“A discipline man is a dangerous man”

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. What it do, man? Listen, this is the king me part and I'm your host, B. [00:00:16] Speaker B: And I'm Q the Don. [00:00:17] Speaker A: And listen, man, we got a real simple. I don't know what to say, man. We, you know, we just gonna kind of coast through the day today, man. But before we actually really get started, man, I really want to put a plug in and talk about some of the things that happened this past week with, I don't know, somebody did a correlation of 2000 2021, January 6, where the Capitol Donald Trump had some of the magas went and stormed the Capitol, right? And then some. Somebody put that correlation 2021 to like 2026. And you know, we had him where Donald Trump send the troops into Venezuela to attain the president of Venezuela, which some people is, you know, feel like it's. Some people feel like he kidnapped the president and his wife. Personally, I feel the exact same way, but I really wanted to kind of highlight this part, right, because there's a lot of things kind of going on around our country and sometimes, you know what I'm saying, we don't know what to do. Sometimes I believe we don't feel like it affect us directly, you know what I'm saying? Because the way we view the world, see, we got this small part in this world, man, in our life, small part. But the world is much bigger than what we live in. And a lot of things kind of going on transpire and then we don't see the trickle effect, how it affect us. But at some point in time, you know what I'm saying, it gonna affect us and then not only gonna affect us, it gonna affect our livelihood. And you might be wondering, like, why am I speaking about this, right? Well, I'm speaking about this because, you know, it's certain things that we personally can do, you know what I'm saying? Citizens like, you know, get involved with our local politicians, you know what I'm saying? What's going on in our community and stuff like that and really actually get involved, right? Because at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying, we all are here together, no matter your race, your religion. Like, listen, we all come together, man, and sometimes the government has a way of kind of doing things and. And they look at us as numbers. And truthfully, we all gotta stick together, man. So I just wanna put that plug in for everybody, man, just to just pray, you know what I'm saying? It's a time of prayer, like pray like you never, you know, you never did before. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, we don't really know what gon be the outcome of everything, you know what I'm saying? But, man, we just gotta band together as one, you know what I'm saying? But that's what I wanted to put in. I know this was a long, drawn out, dramatic, you know what I'm saying speech, but, you know, I just wanted to plug that in. Q. How your day was, man? [00:03:20] Speaker B: My day was pretty good. My day was pretty good. Week was pretty good. I gotta speak on what you just said. I think a lot of the stuff that the government do nowadays is very divisive, very tactical in trying to get us to be separate. You get what I'm saying? Every time you get on the Internet, for some reason or another, we got this group fussing with that group, these people fussing with those people. At the end of the day, man, a lot of the same stuff affect all of us. So we gotta kind of get over that politica thing that make us go against each other because like you said, man, everybody need to band together and become, to the best of our ability, one like one community. Because we all, we are going against the same, the same oppressors. Like, I don't care how you try to look at it. And another thing, and I just got to be real. White America and black America, it's two different places. I understand, but it's the same place. But they want us to be at war with each other so bad because if they can do the job and make us be at war with each other, then they winning on both, on both ends. So, man, like I said, we, we got. It's enough going on in your regular personal life, man. We ain't got to be beefing with each other. [00:04:35] Speaker A: We don't. I totally agree. And something else actually happened this week playing Contradictory with the ice. And listen, y', all, this ain't. This ain't a typical show where we talk about politics, but it's so much been kind of going on and, and I really actually want to address which, you know, they got something on their hand with this situation. Because for one, you got. If y' all haven't seen the video before I go in details, man, I just want to express my condolences to the family. The young lady who got killed. Well, let's scratch that. Let me go back, you know, because I see a lot of people say on LIVE that got unalived by ice. Listen, it's unfortunate that that right there kind of through them Circumstances like it happened that way, you know what I'm saying? But I would say this. In my opinion, the way I look at it, you know, it looked like she was driving off to the right. She would listen to her wife and, you know, and drove off. Now, what made that officer shoot three shots in the car is beyond me. Knowing that he wasn't in any type of danger. That really kind of made me felt some type of way. And so right now, I feel