Stop Feeding the Algorithm

Your phone knows more about you than you think. Every scroll, every pause, every video you watch is shaping what you see next—and over time, it’s shaping how you think.

This episode of The Heavyweight Collective breaks down the real impact of content consumption. What starts as a casual conversation quickly turns into a deeper look at how social media, podcasts, and everyday content influence your mindset, your mood, and even how you see people in real life. It highlights the difference between content that adds value and content that slowly pulls you into negativity without you noticing.

The conversation also gets practical, explaining how algorithms actually work and how you can take control of your feed. From simple tools like “not interested” to more intentional search habits, the episode shows how small changes can shift what you consume daily.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Neighborhood Banter

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Pretty strong, we're rolling.

SPEAKER_06 0:01

Okay, good morning.

SPEAKER_05 0:02

Coming live from the upper hood where I didn't get shot. But I saw a homeless guy panthelling and Gucci.

SPEAKER_06 0:10

And it was an old truck backfiring down the street.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Yeah, see? You thought it might have been some no not once.

SPEAKER_05 0:17

I said, is that is that homeless man? He got a Gucci belt on with a with a cup.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

The lies.

SPEAKER_05 0:22

See niggas jogging. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Like who out this early in the morning? I do walk the neighborhood every day. Yeah. I take my pepper spray though. Oh, wow. I leave my physical spray? I leave my pistol at the house. I'm good. Anywho, we are here from the one wonderful safe space of mine today. Um I don't want to start it. How was you guys this week? Let's do that.

SPEAKER_05 0:48

I just want to say that she she we uh we navigated to her home and she didn't let none of us niggas in the house.

SPEAKER_06 0:57

We had to beg and plead for these waters. Because she told us to use the water home.

SPEAKER_05 1:02

She ain't tell us what the bathroom was or nothing. She just said, hey, she said, she said in our quote, the gate is open. Like we've been here. Like, like we've been here. Like, nigga, don't even come to my door. The gate is open. I said, this shit is crazy. I came to drop the shit off. She didn't even answer the door. I just ring the door. I told you the gate was open. I'm like, I've never been here. I said, this nigga here. I thought you meant the front gate, not the side.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Y'all are tripling. I hate y'all, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:35

I'm not, I'm, I'm not saying We'll never do this again. I'm not saying uh that it's pleasant out here. I'm not saying that you treat all niggas like this, but I see why you had situationships, nigga. Stay your ass outside. Don't come in my house, nigga. The gate is open, nigga.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Shut up. How was your week? Why didn't we start off?

SPEAKER_05 1:59

Oh, yeah. I got a quick question. Is that the gate you let your sneaky links that's up when they go?

SPEAKER_01 2:03

No, I don't have sneaky links. I don't do none of that type of bullshit.

SPEAKER_05 2:06

I don't know. It's nice over here.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

That's that's the the party gate. When when I'm having a function, everybody comes through that gate. Okay. My house is small. I don't want all that that riff raff in my house. So I guess to be safe. We rip rap.

SPEAKER_05 2:24

We the rip rap.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

I don't allow all that riff raffles. No, no.

SPEAKER_05 2:26

We the rip raff. Start the show. She did. She started.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

She said, How are we? I hate y'all.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Weeks was great. Grand. Lovely. Oh, let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

That's great.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Yeah, you know. I mean, I said it. What you do, Kevin, you must have.

SPEAKER_05 2:42

You know, we really did it. You do what you do. No, they were just a little Bruno Mars. Oh, yeah. Nigga, don't talk about that. That nigga like Tower of Power. The fuck that means.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

Yeah, for real. You had never heard of that group?

Week Updates Prom Movies Concert Prices

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Yeah. Tower of Power? Yeah. Yeah, like. Yeah, he can just, he don't have to make another record to tour. Oh, yeah. Like, let's. I was like, oh, yeah, this nigga just think anything he wants. Just he got. He's he's fine. Good, good little, good little uh.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

I heard he puts on a good show. I'll do that. They dropped the uh Usher Chris Brown tour dates, y'all.

SPEAKER_05 3:14

Did he? Did they? Let me help you out here. Let me move this out the way.

unknown 3:17

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 3:18

You going? And then let me bring this to you.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

I'm like, how's that helping me out? Okay, you're helping me out. Appreciate you. Okay. Um, no, I'm not going. I would like to. I don't have time for paying money for concerts. Concerts are like wildly expensive. Yeah. And don't get me wrong, I went and saw Chris Brown last year, and that nigga started flying through the stadium, and I was just like, this is so tight. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

The nigga was flying through the stadium? He was really flying.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

No, he doesn't need a cape. He's Chris Brown.

SPEAKER_05 3:49

What does that mean? Nickel.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

I'm just saying, like, he's Chris Brown. The fuck? Um, no, but he was really flying through. I thought that shit was tight.

SPEAKER_03 3:59

But yeah. Yeah, a little bit of sound and he's black. Yeah, my wife.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

You're fucking stupid. Um I would make him Chris Light Brown if that's what we're going by.

SPEAKER_05 4:11

And my wife wants to go to that because she really loves Usher. And I said, but them prices.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

But the prices. I just don't have anything.

SPEAKER_05 4:17

I'm not finna pay the mortgage.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

No, for real. I might try that. Um, but yeah, my week was good. How was my week? My daughter's going to prom today. Yay. Yay. My big girl.

SPEAKER_05 4:31

Make sure you're home by 11.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

I doubt it.

SPEAKER_05 4:35

Um you don't even end till like 11.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah, it's like it's over at 10:30. She has to get home. Um, oh. Oh, I mean, I made sure she's home by 11. My door got fixed. I don't even think I had seen you guys in the midst of that. My gardener was doing the backyard and that glass cracked. That was cracked for a couple days.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

You got a gardener? Wait. Just time the fuck out.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

I have grass in the front. Kiss my ass.

SPEAKER_05 4:59

Well, how'd this window break?

SPEAKER_01 5:01

Oh, because there was weeds all back here. And I'm gonna I'm gonna, yeah, you cool with your breath. This has to still be maintained.

SPEAKER_05 5:08

No, I understand that, but Yeah, it was just weed eating the rocks.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

And well, there's How was your weekendy?

SPEAKER_05 5:19

I wasn't gonna say nothing, Cass. I was gonna let her go with it. You know.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

It was your weekendy, my bit. I hate y'all.

SPEAKER_06 5:27

Uh, you know, I was I got to get a massage, you know. By man? No, it was a woman.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

What? A big woman?

unknown 5:37

What?

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Why can't it be? Why you why you guys what? I feel like she do what she had to do.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Why gotta be a big woman?

SPEAKER_01 5:43

I don't know. I'm sorry. It wasn't like her last massage. Shut up. I hope you didn't get tipped like I did.

SPEAKER_06 5:53

I don't know. Oh shit. I I'll say this. I I felt something on my uh but I wasn't offended by it. What was his name? He caught a titty.

SPEAKER_05 6:09

No, he thought. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He thought a titty. Go ahead, Bianca.

SPEAKER_06 6:14

I gotta, I'm trying to, you know, I finished my week up by being riff raff.

