The flames, the scene become so things stems, things before the sums, the scene films, the scene film seeping, seas things the SAMs to scene. Man. Yes, what's up with a family? Who's like a heat wave? That's what he said. Get in there, Shani, Get in there, Shani, Man, what's up with a family? What's the damn deal? Man? This is Junior the Truth And this is indeed the day after Thoughts Love cast Man. It's for episode three of the Culture Collective foucast Man. This is Power by the Black Gentleman Grooming Company. Be sure to come visit the Black Gentleman Grooming Company. Man. We do have a line of all natural handcrafted grooming products for you, specifically for you www dot the Black gen dot com. That's www dot the Black gent dot Com. I am a DJ host Junior the Truth Man. You can follow me everywhere via social media. I could be found with the head of Junior the Truth. That's j U n I O R t H E t r U t H and that's over all the social media platforms man, each and everyone. But if you really looking for me, I mean like, if you really truly looking for me, you can catch me over at www dot Juniorortruth dot com. Man, Yes, indeed, Man, salute to your man. I really true. I feel I feel just capital. I feel just capital. Man. It is a Friday, freaky Friday, August eighth. It is, Man, twenty twenty five. It don't even seem real. Can y'all believe we're in the August approaching the middle of August of the year twenty twenty five, Like this is literally the eighth month of the year twenty and twenty five. That just don't seem that just don't seem possible. You feel me like it don't seem possible man at all. But we're here, man, So salute to you all. Man, thank you all so much, really truly genuinely appreciate it. If you're tuning in via the Facebook live stream, salute to you. If you're tuning in on YouTube, salute We got the Kick family over there. Man, Salute to you all as well, and salute to everybody that's listening to the podcast form of this segment. Man, So thank you all so much. Salute to my brother Kevin Dunbar to scholar in the building, what's up with you? So the whole premise behind this. Let me say this, and this was just really a this is a thought, and the thought came to me because I'm so I am so interested interested in everybody's perspective and the point of view as it relates to just the conversations that we had via the culture, the collective, the culture collective thought cast. This last one was real, man, This last one was real and the whole premise behind the last conversation, and that was episode three. Now, if you are not up and not caught up on the episodes, I'm going to tell you you want to go and you want to go check out This one is specifically for episode three, which premiered. The final segment, which was Part three premiered last night, So you want to go catch up on parts one, two, and three and then you know, come back to this, to this, uh this video. But I don't want to ruin it for you all at all at all, But I wanted to kind of come in here and just really do a tap in, Like I really want to tap in and see what what it is that we're actually thinking with regard to these conversations. What are we what are we thinking? Like, what's your reaction? You feel me slewing my brothers in the building, Kevin dunbar to scholar in the building, what's up with you? K underscore, g underscore, what's up? What you brought? Salute to you, salut to my brother, kind of local TV in a building, what's up with you? Man, Salute to the family. And I'm and I'm really trying to just really gauge at it and get an understanding. For me. My whole thing about this is we are noticing and and and this is this is this is like you can you can do whatever you will with this. But there is definitely a shift in roles in uh the culture. No I's ends or bus about it. And I believe that everybody is struggling to find their place and to find where they fit now because of the reconstruction of roles. And so my argument, or not even my argument, my question is how does that impact the culture overall? How does it impact the culture. And so the episodes work us having this conversation and really wanting to dissect how the roles impact the culture ultimately, because there'll be people that will say, oh, man, they don't really impact it at all. Then there are other people in and say, man, it is absolutely one hundred percent destroyed the culture. You know what I mean, This this whole lack of you know, gender roles, nobody wanting to be in the appropriate position, you feel me, gender fluidity, like all of these things have really truly impacted the culture to the degree. You know. And I'm gonna just be real. We just had this conversation, so I get out the way. You know, we're in this space now where you know, you see, I see men carrying purses and wearing blouses and skirts and dresses, and I see women that absolutely refuse to wear