5. Make No Sense

Finals week got ya boy cooked, but you know we still had to come through with a new episode for y'all. Back solo this week, BD responds to a hilarious voicemail, shares his thoughts on notable fake news stories, asks if there will ever be another Michael Jackson, and more.  Plenty of lies, misinformation, and grievance airing throughout.

Transcript

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Yeah. What's going on, BD? Books here. Day one listener, long time brother. Love what you're doing. Here's the thing: you're trying to desensitize Arby's. You holler out, oh, I only go two times a year, and they people make it seem like they vilify me, and they make it seem like I'm just this person. You are. Because two times Arby's a year, you are that person. And we're not about to make that okay. You feel what I'm saying? Show people your font size. Love you, brother.

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Y'all heard y'all heard my brother booked on the intro. Hello. How you doing? And is that Jordan BDJ Taylor, the host of the Big Dream Show? I mean, I'm the host. I'm the engineer. I'm the producer. I'm the founder. I'm the creator. I'm the CEO. I'm the marketing team. I'm this my shit. It's my shit. But yeah. My brother left that voicemail. We gonna we're gonna get into it. Yeah, we're gonna get into it. Because it's it's it's funny. But how y'all feeling? Hope y'all good. Little housekeeping note with this episode coming out a little later. I usually try to drop them on uh on Friday mornings. So going into your commute and then going into the weekend, you got something, but it's finals week. And your boy been feeling like I'm in the final battle, fighting the final boss. So prayers for everybody, uh everybody in school finishing up. Shout out to y'all. But let's get into the show. Let's get into the show. Before I burn before I burn books up for trying to trying to play on the on the good name, calling me an Arby's propagandist and whatnot. Let's get to these ground rules. And as always, y'all know y'all can send y'all voicemails in or text messages in. They'll be played on the show. They also show up on the website, bigdreams.buzzsprout.com. You can find all the voicemails there, um, all the fan mail. You can find every episode of the show. I don't think it's really too too much on there, but I know for a lot of folks who don't use Apple, it's sometimes hard to find the show. So yeah, hit there. But before I get into Flamin' Books ass up and then all the rest of the things going on in the world, let's go through these ground rules. Now, if you're new here, the ground rules are just a way for me to let you know what you're about to be getting into for the next 45 minutes to an hour. And if you've been here before, feel free to skip ahead. But ground rule number one. These thoughts are strictly my own and do not reflect the views of any family, friends, partners, affiliates, or associates. Rule number two, we use vulgar language, I cuss, I say bad words, fuck shit ass down. If you're somewhere where that type of language being used is frowned upon, I suggest you put an airpod or a headphone in. Don't want to be classes. I suggest you put a headphone in. Or, you know, wait until you around people that don't got sensitive ears. Rule number three, follow me. It's real uh stream of consciousness, real, real just the thoughts in my head. No guests this week. Shout out to Bro last week. My my brother good my good brother Taji Burris. I'm tripping on my words because I um I thought it would be a good idea. I I thought I had my water bottle on me, but I didn't, so I've just been drinking this Coca-Cola. So now like all the all the caffeine and sugar and shit got me on like a a little sugar rush. So if I don't sound my usually my usual cool, calm, and collected self, it's because I'm I'm fighting through through sugar rush like a third grader. But shout out to my brother Taji for being a guest on the show, all future guests, looking forward to it. Yeah, it's yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. If y'all didn't listen to that, go back and do that. But yeah, the point I was making, again, which is why it's important to follow me, is that my brain goes all over the place, and if I don't have a guest to bounce off of and it's a solo, that was crazy. If I don't have a guest to uh go back and forth with, sometimes it can get kind of convoluted. But it'd be making sense, but you really gotta listen. And we're in an era where attention spans are shorter than they've ever been. We're in an era when so many things are expected of us, where you might be on the phone and have a TV on and have your laptop open and just be thinking about a whole bunch of different things. So all I really ask for real is that