SPEAKER_05 6:18

Being riff raff?

SPEAKER_01 6:19

You are the red. Remember, I just called y'all niggas best friend. Oh, I was thinking the red. I wasn't calling y'all riff raff.

SPEAKER_05 6:27

I mean, you looked at her. You did exactly what you meant.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Mo, how was your week?

SPEAKER_05 6:34

It was good though. I drank this hot ass water.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

She's gonna kick us out halfway through the show.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Oh, for real. Y'all go. It's gonna fucking flash over. Y'all gonna be back at your house.

SPEAKER_05 6:49

Get to step up. No, for real. No, I mean it was cool. You know, my wife wants to go to see if she wanna go see Raymond and Christopher. Oh, I thought you. I was like.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Oh, do you guys want to see the Michael Jackson movie?

SPEAKER_05 7:00

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

I'm going on Monday. I'm off on Monday and I'm gonna just.

SPEAKER_05 7:03

Oh, I was like, Monday.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Drop my daughter in.

SPEAKER_05 7:04

Getting that matinee, huh? Yep.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

I'm getting 7 a.m. with the old phone.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

That ain't even a matinee. That's yeah, that's a senior citizen press.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

I really am. I'm excited about it.

SPEAKER_05 7:22

They could get a soft popcorn, so I'm gonna get stuck in your teeth.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

That's what they serving that sounds like.

SPEAKER_05 7:29

I did that with Cinderella.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

I went early as hell, so I wouldn't be in because I went by myself. And I didn't want to be in there with kids and shit, so they I didn't want people to be like you go for research purposes?

SPEAKER_05 7:38

No, I just wanted to watch the live action Cinderella.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

It was way back when. I was like, I want to check this out. Yeah, I did that. You can judge. I see it in your face. Don't look this way. That's okay. Hey, I feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it.

SPEAKER_05 7:53

Okay, still by yourself? Yeah, yeah. But that's why I went early, so it wouldn't look so crazy. Okay. Yeah, my wife won't uh she wants them Usher Raymond tickets and I can't afford them, so.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Yeah, I I wouldn't even try it. Are they on sale yet? Yeah, they are.

SPEAKER_05 8:14

And the fact that I dropped a I dropped$175 in gas in one day. Two cars. Two cars back to back. Oh, okay. I was about to say, what's that? I cried.

SPEAKER_06 8:26

Did you hear the Mortal Kombat finish them?

SPEAKER_05 8:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

I haven't even got gas this week.

SPEAKER_05 8:34

I'll talk about being like that video on Robinson, nigga, for his gas, huh? Minister Society? For gas? Put my tank up, nigga. I see your shit on F. That's funny.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

So guys, you know how like they say, like.

SPEAKER_05 8:53

No, I don't. Who's they, huh?

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Every time I say they say, y'all always be like, who the fuck is they?

SPEAKER_05 9:00

All the time. Them. All the time.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

I ain't never heard that. Who's saying this? Anyway, you are what you eat, but you are also, you're what you consume, right? Are we all what we can? Okay. This one like the host. Why the fuck do I start this? You just rolling. We just rolling this shit.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

Why are you this episode 240? What are you nervous about everyone?

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Because I don't like the host. It's weird. Like, I just want to answer the questions. I don't want to ask them. It's giving weird.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

It's giving weird. All right. Well give us these weird ass questions. He fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Because Mo does it so good. Yeah, he's like he's a natural.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

You do too. But I don't. I usually fumble a lot. No. At the beginning, I'm like, hey, you know, little highs.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Y'all two. Everybody's like, we know. Y'all two are poised. Y'all two have a lot of poise through your questions, but he just like, he he do it like he was made for it. You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:02

No, nigga. It's not happening.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

I don't know. I think you're the best.

SPEAKER_05 10:05

You're not gonna hand me these questions. That's what she's trying to do. I was like, it's not gonna change anything. Like, what is that? You trying to pass this shit off.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

But God, mama that was about to be my next nigga. I can see this from across the room. It's just the biggest.

SPEAKER_05 10:19

Yeah, she could have seen the thing.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

We could have put that right there.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

It's a teleprompter. God damn.

SPEAKER_02 10:25

She got an actual teleprompter.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Okay, give me the effing thing. We're good. I got it. Give me the teleprompter. Yeah, give me the effing phone. Okay. No, see, I was really about to do some stupid shit. Okay, so yeah, we are what we consume, right? So when we think about like social media and all of that, we have an algorithm. But I like to also think that like you can, you have like a life algorithm too. So with that being said, what would you say your life's algorithm looks like? What type of content do you consume the most? So, like your show. So, like for example, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

I ain't said nothing, yeah. You're not gonna incriminate me.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

You go ahead and host this, my boy. He said, You're not gonna incriminate me. We're not using these questions. He said, You're not gonna incriminate me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

No, y'all. And I knew it was gonna go there. Down here, I was gonna say things that we can talk about right now. I don't want to hear about that type of fucking content. But what? I mean it shut up. What? I mean example. I'm trying to make sure she feeds her kids.

SPEAKER_05 11:32

Oh, I'm not worried about that. We understand what Sam.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Um bit. I gotta make sure she gets her views up. So she can.

Reading TV Fatigue And Daily Feeds

SPEAKER_01 11:45

So what type of content do you consume the most? So, for example, like your TV shows, your social media feeds, YouTube, movies, books. Like, what would you say, Mo? We're gonna start here with the bullshit. What is what would you say you consume most content-wise?

SPEAKER_05 12:02

Um, recently I've been reading a lot.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Good. But what types of books?

SPEAKER_05 12:06

Uh oh, I'm reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I'm on book five. Dungeon? That's interesting. Right. Dungeon. Dungeon. Thunder Down Under Dungeon Crawler Carl. That's like a series.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Is it adventure?

SPEAKER_05 12:19

It's like an RPG fantasy book. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 12:21

Oh, Dungeons and Dragons.

SPEAKER_05 12:23

I'm still you said they Essentially, uh, aliens come to the earth, abiliate that shit. Yeah. And then they force everybody down to a dungeon that's pretty much just designed to kill everybody in this as you read this book. Is it a series you said? It's a series. How many books do you read? Uh it's seven books out. Book eight come out next month. I'm trying to be done. Caught up by the time book A comes out.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Damn, nigga, you read and reading up.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Yeah, nigga, I'm going like I I read like four books last month.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Wow, you sound like one of them doctor niggas.

SPEAKER_05 12:53

Yeah, I'm gonna talk about it. Oh, Lamont Hill. Yeah, I've been reading. Because honestly, I feel like TV is.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

It's the intellectual ass nigga right here. I just I feel like TV is trash. It is.

SPEAKER_05 13:06

It's a bunch of repeat shit that's been storylines that's been told. Not from. From is not good told us. Oh, I watch from. I do fuck with it. But I'm waiting for I'm waiting for uh I'm waiting for three episodes because we're watching that. Yeah, I did one and now I'm sitting here like. Yeah, my sister takes because we got a whole family group chat with just the people that watch from to talk about from. And my sister's like, don't watch that shit.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

What is that? You said from?

