Episode 1 | The Era of BullSh!t (Part One)

Man, is this thing on? What's up with a family? Man? What's the damn deal? Man? This is Junior the Truth and this is indeed episode one of the culture collective Outcast Man, powered by the Simple Truth Network, hosted by yours truly, Junior the Truth. Man. Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in. Really truly genuinely appreciated. Man. If I had a million tongues, I couldn't tell it all I'm talking about, Man, If I had a million tongues. I couldn't tell it all. Man, I really truly genuinely appreciate you. You have absolutely no idea, man, So shout out to you. And that's rather you're catching this over on the YouTube video stream, or if you're on a Simple Truth Network, or if you're on iHeartRadio or Apple Podcast, no matter what, really truly genuinely appreciate you. Today is a very special episode man. Once again, this is we've done the pilot, man, and I guess the pilot's flown and we have a reason to come back and do more. So we're definitely definitely excited. 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Man, I feel like I'm missing something, but I guess we're just gonna continue to keep. The ball rolling. Man. I want to bring in our guests. Man, Now I'm gonna introduce to some and of course reintroduce to others. Man definitely a friend of the brand, man and a frequent visitor our brother Andre Clark of Andre Clark Comedy Invasion. What's up with you, bro? Hey, what's up? Yeah? We gotta get it. We gotta get a geek man, we gotta make some noise. What's up with you, broke? What's up man? In a while? Man? Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, really truly genuinely appreciate you, bro. How you feeling, Man? I feel good. You know, I got more greater than last time it was on here, which is just you know, I got to the point in my life. Man, I'm not dying my bed no more. I stopped like two years ago. I ain't dying it no more at the Wisdom Show. So man, it's over with. Like you know, coming from where we're from, Bros, it's a privilege to get old for real. It's man, it's wild, you know what I'm saying. It's wild. And I just realized, you know, in my age, that I'm really in tune with just vitality, man is just life in general. And I realized just how precious, you know what I mean? This thing is, Bro, So I don't take it for granted, and I'm I'm I'm embracing everything that come with it, man, the gray hair, the aches, the pains, the bumps, the bruises, just everything, you know what I'm saying. Everything. So before we get you know, all off into the conversation, Man, tell the people how they can follow. You, bro? Well you can, man, I mean, I'm on Facebook, but I don't post no more. I got really turned off with social media that. Man. I don't hardly even participate. I may scroll through my feed, but I just don't. I don't be. Feeling like telling everybody what's on my mind, Like I don't. I feel like everybody don't need to know what's on my mind and what I'm doing. They don't need to know I'm on vacation. They don't need to know who I mess with. They don't need to. It's like so I'm kind of like, I don't know, like a social social media hermit. Now. I don't even be on it no more, Harley Man. But I'm on Instagram. I got TikTok, uh, I got a Snapchat. It's Drake Clark comedy. Uh, I think comedy Invasion I'm still on Twitter X still on there at drink Clark. Someone had to lose at Drake Clark Comedy. Uh, the Facebook is just Dray Clark. Then I got to the Drain Clark Comedy Invasion Facebook page. You can get there. Yeah, Man, on Facebook, I don't I don't, you know, I'm wondering the few that I feel like, Man, I don't need to share everything with everybody, So I don't really post a lot no more. I don't post what I'm thinking. I don't be caring about people's opinion. That's what it is. I don't be feeling like hearing the comments. And you I don't give a damn man. What you think. If the sky is grid to you, the damn it this red. We're not argue. Don't just live your life. Man. Man, that's crazy. And that's a that's actually a good place for us to start, man, because I have this thought about and when I say for intense and purposes of the show, well, let me start off, let me start off this. Well, I'm gonna do it do it this way. So when I say the culture right, like, of course you know what I mean, and the majority of people know what I mean. But for all intents and purposes, people don't understand when I say the culture what I mean. And so the culture is. This. The culture is the demographic of people who are generally like thirty five to about thirty five to sixty five in age, of course, citizens, American citizens, people who come from typically inner city areas, man or some country rural areas, and they are identified as black or African American, or the Indigenous people descendants of the indigenous people of this land descendance of slaves. Like, however, black folks. You feel me when I say black folks, If you know exactly what I'm talking about, then the demographic is you. So, Drake, let me ask you, give me one major concern that you have for currently the demo for the culture that is, once again, black folks between the ages of thirty five to sixty five. That's pretty much the demographic and our target audience for this this thought cast man, give me one major concern that. You have and why. Just just to repeat this self, you know, his re repeat itself. You know, we went through the civil rights movement and all that, and I feel like I feel like it's a yach You know, we understand it in our age bracket. But I feel like I don't think it's a good job by I guess us in our age bracket teaching the generations below us about what took place and for that not to