like it about to be some tension in America, you know, because, for one, you know, you got lbgtq. I believe that young lady was a part of the LBGTQ community, you know. And the other part is, you know, she happened to be Caucasian, you know what I'm saying? And I told somebody yesterday that I said the first time in history, you know what I'm saying? White people actually really feel how black people feel, because. Hear me out. Hear me out. Now, reason why I say this is because now they trying to paint this young lady as the aggressor, right? And she was just driving off. Now, we seen the video, and we really. And if you've seen the video, y' all can see that this lady was not the aggressor, right? But the media try to pin her as the aggressor. She was very aggressive in the situation, right? Now, I know that make y' all feel some type of way. And if that make y' all feel some type of way, just imagine how many black Americans been shot down in the streets by police. Imagine that. And if you feel the weight of that, which you should, if you human, you should feel the weight of that. You know what I'm saying? That's how the average black American feel. That's how we feel, man. And so many other words, even. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Even to the point of man. Upstanding citizens and everything. But, man, when we get stopped by police, because our skin complexion, because the way my hair is, because the way you may look, what they may presume us to be, man, that's a scary thing in itself. So, like, you said what you should. If you feel some type of way about this situation, think about every time a young black male is stopped by a copy of we have to wonder, am I doing everything right? Is this gonna be the day when they do something to me? Like, even in your innocence, is this gonna be the day? Because I fit the description of what they say a gangster, a thug look like, even though I'm an upstanding citizen. So, man, like, I definitely agree with you on that point. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Man, man, listen, you know another part too, man. Like, I was just looking at some stuff, you know, like, I don't understand the left wing, right wing thing, but, you know, the white right wing is. Tend to be more Christian, like, you know what I'm saying? Follow Christ and follow the principles of, you know what I'm saying, Christians. And the thing is, they are the main ones who really justify how ICE handling that situation. They justifying, saying they handling in the right way. And I'm like, man, like, we have gotten to this point where, dang, like, y' all ain't human, man. Like, y' all ain't feel like I understand you see it, but you know what I'm saying? Come on, man. Like, that could be in your family member, right? And then the fact you gonna justify that talking about, like, you know, she should have just complied. She should have just complied. Like, come on, man. Like, that woman was not aggressive at all, you know, and it grieves me, man, just to see a lot of some of my peers and a lot of people who actually. Who actually speaking out about this situation and feel like the officer from ICE is justified by his action. And those are the main people that are Christian, man, like, and say they follow Christ with no type of feeling, no compassion, no nothing. Like, y' all don't feel nothing about this situation. Like, you just gonna go along with the agenda, because you know what I'm saying, you're a right wing, or you know what I'm saying, you Republican. There's no way you can sit here and you agree with everything that Donald Trump been doing, man. There's no way you gonna sit here and feel like you agree with everything. Cause if you do, man, I need for you to look in the mirror, man, and you definitely need to go repent. Now. I know it felt like I'm going on soapbox, man. I'm compassionate about this now. [00:10:20] Speaker B: And see to your point, man, just the fact of, like you said, it's a lot of Christian, but we also have to remember, too, a lot of stuff is biblical. The Bible say, in the last days, the love of many shall wax cold. So it used to be a time where you will see somebody get killed or hear about somebody getting killed, whether you knew them or not, whether you seen the footage or not, that you would kind of have compassion and you will feel for them. But we just living out the Bible times, bro, and sometime I think that goes over our head, man. You know, people don't love like they used to, man. And people have Become lovers of themselves. It ain't happen to me and mine, so it don't really matter. But you don't feel until it come down your street, bro. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Right? [00:10:58] Speaker B: You don't feel it until it's one of the people in your neighborhood. And because I'm sure everybody that something happens to feel like, oh, I ain't never got to worry about it. That ain't gonna never happen to me. If you live long enough, you don't know what predicament you might be in. You don't know what situation you might be in. So show your sympathy, show your empathy, man, because like I said, it can happen to anybody. And the fact that we're policing our own people as though we're in a third world country is crazy. So don't feel like because that happened where it happened at, that it can't never happen on your front steps, man. So that's my spill on it. [00:11:32] Speaker A: I agree, man. But moving along, man, I just had one to kind of put that out there, man, for the ones that have been falling, everything that been kind of transpiring over these past few weeks. But, Q, man, listen, I was on the way here to the studio, I was trying to think of something, but I ain't really had any particular topic in mind. I actually just wanted to talk. Actually, man, that's why I was just thinking, because you a young man and it's, you know, and I recognize that younger people have a level of challenge, you know what I'm saying? That's kind of been going on for a while now, you know what I'm saying? And I just wanted. I really just actually wanted to talk and see some of the challenges as a young man in this world, man. Some of the things that you kind of going through. And I know you just came out your 20s, so, you know, you 30, right? [00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:38] Speaker A: And so, you know, I ain't know if you want me to put your hr. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Nah, nah, I don't care. [00:12:42] Speaker A: But, you know, I know in the 30s, man, you know, I kind of learned a lot. And I seen something that Jill Scott said. I don't know if you, You, You. You seen it, man. Let me. Let me. Let me see if I can find it right quick, like. And she. She said something and about what people should do in their. In their 30s. And let me see if I can find it, man. I might came. She. She was doing an interview. I wish I could. I wish it'd pull up, how she felt about something. Anyway, she was speaking to what men and women should Do. And they should be, at some point in time in their 30s. But she may be in her 50s. And I'm thinking she was saying that. Cause I can't really actually pull it up right quick. Like, let me see if I can find it. Yeah, I probably ain't gonna be able to pull it up. But anyway, she was just saying that in your 30s, you should be a little more. You should know what you want at this point. You know what I'm saying? Stage in your life. And I just wanna ask you, man, how so what's some of the challenges you've been having, man? Like, honestly, in this day and age. [00:14:18] Speaker B: Honestly, I think the biggest challenge with us in our age bracket is, for one, opportunities and finances. Really? Really. To me, those will be the biggest. The biggest challenges. Because I was having a discussion with some older guys actually yesterday, and we were just talking about. These guys are roughly. I think they're in their fit from anywhere from the age of maybe 50 to, like 70. We, we outside in the yard, we just kicking it. We just got on. Like, they were saying how this time period, we got it made. Like, we. [00:14:53] Speaker A: We. [00:14:53] Speaker B: We way farther along than them. And I'm like, y' all say that, but y' all don't look at it from our perspective. Now, I know. I know every generation had and has had their challenges and all of that, but I feel like with us, man, one of the topics that came up, the guy was like. Mr. Lee was like, well, when I first started working, I think he said the minimum wage was $3 and something. I said, that's cool. So I asked him, I said, how long ago was this? He said, 40 plus years. I said, now you said three something. I said, in 40 years, we've only gone to 725. I said, but the price of stuff has gone up 700%. So he was like, but yeah, y' all can make more money. Then there's the problem with the opportunities. So if you go to school and all of that, the first thing they want to say is, you need experience. First you need a degree. You go get your degree. Now you need experience. So it's like at no point do it ever feels like we can kind of get over the hurdle like that. And to me, that's been like, the most challenging and difficult part. Like, for us, it feel like the goal post keep on getting moved. Like, when you young, they tell you, man, you go work hard, you can attain this, you can obtain that. The average price of a house to own a home is roughly about $300,000, which is you telling somebody. And I understand we in our 30s. Well, when you get to 30, they feel like you should be kind of getting on the other side of things. That works when the goal posts don't keep on getting moved. So at the end of the day, when whenever we sitting there, sitting here and we like, okay, in order for a young person to get an apartment, they got to make three times that rent. When the average price of stuff is 900, a thousand, 1200, you know, it's those type of prices. So now you telling somebody fresh out of school or with no schooling, no secondary schooling, like, you got to make this type of money. So you're like, man, I can't get no clean start. Like. So for me, that's being like the most difficult part, like navigating in our time period, just, you know, finances and we don't know a lot of stuff about finance. We don't know about anything that we learning for the most part is we learning by ourselves, like high yield savings and stuff like that. So we trying to learn that, trying to navigate life and just getting opportunities. And to me, that's about the hardest part. [00:17:20] Speaker A: So the opportunity is very rare. Well, you know, it's funny that you speak on that and I know a lot of times, I