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Shohei Ohtani Interpreter Gambling Scandal, Rick Ross Diss Track, Gen Z Less Happy | THE GROUP CHAT
NFL Veterans Brennan Scarlett and DJ Reader are back with another episode of The Group Chat! Today the guys dive into the controversial Shohei Ohtani Ex-Interpreter Gambling Scandal, exploring the repercussions and implications for the baseball world. They also discuss the PGA Tour: The Masters, as golf's finest compete for the prestigious green jacket and create their menu for the event. They uncover the latest beef in the rap game with Rick Ross releasing a diss track aimed at Drake. Lastly, they discuss the concerning findings of recent studies showing that Gen Z is experiencing lower levels of happiness compared to previous generations, sparking discussions on societal trends and well-being.
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And we are back with another episode of the Group Chat with your hosts, beej and Deej. What's up Deej? What's up man? How you doing? Man? I've been fascinated in reading and learning and listening about this Otani interpreter gambling scandal. Interpreter gambling scandal. It's a really interesting story that at first glance it looks like you know Otani has just been taken advantage of that his interpreter slash one of his best homies, potentially his best friend stole millions of dollars from him to gamble. But then as you dig into the story, you realize that there's more to it and that actually Otani's narrative firstly was that he gave the money to his interpreter to pay off his bad debt and then it was not until the next day or over the course of the next couple of days that the narrative switched. And then it became no, my best friend, slash interpreter stole this money from me. So it got. It got a little sticky for me, man.
Speaker 2:How are you feeling about it, bro Cause? I'm going to tell you how I feel. Well, I feel like there's no way. Okay, go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead, bro.
Speaker 1:You go ahead and I'll tell you how I feel, you explain how you feel well after just after just learning about it. I mean, I think that first off terrible move, I think I think it was the first narrative that Ohtani had. That is the truth personally, because I mean, why would that be your story? But then also, it's his friend, it's his best friend. He clearly has a gambling addiction, has a problem, but to have wired the money from an account that he owns to the interpreter, I mean, immediately puts him in the wrong and there's no turning back from that. And so obviously, when he shared that narrative at first, him and his team didn't realize the consequences of that action. Once they did realize the consequences of the action, I think they had the decision to make. It was like, all right, well, either you done playing baseball and you got to give that $700 million contract back, or your best friend slash interpreter going to have to take the fall for this. And it's clear what decision that the team has made.
Speaker 2:And it's clear what decision that the team has made. Yeah and bro, I don't know. I just don't think there's no way. You don't know the whole time if he was stealing money from you, like, so, if you feel like he was stealing, but on the thing it did, say that his friend set up the accounts and this and the third. They basically tried to frame it like his friend backdoored everything.
Speaker 2:I just don't see the bank giving that many wires up this and the third up. They're acting like he set this account up at a regular Bank of America or something you know what I'm saying that had hundreds of millions of dollars in it, like it's just crazy. No, I just. But what I don't see is the problem is okay, if that first story is true, if this is my friend's gambling debt, why can't I pay it off for him? It off for him if he comes to me and tells me the truth. So why did that narrative have to change? If he comes to me and tells me the truth, like yo, I'm in bed with some bad people. This and the third, like blase, blase, this is my best friend. Like who's to say? Like I can't give him that money, like you know what I'm saying. So now, like, I feel like they're trying to create a like degree of separation because somebody was going to connect.
Speaker 2:Okay, you gave your friend money to pay off his debt. That means you knew. So did you give him some type of insight? Did you let him know they were going to start digging so far into this story that they tried to? I feel like they said what was true at the beginning, like you said, and then they try to create a connect, like they try to create such a far disconnect that nobody was like even questioning what was going on. They was like you know what he stole from him. But then, bro, this shit got complicated. It's complicated, bro. It's got consequences like, yeah, bro, could go to jail for like it's up to 30 years. Like, say, your friend, you really about to sit down. That like what if you really got to sit down for like 15 years? Something crazy like that, bro, you really gonna?