repeat again. So I feel like, you know, the way. Things sounds, it's like it's repeating the same cycle, the same thing we went through, we fought for, we fought against, you know, fault not to sit in the back of the bus. Now you know, cast and sent on the back of the bus A big kool ais matters to be perfectly fine with it. I feel like people, you know, it's I feel like people won't stand up no more, Like they'll talk talk talk all day on social media. Well are you gonna go out there and and stand up against the oppression and everything? You know, it's everything looks good. I like it feel like social media has made it where people feel comfortable just disrespecting everybody like you made it comfort because I ain't got to see you. I can say what I want to say and and you know, I ain't got to worry about the consequence. And I feel like we need to do better job of just teaching each other. Like certain things like Man, I don't want to call this brother, but that the one big dancing dude. I've seen him. He'll eat the food and get up and start dancing. It's like, man, you understand the history behind that, man, you know, you understand it being a coon. You know you they're eating this food and you get up and do some cool ass dance. Man, it's like, man, we need it. Ain't cool. I don't give back. Damn how many likes are you getting paid for it? Man? Sometimes you gotta have you gotta have ethics whatever you do. You know, you can't just just because somebody just cause you're getting paid to do it, and don't mean it's right. You have a choice and everything, like even with like well our people like you know when you hear these stories about Hollywood and you know people gotta go to that cast and couch. You have a choice. Everybody has a choice in this thing. You got a choice to participate or not. Yeah, you may you know, may not get the opportunity if you don't get on that cast to couch. But man, what what's more important to your integrity of being famous? Man? That's uh, that's tough, and you just gonna come in and just jump right in. The stuff was like like the big the big dance stuff Todded. I don't know if you've seen, but I just. Yeah, I'm be looking at that, like, man, this is so coolish. Man. It's like. The same things that you know, we fought against and stuff, and it's cool. Now I'm getting paid. Everybody seems I'm getting money and then make money makes sense. No, just because it makes money don't mean it make sense. Man, It doesn't mean I mean sometimes have some dignity about yourself, you know, just it's other ways, you know, you get make money without degrading yourself and doing umiliating things just to get on. M And I think it's it's where we are man. And I'll share one of mine, and I well, I won't share, I'll expand expound on you on what you share. I think the I believe that we suffer. From a lack of identity, and I believe that we're really truly in an identity crisis. And so I look at how everybody's out of position. Now, if you really think about it, like everybody's out of position, the men out of position, the women out of position, the kids out of position. You know what I'm saying, Grandma. To uh a position if you think about it, like for us and we're of the age now where you know, we women that we grew up with they are now big Mama, like they are now grandmothers, and they had day parties and and and trips and they going to Miami and they getting bbls and shit like it's they are totally one out of position. And for us when we grew up, you know what I mean. And I can't speak I can speak from my experience and the traditional experience, but you know, Grandmama was the most pinnacle piece on the board. Like Grandmama was Big Mama was the most pinnacle piece on the board in every one of our families. And so that has been if you think about how we grew up and we're talking about let's let's let's we'll take it to the eighties. Like we'll say we'll take it to the seventies and eighties, but eight we grew up in the eighties, right, So we take it to the eighties, bro, And you can pinpoint and remember what Grandma looked like, You remember what Big Mama looked like, right, and you take it. You take that you take that that that. Idea of what Grandmama was, and then you look at the same demographic of people and what Grandma is right now in twenty twenty five, and it ain't It ain't even close, bro. And so when you look at the decline of the culture and you look at the decline of everything, you look like you look at the at the at the cultural decay of our people. That is the most that is man, that is locking step with what is going on, You feel me, But nobody's saying that, you know what I mean, everybody is you know, we're doing this whole red hearing thing, and everybody's pointing the fingers and so on and so forth. But optimately, when it's all said and done, a big concern for me is just the fact of everybody being out of position. Like you said, history repeating itself because we're not teaching and we're not teaching it because like a lot of us don't know, you understand what I'm saying, Like a lot of us don't know, Like we don't even know our own history, Like a lot of us don't know our family lineage, We don't know about our people, we don't know who our people are you understand what I'm saying. And we've been indoctrinated with, you know, information from textbooks that you know, we're not written by us, you know what I mean, But we have a lot of us have family books. You understand what I'm saying. You have family books, and you think I'm lying. You go to your grandmama's house. If your grandmama's still here, you can go talk to her. If she ain't still here, go to her house and she has books and books and books