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Ep. 21 - When History Repeats: French Revolution & Today's Economic Fault Lines · 4DAFAM

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How you feeling today, brother? Pretty good, man. You know, just did a full
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work shift, waiting on the truck at Meineke.
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Yeah, man. You go in them joints without an appointment, they will have you there all damn day.
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I ordered a pizza, sitting there and ate pizza with like two of the people that
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was in there waiting on their cars.
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See, that's just ridiculous. Yep.
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Absolutely ridiculous i understand but at
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that point just say you don't accept walk-ins you know
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instead of just having somebody spending their whole day there well
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since it's a fleet vehicle you know they had to call get approval oh
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my god and i'm just i'm telling the dude i was like hey it's approved
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up to 250 so at least do the
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diagnostic correct because i mean i already knew what it was but i'm
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like at least do the diagnostic so when you reach out to them you've already
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you already got it right because the diagnostic only
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150 right yeah it's fixed
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now though so yeah yeah that that's the
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good part but man it's been like the majority of
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your day up in that joint shit about five and a half hours aggravates yep man
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i would be beside myself i ain't even gonna lie man so what you want to get
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into today brother so today we're going to talk about the French Revolution
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and the parallels as to what we're seeing today,
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as we were saying, from a financial aspect and.
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You know, how it started and what's going on here currently in the United States. Mm.
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Sort of like history repeats itself. Oh, man. All day, every day.
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Wow. All right. Well, let's get into it.
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All right. So like my brother was saying, we want to we want to attack this.
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I mean, because there are parallels we can make as far as like the fighting goes.
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But my personal opinion, I don't think it's ever going to progress to that level,
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at least not here in the United States, but the pure economic cause of the French Revolution.
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So what we wanted to focus on
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is how those absolutely correlate to what we're seeing today in the U.S.
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Economy, not so much the political, which there are political parallels as well.
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But we want to focus on how it correlates with economic standards for today. All right. So.
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Of course, it's France because it's the French Revolution.
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But basically, there was the first and second estates, which is the clergy and
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the nobility, the monarchs and the religious leaders basically took the majority of the land.
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They took the majority of the wealth. And then you had the third estate,
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which is everyone else, the working class and what they called,
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quote unquote, the peasants.
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And basically, the top two categories,
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the clergy and the nobility, they had a overwhelming majority of the wealth,
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while that third tier, the working class and the peasants basically had nothing.
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They were struggling to eat, struggling to survive.
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The rich got richer while the poor got poorer. And in France at that time,
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the true definition of the rich get rich and the poor get poor.
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I mean, what they said that most of them just spending on bread consumed almost
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90% of a worker's daily wage. Correct. Think about that.
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Couldn't afford to eat. Average person now with a decent job making $200, $250 a day.
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Imagine 90% of that going to bread. Yeah.
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We're fighting. yeah get the strap here here
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here's here's a a really sobering
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fact in five to ten years if a family makes a hundred and fifty k you will no
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longer be considered middle class at that point You will be considered poverty level. Yeah.
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Making a hundred and fifty K. That's the trajectory that we're on.
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In this country when it comes to our economic policies and how the value inflation,
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to put it another way, continues to rise while wages remain stagnant.
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So anyway, the French bourgeois were educated and productive, but they felt burdened,
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squeezed by the lack of lack of support.
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So it was the rising cost of housing, the rising cost of bread,
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food, just your basic necessities. And this didn't just happen in a day.
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It took years to progress to the fighting levels.
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But because by the time they started fighting, I mean, the country was already. Yeah.
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I mean, just bankrupt because they were still paying for so many different wars.
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Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. And France was nearly bankrupt from
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funding or helping to fund the American Revolution.
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They spent money on that.
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OK, they spend money on on the American Revolution. They help fund that war.
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And of course, politicians will always tell you that they have political reasons.
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But again, they were ignoring their people.
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They were basically being derelict
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in their duties to help the french people the working class while the clergy
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and the nobility they were eating good they were living good saying but we needed
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to help the americans for this that and the other but everyone else was suffering
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and something else from the first and second estates they weren't paying any taxes Correct.
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Like nothing. You look in different places online.
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So depending on how you Google and research, it'll say something like they were exempt from most taxes.
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And then you find somewhere else that they just were like, nope,
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we ain't paying taxes at all.
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So the working class carried the financial weight of the country as a whole.
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Which, if you can't see the parallels between that and the economic state that we're in today,
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you just don't want to see it So here's something that I found While not legally
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exempt, talking about current U.S.
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Modern parallels is a debate over the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations
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using loopholes and offshore accounts to pay a fraction of their income and
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taxes Leaving the middle and working class to carry the burden All day And I'm
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going to take it a step further It's basically the middle class Because if you're
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poverty stricken You don't have any money to pay taxes.
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If you're the ultra wealthy, the corporations, you get the loopholes and the
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tax breaks and the tax cuts so you don't pay, which basically leaves the burden on the middle class.
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So what am I saying here?
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If you're ultra wealthy, if you're a corporation, yeah, you support the Republicans
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because you think they're there that their tax cuts help you.
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If you're poverty stricken you're with the democrats because you're like their
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policies help us because they're going to take this burden off our plate if you're in the middle,
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you're kind of stuck holding the bag regardless of who's in power everybody
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and the thing is is for the middle class the way you were raised your morals
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and and how you feel about the world determine whether or not you're gonna go
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to bat correct for this side correct or you're gonna go to bat for this side. Correct.
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As far as the middle class is concerned, it becomes more of a moral where you
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fall morally rather than economically
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because you're stuck in the middle regardless of who's in power.
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You're basically Malcolm in the middle. It doesn't change for you.
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See, I guess for me, I know for you as well, I don't give a damn about sitting
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in these rooms with people that have six or seven zeros behind their bank account.
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I mean, if I meet you, I shake your hand like a man and that's that.
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I'm more concerned with helping the person who doesn't have what I have.
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So it always amazes me to see someone that makes the type of money I make or
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you make or less than we make just riding with the rich folks. Correct. I just.
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It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense.
