"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
Expectations, Holidays, and Our Digital Diet
Dom L'Amour speaks with Larry Rodriguez aka @larryrodgram about Expectations around the holidays, GNX, The State of Cinema and so much more!
"Why are these girls twerking? Why do I see movies everywhere? Why is it constantly showing me stuff I show no interest in?" These aren't just random questions—they're part of a deeper reflection on how we consume digital content versus how carefully we once selected what went into our bodies.
In this thought-provoking episode, Dom L’Amour and filmmaker Larry Rodriguez dive into the parallels between mindful eating and mindful scrolling, revealing how our digital diet might need the same scrutiny we once gave food labels. "I have to find a way to eliminate that helplessness that social media creates," Dom shares, sparking a conversation that will make you reconsider your own consumption habits.
The conversation flows naturally through holiday expectations, exploring how traditions evolve as we age and form our own families. From the stress of meaningful gift-giving to the corporate-driven pressure of Christmas and New Year's, they dissect why these celebrations often leave us feeling drained rather than fulfilled. Larry offers a refreshing perspective: "Thanksgiving, I've found out the older I've gotten, is the better holiday, just because there's no pressure with it."
When the discussion turns to Kendrick Lamar's GNX album, both men light up with appreciation for authentic artistry. Their analysis of the Kendrick vs. Drake beef transcends simple rap rivalry, becoming a meditation on cultural authenticity versus commercial success. "When you listen to Kendrick, you learn about the lifestyle of a person living in LA," Dom notes, highlighting how true art connects to lived experience.
The episode concludes with a candid assessment of cinema's current state, where studio politics and financial motivations often override creative integrity. Yet despite these challenges, both remain hopeful about storytelling's power when creators focus on substance over spectacle.
Ready to reevaluate your digital diet? Subscribe now and join this essential conversation about mindful consumption in all areas of life.
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I was a vegan back in LA and I always bring this up in the sense of I was very careful about what I put in my body when I was a vegan, and I miss that lifestyle choice because when I would go to the grocery store, I'm looking at every package what's in this? What are the ingredients? Do I need this? Is this something I should be putting in my body? And when it comes to social media, I feel like I have to find ways to create that same evaluation, that same type of approach. Why am I doing this? Does this need to go inside of me? Do I need to consume this? Why are these girls twerking? Why do I see movies everywhere? Why is it constantly showing me this stuff that I show no interest in? Do I show interest in it and I don't even realize it? How it? I have to find a way to eliminate that helplessness that social media creates.
Speaker 3:Perfectly put. Oh my gosh, yeah, it's just empty calories, basically. Right, it's the same you know just like like a Twinkie of like man. This tastes awesome, but and maybe I'm full for like five minutes or so, but now I feel really bad and now I don't want to do things. Mind me I might have a headache or whatever. It's just like, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, and anyone else who is here, my name is Tom Lamour and you are listening to the Black man Talking Emotions podcast. On today's episode, I speak with my guy, larry Rodriguez, about expectations around the holidays, gnx, the state of cinema and so much more. If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. Now, where are you based out of now?
Speaker 3:Currently in Portland, Oregon. Yes, Currently raining outside, which is why I moved here. Really, I needed to switch up with weather and that was it.
Speaker 1:Well, it's snowing here in Georgia, believe it or not?
Speaker 3:Hey, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I just was outside shoveling snow off of the porch and off of the walkways and it came to my mind while I was doing it walkways and it came to my mind while I was doing it. I haven't shoveled snow in almost a decade, dude, almost a decade. I lived in Chicago in 2013 and moved back home to St Louis, and then I lived in LA from 2015 to 2020 and moved to Georgia, and it doesn't snow here either, so I haven't had to go out with a shovel. I don't have a shovel. I used an. I don't have a snow shovel. I have, like a small digging shovel that I just went out with.
Speaker 3:that's all I got did you like have flashbacks, like were you reverted back to the same age you were when you last shoveled? You know, like you're back to it and you're just going like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:I wish it was that cool, but no, no. I'm not a good, happy worker, if that makes sense. As a bartender. It always worked for me because I was able to kind of just say whatever I wanted to people If someone came into my bar and they were talking crazy as a bartender, I can look at them and be like you can fucking leave if you want.
Speaker 1:You know like it was easier to do that as a server. I couldn't do that, so when I was a server it was very hard for me, because as a server you want them to feel like it's pleasant and you want to be very nice and excited and I'm very uptempo. But as a bartender I'm more like listen, dude, I'm here rocking and if you ain't about it, you can make moves. And so now that I don't do customer service which God bless our hearts doing the weddings, that isn't difficult, because I'm singing, I'm having a good time. Of course, I'm smiling and excited when I go outside.
Speaker 1:And I got a shovel, I got to cut grass, if I have to clean up the house, if I have to wash dishes like when I'm working, working, doing something that's labor I have a stone face, I have my music going and I'm knocking it out as quick as possible. So no flashbacks, no snow angels. I mean the one thing I did before I went out I made a snowball and threw it at our azalea bush and I was like, wow, it's snow, it's real snow. I couldn't believe it was real snow. And then it got back to. Okay, I'm an adult, no one else is going to do this for you. Dom, my uncle, my uncle John, on Adrian's side, he always say welcome to home ownership.
Speaker 3:He always says that whenever something happens in the house.
Speaker 1:Man, yeah, our lights went out and I don't know how to fix it because the fuse is on a different fuse and he's like welcome to home ownership. No answer, Just that. And I'm like, well, thank you. So it's like who's going to shovel my snow? I, you know, I can get a little kid off the street to maybe do it, but my mom ain't going to do it, my pops ain't going to do it, my uncles ain't going to do it, my cousin it's me. I got to do this shit, so let's get to it. And I feel you. That's something that I fully embrace, I really love. I have my own space. We have about an acre of land, so everything is up for the taking. Like, what do you want to do? This is your space, and then also, no one else is going to do it, so fucking do it. That's right, that's right, and I enjoy that very much. I really enjoy that Like a real life.
Speaker 3:Sims, you know. I'm responsible for what I put in here. You know Exactly.