written of your family history. You know what those books are, bro Those picture books. Oh yeah, yeah, the picture albums. Yeah, you feel me. You go get in those picture albums, and that tells you, that'll tell you, that'll take you back so far in your family's lineage, and that's the story of your family. A motherfucker ain't gotta tell you. Point to a textbook. You look at those books, You look at those picture books, that those family narrative books that we all have. You understand what I'm saying. And you go in there and your family lineage is laid out the story and you can see yourself in the story like you literally can see yourself in American history. When you go and you look at those books period. You know what I'm saying. So you know, when it's all said and done, though, everybody's just so out of position, man, And it's ridiculous. And that's the thing that really concerns me, you know what I mean. And you know, our generation is like we different as hell, and we're coming off the heels of the baby boomers. And I love the baby boomers, man, you know what I mean, our parents, But I got befot them, bro, Like I got befut the baby Boomers. They dropped the ball like a motherfucker. Man. They dropped the ball, bro. They dropped the ball they was they was. Partying and kicking it and trying to you know. Uh, they really moved us away from the family dynamic, you know what I'm saying, for whatever reasons, and and uh and a lot of information, like the baby boomers, a lot of them are going to die with so much information that was not passed down, you understand what I'm saying. Like, I know, you picked up farming right, and you picked up growing you know, gardening right. It's so many people, like all of us have family members that all knew how to grow food none of that, none of that made it down to us, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, like my mom told me, my uh, my great granddad, he was a farmer at a farm, and yeah, man uh speaking of my great great my great granddad, my mom's grandfather, my great granddad. I never really met that side of the family, this is her maternal side. And I finally got to meet my uncle, my mom's brother, which I never I recently found that she had a brother. Finally met him after forty after forty some year in twenty nineteen. She my mom haven't seen twenty years. You know. Back in the day, my mom, my grandmother, mom's mother died and then. They split the kids. Back then the girls went with my with my we went to with my father, and then my maternal grandparents took my uncle. Finally got the meeting man for forty some years, kind of found out this man had a heart attack, just like me. He still lived on the land that my great grandfather owned, which was is amazing because you know, they was taking. Black people's land back then. It was taking a land. Facts what part of the country was in. Uh, Georgia then Tallahassee, Georgia, Tallahassee, not Nashville now Nashville, Georgie. Nashville, Georgia. It's closer to taller house. He being Atlanta. Yeah, in this small little town. Man, my grandpa, great grandfather, they still had the land he you know, he owned and it's like you need to know your history. That's my first time. It was. This happened twenty nineteen. This is the first time in meeting the people, and it was a wild man. Two weeks after we went down there and visiting all that, he passed away. Two weeks later. Damn, he passed away. Man, But it was good to meet finally meeting my cousins and everything. Man. Yeah, that's cold. That's a cold piece. You see what I'm saying. And that's the and that's the stuff that you know, like it's really lost, you know what I mean. What our generations like, you know, for us, we don't even have family reunions anymore. Really, you know what I'm saying. We don't have family remember every year we used to it used to be family reunion every year and you would try, well, our family we would travel and it'd be hosted in different cities, you know what I mean. Or what and whatnot. We don't even have family reunions no more like and what you. Said about like our grandmothers. Usually when our grandma's passed away, that's when all the family functions and stuff stop. People stopped getting together. Grandma was that glue that held the family together, and nobody stepped up to take over. It's just you know, I see what I see. Most time you see your family at you know, usually at a funeral or something. So that's the one time they get together. Yep, don't even And it was like it was no question, like with like Thanksgiving for instance, like you you know, got your little stuff together at the crib for what you was gonna do with the crib? But everybody went to grandmama house. You know what I'm saying, Like everybody descended to grandma house. Well, we called her nanny. You know, my family went to Nanny house. You feel me. Christmas it was the same thing. You had your dinner and stuff. But somehow we're gonna make it to Nanny house. Everybody gonna go tap in and congregate there. You see what I'm saying saying, Like family reunions, you know, all of that stuff and that stuff just kind of went away and just everybody's just out of position. Man, Everybody's out of position. And it's it's just critical, bro, It's really truly critical. And that's the thing that really concerns me the most, is that everybody's out of position. And with everybody being out of position, and this brings me to the point of the show and the title of the show, which is, it's the what I say, the era of bullshit. This is the era of This is the era of the bullshit. You got bullshit everything all the way around the board. And so. When everybody being out of position, it makes us as a collective, it