Congratulations, You Played Yourself

Hood Politics, y'all welcome. I don't know if there's ever been a better personification of cautionary tale or if you played just listen, if you played yourself as a person. This is. This is the situation and the specifics of the scenario and the happenings and the narratives and the lessons you could take from this is a very Hood Politics episode. Now, the specifics of the persons involved, that's more of a behind the bastard's episode. So, uh, if you need a deep dive into who Andrew take is,

that's more of a bastard's episode. I could give you an overview, right of just I mean, he's a weird though there's no other way around it. Now again, uh, I don't know the white boys would call him a tool, uh or just just a fuck heead like just just he's a I mean, I don't just look, I don't know how it's to say it. Man, y'all, even y'all fans of him, y'all know that man's a tool. Like you have to know he's a tool, you know what

I'm saying. Uh, And I mean I can't imagine anybody listening to this so would be a fan of is. But like, really, y'all, like, come on, family, Uh. And the whole Man of Sphere is a whole other thing, which we could talk about a little later, yo saying, but like because there is a little bit of issues of kind of misogynist kind of like Man of Sphere stuff in too, but like not like this, this is this is special. Now. Congratulations, you played yourself a phrase.

First of all, the phrase you played yourself was actually a song in like the early nineties, and it's exactly what it what it seems, in the sense that the song was about how your actions, your choices, and your words have ruined your situation. You that you did it. You know you shouldn't have made the choices you made. You have played yourself now that phrase kind of like went out of style until the rise of DJ Khalid

and Caldisms, you know, major keys. Right when he came back in with another one, there was a clip of him talking about his shoes and because he's from that generation, like Kalid is like not a young man, you know. And I don't say that as a diss I'm saying that it's just reality, like Kylie has been working for a long time, for a very long time to get into the position that he's in. But anyway, in this clip, he was talking about shoes and he looked at the

guy and he said, congratulations, you played yourself. And essentially it brought the phrase back into sort of the zigeis for for where we are. So when you play yourself again, it's when your choices have ruined your situation. You played yourself. It would be like, yeah, you guys, you guys M because I know my percentages. O. How the white boys be like, oh, this fool got owned. Like usually when you guys are saying you just got owned, it's because someone else did it to you, you know, which is

what happened. Which the term owned actually trend by how bad Greta owned this food. So if you were to own yourself, it would be the equivalent of being like you just played yourself. Now here's a scenario. Uh, and we'll go through the scenario step by step, and then we'll back up and give a little context, and then I'm gonna finally give you all your life kit as to the lessons of how to never play yourself as bad as he did, because good golf first of all

the players. And the thing is Gretta Thornberg, you know, the young lady who um from from the UK that does all the climate justice activism. Um had a chance to you know, speak in front of some some like real world leaders, and I think she really claimed like national or international spotlight when she was given a speech and then Donald Trump walked in the room, and the way this little girl cut her eyes at this man was essentially the energy of a lot of the world.

And she's just really an exceptional teenager. You know. Uh, whatever you believe about her beliefs or anything like that, you know, she's she's articulate, very smart. You know, her parents are super supportive. She's just I mean, she's a good kid. I think in a lot of ways, you know, and and um, I'm not going to sit here and playcate none of y'all about climate change. I mean, it's look, it's real. I don't know what else to tell you.

This is what happened, now how it happened, you know, like don't I don't understand how this is a debate. And the personal responsibility people are the ones acting like they have no personal responsibility. That's the part I don't understand. Like, just if you, if you're the personal responsibility people, then what's wrong with you thinking about your emissions? What's wrong with you thinking about the amount of trash you throw

a like do your part? You know, maybe it's pissing in the ocean, but it's one less piece of piss in ocean, And what's wrong with that? Listen. I am not a plastic manufacturer. I get it. I don't make combustible engines for a living. I do. I fly no airplanes. I ain't got no private jet. I understand that. So those are the big ones that can make big differences.

But there's little things like without having to like change too much of my lifestyle, we bought instead of paper rolls of paper towels, we just ordered like cloth towels like white ones that eventually, you know, after six seven months, we could throw away and get some more. But look, you just wash them. This is what I do. I got like a like a stack of like hunted couple maybe even to three hunted of just these little cloth squares that we use as paper towels. And it's not kids.