Speaker 1:And then when people come over, damn. That's a nice fire pit.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I built that. That's real shit. But I wanted to, for sure, just jump into the stuff with you because you had some really great ideas for the pie, starting with expectations, because I have a friend, my boy Chris, that we did the first episode with. He had the same kind of thought of wanting to start traditions on your own, branching out from your family traditions to creating your own family traditions, and how. We're at that age now. He just had a baby and so he's making his own traditions now, but his father passed away so he's like I'm missing that and so he comes with my family and my family is very tight. We have certain traditions that we always do, but those traditions are changing. Now I'm married, my wife, my sister is married, so we have people in the family who aren't from the old family and we aren't doing the same things we used to do.
Speaker 1:So now it's kind of like okay, it's a time to move on to my own traditions and create my own expectations and do the things that I want to do, and have no regrets for how I'm handling it because, hey, I'm an adult now. I got to do this my way. So for you, when it comes to the holidays and the expectations, I feel like I get overwhelmed. I don't like grocery shopping. Well, all right, I take that back. I love grocery shopping. I'm an old woman who goes in with my coupons now and have my used bags. I love that, but I don't like shopping.
Speaker 1:Shopping like meaningful shopping for gifts. I've always taken it too seriously something that they will love and use. That's purposeful, that's not going to be just something that they're like oh my God, Dominic got me this. I'll put it up on the wall so that when he comes over he'll see it, and that's that. No, I want to be able to say here's something that I know that you need and that stresses me the fuck out, and I think I take that as an expectation. On top of you know like people are going to expect me to buy them stuff. People don't expect me to be there, be present, and it's just overwhelming how much is expected for in my opinion. How about you? What do you feel? Expectations over the holidays, starting from Thanksgiving all the way through to Valentine's Day. Really, how does that happen?
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you know, thanksgiving, I've found out the older I've gotten, is the better holiday, just because there's no pressure with it, there's no presence involved, yeah, just eating, which is fantastic, and if you screw up a meal or whatever, hey, there's other options there, so there's kind of no sweat with that. I mean, you know, some people depend on family, you know, would rather maybe not do that. Yeahgiving, I think, is a breeze. I think that's just like a lovely time everyone's getting excited, falls in the air, everything's beautiful by that time. Though, still, you're starting to christmas. Present ideas are creeping up, and I'm the same way, like I need it to be the perfect present. This, it just has to hit the right spot. You know, I've also found I was kind of worth it if you get the right gift and they open it and, like you just put yourself under this incredible stress for like a couple weeks only for this. You know, a couple seconds when they unwrap that net shock and like, all right, I guess it was worth it, yeah, yeah, then also too, just, christmas is just its own thing of.
Speaker 3:Everybody has their own tradition, but that's the thing too, is it clashes then because you have some people who go. Well, you don't open presents on christmas eve, no, we do it on christmas. You know it can be as small or as big as that of well, we don't eat this on Christmas day, we eat that on Thanksgiving. Everybody has kind of their own thing, so it's like, yeah, kind of set up for more pressure, including, you know, damn travel. You know I don't have to tell anybody that, but it's just like the idea that we as a society agree that on this day this is going to be the day where you got to be happy, you got to have that Christmas spirit, you know, you got to have that childlike twinkle in your eye.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it doesn't happen. Sometimes Christmas takes place on a Tuesday and you have the cold and you know it's just a day. Yeah, my tradition now has kind of changed for the better, I think of, like I I'm from Vegas originally, so I go home to visit in early December and I'm there for like two weeks and we just Christmas size it up. You know we do all these events and all the things like it's that day. Yeah, then when that day comes, kind of lay low, kind of just chill. The streets are empty. You know, it's a beautiful thing as you get older. Just it means something different to you, you know as a kid.
Speaker 3:Obviously you know it's all about the presents and stuff like that and all the the you know eating good times. But then, as you get older, then it's like you get more joy giving kids presents and seeing their reaction being like maybe there's more for them. And then, yeah, new year's, two kind of leaks in that, like what are you going to do on that day? Because that's a you know, what party are you going to go to and who are you going to be in this new year, you know, and you start thinking of that. So, like, sum it all up, from thanksgiving to new year's, that's just like this crazy, weird pressure we all have, I think.
Speaker 3:And then you know valentine's is truly. You know everybody's got their own thing going on with that, be it relationships or not, or if you believe in it, or, but you know that's why that one's great too. Valentine's is just like its own island of like, if you want to celebrate it, celebrate it. And those who do that's awesome, go to the max, buy flowers, do the thing. Those who want to just stay in the shadows and just chill, you can do that too, because it's just February 14th, it's just a day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, I agree with all of that. Me personally, like I said, I'm very fortunate to find the person that I'm with with my wife, because we met on February 6th. So Valentine's Day isn't really like that big a deal because our anniversary really is the week before. So we got married in November and that's our wedding anniversary, of course. But the day that I met Adrienne like I knew we were in a relationship, like the day I met her that day is so special that Valentine's Day I mean, we do stuff, of course, sometimes, but sometimes I'm usually doing a gig on Valentine's Day and that's totally fine because go make the money, that's what you do. You perform, you sing love songs.
Speaker 1:So, I don't have to worry about that Christmas. Technically, I don't have to worry about it. I always hear that I'm a really good gift giver and this and that, but also I've stressed myself out about it With Adrienne. She's just like my family my mother and my grandmother and my aunts and people like that where my godmother too where they'll tell me we're not doing anything this year, we're not going to do too much, and then I go in and they do way too much.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, dude, you told me you weren't going to do anything. I did not do as much as you did because you told me we weren't doing anything. And with Adrian it's the same thing. We said we weren't going to do much and she was like, yeah, we're not going to do much, but I got you three gifts and I was like, dude, you said we weren't going to do much.
Speaker 1:It always kind of frustrates me, but even then, the expectation isn't too high. The only expectation really is my family's and specifically my mother. My mother is very particular about events. She's been constantly warning us about the idea that we're getting older and she's going to lose these moments. So she wants to have them as much as she possibly can, because when it stops it's going to be really, really devastating to her, and I understand that. But that adds that extra weight of energy that I'm like well, I got to do this for my mom, or I got to do this for my pops, I got to do this for my grandma, I got to do this, I got to do it. It's like I don't. It's not that I doubt I don't want to, but it's not a choice. If I want to, I got to do it. Yeah, and, and that's just frustrating I feel like Thanksgiving is the only holiday I don't give any fucks about in the sense of expectations.
Speaker 1:Thanksgiving, we cooking Great, I'm a cook, and that's that. That's it, that's it. I'm a cook, that's it. I don't even like football, so I don't care if the football game is on. You know what I'm saying. So I'm like I'm good on sleeping and waking up in the new year. That is totally fine.
