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Episode 4 - Designing Wakanda · 4DAFAM

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What up what up what up what's going on man Chilling, chilling, chilling.
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Six mil, keeping it trill. It's your boy, KG.
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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of For The Fam Podcast.
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So, got a question for you today, brother. Yes, sir.
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Interesting. At least I think it's interesting. One that requires some thought. Mm-hmm.
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If you could start your own country, a Wakanda or a Ramunda.
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How would you uh set it up what would
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your country be like your utopia so
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to speak i'll admit when you first mentioned it and we started talking about
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it on the phone it caught me off guard because i realized that there were some
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things that i thought i thought one way and it took me a second i had to step
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back saying oh okay well yep this is my country i need to figure out a way to
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protect, you know, the people in the country.
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But I mean, there's different, you know, you have to obviously have a system,
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you know, your values, what's your economy going to be based upon?
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What type of culture would you have? How will you defend yourself?
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And as far as immigration, are you an open border? Are you a closed border?
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What is the path to citizenship in your country? So it was interesting.
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It definitely was an interesting thing to try to put together.
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Yeah. Yeah. I agree. And I'm going to have to say the and excuse me for all
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of the throat clearing, y'all.
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The one that I struggle with the most, my internal conflict was the immigration piece.
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And we'll get into it as we go on. But my internal conflict came from.
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Just based on history. Mm-hmm.
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When we think of colonization, it was just like, I mean, y'all know where I'm going with this.
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Do I want them to come to my country or not? I mean, because history has shown
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us it doesn't end well for the natives.
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So that was the one thing that I struggled back and forth with.
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But let's get into it, you know. Cool.
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Where do you want to start? So we got, you know, just the overall system itself.
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Like, how do you want it to operate from the top to the bottom?
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Are we electing a president? Do you have a council? So on and so forth.
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Let's start there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me, personally, I think I'm going to cherry
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pick from a lot of different successful nations.
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I can't have it both ways, but because it's mine, I'm going to have it both ways.
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I'm going to have sort of a monarchy and sort of democracy and some socialism.
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So what do I mean by all of that?
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I think we will have elections, but I think I would have the veto power.
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There are some things that just are non-negotiable. I don't think we'll have
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as many levels of government, for instance, like the U.S. have.
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I think there's too many levels of government, which makes things complicated
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and just more bureaucratic red tape that you have to deal with in order to get things done.
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But I do think that the people should have some say so.
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I agree. So. So, yeah, that's that's sort of how how mine would be structured,
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at least from that instance.
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So for mine, I've got three different sections.
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So I've got elders, people who are innovators in the society and community leaders
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chosen by merit. That's just that's just one section.
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And then we have a someone who is somewhat of a symbolic leader,
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like a head of state, and they're going to represent us globally.
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So they'll go out An ambassador, so to speak Right Okay So they'll go out and
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represent us And then as far as the citizens go Because this country And of
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course we'll get more into this as we go along.
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The citizens will vote on key issues to advance tech. So that way you don't
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have six hour waits in line. Everybody's verified.
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Everybody's whatever system we're using is verified. So we know the vote is
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legit. Does everybody get a vote? Yes.
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Your vote cannot be taken away. No. I agree with that 100%. Everybody gets a vote.
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Right. It cannot be taken away. I agree with that.
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I agree with that. But everyone gets a vote regardless of your history, background, etc.
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Everyone gets a vote. I agree with that. Now, I have to say,
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going forward, keep in mind, I am a Bible-fearing man.
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So a lot of my views are going to be somewhat based on the Ten Commandments
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and biblical scriptures.
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So that's why I was saying I struggled with the immigration.
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Because biblically you have to let people come in we gotta think like this too we're two people who,
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i believe that we're both level-headed so when we talk about some of the things
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we're going to talk about we're not just saying these things were going to happen
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they are going to happen oh for sure so we're not going to say hey here's health
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care just kidding it's only for certain people.
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It is what it is. It is what it is. If we say healthcare is free to the citizens
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of the country, it just is what it is.
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It is what it is. And that cannot be taken away.
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Before we get too deep in the woods.
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To the listeners, we may take the whole hour and just discuss this topic.
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Or if we have time, we may get into some of the other segments,
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but just want to put it out there.