Speaker 1:that's asking a lot yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, I think that the problem wasn't that he paid his friend for then his friend to pay off the debts. From what I understand, he sent the wire directly to the bookie right, and in california gambling is illegal, so wherever the wire is coming, but so you have the legality of it. But then you also have the MLB and their CBA, where it's illegal to gamble on any sports, which I actually wasn't aware of. I didn't know that they that they can gamble on women's college soccer, you know, but I guess that that's, that's part of the rules. But anyhow, regardless, you can't gamble, and so when it's coming from your bank account and going into that of a bookies, then you're immediately in the wrong, where you're in crime or whatever. I think that was the problem, and they must have realized as they start digging oh, the mlb is about to dig their heels in on this, you're not going to be able to play. This is like grounds for suspension or like we're done forever, indefinitely.
Speaker 2:And they was like let's create as far as much distance between this thing and us as we can. Bro.
Speaker 1:Also let me point out Let me give you this, bro. Let me give you this Otani and his team didn't make this decision on their own.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:Right? No, because you got the MLB. They got a slew of attorneys, lawyers. You talking about one of the biggest stars that's growing is one of the only chances of for the game to grow internationally just got paid 700 million and you telling me they not in his ear like yo yo, homie got to take the fall for this one, cause this is a bad look.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, bro, this is a billionaire decision. This is above him. This is 700 million, bro, you got to lose that million, bro, you gotta lose that like they like hey, bro, you gotta lose that like hey, yeah, my man. And also, we're not gonna also act like there wasn't a marketing play by him and whoever those power that be behind him. My man just talked about his new balance clique in complete english. So you telling me, hey, straight english, the whole time, very clear, explained, itained in detail, the shoot. Yeah, talked about the logo, the new. I'm like y'all putting some stuff out for my mans, hey, and he's just out there hitting bombs doing his thing for the Dodgers right now, bro, nah bro, his story is crazy because and when I was doing research otani doesn't like to do any business in english, he only likes to speak japanese.
Speaker 1:well, this is according to the reports. So anytime somebody wants to speak to otani, they got to go through his homie, the interpreter, even his agent. So Otani's agent. He was talking to the interpreter about bank accounts and finance, financial advisor stuff through the interpreter, not with Otani. From the sounds of it, he's had little to no communication directly with Otani, only through the interpreter. And so then the questions were like well, why did the agent not verify these things that the interpreter is telling him he should have got another Japanese speaking person to make sure that the things were being translated accurately. But that's crazy.
Speaker 1:But on top of anything, otani been here in the U? S for how many years? And you telling me there ain't, no, there ain't not a lick of English. Come on, bro, I was in, I was in Japan for nine days and I learned Arigato and Konnichiwa. That was all I had. So I don't know, it is tough to go from one language to another. I had. I don't know it's tough to go from one language to another, but man, I don't know. I feel like bro got to get some English on him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough, bro, but like, obviously he can't Everything, everything. You don't speak at all, bro. You're not about to tell me you're out here. The Angels then gave you $42 million, or whatever they gave you, to come over here and you don't know nothing, you don't even know where it's set up. You're just letting bro. Nobody trusts nobody that much, no one trusts anyone that much to not know a single thing. Like you said, yeah, while I'm an agent verifying. But also like bro, ain't no way Ohtani's just sitting over there just letting bro tell him whatever, some of that shit gotta sound fishy. Like you know what I'm saying. Like ain't no way his interpreter just dismoved to hold a conversation with you about something and a conversation and you know how many conversations Shohei Ohtani's having, bro, he can't just switch it back and forth that way. He not that guy, he can't be that good. I've seen the text messages. He not that good. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:He can't just switch conversation on and off. You know what I'm saying. He leaving things, he's telling like no way, no way, bro, you not about to get me with that.
Speaker 1:So you think Otani knows more English than he's putting on?