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It doesn't make sense at all. And it never has. Let's be clear.
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And it never will. It never has.
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Well, yeah, it never will. And it never will. At least not to me. It never will.
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All right. So let's talk about some institutional distrust. So by 1789,
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the French public had lost faith in the monarchy and the church,
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which is what we were saying.
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And how that directly correlates is basically Americans have lost trust in Congress.
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They've lost trust in media.
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They've lost trust in the Supreme Court. So just those parallels, again,
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they're there And I'm not saying that we're going to take up arms Even though
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some will say that that's exactly what we need to do But I'm not going to go
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as far as to say that we're going to take up arms in America And overthrow the aristocracy,
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to put that But I think it's clear to see that we are at a breaking point We're
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at a boiling point and something Definitely needs to happen We need to have
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a revolution Of a different sort Not so much a.
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A physical fighting revolution, but we need to have a revolution of ideas, so to speak.
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So going to what you said previously, the king actually tried to implement fiscal
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reform in 1789 to save the country from bankruptcy.
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But the aristocratic courts blocked everything and just refused to give up the tax free privilege.
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And then we look at today, congressional gridlock, meaningful financial reform
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is constantly stalled, corporate lobbying, special interest groups,
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and they're incentivized to keep the system broken.
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Because, I mean, why would you give up?
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I think I may have told you this story years ago when I was still like part
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time driving Uber every once in a while. And this was 2008.
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20, no, 2019. And I took a lady to the airport and she was a lobbyist for a
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pharmaceutical company flying back to Canada.
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And she had come into town and she was a Republican too.
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She was a real nice lady, but she told me some stuff in that car that just blew my mind.
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And I remember immediately thinking to myself, you shouldn't even be here.
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Don't ever come back because you basically just came here to disrupt everything
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and dip out that's her job but that's her just as nice as she could be yeah
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to sow chaos but her job right is to sow chaos and cause a disruption,
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and i i think and like i said we're we're going through this pretty quickly
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we're not getting into a lot of the political aspects of this but i think it
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needs to be stated like how much power that the clergy actually had during all of this.
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And they were a driving factor.
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And it's ironic because you would think that the clergy would be on the side
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of the poor people, but they weren't.
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They were also with the monarchs as far as hoarding all the wealth,
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hoarding the resources, hoarding the food, and really leaving the peasant working
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class people to basically struggle.
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And the parallel I want to make today is when you listen to these evangelicals
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and when you listen to these Christian nationalists, it's the exact same thing today. They want to.
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Oh, man. Pretend. I mean, I'm sorry. I just don't have a better word for it,
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but they want to pretend like they're so religious and there are so much.
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What's the term? People use Bible thumpers, but it's like, but you,
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you live contrary to the Bible.
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You say all the things You say Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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God, God, God But your actions are
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the exact opposite You're doing exactly opposite of what the Bible teaches us
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to do So that's also a parallel that I want to make Is that the clergy versus
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the evangelicals in this country who, again,
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really are all about just hoarding wealth and resources, not so much about spreading
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the word of God or living according,
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excuse me, according to the word of God.
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So when you and I think about religion, we look at it where religion is your way of life.
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It's who you are. And this is just my opinion.
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Well, opinion of many others too, I'm sure.
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When you choose that path or you're called to walk that path, it's not a job.
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It's who you become. It's a way of life. Yes. It is who you become.
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You see it with monks all the time.
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They become what they're practicing.
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With these evangelicals, when I hear people say, I can't believe this is happening.
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Really? then you don't know history.
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It happens all the time. But for a lot of these evangelicals, it's a job.
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It's not their way of, it's not, yeah, they pray over their food.
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They pray before they go to bed. They thank God when they wake up in the morning.
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That's as far as they go. And they preach the word on Sunday, but you don't live it.
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You're not living it at all. And we clearly see it. Now you and I grew up with
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a lot of people that lived it.
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Truly lived it. But now you and I know about a bunch of people who say they live it and they don't.
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And it's, it's, it's so interesting. I mean, because it, it actually started
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like the evangelical class supporting Republicans.
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It actually started. Yes, exactly.
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The Pat Roberts and all of those type of guys, when it, it became less about.
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Like you said, spreading the word of God and more about gaining political power.
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It was abortion in the late seventies. That's when they shifted their focus to abortion.
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Yeah. It is.
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That's also maybe a parallel that we should draw one of these days is talk about
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how the evangelicals basically invaded politics and like sunk their hooks in.
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And now they're so intertwined with the Republican Party that I don't know if
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they can actually be removed and the Republican Party still exists to this point,
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which is which is why they won't talk about Trump.
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Everyone knows that Trump is not a Christian.
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Trump is probably the least religious president that we've had in modern times.
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But they sink their hook.
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They got their hook so into them and into the Republican Party that it it's a.
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It would it would it would basically be them setting all of their finances on
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fire for for lack of a better word, if they were to.
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Abandon the Republican Party. I mean, because like you were saying,
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it's more of a hustle than it is anything else.
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It's absolutely not about spreading the word.
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So to get back to the French Revolution.
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So one of the reasons that the fighting escalated, why it started is because
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they actually didn't have a voting system.
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So if, if, if we want to put a, a positive spin, a positive outlook on,
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and, and why I'm saying like, we won't progress to the level that they progress
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is because of our voting system.
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Whether you believe we're going to continue to have fair elections.
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That's a conversation for another day. But theoretically,
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our votes are supposed to keep us from getting to the point where we actually
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have to start pulling straps and attacking the elites, the bourgeois class.
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So with all of that being said, vote them out.
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If we don't want a French Revolution, vote them out.
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With the voting, I think commoners were what, 98%. Mm-hmm.
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98%. Because the system obviously was heavily rigged.
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How in the hell did the clergy and nobility outvote the commoners 2-1 when 98%
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of the population were common?
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Mathematically, you can't even make that make sense. Unless you do a massive voter suppression,
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which is exactly what the rule, or not the rule,
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What the plan is for the Republicans today is to just do a massive voter suppression,
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which is exactly exactly how they plan on stealing the next election.