Speaker 1:If I'm gigging, that changes everything. Okay, I'm getting money and I'm getting paid double because it's a holiday. I'm gay, we're going to have a good time tonight, but it's not a holiday. That especially now. The older I've gotten, the more I've avoided making goals, avoided making resolutions. I avoid that kind of stuff because the ultimate goal for me, I feel like, is to carry the person that you are the year before into the new year and continue to grow as a person. So looking at that one day as like a restart just doesn't make sense in my brain. And even with my calendars, like I got my planner, my planner doesn't just start at the top of the year and end at the year, it goes through the year. You know what I'm saying Until another day, like that's the goal, like we're just it's another day, it's not a new, it's not a special day, it's another day, keep on pushing, so those expectations really come from others.
Speaker 1:But even then, I've been very good about talking myself down, I guess, and creating my own expectations around the expectations other people are creating for me. That helps me accept or say no to certain things. Do you think there's anything that you are doing mentally or working on within yourself to help you with anything that you feel is pressuring you throughout the holiday, or do you just kind of take it on the chin and keep it pushing?
Speaker 3:I usually just push through. But to ease it up, like I said, is just I remind myself it's just a day you know that we created like a new year. You know January 1st. We all just agreed. This is like this weird reset or whatever. So I just try not to get too lost in it, and being off socials has helped a lot too. I've kind of given that up, not seeing all the stuff you know, with all the pressure, because again, to me sometimes holidays are like I call it, like the Disneyland effect, where it's like when you go to Disneyland you have to be happy, you've got to be like well, you know, it's like that weird pressure of you're in the happiest place on earth. What's wrong with you? It's like nothing's wrong with you. Sometimes things happen. It is what you make it.
Speaker 1:That is one of the things that anyone in this country, all, can relate when it comes to the holiday expectations, because it isn't just family, it isn't just friends, it's corporations, it's now we're talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's like everyone is truly trying to get their piece of the pie. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, including like nonprofits, places asking for donations and stuff. It's the holiday season, it's the season of giving kind of thing, churches, anything that you're connected to. In America, since it's a wealthy country, a lot of the pressure to spend grows during that period and it's really difficult to navigate, and taking social media out of it helps so much. I've been trying my best to work with it and keep it somewhat there, because you need it in a sense of marketing when you're a performer and trying to get your stuff out there.
Speaker 1:But the headspace that I'm in with me keeping it at a minimum of 30 minutes a day. You know, if I go on social media it's 30 minutes a day. I never go over that time period. I have links on my phone that makes it so I can't go on and do this. That is very helpful for my day-to-day activities, my productive attitude. When I'm trying to create, I don't have to think about anything but the creation and that is everything With social media. Do you feel like it creates tension in your life? That isn't there, because that's how I feel. I feel like I go on social media and I'm like what's my opinion about this subject? And it's like why?
Speaker 3:does that even?
Speaker 1:fucking matter.
Speaker 3:It doesn't yeah, let me just do.
Speaker 1:I'm good, I'm just all right. Keep it pushing, I don't. I don't need to care about what's going on, Right, or I don't need to add my information. Everyone literally someone has said exactly what I'm thinking already in this thread. Why do I have to say it too Exactly?
Speaker 3:And anybody can write on it too. You know you do have people you follow and friends and stuff, but also it's pretty open, or at least like Twitter or something I think it was at. Chappelle said that that Twitter isn't a real place, it's a like a bathroom wall that anybody can write on Exactly, which is even more curious that you know we are so enticed by. Well, what does everybody say? What is this random wall of? You know people think that's good that you have a little timer, like a 30 minute or whatever, because like it's fine to be on it to dip a toe or whatever. But yeah, I do get distracted pretty easy, in the sense of like I might not be even thinking of a thing, you know, yeah, and to just see one headline or one thing to make me either worry or, you know, panic or whatever the thing you know, I don't know. It's just best to limit it, I guess.
Speaker 1:Well, the thing that that makes it very scary to me and the reason why I feel the need to make an effort to eliminate it. I'll be sitting down on my phone and open up Instagram, just to open it up, to see why I got a notification, and then I'll close Instagram. Forget that I was just on Instagram. Click back on Instagram, Like why am I back here? I just.
Speaker 3:I just received it, yeah, or I need to check it and you're like you already did, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I just checked this, so it's has this power over me that I don't have any control of. That's where it's scary, that's where I'm like wait a minute, I need to be way more purposeful with this I. I was a vegan back in LA and I always bring this up, in the sense of I was very careful about what I put in my body when I was a vegan and I miss that lifestyle choice because when I would go to the grocery store, I'm looking at every package what's in this? What are the ingredients? Do I need this? Is this something I should be putting in my body?
Speaker 1:And when it comes to social media, I feel like I have to find ways to create that same evaluation, that same type of approach. Why am I doing this? Does this need to go inside of me? Do I need to consume this? Why are these girls twerking? Why do I see movies everywhere? Why is it constantly showing me this stuff that I show no interest in? Do I show interest in it and I don't even realize it? How it? I have to find a way to eliminate that helplessness that social media creates.
Speaker 3:Perfectly put. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's just empty calories, basically, right. It's the same, you know just like like a Twinkie of like man. This tastes awesome, but maybe I'm full for like five minutes or so, but now I feel really bad and now I don't want to do things. Mind me I might have a headache or whatever. It's just like, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:Larry and I met back in Los Angeles and made a music video together for my tune Sweet Dreams. I've kept in touch with Larry because he and I have always bonded. It was easy conversation today ideas. We always were on the same wavelength, and that's what I'm hoping to do more in my life now Surround myself with like-minded people. It's a struggle for me because I have so many people in my life that I love, but I feel the distance between us more and more. We're growing apart, and it's not a bad thing. It's just something that I have to understand. Not overwhelming myself is key, and having people like Larry around just makes things easier something that I've already spoken about on the pod, but I'm willing to talk about this every day for the rest of my life. This Kendrick Lamar GNX album yes, and then GNX specifically is something that I feel like. You have to have lived in California that truly get why it's significant. You know like I understand. The beef is a different thing I'm talking about that specific album.
Speaker 1:the album that it reminds me of and I'm wondering if this is true with you is Nipsey Hussle's Victory Lap. Oh for sure?