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We did not forget about the other segments.
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We'll try and get to them. But if we don't, then we'll just stay on this topic
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and maybe even do a part two to this.
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So depending on how this conversation goes, how long it goes,
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we will try and get to some other segments.
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But this is a good one. It may just take up like a whole hour, maybe even longer.
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I mean, we'll just see how the conversation progresses.
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All right. So now that we got that out of the way.
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So what's the next one you want to get deep into? So I think the core values.
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So you have to have core values, you know, as far as your citizens go.
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So for me, I have four different bullet points, so to speak.
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Every citizen is treated with dignity. So basically unity and respect.
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Community first. Wealth and resources are shared, so no one is left behind.
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Call me a socialist if you want. It is what it is.
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Innovation for the people. Technology serves citizens, not the corporations.
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So when the technology is put out there.
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If the corporations used, let's say, $1.50 per citizen to make it,
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we're not going to turn around and charge people $200 a month to use it.
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Right. You're going to get it at a low rate. Right. If not free.
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Right. And diplomacy over war.
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Definitely. So the first option is negotiation, but our defense is unmatched.
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Oh, yes. So. Oh, yes. The first option, obviously, is negotiation.
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We'll get more into that in some of the other sections of the country,
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but it's always the first option.
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And once I explain it, I think you'll understand why it is the first option. Yeah.
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So my core values, like I said, I'm a Bible-fearing man.
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So my core values, our belief system is going to be based upon the Ten Commandments.
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Point blank period in the story, which I mean, when you cut through all of the
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layers, the American value system is based on the Ten Commandments.
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So I'm not trying to model or make another America, but it just is what it is at this point.
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So, yes, I my my my core system, believe will be the Ten Commandments as far
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as like getting into the people and the economy and all of that kind of stuff. I agree.
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Socialism, free health care across the board, period.
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No preexisting conditions. None of that stuff matter. You're getting free health care. It is a right.
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You will not lose your vote. No matter what you've done, you will not lose your vote.
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But there is a caveat to that, and we'll get into that as we go along. Also.
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You're getting at least two years of college free. Now,
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if you want to extend your education beyond that, you want to get a master's
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or a doctorate or become an expert in your field, that would be on you, but there will not be,
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there'll be a cap on tuition. Let's put it like that.
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Your tuition will not rise like some of these colleges in America where your
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tuition now is unaffordable.
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So so so so those those
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are like some it and and i
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know we're going to get to the economy but it's next
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it's it's next okay then then then then i'll just
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i'll just transition into it so so with with my economic system is going to
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be loosely based on capitalism and when i say loosely i believe in a free market
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but there will not be a monopoly Also.
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Productivity will maintain a comparable level with wages For instance, here in America,
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since the 1960s, 1970s, productivity has increased exponentially While wages
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have remained stagnant or have seen little,
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and I emphasize the little growth Wages also have not kept up with inflation
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So there's going to be caps on the capitalism.
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The workers will always get a fair percentage of the profits.
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You can't do that. I can't. This is my country.
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Yeah, I can. So that's how it's going to work. So, yeah, that's just how I feel,
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you know, about like as far as economics at a base level,
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you know, and we can, as we get on, we'll start getting into how we're going
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to pay for all of this stuff as we get deeper into it.
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But, yeah, let me hear your economic plan.
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All right. So my country will be one of the leading global exporters.
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And one of these I stole from the state we live in now will be one of the leading
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exporters of things like soybeans, apples.
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Corn, our agriculture system, advanced farming technology, AI driven irrigation, vertical farming.
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And then, of course, drone assisted harvesting, which is what I mean,
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that's used now as well. So it's not like it's something new.
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Exporting of crops, funds, the universal wealth programs and the innovation.
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So as far as like you mentioned, tuition, I'm given two years, no tuition.
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Everybody is going to have an opportunity to have at minimum an associate's degree.
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And that exporting of those goods will help pay for that. our food is not weaponized.
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So instead, as an agricultural power, we promote peace and diplomacy with that.
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So we're not going to hold food over your head as a ways to.
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You know, let me move on before I change, get into a different subject.
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No national cuisine, but we will have festivals kind of based around our national
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exports like the soys, apples and more.