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All of this voter fraud talk, all of this stealing the machines out of Atlanta, it's all a tactic.
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What they really want to do is suppress the vote so only a limited amount of
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people get to vote, thus making them the victors is actually not far from what Putin does in Russia.
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You limit the amount of people that can vote and then you say, I won.
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And frustrate the others. Yeah. They just throw their hands up and be like,
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to hell with it. Yeah, yeah.
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You won because 50% of the country didn't vote. that's why you won,
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which is exactly what we're experiencing today.
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And the what do they call it? The state act that they're trying to say,
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say, say back. I'm sorry.
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The Save Act. Thank you. The Save Act.
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All of this voter ID stuff is all about voter suppression.
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You you you you you you you sow the seeds of distrust like we were talking about earlier.
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You make it seem like the vote is rigged. You keep lying about all of these illegals.
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And I know we're not supposed to use that term, but you keep screaming about these illegals voting.
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There is no proof, no evidence of that. There hasn't been forever, forever. Right.
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You keep talking about this voter ID.
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Everyone knows that you have to show your ID to vote.
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If you've ever voted, you know that you must show your ID.
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They verify your address. They do everything. Voting is hard.
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But they're scaring your damn driver's license now. Exactly.
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Voting is hard. It is not an easy process. You just can't walk up and cast a vote.
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But the problem is, is that when people hear people opposing the SAVE Act,
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those who are less informed or just care not to be informed with a simple Google
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search, don't understand. And I'll be I'll be honest with you.
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I don't think people truly understand how many people in this country don't
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have access to their birth certificate. career.
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To some folks, they might go, that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
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How do you not know where your social
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security card is, where your birth certificate is? How do you not have a.
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They haven't had to use their birth certificate ever. Correct.
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I remember a couple years back
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when two of the kids, I couldn't find their birth certificate. Correct.
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I had to drive. I had to pick a morning. I left here at six in the morning and drove to Crown Point.
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Had them printed out in Crown Point and drove back to Indiana to have them turned
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in for the sports physicals that they needed.
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Because I couldn't find them. Correct. Correct. And my ex-wife kept a filing
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cabinet with important documents in it.
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Now, think about someone that's in their 70s or 80s at this point.
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I don't know where that shit is. Exactly.
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Exactly. And if I do, I think it's over there. It's going to take me a week to find it. Yeah.
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If you don't travel outside of the country, you have no use for a passport.
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Man, I ain't worried about that shit. Yeah. You have no use for it. Yeah.
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If you're poor. You ain't got the money to get no passport. Take the money for a passport.
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So for people that say, well, it must be because you're trying to commit voter
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fraud. It's like, no, the history is just repeating itself.
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This is what happened to black folk when they tried to vote.
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You couldn't get the necessary paperwork. And then when you got the paperwork,
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they put in them stupid ass voting tests. Voting is a right. Right.
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Voting should be one of the easiest things we do as Americans,
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not one of the harder things we do as Americans.
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It's your right. In a true democracy, voting should be simple.
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Like in Europe, some countries, they shut down on election day.
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No one goes to work. No one does anything. You're voting.
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That's democracy. Not make it harder,
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make it easier That's what the focus should be on Is making it easier for people
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to vote Not making it harder But because they have no policy.
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They have no issues to actually run on. The only way that they can stay in power.
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Retain power is by rigging the system by using voter suppression.
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So I know we weren't going to talk about politics, but I want to mention something.
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Go ahead, bro. Get into it. That is right in line with what you're talking about.
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So by 1792, they had passed certain laws that allowed everybody to vote in France.
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But they made voting public so i
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could see who voted for who and if you voted for
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the wrong person based on what was what side of the of
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the coin you were on you risked going
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before the guillotine because of who you voted for voter turnout
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went below 10 by 17 made people
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scared to vote why would i show up to vote if i'm gonna hit the get the
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guillotine right y'all got it you win yeah
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which is exactly what you were just talking about yeah we
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just do it in different ways correct because we can't like
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ice you go out rising towns you go
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out threatening certain communities we get people are gonna start getting mowed
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down because then people are gonna say oh hold on now my government is overstepped
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which why the entire country hasn't already said correct this government is
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over correct it's beyond correct and as i mentioned either last week or week before.
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There's a certain group of people that you and I grew up with that knew the
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government came to their town, government was going to get ran out.
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Hell, those people opening the doors. Correct.
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Especially in places like Indiana. Correct. You know, it's.
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Steve Bannon flat out said a couple of weeks ago, maybe a week ago,
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that they're going to have ICE agents at voting polls.
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One, that's illegal.
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100% illegal.
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Because we're going to start snatching brown people out the line. Correct.
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Correct. Right. What you were just saying, though, as a way to suppress the
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vote is to just instill that fear and make it that people don't show up to vote.
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Thus, we win by default.
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Yeah, because our guys get to go vote easy peasy and we're making it super tough
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or we're making it a and an adventure for everyone else to go vote.
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It's like Jumanji. Like Jumanji.
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I hear playing Jumanji. Where you going to vote? I'm going to play Jumanji.
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Right, right, right. I might be back in two hours. I might not. All good.
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All right, bro. So anything else you want to talk about as it relates to the
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French Revolution? You want to talk about some of those political parallels? No, I think we're good.
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All right, cool, cool, cool. All right. Well, with that being said,
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we're going to slide right into our next topic, which is current events.
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Oh, man. So for my current event and you and I were discussing this before we started recording,
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I want to talk about this ridiculous circus that happened in Congress earlier
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this week with the supposed attorney general Pamela Joe Bondi.
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The twice-divorced Pamela Jo Bondi, the Christian family values.
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My bad. No, go ahead, bro. My bad, dog. Look, I was talking about life.
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No, no, no, no, it's all good.
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So for those who are not aware of the attorney general's duties,
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the attorney general works for the people.
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She is supposed to be the top law enforcement for the people.
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She does not work for the president.
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No attorney general works for the president.
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No attorney general is supposed to be loyal to the president.
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They're supposed to be loyal to the Constitution and to the rule of law.