when I'm on this platform and I'm doing my thing, that's y'all, you know, listen, follow along, don't get lost in sus. Alright. To that note, number four, tell me if I'm tripping. If I say something that's out of line, that's fucking crazy, fucking nuts. For my cart, I'm human just like you. The best way to grow is through, you know, failing, make mistakes. So if I say something that's out of line, say something that's incorrect, whatever it may be, just feel free to let me know. Number five, help this thing grow. So, like, rate, subscribe, review, leave voicemails, say your friends, say your family, say your aunt, say your uncle, whatever it may be. Just help the show to grow. If you like what I'm doing, you like what's going on here, spread the word, share it. I I love when I see y'all listening to the show. Shout out to Anjara. And Jira texted me this morning, like, are you good? I'm like, yeah, what's up? She was like, uh, yeah, the show ain't come out. So shit like that, you feel me? It's like, alright, people really do, people really are checking for it, people are really aren't listening, so that's a hell of a feeling. And I'm gonna add a new rule. I'm gonna add a sixth ground rule, so maybe you shouldn't have skipped it if you already skip it, but I'm gonna say do your research. Shout out to the guys that are in your leisure, they always say that, but I never wanna present myself as a know-it-all. I never want to present myself as someone that knows everything about a subject or everything about a thing. Um, it's my hope that this the show, if you hear something new or learn something new from this show, that you then take whatever you learned, whatever you heard, and research it further, dive further into it, hear from other voices, other opinions. Don't just treat my word as gospel. Don't let natural don't let me be your news source. So with that being said, hey books. Hey books. You try and paint this picture of me, like going to Arby's more than once in a while is a crime against humanity. And I don't like that. I don't like that for a couple reasons. One, and I'm not even the biggest Arby Arby's man out there. There's there are bigger Arby's fans than me. Shout out to Rod Wave, shout out to my brother Tex. There are Arby's fans out there, I'm not a fan, alright? I'm a curious cuisine searcher, my boy. I see some dumb shit on a fast food menu, I'ma seek it out. I'm curious like that. It may be the death of me. It may be one of my fatal flaws. If some shit come out and that shit look like it's banging, I sacrifice the six months of my life to go try it. When Taco Bell came out with them cinnamonis, them little cinnabon bites, you damn right. I was there. I'm not gonna go, I'm not gonna eat that, eat that that purple, that purple whopper, that purple Big Mac, I'm not gonna go that far. Or that black ass whopper, but I say that to say Arby's is not the worst fast food chain in the world. Where else can you get curly fries? Where else can you get a gyro or a gyro? I don't wanna offend my Italian constituents out there, so please leave a voicemail telling me how to pronounce G-Y-R-O-S. And Arby's man, they came through with brisket on Hawaiian bread. I don't know no other fast food chains coming through with brisket, let alone brisket on Hawaiian bread. I'm talking about real king's Hawaiian rules. I'm talking about they had the sponsorship. They had a joint venture with them boys, man. But let me tell y'all something about my friend books. Let me tell y'all something about my brother books. My brother, Dr. Books. He's a he's a he's a well-educated, thoughtful man. That's why the that's why I can't let the voicemail slide. Because we're talking about a brother that has endured years of schooling. We're talking about a brother that has gone above and beyond to, you know, push us forward as a as a group, as a collective. I always make sure that we're informed, that we're we're questioning things. But let me let me tell you about some things about the man attacking my character before we move on to the the bulk of the series, the bulk of the show, excuse me. Bucks. Tell them people how you like Subway sandwiches. Tell them people how you hit the group chat saying I wish that they sold that Subway smelling air fresh no candle for them. Tell them that. How you gonna tell them the whole story? Tell them people you go to Dunkin' Donuts and just order donuts. Tell them people that tell them people how you put in a DoorDash order for a grimace shake to your crib. And you like the grimace shake from McDonald's so much you double back hopped in the hopped in the accord. Hopped in the accord. Drove fifteen minutes pitch black. I'm not gonna say where you stay at, but drove pitch black fifteen minutes up the road to the closest McDonald's and got