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So that'll be like part of our cultural identity so so
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so let me let me go back and say in
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my mind my country is in
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africa so it's it's
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funny because when i was doing this i never said it's yeah
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yeah everything i typed insinuated yeah
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oh yeah this is on the other side yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah i just want to say it for the record i want to make it clear
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that my country is in africa which means
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we will have a majority black population
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right so oh that come next that's the culture okay okay cool cool so as far
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as like our resources well we already know that africa is the most minimal minimal
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mineral rich continent so.
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We got minerals to export. Right. I mean, think about it now.
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The only reason why Africa as a continent isn't a global power is because.
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The Europeans, the Asians have come.
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There you go. They've come in and chopped up the land and they're the ones who
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are profiting from all the minerals instead of the natives, instead of the people,
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the indigenous people of Africa.
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So in my country, there's none of that.
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And in fact, you won't even own land.
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So for those wondering, if you if you want a quick history lesson,
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just Google the De Beers Corporation and the years and years of.
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I mean, I don't I don't even have to say, but just just it's a very interesting
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read to hear about the De Beers Corporation and the diamond mines in Africa. Right, right, right.
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So that's so that's one is we're going to have minerals and like the cobalt, for instance, right?
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How lithium batteries and cell phones and everything needs cobalt. That's only in Africa.
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So that country right now isn't profiting off of that precious mineral.
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But they should be so that will not be an issue in my country we're going to
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profit off of the land we're going to profit off of the minerals in the land
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so that's one export we're going to have but you were about to get in the culture
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so because there's something else i'm gonna tie into that culture part.
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So for culture, I got three bullet points, sound, dress, and food.
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So the sound, I just kind of put like an Afrobeat rhythm, an old school soul.
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That's kind of like our sound.
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Free expression without judgment as far as clothing goes.
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And as far as food, traditional African roots fuse with futuristic food technology.
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And it's basically our exports are kind of infused with some of those dishes.
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I didn't come up with, you know, corn.
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Oh, well. But you know what I'm saying. No, think about it. Think about it like this, right?
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We would have our own cuisine anyway had we not been brought here and not learned
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what a hamburger was, et cetera, et cetera.
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Chicken McNugget. You know what I'm saying? We'd have our own food anyway.
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Horchata. That's a West African drink.
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Taken from West Africa and brought
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to Latin America. Well, I got something else for you in terms of that.
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Capoeira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Brazilian in air quotes, is actually African in origin.
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Yeah. The African slaves, that was their way of learning how to defend themselves.
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And they incorporated the dance portion to fool the slave owners to think that
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they were just out there messing around and they're actually learning how to kick some ass.
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So yeah, that's also African. People didn't know that.
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But as far as the culture goes, that's also another part of my exports.
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Our music, our fashion sense, the way we dress, our slang, just our culture, period.
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Everyone tries to emulate our culture. Whether they admit it or not,
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they try and emulate our culture.
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So culture is definitely going to be part of the exports.
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Also, the NFL, majority black. Y'all coming with me.
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The NBA, majority black. Y'all coming with me.
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Baseball, not so much majority black.
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But when you consider how many Afro-Gatinas are in baseball.
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We can start our own baseball league too so culture,
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That's some of the stuff that we're going to export. Hey, look, we'll come play, y'all.
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Sell out tickets, you know, like a World Cup, almost. So we're going to dominate.
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We're going to dominate sports.
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We're going to dominate track and field. You know what I'm saying?
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We're going to dominate cultural music.
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All that's going to be part of our exports.
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So that's another way that we're going to make money. I think a lot of people
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forget, too, is one of the ways that you get those games, like the World Cup,
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the Olympics, and so on and so forth, is being accessible to the rest of the world.
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For sure. And showing that you can compete and host and actually be able to
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support all those hundreds of thousands of people that come to your country.
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Although a lot of countries have proven that they can't, they still get it.
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But ultimately, that's what it is. It should be, can you support these gangs? And tourism.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's Africa. It's beautiful.
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Yeah. It's tourism, right? So we're going to have tourism.
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Yes, you can come stay. But you're not going to stay. After your vacation,
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pack up your stuff. See you later. Bye.
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So the next step after culture is defense. Oh, yeah.
