Bullying, Fights, And How To Respond

Somebody pulls your pants in class, everyone laughs, and the adults you tell do nothing. That moment can make you feel powerless fast, but we dig into what you can actually do next and how to protect yourself without throwing your future away. I’m Cameron, and I’m joined by my brother Jeffy Clark III for an honest talk about school life, bullying, reporting problems to the right people, and why “ranking” back can feel normal but still needs wisdom. 

We get real about fights too: play fighting that turns serious, beef that keeps resurfacing, and what it costs when you swing first because someone used disrespectful words. Jeffy breaks down the idea that self control is strength, not softness, and we talk anger management in a way that fits real hallways and real consequences like referrals and suspensions. If you’ve ever felt like the system only reacts when you react, you’ll hear yourself in this conversation. 

Then we shift into family relationships, the pain of an absent father, and the jealousy that can hit when you see other kids with active dads. We bring faith into it with Christian encouragement and a verse that grounds the whole message: Isaiah 60:22, “When the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen.” We close with youth sports dreams like baseball, the role of grades and discipline, and a quick reaction to a NASCAR suspension that shows why respect and accountability matter when you’re in the spotlight. If this helped you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_04 1:14

Alright, y'all, what's up? This is my second episode of Cutting Cheese with Camera. Listen here, I got a special guest. My brother, Jeffy Clark III.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In the building.

SPEAKER_04 1:29

And we're gonna talk about what I talked about yesterday. School experiences, family, God, and sports. So we're gonna talk about your school experiences.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Oh man, good. Listen, I'm excited to talk about my school at school experiences. First off, man, I'm glad to be on your show, man. It's it's nice, man. It's good. Um school experience is great, man. I went through some of the some of the stuff, the same stuff that you're going through right now. I went through. You know, getting picked on, and you know, you get ranked on and stuff like that. And uh, but ultimately at the at the you know, in in the mix

Getting Picked On At School

SPEAKER_03 2:05

of all that stuff, um you know, you get through it. You know what I'm saying? So I want to encourage you to be able to be able to get to get through it. You know, I know things happen and I know that in a moment it might not feel good. Right. Um, but there are certain things um that will come around, you know. You you you know, you got to hold your own. You know, I'm not in the classroom with you, you know, and we you know we're not in the in the school with you, so we don't know. You know. But you gotta be able to to to to hold your own against you know those people that's that's bothering with you. You know, if somebody rank on you, rank on them back, you know. That's how we was when I was growing up. You was taught, you know, somebody bothered with you, you know, you don't let nobody bother with you. You know, um but it's never never also it's not also a bad idea to you know to tell somebody, you know, what's going on with you so that it can get done. And then ultimately, if the if they are not getting it done, then of course to um to the other kids out there, you know, tell your parents so that your parents can get involved and lead that transition to make that environment, you know, that environment better.

SPEAKER_04 3:21

Right.

The Pants Prank And Reporting It

SPEAKER_04 3:24

I'm gonna talk about my most recent when the boy put it on my pants. So look, so look, I was trying to walk. No, so look, they pranked me into thinking if I jumped, my hair will grow. And I jumped anyway, then my pants just flew down because I forgot I didn't have a belt on. Then it started laughing and stuff. The second time I did jumping contests, I should have had my pants holding like this. And I jumped again, my pants flew off again. Then while I was about to go sharpen my pants, I saw the teacher on the phone, my health teacher, Mr. Hughes. Yeah. Remember that teacher I got a referral from? Yeah. This teacher, and boy, came from under the table and pulled out my pants. Like then they said, Oh, he pulled on his pants. He pulled on his pants in front of the whole class. Everybody just looked at me crazy.

SPEAKER_03 4:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, kids, kids, kids do crazy and wild things.

SPEAKER_04 4:13

Inappropriate behavior. Yeah. Has everybody ever done that to you pulling on behavior?

SPEAKER_03 4:16

We never did nothing like that when I was a kid. That's just inappropriate behavior now.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

And then guess what everybody did too?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

What?