Speaker 2:I think he knows more about this whole damn situation than what he's putting on. Yeah, yeah, fuck the English part, bro, not just the English part. He knows what's going on, yeah, but if I was him, I'd do the same thing he do. I would do the same thing he's doing. Go hit those home runs, man, and hang out with the Dodgers. Eh, bro, hey, Smile every now and then Try to pretend like I'm learning English. Now it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Would you let your boy take that 30-year fall?
Speaker 2:Bro, hopefully it's not that long. Maybe they're going to wait to say.
Speaker 1:That was your answer right there. Hopefully it ain't that long.
Speaker 2:No, bro, I'm not letting my boy do it bro, you already got your way. I swear, bro, I swear I can't do it bro, but like, maybe, maybe they playing the spark play, maybe they like. All right, we got billionaire lawyers already in our ear. They're gonna help us get out of this, as long as we pay them a certain amount. It just looks like you're going to get 30 years, bro, you might get a year.
Speaker 1:The thing is either way. The interpreter is in trouble for the gambling because he's gambling illegally in California. Maybe it's not 30 years worth, but the 30 years likely is because if he were stealing this money from Ohtani, right, because then it's the fraud and all those crimes. But maybe it's just like, hey, you'll take this fall, quote unquote, but then this case will get kicked down, the can will get kicked down the road and then on the back end we're just going to drop all the claims and you just, you know, go home free. Maybe that is that sounds like a reasonable.
Speaker 2:Home is where he's not going. I don't think he's ever going to Japan again. I think them people like they probably going to be on some like he's brought shame to our country type shit they're not bringing that. He's not going home, bro. He's a degenerate gambler that lives in the US now. Like it is what it is. Also, what's the threshold for you? So like, all right, all right, let's say me and you do something. We do a crime I got 700 mil or you have 700 mil.
Speaker 2:What is? What's your year's threshold to do in jail that you would take for your homie? To keep 700 mil and make sure you're straight on the back end and while you're on the, on the back end, the back end and while you're in there. So I'm all right. You're getting 60 mil for your time, tax-free, on the back end.
Speaker 1:How old am I?
Speaker 2:Right now. Right now 30?. Right now what? Is your year threshold, how many years?
Speaker 1:Anything under five years, I'll rock it. Anything under five yeah, five years, I'll rock it. Anything under five yeah, but I got to be out before I turn 35. I got to be out Anything longer than that. I ain't fucking with you, I ain't doing it.
Speaker 2:I got you like six years, bro. I mean Rocky's four. I just really need to be out before he's like 11, like start, like middle school.
Speaker 1:You think about your kid, I'm thinking about me. I'm thinking about me like shit before 35, shit, I still got a good life to live after that.
Speaker 2:I really just want to make sure I'm there for like middle school sports and stuff. Like that's influential. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's probably some people. Hey, I, yeah six, I got six years, I'll be 35. It's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Shit man.
Speaker 2:I mean also I'm getting a 60 ball when I get out, like a tax free 60 ball. So to get out it's tax-free 60 balls. So I got 120.
Speaker 1:essentially, oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, you're cooling, you're cooling out, and you still got the 700, bro, yeah, man, I'll be there to pick you up.
Speaker 2:Just make sure the commentary is straight bro. I just need noodles on. I need to be able to make some trades in there, oh for sure you know what I'm saying, yeah.
Speaker 1:Had the best barber for you and all man Cut up. Man, I'm going to cut my hair.
Speaker 2:I'm definitely going to cut my hair because I ain't one of them dudes, that's, with dudes doing my hair in prison, nah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we can't go down to prison.
Speaker 2:Rabbit hole man, we gotta we gotta kick ourselves out of this free my dog, thug man, unless he did all that stuff they say he did. Don't free him, man. I don't know. I'm confused yeah, um.