Speaker 3:Well, ironically, this album is a victory lap you know, is it not? Exactly, that's why?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah for sure. It reminds me of that album because it's so LA, it's so California and the stuff that he's referencing throughout the whole project. If you don't live on the West Coast or know people from out there, you don't get it, you don't understand it. So I see a lot of people who are saying this is one of his weaker projects and I'm like this is one of the stronger projects for me, I like every element that he did.
Speaker 1:I love the Luther tune when he brings a love part to it. My favorite, I think I'm just going to say it's my favorite now, because there's so many. Hey, now Say Now is amazing. Dodger Blue is amazing, all these great songs, but my favorite is the hard part. Six, ooh, yeah. I just feel like he has found the way to advance himself at every level when it comes to his craft and to get to a place where he's on this album that I bet you. This album wasn't planned until the beef started. Then he was like you know what? I'm going to make an album now just because, but to put something together like this and then to put that track on it where he's revealing his mental like.
Speaker 1:I was working so hard because eventually I felt like the goal was to be independent, to be a businessman, and I didn't realize how many people and obstacles I was knocking down and not communicating with properly to achieve that goal. And now I'm at this place now where I have clarity and I understand everything around me. It isn't just me. Yes, I deserve all of these accolades because I worked hard for them, but also I'm a human, they're humans and I need to create those relationships and communication. I need to continue that because these people are all I have. Yeah, yeah, these are the people who inspired me. They're everything to me. And to put that on that project, it makes it seem like that project was. It was planned from the start.
Speaker 3:Start, it was too well orchestrated to just be thrown together, you know yeah, especially when, like, he wasn't even the guy at the time, you know, back with td, but it was a what j-rock was supposed to be the one.
Speaker 3:So it's like for him to just be taking notes, kind of in the shadows and just like I and even like schoolboy and stuff. He's like I don't even know if I was supposed to be the guy, but it's's like then that happened obviously to the pop out. That's what made it so beautiful too, you know, when all of them are there. Hard Part Six. And also, too, I'm happy he took that title back because Drake's Hard Part Six was garbage. But it was just nice. He was like, hey, this is also called that, but the real version.
Speaker 1:So you know, when you listen to the album, what? What does it give you? Does it give you memories, does it give you inspiration, like I, and I say that in the sense that hip-hop is still here, it's not dead. Uh, what, what do you get when you, when you listen to gnx?
Speaker 3:well, you know what kendrick just has always been embodiment of rap, is still around like true hip-hop exists. Because, as a person who grew up with that that game and studied the game and loved it so much, so what it gives me is a lot of confidence because it's just like, like I said, it's his victory lap, you know.
Speaker 3:I don't know where this album's start was, you know of, hey, let's do a full album. I'd like to think it was maybe before Not Like Us, or when he was kind of getting that going saying if we can put all this stuff together quickly, what can we do with a little planning? Put all this stuff together quickly, what could we do with a little planning? You know so, between not like us's release, obviously the pop out being the massive thing in between that space, it was just like him figuring out. That's why I like the album so much. It was just all the albums.
Speaker 3:Everything has led to this, I think, because even mr morale was the first time after like his therapy, I assume right, I think he said that, but it's like I did right. I think he said that, but it's like I did therapy. This is how I feel and that's why it's a double album too. There's just so much to express and now, with this album, he doesn't have to do that. He's done that. That's out of the system. Now this is more like this is what I do, this is who I am. I believe this, I eat this, this. You know I won't bring up the beef or whatever, but even without him saying to to drake. You know like, only you like being famous. Like I don't even care about fame, I care about the message I care about. I'm such a a bigger, important piece that even when I'm gone I might even resonate more you know money, power, respect.
Speaker 1:And the last one's better. There's a lot of goofies with a check like him saying that you understand what he's saying yeah, you got money, you got power, but I got respect. People respect me, people hear me.
Speaker 3:Yes, no, yes, oh, he's for real yes, there are murals of me being painted and yeah, it's just like well, even that too. It's like drake couldn't do in canada what kendrick did in la, because drake didn't have enough people to come out. He doesn't have supporters. That, to me, is very telling too, of like, how many people show up to your birthday party or something? Not that that's a big deal, but I mean, like you know, it's like everybody could show up. It's basically that drake makes, you know, fast food music. It's very digestible, anybody can have it he doesn't represent canada.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, he doesn't rap like he's from canada. Sure, he will claim memphis to make him sound more hood. Before he know he'll say the six and then he'll be like, well you know, my daddy from Memphis.
Speaker 3:He'll claim a lot of places. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:His label is based out of new Orleans, like he doesn't have a home. Yes, and Toronto is the six he is at the Raptors games.
Speaker 3:He's doing that, but I mean what do you learn about Toronto when?
Speaker 1:you hear his music. When you listen to Kendrick, you learn about the lifestyle of a person living in LA For sure.
Speaker 3:In that lifestyle.
Speaker 1:you understand that he isn't joking when he says this stuff. There's moments on one song where he was like if I told you that I killed somebody, would you believe me? Right, and you have to sit down and think, wait a minute. Wait a minute. He could be literally doing this to troll us because maybe he Damn I can't believe it If Drake said that same line.
Speaker 3:you'd be like dude you used to be a little bit grassy. Come on, yeah, you'd laugh, you. Come on we don't believe you. I like Drake with the melodies. I don't like Drake when he acts up.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, exactly On top of the fact the quotables are ridiculous. That's why I continue to go back to thinking that he did everything purposefully. He knew exactly what he was doing, from the beginning to the end. Like that, he knew this all was going to happen. All the way to gmx, I think it was all planned, the thing that hit the most, the thing that showed me that kendrick won on meet the grams. I don't care about him having another kid, I don't care about any of that stuff whatever I don't care about him not really being black.
Speaker 1:I don't care about that he's. He's a black dude, all of us. You know if you got black and you're black. But when he said you lied about your religion, you lied about this. You never gave us anything to believe in like when he was hitting those.
Speaker 1:No, like those points. Yeah, you lied about this, you lied about that. What? Why should we care about you? A percent, that was when he lost the battle. A hundred percent Not like us was the beginning of the victory lap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he was actually using words to explain the things we all were feeling about.
Speaker 3:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:Clearly wrote it out like this is what we feel about you. That's why you aren't the best rapper. The idea you can have a ghost rapper and then come on be like, oh, everybody has ghost rappers, no, they don't. No, especially in hip-hop. Yep, this isn't something that you could just write off and still say you're the best, you're not. No, no, no. You know the album.
