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Grits and Eggs Podcast

Episode 122 - Justin Scott

17 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What reflections does Justin Scott share about his upbringing?

5.009 - 29.191 Unknown

Yeah, yo. Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirtest soul with a dirty mouth. Might need orbit. Miss thing things on me like a nigga Norbit. Had to refuse them cause my bitch no rest future. Shit gorgeous. As I dab my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead.

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Tell them we gonna get this money till my pockets morbid. Remember living in apartments. Now we playing All right.

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37.72 - 59.324 Deante’ Kyle

Welcome back to the Grizzly Nails Podcast. We don't ever do no intros. I don't even know why we're doing this today. But we had to do this. We had the business to take care of first. So we just got to do it. I'm your host, Deontay Kyle. Who's behind the camera? We are here with a very special guest today. We have pulled him directly off the TikTok page. TV screen.

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59.344 - 65.85 Deante’ Kyle

We pulled them right through the phone and placed them in the chair. You know what I'm saying? So where are you recording these videos at?

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Just in my house. This is my apartment.

67.833 - 73.018 Deante’ Kyle

That's it. And you done created that backdrop. That's just your special effect. You know what I'm saying?

73.078 - 74.86 Justin Scott

Yeah, show it.

74.88 - 77.523 Deante’ Kyle

I've never seen you from the waist down. You know what I'm saying?

Chapter 2: How does Justin Scott describe his relationship with writing?

77.543 - 78.884 Deante’ Kyle

I've only seen you from chest up.

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79.004 - 80.486 Justin Scott

I think I've stood up in only two videos.

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80.646 - 88.435 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah, I see them too. We got the incredible Justin Scott in the building today, man. What's going on, Justin?

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88.455 - 90.418 Justin Scott

We good. We cold. But we good, though.

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90.639 - 93.243 Deante’ Kyle

It is cold. It's definitely cold. But you came here from Chicago.

93.484 - 106.723 Justin Scott

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I don't know why they wasn't protesting the cold up there either. You know what I'm saying? Like, if it get cold in Atlanta, we be outside taking to the city. Like this? Whoa. You talking? Yeah.

107.465 - 108.507 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah, you good.

109.408 - 114.498 Justin Scott

But yeah, yeah, nah. When I first went to Chicago, I wanted them to protest the cold too. I thought we should have been took a stand on that.

114.819 - 119.408 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah, we just was looking at something that I think they said Lake Michigan was frozen, right?

Chapter 3: What insights does Justin offer about selfhood and identity?

333.565 - 355.937 Justin Scott

Like, I mean, I couldn't get out of a homeschool. So the idea of just growing up in the neighborhood was just the whole thing. Family's like real big and preaching, but everybody already suspect that. And it was already true. Family's real big and preaching. I mean, like, I think like dad's a minister, granddad owned a church. I mean, grandma opened the church after granddad died, right?

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355.957 - 368.382 Justin Scott

Like they just loved that kind of thing. But mostly I've always been into like, into writing real heavy, real heavy. And like, that's kind of been like the main field of it all, right? Like a lot of people will go like, oh, I just make videos, but really it's just writing.

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368.362 - 389.853 Justin Scott

right like yeah your sub stack is crazy yeah I've been required to write my whole life though punishment writing talking my mom like me still writing she upselling me I'm writing about that too like it was like that real bad but I will say help me get my acumen together So I became very, I was required to have literacy just to maintain a relationship with my folks growing up.

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390.314 - 410.805 Justin Scott

And that was very different from a lot of other people growing up that I was just around, for real. So I would be at school with a dictionary in my book bag because I needed to know five more words today or I wasn't talking to my mom with a good mood here, stuff like that. So that's really the main thing. I ended up going to Chicago after college. I went to Clark Atlanta.

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410.785 - 436.725 Justin Scott

but yeah because i just i just want more opportunity want to see more of the world because i have been in the atlanta suburb area my whole life but yeah that's really the main thing just writing uh and honestly honestly being fed up with stuff yeah i mean the world is i'll be like it it really is a lot going on and sometimes like like i've had some of these pieces for for years and i'll just sit on them and be like i could have always showed this to somebody let's just try to show this to somebody

436.705 - 438.228 Justin Scott

Let's just try in the way I know how to try.

438.569 - 438.79 Unknown

Yeah.

439.291 - 446.907 Justin Scott

And, you know, we just ended up here like that. But that's really what it was about, though, I would say. My mom's real serious on the ability to read and write.

447.188 - 460.989 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah. I got that same thing. My mom and my grandma are big on that. Like, acronyms was like... Or what is it? What is that? What's that game? Anagrams? Is that what it is? It's like where you take a big word and you find all the small words within it.

Chapter 4: How does Justin Scott view the impact of societal structures on personal identity?

756.431 - 773.702 Deante’ Kyle

And like, you know, get with people and like, and talk to people because I was interested in things they were talking about. But I also felt like some of the perspectives were like very narrow. And I feel like I see that a lot with you where like you've widened the perspective on things so much, but you also have provided so much language around these things where it's like,

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774.863 - 786.118 Deante’ Kyle

People haven't, I've never heard anybody talk about selfhood. You know what I mean? I've only heard people describe themselves in events or in adjectives, not in like just a complete list of self.