SPEAKER_04 4:24

Like, I asked a teacher, I told the teacher, yeah, he ain't do nothing about it. So I just went That's crazy. Yes, and I just went and told the dean.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

Well, what he did about it.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

Well, he was my dean. He's A through M, right? We have different deans. Like, if you're in through Z, that's your D. I'm A through M, so that's my D. He said you don't have access to him. Yes, you do, because you suspended somebody that was in through Z.

unknown 4:46

Mmm.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

The boy I got through the fight too. He was A N through Z.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

Right. And he got suspended by somebody else that wasn't his dean.

unknown 4:55

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

And then and then they go into the other Dean. He he let it slide too much. I told on the boy who kept picking at me for the uh thing on my uh remember the dookie? What was it really dookie? It was paint.

SPEAKER_05 5:06

Right.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

And then he they ain't do nothing about it. They just let it slide. That's why we should just report it to my dean, because he wasn't really nothing. So I knew him for six years.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Oh, okay. Yeah, so we need that's that's that fussy see. That's that's called you know, that's making progress. So we do so now we have identified that we need to go to our dean in order to get stuff done, not just any dean, right?

SPEAKER_05 5:27

Right.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

So we need to start doing that, you know, make sure we're telling our dean, because if we know that our dean cares, then that's the dean that I want to talk to. I don't want to talk to no any dean because I know they're not gonna care or do anything about the situation.

SPEAKER_04 5:40

Oh, we already have four minutes. That's

Play Fighting Turns Into Real Trouble

SPEAKER_04 5:42

good. But look, so I can I tell about three fights I've been in.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

Remember the remember we made me clean the room? That's the first fight I got into. Yeah. So me and the boy was play fighting outside. Well, that's when old schedule. You feel me? Old schedule. We was play fighting outside, then I said, let's go to the restroom and play fight. Guess what? We was just doing that. Dean popped the our regular Dean. Well, he had he was an N2Z Dean.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Right.

SPEAKER_04 6:04

He popped right here like FBI, boom. I was scared too. And he grabbed us at the restroom.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

I bet he did.

SPEAKER_04 6:10

Yeah, and then we went to upstairs to his office and he suspended us, told our mom and stuff. Jill had to pick me up. And then when my mom told you about it, we had to clean up this room. I had to clean up the room. It took me like, remember three hours to do this?

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Oh, yeah, that's right. To this room. Yes. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:26

Yeah, I remember that scene.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

It was because of that. Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 6:30

It was like, you you either clean this or you I was like, I just cleaned it because I had no choice.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

So what do we what do we learn from that that situation?

SPEAKER_04 6:39

Like, don't play fight, because play fights can turn into real fights.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Yes, that's exactly it.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Play fights will turn into real fights. I have never not seen it done.

SPEAKER_04 6:48

That's probably why I get into trouble, because like, because I'm not being for real. I'm playing too much.

SPEAKER_03 6:52

Right, right, right. And and and and then they're there they know that they aren't, you know, aren't playing, you know, and you think that you playing, so it's just uh it's just a trap, and we don't want to find ourselves right in situations that are trapped for us, right?

SPEAKER_04 7:06

Well, I used to have beef with one boy, now we cool now, but still, he see this what they they told us. I snuck up behind him, and that's like he snuck up behind me, just started pressing me, grabbing me behind my shirt and stuff. Like, and then they ain't wrong, did they even write him on a referral? No.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

Yeah, your school, they just not, they don't, they not acting. When I was in school, listen, when I was in school, right, we did something, they got with us, they didn't play with us. You know, it wasn't, you know, nothing was being played by anything. They was quick to put us out, quick to suspend us, all that. Right, you know, Maddie, Maddie V, Atos, uh, grandpa, don't want the schools that we wanted to go to.

SPEAKER_04 7:42

You know, when I was in school, they were serious about that. Yeah, let me talk about the second fight. He so he come bothering me, having how many cheeseburgers you ate. You know how they were gonna talk about my weight?