dresses and they just wear trousers. I'm saying, like, we're just here and I'm seeing, you know, little boys or not even boys in gender in general, I'm seeing children choosing a sexual preference before being sexually active. You see what I'm saying. And to me, I've never been comfortable with the sexual conversations around children, meaning like I don't understand the conversation about the sexual orientation of children that are you know, under the under certain ages. Like it's it's very weird and very peculiar to me, you feel me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like it's very My brother kind of local TV said he retired his channel. Man no more boxing talk a man. Congratulations bro, a salute family, job, job well done. Man. Let me know when you want to you can. You more than welcome to come pop up, you know what I mean, when we want to, when we want to, whenever we want to talk. And you already know you've already been featured in the Punch Junkie magazine. You more than welcome to write, you know what I mean, or run columns you know what I mean in the Punch Junkie magazine because That's about where I'm at with it. Man. As far as talking, you know what I mean. We can write and get the stuff out via the digital content. But salute to you. But I've never been comfortable with that. So, like like I was weirded out by the the the Zaire Wade situation, right, I'm weirded out by that, Like I'm weirded out by conversations about the sexual orientation of this boy who's under the age of twelve. I'm weirded out by kids that are allowed to cross dresser the underage, Like at an age where your parents are supposed to be dressing you, like your parents still dress you, you feel me, Like, I didn't start dressing myself, probably till I was about like ten and eleven. I started dressing myself. You understand what I'm saying, Like probably ten, eleven, twelve, for sure, you know what I mean, but you know prior to that. But I didn't start, you know, shopping for my own clothes until I was in high school and I started working and having and making my own money. So I'm really, I'm really I find it very peculiar about children that are allowed to dress certain ways. The same thing with kids that are allowed to dress like when little girls dress provocatively at a young age. Like, I'm really peculiar about that. I don't understand. And I've always been weirded out by the sexualization of our children. I don't like it. I've never liked it, and I'm not gonna ever like it. You feel me, But I just really think that we are in a real peculiar space with regard to the roles and gender roles and just whole gender fluidity and so on and so forth, and it's all out of place. And so my question really for today was and Conna, let me ask you, Conna, let me ask you because my brother Kano is of the culture for sure, you understand what I'm saying. But he comes from he's he's coming from the Uh, he's coming from the Puerto Rican branch of the culture, right and within the Puerto Rican houses BRUH and the and the Puerto Rican families, is there also is there also a shift with regard to the to the roles within the family and within the family family dynamic. I'm really interested in that because I know it's it's really really prevalent in the in uh in the in the damn quote unquote Black American, like it's for us, it's that ain't the same man. But anyway, So my question that I was posing though, was, man, is it over for us? Like? Is it is it? Have we gone too far? Is it over for us culturally as it relates to the core family and and like I said, you'd have to listen to all three of the episodes, uh excuse me, all three of the three parts of episode three so that you can understand my level of thinking. Okay, uh, Conno said, it's definitely there, not for us old schoolers, but but today, yes, it's there. Yeah, for us, Man, it's it's it's it's over with man like, it's it's over with. And I've never seen so I've never seen such a uh in our family before. In history, I've never seen such a divide, and not even families, just at the at the core level. I've never seen such a divide between men and women in any of the other cultures. And it's it's like, I don't know if we understand it or not, or I don't even know if you see it, but but men and women get online, literally like it's like they get up every day to be at odds. You feel me, Like from the of the culture, men and women get up and it's like they're like the road runner in Wally Coyote. You feel me they like Tom and Jerry. Every day, it's like they get up. Remember the for the for the for US old schoolers with the old school cartoons, Remember when the sheep dog would get up and the coyote would get up, and they would clock in and they'd be like, good morning earl, a good morning gym, and then they would go to the clock and then they would clock in, and then they'd be at odds all