SPEAKER_05 13:28

It's called from.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Yeah, so yeah, I mean So you think that like right now a lot of your what you're consuming right now is books a lot.

SPEAKER_05 13:37

A lot of what I'm consuming is the book, and then my my uh algorithm, my social media is all like funny gym videos.

SPEAKER_06 13:44

I got some Oscar the Grouch.

SPEAKER_05 13:47

Just grouchy?

SPEAKER_06 13:48

Just trash.

SPEAKER_05 13:48

Just trash?

SPEAKER_01 13:50

That's that's what you're cons what you're consuming.

SPEAKER_06 13:53

Because he just said it's all trash, so I was like, I guess I'm watching all the trash.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

You watch all that? What are you consuming? I just I just feel like I just feel like a lot of shit's being repeated. Like nothing's original.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:03

It's just tough to write. I mean, nigga, but when you've seen shit.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

Because niggas are just using chat GBT to write. Dead ass. What are you consuming right now?

SPEAKER_05 14:13

Excuse me. Not the alcohol. Excuse me. Uh yeah, it depends on what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

Uh a lot on my phone at night, YouTube is bullshit ass politics.

SPEAKER_05 14:24

I just like watching politics and people argue. Um I go for the smoke.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Yeah, it's funny because you watch how people just switch, you're like, you didn't say that last week.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

That's odd. Hey, that's true. You have to keep watching it to pinpoint that type of stuff. And then uh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

It depends on social media too, is one of those wherever you're at. Because Facebook, that's where I go for bullshit. It's all bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

What is bullshit? We're getting into the fibers of it today.

SPEAKER_05 14:55

No, like enticing people. Like I do a little bit of. I feel like Facebook is boring as fuck. Yeah. That's why I spice it up. Half my Facebook feed is niggas trying to get me a follow niggas. I said, who is it? Who are these niggas? And then I read the bots and watch people argue with bots.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

Instagram is a lot of ads. I mean, I'm not lying.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

It's a little bit of both. Yeah. Ads and ads. Shut up! Irritating. I knew I shouldn't have done that.

SPEAKER_05 15:37

TV's a lot of news and shit.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

You guys are still not giving me.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

What you want to hear?

SPEAKER_01 15:43

I want a framework of what your content looks like. I'm telling you, it's all over the place.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

It's all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Okay, that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 15:50

I think different apps are for different things.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Oh, that's interesting. Elaborate.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

Oh, like HBR be watching murder mist.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

I be watching murder mysteries and shit, a lot of that. Okay. Not mysteries. What do you call them? The uh crime shows, true crimes.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Like the true. Okay. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

People say you shouldn't consume that because it's gonna come back to you.

SPEAKER_05 16:09

Like, oh, I mean.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Come back out.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Like you're gonna be like, you don't know how to know how to bike, nigga. I know that no one does because they all get cut.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

How about you? What you got going? What's your algorithm look like?

SPEAKER_06 16:22

Which one?

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Uh all of them.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

All of them. Reddit. Don't do that. Don't do that. I'll say NSFW.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I have lost again. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 16:36

I look at a lot of videos when I'm on social media. That's all of them. That's why I end up sending them to you guys a lot. The videos that I just think when creatives get uh they make the content that's different, I I tend to gravitate towards it. So like like the video I sent where the guy's getting held up at gunpoint by the gas pump. Like that shit to me, shit like that is where I that's real shit. But I I think it's funny as fuck, and I think it's creative, and I'm like, that's actually pretty dope that people come up with things like that. So I I tend to like seek that out when I get the opportunity. Um and then gym shit.

SPEAKER_05 17:13

And um Did I did I tell you to be today the guy? He's like, he's uh pretending to be a girl and gym influencer. He's like, come with me to f uh what it's leg day.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

I was gonna do that shit to you. I was in tears.

SPEAKER_06 17:25

And then um Yeah, gym shit, and then I think what's funny is the things you send me, I have to like decipher whether it's AI or not.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

It's all AI now.

SPEAKER_06 17:36

That's what that's pretty uh amazing that it's like AI like generated now.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

What about like movies and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_06 17:43

Uh I'm on a Marvel uh binge right now because I'm getting ready for Spider-Man brand new day. My kids are Marvel people, and uh Doomsday in um in December, so I'm consuming a lot of Marvel shit.

SPEAKER_05 17:58

I watched any given Sunday last night.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Oh, Willie We, man.

SPEAKER_06 18:03

You do have your fucking mold. What'd you get from that?

SPEAKER_01 18:07

I was like, man, Jamie uh Jamie has a good ass movie.

SPEAKER_06 18:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Jamie Foxx is amazing. He's a really good actor.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

Have you guys ever seen um Oh, and I watched, you know, I watched I watch Vampire in Brooklyn once a week. Because that shit's just hilarious.

Helpful Vs Harmful Content Effects

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Yeah, you already have your movies like that. I do feel you. And Vampire Brooklyn is one of those. So I feel you. Okay, so you fucked it, didn't you? Got us another one. Do you feel like what you're consuming is it, do you, in your opinion, do you think it's helpful or harmful on a day-to-day basis? A little bit of both. Go either way.

SPEAKER_06 18:39

Depends on the Yeah. I think it depends on the day. If you're in a I feel like when I'm in a shitty mood and I see one of those videos and I laugh, it makes me instantly feel better. But it just depends on the day, because I generally absorb a lot of podcast shit. I generally like I'm listening to podcasts daily. But it's like, for example, the Joe Button podcast, on that shit, it's it's at random. Cause you can go in there and actually get something informative, or they'll just be on some bullshit. So it just depends on the day.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

It's all toxic. Fuck it. It's all toxic.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

It's not though, guys. I mean, you can be, and this is kind of where I'm gonna go ahead and throw it out there.

SPEAKER_04 19:25

Say that shit.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Talk your shit. Um that's that's the point of this, right? It's what you consume, right? So we could be consuming things that are helpful to us on a day-to-day basis.

SPEAKER_05 19:38

Well, why? I mean, uh I I I consumed that uh Kelani album yesterday. I heard that. I'll be there for the bullshit. I'll be on the internet for the bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Is it is it helpful or it's I think it's a little bit of it's not yeah, it's harmful sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

It's a little bit of both. It depends on it. I think like McFly was saying, it depends on the mood. Like if you if you're in a shitty mood and you come across some shitty shit, that might push you further down that mood. Or you come across that one that makes you laugh and be like, you know what? Shit ain't that bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

Sometimes I'll be watching the news and a high-speed chase comes on. I don't give a fuck what mood I'm in. I'm watching.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

So I turn left right here. Do you see it show up in other areas of your life, meaning what you're consuming?

SPEAKER_05 20:28

Because if you consume something on a daily, that definitely happens. Like uh when you overconsume certain things, it do leak out. They do leak out. So you do have to be mindful. What happened? I said, I hope not. Like I said, then that means I'm gonna just see murder. I said some things, Kevin. Some things.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

But do you shut the fuck up?