SPEAKER_05 7:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:51

Because that's all I said, hit me, and then he attacked me. I just started, I snuck up behind him, grabbed him by the neck, and then just like slam, pushed him into the chair. And then our math teacher saw he he gave us a referral too. I bet he did too.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yeah, but it did.

SPEAKER_04 8:04

And they suspended me for like they suspended us for like three days. Remember when I went on a truck with you that time?

SPEAKER_03 8:09

Yeah, yes. They seem to be doing a lot of stuff, excuse me. They seem to be real active when you doing stuff.

SPEAKER_04 8:16

But when other people doing it, yeah, they're not. But I I've been in this almost like five fights and I get in trouble for that. That's why I just stopped.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

I'm talking about my other fight. Uh it was a uh boy named Deontany, right? Like he kept bothering me, so we just fought it off. He they said he won because he threw more punches than me. Does that make sense though? I don't know. Because he threw more punches than me.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

I would have had to have seen it. Because you can throw more punches. That don't mean you you won't. I mean, if it's boxing, you know, you you get points for every hit that you land. If you ducking, dodging, you know, it's stuff like that. That's structured fighting, but uh, you know, people gonna say what they want to say, you know.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

Right. And I'm talking about it was the test in January, 2026, right? So the boy, he getting mad all cause the uh teacher was in the tested areas. Yeah, he a blonde teacher, he got mad because he had to send him over to my chair. He got mad, he called me a B-bar, I punched him in his arm. Then he did me back, and then he pushed me on my chair, then I got up, I smacked him in the back of his head. Yeah, and guess what? He grabbed me, turned me around, started punching me, and then threw me. I lost that tongue, too.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

So, how do you feel about that?

Words, Anger, And Self Control

SPEAKER_03 9:28

So I don't know, because it yeah, I'm trying to figure out in that particular situation right there, he called you, said the B word, right? And then you did what?

SPEAKER_04 9:37

I hit him.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

Okay, so you started that one.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

How he called me a B-word though.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Yeah, so what them words?

SPEAKER_04 9:44

Yeah, because I I was anger issues, I had anger problems. And he pushed me on my chair and I got up and then well he was a teacher. They say he's blonde. But he saw us fighting though. But we ain't in trouble though.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

Yeah, but we can't we we can't be doing that because somebody using words against us. Words are I know that's a saying that words are never hurt, you know. Sticks and sticks where they say sticks and sticks and something but rape my bones, but words never hurt me. It's not entirely true, but we should not be reacting in such a way that causes us to get in trouble because somebody said a word to us. You know, if somebody talking about us, or maybe we may talk about them back or we may we may ignore them. But see, that right there is where you have the control.

SPEAKER_05 10:27

Right.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Because had you not done what you did, then that situation would have never occurred. You see what I'm saying? Right. So that is an area of our life where we have to understand that we control the ability to be the bigger person. Right. So we're not gonna stoop down, stoop down to that level, right? We're gonna stay above and beyond it. Because had had Cameron ignored it, the situation would have been a lot different.

SPEAKER_04 10:50

Okay, but like more, I'm talking about more. Well, I remember I mean, we cool now, right? You hear me? Some of the boys, we I don't have no more beef problems with we cool. But sometimes it's his friend. We be sometimes we have problems and not like I just don't like that. One time I got mad at him, I shoved him to the wall in front of the Dean, too. Oh that was almost Thanksgiving break. Well, we didn't really fight. All I did was just pin him to the wall. Yeah, we ain't getting in trouble. They just sent us back to class. So how you feel about that one though, when I pin him to the wall?

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Oh no, what's it what's the reason for you pinning him to the wall?

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Oh yeah, because like he kept g making me mad and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

How was he making you mad?