day. Like literally, they would spend all day terrorizing each other and then at the end of the day they would clock out and say good evening to one another. That's that's like literally the relationship between black men and black women. You feel me like, that's literally the relationship of the men and women that are from the culture. Every Ralph and Sam, Yeah, Ralph and Sam Tay Tay, what's up? What you tell you? I see you out there in Vegas, girl, saluk to all the family out there in Vegas and everybody that's pulling up man, y'all be safe, be careful, smearful, and prayerful. That's what That's what it is. Every day people get up and they clock in, they be at odds, then they clock out, then they go to be you see what I'm saying. And it's like we're to the point now where like are we too far? Is it over for us? You know? At some point we got to start having real conversations, like we really have to start having real, true to life conversations. Is it over for us as a collective? I don't think. Yeah. See, everybody likes to pretend and we like to play and we like to nah, is it over? Is it done? Is it a done? Deal for the traditional sanctity of the family. Is it over? Is it over? And if it ain't over, how we get it How do we get it right? Because we far gone, man, So if it ain't over right and we can't get it right, then how how do we get it right? You know what I mean? These are questions I'm not expecting. I'm not expecting no answers, you know what I mean. King Vonnietti six a little home. He said, I'm holding on to what I had with both hands, said, I'm holding on to what I had with both hands, and I'm trying to tell you, bro, and I'm looking. I was talking about this with my hommie and uh, it's like people are motherfuckers are sacrificing their families at a long in rate, you understand. Like people are cashing cashing out like on their families at an alarming rate. The dirt Game Boss says, as long as it's a few real ones left, it's not over. Truth might be the last of a dying breathe, but it ain't over. We're still fighting, bro, We're still fighting. We're still in We're still in the fight. We gotta bite down and we gotta fight. We still gotta fighting chance. Salute. I appreciate somebody hit the like button. I appreciate you. Man. You know you don't get a lot of You don't get a lot of appreciation around here. You know what I mean. I don't get on here and I don't be I don't be going at other people, and I don't be arguing. I don't argueing, bicker and all that. You feel me, You get on here and I'm gonna, uh, i'm a, i'm a, i'm a. I'm gonna ask you to really truly think about yourself. I'm gonna tell you, man, dirt gang, he said to the end. If we don't get back to if we don't get back to some of these traditions and we don't get back to the natural order, it's it's gonna be over. Bro. You gotta realize it's it's it's it's just like a sports team. Like I talked about. You know what I'm saying. You got to you got to. You got the third string center. Wanted to bring the ball up, third string center. Want to be the point guard, point guard, want to be the power forward, power forward, want to be shooting guard. Like everybody out of position, and the only way this is gonna work. South to my brother, Stormy B Man in the building. What's up with a big Stormy b Man? Salute to my brother. Everybody has to be in position, you understand, Like everybody has to be in position. It's a. It's a and I've seen it time and time and time again. Like everybody has a position. You know what I mean? And everything if anytime you're a part of a collective, everybody has a position. It's just like suiting my brother trial Will in the building. What's up with you, bro? It's no different than like it's like, salute to the LDBC. It's the it's the LDBC weekend. So I'm gonna use the LDBC for an example. The Lions d in boxing community. Man, it's a community of fans of the sport of boxing who want to get together and enjoy the sport in a safe, respectful, and entertaining manner outside of the racism and the bullshit that's been associated with a sport about and the corruption that's been associated with the sport forever right now. Within that, you have different personalities, You have different points of view, have different backgrounds, different perspectives, different sexes, genders, sexual orientations. Like, you got a whole bunch of different stuff, all right, Cool. Everybody has a role, right, everybody has a You got some people who create content. You got other people who consume content. You got people who share the content. You got people who have businesses and they work behind the scenes. You understand what I'm saying. And so when you have somebody who should be on the mic wanting to just be behind the scenes, they had a position. Then you have somebody that's on the mic and really shouldn't be talking. You feel me that out of