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786.138 - 801.898 Justin Scott

I'm just here. I am. You know what I'm saying? That junk is hard. And like, for me, I get where you're coming from with isolation because I dealt with a lot of invisibility growing up. See, like now, now I have good parents, right? And this is, this is hard for them to understand, but good parents can produce structural neglect all the time. That don't mean they knew how to hold me all the time.

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802.759 - 819.436 Justin Scott

They didn't know how to make it through every emotion. But they sure was good though. But it's just one of those types of things where in that type of invisibility, you got to be able to see yourself in places that other people not going to see you in. It's real hard. A lot of people not willing to stand in the mirror like that. They willing for the mirror to speak to them, right?

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819.476 - 834.355 Justin Scott

Mirror get all the authority. And when I'm saying that, I like, you know, some people will go like, like, oh, we talking about real glass, but I'm just talking about your mom. I'm talking about your dad. I'm talking about anybody who was speaking to you. If you saw yourself in that little moment, then that might have been the reflection for you. Right?

834.495 - 837.902 Justin Scott

And if that reflection had authority, well, I mean.

837.922 - 839.204 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah, it comes tenfold.

839.244 - 839.725 Justin Scott

You gone.

839.826 - 847.921 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah. Because now you live in whatever their mind of you, however they see you, it ends up being how you see yourself.

Chapter 5: What insights are shared about the limitations of AI in relation to human capabilities?

3602.775 - 3603.516 Justin Scott

It's a T-mail.

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3604.637 - 3608.721 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah. Hold on. Is that the largest unit of storage? Nah, it's just a really large one.

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3608.921 - 3609.242 Justin Scott

Yeah.

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3609.262 - 3623.276 Deante’ Kyle

It's really large. Yeah, yeah. Because I'm telling you, bro, like, you can't quantify the amount of, like, information that we retain. And it comes out in the oddest ways because oftentimes it just needs a trigger, which for me is just, like, hitting a tab.

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Chapter 6: How does the discussion address the concept of trust in systems versus humans?

3623.316 - 3645.109 Deante’ Kyle

Like, boom, back to this. And, like... The amount of effort that they put into replicating this thing when it comes to things like, you know, AI, when it comes to things like data centers popping up everything or even just trying to replicate it in everyday life and tasks, it's like... It's not necessarily to assist the human. It's to compete with the human.

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3645.45 - 3655.14 Justin Scott

Oh, this is the thing. I believe that systems as a whole are designed to replace human. They replace the human. Right. Like because the one thing about about people is that people require trust.

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Chapter 7: What are the implications of systemic violence and its impact on communities?

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Systems don't require.

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3656.682 - 3662.068 Deante’ Kyle

Yeah. But people think you have to do to get trust from a computer is click trust. Yeah.

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3662.408 - 3662.748 Justin Scott

Yeah.

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3663.069 - 3664.17 Deante’ Kyle

It's not that easy with us.

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3664.15 - 3679.028 Justin Scott

Right, but because it's not that easy, but also because we're not willing to do the work, right, to build trust amongst each other, right, that's why the system continues to expand because we offload, like, basically, like, unworked trust, right, onto the system to try to handle for us.

3679.228 - 3691.002 Justin Scott

And even when we're talking about, like, you know, they're trying to replace, like, the human mind and stuff like that with, like, with machines and things like this, people don't understand that there is no beam that fires out of your eyes to see the world. Your brain is rendering the world.

3690.982 - 3691.663 Deante’ Kyle

Absolutely.

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Everything.

3692.685 - 3693.065 Deante’ Kyle

Everything.

Chapter 8: How does the conversation conclude regarding the need for narrative control and community engagement?

3709.109 - 3727.134 Justin Scott

It's real strict like that. But that's why a lot of these models and simulations, people don't understand why they ask for facial and all this stuff, all these videos to change. It's because they are trying to render the world. Like how we render the world. The exact same thing. And this is one of those things where people don't understand. There is no one place that we call world.

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3727.194 - 3733.706 Justin Scott

Let's say even in this room where we're four people. There's four different worlds going on right now. Absolutely. It's not one. It's just four.

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3733.966 - 3734.648 Unknown

Yeah.

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3734.728 - 3742.092 Justin Scott

And if we wanted to coordinate, I have to respect the fact there are other worlds going on. Yeah. But if I just wanted to pretend there was one consensus... No.

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3742.973 - 3765.236 Deante’ Kyle

No. Not a thing. Because there's also like a lifetime of experiences that are just meeting here. Yeah. You know what I mean? Through all of our experiences and emotional outputs and inputs and just like information gathered and information like retained. I mean, it all comes into one place and we just have to accept that shit. Not for real. You know what I mean?

3765.256 - 3790.26 Deante’ Kyle

Like we have to accept that that's the interaction. I think a thing that's interesting to me when we talk about like systems and things like that especially now at the height of it i would love to hear how you feel about um the whole ice situation going on in minnesota um especially like you know not so much of the the the racial component but more so the systemic component of it because i think

3791.185 - 3800.976 Deante’ Kyle

I think we all have like a really good grip on what it is racially. I think for me, the easiest part is to identify with the fact that they shot a white woman in the face.

3801.256 - 3801.477 Unknown

Right.

3801.757 - 3804.18 Deante’ Kyle

And then they shot a white man 10 times.

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