SPEAKER_04 11:28

Well, he was I said, Come on, you wanna fight then? Cause he kept he kept back like he wanted to hit me and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Okay, wait a second, wait a second. So how did it start though? Tell me tell tell it to me from the beginning.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

Some of this I forgot though. But look.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

So so in the hallway, right? We were going to our next period, he he always loved to bother me, hit me and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:50

And I told him, You wanna fight then? And then when we got downstairs, I just pinned him to the wall. But he he stopped.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

On that particular day, did he did he hit you that day?

SPEAKER_04 12:02

Well, that was during like Thanksgiving, though. Last year.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

But on that particular day, did he hit you? When he was bothering me. He said he was bothering me.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

And then remember the same boy I said through more punches with me than me? It was recent at when the boy that he threw me, they we we good now, he told us to chill. Like he kept pushing me and stuff. And then when I got in front of the uh teachers and stuff, I pin him to the wall. They they act like they didn't see him just push me. And then they tell us he already going to Maddie V. They was talking about me. So how you feel about that one now?

SPEAKER_03 12:39

So in in in these situations, she just keep saying like it happened and it's done, and y'all seem to be cool now, whatever the case. Is that what this the scenario is now? It's pretty much like nothing happened.

SPEAKER_04 12:52

It's like chill or like nowadays, like nobody's trying to fight me now.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

That's good.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Let me tell you about the one Mr. Hughes. Remember that's my third time he suspended, he's on me. You ain't gonna buy me the taxi for my birthday? So let me tell you what happened the full beginning, right? So the boy Mason, right? I had problems with him. That was my second fight. He well, this is my uh third fight, okay? So he over here acting like he's about to hit me and stuff, right? Coming up to me, trying to act like he's trying to throw something at me. I said, throw it at me. He threw the book at me. I threw the book at him back, and he then teacher told us to stop, he slapped me with the book in front of the teacher, he ain't do nothing. The teacher over here just trying to restrain me, grabbing me, telling, telling me, chill out, it's not worth it. And then all the other boys, while I was still trying to get him, the other boy's trying to make me chill out too.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Right.

SPEAKER_04 13:35

And then the other boy trying to defend. Remember the boy who I shoved to the wall I told you about when he kept hitting me and stuff?

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

We cool now, but still he over here trying to defend him, right? Dragon was my shirt. I'm like the boys all trying to stop me. Boys all trying to stop me. I'm I'm really pinned to the shelf, right?

SPEAKER_05 13:53

Right.

SPEAKER_04 13:53

Well, not the boys pushing me, it was the that one boy. But he he was like getting like, you know? He tells us to go after him. I'ma fight you, I'ma hit you. And I just stopped at that point.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

Heard me. I was still something else.

SPEAKER_04 14:08

I still try to get the boy. Guess what the big white boy did? He tells he while I was trying to get off, he was telling me, chill out. Then he pushed me into the wall, telling me you need to chill out.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Oh, they brazing, they brazing, they brazing bowl around there, boy.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

No, they they really trying to get me to stop. That's why he pushed me into the wall.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

Okay, so he was trying to help. Also, okay.

SPEAKER_04 14:28

Yeah, he was the one trying to help too. Then guess what? After that, the boy, I remember when I walked past and they still roasted me. The boy ate it. He he doing this in my stomach. And then guess what? I got mad at him, I punched him in the stomach. The other boy who just slapped me with the book, he grabbed my arms, I pushed him off, and he still grabbed me on my shirt again. Now I was trying to push him off, and I was just, you know, like them little battles they be like this? Yeah. Yeah, I was doing that, and then the girls was like, oh, whoa, whoa. And then I did a slap, but I ain't slapping that hard, it's like this. And then and then we went to Dean's office. I remember I had tears in my eyes that day. Making me go, the uh older man tell us, stop that, you a man. Man don't cry unless you're at a funeral. I shouldn't remember that. That's kind of true though. It's crazy. Men don't cry and uh at a funeral, men don't cry. At least you're at a funeral is crazy though. Yeah, but then yeah, we went to Dean's office, but uh but remember my field trip I went to? Then he suspended me that day. He suspended me for a day.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

It's what day?