Speaker 1:Well curious to see how this story unfolds. We gotta've got to keep a tab on it. Watch three years down the line We'll be like, hey, what was that? He's going to be chilling. He's going to be down in LA kicking it, betting on the games Still betting on the games, all right, well, let's move on to our next topic. We got the PGA Tour. We had the Masters. Scotty Scheffler just won. He's the champion, the 2024 champion. I didn't watch it I haven't been much of a golfer lately, golfer lately but what I learned is that the winner of the Masters gets to choose the menu for the dinner of the Masters in the year following. And so John Rahm won in 2023. So he was able to curate the menu, the food menu, for the Masters dinner in 2024. And now Scottie Scheffler gets to choose in 2025. I had no idea about this. I had no idea about this. I feel like it's a lot of pressure. I feel like that is a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 2:I don't know, bro. I feel like you just got to be yourself, you know, pick what you would eat. Like. So I mean mean like say you did it, what would you pick? What would be on your menu? Like what are you thinking? What's in your head? Like off the top? Like what do you? What are you going to if you set this menu?
Speaker 1:bro, I mean in my new, in my new vegetarian diet. I actually, I actually have no idea. You would ask me this a month ago. I just said I just said a bone-in ribeye steak. Then I would have said some, some of my mama's Thanksgiving stuffing, and then I would have said I wanted some carrot cake for dessert, kind of all over the place, but you know just my favorite thing you got some different flavors.
Speaker 2:You got some flavors in there, for sure. I mean I would eat the meal. I mean I'm eating it. I'm gonna be like, hey bro, look good to me what about you bro oh bro, they're gonna be hating on me.
Speaker 2:They they're gonna be pissed one, but like I mean, they might not be pissed, it's gonna be some good flavor. I know the food gonna be busting but they, you know, they might get mad at me like they got mad at my dog, bubba, for picking the chicken and mashed potatoes. I'm going to go. So you know those little triangle sandwiches they serve as hors d'oeuvres. Mm-hmm, instead of those sandwiches it's going to be fried pork chop sandwiches cut in the triangle. That's like a hors d'oeuvre appetizer vibe. Cutting the triangle as like an appetizer vibe, I think. Then, from there I might join you with the bone-in rib eye, because I really do like. I'm like huh, how's it cooked? I'm a medium rare plus guy, because I do think some people don't go good on the medium rare, so I get the plus, just in case they mess up. But it's still not medium, well, and it's not all the way to medium. You know what I'm saying. So I try to try to make sure I tell them that, just so they they think maybe they'll charge a little bit longer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you're in your day, or whoever you're getting dinner with will be like, oh, this guy knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2:He knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1:He said plus at the end.
Speaker 2:This ain't his first cowboy Shawty might even look up from a menu and be like what's a plus? I wonder what it is. Look at that, look at that. Come on, look at that. Okay, then I'm gonna have some collard greens. Gotta have some. I gotta have some of my mom's collard greens. I'm gonna have them. Serve them, people up.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm gonna go with some yams, bro. I'm a big fan. I told you I'm going we going real southern with this. I'm gonna have some yams and, honestly, the drink of choice will definitely be a sweet tea, um, none of that unsweetened stuff. So if you don't drink that, you don't have none. Um, and then I really want to do a sweet potato pie. But since I do have the yams, I'm going to join you on that carrot cake, because it's one of my favorite things on this planet. I love a good carrot cake, bro. What's crazy is if you were to tell a younger DJ that he would like carrot cake as he got older. Just hearing the name, just hearing carrot and cake together, it would have never happened, bro. But I've fallen into, I'm in love with carrot cake.
Speaker 1:I love it, so it sounds like a good old-fashioned Greensboro cookout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, good time, man, Good time. I feel like that's a good setup. They might, you know, might not like it, but their taste buds will be fulfilled. I promise you that.
Speaker 1:We both, for our master's menu was was going to have the bone-aid ribeye. Yes, you were going to do yours. Medium-rare, plus Mm-hmm. A simple man, I just want a medium and I'll take, you know, the standard deviation either way. Okay, you'll take it either way, all right. Yeah, a little bit undercooked, that's like a little bit undercooked under the medium, it's ideal. So it comes out on the rare side. But also, if it's a little bit overcooked in the medium, I can live with it.