Speaker 1:He continued to express I deserve this because I put the work in, because I'm a writer. Pull it to winter. Yeah, this ain't something, this ain't something that I just kind of do. I live this culture, yes, yes. And rap culture is something that is very difficult for me to process. People who aren't from America. I get that it's everywhere. I get that it's influenced. I get that it's influenced. But I just watched his interview that Vince Staples did and he said it the best. He was talking to some lady and she was interviewing him and she asked him so when did you fall in love with hip hop? And he was like I don't understand what your question is. And she was like what you don't love? Hip hop? He's like I'm black. I wasn't introduced to hip hop. Hip hop is a part of my culture. I don't even remember I grew up and hip hop was already a part of my life.
Speaker 3:Sure yeah.
Speaker 1:And when I heard that, I'm like that is exactly how I feel when it comes to hip hop, no-transcript, kind of do it sometimes, but this is Black day, this is a part of your life. I don't think that Drake could ever embody that, right, oh no.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, that's why, even going back to that lyric you just brought up, I preface it with I used to be a Drake fan. You know the first two, three albums, maybe four views, was awesome. I went to concerts and stuff. But then, even with that line, then we never gave us anything to believe and even it had me reflecting. The whole beef had me reflecting. Yeah, oh yeah. Why do we look up to this person and obviously he's fallen off the last couple albums, I think just because there's nothing relatable. No, it's more just money and weird random shouting out people in his crew, we don't know, like and tell chubbs to get the 40 with the 40. I'm like who and what and why. You know it's like it's, it's. It's either not personal or too personal, I don't know, but it's just there's nothing there there. Um, so it's just amazing to have a reminder of a person who cause everybody.
Speaker 2:That's the whole hip hop thing, too, is I'm the best.
Speaker 3:No, I'm the best, no, I'm the greatest, I'm the great. We can't. There's just no debating anymore. That's why again with this album is so important of you know, every track has that same energy that we all felt when he was releasing. You know the week by weeks when the beef was happening, which is like the amount of content. There's so much to chew on, even from the first damn track. I knew that too when with uh, I'm like okay, I started that I ended up I go.
Speaker 3:well, I have to listen to this again, cause.
Speaker 2:I didn't get most. You know I'm like there's too much.
Speaker 3:You know you go back and go back and go back and like wait, there's more to listen to Holyle, you know. So it's like it's an onslaught of person who's been working their whole life, really putting in the work, and doesn't expect any rewards back. You know, he lost to Dan McElmore that Grammy. That's disgusting. Those little things I'm sure bug him, but it's just like enough time has passed and he's waited in the shadows. He's held onto this grudge against Drake for so long that he just said all right, enough's enough. Like somebody just needs to come out and say it, and not just in a verse and not like a cute diss track or two. So I think you're right.
Speaker 3:I think he has been building towards this, because it's just like now he has the biggest spotlight on him of his career ever. What do you do with that? Oh, I, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make it very la based. I'm gonna have some unknown artists on it to give them a shot, you know the moment that everything that's happening now started, the moment he heard first person shooter oh yeah oh, yeah, yeah that big is the super bowl.
Speaker 1:He was like, okay, I'm gonna give you a super bowl. This is so hard and be so relevant that I'm gonna do the next super bowl, like that's what I think really. So he he was like no, I'm going to do the Super Bowl Definitely Because we all know Kendrick's big enough to do that.
Speaker 2:Yes, he already did.
Speaker 1:He's already done it, it's like the idea that Drake was acting like he was so below him and it's like Drake dude, when was your last good album? And you're opposite of me because I feel bad. I used to be a huge Drake fan, but you know, when I was a Drake fan was Heartbreak Drake and so Far Gone Drake. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, before his first album, yeah, so Far Gone I thought he was going to be the future of hip hop. His first album came out and I was unimpressed.
Speaker 3:The first one was whatever came out, and I was unimpressed. The first one was whatever. Take Care was my shit, though.
Speaker 1:Everyone loves Take Care. I did not enjoy Take Care whatsoever. I didn't care. I didn't care about the stuff he was talking about. He wasn't rapping about anything that I related to. I felt like I didn't enjoy any of the stuff he was talking about, the way he was carrying himself, and then he just continued to grow and I'm just like I mean, there's tunes that I mean, if passion fruit come on, I will, I will do this. But I never clung to a full project of his being like damn, this is it with kendrick, section 80, sure, oh yeah, right off the bat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good capacities the next album and to pimple butterfly and then the pimple butterfly was just everybody going wait, you can't switch like this, can you? Like we were expecting to be like I'll, I'll do whatever I want. Here's some jazz for you.
Speaker 1:I'd say this to people all the time. The first time I listened to pimple butterfly, I remember exactly what I said after the last song, mortal man. I remember turning it off and sitting back in my seat and being like that might have been the best album I've ever heard in my life. Like I remember saying that so clearly, like that was unlike anything anyone else is putting out right now. Sure, and I was a huge I'm still a huge jay coals fan.
Speaker 1:It broke my heart that he jumped out of this. And I think the reason why I broke my heart was more because if he was just J Cole doing J Cole things and rapping and not mentioning that he'll battle anybody, cool. But the fact that he comes out and he says things about you know, I can smoke anybody on this mic or I'm the best you know, you know I'm on 10, not nine kind of thing Like he is on this, another level of rapping and then an opportunity comes out where, ok, test it. And he's like, yeah, I'm not going to test it. Yeah, I was heartbreaking to see, because it's like you didn't have to say all of this stuff in the first place. Yeah, you could have just been the rapper you are. Kendrick could have come out and you could have put out a statement saying hey, kendrick's my brother. I'm not going to say anything about Kendrick, but you let these people gas you up and you came out here and did something that you shouldn't have done in the first place.
Speaker 3:And you called it Mike Delete later. So you didn't even have confidence in the existence of that thing.
Speaker 1:It just broke my heart because I was like that's something that people will use against him and he's such an inspiring, incredible artist. One of my favorite songs that J Cole did is called Friends on his KOD album, and he's talking about his people and like he's having a conversation with someone that he loves so dearly and he is trying to tell them like you just need to meditate, not medicate yourself with weed and drugs, like you don't need that, like I'm here for you. Like it was so incredible and he did a lot of performances of it when he did All Star, he was so good, so all of these people inspired me and drake never got to that level. That's the whole, this whole thing, gotcha.