SPEAKER_04 15:32

He was really supposed to do two days because I was supposed to go to Maddie B. But he only gave me one day. I got lucky that time.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah, we got lucky that time.

SPEAKER_04 15:40

Yeah. Then at that point we just stopped.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

That's good.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

One name fights you been into?

SPEAKER_03 15:47

I've been in not many in my life. A couple park fights growing up, living in the hood, and then school, not so much. I didn't get in too much, too many fights in school. And when I did get into the altercation with somebody, it was not an ongoing thing. You know, it was like one and done, you know what I'm saying? So if it happened, it happened, and then from that point, you know, it moved on. It wasn't like uh the same person constantly every single day. You know, it may have been like that, a constant thing up until that point, but you know, once we had the the altercation, you know, it was over with. And then like even one time I remember in high school, um, somebody said something, um said something to me, and I I addressed it. And um I think I was pretty mad that day. I threw a desk across the room. That was enough to s to settle that um you know, that particular moment. Um but other than that, man, you know, my size has always been a factor in that too.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

You know, so are we already at 15 minutes? C C we moved too much to school.

Family Conflict And Anger At Home

SPEAKER_04 16:58

You ready to go on to family?

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Yeah, let's go. Let's talk about family.

SPEAKER_04 17:02

Alright. You want me to go first?

SPEAKER_02 17:05

No, you go first.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

Alright. So like, what can I talk about my family?

SPEAKER_02 17:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:11

So like, what should I talk about? Should I talk about my brother? Oh, okay. I'm gonna talk about how I get angry at my brother. So like how I get angry, my little brother does one thing to me, I just get angry, start hitting him and stuff. And I know that's wrong, because like sometimes I feel like yes, it's wrong, but still I just feel like I had to do it because my anger gets into me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mom told us anger is a dangerous ally.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

It is a dangerous ally. It is a dangerous thing.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

I know, but sometimes I can't I can't help it. Well, he like do one little thing.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

I know it's not that serious, still the Bible says um be angry and sin not so you can be mad about something, but we have to just we have to sometimes look at things and see if our emotional reaction is to the level that it's supposed to be. Because sometimes we have to realize that we have the power to control certain situations or outcomes, and sometimes it's better to just remove ourselves. Right, right. Um now I don't have um any biological uh brothers.

SPEAKER_04 18:15

You ain't have to go through that because you ain't have really nobody but your sisters.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

Yeah, so and and they are older. They're older than you, yeah, way older than me. So uh 50 and 47, I think. Um so you know you know I grew up in the house all by my own.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

So I don't know, I know that was hard for you.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

Yeah, man, it's something growing up the as the only child.

SPEAKER_04 18:39

Lucky you have us though.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

Yes, yes, that was a blessing from the dog.

SPEAKER_04 18:44

Well, you grew up to the same dad as me, like when you your dad was like active in your life all the time. But he was, but it's not like always. You have that problem.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Yeah, so I had to um a lot a lot a lot like you, um um not active, uh not doing what he's supposed to do, realizing like child support and stuff? Um not even doing that. Um, but you know, I realized early on um in my situation that it wasn't gonna change.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

I realized that, you know, what side my bread and butter was on, right. And I just leaned into that, you know. I didn't allow it to uh affect me or or bother me, you know. I just you know canceled canceled it out.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

And it was what it was.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

Right. I wanna talk about why I call him on my birthday, right?

Absent Dad And Handling Jealousy

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

I called him on my birthday when I tried to love it. I said, uh, hey, it's my birthday. He's he just said I know it's your birthday. He ain't say happy birthday or nothing.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

See, I just ain't doing it. And that's the thing too, see, like the call in the birthday stage, uh like we don't do that. We don't you know we don't call nobody on our birthday. It's your it's your birthday. You're not calling nobody to tell nobody that it's your birthday and nothing like that. If they want to tell you happy birthday, they'll call and they don't, then they don't.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

Sometimes I be trying to call my dad. Well, I don't have his number, he don't really like to talk, so so I just don't be bothered about it. It don't bother me that much. But like I have a mom that cares for me.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

Right, right. And that's what's important, right? Yeah, that's what's important.