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These are the checks and balances that keeps a president honest,
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or at least supposed to keep a president honest.
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This circus that happened at this hearing, and I'm telling you,
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it was one of the hardest things to watch.
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Every time they asked a question, she would just obfuscate and start talking
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about something completely different.
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And the issue is.
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If you or I were to get up there and behave in that manner in front of Congress,
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we would have been locked in a cell.
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We cannot talk about equal justice applied to all and look at that clown show and and and go, wait.
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So she was not taken out in handcuffs. She is not being held in contempt.
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She's not being asked to resign from her post immediately it it was it was just so.
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Like infuriating and shocking at the
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same time because it's just like you're not even trying to be coy about where
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your loyalties lie and and this is what the justice system has devolved into
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and it's really really sad to see it's it's sad and it's scary i mean I mean,
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because we're almost we're almost at the point where the president is a dictator.
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We're almost there. We're we're I'm telling you, we're a stone's throw away from it.
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When you have the legal system, when you have the top, the FBI cash retail,
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you don't work for the president.
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Pam Bondi, Attorney General, you don't work for the president.
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You guys are there to keep people in line, regardless of their political affiliation.
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Not to do the president's bidding. And we have lost that in America.
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That's my current event, bro.
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So I could have used my current event as a rant.
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Because I think it goes either way. So I want to talk about the FAA abruptly
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closing the airspace over El Paso.
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So when it first happened, you think to yourself, what the hell does the FAA do?
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Then you find out that Sean Duffy basically tells people, well,
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we need to shut it down due to.
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Cartel drone issues. Sean Duffy from the real world fame.
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Fame? Well, whatever. But yeah.
30:22
So they used a weapon, a laser, to shoot down what they thought,
30:30
excuse my language, was a fucking drone.
30:35
It was a damn party balloon. So the Pentagon didn't know.
30:43
The White House did not, look, we don't like Donald Trump, but can you imagine
30:48
being the president sitting in a room and somebody tells you, hey, so, hey, Mr.
30:54
President, so the president says, hey, so what's going on in El Paso?
30:57
Well, Mr. President, here's what happened.
30:59
And then they explain to the president everything I just said.
31:02
How do you as the president right then and there not go, all of you are fired?
31:08
Like they said the head of the FAA was like, I'm sorry, they did what?
31:13
Because those lasers can blind the pilots.
31:16
Dude, they tell you not to even use those laser pointers from the ground. It's a felony. Right.
31:24
Back in the day, as a huge wrestling fan, especially in the 90s,
31:28
people used to shine some stupid pins on the wrestlers.
31:31
It is a felony now.
31:35
If you do that at a show, they kick you, they arrest you. Because it is temporary blindness.
31:42
But, bro, these are government officials. Mm-hmm.
31:47
Mm hmm. Mm hmm. That thought a party balloon was a cartel drone.
31:54
So they shut airspace down.
31:58
Medevac. Now, thankfully, it only lasted, what, 12, 13 hours.
32:02
Still a long time. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, think about how many how many flights
32:06
are being delayed and whatnot.
32:07
Well, Paso isn't isn't that supposed to be like one of the largest hubs for
32:12
freight and whatnot moving in and out. So think about all of that freight that
32:15
now is delayed because of this stupidity.
32:19
Yeah. Yeah. I liken this to a kid with a new toy.
32:25
I just want to see what this toy can do. 23rd largest airspace.
32:32
Oh, here's my favorite. They fired a multimillion dollar laser at a birthday balloon.
32:39
That part, that part.
32:42
I think, I think.
32:45
And man, I kind of want to have this conversation offline because I also think
32:50
that this is something we can get into on one of the podcasts.
32:52
But I think it needs to be stated just how much money between ICE and this debacle,
33:01
the blowing up the boats in the Caribbean, the raid on Venezuela.
33:07
I think we need to start putting a monetary value on all of these things.
33:15
And and again, this is how they are controlling the media.
33:18
The media won't talk about how much money all of these things are costing the American taxpayers.
33:26
Even sending people to El Salvador, we have to pay for that.
33:31
And when I say we, I mean we, the taxpayers, we pay for those planes to go to El Salvador.
33:38
We pay that government to house said, quote unquote, immigrants.
33:44
We are paying for all of this. Well, remember back when I can't say that.
33:52
I can't say that. Well, old boy in Texas, the governor was just sending planes to people.
33:57
I know what you wanted to say. Don't say it, but I know exactly what you wanted to say.
34:03
The Jasmine Crockett insult. Yeah. Just sending people all. Yeah.
34:07
Just load a plane and send it. Yeah.
34:09
But then your grid system goes down and you ain't got no money to fix it.
34:13
Right. But you just spent a million and a half. Right.
34:16
To ship 30 to 40 people to Chicago.
34:19
Right. And guess what Chicago did? They fed them. Correct. Closed them.
34:22
And so did Martha's Vineyard when they did it to Martha's Vineyard.
34:25
They housed them. Yep. They helped them get jobs.
34:29
Yep. They did what true Christians are supposed to do. Damn,
34:32
you just took the words right out of my mouth. Yep.
34:35
Yep. You're exactly right. Couldn't
34:38
agree more. They did exactly what true Christians are supposed to do.
34:43
Feed the poor. Help the stranger.
34:46
100% right. Cannot agree with you more on that, bro.
34:51
So, man, it, I'm going to just leave it there. But, but, but, but yeah.
34:58
Yeah, yeah, bro. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's.
35:02
If we used to be admired around the world, if there was a time where American
35:10
exceptionalism was a thing, we're not there anymore.
35:14
We're laughingstocks around the world. So there are new jokes going around, mostly through Europe.
35:21
What borders on stupidity?
35:23
America. Canada and Mexico.
35:26
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
35:32
I don't think people understand. Trump has been yelling for years that we're
35:36
a laughingstock under Joe Biden, Obama.
35:39
But he's made us the real laughingstock.
35:43
Correct. Not only are we a laughingstock, we don't have the respect that we used to have.
35:48
Correct. I think people respect you, dog. Correct. You're 79.