SPEAKER_05 20:47

I mean, like, there's been psychological studies that's saying that like what you consume a lot of does affect your mental, does respect your outlook. So, and that that shit is true. I mean, the studies are there for a reason. Um, so and I noticed that shit. Like, when I, you know, if I if I consume too much of one one thing, I I know it's a a shift in my behavior. So I know how to pick up one shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

I give the example of like um all of you know how like when we got the wave of reality, right? And now it's just everything. That's why social media is the way that it is, but all the reality shows. So like the love and hip hop love and hip hops, the um all of it. Yeah. It's all reality. I was trying to think, oh, like the housewives, all that type of shit, right? So I remember like years and years and years ago when all of that wave first happened, it was like so entertaining. And then I remember I stumbled across one probably like five or six years ago. And I was just like, these bitches is just sitting here arguing all day. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like literally, they get dressed, they go eat or go drink with their friends, and they just sit and argue all day. But then you look at some people in their Real life, and that's their full entertainment. They love, they wish, you know, they wait for the Thursday when the show comes out. I don't even know when the show comes out, but they wait for the Thursday when the show comes out and all that. And you see, I think that without them even knowing, they are trying to imitate those lives. But you broke in San Bandino. You can't live the life of my mom's like, damn.

SPEAKER_04 22:22

I like that. You got some niggas that's doing well in the dino. My cousin the Dino, nigga, he's an OTR. Shit on them. Like, quit live in the Dino.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

But you're broken the Dino.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, like, I think that it gives this false hope. Or not hope. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't want to put false. I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I just feel like niggas need to get out of that shit and realize it's just entertainment. Like, stop trying to do what entertainment is. But you gotta recreate that shit.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

So I think that you make a good point. Today's day life, nigga. Right, but and and that's the thing. And I think you make a good point because the the whole scheme of all of this is like, are you what you consume? And I think Kevin makes a good point. You're not if you're aware of the fact that you're looking at entertainment. Yeah. Now, truthfully, from my own opinion, I still think that if you even if you find that entertaining, you a little, you, you kind of straddle in the fence. No, good. Because I don't think that there's entertainment in other people's mess.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Yeah, that 90-day fiance and all that shit. That shit is there. Like, ain't nobody out there doing that. Like, all this fucking love and blind shit, like, oh, I'm gonna fall in love with somebody without seeing them in all.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

He said love and blind. That's a new show.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

That's a very interesting show.

SPEAKER_06 23:44

I will I will watch that one.

SPEAKER_05 23:47

There's love and blind.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Hey, my best friend bitches. I never watched the show before, but the way my best friend describes it, it makes me want to. There's love on the spectrum. She told me that.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Oh, she's laughing.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

She said, no, because she's first of all, my friend. No, them ultimate skills, they be good. She's literally dumb. But she said that she wishes. God forgive me. She wishes that we all could experience that type of autistic love because she was saying that they're so just pure and genuine. Like it's really, she said that the girl will be like, I'm really not into you. I would like to stop talking to you. And the guy will be like, okay, that's fair. And then just be done. Because the way that they're they're processing things because they're autistic, it's like it removes like the dating, like the games and all of the manipulation. It's just like the genuine. This is my response.

SPEAKER_06 24:44

I've seen on episodes of that show too, though, like them niggas still be manipulating too. Not manipulating, it's more like certain characters on that show have a a an increase libido. So like the girl will be in the relationship with the guy, and he just is used to it being a platonic type of we just go on dates and just be happy, and she'll be like, I'm ready to get it in. And he'll get overwhelmed and she'll be like if he's not into that. And you're like, that's shit's crazy, because it's it's too vast.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Yeah. So it's but they're still being frank and honest.

SPEAKER_06 25:23

True, it's just I don't know if we should be watching them or not like that. Like as far as because I feel like people look at them and go, oh yeah, you must. And then they're just trying to experience normal.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah, no, I dig it. Uh uh, we're getting watched. Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 25:38

I just start watching that show and go, damn, am I on the spectrum? Well, we all are.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

I think we all are, if I'm being honest, I'll just keep it a buck. That's another episode for another day, but I think everybody is a little bit on the spectrum. We all we all got them vaccinations when we were kids.

SPEAKER_06 25:54

There's a lot of things they do on there. I relate to I've done that shit before. And I'm like, well, and I start thinking about shit. I'm like, damn, am I?

SPEAKER_05 26:01

I don't. The only thing I relate to is homie hitting on me at the adult center. That was a little odd. Oh, sorry, what? What? Was he on the spectrum? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay, okay. Well, he was he was very straightforward. He was like, I like you. And I was like, ah, okay. That's what's up.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Wait, what do I say?

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Was he autistic? Yeah, yeah. I was not too.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

I was like, what am I supposed to say to you? Like, all right, cool, man. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

He didn't try to trick him. That nigga made it clear. But no, okay, so to round it all about.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Oh shit. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

To round it all out. That's that's kind of well, that's not meaning all of it, but that was kind of the intent there when I'm saying what you consume. I feel like I think that it can be harmful or helpful. Uh, for example, if you're, you know, in therapy and your your therapist tells you something and you kind of deep dive on in and into it, and then you kind of find yourself looking at a lot of content about that. Now you're allowing yourself to see on a feed or perhaps watching YouTube or something like that about this thing that's helping you. You know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:23

So people just grown ass kids.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Do you believe that your algorithm is a correct depiction of what you desire for your life? Like, do you see it sometimes and ask yourself, why am I watching this, or do you feel better after?

SPEAKER_06 27:39

A little bit of both. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Every answer has been that. Because it's true.

SPEAKER_06 27:46

It's circumstantially based.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

I guess that's fair though.

SPEAKER_06 27:48

Yeah. It is circumstantially based. Because it I can I can tell you there's a certain amount that like goes into the realm of what I'm aspiring to be or into at the moment, and then the other shit'll just be like bullshit. So it's like, but to a certain degree, it's like, oh yeah, like if I'm trying to figure out the right way of going about uh gym shit or or or music shit or whatever shit, it'll push me in that direction and I'll and I'll absorb it and be like, oh, this is dope. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. But then you have the moments where you're like this is bullshit, and I just watched And I'm still gonna watch it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

No. Just a little bit of both. That's just fantastical for me. No, go ahead, Kevin.

SPEAKER_04 28:36

Fantastical? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:37

I don't be on there for nothing.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Don't be looking at nothing for nothing. That shit ain't. I'm not trying to inspire none of that shit. Most of the stuff I'm into, I don't even be watching.

SPEAKER_05 28:44

I feel like my I feel like I always get what I need. If I need something motivational, it comes across. If I need something spiritual, it'll come across. If I need to see some ass shaking, I see some ass shaking.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

It just, I just I can't dispare. I get what I need.

SPEAKER_06 28:57

When it sent shit to you that you didn't know existed, and you're like, holy shit, am I into that now?

How Algorithms Learn Your Attention

SPEAKER_01 29:02

But okay. This, okay. I'm glad you opened that box. Well, yeah. Because do you understand that the way algorithm works, when it sends you something, it knows that it's something that you can do. But then some of it's true. That is true.