SPEAKER_04 20:14

Right. Did I tell you what I said? He went when uh when mom was talking in the background.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:21

Yeah, I heard you said that episode I said, at least my mom ain't broke. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

Oh man, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

Yes, like I know sometimes it bothers me. Because, like, remember, like yeah, sometimes my mom has to talk to me about it. Right?

SPEAKER_03 20:38

What about that situation bothers you? What about it?

SPEAKER_04 20:41

Like, why does it bother me?

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Yeah, like what about the situation?

SPEAKER_04 20:44

Sometimes I be seeing other people with dads and stuff, uh how their dads be active in their life and stuff. Yeah, it just sometimes makes me feel jealous.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Yeah, yeah. Right. I can understand. I can you know I can understand that from your perspective of seeing other kids seem to be happy with their fathers and stuff like that. But I'm gonna tell you this too. Um, you know, the theory that we that us grown folks like to say is is this the grass ain't always greener on the other side. Right. And the Bible tells us that we are not to covenant what other people have because we don't know what they go through behind closed doors, right? So we don't know what that dynamic looks like, you know, on their side. So to look at it from the outside and say, to say, oh, they must have it good, it's not an accurate comparison to your situation because your dad may be absent in your life, but their dad may be involved, but he might be in the house beating his beating their mom, beating the children, and you know abusive. Abuse abusive. So there's always you know that dynamic. And I would tell you this God has never made a mistake in creation. So The fact that you I don't want you to ever feel like that it was that it's a mistake that your dad is not in your life, right? Um, if he is not in your life, um believe me, God has enough wisdom and enough strength and enough power to have people do what everything that they need to be done. So if the if he's not involved, believe me, God has it that way for a reason. Because there is somewhere in your life, um, God has already seen your beginning, your end, and your middle. So he already knows that that's a that factor for you will not be a factor for you. And I even declare that over you right now, that that the fact that you might not have your dad, you will still be a successful man, you will still be a man that will be a great husband, that you will still be uh a great father, that you will be a man that will know how to label and to work and to provide for himself, but not just himself, but for his for the kids, for his kids, for his for his family. That you will not be someone that is emotionally drained or emotionally uh too short, but you will be um one that is in tune with his with his emotions and understanding who Cameron is and Cameron's own identity.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

That's right. Now let's talk about more. Let's talk about

God’s Favor And Trusting His Timing

SPEAKER_04 23:20

God now.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Oh, okay. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 23:22

Okay. So we know God as the heavenly father who made this earth for stuff.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

Yes, the heavenly father, yes indeed.

SPEAKER_04 23:29

And like I want to talk about how God changed my life.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 23:34

It's like ways he changed my life. He blessed my mom, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

Even if she didn't have a job, he still blessed my mom.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

Powerful. Yeah, God will come through for you.

SPEAKER_04 23:49

Right. God rewards people that do good things now.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Yes, that is, yeah, that is true.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

Right? Oh, we already had 22 minutes. What can you you made my video longer? Like, what else could how can you say God changed your life and your ways?

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Oh that's a good question. Um how God changed my changed my life.

SPEAKER_04 24:16

I know like he I know you went to like being like not as like not trying to say like you weren't you weren't, I'm not trying to say like you weren't broke. Because I know you lived in the hood and it was hard. And then how you came up being successful, man, with raising your daughters and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Yeah, but I don't think that will be a place in town where I could like identify because I wasn't too much worried about I wasn't too much worried about that kind of stuff because I had a job at like 14.

SPEAKER_05 24:48

Right.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

Right. So I could I was getting money enough to pay for my school shoes and school clothes. So I missed a lot of I missed a lot of uh of the the the street world simply because I was able to obtain a job the way that I did. Um so I wouldn't say that I even realized God um in that moment. Um but I will say I um um looking back, I beg I can begin to see all the moments where God was placed within my life.