35:52
You shit yourself. Correct.
35:55
And look, I'm not trying to say that because there are a lot of older people
36:02
out there that have this issue. Correct.
36:04
But you sit around, claim to be this strong alpha male. Correct.
36:10
You're not. You can't even say sorry when you clearly make a mistake. That's not strength.
36:16
That's weakness. That's pure weakness. That's childish.
36:19
And you've always been that way. Yeah. You've always been unable.
36:23
Yeah. Yeah. To correct himself. And now what sucks for all of us,
36:28
the difference from 2016 to now is he had legit people on his payroll in 2016.
36:36
That would correct him. That were correcting and were career politicians.
36:39
Now, most of us dislike career politicians. I get that.
36:43
But those were people that had been through the fire. Correct.
36:47
Now, it's like he won the lottery and has just invited everybody back from home.
36:53
Hey, y'all want a job? Hey, y'all want a job?
36:56
Back when Eminem formed D12. Hey, y'all want to rap? Come on.
37:00
All the homies. Just come rap.
37:02
Don't know shit about government. And only one of them can rap.
37:04
Yeah. Don't know shit about government, but come on and get this top government position.
37:10
The FBI has no business being head of the FBI and also, I hope he gets brought up on charges as well.
37:18
And he knows it. You know who else knew it?
37:20
And it took him a while. He should have never accepted the position. Bongino.
37:24
Bongino was like, I'm not qualified for this shit. Right. Right.
37:30
Yeah. Now, I still don't like him. Correct. But at least he was man enough to
37:34
say, I'm not qualified to do this.
37:36
Right. This is not my place. Right. Let me go back to my podcast. Right.
37:41
Right. No, I feel you. I feel you. I feel you. Anything else you want to cover
37:45
as far as the current event?
37:46
Still, we got Cash App in there running the FBI. Sure do.
37:50
Yes, that's his name. Yeah, his name is Cash App.
37:53
That is 100% correct. It might not be the way you pronounce it in this country.
37:58
That's the way we pronouncing it. It's cash out. It's cash out. Right.
38:02
Through that merchandise with dollar bill signs on and you the damn head of the FBI.
38:08
To when Alex Purdy was killed to talk about how you can't bring a gun to a protest. Which is wild.
38:19
Completely wild. First of all, go do an investigation before you say anything.
38:25
But second of all, then why didn't y'all have that same smoke for Kyle Rittenhouse?
38:31
Who actually killed people. Who was actually underage and shouldn't even be
38:35
allowed. Across state lines.
38:37
And brought it across state lines. Dropped off by his mama. Right.
38:41
But y'all didn't have no smoke for him. It was cool when he did it.
38:44
But Alex Pretty ain't supposed. Yeah.
38:48
Again, totally unqualified. Shouldn't have your position.
38:52
You are a political hack. And I hope you get rung up on charges just like Pam
38:58
Bondi, just like Stephen Miller.
39:00
Hope all of you guys get rung up on charts.
39:03
All right. With that being said, we're going to move into our favorite.
39:09
Segment, my favorite segment, our rant about a random topic.
39:15
You want me to just go with it, bro? Yeah, yeah. All right, so...
39:20
I have been, well, I shouldn't say like have been like, because it just came out.
39:26
I watched the first couple of episodes of Cross, the Aldous Hodge.
39:31
Oh, I didn't know it had started. I thought you were.
39:33
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. It started. So I watched the first couple
39:37
of episodes of Cross. Okay.
39:40
And my one critique so far, this isn't a spoiler, but last year him and his boy Sam had beef. Yeah.
39:51
This episode is just a few episodes.
39:54
I mean, this season is already a few episodes in. They already have beef.
39:57
I'm sick of that already.
40:00
You do not have to make a male relationship toxic.
40:07
Bro, how many times have you heard? We've known each other, and I'm sorry to step on it.
40:11
No, step on it. We are 50 years old. We have known each other for 40, almost 45 years.
40:21
Ever. Well, no. With the exception of having discussions. We have discussions. We disagree on things.
40:28
Yeah. We don't have beef. What the?
40:30
We don't have beef. I'm so sick. It's like this. This is not what a typical male relationship is.
40:39
No. You don't have beef. And then when when when when when shit get thick.
40:45
Hey, man, look, I need you. I love you. No, no.
40:49
We just don't have beef like that exactly.
40:55
You know if we
40:58
have disagreements like you said we talk them out and we handle them it don't
41:02
escalate to a point where man ain't talking to you man mad at you man don't
41:07
talk to me for three months and then kids right right and I'm just I'm so sick of that already like,
41:16
stop the male toxic relationship,
41:19
please, please stop it.
41:22
It's annoying. It's not realistic.
41:25
With that being said, I think I'm going to go back and read some of James Patterson's Alex Cross novels.
41:33
You know how people always say that the books are better than the movies.
41:39
So I think I want to go back and read like Kiss the Girls. I want to go back
41:43
and read Along Came a Spider.
41:47
And I mean, not just James Patterson. I think I'm going to go read some John
41:50
Grisham books as well. I think I want to read the Pelican Brief.
41:54
I'd like to read the Fern just to see like what they what they left out of the movies, so to speak.
42:03
I think Hollywood dropped the ball on Alex Cross.
42:07
I thought that it was was flowing smooth. Long, you know, Kiss the Girls, Long Camer's Piper.
42:13
Like, yo, these movies are great. and they said Tyler Perry what am I doing.
42:18
Totally miscast should have never even got close to being Alex Cross now popularity
42:25
the movie itself is not bad to me,
42:29
it's just that there are scenes like the train scene is wonderful but like him
42:35
diving across the room shooting shotgun I remember stopped watching the first
42:39
time I watched it I turned it off I had to go back and watch it later no one
42:43
buys him as a tough guy Well,
42:44
no one shoots a shotgun with the
42:47
pump right next to your damn chest while you're diving across the room.
42:51
Yeah. But no, nobody bought him as a tough guy. Yeah.
42:55
Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. You're right. They kept that going.
42:59
You're right. They did miss the boat. They did drop the ball by casting Tyler Perry as Alex Cross.