Speaker 2:So I just say medium.
Speaker 1:That's where I live, but as long as it's high quality beef. And this takes me into our next subject, into our culture category, where we got some high quality beef. Drake Ross just dropped the Drake diss as response to the push-ups diss by Drake, which is a response to Kendrick Lamar's diss, and J Cole, and we got the Goliaths of the game going at it right now. Bro, have you listened? Have you listened to these tracks?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, bro. You know I'm tapped in. You know I like messiness. I'm a fan of messiness. I like my entertainment messy. You know what I'm saying. I don't like it clean.
Speaker 1:I don't want a clean fight.
Speaker 2:I want it messy. I want it messy. You know, I'm enjoying this fight. I'm enjoying especially my dog, rose. He is bro. He heard this and responded immediately. Like Drake dropped, rick Ross dropped two hours later. Two hours later, popping it crazy. He's talking crazy. Two hours later, popping it crazy, he's talking crazy. Two hours later, crazy.
Speaker 2:The album cover art is nuts bro, bro, bro, bro, he's so funny dog, he's the exact wrong person. Everybody online is like, oh, rick Ross told Rick Ross, he don't care, he rich, he's the exact wrong person. And everybody online is like, oh, rick Ross told Rick Ross, right, he don't care, he rich, and he is just going to troll because you've now mentioned him and he can do whatever he want. He don't care, like y'all broke folks online talking about him. He do not care.
Speaker 2:But it is hilarious, drake, the text he shared with his mom for his mom one funny as hell Talking about you got a nose job and didn't tell me hey, she funny dog, but it's good, bro, I like this. This is how I like my hip hop. I need it messy as long as, like, I don't want nothing to really happen, bro, and I don't think anybody's. I don't know if they really really got beef. It seems like they might, bro, and I don't think anybody's. I don't know if they really really got beef. It seems like they might, but I don't think any of them on that. You know, I'm saying they've all been successful men and they've made a lot of money. I don't think any of them are on like like 90s beef, when people was low-key, kind of broke, and they riding around their homeboys doing whatever. But I think these guys, like they've, they passed that point in their career. You know I'm saying'm saying this beat started a little later. They like in their thirties and forties. That'd be crazy for them to start wilding like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's a, it's good man. I feel like it's. It's given a healthy little spark to the game. Like we needed, we needed a little. I don't know If healthy we needed a little. I don't know if healthy drama is a word. I think that's what the game needed. You know we had some sleeping giants, bro. Like you know, the last time Drizzy had been addressed was, you know, back, maybe like the Meek Mill era, you know, when him and Meek went at it. The last time Cole was addressed was, I don't know if, oh, when 6ix9ine went at Cole or whoever, it was one of those young guys. Lil Pump, bro, lil Pump, lil Pump, yeah, lil Pump, but like, come on, that was Lil Pump. Like, what is Lil Pump doing now, you know? But now we're talking about Kendrick entering like bro, we're.
Speaker 1:These, these are huge names, are legends going at it. You know lyrically, which I like, but then it's also, it's this additional layer which we didn't see back in you know 90s beef, where they're able to to also pepper in the instagram stories. You they're peppering in the posts, like you said, drake sharing the screenshot of his mom asking about the nose job, him saying nah, that's just Rick Ross, he's angry because he's missed a couple meals. Then he's tagging Ross, calling him a nosy goof. Funny, it's good. And then he's tagging Ross calling him a nosy goof.
Speaker 2:Like bro. Funny, bro, it's good punches being thrown too, like these, aren't? They're not haymakers being thrown, these good jabs. We got you know what I'm saying a couple hooks thrown in there. There's some good sparring going on right now and I'm enjoying it, but what's like. It's so funny, though, bro, just because, like we've seen all these guys be in the media from other stuff and how they've handled it Now it's just like hilarious to watch them handle each other, like how they about to figure out the dynamic of like talking to each other the way they be talking reckless to everybody else, bro, I just I'm excited, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, but what is?