Speaker 1:Gotcha broke my heart, but he still puts out music and stuff that I can hear and I'll be like that is top tier mc work. Drake has put out stuff where I'm just like why, why? And it sucks, because it's like I don't want to be so negative towards somebody. But then you have people come online saying he's the best to do it, he's greater than Michael Jackson, and it's like all right.
Speaker 1:I think this is why Kendrick came out, because it's like no, he isn't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, he sat on it for a very long time.
Speaker 1:And then the number one thing, and going back to the GNX aspect of this, everything Kendrick said in any of his from Euphoria, everything in Euphoria came true. Yes, oh, exactly Everything, yep, yep. The one thing that he brought up is that you never give us anything to believe in. You know, I make music that electrify them, you make music that pacify, and when you think about that, one of my favorite things that's come out since GNX, like with other artists, seeing what Kendrick did and saying I'm coming out to do my best work, one of my favorite things that came out was Tyler the creators that guy freestyle freestyle yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, you can hear the energy that that track inspired him to have in his rap. You can hear inspired him to have right in his rap. You can hear he was like this is where I want to be too. Yes, so I'm gonna get on this track and I'm gonna flex just how talented I am. Yes, instead of looking at hip-hop as this, like let's make it fun. So he's like no, I'm here to rap, to let you know I'm the one of the best in the game too that's right.
Speaker 3:Right, I'm also.
Speaker 1:LA and I love it. You don't get that from any of Drake. No one's freestyling over family matters. No one's freestyling over pushups. No one's thinking of no one's quoting that shit anymore. Exactly the only quotable on those that I will always give to Drake. Kendrick just opened his mouth. Someone go give him a great one right now.
Speaker 1:That is a quotable line, and you know why. It isn't just because he opened his mouth is because he's one of the best rappers, and you saying that proves just how you know you're so sick of him. He's always getting rewards. I'm so sick of him and it's like you know why he's getting him Because he's better than you Period getting him because he's better than you, period.
Speaker 2:Um, it's so refreshing to hear that too, because a lot of times I felt crazy during all this, like the fact that people are even you know the fact.
Speaker 3:That's even a debate like we're not debating though right, this is a joke like no one's ai.
Speaker 1:No one should have believed that he was going to win that battle right, yeah, just just.
Speaker 3:And then it was just kind of great to see that downfall happen in real time was going from him using ai, you know, to, which is the most insulting thing I think I've ever heard. Yeah, using even tupac was just no, just so not right.
Speaker 1:Still alive, stupid, still alive what's out here?
Speaker 3:but it is true like he's probably too stoned to even realize that was. He was like what? When did I do that? All right, I don't know. So he's just too stoned to even realize that was.
Speaker 1:He was like what, when did I do that and how? Everyone was talking about Tyson, and not only that fight. It might also be the Ronda Rousey fight, when she lost her first battle in UFC. You think about those two fights. Deontay Wilder was America's champion. Everyone was saying he was just this. He was just that he hits so hard. It doesn't matter who he goes against, he's going to win Ronda. She's the greatest of all time. I, literally before that fight, had a debate with one of my friends about Serena Williams and her who's the greatest female athlete of all time and I literally had to stop because I was about to throw my computer because I was like how are we having this discussion?
Speaker 1:because I was like how are we having this discussion? Serena has been dominant since I was in elementary school and you're trying to say this girl, who's won eight fights in a row, is a better athlete and she's only fought for maybe 10 minutes all around because she was beating people in a minute. Are you serious? Is this real life? It all felt like this Drake and Kendrick thing and when Ronda lost, I wasn't surprised when Deontay lost. I'm a boxing fan. I watch boxing. I know what these dudes do. I'm not someone who just turns on the big fight. When the big fight comes on, I knew Tyson Fury was going to come in there and be him and he beat him the first time when they draw. There was a draw that time and I was like, okay, you know what's going to happen. Tyson Fury is going to go train, he's going to bulk up and he's going to come back and give you no doubts that he's a better boxer. And he bulked up.
Speaker 2:You no doubts that he's a better boxer and he bulked up.
Speaker 1:He came back and he beat the shit out of deontay wilder and people were so confused like I just thought he was gonna come through. And I'm like, if you watch boxing, if you know this, you knew he wasn't gonna do it. If you listen to hip-hop, if you know this, you knew drake wasn't gonna be able to beat Kendrick. And I remember the night that Family Matters came out and everyone was so crazy Like he's, he's winning. Right now, he's winning the battle. Family Matters wasn't even better than Euphoria Not at all.
Speaker 3:The only reason people, I think, were more showing that love is just because he had a different flow. He sounded more aggressive. We haven't heard that in a very long time. And and for the average, I guess, drake listener being like, yeah, he's hard, now he's got it, and like he hasn't rapped like this in a very long time. If anything, that's good, that's inspired him to do that. But what is he saying to that? Because anybody can spit fast but what are you saying?
Speaker 1:And when you listen to what he said, that song is like, oh, this isn't what I thought it was right. It was just dope in the moment because we were like, wow, he's saying this.
Speaker 2:But we were brought back to reality immediately with meet the grams, right, uh, yes and I agree too oh, oh, no, no, that song wasn't that good, uh-huh yeah, that's right, right, yeah, that wasn't that good, you just heard what that that was a song.
Speaker 3:That's why forever that that that beef should be studied and stuff.
Speaker 3:Because he went after that man's character, he went after him in a way that, if it's almost like who cares about the listener drake if you're listening to this and I want to talk directly to you, I almost want to help you that he offers advice, and you know it's like yeah, yeah, pretty, pretty special. It is great that we got to witness it all. I will teach my kids that like a history lesson being like it started here. This is where it went, he did, he did get the Super Bowl, he did get that Grammy.
Speaker 1:You know it's just like I feel like the two things you and I vibed on from the jump when we first met was music and movies. We were able to talk very freely about those when we met up and I'm curious to hear your perspective on where you think cinema is. Cinema is A great way to know where I am right now is every Christmas. Since I was in middle school, I think every Christmas, we go see a movie Every year. It's not a debate. We're going to see a movie every single year this year well, last year 2024, was the first Christmas we did not go see a movie. That's how I feel it's the best way to describe just where I think cinema is right now. I had no desires to go and see a movie this year, and I'm not saying that that means the whole year sucks. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that it's not producing the quality that I remember when it comes to the big screen. You can still go see like that.