position. Like, everybody has a position. And so one of the things that I tried to do, one of the things that I've always tried to do is I try to be supportive. Like you know, one of the things that I do is I support. And anybody will ask you, I mean, anybody within the family will tell you if you're doing. I'm trying to support, like, you know, whatever you're doing, whatever you got going on, Like, I'm gonna try to support, all right, you want to do this, all right, how can I help? I'm gonna try to support, all right, We're gonna do this, all right, I'm gonna try, right, we gonna do this. I'm trying support, Okay, So we and then we created and it's something that has been replicated, imitated, emulated, but never never uh recreated. And that's the Smoke City Mobcast. Right, So I engineered the Smoke City Mobcast for people to be able to come together and talk and everybody just get a big uh a big panel discussion from a plethora of boxing fans and raw uncut direct form and it's just ah and everybody can come get on showcase their skills, get people to come to their platform where they do their individual content, something that hadn't been done before. You feel me because it's I want to be able to support, Like how do we support you? Feel me? Everybody has a position, So off of that, talk on to the family. In the family, everybody as a position. Everybody has a position. Everybody has a position, but it has to be but you have to be serious about your position in the family, and truth be told, your position in the family has to be paramount in your life, right, Like, there's nothing more important in my life than being a father to my children. Like that's my position. So there's nothing that's that's paramount. You feel me like there's like being a man that I need to be for my family is That's paramount. Nothing Junior, The Truth, the Black Gentleman Grooming Company, The Punch Junkie, Smoke City, Mobcast, Simple Truth Network, the Author, the Team Robinson and Associates, the My Logistics Company. Nothing is more important than that you feel me. That is paramount. That's paramount. I don't allow no affiliation with any organizations, no relationships, nothing comes ahead of that. That's paramount. There's nothing that can supersede your position in your respective family. But you gotta be in position. And I think now you see so many people who allow so many things to affect and pull them away from their position. So you gotta understand. People are losing relationships with their kids, People are losing relationships with their spouses, People are losing relationships with themselves. Do you understand how I'm trying to tocurse? You understand how messed up it is to have things that pull you away from relationship with yourself, Like you don't have a relationship with yourself, y'all spend more time at work and with these different in these different positions and different things y'all spend more time doing that than you do with God. Some of y'all spend more time on YouTube than you do with God. Don't leave that out. Yeah, I'll have some people. Watch the numbers. The numbers gonna drop. Now, watch the numbers. I just kick somebody in the balls. Some of y'all spend more time us, some of us, because when I say y'all, it's like y'all, y'all, y'all know some of us. And I'm pointing myself too. Some look, look the numbers dropped. I told y'all, some of us spend more time on YouTube than we do with our God. Some of us get up and turn on and click the phone on and turn on social media. And we ain't even thank God for today. Feet ain't even hit the flow. We ain't even thank God for today. We haven't even thanked God for today. I ain't even got up and thank God, thank the ancestors, thank whatever God may be, for my conquerable saut. We ain't even did that check. But you on the But you're on the phone on social media, you looking to see who uploaded on YouTube. You're leaving a comment on YouTube like we're sick. We out of we're out of position. We're out of position. So we have to we have to really look at ourselves. Man, we have to really look at ourselves. And it's in the the the The live stream was tied not the Last Excuse Me. Episode three of the collect The Culture Collective Thought Cast was titled Rolls, Rolls and Family Goals. So roles as in rolls, team rolls, gender roles, rolls as in bread rolls like my Mama biscuits, and then family goals. You understand, it is so paramount that we get back to like like I'm gonna tell y'all man, and I'm aa tell you the truth, like those of us that have our families, y'all don't have family goals. We don't have no family go y'all don't have family goals. What's your family goal for twenty twenty five? What's your family goal? We don't have family goals? What is your fa your family? You have a you have a and we always want to look at it like a team, like the family is a team, and you