another one. Tell that. Tell the people the truth. And for any any disses about my font size, my font size not that big. Alright. The font on my phone is not that big. And for for you, and for everybody else that wanna wanna slander, wanna talk shit, your time coming. Your font size might not be big now, but it will be. It will be, it comes for all of us. Yeah, you surprise now, you young now, yeah. Niggas can run 5K's and shit. Niggas can go to the gym, get up early, go to the gym, tour days, all that bullshit. Eat whatever you want, yeah. It's coming. Don't worry. Don't worry. And when it comes, when it comes. I'm kicked back with my feet up, eating some motherfucking curly frost. Living the life that God intended for me. Let's move on from one fake story and fake news allegation to a story that quickly jumped to the top of my radar. Y'all seen this JP Morgan shit? Y'all seen it. It was It started off with claims from a disgruntled former employee that his supervisor was sexually assaulting him, but the details were, for lack of better phrase, hilarious. Like he was saying that she was making him pop Viagra and calling his wife Fish Face. If Fishface is a slur, then I don't know. I apologize in advance. I I don't think it's a slur. I think it's just like a an insult. But if it is a slur, I apologize. I'm not gonna be saying it. I'm not gonna keep saying it too many times, but yeah, let me know. Let me know in the comments if if Fish Face is a slur. Fuck, I said it again. Alright. But yeah, no, it was a crazy story. It was just a crazy story about like she was it it said that she was bullying him, making him a sex slave, said you're not gonna get your bonus if you don't come, you know, service me orally. It was a whole bunch of things. It sounded, but it the funny thing is, it sounded like it was something that was written by you know, like when middle school boys or high school boys have fantasies about like a teacher or someone in a position of power taking advantage of them. Like you you've heard of that before, right? That's not just a that's not something I'm making up. That's what it That's what it sounded like. It sounded fake as shit. So the big story here, the real story here, is we talk a lot about media literacy on this show, we talk a lot about being informed on this show. I said don't let me be your main source of news. But the big point, the big takeaway here is just how fast some fake shit can spread. Because by the time that it came out that the story was fake, a lot of people, it already had gained enough traction to where people were like, damn, that's crazy. Yeah, it showed her name out there, her face, her picture, and then yeah, it's just it's sick, man. It's a sick era we live in. It's a sick era. And the AI only gonna make it worse, you feel me? Misinformation, we talk about that all the time. The misinformation epidemic that we're currently in where you can't really tell if some shit is true or false. You can't really tell if some shit is real. I saw my own girl, she sent me a picture. It was it was Michelle Obama in Barack and like a carryout. I don't know where the fuck they was at, but Michelle Obama had the blue flag on her head. And I was like, that's not real, right? She's like, why the fuck would it be real? But you never know. You never know. I also seen a lot of AI pictures of Michael Jordan and carryouts wearing wearing t-shirts and and I want to say YN apparel, but I don't like I'm not a fan of the YN phrasing, because like I know what y'all trying, I know what y'all saying. Like, Y N is Y-N is coded in the same way that thug is coded in the same way that urban youth is coded in the same way that super predator is coded. Like it's just fancy, smashy ways of saying nigga in front of in front of large groups of people. So I ain't really a big fan of of YN. Well, I would be more a fan of it if it was just us using it and it wasn't usually some like anti-black hyper criminalization type context, and it just was really describing like young niggas, adolescents, teenagers, like shit, man, we gotta stay on our P's and Q's. And I I don't even know what the answer is, because that shit had me fooled. That shit had me fooled, but we said it last week, I say it all the time. Jay-Z, Jay-Z said in ignorance shit, he said, believe half of what you see and none of what you hear. So we gotta be on that type of time. I hear it, but I ain't believing it until I got concrete concrete proof. Y'all fucking tongue twist this boy. I need a water. I need a water so bad. My me not having my water bottle is really it's like the flu game for real. It's like the flu game. I don't got the flu, but you know, fighting uphill, uphill battle. So, that story was fake. On to another story that may be fake. So, y'all, by now, y'all all saw what