Speaker 1:I like Brad Pitt and George Clooney's the Wolves movie that came out on Apple TV. I actually liked Fly Me to the Moon. A lot of people said they didn't enjoy that with Scarlett Johansson and Shannon Tatum. I'm a huge Marvel fan, so Deadpool and Wolverine was phenomenal. I'm never going to say anything bad about it. The only Marvel movie I will openly say was bad was Thor, love and Thunder, because I just felt so upset with that movie. Even with Star Wars I'm the same way.
Speaker 1:I understand people hate the prequels and they hate the sequels. But I'm re-watching the sequels right now. I went through the Force Awakening and the idea in my head I was like I'm rewatching the sequels right now. I went through the Force Awakening and the idea in my head I was like I'm going to watch this without everyone's take. Is this a good movie? Does this movie have this? I'm not going to think about the fact that it's somewhat the same plot as episode four. I'm not going to think about that, I'm just going to watch it. Do I enjoy it?
Speaker 1:And I did the Last Jedi. I watched that again and I was like do I enjoy this? I don't like what they did with Luke, but it was beautiful what they did with that film. And then the last one I will say was the weakest of the three.
Speaker 1:But when I rewatched it and I got out of my head about the Emperor coming back out of nowhere and her having to be a Palpatine. It's like she didn't have to be one, but they had to make it happen. And her having to be a Palpatine is like she didn't have to be one, but they had to make it happen, and then she becomes a Skywalker at the end and I'm just like that's pointless storytelling. None of that stuff had to happen for this story, but it happened. So now, how do I take this? Until the next part of Star Wars lore, and I was able to truly enjoy it and love that, and I feel like that is something that I get from a lot of films still to this day. But also it's been very, very different this year. So what do you feel, if anything, about what I just said about the state of the cinema? Right, now?
Speaker 3:Well, I think so. I want to talk about two things the state of it and then the Star Wars thing. The state of the cinema I think that it's visibly apparent that the movie going experience is less, because we're all just aware that something could be available the next day. You know, I mean, even Wicked really surprised me because it's doing very well at the box office day. You know, streaming even wicked really surprised me because it's doing very well at the box office, it's pretty beloved and stuff. And they threw that thing on digital, uh, less than two months after its release, which, like just so they can make money.
Speaker 1:It was just so they can make more. Yeah, I'm like, do y'all like?
Speaker 3:do y'all owe people something? I'm like, why are you that antsy for it? Like, yeah, we all know the, the producers and whatnot. They're a little greedy but like to that, that level it's pretty interesting. But therefore, though, I think, cause what you said, going to Christmas, you know there are a lot of people who have movie theater traditions that even while COVID was going on and people saying, is this the end of theaters and stuff, I was not worried about that at all, cause independent theaters, yeah, sadly, like that's hard, it's theaters are expensive, it's hard to run one, but the bigger chains I've never been afraid of. I'm still not, I still believe in it, just because there are movie experiences still, like Christopher Nolan's working on the Odyssey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's going to be crazy. You're going to not see that on the big screen he's creating new technology with IMAX, like you will go.
Speaker 3:Even the Barbenheimer effect, like all these different things that there are, events that us as a culture kind of agree on. You know, even marvel movies are still that dc is just getting ramped up. You know one superman when superman comes out, I'm on there.
Speaker 1:Open the floodgates, because now you'll have me too.
Speaker 3:Now you'll have dc actually putting out good material and that will make marvel set up their game. Marvel has been coasting just because they have no competition exactly. So of course you're course you're going to get some, you know, lame ones every now and then, but the fact that they could actually compete, that's just superhero movies alone keeping it afloat. But then you also, I always have a lot of faith in horror, because that's why, with movie studios now, it's either like a 200 million dollar action thing or a two million dollar thing, be it comedy, horror and horror, audiences are more drawn to because they like originality, yeah, and even like Nosferatu. All my theaters out here were sold out Christmas day, really, yeah, and for like that week it was hard to get a seat because people just wanted to go see a thing and that just happened to be the thing, yeah, which is telling to, you know, just just horror in.
Speaker 3:In general, I think people appreciate being in a room with everybody and seeing the story unfurl, you know, and everybody can. You know there's, so there's, there's a lot of opportunity for it to still exist and I think it will just, you know, not like what we used to remember it. As you know, there's a reason that there's not like 10 things playing, because it's hard to get wide releases or even limited releases. It's much easier to just get a deal with Netflix or Amazon, whatever you know. But I think that people you know, moviegoers are smart, and they have been throughout all time that we just want a good story, we want something that's original. So, to wrap it to the Star Wars, that didn't work out because of the writing. Yeah, it was horrible. They didn't go into it with let's write a full story that these three movies will tell. It's I don't know this. And now a new director, maybe this, and you know.
Speaker 1:I couldn't believe. Why would you split up directors for a trilogy it made no?
Speaker 3:sense it's. It's, yeah, interesting, that's an interesting. Anyway, though, like if you ever see a bad movie or something that you're confused by, or why didn't that hit like 99.9 percent of the time? It's the script. Always you can have a bad director come in and it would still be fine. Maybe the words can carry it, but it's so hard for actors, directors, lighting anything to breathe life into a bad script. So even with star wars, yeah, those are not the Rian Johnson is he the strongest writer? I don't know. Maybe for some things, but yeah, that's for debate.
Speaker 1:Yeah like Knives Out worked in Glass Onion worked, with those kind of like expectations being crushed because that that's really what he was doing. He was finding ways to. How can I make this so that you cannot predict what's going to happen? And it just didn't work with Star Wars, because we don't really go to a Star Wars movie to be confused. We feel like we know the world, we know how people are, we feel like we grew up with Luke Skywalker, so we know the kind of person Luke Skywalker is. And when you tell us that people change and it's like, yes, but this dude was in front of darth vader and the emperor and they were telling him to come to the dark side, and he was like I believe you still have light in you. How does he do that? But then one day has a, a panic and almost kill his nephew. Yeah, what are you serious? Yeah, he's literally a Zen master. That's what they do. They're Zen people. And you're telling me he wasn't able to keep his composure for two seconds.
Speaker 3:Well, that's right With his own nephew, that was mind-blowing. Yeah, that was silly. They were in panic mode because Episode 7 was compared to 4 a lot, so they just said, all right, let's just go off the rails. Then, you know, have it be a little wild and like you know gosh Leia doing the thing in space.
