least we kept the number. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Well, at least we was doing stuff. If y'all follow us on social media. We was giving you content.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, very true.
Speaker 2:But what's the next segment? Is it get on intellectual or is it things I send DG on Twitter?
Speaker 1:You do things. I send DG on Twitter last.
Speaker 2:Okay, so get an intellectual question for you and I. I like to get a lot of my ghetto intellectual questions from things I see on Twitter which is unrelated to the things I send DG on Twitter, because not everything I see do I send.
Speaker 1:But she hasn't been sending a lot of shit to me? Yeah, just because.
Speaker 2:I just need to keep it there so that way, when it's time for us to record all these episodes, we have stuff to look at. And I can ask DG, why do you think I sent you this? But today, the ghetto intellectual is this, and it's a video I saw of a girl Just this video I just was watching right here. This girl was saying that she would never let a man get her off her square in front of another girl. So basically, what happened is a girl on TikTok was talking about her and her ex, like like I mean, her and her boyfriend saw his ex in the apartment complex. Apparently they both live in the apartment complex, not together, but she was coming in from her getting her food and the boyfriend and the girl and a new girlfriend was sitting on the couch. He was calling for her.
Speaker 2:The girl the ex was acting like she didn't know, like she just like paid him no mind, and the girl, who was like oh yeah, I pay him no mind she was like we break up every all the time. We've been off and on for a year and a half or a year, Like we broke up 48 hours ago. Now. The question that is for the ghetto intellectuals is this Is there two birds in this situation or just one? Are there two birds in this situation or one? And which bird is the biggest bird? If you think it's two and if it's only one, which one is the bird?
Speaker 1:So the person that is the bird? I believe that there's only one. It's the girl that's talking about it.
Speaker 2:Trick question the bird is the nigga.
Speaker 1:Why? Oh, okay, sorry, I was gonna say why no, if it was me and I feel like I feel like this is like a very college thing.
Speaker 1:I don't even think grown people do this all the time. I was just actually having a conversation with one of my homegirls and I said I think it's been harder to date for me because I don't come with that much drama and I don't think a lot of black women under I'm not gonna say anything about I'm not gonna say anything. I was just gonna say I don't think a lot of black women know how to deal with men who don't deal with conflict. So meaning that if you are coming from a place of peace and positivity and a healthy standpoint in a relationship, I don't think most black women don't know how to deal without there being conflict, meaning they're used to toxicity and trash ass motherfuckers. Not saying that I'm great, is that why?
Speaker 2:you feel like you failed in the relationships that you had Because the women don't know how to deal with it.
Speaker 1:No, no actually I wasn't. Oh, you making a leap, I'm just trying to figure out what you're saying so what I was just trying to say is I don't think most women know how to be with a good man, because most of the time they. Because we were getting into the discussion of and I was telling her this, I said I hate when girls say niggas ain't shit, but then you still continue to fuck with niggas.
Speaker 2:I mean because that's what they like. I'm supposed to give up.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I know.
Speaker 2:FreshFriars. Not good for me, but I'ma keep eating FreshFriars.
Speaker 1:You don't keep saying so the thing that what I was trying to tell her is that, like you're already biased and jaded when you come into Ah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:so you have to lead with positivity if you want positivity is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1:No, I was trying to say that you can't say that men aren't shit, because that's I was like I could easily say that women ain't shit. But what does that do for me? Does that mean I'm gonna find the person for me? How does that mean? How do I walk in the relationship? That's what I was trying to tell her, because you can't say this person's, this whole entire.
Speaker 2:Maybe she wants you to prove her wrong, but I'm also not for proving yourself in our relationship. Like don't try to test me, you know, or don't try to you know. Like, of course, like make me believe in love, but don't test me for show.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't even think you should make your partner believe in love, so I'm on this whole thing.
Speaker 2:You already need to believe in it before.
Speaker 1:yeah, correct just because, at the end of the day, I'm tired of this whole ideology that people need to earn people's love. We all know how to love. Love is not something that you take and give. That's why I think the problem is in most relationships. But to circle back and get to the main point, the reason why I said that is because, well, in this situation it seemed like Buddy has moved on.
Speaker 2:He hasn't. He's playing both of them. I said he the bird because you're playing two girls.
Speaker 1:Why are you sitting with one girl?
Speaker 2:She the bird she is the bird. Which one?
Speaker 1:The one that's the curve the one that spoke on it, if you know.
Speaker 2:They both spoke on it, though the one made the first, I don't know what the first.
Speaker 1:So then they both. Actually I didn't know that, so that's two birds, two birds, that's two birds.
Speaker 2:If it's two birds, which is the biggest bird?