SPEAKER_05 29:16

Sometimes it's guaranteed. I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna do it. Then I'm gonna sent this. Hold on, go ahead. But fuck it. Because I got it was some amputee shit sent to me, and I was like, ha ha, I already know who's. Nobody asked for this. I already know who said. No, no, no, no. No, no. Wait, somebody sent it to me. No, no. The algorithm sent it. I was like, never looked at no shit like this.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Something in the neighborhood of that caught your attention one time.

unknown 29:44

What?

SPEAKER_01 29:44

So look, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

Never mind. I'm not gonna go, I don't gonna go down that fast.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

No, no, for you. Um, I remember one time this guy had sent me, he was like, oh, this is weird. Like, I keep uh why does Facebook always show like women breastfeeding? And they were like, some kind of even looked like they were AI pictures, but they it was like they sent it to you. He sent it to me. That's weird. But he was just like, oh, Facebook, but trying to say, like, basically, Facebook is weird, like it keeps showing you pictures or videos of um women breastfeeding. So I'm gonna look at it. Right. So he basically says that, and then I was just like, Well, it keeps doing that because you look at those. I was like, I've never seen that on my feet. So he just was like, No, no, no, no, no. Look, like every time I spoke, and I'm like, Yeah, nigga, it's because you interact on that type of shit. So he was like basically trying to argue the fact. I was like, when you interact with something, and I hope everybody knows this, I'm pretty sure you guys know. Why are you fucking side-eying me the way you are?

SPEAKER_05 30:49

You don't, you don't, you don't have you know what you could play it in my face. You know what I learned is you don't even um I learned that you don't have to interact. So like if you have a um no, if you have an iPhone or whatever, um if you're strolling, your infrared camera is actually capturing features in your face. So if it it it it's it and then the app is is uh keeping track of uh how long you look at certain things. That's what I'm getting. And that's how and that's how how they feed it you.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

There's a broad spectrum for interacting, right? So you can literally, and it's a matter of because I don't like shit. It's a matter of I scrolled, and maybe I you know how you could scroll past something, and you could be like, wait, that shit was kind of crazy, and you can go back and then you still scroll past it, you don't like it, you don't do anything. Still, that is building your algorithm.

SPEAKER_05 31:35

Because right because right now, I'm gonna say this right now, my shit is messy because this is a guy in Atlanta, and he go around and ask people random stories, and they be some messy shit, and I'll be like, What the fuck? That's my shit. Yeah, my shit all messy shit.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

And it's now it's gonna keep giving it to you.

SPEAKER_05 31:48

And I listen to the whole thing every time.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

I said, This is some Oh yeah, it knows you're engaged.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

I said, God damn.

Resetting And Rebuilding Your Feed

SPEAKER_01 31:53

I said, I can go to Atlanta rack up. But I told this person when he was saying, like, oh no, he's like, I don't ever like any of them. And I'm like, but nigga, you're watching it, you just sent it to me. That was a full form of interaction because now you forwarded it to someone, you know, but it's just like I people, and that kind of leads to my next question. I was gonna say, have any of you ever thought about or intentionally tried to change up what your social media algorithm looks like? Oh, I've done it, yeah, yeah. I've done everything. Yeah, successfully. Okay, good. Well, and the reason why I say that.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

And you know, you know, on TikTok, you just reset that shit. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Um, the reason why I say that is because some people are so oblivious that they don't even, like the conversation I was just saying, they don't even understand that they're creating that for themselves. Oh, yeah. They think that like if you hear a person say, oh, social media is just it's just fucking messy or it's just this, and it's just like, okay, well yeah, baby. What are you looking at? You know what I mean? And I have definitely changed up my algorithm. Like a couple times where I start to see myself kind of it's not only that.

SPEAKER_05 32:56

For me, because of like the part and everything, how I use social media is different.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

How about that?

SPEAKER_05 33:01

It's not like because most of the time I'm on a on social media, I'm working. I'm not necessarily just chit-chatting and scrolling. I'm not like, you know what I'm saying? I'm I'm I'm interacting with comments and shit. I'm not really going through through my feed. So it's different. So it don't, I don't get the same um adrenaline from that shit. I I really go in there to try to keep the engagement up and then I go right back to my book. Mm-hmm. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

One thing that I have noticed. Or not noticed, but one thing that I intentionally did, because I uh when TikTok was first became like popular, um, well, I'll even go back to Snapchat. I remember when people were like back on Snapchat and it was real popular. Very much so. I definitely got cheated.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Oh, I thought you said something else, and I was like, that was racist. I don't know where you were going, Carrie.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

Yeah. Um, but I was like, I refuse to have a Snapchat. I'm like, how many fucking social medias do we need to talk to the same people? So I intentionally did not get Snapchat. I never had it. So go flash forward to TikTok. I have TikTok because my kids would send them to me. So finally I downloaded the app. And TikTok is my Google now. Like anything, like literally anything that I want to look up, I'm gonna go on to TikTok to look it up. But I intentionally do not scroll on TikTok. And I know that's it.

SPEAKER_05 34:25

But you know Google the actual thing. Just use Google.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

No, no, no, no. It's way different. Yeah, TikTok is gonna give you multiple perspectives, it's giving you different videos. And when I say look things up, I mean a broader. Yeah, no, I'm the only one who used Google cooking from different supplements that I want to look at, from uh exercise, like literally everything. I go. Are you on the peptides? Hell no. I said supplements. Peptides are not supplements. Oh, that's asking questions. No, don't be offended. I'm just trying to have a conference. You know what? And I stretched that because I haven't done my deep dive on peptides yet. So they may be good for you. I don't know. I wasn't trying to knock them out. I don't know. Um, my just take the steroids. So I look on TikTok for that, but then I don't, I intentionally don't scroll because I don't want it to create an algorithm for me. Now, granted, me looking things up all the time, it probably does have an algorithm that it wants for me, but I never scroll on TikTok. But I think that all of those things are useful for your mental because I don't like we all know about doom scrolling and all that, and we all do it, don't get me wrong. But I think that people don't realize how much that like feeds into their day-to-day. Like unintentionally.

SPEAKER_05 35:42

Unintentionally. Just keep it a buck. TikTok is trash ever since the they gave it away from the Chinese. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

How is it different though?

SPEAKER_05 35:51

It's trash. But what's different? The algorithm is different.

SPEAKER_01 35:54

Oh. Um, without saying what, and please let's keep this PG.

SPEAKER_05 36:00

Oh, she wrote that in there too.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

I didn't think.

SPEAKER_05 36:03

Keep it PG? I could show you. What's up? Paul George?

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Um So bricks. Is there any part of your algorithm that you wouldn't want any? And and I want to say algorithm again, I'm talking about life's algorithm. So things that you consume. Is there anything that's a part of your algorithm that you wouldn't necessarily like a guilty pleasure that you wouldn't want anyone to know about? Why would we say it? Nigga, I said without saying what. Oh, yeah. Nigga, you know. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_06 36:38

You know, yes. And then there's one I can can say. It's that uh I just thought got got into it recently, and I I don't even know why. It was uh I guess there's a dude that goes on um dating like dating uh apps and they have the the interaction and he talks and he uses his uh same lines and I guess he tries to see if it works and maturity time working out. I'm like, she can't be this, and she'll fall for it. And I'm like, this shit's crazy, and I keep watching just because I'm like, what's he gonna say this time to get her to actually say yes? And every I'm like, this is fucking crazy. And he has the same like three lines. And I just sit there and I'm like, why am I watching this? Like for the same reason I watch the guy tourists? Do they pick up all this like Red shit? Yeah, risk shit. Like he'll just sit there and be like, scroll, go, uh, click right, or click to the next one, or skip me, or skip me. And then she'll be like, no, why do you want me to skip you? He's like, no, skip me. I don't want to talk to you anymore. And then she'll end up being intrigued by the fact that he doesn't want. And he'll use that as the bait. And I'm like, this is fucking crazy. Like they're like bad boys.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

I didn't answer any other questions, really.