43:05
One of the most egregious miscasts probably in cinematic history, in my opinion.
43:10
Yeah. I'm with you on that. But yeah, that's my word.
43:15
I think I'm going to go back and read some of those old spy novels just to see, like.
43:21
I missed because like the Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks, Angels and Demons,
43:27
there are so many details in those books that are not in the movies. And I get it. You can't.
43:33
Well, if you're Christopher Nolan, you can, but you can't make a 12 hour movie.
43:37
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so I get it that you have to leave something
43:41
on the cutting room floor, as they say.
43:44
But yeah, I think I think I'm gonna go back and read those books.
43:47
Well, in the back in the day when stuff was left on the cutting room floor,
43:51
we would always get that special edition DVD with three or four discs so you
43:56
can get a chance to see what's going on.
43:57
Kind of like they did with Justice League. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:03
That's my work, bro. What do you want to write about? So I want to talk about
44:06
something that many probably would expect me to talk about.
44:09
It doesn't get talked about enough. I want to talk about the backlog in the
44:13
state of Indiana for rape and sexual assault kicks. Oh, wow.
44:19
So in Indiana, we have always been known to have one of the biggest backlogs in the country.
44:26
Currently, they identify between 5,000 to 6,000 tests. In Marion County,
44:31
we have most of them that are just untested.
44:34
Most of it is lack of mandatory testing laws.
44:37
So there are states around us that have mandatory testing laws where the money has to be used to.
44:44
I mean, because who the hell wants to... Why is a rape kit sitting on the shelf
44:48
for 12 years? Is there a statute of limitations?
44:52
On rape, yes. I don't know the exact what it is now. I know in certain states
44:56
in the past, it was like seven years.
44:58
But of course, if that rape was done in the commission of other crimes,
45:03
those other crimes will still be there as well.
45:05
So if someone, you know, unfortunately was raped and murdered,
45:08
for example, obviously murder has no statute of limitations.
45:11
So you're always going to get tried for the homicide if they find it.
45:16
So one of the reasons I'm bringing this up, mostly because of the DNA.
45:20
But I feel like a light needs to be shined on just how many sexual assaults
45:26
happen in this state, in this country in general, in this state.
45:30
But recently there was a former town official from Atlanta, Indiana,
45:35
who was arrested for a 1992 homicide. He was arrested four days ago. Oh, wow.
45:42
For a 1992 homicide.
45:44
So the reason I bring that up is because you've got rape kits sitting on the
45:49
shelves. Some of these women were murdered.
45:51
You just got murderers out there living 20, 25, 30 years out in the,
45:56
you know, just out and about not being held accountable.
46:00
Is this the story where they were digging up
46:03
his backyard like recently no no
46:05
that's that's that's a different story okay okay yeah
46:08
they did yeah they found more bones okay and out there in westfield okay all
46:13
right okay okay there you go but they found the body of tony bledsoe back in
46:17
2018 and well i'm sorry they identified who he was in 2018 so i remember this
46:24
yeah it took from 90 Yeah, that name.
46:26
I remember this. It went from 92 to 2018 to determine who he was. Yes.
46:31
And from 2018 to four days ago to arrest the former town official from Atlanta.
46:36
Yes. So he's facing the rest of his life in jail. So...
46:41
Certain legislation has been brought forward to try to get long-term funding
46:46
for it, but it just hasn't passed yet.
46:49
So there are several groups out there where you can donate to.
46:53
And these are mostly women-led who then raise money and give it to the state
46:59
so they can run those labs.
47:01
So for anybody listening, get a pen.
47:04
Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault. The Assault Survivors Kits,
47:09
which is the Assistance League of Indiana.
47:11
And the Joyful Heart Foundation to help end the backlog.
47:15
Look up these organizations on Google. Donate and help where you can so we can
47:20
get these backlogs filled. All right. Cool, cool, cool.
47:24
That's all you got? That's it? All right, cool. All right, y'all.
47:27
With that being said, we're going to roll right into our next segment,
47:31
five on the blackhand side, our black movie review.
47:36
And this week we chose dead
47:41
presidents go ahead my brother tell us
47:44
what this movie was about all right so dead presidents
47:47
was released in 1995 directed by
47:50
the hughes brothers had a budget of 10 million made 24.1 domestically but it
47:57
grossed 43 million worldwide which is considered a that's that's a huge for
48:02
that for that time yes especially for the actors i'm about Not to mention that we're in the movie.
48:07
So, Lorenz Tate played Anthony Curtis. Mm-hmm.
48:12
Keith David played Kirby. Mm-hmm. Chris Tucker was Skip. Mm-hmm.
48:18
Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar Wright.
48:20
I always struggle with pronouncing the term.
48:22
Evil Dave Chappelle as Cleon. Mm-hmm. Freddy Rodriguez as Jose. Yes, sir. Crazy.
48:29
Clifton Powell as Cuddy. Yep. And Terrence Howard, which I completely,
48:34
I don't know how, always forget that he's in this movie.
48:37
Yeah, he had a sucker role, though. Yeah, he played. To me, he had a sucker
48:39
role. Yeah, he played cowboy. He got his ass whooped. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
48:43
So he played a cowboy. Yeah. So the plot of this film, it's a tragedy split in three acts.
48:50
So the Bronx before the war, the reality of the Vietnam War, and a bleak homecoming.
48:56
So it follows Lorenz Tate's character, Anthony Curtis, who bypasses college to go to the Marines.
49:02
When he returned home, him and his friends find their sacrifices basically meant
49:07
nothing, like a lot of folks did around this country during that time.
49:10
Correct. They're denied the opportunity, disrespected by the community,
49:13
as a lot of veterans were, black or white, and it left to struggle in poverty.
49:19
The desperation drives them to
49:21
plot a heist of an armored truck carrying discarded, untraceable currency.
49:27
The day of presidents, which tragically spirals out of control. Mm-hmm.
49:33
So when this movie first came out, I was not expecting it to be about this.
49:40
Man, I love this movie, man.