know, it's a business and it's a unit and all of those things equate to something a group of individuals that's working towards a common goal. The family has to work towards a common goal. The common goal of the family used to be the rearing of productive citizens. It used to be we want these kids to get up and be grown, you feel me, And to be productive members of the society and productive members of the family. That's what it used to be. Saluted my brother Pittsburgh, big dog in the building. What's up with you? Hell the pit, That's what it used to be. You know what I'm saying. Now people don't even Winston least our school, Winston Least say if buying a farm is my family goal? Yeah, like a like the family goal? Like what, we don't even have family goals, you feel me. So we are so far removed from where we where we should be and some and at some point we have to stop. We have to silence the noise. We have to start having these conversations, you know what I'm saying, Like, we really have to have these conversations. Yeah, Ta, how you doing? Let me ask you, because you know, I think you're the only sister in here, Tay, say, how you doing? I know you in Vegas and whatnot, But how you doing? Sis? Yeah? Y'all tell me all of y'all. Man, I was I just start with Taya because she a woman. I'm okay, how you how you really doing? Tay? Like? How you how you really doing? Baby? Yeah, that's what this is. Trull Will said, his daughter just hit one of the goals. She hit a seven forty credit score. We working, Yes, indeed, salute to the baby with that big seven. Fol Oh yes, lord, yes, lord yeah. Man, how y'all doing? Family? Like, how is everybody doing? Like? How y'all doing? And if you're listening to this podcast, man like put it in a put it in the put it in the in the in the in the in the in the chat. You know, I'm excuse me. The comment section, tay Te said, even though I'm on vacation, I'm still having a good time. My father still on my mind. Yeah, especially coming off of the coming off of the summer, the summer months. You know what I'm saying. You know, Father's Day is in the summer. Yeah, and it's a I'm gonna tell you take the thing. I know, I think about my daddy every day. Literally, you understand what I'm saying. And it's not a it's not a like people say stuff like it's gonna be all right, you know you're gonna be you know, you're gonna be cool and so on and so forth. It's not yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah yeah, yea yeah yeah yeah yeah, it's not it's not good. You're not gonna ever be the same thing. You don't. You don't. You don't come back from that. Yeah, salute the Brent Fox. What's up with you? Bro? You don't ever come back from that. And that's the truth. You know, I'm gonna tell you the truth. You don't ever come back from that. To lose a parent is that's different. You understand what I'm saying, Like, that's different. And I was raised by a single father, and you know, with the with the help, I'm a village baby. But my father, I was raised by a single teenage father. And I'm really just really starting to come to grips with this, y'all. I'm really starting to come to grips with that. I am not going to ever be the same after losing my father, especially because I lost my father when he was fifty and I'm forty seven. So you don't you don't like when you lose a parent man, especially a parent that you're close to, Mama, daddy, you don't ever it's not going to ever be the same. But you built for it. You're built for it. O heay, that's the thing. You're built for it. You understand what I'm saying, Like you are built with the resilience, and you are built with with what your father put in you. Like I'm built with what my father put in me, Tria. Will you built with what your mama put in you? You feel me like you built with what the Queen put in you broke like you we really built. We're really built. And so what we do is we take, we take what we got from them, and we keep pushing. Like I say it every day and people think I just be talking to her like it's some shit that just sounds good, Like nah, I gotta keep pushing. You keep pushing. You feel me like you keep pushing, And that's that's the thing about life, and that's the beauty of life. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's the beauty of it. But you're allowed to feel what you feel. Like I said, I feel like all the time, you understand what I'm saying. I feel it all the time. I look at my son and I feel it. My son say some shit and I just be like, damn. I wish my daddy was here on this side of the realm to experience, really, truly experience this little nigga because my son is it's crazy. And my oldest daughter is so graceful, and she's such a she's such a she a dog man, she's such a dog. She got that dog in her, you feel me. And she's so independent and so strong and so intelligent. And then my middle daughter is the problem. She the problem. She told me yesterday she wanted to go to the NBA, the WNBA, Like now, I want to go to the WNBA because I'm talking. I took him with me to go work, and I'm talking to them about the business, like, you know, hey, man, this is dishy'all inherented motherfucker. Like that's you know, I'm not father, Like, hey, look around, this is your inheritance and ownership. You feel me. My daughter like, yeah, that's cool. I appreciated, daddy. I won't go to WNBA. Oh, I said, oh you for real? She said yeah, she said, all right, We're gonna get to the work. You understand what I'm saying. I can teach you how to dance on the water and not get wet, but it's gonna be on you. You feel me, Yeah, salute salute to my brother trill will mal DBC or nothing. B. I love you, Bro. I really appreciate you, Bro, I really truly do. I appreciate you, and I appreciate this thing of ours, man, I do, I do. But I really wish my father could have experienced her on this side of the round. He got to be He got a relationship with my He got a relationship with my oldest baby. My oldest baby got a big ass tattoo commemorating the life of her grandfather, her Paul Paul. Yeah, she got a big ass tattoo. She didn't went ain't crazy too. But I can't do nothing but sit back. She's a wild ass Indian man. I can't do nothing but sit back. And hey, baby, I don't do what you do? You feel me? She a banker too, though, and it's so funny because she a banker and then everybody thinks she uh, she's so sweet and she's so you know, calm and nice and shit, my baby is slitch. Your throat. She a wild ass Indian man. She's shocked tall Indian, whole lot of Mississippi blood like she she yeah, she wanted them. But anyway, man, oh talking about a whole bunch of shots, all whole bunch of creek, all down through there. Man. You know my family, my family bloodline runs from runs from New Orleans, Louisiana, all the way to South Carolina. Like my family all down through there, all Southeast Woodland Indians like we we out there. But yeah, my baby, yeah, shehulchil chill. She'll do something. She'll do you something bad. Yeah, she'll do you something bad. What the third Gang said? I lost my mama two years ago, and sh it just ain't right. Uh uh, don't even like talking about it, shaking my head. Yeah, bro, it don't be the same, man, it don't be the same. Kind of local sports said. She sounded like a cool person to me. That's because you were taking time bomb, bro like you. That's cause you a ticking time bomb. Bro, you feel me, you ain't a bro. And she real she real cool and calm and quiet too. Man. I gotta go, man, it's nine thirty eight. Man, I just really wanted to come in here and pop in, man and pop off with y'all and UH and Kurt and allow y'all to I really didn't even get to the Q and A park, you know what I'm saying. Hey, I guess I'll give y'all a couple of minutes. Man, anybody got any questions for me? Also, you can go over to juniortruth dot com. Www dot juniorortruth dot com. If you know those of you all who got questions, you can actually leave me a voicemail. It's kind of cool actually the way it works. Let me see if I can share it boom. But that's Junior totruth dot com and you can go over there and holler at me. Man, you can go, pull up, pull up. Oh man, I just got myself kicked myself out of the studio. I just kicked myself out damn studio. I literally just kicked my damn self out the studio. I was sharing my screen talking about the Junior the Truth and UH dot com. That means it's time to go. That's all I. You ain't got it? There we go juniortruth dot com at www dot juniordtruth dot com you can come over there. Man. All of the episodes are there, categorized, all of the contents there, Man links to the YouTube channel, so on and so forth. Man, So y'all can go ahead on and come pull up on me, man, come holler at me. And then there's ways to connect, of course, are all there. But more importantly than that, you can click over here where it says send send us a voice message, and you can actually send me a voice message. So if you got something, need something, something you want to share with me, so on and so forth, Man, you can share it over there. So salute to you all, though, Man, thank you all so much, Really truly gen really appreciate y'all. I'm gonna get out here, though, Man, I got a whole lot of work I gotta do. I gotta event this weekend, man, So I got work to do. Salute to y'all, though, Thank you all so much. Everybody that's in Las Vegas. Y'all be cool, man, be careful and so on and so forth. Man, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so on and so forth. Man, yeah, yeah, so on and so forth. Man, really truly genuinely appreciate y'all though. Man, this is junior the truth. Signing off giving your daily reminded of you your life like a pair of dice. Not let me slow it down. 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