SPEAKER_06 37:44

No, we just hitting us and shit. You never do. Well, I shouldn't be watching that, but I keep I keep going on.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

I like that real shit. It's funny because sometimes you'll be watching and you're like, he thinks she's into her.

Guilty Pleasures Posting And Perception

SPEAKER_01 37:59

I feel like social media in general is a guilty pleasure for me. And I just I shouldn't be on it. Why not? Why? There's other use there's other things, like, okay. Because Sharon got a new story every day. I'm choosing, what you mean? I'm choosing I'm choosing. On Instagram, you got a story posted every day. I'm choosing, I'm telling you though, it's like it's a guilty pleasure though.

SPEAKER_05 38:25

Like But why is it guilty? Uh uh I'm trying to.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Because I just feel like when you I'm trying to choose my words, like I don't this is what I don't like about posting. And there's two different things, right? Because I I could definitely just be on Instagram without posting anything, right? So that's one perspective of it. If that's not lurking. Preeping. Being a little peeping time. Um, if I were just, I I think that's a guilty pleasure because I just feel like social media has is as positive as a lot of times of what my timeline looks like. I feel like it's wasted time. Obviously. Um That's why you do it on your on the toilet. Um you I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Two words.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Yeah, just to like one several stones. But when it comes to like posting, I feel like I don't like the social construct of social media. Okay. So with that being said, like I don't post a lot of my life, right?

SPEAKER_05 39:34

But yeah, because niggas will rob you. I'm looking around. I got a couple items I'm trying to take already.

SPEAKER_06 39:40

You know you have a Picasso in your house?

SPEAKER_02 39:44

How would you know? She didn't let us see.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

Oh, you over back here. Oh, look. She let's walk through. So my best one of my best friends is an artist, and those I started this is all gonna be filled with artwork, but I started it with her artwork. And um how much how much don't cost?

SPEAKER_05 40:02

It's my best friend did it.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

I don't know, she said her prices. Call her. But her name is Mo. You know Mo.

SPEAKER_05 40:09

Her name is who? Mo. She must mean.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

Her name is Shanice. Let me not do my girl like that. Her name is Shaanice. We call her Mo. So look, she was too nice with it. We I we joked when I first put those up. Um, my other best friend, Lee, we were calling those mo casos. So I said that, you know, I'm gonna line my whole thing.

SPEAKER_06 40:28

So it lines up, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

And so that's why I was really weak about that. Because I do got a mocaso. I ain't got no problem. Okay. Anyway, what the fuck was I saying?

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Anyway, okay, so we-wasted time on social media and shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

It is. So when you post things, this is what I'm saying. If you don't post your whole life on social media, because a lot of people do, they post when they're mad, they're posting they're sad, they're posting, and they're still only posting shit. They're only they're still only posting what they want you to see, right? So when you're a person that doesn't post everything, and every now and then you're like, oh, I want to put, I want to post this, they use that same social construct and they want to see, and they want to say that, oh, she's posting what she wants, but these these are the highlights of her life. So nothing else is happening. That's what I feel like the social construct does for that.

SPEAKER_05 41:16

So let me let me ask you.

SPEAKER_01 41:17

I don't like I don't like the interactions that I have with people based on how they've perceived me on social media.

SPEAKER_05 41:24

Okay, but here's the thing how they perceive you is how you can't change that.

SPEAKER_01 41:30

I don't like it. You say that like that removes the fact that you cannot like something. I'm just saying, fuck them.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

I'm just confused though. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Yeah, but that's not I don't want to hear that shit. I can still move on with my life. It's not like it's it's just cradling or crippling me.

SPEAKER_05 41:47

Me personally, every time I see you pose, I say she flexing. Nigga on the train, got fancy ass. It is a little flexing, but that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

Flex, fuck it. I hate y'all so much. Why are you so mad? You can get the girl. Sick is she on the train. She got her it is a little flexing. You know what I'm saying? She got her, she got her charcuterie board and all that shit. I'm not even posting no charcuterie. What if it's not? I'm trying to live like that.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

Different things. But what if it's good for that person posting though?

SPEAKER_01 42:19

I'm not judging anyone else. I'm saying this is about to do it. Okay, here's my thing. You're just saying this here's my take about it.

SPEAKER_05 42:24

What if it's a if it's good because you're just saying it's wasted and all that, but what if that makes that person go into whatever? Here's my take about that. What I what I've learned about social media. No, no, I don't like that. What I learned about social media, like if you are that person that posts costly, um drinking an empty cup. She really is. She really is. I won't go, I won't go, I won't go put her out there, Kim. I won't go put her out there, Kim. She's like, fuck social media. She's about to break her damn phone. I think I think it depends on not empty.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

Like, y'all are stupid. It's at the bottom. Y'all got me fucked up. That was crazy. Why you got you? Hell no.

SPEAKER_06 43:08

Don't play on my face button. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

That was.

SPEAKER_05 43:13

I thought she was gonna swing on me.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

No, that shit was coming. It's a little it's not a lot, but I was saying that it's still simple.

SPEAKER_05 43:22

I was saying that um with social media, it comes a good and a bad. And eventually you'll find like you'll find like the people who rock with you just because they they they support you. But the flip side of that, right, is that you always don't have an asshole out there just to just want to troll. The trolls come to troll, so you just have to learn how to use the troll against them.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

And I I don't know. I like I said, this it's coming from person I don't feel like I have any like net like negative. It's just the fact that I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_05 43:49

I mean, I can I can say negative shit if you want to.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

I'll you probably just let me know. I will like get get your ass off the train and come record. I just I don't know that that's just my perspective. Like, I don't like okay, let me give you an example really quick. Okay. Um, this guy pissed me off the other day because um because ain't shit.

SPEAKER_05 44:11

Playing in your face.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

He basically I don't even know what happened. He said something about like outside or something. Fuck, I forgot what it was. Oh, oh, I posted um when it was Earth Day, right? I'm I literally love nature. Like, let's start with that. Um, I love it. We no I love nature, so it was Earth Day, right? So I posted a picture of the sky, it's earth day. He was like, Oh, that's beautiful. And I was like, Yeah, it's a really pretty day, whatever. So then he was just like, Oh yeah, like a good day to be outside. That's why I went. Oh, I think I said a good day to be outside. He was like, Yeah, that's why I went to the gym. And I was like, Yeah, I said, but I mean outside, nigga. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like you should, I said, but I was like jokey with it. I was like, no, I mean outside.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

Niggas can't take jokes.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

So then he says, You don't, you don't, he's like, but you don't even be outside. So you know everybody's out and everybody always talks shit. Okay, everybody always talks shit about me because I'd be sleep at eight o'clock on a Friday. Like, that's like the going joke of everybody that knows me, because I don't be out like that.