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So I had three bullet points on this one, too. This is where I get movie-ish.
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That's a new word. Advanced tech driven defense system with AI shields and drones. Mm-hmm.
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Diplomacy, obviously, always the first response. For sure.
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And the warriors that we have in place act as peacekeepers, not aggressors.
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Not soldiers, yeah. Right.
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So, yeah, basically, it's unmatched. So if you try to attack us, it's a wrap.
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If we attack you, it's a wrap. Yeah. So that's why we use diplomacy,
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because we don't want to go wiping nations out, nor do we want to conquer other
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nations. For sure. For sure.
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And displace people. Because once you displace people, you're creating more enemies.
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Well, yeah, you're creating more enemies. And you also have to spend your money
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to help relocate those people.
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Technically, you should. In today's society, you just say to hell with them.
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Let them starve and then tell them it's their fault.
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Yeah. But that's a whole nother story. Now, I'm with you as far as defense goes.
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And this may be getting ahead of ourselves, but I'm going to just have to say it.
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So, like, only the military in my country will have weapons, guns, etc.
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Only the military. Citizens are not allowed to own a gun in my country.
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But my Navy, my Air Force is going to be top notch.
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We'll see you coming before you even realize it.
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Because like I was alluding to earlier, we know what happens when those invaders come.
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We know what happens when those invaders come. So you're not coming.
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History has shown us never ends well for the natives.
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Which is why I don't understand why people want aliens to visit.
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Because it wouldn't end well for us.
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And we'll talk about aliens. Yes. Yeah. In a little while.
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Yeah. So, so, so yeah, I'm, I'm with you on that, that we will not actively
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start wars, but we will defend ourselves to the hilt if necessary.
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But diplomacy and peace is always the first option.
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War last and i mean very last after
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every other avenue has been exhausted so yeah
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i'm with you on that so now it's
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time for the most controversial of building your own country and it's the immigration
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policy so here's my my take on it because when people come to your country you
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want them to work you want them to be productive i do agree that people need
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when you come to the country,
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you should do it legally. I agree with that.
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For sure. 100%. Here's the problem with that.
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You know what? I want a better life for myself. Let me head north across the
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border and create a better life.
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But I don't have $20,000 for this process. So what do I do? Do I just shrug
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my shoulders and go back home?
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Or do I come across the border illegally? So here's my solution to that.
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We welcome all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers,
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anyone coming to the country to do good and legitimately be a part of the country
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will receive free job training and cultural orientation will be provided to help them integrate,
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to help them integrate into the system.
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Or what's the other word they use? Assimilate.
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OK, I got you. So you will be given an opportunity when you get here to go ahead
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and get a job or for job placement.
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The path to citizenship is you have a resident visa, you become a community
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member and then a full citizen.
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And that process takes five to seven years.
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You got deep in the woods on that, brother. I didn't even give it I gave it
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thought but not like detailed like that I'm gonna just try and keep it simple,
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You are welcome. Yeah. Everyone is welcome, but there are limits.
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So here's why I got so deep into it, because I feel that we don't address the
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reasoning why there are so many illegal immigrants, not just in this country,
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but in other countries. Right.
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Right. Because the process is difficult. Mm hmm. Yeah. I went to court today.
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Let's say, you know, what's today?
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The 14th, 17th. 17th. cool when's my court date February 3rd 2026 right what right right man I'm not.
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But that that goes back to what we were saying about the levels of government
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right and the red tape and how it needs to be simplified instead of,
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convoluted now keep this in mind what I'm saying because I got a couple more
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bullet points for my immigration policy this is set in stone no one that I mentioned
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in the first section can change any.
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No one. This is it. That's it. These are the rules. Period.
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So unless you plan a military coup where my advanced technology is going to
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snuff you out in 30 minutes, good luck.
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Contribution to community. So jobs are required. Volunteering is required.
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Most of the jobs that we help you get other than tech jobs, well not tech jobs
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but like welding and whatnot will be in the arts and or teaching.
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So you have to show your value to the community. Working and going home ain't enough.
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It's just not. You have to show that you want to be a part of the country.
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Visas will be enforced fairly, but no forcible deportation.