guess it all depends. Me and my wife was talking about, you know, stuff like that. We was talking. We actually was talking about this subject a while ago, man, like last year. And you know, she was talking about South Carolina in particularly Florence. And she was speaking on like, she feel like Florence is more of a retirement place, you know what I'm saying? But we do have. [00:17:52] Speaker B: We. [00:17:52] Speaker A: At one point in time, we had some major industries here that end up went out of business. And most of the business went out of business during 2008 when the stock market crashed, when the housing market crashed and everything kind of went. Went down. But I wanna say is, you ever thought about the opportunity of just moving and going to other cities? Of course you still risk the fact that cost of living might be a lot more, but the opportunities might be, you know, vast. [00:18:24] Speaker B: I've thought about that before because sometimes you could feel like a lion in a cage that ain't big enough. Yeah. So in that thought process too, I also had this thought, sometimes wherever God plants you at, you got to try to bloom there. Like, and I know that sounds like kind of crazy saying that being as to what I just said, but sometimes you got to try to bloom there because there's no written rule that says if I go this place, it might work out better because you got a million other people trying to go to the same place for the same opportunity. [00:19:00] Speaker A: True. [00:19:00] Speaker B: So it's a complex thing, man. Like I said, you really gotta be. [00:19:08] Speaker A: I believe the word of God said, and I believe it's in songs. God order my steps. And like, really, in this day and time, man, even more so back in the day, I be thinking about, like, Abraham, like, how. You know what I'm saying? Like, God told him to leave from his kindred folks. And. And then, you know what I'm saying? And he had no sense of direction and way to go. He just went away. You know what I mean? And you know, in those times, men really had to lean on God during that time. Because can you imagine God telling you to leave? And you got everything right here, like. Cause you know, you comfortable, so he telling you to leave out your comfortable place. You know what I'm saying? And I got more for you. And he went out. And then, you know, I guess between him and his cousin, they got into it a lot. They got into it. Him and his, you know, his maze and everything else got into each other. And so they split. Right? [00:20:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:20:13] Speaker A: But then that's when God spoke to him again and say, look to the east, west, north, south. Like, this is what I give you. So I'm like, God, I don't see nothing. Cause it wasn't no buildings or nothing like that. [00:20:26] Speaker B: It was. [00:20:26] Speaker A: It wasn't nothing. [00:20:27] Speaker B: So, you know, for them is like wilderness. Yeah, it was wilderness, but it mimics real life sometime for us. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Sometimes God will tell you to step out and bro, it look like wilderness. But how many of us are actually willing to do that? Take that step if he tell you to. And so, like you said, a big thing is, lord, order my steps. A lot of times we in bad situations because we order our own steps. [00:20:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:53] Speaker B: Like, we don't. We don't hear from God. God don't give us the instruction. But if it's something that we want to do. And a lot of times people love to bring up this scripture in the Bible, he would give you the desires of your heart. That's cool. But your desires have to line up with his will for your life. That's why in that prayer, it said, the model prayer says, thine will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So sometimes what we aspire to be and what we dream to be, it ain't gonna be so and so. That's why I said Earlier Sometimes you have to. Wherever God plants you at, you have to be become. You have to become the flower that bloom. Wherever he plants you at, be the fruit wherever he plant you with. Because what I perceive for my life might not be what. What it is that God put me on earth for. So I might not reach a million people. And I have to learn to be okay with that. I might just be that person that reaches the people who within my grass. [00:21:45] Speaker A: That's good man. That you know. I'm going tell you what this remind me of that. That what you just said. What remind me of is Joseph. D. Jacob. No, it wasn't. Not. Not Jacob. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Is it a cope. [00:22:01] Speaker A: No. Yeah, yeah. Is that, is that Jacob son? Josh. Joseph, bro. [00:22:06] Speaker B: I for. Was the brothers hating. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's the brother. [00:22:10] Speaker B: So I think that's Joseph. [00:22:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's Joseph. Right. And for you Bible scholars, man, y' all probably know Joseph like, you know his situation was. It made me, what you just said made me thought about Joseph. Because Joseph, his brothers, his, his own people, man conspires against him, man, because he had a L, A level of favoritism or favor. You can use that, you can break it down man, and, and feel like he got favor from God, but he got favor from, you know what I'm saying? His father and his father really favor him and they was jealous, you know what I'm saying? So they end up so selling him out, selling him off to, you know what I'm saying, slavery. But what, what I want to highlight is, is the fact that Joseph in every situation he find favor of God. And not only that, he reached to someone, he inspired someone in his worst, if you think about it, he was in his worst situation, man. And he find the favor of God in the midst of that. And it made me thought about what you just said because you was like maybe it just meant for you to reach who you was going to reach. But it is a long term goal ahead of what God trying to get you to. Sometimes you just got to be doing. Be disciplined. No, let me scratch that. Be obedient in the season that you in right now, you know what I'm saying? And you know, maybe it is all the way over there, like, you know what I'm saying? Which Joseph ended up getting there. But it took him about 20 plus years to get to that place. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Right? And to your point, man, a lot of times I think where this generation does mess up at is social media. Because everybody tells you by the time you 35, you should be this God. Timing is not our timing and the Bible tells us that. So at the end of the day, what you perceive for your life, again, it might be what God told you, but like you said, the timing might not be right because you could plant a seed today. That don't mean you're going to get fruit tomorrow, right? So sometimes the Bible says, be not weary and well doing in the part that we always miss. For in due season you shall reap. If you faint, not in due season. And what we tend to, what we tend to do, myself included is man, when my se, when is going to be my season, man, it should be my season now. Especially when you're looking at everybody else being blessed. It's hard to be content when you're watching everybody else be blessed and you like, Lord, I'm, I'm, I'm faithful, I'm dedicated, I'm, I'm, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. When it's your season, you shall reap what you planted. So at the end of the day, man, sometime I have to tell myself, you, you keep the faith in wherever you at, don't pout about it. Wherever you at, work, where you at, don't just because. And then, and then psychologically speaking, a lot of people can't take what they think they ready for. Because at the end of the day, you want to be a millionaire. You can't even, you can't even. You're not a good steward. What God gave you, you want a mansion, you don't even keep your one bedroom clean. [00:25:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:13] Speaker B: So you, you got to learn to be a good steward wherever you are. And whatever the, the Apostle Paul said, I learned to be content in whatever state I'm in. So at the end of the day, God, if you don't, if you don't elevate me to what my will or where I want to be, let me learn to be content wherever I'm at. Because at the end of the day, although life may be this, I got breath in my body, I got use and activities in my limb, so I'm still blessed. You got to understand that no matter what circumstance you in what circumstance you facing, you still blessed. Cuz I guarantee you, you can find 100 more people who will take your situation and say, you know what? Let's trade spots. So either way, we bless. And sometimes it's about perspective and how you look at glass half empty or half full. So that's how, that's how I try to keep it balanced too, man. [00:25:58] Speaker A: You said so much. It's so many layers to what you just said, man. But these are some of the things that, you know as you can count as you kind of press on. And I'm sure you got a goal in mind, where you want to be at. And sometimes you can't even look at the time period. Like, sometimes we give ourself a, I guess this, well, I should be at this place at this time. At this place at this time. And man, one thing, somebody said this, man, Somebody told me this. If you want to make God laugh, try to plan your life out, like. And I was like, at first I didn't get that joke, but I get it though, man. As I kind of got older and I realized, like, you know, you have all these plans for your life. And then we realized that God had a totally different plan for your life, man. And sometimes through life you just kind of. Things kind of reroute, like you doing this and doing that, doing this. And God really, you know what I'm saying? Curving you to where he wants you to be at, man. And it seemed like it all makes sense once you get there. Sometimes you don't really realize because life don't ever. [00:27:08] Speaker B: We don't ever walk this life in a straight line. Because you, you, I'm sure you could look at some stuff that has happened in your life, and at the moment of impact when it happened, you was like, dang, why this happened. And now that you look at it, you like, if this wouldn't happen, that wouldn't happen. And I couldn't have been blessed in this way. So it always, it, like you said, bro, it works itself out. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it do work. [00:27:29] Speaker B: It work itself out, man. And I think sometimes, like I said, we're a little too hard on ourselves because saying you should have it together at 30 years old is kind of a crazy thought when you really think about it, saying like, I should have my house on the hill. I should have a 22,000 square foot home. I should have all the cars that I want. At 30 years old, that's kind of like. And then comparison is the thief of joy. If your mentor is not strong enough to be. And I say this all the time. If you're not mentally strong enough to be on social media, if you can't look at somebody else and be like, that's good for them and just keep it at that. Don't look at this stuff because it'll wear you down. And I always give the same analogy. You could be proud of your house, pleased with Your house, man. You start watching HGTV long enough, after a while, you start looking at your house. You know what I could do, This I could do. You're never gonna find comfort in what you have. Cause you always compare. So just try to be, you know, content wherever you at, and be the best wherever you are. Always still strive to grow. But understand that it's a. It's a. It's a race, it's a marathon. It ain't no sprint. [00:28:33] Speaker A: It's definitely a marathon. I mean, I'm. I'm 40 years old, man, and. And there's a lot of things I did that to myself early on. Just, you know, one of the things I realized being ambition, it have its drawbacks too. Because sometimes you can be so ambitious to. You won't appreciate what you got now and what God has done for you now. So you always trying to strive for the very next thing and that very. You know what I'm saying? Instead of soaking everything in at that moment, you know what I'm saying? About what things God have blessed you with now, what you have now. And sometimes I'mma tell you prayer. Prayer. Really starting off early in the morning with prayer and just telling. Just thanking God for all the things, like I'mma tell you, man, like, just thanking God, like, Lord, I thank you, God, for waking me up this morning. You gave me put breath in my lungs. I'm able to step out the bed, you know what I'm saying, and go to the bathroom, man. Some of this stuff at. As you continue to pray and just be thankful for like, just a small thing, you realize, like, man, God been really keeping his hands over me. Like, it's just simple stuff, bro. I'm sitting here thinking about this thing like, you know what I'm saying? I've been on this Earth for 40 years. I just talking to my grandma about this. Cause she just turned 78 years old. And I told her, I said, grandma, I asked her in 78 years, what you learned? And she was just talking to me, just laughing and stuff like that, man. But I told grandma, I said, one thing for sure, man, one thing is evident. I said, well, every time I see somebody like at this stage in their life, like, man, God been keeping you for seven to eight years. I said, you know, I like, you know, you've been driving up and down this highway, kept you from accidents, he kept you from. You know what I'm saying? You had a stroke at one point in time, you know what I'm saying? And you still here in Your right mind, you know what I'm saying, Man, God's a keeper. And at some point in time, you kind of realize that, like, you know, if you take time just to thank and just thank him, man, there's so much stuff, man, and then it puts you in a mindset of gratitude, you know what I'm saying? And happy. And now you ain't comparing that. Cause now you realize, like, man, God been blessing me with this and that. Of course I need a new car. Of course I need some tires. You know what I'm saying? But, man, I got a car. [00:31:12] Speaker B: I'm blessed in spite of. I got joy in spite of. And see, that's the thing about it. Yeah, joy, man. It's a lot of stuff that people used to say when I was younger that I didn't understand until I got older. Like, joy, man, despite of this situation, despite of what I'm going through, I still got joy. Because my old lady said something today, and when we got home, I was like, yo, she really. Like that. That really hit me. She said, man, I just thank God for making it back home today. And I'm kind of like, yeah, me too. She said, no, no, no, no, no. It's somebody that left their house today or somebody that's going to leave their house today and they're not going to make it back home. And when she. After she said that, I say, yo, bro, we are blessed, like, and if you could ever stop sometimes. And that's what I think a lot of people need to start focusing on, especially the people in my age bracket. Of course, you got all the goals. You be just as ambitious as you want to be. Hopefully you obtain everything that your heart desire. But take the time, either every day or every week. I will prefer every day to say, yo, I'm blessed. I can do this. I mean, we listen to a song that say, you got your legs, you can walk, you got the tongue, you can talk, you're blessed. Because I work in the medical field. I've been in places where I work with intellectually disabled people. I've been in places where I leave the house like I am now, talking. Right sense of. Right state of mind, something happens, they choke on a piece of food, and now they're at a facility, they can't even think like they used to think. So the things that we consider very small minute man start being grateful for that stuff because it's some people that ain't got that no more. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Yeah, and that's the reason why I was saying, like, sometimes we just gotta start off our day with gratitude, you know what I'm saying? Very early in the morning, man, early in the morning. But I want to pivot. What are your thoughts about what, what. Let me get your opinion on what you think of discipline, man, what that would look like to you. You know what I'm saying? Discipline, man. [00:33:32] Speaker B: First off, discipline and just always discipline to me is simply being able to refrain. And so you could take discipline and put it whatever area that you want to put it in, whether it be sexual discipline, financial discipline, being able to refrain. That, that's. And I think that's one of the hardest part for anybody to be is your natural will, your. Your sinful ways, your sinful nature, and also just financially speaking, get a little bit of money. You told that, oh, you only live once, so you might as well do this. If you could ever get to the point where you disciplined, where you can refrain, man, you a powerful man, you a powerful being. So for me, it's just. That's something that comes with practice. You gotta practice it over and over and over and over, man, just being able to refrain, bro. [00:34:25] Speaker A: So I guess my second question is if you was able to be disciplined, what would Kwanye look like at his discipline state? [00:34:38] Speaker B: Like, like to me, man, and this, this sounds cheesy, I hate this answer, but I really don't know, man, because I. I'm not perfect, but I try to practice good discipline in all areas of my life. Sometimes I might not meet the mark, but I try to practice good discipline. But I'm one of those type of people. This gonna sound like really like lack of ambition. There was a point in time where I was so ambitious, where I couldn't enjoy life, where I couldn't enjoy the now, where I couldn't enjoy nothing. Because I'm always, what's next, what's next? And then I had a conversation with my old lady and she was just like, you got to, you got to get out of that. You got to learn to live and now. Be thankful for the now and, and let God order your step. So for me, I don't know what it'll look like for me because like I said, I'm not perfect with discipline. Of. Of by no means, but I do pretty decent with it. So I don't really know cuz I. I'm not really pressing for anything. You get what I'm saying? [00:35:33] Speaker A: Right, right, right. [00:35:33] Speaker B: I'm just trying to do the right things. So whenever God do decide to bless me, I can be blessed. So I don't really know, bro. How about you? [00:35:47] Speaker A: So the reason why I asked this question is because one of the things that I realized as we was just talking and stuff like that, I imagined myself, who is Brandon? Like, you know what I'm saying, What can I be? What can I achieve? You know what I'm saying? And it can just be, you know, finances. Just let's just the core of a man, you know what I'm saying? What makes up a man, you know what I'm saying? Most of the time it be finances, you know what I'm saying? I guess his job, I put job with finances, able to attain his health and maintain his health to the best of his ability. And then the other part is how he is as a family man. If he have a family or if he not single, if you single, you know what I'm saying? These things may look a little different. You may be your ambitious. Well, what you think of yourself might look a lot different, you know what I'm saying? Or what you want to achieve in life, you know what I'm saying? I truly believe everybody is something that they want to achieve out of life. This is the reason why I brought this question up because, you know, it's a few things I want to achieve in my own personal life, right? But what's. What's in the way of me achieving some of these things is the level of discipline, you know what I'm saying? And most of the time, if you think about it and it all boils down to is being disciplined how, you know, saying how you are, you know, laser focus on certain things, you know what I'm saying? And it could just be in that moment. It don't have to be like your whole life. But if you want to achieve cheese something out of life like, you know what I'm saying? Like sometimes you gonna have to be laser focused on it. And so for me, discipline is a man that is focused and anything could kind of transpire and happen in his life and he can go through all types of stuff, but he's so disciplined that he still stay focused not. It don't mean that he won't, you know what I'm saying? Feel so many things that happening. But you know, he's a man on a mission, you know what I'm saying? And so for me, the things that I want to achieve, you know what I'm saying? Of course, you know what I'm saying, with this podcast man group that I have, you know what I'm saying? I want to see that Thrive. Most of this stuff is kind of God or game. And, and. And what I'm saying is, like, a lot of things kind of transpired last year, and I wasn't as consistent with, you know what I'm saying, with putting stuff out, you know what I'm saying? Why? Because things happen, you know what I'm saying? Things happen kind of get you off, you know what I'm saying? But truth of the matter is, when things. A lot of times, that can be the enemy, don't y'. All. Why? Because he know your patterns, you know what I'm