Speaker 2:future Metro going to do? Metro got to do something he got to drop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also Because Drizzy talks pretty much.
Speaker 2:Metro April 11th. I mean August 11th. We don't trust you to tour Toronto Canada, so let's talk about it August 11th. I don't know if the beef will be mended by then, but that'll be an interesting show. That'll be a cool show. If I was like somebody, you know, I'm only three hours away from Canada and we'll be in the middle of camp, but if we had like a nice off day, that'd be a cool show, just to go in and pop in and see what's going on.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, will be interesting. I was thinking about how um j cole has his album coming up right the fall off at some point. I don't know when it's going to drop, but, like you know, he has to leverage this beef from a marketing standpoint to direct ears towards the album. So this is all also kind of the layer underneath the beef that I'm appreciating is like what's the strategy here? You know, because Metro and Future had the first we don't trust you, and then in the second, we still don't trust you, and somehow, because Kendrick's beef was dropped on the first project and then J Cole was included on the second, like that's the reason I listened, because I'm like Cole hopped on the same project that he got dissed on. Like that's why I listen, right?
Speaker 2:so like and did you hear the? Did you hear the verse on there on Kendrick's? Oh no, did you hear what Cole's verse was? Also, I'm waiting on Kendrick to come back outside and respond to Drake, he got to. He can't just keep. He can't call you a little, a little eager on on on wax, bro shut up. Got to, he can't just keep. He can't call you a little, a little icker on wax, bro Shut up, play the drums. Yeah, he's basically calling you like let me see how I flick you Like come on, hey, nah bro, nah bro, hey, I'm waiting on bro response.
Speaker 2:But he got to come out and say something crazy. But Cole's bar was like basically telling y'all like he don't want to be in this beef. In that like song he was basically essentially saying it was crazy. If you listen to the bar and break it down. I don't have the lyrics in front of me, right exactly, but it was kind of like a cool breakdown of how he's basically explaining almost like his apology, while also in the song of we still don't Trust you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like it was like he apologized. He already had that track laid, kind of knew like, hey, bro, I don't want to be in this beef, I'm going to chill Like y'all handle this. Like, yeah, y'all about to get personal. I'm not in that. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, jay cole. Jay cole removed himself from the chat, from the group chat. I still don't like it, though, bro still don't like it me being a fellow carolinian, you know I'm saying if I say something, I'm standing on it, right, wrong or indifferent, you know me, I don't care, I don't stand on it, but I'll just. I just burn that bridge. You know where they can burn my hot, me, whatever yeah, but he's more mature than I am.
Speaker 2:Bro, he's more mature than I am, so you know.
Speaker 1:Shout out to J Cole yeah, I grew up on Cole man and I thought that at first too, with him apologizing. But then I listened to him on stage and I was like I feel you, bro, that's some vulnerability right there that you're showing. That's what you're a role model.
Speaker 2:I've been looking up to you yeah, bro, I'm just letting you know, me and you had that type of rap beef and we was just going to be beefing in public, like we could have made up behind closed doors or whatever, but like I can't walk it back on stage. Not then I could have walked it back, like after like a couple of disc songs. We go back and forth, me and you go back, and, yeah, we go back and forth on a couple of diss songs. We go back and forth, we go back and forth on a couple of diss songs down the line. Then I walk it back at a concert or something. Then we do a dope song, not three days after, three days after we was going to be in war, for sure.
Speaker 1:Cole shook hands after the first quarter.
Speaker 2:He's like I'm done with this. Y'all got the rest of it. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, y'all got the rest of it. Yeah, no, I think this is AB.
Speaker 2:He pulled an AB without the C-T-E-S-B-N. I'm done, I'm done, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess the last question is who you think is going to come out on top of the beef at the end of the day? This is actually not our first discussion of rap beef, because we just had Nicki Minaj. And who was it? The old girl.