happened at the White House correspondence dinner. Y'all saw that there was an assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump's life, which will mark the third assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump's life. I have thoughts. I have thoughts. I'm not sure. Pardon me leans to I guess I guess I'm conflicted. And I'll work it out with y'all real time. I'm conflicted because either either he's the luckiest most hated president ever. Because I don't know, not alone, like take the presidency aside, right? I don't know too many people that survived three assassination attempts. Period? Like that's that's already that's already crazy. But you were surviving three attempts and then being three misses just seems like a statistical improbability. If I had an intern, I'd ask the intern to look up like what are the chances of knocking out three assassinations attempts over the age of 70. Because that's another thing too. He's not mobile, like he's not agile, he ain't he ain't getting low or getting loose. If you watch the video, JD Vance was getting loose. Trump was he, you know, he was looking around, lobbing. So I don't know. I feel like that shit fake. I feel like that shit fake. Because as soon as it happened, then people were campaigning on, well, this is why we need a presidential ballroom. We need a presidential ballroom because for the first time ever at the correspondence dinner someone tried to shoot a president. That doesn't make sense. But nothing really does make sense when when we talk about this subject, but yeah, even even the security, even even that many people are incompetent to the point that you can have three assassination attempts, which if I was if I was in his shoes and it wasn't fake, I would feel a way about the people that I put in charge of protecting my life coming that close to failing three times. I probably would have a lot to say about that actually. If I was of that temperament to talk shit on people for even minor perceived lights, I probably would talk a lot of shit about the people that aren't protecting my life. So it's interesting that hasn't happened. But yeah, it's it's breaking my brain, y'all. I ain't gonna lie. It's breaking my brain, because even here's a little bit of history, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, y'all know the story of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you don't, if I'm not mistaken, he was the catalyst for I think it was World War One. But he was there was an assassination attempt on him, right? And then the assassin missed. Alright, cool. Then I think Franz Ferdinand got a flat tire or some dumb shit like that. Was that a or was that a stoplight or a stop sign? And the assassin happened to see him, and then like up did they say up pole on him? I don't was the pole in in the 1900s. Up that blamer on him. I think they said blamer back then. That sounded like some ro Rowan 20s type shit. Yeah, blamer. I got the blamer at Gatsby's. That sounded like some shit they would say. So yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. A lot of shit feels shaky. A lot of feel a lot of shit just feels odd. Like I can't really place it. And then the again, another fucking broken record, broken record point. The sources of information that are supposed to tell us whether this shit is on the up and up and or not are just kind of non-existent. Yeah, so I don't know. Y'all let me know. Y'all let me know. Y'all holla at me, because right now I'm just talking to myself in the studio. But y'all let me know. Y'all holla at me. Another thing important to note, and I gotta do more research on this. Um, like I said, finals week I ain't really had the time to prepare for this episode how I would have liked, but it's cool, because I'm I'm good at this, so I can talk, it ain't really a problem. But I do like to present y'all with facts and sources and and shit like that. But I I do need to look more into what's going on with the Voting Rights Act, the repealment of the Voting Rights Act of 1960, what, 1964, 1965. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll we'll we'll do a whole politics-related episode. One of the homies actually hit me up. Like when you want to talk about politics and current events, I'd love to come on. So we'll try to get that scheduled in the near future so that before we get all before we like all like fuck it, it's summertime, we'll try to get some political education in here to really make sure that we are doing our duty, because the world's crazy. There's no reason not to turn up, but at the same time we gotta be informed, it gotta be balanced, you know. I feel like it's just as revolutionary to party as it is to work, as it is to and work in service of the advancements of your people, not work just to work, but as it is to rest, as it is to sleep, like all of these things work together, all these things work together towards bringing joy. So we still gonna have joy, but we gotta be informed, we gotta be sharp for real. So I don't know. I don't know what's real, and I don't know what's fake. I know that voting rights act shit is real though. I know that that's very real. Let's talk about Michael. Let's talk about Michael. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the Biopic yet. Biopic? Biopic? Biopic? Biopic? How do you I ain't seen the Michael Jackson movie yet? I seen uh The American Dream. I seen that motherfucker. I seen the one with Flex 2. We won't talk too much about that one except for memes, but truly an awful movie. Right up there with the Aaliyah Lifetime movie. That shit was awful. And the Tupac, uh Lies on Me movie. That shit was awful. Damn, that's like three people I really fuck with, too. I I gotta get rich so I can give these people proper proper theater treatments, proper movie treatments. But the thing I run into with the Michael, with the Michael, we'll call it the Michael phenomenon. It's interesting to see Michael Jackson becoming becoming a a central pop cultural figure again. Almost, what, 16 years or so after his death? Probably 17. 17 years or so after his death. It's interesting to see him re-enter the public's consciousness in such a such a strong way from people dressing up, go to the theaters and dancing. So every time I'm on Instagram, I'm seeing somebody post it, like, what's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Well, Michael Jackson fans tapping or something like that. And it's cool. It's cool. Not to relitigate, not to relitigate his whole life, but I think about the level of star and the level of celebrity that he was. And I ask myself a lot. Me and my mom have had this conversation. Could there be another Michael Jackson? Could there be someone Can there be some can someone get that famous? Can someone get that famous? And I asked this question to the homies early this week. I said, Yo, is Donald Trump as famous as Michael Jackson was? And of course the immediate response is like, nah, like, fuck no. Like, Donald Trump ain't as famous as Michael Jackson, blah blah woofy woof. But then you dig into it and it's like, well, motherfucker been famous for 40 years at this point. Two-time president. Really, really focused on egotistically branding his name. So that's just a a question. Again, question I posed to y'all, question I've just been been wrestling with. But back to the topic, the real the real thing is, can celebrity ever function in that kind of way? And I think no. I think due to us not having a monoculture in the same way, to where if you needed music, you went to the radio, you went to MTV, you went to VH1, you went to the record store. If you needed news, you went to magazines, you had your news outlets, your TV shows. Our culture just doesn't function in that kind of way no more. Like, things are way more fragmented to where my experience is different than if somebody's next to me and they are on their phone. They looking at completely different things and you can kind of insulate yourself. You can build a world based only on the shit that you like in a way that you couldn't before. I mean you can always do it. The trope was like the the dude living in the in his basement, the dude living in his mom's basement, or the the person that don't leave their room. Like there always have been people that have been like overly zealous about shit. Like nah, I don't think I don't think it can work the same way. I don't think that you can survive all of the constant social media and stories and opinions. I I just I think that that person would become divided or be claimed by a group. And that was the thing about Michael Jackson, even down to his physical appearance evolving in the way it did. You got boy, a little black boy from Gary, Indiana. Then you got a teenage heart throb with a motherfucking Jerry Carol in a a suit dancing all over the place. Then you got Matthew Vin Lango, you see his hair look a little different, you see his skin look a little different, you see his nose look a little different the way he, for all intents and purposes, appeared racially ambiguous. And I'm not saying that to say like Michael Jackson wasn't wasn't champion of civil rights in his own way. I'm not saying that to say that Michael Jackson wasn't proud to be black or no shit like that. But what I'm saying is if you didn't know shit about him and you looked at that motherfucker after Bad came out, you wouldn't know he was black unless you knew he was black. Or you would think he was whatever, and he can tell you he was whatever and you would believe it. So I think even that plays into it to where I don't know if somebody can be in a chameleon in that kind of way in this era when we are like so locked in on identity and we're so locked in on me versus you, my group versus versus that group. I don't know if somebody can transcend, I don't know if somebody can transcend past all of the all the perceptions that we have to even get that famous and get that kind of worldwide appeal and acclaim. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe an athlete, maybe an athlete could, but even still, that's a regional thing where music is universal, like like you talking about somebody that broke the color barrier on MTV, and then a decade or so later is in Africa doing so without shows, and Europe doing so-without shows, like every continent in ways that we haven't fathomed. And now attachment to that is that in 20 years after he left this earth, this man got the number one movie. And like I said from the jump, people dressing up. Um there's also a conversation to be had about expecting shenanigans for real. Like, you know when you get into certain situations or some places that there's a a shenanigans threshold. Like, let me put it this way. Let me break it down. If you go to a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant, right, the perceived threshold for shenanigans is gonna be low. You're not gonna expect a lot of riff-raff, a lot of people outside the box. You're expecting people to be, you know, reserved at their table. Ha ha. Hello, chum. Nice to meet you, like all that, all that stupid bullshit. Versus and you go to let's say a let's say a football game. You go to a football game, the shenanigans threshold is gonna be higher, right? Because you know you're gonna have drunk people, you're gonna have people of all kinds of socioeconomic classes, people of all kinds of different ethnicities, people that are fans of the team, people that are not fans of the team, fans of the opposing team. You're gonna have emotions flaring up. You're gonna have people yelling and screaming and all types of all types of shit. The shenanigans threshold is gonna be higher. The point I'm making, shit like a Michael Jackson movie has is gonna have one of the high higher thresholds for shenanigans. So you're gonna expect that shit. You're gonna expect to see people dressed up, you're gonna expect to see people dancing. I ain't saying you necessarily gonna like it. I ain't saying you gotta fuck with it. I mean, I'm I I'm I'm a low-key. I ain't I'm a Michael Jackson fan. I I thought I was a I thought I was a fan, but the way how hard y'all going got me got me questioning. Maybe I might just be a a a casual observer. But all that being said, next week I should have some concrete thoughts on the movie. In the meantime, if y'all want to review or y'all want to hear about it, the homie and Jera, she wrote for Huffin' Compose, she wrote a review about the Michael Jackson bio biopic. That's that word is kicking my ass. Biopic. It's hot in Topeka. Yeah, so make sure y'all check that out. And let's move to it's it's such a mischievous of topics this week, bro. It's so much just random shit. But no, I don't think that can be enough Michael Jackson to put it all together. I got the Yeah, I don't want to talk about that. Let's talk about Ham, I don't want to talk about that either. I don't know, man. I don't know. It's just been some crazy shit this week. That dude I talk about it. I'll just I'll just slander him. I'll just slander him real quick. That dude in Houston that's running around uh licking feet and eating ass at the party. You a nasty motherfucker and you messing it up for everybody. You messing it up for everybody. That's that's nasty work. Nasty, nasty work. And then more evidence came up with him, like he was a video of a guy in Houston at Sakai. It looked like Sakai, amen. It looked like Sakai. It looked like Sakai. So it's a guy in Sakai at the pool party in Houston, and he was he was licking women's women's feet and eating butt and just you know, it's just that's out there. It's out there with then more videos surfaced of him at Mardi Gras licking feet, eating sucking toes and whatnot. And he's just a habitual freak. And yeah, I I wouldn't talk about it because I thought it was funny, but it's just like ah, it's like alright, it's nasty, nasty work, brother. It's nasty work. Hold your I can't even tell you how you did. You just get help. Get help, brother. Um and versus news, they announced that French Montana is gonna be doing a versus battle with Rick Ross. I think that this is the first time that two people who did versus previously. I think French did one, but I know Ross did one for sure against two chains, so they're running that back. I'm happy to see the versus concept concept still exist. I think it's pretty cool. I would I would love to go to