saying? He know if I can distract you on this right here, left hand, right here, you know what I'm saying? You know, he ain't gonna focus on this right here no more, you know what I'm saying? And this reason why I wanted to bring up discipline is because you know the enemy. Just because you discipline ain't gonna stop the enemy from coming to kind of distract you, you know what I'm saying? But you just gotta know that, hey, listen, God told me to do this right here. That's what I'm gonna do. It might slow you down, but you stay focused. And a lot of times you could kind of, you know, in my personal opinion, you know, being here for 40 years and looking at my life, it was a lot of things. I started, and then things happened throughout my life, and then I got pulled away from it, and, you know what I'm saying, I came up with so many different excuses, but the truth of the matter is it boils down to I wasn't disciplined, you know what I'm saying? And one thing I do realize is opportunities don't come as easy. Sometimes you won't see the same opportunity again. Then God ain't already kind of move on from that situation, because that's in the past now, but he gonna always kind of give you the next thing, you know what I'm saying? But this is what I'm saying. You don't want to fumble the thing that God gave you in the moment right now, you know what I'm saying? Whatever that is, whatever that may be, you know what I'm saying? And I know I'm probably speaking to someone, you know what I'm saying? You watching this and you. And you at this point in stage, in the. In the. You know, in the podcast, like, I know something God gave you personally that you know that. You know what I'm saying? You put it on the shelf and things happen. You had all types of stuff transpired in your life, man. And listen, I get it, you know what I'm saying? But this video right here is an indication that God telling you to pick that thing back up, man, because he ain't done with you yet, and he wants you, and because that he ain't done with you yet. It's people that God kind of got you, that call to you, you know what I'm saying? That need for you to be obedient and be disciplined to pick the. Pick it back up. [00:40:59] Speaker B: So, boy, I ain't gonna lie to you. Most of the time, I got something to say, boy. You. Hey, hey, I ain't got nothing to say after that one, man. You, you, you. Hey, you rocked out on that one, man. I got to try to find something to say. You were preaching just now. That's like when. After. After somebody delivered a word. Ain't no need for you. It's good by itself. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Nah, man, you know, Cook. [00:41:25] Speaker B: Let him. Cook, go ahead. [00:41:26] Speaker A: Well, you know. You know, it hit me hard, because I know there's certain things in my life that God called me to that, you know what I'm saying? It's a lot of things. I got many titles, you know what I'm saying? I'm a father, I'm a husband, you know what I'm saying? And I'm a. I guess I'm, you know, I get involved in my community, church, stuff like that. So I'm just. And these are just titles, you know what I'm saying? But the thing is, you know, God really gave everybody a talent, something that he placed that in you that nobody else have, you know what I'm saying? And you just gotta use your gift, whatever that is, though, you know what I'm saying? And. And you know what it is? Because when I just said resonate with you, and it came to your mind like, yeah, that's the Holy Spirit telling you. You know what I'm saying? That's the Holy Spirit telling you to reconnect with that thing that God gave you, man. You know what it is? And I ain't gotta speak no more on that. Cause I know you know what it is, man. [00:42:37] Speaker B: I feel like the way you looking in that camera, the way you speaking, God, I told you something. Whoever watching this or whoever shall listen to it, it's going to be somebody that. That hear this or see this, that's gonna be like, yo, he talking to me. So, man, I'm gonna tell you, bro, if you ain't got no more, bro, I really ain't got nothing. Else to say. Yeah, I'm gonna be real, man. Cause I feel like you cooking and there is no need for me to add anything, man. Like. Like I. You got it, bro. The floor is yours. If you feel like going off some more. Go off some more. [00:43:06] Speaker A: No, no, no, I'm good. Because. Cause you know, God ain't really, you know, Holy spirit ain't gave me nothing else to say after that, man. I just had wanted to plug that in for my listeners, man. Listen, if you rocking out with this podcast, man, you love this podcast, and it been changing the way you look at things, changing your perspective, you know what I'm saying? Please do us a favor. Share this podcast with other people that you connect with that you love. Do your brother a favor, you know what I'm saying? Do your husband a favor. Do your brother a favor, you know what I'm saying? If you women that. That listen to this man. We just two men who just God called to, you know what I'm saying? To talk and speak to men in particular, that you know what I'm saying? God gave us this love. God put Q in my life, man. And we've been rocking out, man. So just. Just do that one thing, man. And I think that's it though, man. [00:44:09] Speaker B: That's it, man. We out. All right, I'm be real. It's.