Speaker 2:Chris Brown and Quavo are also beefing, bro. I don't know if you saw. Butris brown dropped a song on his 11 11 album of the deluxe and quavo responded the next day. So yeah, they, they are also beefing. Um, I think chris breezy wins that one because he's just way too talented on that end. Um, even though he does look sad because they are still arguing about a female, and I think that is whack. I think that you dropping tracks on wax about females that are arguing back is whack, but that's also what this whole Drake and them beef is about. Allegedly, um, really Allegedly, I think Drake stays on top cause he's got the masses.
Speaker 2:Um, I don't think anybody loses in this beef as long as people respond. I don't think anybody's not going to be a fan of any of these people. As long as they respond and respond properly, and come out there and do what they do, which is freaking rap. I don't think anybody's going to be like oh, I don't fool with such and such and such and such. Now, I think Drake will win the beef again because he has the masses. Stream-wise, he's got the innate ability to drop hits while also dissing somebody. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but I don't think anybody like loses. I think he's just got that play on people's ears that like he's so tuned in with, like the young crowd too, like he knows what people want to hear, melodically all that stuff to create a diss song while also creating a club bop.
Speaker 1:Everybody can't do that, bro. Everybody can't do that part.
Speaker 2:That's the part I feel like everybody can't do, that you might be able to drop a dope diss song. You can't create a club bop that's going to be played when the bottle's coming out at birthday weekend while you're also getting dissed, like I've known Meek Mill and her back-to-back so many times in the club, bro.
Speaker 1:Bro, that's a fact, man, that's the brilliance of Drizzy Drake, is that man? Even on push-ups he kind of gave us a little sneak peek On the back end of the song. It was like five seconds and the beat switches and it's like ooh shit, this shit is riding. Yeah, I'm like ooh, extend this part of the song, you know. So he just showed us like I can really take this to the next level. Don't test me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he can pour gasoline on a fire by just creating a club bop and putting maybe three bars in there. This and you Create a whole song and then just make you the hook of the song and you're forever going to be remembered as that song. You know what I'm saying. You walk to your core people, but there's some drunk fan out there that only remembers you as that person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that shit likely for Drake is already in the holster. He already has a couple of those. Wow, that's.
Speaker 2:It's ready. He's already tested out with the people who like secretly go to like his little house parties or whatever. He's probably like showing them like I wish they drop it on me. Watch, I wish they drop something. I'm gonna go crazy. There's probably some people there that like got the song. They're like look man, he's gonna kill these folks, our last topic before we we exit the group chat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't. We're not gonna stay too late, but we not going to leave as early as J Cole left.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, we're going to stay in the fight longer than that.
Speaker 1:We'll stick around in this group, chat here today for a second and talk about how the studies have shown are showing that Gen Z is less happy than previous generations. And it does not surprise me, based on all the things that are going on, all the distractions that these young kids have these days. But the studies they outline that Gen Z would feel happier with more time for rest and relaxation and longer weekends and when they have the feeling as if they have a purpose or intention in their lives. That is what the studies kind of illustrated as the solution to some of the problems we're having. So I have a question for you. You are the happiest people that I know. If you were to give advice to your younger self, say that you were 20 years old in 2024. What piece of advice would you give to young Gen Z?
Speaker 2:DJ reader would you give to young Gen Z DJ reader? I think I would tell myself to work hard and really just try to cut out. Like, just work hard at something that I like, try to find, try my best to find something that I truly, truly enjoy and work at it. Obviously, I feel like that will keep you busy. Hold on to my faith and really that, like your attitudes of choice every day, like you can choose to be happy, like and I'm not saying that things don't go wrong, but I'm also saying that you can choose how you look at a lot of situations in life.
Speaker 2:I think that that that's something that that's really helped me and I think would help them is like, yeah, you can just flip it like like what we were just talking about earlier with like entertainment. Like I like my entertainment messy, but I do know in my head that, like, in order to get different sources of entertainment, all I would have to do is just change what I'm looking at. You know what I'm saying. Like I just I could easily change the algorithms by just all right, typing in this or typing in that, and I could change the whole algorithm of like certain entertainment that I want to see and now I'm watching more finance podcasts or business, innovative pocket or technology, these types of things. You know what I'm saying. Like it's, it's not hard, just take the step to try and just change some things.