a versus party. I feel like that shit would be cool. Like two DJs or one DJ just playing the shit back and forth. But I think Ross got it. Prince Montana got some shit though. Very underrated. Prince Montana got a very underrated discography. I think Prince Montana is underrated in the same kind of way that Wak Flocka, and I know like Flocca got Trump, he Trump affiliate and shit, but taking political affiliation aside, Wak Flocka got an underrated discography. They they're both like, and it's uh numerous other names, but they're like if you were their type of rappers, then you got a different appreciation than if you go back and try and listen now. It's like what they meant in their era, what they meant in their time. They definitely did make a they definitely did make a silent impact for sure. So it should be fun. Niggas say there's gonna be a battle of them playing Drake features. I didn't think that was fair. Especially not for Ross. Ross is one of my guys, I ain't gonna lie to y'all. Again, a questionable character in real life, questionable moral character, but when it comes to rapping, when it comes to production, when it comes to creating painting a picture or making a scene, it ain't really too bad too many better than Ross. So give me Ross, give me Ross in five. I got that Lean with It Rock With It is about drugs on here. So if y'all didn't know, the song Lean with a Rock With It is The Rock is is crack and lean is lame. Also, I saw McDonald's trying to gentrify dirty soda. Apparently it's a thing in the Midwest where they put coffee cream and soda and they call it dirty soda. That's not what we call dirty soda. It's a when they say two Americas, yeah, nah. Nah, that's not what we're talking about. That's not what we're referring to when we say dirty soda. I promise you it's not. Dirty Sprite is not Sprite with fucking coffee cream in it. That's that's sick and disgusting work. And y'all should be ashamed of yourselves. That's when you need to be fucking slandering books. You mad at me for wanting to have an open mind. But motherfuckers like you are drinking coffee cream and goddamn Fanta. Disgusting. Just fucking sickening. Alright. Hold your head. Hold your head, hold your head, hold your head. Katie or and or LeBron, one of y'all is about to look bad. Katie, you already look bad. Well, allegedly. We don't know if Kevin Durant is get off my Dickerson. We assume that Kevin Durant is get off my Dickerson. And if you're not familiar, get off my Dickerson was a a nameless face uh well, faceless, not not nameless. Clearly the name was Get Off My Dickerson, but a nameless Twitter account that had a lot of choice words for motherfuckers in the NBA. A lot of bad words, a lot of things I won't repeat on these airways, but ah man, get off my Dickerson. That is a funny motherfucker right there. I will say that. That's a funny motherfucker. Whoever you are, get off my Dickerson. So the Rockets, get off my Dickerson. I mean, Kevin Durant's Rockets are playing LeBron James Lakers. The Lakers were up with 3-0, 3-1. And now it seems that the Rockets are making a comeback. So it's gonna be bad for someone. Either LeBron about to blow this lead or Kevin Durant is nowhere to be fine. Kevin Durant also hasn't played so far in the series. So yeah, it's not a good look. And, you know, these are two guys whose legacies are secured. Shout out to Mary Jake Blige in our conversation last week. Nothing that happens now from this point forward. We'll really do too much to change how we how we view them and how we feel about him. But it's just not a good look. Hold your head, hold your head. Somebody gonna take this out. Hold your head. And last but not least, we got something that I'm sure that you are sick of hearing about. I'll give my two cents on it. And I'm gonna say, hold your head to Klay Thompson, and hold your head to Megan the Stallion. Sheesh, where do we start? Where do we start? Where do we start? I learned way more about Klay Thompson than I ever wanted to know. Didn't know he was a serial cheater. Cheating on three of the baddest in the game. That's illness, brother. That's illness. Didn't know he had a note, a notebook where he a spiral notebook at the like composition style where he wrote his his fantasies about cheating on his woman. Didn't know that. It's not a good look. It's not a good look. It's not a good look. I hate how the conversation devolved, how conversations typically do into gender wars. Um all the people that said any light-skinned Aquarius men that you see, you're gonna smack the shit out of them. I saw you, I remember, I took names, and you come for me, you must not miss, I just put it that way. Jokes, jokes, jokes. But yeah, man. I understand why people, I understand why women, I'm not gonna say people, but I understand