49:42
No, it is a really good movie. I was expecting it to be more of like a blaxploitation,
49:50
uptown Saturday night type movie is what I was expecting.
49:56
And then when I actually watched the movie, I was like, whoa, this movie is deep.
50:01
Powerful. And actually more of a tragedy than anything else.
50:06
And it sort of goes back to what we were saying last week about how black soldiers
50:13
retreated when they returned from World War I, World War II,
50:16
and even the Civil War for that matter.
50:18
How you went and fought for your country and now you come back and you got nothing.
50:25
Back to the ghetto. Back to being poverty stricken. Thanks but no thanks. Yeah.
50:31
Yeah. Thank you for your service. And I get the hell out of here. And it is really sad.
50:37
And just the struggles that him and his lady was going through.
50:42
It was just like, wow, like.
50:47
I mean, I'm not saying robbing and stealing is ever acceptable.
50:54
They basically left these dudes with no choice.
50:57
I mean, like they were put in impossible situations.
51:02
The most dangerous thing you
51:04
can do is leave a man or woman painted in the corner with nothing else.
51:09
And they feel like they have to fight their way out of it. Correct. There's no telling.
51:14
Correct. Correct. And in a in
51:16
a perfect world, him and all of his buddies would have been taken care of.
51:22
They would have had good jobs where they could support their families.
51:26
They could have lived nice, decent, excuse me, middle class lives when they returned from the war.
51:33
Instead, they were all right back in the same situation that they were actually
51:38
worse than when they left for war. it's really just.
51:46
Critique like you always say
51:49
how they treated Vietnam vets and stuff
51:52
when they returned to the world it is is is yeah it's just it's just really
51:56
sad and then the whole part with Cuddy I could not stand like just that whole
52:05
storyline bro and I I don't I've been trying to figure out,
52:12
was Cuddy actually a pimp or was Cuddy a trick and his woman was out there selling ass.
52:21
I'm still kind of like up in the air on that I can't quite,
52:27
get like was Cuddy just the drug dealer and he was smashing no girl and paying
52:34
her or was he a pimp and no girl was working for him the whole time,
52:38
no no no I think you had it right the first time.
52:40
I think Cuddy was a trick. She might have been out there selling.
52:43
See, and I'm glad you said that because my problem with that whole dynamic was,
52:49
clearly Cuddy got bread. Yeah.
52:51
Yeah, I took care of her. Here, I gave you this for the little girl. Yeah.
52:56
So when I come back, so you out here tricking with this dude.
53:00
Right. You ain't came up at all. Yeah. We still broke. Right. We still poor. Right.
53:06
Make that make sense. That was my problem. And of course, you and I both know
53:10
that happens all over the place, even now.
53:13
Like people get involved and say, you know, messing with this person when they
53:18
have a relationship at home and they messing with this person and they got a
53:22
lot of money, but they never come up. Yeah.
53:25
So what was you doing? Right. You're triggering it some way,
53:28
somehow. So somebody rich giving you this bread.
53:32
Ain't put nothing back into the crib right so not
53:35
only is bad enough that i'm i left i left
53:38
our community to go fight for this country thinking that
53:42
i'm about to come back home a war hero and you know
53:45
bring some respect to my family but while
53:48
i'm gone you sleeping with this dude right got
53:51
him around my daughter got him around my daughter and you ain't got
53:54
nothing to show for right and all
53:58
you do is emasculate this dude every chance he get
54:01
calling him broke every chance
54:04
he get you know we need to get out of this raggedy apartment
54:07
we need to do this we need to do that so why didn't cuddy put
54:10
you up somewhere else while i was gone right right yeah
54:14
it's it's it's um yeah it's
54:19
like i said this this this movie was not what i expected it
54:22
was actually kind of sad to me
54:25
i think his survival yeah is
54:28
what made it sad yeah there's movies like this people like him die yeah the
54:33
sad part was old girl dying yeah her sister yeah him surviving and then having
54:41
to live the hell of going to prison going to depend for the rest of your life yeah.
54:47
Yeah. Yeah. I we we we must talk about like one of the best soundtracks.
54:53
If you like old school, listen to that a couple of weeks.
54:56
If you like old school music, this is one of the best soundtracks that you can get.
55:02
Go and get the dead presidents or download. I guess people don't buy sleeves anymore.
55:07
Download the dead president soundtrack. If you like old school,
55:12
this soundtrack is off the chain. Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone.
55:18
Harold Melvin and the Blue Note. No skips. Al Green. No skips.
55:23
No skips on this soundtrack.
55:25
We didn't talk about Baking Woodbine.
55:28
You always call him. The evil Dave Chappelle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
55:31
We didn't. I liked his character when they were at war.
55:37
Yeah. When they got back to the real world, it was like.
55:40
Somebody hit him upside the head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he be, he be, he.
55:49
Cleon, Cleon became, he was so hard when they were out there in the jungle.
55:55
But when they got back to the real world, he was just like a punk.
55:59
It was just like, oh, bro, like what, what happened to you?
56:03
And, and I mean, just the fact that, like, we know a lot of vets came back and
56:09
got strung out on drugs. was the Chris Tucker character came back and was strung
56:14
out on drugs and everything.
56:16
I mean, because the word changes a man.
56:19
You know what I'm saying? So it's, yeah, it was, it was, it's sad,
56:25
but at the same time, we see that and we go, yeah, this is, this is actually
56:32
like the harsh reality though.
56:35
Not the robbery part but all of the other circumstances like this is exactly
56:40
what these guys had to go through when they came back from the war.
56:44
So I want to make a parallel on something real quick between Glory and their presence.
56:51
So the heroic legacy of the 54th compared to the ultimate betrayal of people
56:59
like Anthony coming back home.
57:00
So the 54th because they die a lot of them die in a lot of them.
57:05
Were preserved as fighters for all time for the future of Black men.
57:12
Man, this is what, man, they died fighting.
57:15
They used to be slaves. They were slaves, then they were educated,
57:18
then they died fighting for the country.
57:21
For people like Anthony who go
57:24
to war only to come home and be treated the same way the 54th was being.