I just throw them in the wash you know. You look, this is what we do. I soak them in like bleach and soap before and then throw it in the washing machine. And and I understand will prop where you're well, you're actually wasting energy running there. Oh, wash them on colde. I do do what I can, you know. And uh, but it's something you know what I'm saying. And like now I'm not buying a lot of paper, and I'm

not using a lot of plastic. Like those are things I could do my coffee grinds, like I compost them. You know, they're it's not hard, you just not hard. Yeah, I mean it's like and I know it's a little bit, but you know, it's good for your house plants. A lot of y'all are plant parents out there, you know what it's good for your house places. It makes a little water thought on your plants, you know what I mean. Like it not hard. That's what I'm taking responsibility, Like,

that's you know, the little bit I could do. I use my mirror. That's a great company, you know, recyclable and carbon neutral. I use a water flask, you know, and my h I bring a coffee cup with me when I go places, you know what I'm saying, Like, just trying my best. You know, it's not like I said, Maybe it's pissing in the ocean, but it's a little at least it ain't my pissing ocean. You can do a little bit anyway. That's a tangent. And you know for us who just you know, could play a part, dude,

it's not that hard, man. There's a lot of little things you could do anyway. So great is that girl, right? And again, whether you believe in her or not, which I think is ridiculous, but whether you do or not, she got a squad and she is a teenager, and teenagers kids have been forged in the fires of the internet. Right, But we're gonna get to that a little later. Uh. Next is a man named Andrew. Take now Andrew Tad exists in this misogyny kind of like manno sphere, right

wing kind of space. I can't pinpoint his accent or the accent for which he's trying to mimic. I don't I can't make heads or tails of it. Some of y'all can like reply to me after this and tell me, like what the hell this accent is supposed to be. But he's like a dude, and to do that exists in the manner sphere um which later on I'm gonna

explain when I back up. But basically, uh, he just kind of out of nowhere, chooses to act mentioned on Twitter Greta and just about his cars and all the emissions that his cars make, just as like he's just trying to own her, like he's just trying to like he's just throwing jabs, you know what I'm saying, Like and and and all that stuff gets mad retweets. It's like, you know, you you crack a joke at the lunch table and all your homeboys cheer. You know what I'm saying.

He puts the little wood grain background, has a cigar. He's puffing it in the air, and he's cracking jokes like some more some more carbon emissions, you know, and he attempts to address her, and he says, well, I just calmly and you can find these videos because they're everywhere because it's it's hilarious. So he says, I just you know, I calmly. Um offered to share with her the omissions that I have that my cars have, and she sends me her email address, which is small dick Energy.

That's really weird that you would have. That's your email address. Interesting, right, which of course he knew the joke, but this is his attempt at a clap back. But then he says, you know what, like he tried to take the high row. I don't blame her. She has been brainwashed by the mainstream media and you know, the left wing who are just brainwashing kids. And then he goes pizza, give me pizza. So he calls for the pizza to get brought into

the screen. Right, make sure these boxes are not recycled. He says, not, I don't know why, I like I said, I don't understand this accent. So anyway, so he gets the pizza boxes and he continues to talk about how Greta is brainwashed. Right proceeds to tweet the video. Unbeknownst to him, the name and location of the pizza spot that he ordered from is right on camera. Now you may or may not know, but Andrew Tate is being and his squad is being investigated for rape and human trafficking.

And the man's been in hiding at an undisclosed location, and in him trying to clap back, he disclosed his location because they went, humh, what's the name of that pizza spot? Oh, that's a spot in Romania. We know the address of that. That man is in Romania. We've been looking for him and we already got a case about on him and his squad. So within days his mansion is invaded and he's brought into custody over charges of human trafficking and rape elves upon elves. Congratulations, you

just played yourself. Let's take a break, all right. So let's back up a little bit to talk a little bit about the manosphere. I mentioned that phrase before. Now the manosphere for black people are are intro to the manosphere. Is Kevin Samuels who rest in peace? I guess nah, that's somebody baby anyway. Um, but you know is not anyway. So it's the man of sphere, if you will. It's this wing of the internet via YouTube and different types

of influencers that are covering what they would call men's rights. Right, It's this situation where there's a belief that culture is becoming too feminine. Men are weak now, they're not being mentored correctly, and they need stronger alpha like high powered men to train up a generation of high apartment So it's like, you know, you have these like in cell world of like, you know, these these kind of nerd boys who kind of feel like they can't get no girls and they kind of don't know how to act

around girls. So they turned to this space that's essentially designed to, if me being nice, to teach them how to be alpha males because girls like alpha's and to not be beta. Right. Uh. Now, granted the concept of alpha and beta and you know males came from wolves, and um a researcher of wolves and the lady that that researched it has disavowed all that and was like, oh, yeah, all these wolves are in captivity. It really don't work like this. That whole thing is it's incorrect. Sorry, guys,