why women and people and fans of Megan Stallion feel particularly defensive over her because she do be getting she she be taking some some L's. It'd be it'd be some fucking life-altering sad shit with her. So you know, if you and she comes off as someone that trying to hold it down for the ladies, so if you see somebody that hold it down for the ladies and just be on hot girl shit, getting dragged on, of course you're gonna feel away. I'm still mad that Diddy cast Anthony Mackie as Chupac. So I understand how it feels to have somebody you look up to get portrayed in a an unflattering light for sure. But yeah, hold your head. Just hold your head. It's not a good look. It's not a good look. I hope that all parties involve find peace. Clay Thompson, you a wild boy. You a wild boy, Clay Thompson. Matt, go get you a square. Go get you a lame, go get you a lame loser nigga with no clout, an IT professional, or I don't know, a nigga who who write, who do poets bet who do poetry barefoot in the park, play guitar like this. Stay away from the high profile, from the high profile guys. And Clay, brother, I don't I don't know. I don't know. Stay get get back in the gym. Just keep shooting, brother. Alright, this week, we're gonna wrap it up with shout out to the homies. I'm still waiting on a I'm still waiting on the homie, ironically, the homie Corey said he was gonna do a a bumper or something like that for me. Cause remember I was like, and shout out to the homie, man. Like we need some little some little motherfucker right there, like a little little insert for real. So we're gonna make that happen sooner than later. But this week the homies I want to shout out are I don't even know. I don't even know. I thought that by the time I got to the end of the sentence, it was gonna come to me. And I'm also scrolling Instagram right now to to see. I'll put it this way. Alright, we'll do this. So not a specific homie to be shouted out, but I will say that excuse me. I will say that in the news, a lot of people will be getting laid off. I know it's been a continuing thing, but a lot of people have been getting laid off, a lot of people don't been doing doing their job, losing their jobs, shit. A lot of people been losing their jobs, and that's what I meant to say. So if you can help somebody, if you can aid somebody, some kind of mutual aid, you can put some some money for you can put some money up for somebody, help somebody out, whatever it may be. I would I would advise you to lean into that, and not just individuals, but organizations that you see that are doing the work out here on the ground. A lot of organizations that we know and love are losing funding. A lot of organizations aren't able to operate at the way they were previously, at a macro level, at a micro level. I feel like just driving through the street, I'm seeing more people out here homeless. And summer and winter are both motherfuckers in their own ways, and summer is coming. And one thing I know about summer, tempers are shorter, days are longer, weather is hotter. So if we're talking about people that are providing services to the people that need it, we're talking about people that are doing valuable good, and then they're getting their resources cut and slashed. If we don't step up and put our money where our mouth is and help these people and these organizations, it ain't gonna be good for any of us when we gotta deal with the backlash of what happens when they can no longer do what they do. So all the local organizations out there, all the people out there doing their thing. Shit, you can I I'm the homie. You wanna throw me some bread? It's a uh it's a link on the on the buzz route page to show your support for this podcast. Cause it ain't, you know, it ain't free. I do it for the love of the game, but I don't do this shit for free. So yeah. A little bit of a shorter episode. My brain's still a little fried from finals week, finishing up the semester. Got a couple assignments left to finish. To all my students out there, hold your head. We're gonna get through this. To everybody in a season right now that feels as though they're transitioning or feel like they're stuck in between, they don't know what's next. Do I do this? Do I do that? Do I maintain the status quo? Do I take the lead? I'm telling you right now, if you're looking for a sign or you looking for you've been asking God, you've been praying, you've been, hey, somebody, just give me a sign. I'm your sign right here. Me saying this shit right here is your sign. Do that shit, shoot that shot, make it happen. Like, go for it. The same way I seen on episode one. Fuck it. Fuck it. Go for it. So that's what we got, man. The Big Dream Show. Episode five. We might be tired, but we do not waver. Love y'all, man. Uh see y'all next week.