57:29
Maybe not as harsh, but being treated the same way, except economically, they were deprived.
57:38
You know what I'm saying? So to me, that's the ultimate betrayal. Yeah. Of the... Yeah.
57:45
Yeah. The fact that you you left us out here with no no social mobility,
57:55
no economic mobility to the point where we have to commit crimes now just in
58:00
order to survive is is. Yeah.
58:04
Yeah. Like I like like I said, it's sad, but it's actually a harsh reality.
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Growing up, once I got old enough to understand everything, I was so thankful
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that my father never made it to Vietnam.
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Never made it further than Germany. Yeah. For whatever reason or another. Yeah.
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He saw some crazy shit over there, too, because, you know, so he had flown from
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Vietnam to Germany, you know, and whatnot.
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But, you know, I'm very thankful because, hell, I might not be sitting here.
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I mean, we, we, after Iraq, that's when like PTSD really became like a public
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issue, but no one ever talks about the PTSD that these guys experienced after.
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Nah, which was probably worse.
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Well, they dealt with Agent Orange and everything else. Yeah.
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All types of. Yeah. You fighting on somebody else's soil. Yeah.
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Clearly were more skilled.
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Yeah. Than you were. Yeah. They knew terrain.
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Yeah. That environment. It don't matter how many weapons you have. Yeah.
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They just lay back and pick your law. Well, they built tunnels.
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They had them damn tunnels. Yeah. That we couldn't navigate.
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Yeah. Yeah. So.
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Uh. I guess it's time to rate this thing.
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I'm going all in, brother. I push all my chips in the middle of the table.
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I'm going to go four and a half out of five.
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I can't give it a perfect score.
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I know you're probably thinking, we just had this conversation.
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We were talking about raises.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's different, though. It is. It is. So...
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I guess this is just me. I feel like they should have got away.
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Had they got away, I think it would have probably been perfect.
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Or at least one of them should have got away.
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But the fact that everybody got caught up for either kill, kind of just, yeah, yeah.
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For what they went through, I feel like somebody should have been able to benefit from it.
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Nobody got to benefit from it. And it was just like, man, y'all got the plan
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in place and it didn't go exactly according to plan, but close enough.
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And everybody still got caught up.
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So who directed Menace to Society? They did. Yeah. Does anybody ever get away?
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As soon as you said that shit, I started thinking like, wait a minute.
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These guys kill off everybody.
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I guess I never looked at it like that. Bro, Lorenz Tate went to jail in both of their movies. Yeah.
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Because remember, that quick flash on Mr. Society was handcuffed.
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Yeah. He went to jail in both of their movies. Yeah.
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Yeah, you're right, bro. I did enjoy when he threw the chair at the judge, though.
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I felt that. And the judge, wasn't the judge Martin Sheen? Martin Sheen, yeah. I'm sorry.
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Mr. Estevez. Mr. Estevez, right. Yeah.
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Who basically scolded him. Yeah, because he was also a Marine veteran.
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Basically told him that same I'm a soldier too and I never did this and I never... Nigga, you white.
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Yeah. You didn't have to. Yeah.
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It's the inability to see things from more than one angle.
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Yeah. For me, that always just...
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Going to talk about it here shortly, like with the SAVE Act.
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And we talked about it briefly a few minutes ago.
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Not everybody has access to certain documents to make their lives a little easier.
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Right. We talked about how the GI Bill was disproportionately administered.
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And some of these folks didn't even apply for the GI Bill because they knew
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that they were going to get denied.
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It's, it's,
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For all of the people who say systemic racism doesn't exist,
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this movie puts it on display.
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For all of the people who say that there is no history of racism in America,
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this type of movie puts it on display.
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When you draw the parallels to how the 54 was treated, draw the parallels to
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the soldiers, the black soldiers from World War I and World War II.
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You draw the parallels to the black soldiers from Vietnam.
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That right there is your history of racism in America.
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That is the link to your systemic racism and why black people have not been
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able to prosper like their white counterparts, for lack of a better term.
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Yeah, you were a soldier, Mr.
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Judge, but you probably came back and went back to your cushy middle class family.
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You went to college. You were able to get those grants and loans to pay for
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law school where I couldn't get shit.
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I couldn't even get a job. Even just what we talked about previously, the equity.
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Yeah. You know, your family, you can always borrow money, you know,
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on the equity on your home.
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Yeah. Whereas most of those those black soldiers coming back for more.
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Nothing. They were forced into apartments. that if you have any way to do it.
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Return to nothing. Return to squalor. Return to poverty.
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All right, y'all. So you're going to give it five high fives on the black-hand
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side? You know why I'm going to do it?
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Because we talked about the soundtrack, too. I think the soundtrack is awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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All right, y'all. So that's our five on the black-hand side movie review.
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If you want to listen to a great soundtrack, download the soundtrack for Dear Presidents.
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If you want to watch a good movie, Go watch Dead Presidents This is a good movie
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Alright y'all, now we're going to move Into our closing monologue We'll be right back.
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Gee, the floor is yours. Appreciate it. So we are told that we have to choose.
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We're told that we can either have an election that is secure or an election that is free.
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That we must choose between a locked door and an open one. But the Save Act
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acts as a much deeper question.
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Who is an American and how much do they have to prove it to be heard?
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To some, this is a common sense shield, a way to ensure the foundation of our democracy.
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Is built on solid, verified ground. To others, it is a fence too high,
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leaving behind the student, the senior, and the marginalized.
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But perhaps the tragedy isn't the policy itself.
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It's in the fact that we no longer trust one another to guard the gate.
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If we lose faith in the process, we lose the republic.
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Whether this act is a safeguard or a barrier isn't just a matter of law.
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It's a reflection of our fear, and a democracy built on fear cannot indefinitely stand.
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The ballot is a piece of paper, yes, but it is the only thing that makes us equal.
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Let's make sure that we don't break the scale trying to weigh it.
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All right, I'm with you, bro. All right, y'all, that concludes episode 21 of for the fam podcast,
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leave it there. And we'll holler at y'all next time. Peace.