SPEAKER_05 25:24

Right.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

Like certain places I could have been stuck, certain places I could have been dead at a young age, um, certain things that I have done in my past, um, that I realized that the only way that I made it out of that is simply because there had to be a God, because there's no way that I should be standing, you know, sitting right here with you, right, talking, you know, on this podcast. And I realized that looking back, and but if I had to give a situation um the time and and space to say that God really intervened and really showed me a change in different was when I um was when I married Kia. Right when I found uh uh found her because the Bible says the man found the body found the good and obtains favor from the Lord, I definitely see the favor and everything that God um has done, you know, in my life through that one particular moment in time. Um so like even like the even like growing up and and feeling alone, right? Right, you know, now I have two daughters and my wife that fills that space for me. And then now Journey and now Journey has Javea. So she has somebody, which is something that I never experienced or had in my life, not in my household, okay. Um so definitely God moved moved in that direction. And then what made the plus was when I was able to gain Kia, I just didn't gain Kia, right? Because um you find the treasure, you hide it. The Bible says, you know, you find a treasure and then you you know sell all your possessions and then you you buy the whole field. So, you know, to find Kia and then to hide that thing, and then to go and buy the field included you, Daryl, and Mari. And I think that was the um the biggest blessing because I didn't have brothers, and um so it was a blessing to to have y'all and to to love on y'all and to do the things that I would have wanted to do with a brother that I get to experience that and do that you know, with y'all. So God did it.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

You got a verse for us?

SPEAKER_03 27:34

A verse, you want a verse. Okay, I can get you a verse. I got a verse for you. I got one right here. It says Isaiah 60 and 22. When the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen. So, what does that mean to you?

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Read it here.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Isaiah 60 and 22, it says, When the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen.

SPEAKER_04 27:58

Wait, what does that mean to me?

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Yeah, what does that mean to you when you hear that?

SPEAKER_04 28:02

Like, like God will make anything happen for you. Like with time and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Right.

SPEAKER_04 28:09

So, what does it mean to you?

SPEAKER_03 28:11

And to me, it's letting me know that if there's something that I want, I might not be able to obtain it today. Right. I might not even have it tomorrow. Or I might not even have it next year or five years from now. But understanding that God has total control and understanding his sovereignty and knowing that whatever I need, I hear God saying that he will do it for me according to his time.

unknown 28:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

And it's really a humbling and a submission thing. I have to be able to understand this and submit to God's authority and God's will as concerns with when he wants me to have or be able to do something.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

Right.

SPEAKER_03 28:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 28:53

You ready to move into sports, D?

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Oh yeah, let's

Sports Goals, Grades, And Money Limits

SPEAKER_03 28:56

move into it. Let's move into it. Let's move into it.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

I want to um like talk about how you want to play sports and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

Sports, let's do it, man. Listen, I um um I played football growing up.

SPEAKER_05 29:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

And realized later on that I actually had a love for baseball. So I actually kind of regret it um, you know, playing so much, giving so much of my time to football and and not um uh and not giving time to, you know, to explore other sports, right? Because there's a whole lot of stuff out there, man. I remember wanting to play when I first came to high school, first went to high school at Wolfson, I didn't I I the the first sport that I wanted to go go to was not originally football. It was actually it was golf. And the reason that I didn't do golf was that I had to buy clubs, right? And the school didn't provide clubs. So when we went to um Dick Sporting Goods, never forget multiple Dick Sporting Goods clubs cost it was like $497 for some clubs, and we just couldn't just couldn't have it, right? So we don't have $497 just to put down on golf clubs.

SPEAKER_04 30:03

I want to go golf soon though.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

Yeah, no, right. So um yeah, it also it also, you know, a lot of the stuff that we did, that we did growing up was uh a push, you know, for my mom to be able to do being a single mother. Right. And I realized here, you know, that put in me, um, it don't matter what Journey and JaVale want to do, um, finances will not be the reason why they can't do something.