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And we all know what I mean by forcible deportation. And every immigrant,
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everybody has a right to a hearing and a chance to make their case.
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And only then will the next steps be put in place to deport them and help them
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reestablish themselves where we send them,
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not just to send them somewhere so they can sneak back six months later.
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No, no, no. You having trouble? Now, I can hear people now. I ain't spending
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my tax dollars on putting nobody up in Latin America. Okay.
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Then they're going to come back and I'm using air quotes. Take this so-called job that you wanted.
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Yeah. Picking raspberries that no American does.
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Well, and I feel you. And like, you're like way, way, way nicer than me.
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And I'm not saying I'm going to be like this.
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Man, I'm not even going to say it. I don't want to be like what we're experiencing
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today when it comes to immigration, but I will say that first,
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as far as like my Afro-Latinas, y'all welcome.
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Come on home because y'all shouldn't be where y'all at either.
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So y'all welcome. Y'all can come on back home and we can all just be one big happy family.
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Everybody else, yes, you're going to have to go through a process.
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Once you are approved, once you pass that process, you are expected to conduct
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yourself like everyone else.
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No exceptions, no exemptions. You are part of my country now.
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So you are one of us. So whatever our holidays are, those are your holidays now.
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Whatever our core values are, those are your core values now.
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Because we didn't draft you, you came here by choice.
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So you have to assimilate to our culture.
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You're us now. There is no, but I'm from Ireland. I'm Irish and I want to say,
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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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You go back home if you want to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and all of that. But here, we don't do St.
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Patrick's Day. So you don't want them to celebrate their culture? No.
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Oh, damn. No. You're one of us now.
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Or you can come as a tourist. You can come visit.
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Have fun. Two weeks. Bye-bye. Now. See you later. Bye. To people listening,
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I want y'all to understand something.
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Just like when you hear people make top 10 lists, top 20 lists of their greatest
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athletes and so on and so forth.
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It's their list These are our countries Right So Right I do disagree With what
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my brother just said About some things But again,
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It's his country That's right If I don't want to be in his country And say I'm
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Scottish And then you can go home Right Now I can obviously Nobody's gonna kick
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you in my door And tell me to take the Scottish flag down Off the wall in the
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living room But If you don't wanna be there Yeah.
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And don't be here. Come visit. We want you back. Yeah. Yeah.
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Come visit. Come visit. But no.
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And and and and here's why I'm saying that. Because those things lead to division.
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And I don't want division.
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There's there. See, the way I'm thinking it is, we're all one community.
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We're one group. We're one people.
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Once you become a citizen here, you're a citizen here.
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You're one of us now. We're welcoming you in our fold.
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You're in our arms. You're under our protection. You're us.
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If you didn't want to leave your country, then you shouldn't have left your country.
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It's kind of like going back to the indigenous tribes. You can't go from one
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tribe to the other one and change that tribe.
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You're part of us now. Yeah. And it's funny you just mentioned you had a saying
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because that comes next.
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National symbolism. Yeah. Yeah. Did you come? Did you have a flag?
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I don't I don't have a flag. I didn't I didn't think of a flag and and and all
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of that. And I mean, it is.
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I don't know. It's just it's just not something that I thought about at this point.
29:24
But but but yeah, it's just like and I know it sounds sort of dictatorial.
29:31
But again, we are level-headed people having a level-headed conversation.
29:37
What we're saying is going to happen is going to happen. It's going to happen.
29:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're going to know this before you decide
29:46
to come. And like you said, it's simple.
29:49
Then don't apply for citizenship in my country.
29:53
If you don't want to leave your other stuff behind, then just don't apply.
29:58
You can come visit. Visit 20, 30 times a year if you want to.
30:03
Yep, yep, yep. All that. You can come visit. But you cannot be a citizen.
30:07
I just don't want that division.
30:10
I don't want to, but I'm a Chinese American, but I'm a Irish American.
30:17
I'm a Scottish American because I think all of that just leads to segregation.
30:25
Why do this group have to pay taxes versus this group not having to pay taxes?
30:30
Everyone's getting. Well, I shouldn't say everyone is getting taxed at the same
30:33
rate, but there will be none of those corporate loopholes.
30:39
You're going to pay your pay your fair share of taxes. If you're in this bracket,
30:44
that's what you're going to pay. And it's going to be comparable.