Speaker 1:Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3:I feel like they found ways to just piss me off throughout that. Going back to the movie theater, I remember so vividly when that moment happened, seeing it, and when Leia does her magic trick or whatever and the whole audience gasps but not in a good way, you could tell it was everyone kind of just like are you seeing this too? You know, like that's almost like yeah, that was a moment, that was a, but yeah again, it always just comes down to the script, wrapping it from star wars to movie theaters. Just as long as it's a good story, people will float towards it. You know, even like the netflix shows that are so bingeable is for a reason. There's something people connect with. Squid Game is on accident with how well that's doing, just based on the material it's. What can people relate to?
Speaker 1:My last take and I'll say this real quick. I think what you're saying is so true, but I think it's more of a deeper meaning to what you're saying. The writing is bad, but there are millions of people out there who can write incredible things, that should be able to do this. But the connections to the people who run this, the money breadwinners, the top of the top when you think of these studios, the person who says yes or no, they live in this world where they'll never have to actually meet any other writers you know. So you could have somebody online who pitched an incredible fan fiction and they could give that to that person and that can be like who is this? It's a nobody. I want somebody like Rian Johnson, someone that I know.
Speaker 1:I trust him, I work with him and they pass on incredible stuff simply because of relationships and politics behind the scenes, and I think that's truly what's ruining cinema right now. You have people who have nothing to do with movies telling you hey, we need to make this much money, period. Oh for sure, I don't know, I don't care. Let's get Timothy Charlemagne, because he's the person that everyone knows right now. Can we get Zendaya? Great, let's get Zendaya, too. Those are going to bring millions of eyes that we don't even have the work to get.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:How can we continue to add to this? Oh, josh Brolin great. Okay, let's grab him. Who else can we grab? Oh, let's go. But Baptista wants to do this Great, let's grab him. All right, how much marketing do we really have to do? How much work do we really have to do? These stars will lead this enough. We can spend a couple thousand dollars on a writer. We don't need to get a great writer, because the stars are going to carry the movie. Oh, yeah, for sure. And it's like that is not the way that you work.
Speaker 3:But sadly that's kind of been how cinema has always been too. You know, I my my main, one of my main dudes I look up to directing wise is Buster Keaton silent film star, and I've been reading a book on him is, and it's like in the 1920s they still had the same problem and 30s and 40s. That's why we have movie stars to just guide a thing. You know, be like that face on this poster. You know, john Wayne made a lot of shitty movies. You know kind of, yeah, but it's just because slap them on, you know, and it makes it so, yeah, we are still in that. It's just always been that, though you know, that's just sadly how it's run. But then that's why it's nice when things hit, you know, or you have like an everything everywhere, all at once where it's a movie made by underdogs, you know, just because they wanted to tell this story.
Speaker 3:That's it there's. Who cares about awards, who cares about who's in it or any of that shit? Let's just make it the best it can be and look at that one best picture because people could feel that. So I don't think that model will ever change, even with streaming and all that stuff, cause clearly now we have, you know, there's so many movies that stars are in that you put on and go. Is that even real? You know, like I haven't even seen promotion for this or whatever, but it's still just how it works. I guess you know.
Speaker 2:Every time I see your pretty face, my thoughts they drift right into space. I kneel down and ask for this simple wish that you could be standing right here. Pretty miss. I flip coins in the pot outside. I drive around just to think and ride. I'm pretty missed. I flip coins in the pot outside, I drive around just to think and ride when this girl and boy would love to be. I guess we have to wait and see these sweet dreams of you and I. Your smile is the reason why Don't pass me by. Oh my, this love, my, oh my, it will never die.
Speaker 1:It will never die. This is the first tune off of my first album, sweet Dreams, titled Sweet Dreams. Of course, like I said earlier, I actually made the music video for this song with Larry in Los Angeles at a bar in Highland Park I believe and it was just a damn good time working with him and we always were inspired to work with each other, so it was really cool that we got that opportunity. You can listen to my music on all streaming platforms so you can check me out for more information at DonLamorecom, where you can get anything and everything Don Lamore.
Speaker 1:Know what I love? I'm really, really enjoying the bear right now. I've been watching the bear. I stopped after season one because, like I said, I used to work in restaurants and it was very traumatic watching that first season because there was moments where I was like I've been through this and this was exactly how it was and it was horrifying to see how realistic it actually was in the things that it sparked in me and I had to take a break and that's incredible to be able to do that with the story, to make me feel and really reflect and understand just how incredible the work was. So the Bear I took that break and I'm back on season two now and I just got through half of the season loving it Best thing that I could have done while my wife is out of town. What are you loving?
Speaker 3:right now I'm loving Spielberg movies. I'm a filmmaker, I love to make films and stuff. That man is the North Compass to creativity. Creativity to why one should just keep working, you know, stepping up their game. When I say him, I've been going through his filmography, so from the early stuff, to just kind of see how he's grown. So I'm loving that right now. I'm loving all the behind the scenes stuff, because it's nice to see somebody work on something that they truly love. He's not any in it for any other reason than the love of the game, and if you are fortunate enough to find yourself in occupation like that, you got to remind yourself not everybody can do this, you know, not everybody has had this chance. It's just it's beautiful to see skill and love wrapped together.
Speaker 1:That's what that dude does well, we made it to the end of the show. I appreciate your time. I appreciate seeing your face Likewise. Likewise, we got through everything we want to talk about. Last thing I always ask before we get off the pod is how do you feel?
Speaker 3:Oh, feeling good, Feeling inspired, feeling ready, feeling like I got my war paint on and let's just go. You know, whatever that means Projects, life, let's go.
Speaker 1:That's how I'm feeling, yeah man, Ah man Cheers to you. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Yeesh Right back at you.
Speaker 1:I want to thank you for listening to the Black man Talking Emotions podcast. The opening quote. Credit goes to Terrell Owens. And shout out to my guy, Larry Follow Larry at Larry Rod Graham on Instagram. Please subscribe to the podcast, share the podcast and give us a good rating Five stars, please, and thank you. You can support the show by clicking the link at the bottom of the episode description. If you liked this episode, you should check out a previous episode I did with a close friend titled Shannon O'Keefe on embracing change and finding joy. It's a great lesson. Check it out. Follow me at D-O-M underscore L-A-M-O-U-R on Instagram or at DomLamorecom. I'm Dom Lamore. Much love.