SPEAKER_05 45:19

Nigga, I was sleeping at seven last night.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

So I'm like, no, I said I'm outside multiple times a day. What do you mean? So everybody knows I have my sunroom. So he basically was like, just because you work outside don't mean you're outside. And I was just irritated. So my day-to-day, like things that I do on a day-to-day, I don't like to give that to the world every now and then. Like, I walk in my neighborhood every day, for example. I ground every day, for example, in my front yard. But I'm not the type that's like, listen, I'm not the type that is like, come along with me on my day when I ground. Come along on me with me. I think this is.

SPEAKER_05 45:59

I don't want I don't want no videos of your feet.

SPEAKER_01 46:02

So many people show their processes every day that when you're not showing your processes, that people think that you just ain't doing shit. And that's fine, but don't say that shit to me because you don't think you know what I do. You can't comment on what I do when you don't know what I do.

SPEAKER_05 46:17

Hey, Haran. Not everybody, you got fuck them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:21

No, you guys, you can say fuck something, but I know how to get to. You don't like it.

SPEAKER_05 46:28

Fuck the internet, fuck them. We with you. We with you. Yeah, I'm I'm like, I don't understand why you stressed over this nigga.

SPEAKER_01 46:34

I'm just irritating. I'm not I why you outside? Be like, why ain't you? That was an example of how people that's rough on you.

SPEAKER_05 46:42

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

That type of shit, whatever. I'm not fucking stressed about that.

SPEAKER_05 46:46

Apologize that you have niggas on there telling you you need yourself.

SPEAKER_01 46:51

When they but they don't know. That's an example of when you post. I think I post a lot, right? On my stories. I like each other.

SPEAKER_03 46:59

Oh no, you're dead, yeah, yeah, nigga. Your story be up there.

SPEAKER_01 47:01

I do not. Shut up. Like, if you if you look at the group of like of who posts a lot, like, you know, I probably do like a story almost every day, right? So you would think most I don't keep talking about this.

SPEAKER_05 47:16

Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 47:17

We're not. We're not gonna keep talking about this.

SPEAKER_06 47:21

We got a whole cabinet.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

I ain't even been on the train in like two months.

SPEAKER_06 47:25

Y'all be a kid on the spectrum, right? You said he was uh hitting on me? Yeah. Yeah. That happened to me at 16 years old. I uh was walking through my apartment. He was a and a girl was like, I like you.

SPEAKER_02 47:38

Oh, originally it was a girl.

SPEAKER_06 47:39

And then uh apparently I was her boyfriend for about a year and didn't know it.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

Oh you could have had somebody fucked up. Who is that that you like Damn, no for real.

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SPEAKER_01 47:54

For real. So, anyways, do you see yourself, this is the last question because I'm over this shit. Do you see yourself do you self-do you see yourself consuming the same types of content, meaning shows, movies, social media, books, whatever, into your older age? Or is it something that you believe that you will outgrow?

SPEAKER_05 48:11

I I think I'm gonna I'm gonna consume the same type of shit because I like I like shit that either speak to like what I'm going through or try to motivate me or laugh. But the thing is, if you I'm looking for shit to make me laugh because life looks right for me.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

No, but okay, so to break that down, do you think you'll laugh at the same things 30 years from now? Oh, you nigga, funny is funny, nigga. Yes. Funny is funny.

SPEAKER_06 48:29

I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_05 48:29

I'm still nigga, I'm still laughing at Vampire Brooklyn. I'm gonna laugh at that shit until I die. Yeah, I like that. When you get your PC, you laugh.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

When you look at like um, like you were talking about videos, the content creators and stuff like that. That's what I mean. Like a movie as funny is funny as funny. But I'm gonna be able to do that. Well, yeah, I mean like changes.

SPEAKER_05 48:47

Well, she's a great grandma. I'm like, girl, you out here, you too much out here.

SPEAKER_01 48:50

That's my question, though.

SPEAKER_05 48:51

Because it's like Drewski's the the new age of Chappelle. But it ain't the same style.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Did you see Drewski and Mike Epps?

SPEAKER_02 48:59

No, I didn't see that. I seen the clips, uh not clips, but I seen the thumbnails.

SPEAKER_01 49:03

Well, yeah, that's all I saw too.

SPEAKER_02 49:05

But I'm seeing Mike Epps also.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

Um, so that's what I mean though. Like that type of content. Do you think that that's gonna kind of like change?

SPEAKER_05 49:13

I think I like what I like on PY liking that.

SPEAKER_04 49:16

Yeah, I like that on my ass. She's mad as fuck at me. I don't know what I did. I just showed up and she she done hit me twice.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Um I this was episode 240.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

Everybody mad? I was like, I mean, she mad, nigga.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

She started the whole episode off trying to make me the official host. I really wanted to. Y'all still made me freaking do it.

SPEAKER_06 49:42

Uh I'll say I think I'll continuously like what I like, but I do think um I'm always open to like in anything if I if it makes me laugh. I always like odd shit. Like, I even like awkward comedy. Like uh, what's his name? Uh what's that weird motherfucker? Uh is it Mark is it polo something?

SPEAKER_01 50:05

Oh, Marco. Funny Marco.

SPEAKER_06 50:07

Yeah, funny Marco, yeah, yeah. That awkward comedy is.

SPEAKER_05 50:11

Why are you looking at nigga?

SPEAKER_06 50:12

Like that Chris Brown up? Uh shit. Yeah. When he was like, I got a sister to look just like me, and he was like, fuck no.

SPEAKER_00 50:17

I was like, and then look you get Chris Brown up.

SPEAKER_04 50:22

He said Chris, like, no disrespect to your sister though.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

No, but he was talking about the songs that he made, and he was like, I wasn't like working with Lil' Romeo. I was like, nigga, I ain't got no song with Lil' Romeo. He was looking at him like, yeah, the song with Romeo.

SPEAKER_06 50:39

Or then when he was talking to Dwight Howard. I don't see that one. Watch that.

SPEAKER_05 50:43

Oh no, when he was like, how many more kids you gonna have?

SPEAKER_06 50:46

And then he was talking about what I think it was something about his uh ability to play basketball on something. He was like, which he was like, nigga, you ain't never been able to like, I was like, damn, you were able to talk to Dwight Howard like that. Uh yeah. Funny Marco.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

Um, Vince Staples is another awkward funny guy. Yeah, he's fucking hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 51:04

Have you watched the state? Yeah, that show. Yeah, the Vince Staples.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

That show's fucking quite the second one got a little dark though. But the first, I mean, they were both good, but the second one was like dark.

SPEAKER_05 51:13

How was your algorithm strong?

SPEAKER_01 51:15

Uh my algorithm looks, I feel like my algorithm looks like what I want. Like my life looked.