30:47
It's going to be fair. You know what I'm saying? We're not going to raise taxes
30:50
on one class and lower taxes for the other class. No, we're not doing any of that.
30:56
So that's what I'm when I'm saying that I don't want your other cultures brought
31:01
here because we're one now.
31:05
Well, that's why I went so deep into the immigration policy,
31:07
because I think that there are so many people, especially in this country,
31:12
where never in the history of whatever word I'm thinking of have a group of rich people,
31:21
super rich people, convinced the former middle class that the reason that they
31:28
are no longer a middle class is because the poor people who can't afford to
31:33
live with a middle class. people live.
31:36
The reason that they are struggling. Yeah. Think about the logic of that. Yeah.
31:41
So us who we I guess we would be middle class. I mean, we grew up middle class.
31:47
Sure. We've maintained.
31:48
Sure. Some level of how we grew up. You know, the luxuries we had growing up,
31:53
we've maintained them with our families.
31:55
I would be an idiot to drive somewhere, say, on the east side of this city and
32:01
start blaming people over there
32:02
for the misfortunes of the city of Indianapolis. or the state of Indiana?
32:08
Well, yes and no.
32:10
And I say that to say this, because yes, we are middle class.
32:16
But when you're poverty, no fault of yours.
32:21
But when you are in poverty, I mean, let's just be real.
32:25
You don't have to pay as much. One, because you don't have it. Right.
32:30
When you're the super wealthy or upper,
32:33
you don't pay as much because of the
32:36
loopholes and the tax breaks paying less than
32:39
the people making thirteen thousand dollars a year so so
32:42
so to your point you know who ends up
32:45
paying the bulk of everything yeah we do the middle class
32:48
yeah but i'm not blaming them no no no no no yeah yeah facts facts facts facts
32:54
i'm not saying it's your father say if you can't afford to pay you can't afford
32:56
to pay yeah yeah but yeah the the way it's set up now is the brunt of everything
33:02
falls on the middle class And I know you got the ultra rich people who will say nonsense.
33:08
We pay more money in taxes because you got more.
33:11
Yeah, it's about percentages. Exactly.
33:13
You got more to give. You should pay more.
33:18
I call it. I don't even make sense.
33:21
It's just crazy to me. And I know this is about to sound silly to a lot of people.
33:25
But like you're telling me that if you had 20 million and you have to pay.
33:31
Million in taxes, that you can't make $12 million worth.
33:35
So therefore you're only going to pay $1 million in taxes. And then you go out,
33:40
spend $30 million, borrow money somewhere else, default on it,
33:45
or get forgiven for it, depending on what type of business you run.
33:49
All in the meantime, blaming poor people for the horrible decisions you just made.
33:57
You got $19 million, and you went and bought a $16 million house. Right. Right.
34:03
You know, it's funny. We always get blamed for having three hundred dollars
34:08
and they're spending two hundred on some shoes and they're 80.
34:12
No, no, no. You know who spends foolishly? Rich people. Yeah.
34:16
Rich people. I got a hundred million. I'm about to go buy a castle.
34:20
But how much castles cost this? And this would be a podcast that hopefully we
34:25
can do in the future when we talk about assessing value.
34:29
How do we assess value art being
34:33
one of them art being one of them right we will
34:37
we'll get into that yeah we'll get into that let's get let's get
34:39
back on point here so i had one i know you
34:42
just said you didn't you didn't go but man i i actually enjoyed doing
34:45
this yeah so so you made you made a flag yeah i
34:48
got national symbolism as as one of them so my flag colors
34:51
were gold black green and blue gold for
34:55
prosperity black for strength green for harmony blue
34:58
for peace my national animal is
35:01
a leopard representing intelligence and quiet strength you
35:05
went deep my motto goes back to something you said about 10 minutes ago one
35:10
light one people that's it yeah you went you went deep bro oh yeah man i enjoyed
35:17
that well well well well just going going going off the dome if i'm gonna have a national animal,
35:24
it's going to be the lion. I think lions are majestic.
35:27
So it'll be a lion and.
35:29
As far as color scheme goes, I don't know. I'd probably go with something,
35:34
some variation of the continent, green, black and red.