I was wrong, but we still use it. As are like definition of alpha males and stuff like that. Anyway, so the already the basic sciences has been defunct now as you could probably smell. It's incredibly misogynistic now in in a in a way that comes in so many different variations, because there's a part of it that says, hey, get up and take a shower, don't just sleep in all the time, which you know, some young men really

do need. Right, go get a job. Stops you know, living at your mama house, stopped making you know, excuses about your success. You're worried about getting a eight NIGGI. You ain't showered in two days? Like, bro, like you're not presentable, you feel me you out here? Simple like get yourself together. If you get yourself together, take care of your own responsibilities, show up to work on time, and stop like complaining about everybody else not giving you

no shot. Then like maybe you would be a little more eligible. And and in some ways that's true. In a lot of ways. You know, young men do need a little more discipline. But don't everybody need a little discipline, you know what I'm saying. Like, so in some ways, and we all do need some types of mentorship, so I'm gonna give you that. But there's nothing worse than bad advice. Ain't nothing worse to bro and especially from

someone that's disimpressionable. Now, now, there are wings of the manner sphere that are incredibly racist, right and have a whole lot of eugenic stuff. And then there are versions at are you know, sort of black and brown because in a lot of our communities we are not immune to the types of misogynistic practices that can evolved into

black nationalism. Well, let me say this, a version of black nationalism, very not black nationalism itself, but a type of you know, there's the whole teps of it all sort of believe that, like the if the black man is God, then the black woman's job is to resurrect God through birth. You know what I'm saying, in your places at home, to raise our children to be submissive.

Because if I'm gonna function in my god like tendencies as a black man, I can only be with a black woman who understands her place that her job is to raise more powerful black people. That being said, a strong black community is something that's very important, you know what I'm saying. Um, But then you start adding all these like high power man type stuff, right, and their definition of high power man you know it oftentimes are

just incredibly damaging. You could do your own googles. Like I said, this is a for you to understand the fullness of the manner sphere. That's a behind the bastard situation. But anyway, that's kind of like an overview. Now. Some of the more comical stuff is like, you know, people asking like what do women want, Like how do I get my wife during my girl to like not leave me, not give you know, give me more sex, whatever the

case may be. And it's crazy because on these shows you'll have one woman who's saying the answer, right, and then you have these dudes saying, oh, listen, hey, you know you provide all that money. You know what I'm saying, like, act like you don't need it. You know, you need to be a little more regressive, be a little more like like you know, a caveman and just demand it. Or you know what I'm saying, like, bro, listen, cook

that meal, do that thing, bring home to bacon. And women are women are women and women it's natural, it's it's it evolutionary. You know, a woman is going to choose the man that is best suited for reproduction, and the girl is sitting there going, I don't know, just

kind of talk to me. Just be a little more vulnerable and emotionally available, and let's connect on an emotional level and then I'll be a little more And they're like, no, no no, no, no, no, this is what you need to do, bro, And it's just the most absurd thing to do. And I'm saying even from just even just from like pimping, pimping, it's simple listen to the girl. I don't understand. You got a bunch of men sitting around here trying to impress other men, listening to other

men about their advice about the women. Why you can just listen to the lady. The hell is your problem? Right? So I think I might, I might text Robber. They're like, yo, we need to do a Man of Sphere episode anyway, So take come out of that now. Tate is a very unique version of this because there's so many differ

intersections that this man exists in. But one of the things I think is a prime example of what I'm talking about is he had this this take on when it comes to you not losing your girl, and he was like, it's hard to lose your girl if you have all her account numbers and passwords and you control them and she has to come to you for them, I bet she'll never leave you like that, to which we're like, oh, so pimping, that's that's pimping, and he's like,

I guess so. So I'm like, wait, what this your advice. Your advice on how to lose a girl is to just essentially hold her a hostage. This this show, this show advice to us, climate denying, like just every possible trope right now. Is he a true believer? I don't know. I just know that he's been investigated for rape in a human trafficking rings. So it might be he really do believe all this. It might be just it's just an act. I don't know. The point is he's that dude.

Now that's a little backup about him and about his situation. Now let me give you the life lessons. Let's take a break. All right, we're back. Okay, here we go, everybody. Here's how you don't play yourself in the Year of our Lord. Here's his mistake Number one. He picked a fight with a gen z teenager. Now listen. If you don't learn anything from this except for this one thing, learn this. Them kids is better than you at the Internet.

Let me tell you something. If you ever had one of them big old books of CDs for your music, you ever had it in your car, and if you ever tried to flex, you had a five this CD changer in your car, listen to me. Lead them kids alone. Listen, dog, if you can vividly remember before your movie started being coming soon to DVD and blue ray, you remember that, Lead them kids alone. They better than you at the internet. That man should have never picked no fight with that

little girl. That was mistake number one. They better than you at the internet. Lead them kids alone. Y'all ever seen little nazacs function on the internet. Don't come at him. Don't come at that boy. Y'all see that that college dude that kept owning a candice owings on tiptop with research. Y'all ever seen that dude? Listen, Leave them kids alone. That's less than number one. You played yourself right there. You should have left that little girl alone because when