Speaker 2:I think I think it's tough. I think those kids are a lot, are not happy because they see a lot of negativity and it's fed to them, you know, and they weren't like us and where we didn't have that stuff, we were younger and we're now we're almost not adults, but we grew up basically without and we're able to cipher that like, oh, that's not good stuff to keep in your head and generation before us didn't even have it. So they all understand. I think that's probably what I would tell myself. Like, bro, you could change the narrative of what you see every day, how you go about it every day and, yeah, there's certain things, but just work hard and hold on to faith and try to flip what you're looking at and control your attitude.
Speaker 2:What about you.
Speaker 1:I like that. I like that Well. I mean, I think that there's so much negativity out there on social media platforms and on the Internet, but it's also the like, extreme positivity that I feel like can cripple these kids is that they're seeing, you know, other people's curated lives and you know, supposedly living their dreams, and then those kids are feeling, you know, they're comparing themselves, them to where they are right now, currently, and comparing to what they're seeing on social media, when oftentimes that's not the real picture Right. So it's this, like you know, the comparison being the thief of all joy, as the old adage goes.
Speaker 1:And I think for if I was to give the advice to you know, young Brennan Scarlett, because I feel like he would struggle with that too, you don't, even as an adult, I feel like I struggle with this it's tough for all of us Right To like you have to be able to remove yourself. Like that person's journey is not my journey, and I think the biggest thing that I would, you know, preach and advise a young, a young me, is that your journey is your own and understanding that every day is a blessing, regardless of what the circumstances are, and that tomorrow day is a blessing regardless of what the circumstances are, and that tomorrow will bring a better day because you will have learned what you're going through today and that will make you a better person, and that's a compounding thing. And to stay present and enjoy those moments, whether you're up or you're down or somewhere in between, is just to enjoy every moment and enjoy the journey. That would be my piece of advice.
Speaker 2:Oh man, run your own race, man. I'm a big fan of that. I'm a big fan of that component. I feel for these kids, dude. I feel for them. I feel for these people who are going through that stuff, because I'm like I wish they could just see it different.
Speaker 1:Well, damn Deej that was. I think we might have covered it. Hell of a production run there in our producer sheet. Shout out to Caroline the producer, putting together a hell of a show. I'm pretty happy with it. What about you?
Speaker 2:I'm pretty excited, man. A show. I'm pretty happy with it. What about you? I'm pretty excited, man. You know I'm happy. We got the draft coming up. We'll talk about that soon. Wnba draft was last week. Shout out to them, you know what I'm saying. We didn't get to get to it today. But shout out to those girls who you know have reached their lifelong dream, and you know it's exciting. Shout out to y'all ladies, the league's growing, Excited to see where it goes. Gen Z we got to get happy. We got to change this around, bro, Me and you, we got to put our minds together and figure out what we can do for Gen Z. You know what I'm saying. I don't know what this is, but we got to get them more positive. They're young, bro, so much more life left. Caroline, you put together a great show. Appreciate you, as always.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, One thing in the morning after I meditate that I learned in India you go like this to finish off your meditation and you're closing your eyes and you go real fast and you warm up your hands real fast, real fast, and then you put them, closing your eyes, and you go real fast and you warm up your hands real fast, real fast, and then you put them on your eyes your closed eyes, and you feel the warmth of your palms on your eyes and you remove your hands from your face and open your eyes and you smile into your hands. Hey, I like that. That's how you start off your day with a big smile early off in the morning, smiling at your palms it's almost like your hands make a smile too, back at you.
Speaker 2:I like that low key.
Speaker 1:Damn, I didn't even peak that. Wow, appreciate y'all tapping in. Tuning in to another episode of the group chat. We will be back next week. We'll talk to y'all. Tapping in. Tuning in to another episode of the group chat. We will be back next week. We'll talk to y'all later. Peace.