makes us very gullible, you understand what I'm saying, Like, it makes us very gullible. And so we are in a place right now in history where the culture just be going for anything, bro. Like the culture just be falling for anything. Bro, Like any and everything, we fall for it. And it's it's crazy, bro. And I just I don't ever and and and I'm gonna ask you, do you ever remember an error? Because we right now we're closing in on fifty bro, so you know we didn't spend them near five decades. Do you ever remember a time when everybody was so gullible. People were just or we as a collective where it's gullible. Like I say, I think, you know, yeah, we got so much information, got access to so much information. But I think a lot of people, I won't say it like they just I guess they don't. They feel like, oh, I'll just put Google on my phone and I'll look it up. But my thing is, you know, are you getting. It from raible sources? You look at stuff up and you find invasion, But it's incredible, you know. I just feel like, like I said, man, this AI and social media just made us where you know, people don't want to do the work, do the legwork and look stuff up, or they want stuff instantly. That's like with the thing with gardening, guardian takes time. A lot of people don't want to wait that long for tomato to grow it to cucumber. And stuff like that. They just really go to the store and get it right now. But you gotta think, we in the time and you know, with war imminent and. Everything, we in the time where the. Para grid might get shut down, stuff might happen where you can't get to the store. Can you survive if the grid goes down. And that's what people got to understand. I think that it has made people I don't want to see it really lazy, but just don't have the you know, the will to go get it on their own. You know, you got to understand, Like, man, you know how many people go fishing anymore? I think about that father and son taking the son to go fish. It's like you got to understand and stuff like oh, how how to build a fire? Stuff like that. Man, And like I said, we live in in the culture now. It's it's the gratification. Everybody wants stuff now. Well, like they said, we learned economics, the medonalization of the society. I want it now. I want it now instead of I don't want to wait for it. I don't really want to work for it. I want to get it right now. That's why you know they let them scammers and a don't boy, because you know a lot of women like them because you're getting them down instead of when somebody ain't working with and you know he's working on something. You know, they they don't like that because you gotta wait. For it, and it's ugly. The way is ugly. The way. It is ugly and it's and you said you didn't want to say that is gullible, and I'm a I'm a I'm gonna push back because I'm standing on it gullible like we are gullible easy and and and by definition of textbook because this is the thought cast, you know what I'm saying. So we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna think, easily persuaded to believe something, easily persuaded to believe something. That's what That's what gullible is. And as a collective, I never remember the culture being this gullible, bro, Like we are literally gullible to your point, somebody will see something, never might the majority of folks, bro, and you're given, You're given. I feel like you're giving a lot of credit because the majority of folks won't even make it to Google to fact check information. And you know, I ain't lying, like they'll see something on social media and then being independent media outlets, because that's what we've all become. We've all become independent media outlets via social media and these smart devices that we have. So someone will see something and then they would utilize and use themselves and their platforms as an independent media let and they will share information that is inaccurate and believe information solely because they saw it on Facebook or so I'll just say social media. That's gullible, Bro, Like, that's gullible. Remember when we used to be cause you know how we came up. Bro. If you first of all, you would go to Yo. You had to go to you had to like for me to listen to you, you got to have some skin in the game of what you're talking about. You understand what I'm saying, like I'm not finna go to the like, I'm not finna just listen to anybody about anything, you know what I mean. And then we still had contact with our elders and older folks and we would talk and we would ask people about stuff. You know what I'm saying. Remember you remember as a youngin hearing stuff and then going and asking your mom about it. Yep, you feel me feel me like. And it's and that's like fundamentally that's been ingrained within me, bro. And what that does is like I have to check sources, you understand, so I could hear anything you understand, like I remember just hear like I had an uncle be like, boy, you better eat tomatoes. Tomatoes make you dig big, you feel me, So I Hey, I had to go to my daddy. Daddy Ank said, if I eat tomatoes, it's gonna make my uh hum big. My daddy said, Man, don't listen to that motherfucker. Eat tomatoes anyway, because they're good for you know what I'm saying. But I had to, like, I would fact check everything. Bro, I'm one of them. And that's something that has that has lived with me throughout my life. Bro, Like everywhere I go, I believe in the power of research. You understand what I'm saying. And somewhere along the line, bro, we lost that. But to your point, I believe and I've never really well, I probably have in my head, but you just made the connection between how gullible we are with instant gratification. Yeah,