she clapped back brush, she clapped back. They are better than you at the Internet. Take that hele, little hommy, you should have just taken that hell. But now, like I said, the free be over there. Yo. You got your friends gassing you up. You let you let you, you let your home, You let your little cheer leading section gass you up. That's what you did. You you look, you should have left that alone. All that I forgot. You are alta, you are high power man. You can't

letting no little girl come at you. You should have. Listen, you better learn some judo. Brother, Just take that hell, little hommy, as someone right now who is bona fide, absolutely the father of a teenager. Listen, take the oh and she live in my house. My teenagers live in my house. I got with sense enough to know sometimes you gotta take that hell. Just just just just just just keep just hold that hell, buddy, and live to fight another day. You understand what I'm saying. This is

this we gotta learn the teenage. When you're dealing with teenage, you just gotta wait for the opportune time because their kids they're gonna say something stupid. You know what I'm saying. They ain't got the wisdom you got. You just gotta, but you can't play on their field, buddy. They feel this the end of that you can't play on. They feel that you that's an away game, buddy, You just visiting on end, and that they live in it. Y'all.

Lead them kids alone. They're listening to everybody. Leave them kids alone, which leads me to lesson number two. A Like I said, lesson number two is really like, don't let your friends gass you up. You know, because when they gass you up, you do to a which is you attempt to clap back. And and when you clapped back, that was the softest I ain't never like that was so your clap back was so lame. I can't believe

that's your email dress bro. Like fam, if you're gonna try to take you need to bring your A game. And the problem is this is the refer to step number one. Your A game is still see game. To them, they better than you. You are outgunned and out man. Don't you clap back. Don't clap it them. That's the

number two. Don't clap back, bro, because it ain't gonna ever be as strong as there's this dumb, dumb clap back, which brings me to the greatest lesson of all this which is less than number three, especially coming out of somebody who's such Here's here's the thing I've said. I feel like the last few episodes, I've been saying this a succeists will always reveal their cards when you stunt, and when you try to stunt too hard, you try

to show off, you try to flex, you're trying to shine. Inevitably, it will be your demise. You will eventually snitch on yourself. You're gonna be so hard, you're gonna be so big and bad. You're gonna drop a pen. You're gonna be such a g you sold you so much of a boss. You're gonna share your location. Listen, these kids out here hungry, the streets is starving. You're gonna stunt so hard, yo, two dollar Roly. You know what I'm saying. You at

this party, you outside, you know what I'm saying. You shine and you got all the hole nigs is gonna run up on you just because you shine it yo, yo Yo stunting, it's gonna be your demise. You are going to eventually dry snitch. I saw this, TikTok uh, yeah, be on, TikTok shut up. I saw this TikTok A little earlier about love Homie was doing this skit about when your manager asked you to stay late, stay late for work. Manager come in, and of course they're both

him right. So manager comes in and says, hey, just what I want to see. He's like, I ain't staying well, bro, like, not even one hour. He goes, I don't even like the job I got. Now, it's not my fault you ain't. It's it's not my fault. You ain't schedule enough people here. I'm leaving at three thirty gone. Managers say, oh, man, I thought you was about your paper and never mind. Dude was like, I am about my paper. He goes, well, I mean you're not about your paper. You stay get

this extra paper. Man, You ain't you won't stay no hour. I stay two hours, you won't stay four hours. I stay all day? All right, I'll sign you up. Get your paper. I got my paper. You just look, you played yourself yourself. I'm saying, you're trying to start up. No, I'm about my paper. Now you work at six extra hours. Listen, you gonna play yourself. You can't listen. You stunt too hard.

You are going to eventually dry snitch on yourself. Why you think them old school mafia dudes, why they played it low all the time? That why why was they weren't flashy? They played it very low because you when

you flashy, you get caught. It's that simple. You You you start being flashy when you're done, You understand what I'm saying Like that, Look, you will eventually play yourself because you're gonna get You're gonna get You're gonna get too You're gonna start believing your own height too much. Get lazy. Your boy got lazy. Try to stunt too hard. Put that pizza box and then try to make a joke about it. These are not recycled pizza boxes. Pizza box at the location of his had his, I had his,

had the trapouts, had the trapouts address Nick Thinker. We're right here, he told the post. He told twelve were right here our video though, let's in front of the whole internet. Bro, you played yourself trying to stunt. You played yourself. Then Gretta listened. This is what I'm saying. Here's the dagger, here's the this is what I keep trying to tell y'all. Y'all better lead them kids alone

because the dagger was Gretta goes. You see what happens when you don't recycle this man facing rape, largists and human traffickers. She gave with the well you should have recycled. Leave them kids alone. Okay, you don't want to smoke with them teenagers on the internet. Congratulations, you played yourself. Now, if you follow these four simple rules that your boy propped and gave you all love politics, maybe, just maybe you might avoid playing yourself in the year of our

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