Speaker 1:So then I don't feel bad anymore. I felt bad for the girl because I was like I think that's not college. That's every day.
Speaker 2:It do sound like some college shit, though, cause why are you living? Why are you in the same building as your niggas?
Speaker 1:Because it's cheap.
Speaker 2:Or just because they maybe they met, like because they live, they both lived there.
Speaker 1:It's cheap, affordable, rent it's hard.
Speaker 2:I feel like it is a college thing though, but anyway I feel like this person. I feel like it's two birds. Both y'all bitches is birds, and I'm calling y'all bitches because I'm a woman as well. Both y'all bitches is birds. Why would you be with a nigga? And he called as soon as he would have said the girl name, and I knew that was it Wait?
Speaker 1:he called the ex in front of the other girl.
Speaker 2:Like she was getting a drink out the convenience store, cause their apartment has a convenience store which makes me believe that it's college cause.
Speaker 1:Nah, some of the newer luxury joints have that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but either way, I was just like, oh, she was, yeah, and he was and she was paying him no mind. But she was like, yeah, like that's my ex, we break up every other. I'm not doing too much back and forth to back and forth, get together, break up with, but especially if he got a new bitch, so he having sex with you, he having sex with her Too much, two birds killing both with the same stone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah, so that's the whole point I was trying to get at. To get an intellectual answer is two birds killing both with one stone.
Speaker 1:Got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then let me ask you this Cause.
Speaker 2:we gotta eliminate all the birds.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this If you cut it with somebody. I'm a chicken. Well, actually, you believe in spinning the block, right?
Speaker 2:I do, why not? I believe in spinning the block, but I believe it has to make sense, like if you can just make a U turn or you could just make a three point turn, why do you need to spin the whole block? You know what I mean. But like it has to make sense and I feel like we can talk about that because that's not the ghetto intellectual question we can make spinning the block. I can explain to you turn in a wide turn to you.
Speaker 1:Then I be in the exit. I don't go back. I don't go back.
Speaker 2:I hit One way. It's the one way.
Speaker 1:I hit an exit.
Speaker 2:It's the one way on your block.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if we cut.
Speaker 2:We live on a circle, so it go in a circle. So you can spin the block.
Speaker 1:I learned my lesson If we cut, we cut Sure. Whatever you say, Shorty, I would buy my own, but Shumbo, you didn't even hear me say it. I needed to say it one time. Let's do things. You sent me on Twitter.
Speaker 2:This is how I sent you on Twitter. Oh, my goodness, it's been so that you's taking the social media hiatus, so I have just been sending you so many things on. Twitter and I just wanted to say what is this one thing?
Speaker 1:Yes, I have been on a hiatus, I've been in my Me having meetings with myself to discuss my rebrand.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I saw this. I think this is very obvious If anybody has been following me on social media. I'm in the midst of a rebrand. I have deleted all my pictures. Another one you know, life's the evolution I have. I have deleted all my pictures. I'm literally living by the philosophy. If you knew me in the last two to three years, I don't know who you knew, because that is no longer me. On top of that, I'm rebranding most of my side hustles, so you should watch out for that, especially my shoe business.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:I be going through rebrands, cause for me, every time I go through a rebrand, that means I'm reaching another iteration, another evolution of myself. So if that's the case, y'all don't know me and y'all never did, and we never dated and we never had relations. I'm a virgin. I'm celibate.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, it is the second, so your wholeness has been deleted. Zero bodies is what everybody is starting at, and happy new year to you. Thank you for listening to Nothing but A G Thing. You can follow me and Nothing but A G Thing on all of our social media, because Nothing but A G Thing has not rebranded. Nothing spelled all the way out N O T H I N G. Capital B, capital A, capital G Er wait, capital T. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It's okay, you haven't done in a while.
Speaker 2:I haven't done in a while, that's on Instagram and Twitter. My social media is Sukijiz. No rebrand necessary. S U K I G. Double easy Cause I make everything that I do Look twice as easy. Instagram, twitter, tiktok is DJ Sukijiz.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, me is very simple. I am the R&B, the underscore daigee that is at Twitter and IG. Yes, r&b.
Speaker 2:R&B. Oh, you're right, the letter, the letter and B.
Speaker 1:Underscore, underscore, daigee the EJI.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for being here with us. We're gonna be with you this 2024.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're gonna be more consistent, at least we hope Y'all keep it lovely.
Speaker 2:Cause ain't nothing but a cheap bang baby To low down cheese.
Speaker 1:So we crazy Death grow against the label that pays man Unfatable. So please don't try to fake this. But I'm back to the lecture at hand.