SPEAKER_04 30:26

Right.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

You know, and and that's just something that uh the model and the standpoint. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 30:32

Yeah, I mean, I just I do need to go to Dick's Running because get some baseball gear to practice. Yeah, yeah. What about me? Well, I do know I want to play sports, but it's some other things in sports. Like I know I want to play baseball. I try to I want to be a shortstop at other players like Jazz Chiseling and them. Yeah, right. And like, yeah, no, you gotta get good grades because hey, nothing's free in life. You have to earn that. You can name any sport you don't like, you still gotta do it. Right, you still gotta put the work in, have good grades. How you think all these players made it to the leagues having kids and like being yeah, they had to go through that. They had to go through the minor leagues getting good grades. Well, I don't think some of them didn't go to the minor leagues, they had to go to college though, right? Right, right, and like, yeah, you got a uh article?

NASCAR Suspension And Public Respect

SPEAKER_03 31:27

Yes, actually, I do. Um reported by um NASCAR.com. Daniel Die indefinitely suspended um by NASCAR after um disparing comments. Daniel Die has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR after an intensive uh intensive comments made during a recent live stream. Officials announced Tuesday evening. Um, dive driver of the number 10 um colleague racing ram in the NASCAR crafting truck series was penalized under section 4.3c in the NASCAR rule book, which states in part NASCAR members shall not make a public statement or communication that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise um dispares another person's based upon that person's race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, uh, marital status, religion, age, or handicapping conditions. Um more crap and truck series than this. Dye has this die was discussing his experience around NTT IndyCar Series driver David uh Malacas while opening um trading cards on a recent live stream, during which the 22-year-old Die used language that officials deem unacceptable, resulting in Tuesday's suspension. Okay, Die must complete a sensitivity training before he may return to competition. Kyle Racing also announced in its statement that the team has suspended Die effective immediately after becoming aware Tuesday of comments he made on social media. AJ Armadingle was later announced as the fill-in driver for Friday's race in Darlington race race at 7 30 p.m. E.T. on FS1 NRN Series XM NASCAR radio. Art Dingo, who drives full time for collect in the cup series, has 14 career starts in the truck series with uh with um his last um coming in 2021 at Watkins Glen International for GM GMS racing that apologized in a statement posted on the social media Tuesday evening, adding in part, I didn't think enough before I spoke, and in no way meant any harm. How do you feel about somebody that's commenting on certain things um that's in the limelight? Like there are professionals and you know they making racial comments.

SPEAKER_04 33:52

Oh so I how I feel about that?

SPEAKER_03 33:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

I was like, why are they making comments over one a thing? Like they making comments, were they making comments because like colors or something?

SPEAKER_03 34:04

Yeah. Well, they didn't say specifically what he did, it was just talking about marital stuff or you know, it's it's race or stuff of that nature that's centered around stuff like that, or somebody having uh ailments or something like that, right? So it's it it was it's a broad thing because we wasn't on the live stream and and they're not gonna say what he said. Um so how do you feel about people that maybe maybe making racial comments or saying stuff about people that maybe um have physical ailments or people's marital status or sexual orientation? How do you feel about people that comment on stuff like that whether it uh in negative ways?

SPEAKER_04 34:49

How I feel like that, like who who does that comments over things like that? Like how I feel about that, yeah. Only how I feel about that is like that's not right, right, right. Because like commenting over race and stuff, right?

SPEAKER_03 35:08

Yeah, definitely, definitely not right, my brother. Definitely not right. So how do you

Podcast Reflections And Closing Promo

SPEAKER_03 35:13

feel? How do you feel having a podcast, man? I see you, you know, you talking to people and stuff. How does it how does how how does it feel, man? How does it make you feel?

SPEAKER_04 35:20

Feels good to be here. Yeah, you really encourage me though.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Oh man, I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_04 35:25

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SPEAKER_04 35:36

All right, we're finna end it here. All right, please keep cutting keys and follow the crown table unleash. Love y'all. Peace.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

That was good.