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SPEAKER_05 51:20

Yeah, please don't. We don't want no agree on the videos. A lovely day. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:26

No, no, my algorithm, I mean, uh, consumption-wise, in terms of like outside of social media, um, I watch, I watch a lot of podcasts, but um the podcasts are usually like more um developmental, um, like emotional um what is it called? Um don't say emotional intelligence. No, I mean that may be an episode on one of the ones, but like there's a lady, Debbie Brown, that I like. She's like a life coach. Debbie Brown.

SPEAKER_05 52:03

Debbie? Debbie.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

Debbie. Debbie Brown.

SPEAKER_05 52:06

Debbie. Um Debbie.

SPEAKER_01 52:08

I watch Megan Ashley. It's it's I don't want to call it a Christian podcast, but I guess that's basically what it is. Um, she talks about a lot of people. Do they call it a Christian podcast? I don't know. Oh, I'm just like, I just don't, I don't know. Like, I don't really to be honest with, I don't know. But she talks about, I mean, she's always inscription and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 52:24

But uplifting shit. Huh? Uplifting and shit.

SPEAKER_01 52:28

I do.

SPEAKER_05 52:28

Yeah. But that's kind of like how I don't tell everybody she can't don't fucking fight with me. Don't that's the shit. She's getting uplifted, but she ain't uplifting nobody.

SPEAKER_01 52:39

I am though. That's not true. Oh that's not true.

SPEAKER_06 52:42

So when you say stuff like that, it's like uh, for example, uh, there's a uh podcast that I follow. And it was as a uh a trainer at my gym. She has a podcast and I followed her from the their pot their uh Instagram page, and it was a it's for a woman, but I listened to it and I actually got um stuff from it because it was it was about mental things, and I was like, this actually can adapt to everyone.

SPEAKER_01 53:09

That's what I was trying to give an umbrella for.

SPEAKER_06 53:11

But I was like, damn, I wouldn't because it's the it's it's like absorbed in like 15-minute segments, so like she'll have a whole thing that's centered on certain things. I'm like, this shit's actually helpful. It's people, it's not just and I I I rock with it, so it's like there's things like that you can get certain nuggets from certain things you didn't expect to, and that's that's one of them. Uh uh her uh podcast is uh vibrant something. But yeah, it's Chantel Matthews, but if she has something that I didn't expect to actually get something from, but I watch um Angie Martinez's podcast a lot in real life.

SPEAKER_02 53:47

The goat.

SPEAKER_01 53:48

Um right, but she's dope because she has different celebrities, they're men and women. So you're getting that perspective. Like Charlemagne, I never knew that I like I used to hate Charlemagne because he was just like he just played his role. He was the deal. But he's really like, he's so a part of like the mental health wellness world. Um, when I watched his, I was like, damn, he's really, really dope. And then um, somebody else I was about to say. Um, Andrew Martinez in real life, there's another go-to that, oh, Kirk Franklin has a podcast, and he has, because you made me think about when you were like, oh, it's for women. There's a couple of men's podcasts that are really insightful because it's not necessarily they're talking about like mental health from their perspectives, but it's really cool to see. Like, you know what I mean? It's not like everybody can't still pull from that.

SPEAKER_05 54:41

You know, he be doing nigga shit on there, because I like when Kirk Franklin gets into his nigga bag.

SPEAKER_01 54:46

He does.

SPEAKER_05 54:46

He a nigga for real.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

He really does, though. Because he be having like, it's funny.

SPEAKER_05 54:51

He just love the Lord.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

I remember when he had um when he had young Jeezy on there, because I, well, Jeezy, I guess, now. Um, but I really like Jeezy. And he's another one that like his just transformation is fucking great. But Jeezy was on there, and just that whole interaction was like super dope. Like, I like to see Kirk Franklin, like, he very, very, like y'all said, like that nigga got he be in his nigga bag. Like, he being all the time.

SPEAKER_05 55:18

He be trying to say, if the camera wasn't on, we wouldn't see he be trying to say. But he like this nigga, he is this nigga. He's niggas.

SPEAKER_01 55:28

Yeah. But that's I I just feel like my algorithm, I'm always trying to take something to apply.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

Well, I feel that.

SPEAKER_01 55:34

I won't even call it learn. Like, I'm always, and because we consume so many things, it's hard. I hate when I like I if you look at the notes in my phone, there's so many, like I'm listening to a podcast and I jot that down because I'm like, that's dope. Like, you know what I mean? So I'm always trying to, you know, do something that's gonna apply somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 55:50

But okay, so you're applying these notes.

SPEAKER_01 55:52

No, for real. Okay. 100%. 100%.

SPEAKER_05 55:55

Are you are you how are you manifesting that should be what? Are you how are you measuring the application of these notes?

SPEAKER_01 56:01

How am I measuring?

SPEAKER_05 56:02

Yeah, if they're working for you or not.

SPEAKER_01 56:04

Um, how they show up in my life, like communication, uh, relationships.

SPEAKER_05 56:12

I'll be too weary. That's what it is. My algorithm be having me out there all fucked up in the world because I'll be watching people thinking that man's a killer.

SPEAKER_06 56:24

Shit. Yeah, my whole algorithm's David right now.

SPEAKER_03 56:26

What's that?

SPEAKER_06 56:27

Oh yeah, the singer David that uh Oh, they killed the little girl.

SPEAKER_01 56:31

Yeah, that happened. Didn't it happen? That's how they found her in Riverside County.

SPEAKER_06 56:35

She lived in Lake Elsinore.

SPEAKER_05 56:36

They said that nigga had more child porn on his phone than a motherfucker. I swear to God, goddamn.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

Or he was named a child, so yeah. I don't know how some people want to try to shoot them bell.

SPEAKER_05 56:49

I was like, you can't shoot him, no bell.

True Crime Spiral And Closing Notes

SPEAKER_06 56:50

No, you can shoot that nigga. Yeah. Yeah, that nigga, yeah, that's that's a done deal for him.

SPEAKER_05 56:55

As it should be, too.

SPEAKER_06 56:56

And I watched, I said I would I never heard about until this shit, and then I like watched Chanel, like this this nigga's weird. Like, if you watch this the shit, like I was like, this motherfucker's weird. Like, how is he famous?

SPEAKER_01 57:07

But that's so just remember everybody, you are not only what you eat, but you are what you consider.

SPEAKER_06 57:15

Don't play in Sean play. She made it. She made it. End of the day, most of us were Oscar the Grouch.

SPEAKER_05 57:20

She said she wasn't gonna do it, but she did it. And we're proud. And if you let a nigga Shenan one time.

SPEAKER_01 57:25

Just barely, just barely.

SPEAKER_06 57:26

You're gonna shan't Oscar. Why do you eat such a grouch?

SPEAKER_01 57:29

I'm living a fucking trash can. Oh, um, y'all gotta close it out though, because I don't ever know that. Like, subscribe.

SPEAKER_06 57:36

Like, subscribe, share, and comment. This has been episode 240 of the next time we love you. Peace. Peace.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

I told you I don't like fucking Austin. I don't ever get that part right.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

That's right, you know, that's that's how she wrote. So, make sure, click like, subscribe. Tune in. We're on our screen platform. So until next time. Well I got you.