35:37
Maybe mix in some white, you know, something, something to that effect.
35:43
I know that's not original, but it is what it is.
35:46
Big deal. Those are the colors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we're going to rock with.
35:52
Yeah, I mean, that's what I got for that.
35:57
Cool. I think that wraps up that portion. I think that, like I said,
36:01
it was interesting when you brought it to my attention.
36:03
It kind of caught me off guard because we immediately started talking about
36:06
immigration right after you mentioned it.
36:08
I was like, damn, I need to put some thought into that.
36:11
Because I feel, but that's why I said that my policy is there.
36:17
It's written. It's there.
36:19
So next time we vote somebody else in or one of these elders or whatnot,
36:23
they can't come in and say, well, So out of my two to 200 people that work with
36:29
me, 100 are immigrants and that's just not acceptable.
36:33
No, you either accept it or you don't because they're not just here for no reason.
36:39
They follow the steps.
36:42
They're not taking money out of your pocket.
36:44
Everything that funds them and funds their training comes directly from our exports.
36:52
We're not taking your tax dollars and giving it, you know, to immigrants.
36:57
Of course, we're not doing that now, but there's so many people so stupid to
37:00
realize it. Right. But yeah. Yeah.
37:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and yeah, no, and I've kind of touched on like
37:08
taxes and I don't want to get deep in the woods, you know, because then people
37:12
like, what the hell are these guys talking about?
37:14
But yeah, I didn't do taxes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:17
But but how how we're going to pay for things, like I said, is we're going to
37:21
have a fair tax structure.
37:25
There's going to end. You can crunch numbers later. But if you make X amount, these are your taxes.
37:32
If you make this amount, these are your taxes. If you make this amount,
37:37
these are your taxes. Period.
37:40
Everybody. No loopholes. I'm going to use an example when it comes to flat amounts.
37:47
So here in the state of Indiana, your license plates for what you drive, $210.
37:53
For what I drive, $105. If the car's 30 years old, $62.
37:58
In Florida, how much I owe? $120. Don't matter what you drive.
38:03
Now, I'm just throwing that number. No, no, no. I feel you. I feel you.
38:07
It is what it is. Yeah. You drive a Lexus, $120.
38:10
Yeah. You drive a Kia, 120.
38:12
Drive a Ford F-150, 120. Yeah. It's just flat.
38:16
Yeah. I mean, you know it as well as I have. We've had cars like,
38:19
I remember when my brother bought way back in the day a car in Illinois.
38:23
And just across the border, eight miles into Indiana, and he had to pay all
38:29
the transfer fees and everything. He spent like $900.
38:34
Yep, facts. Facts. In 90 what? When did he buy that car?
38:38
Like 92, 93. Yeah. Which is crazy. Yeah.
38:43
Yeah. And I know we've spoken about this in the past, like as far as like paying a sales tax.
38:52
Then you get a state tax taken out of your income.
38:57
And you get a federal tax taken out of your income. Too many taxes.
39:03
One tax is what you're going to pay. You know, this is what you're going to
39:07
pay. There is no debating it.
39:10
If you start making more money and you move up, this is your level.
39:15
Yeah, that's what you're going to pay. And so on and so forth.
39:18
If you come down, you fall on some hard times.
39:21
Yeah. Hey, that's what you pay now. Cross the board It is not going to be all
39:26
this convoluted Mess Is what I like to call it Actually I like to call it something
39:31
else But I'm trying to watch my mouth.
39:36
Yeah it's just So that's why I was saying Some parts
39:39
of capitalism I would take And other parts I would ball up and throw In the
39:45
trash There will not be preferential treatment For millionaires Billionaires
39:52
etc Everyone is going to be treated on the same.
39:57
And what you pay is what you pay.
39:59
Period. No arguments.
40:02
None. I don't think I would have like a Congress or a Senate.
40:09
None of that. None of that is coming.
40:13
Yeah, it'll be it'll be just like, you know, like I said in the beginning,
40:18
you know, your community leaders chosen by married elders, you know,
40:22
people that actually know what the hell going on in the country.
40:24
But yet, no, putting a bunch of people and I got to worry about.
40:28
I don't know. I just don't agree with paying somebody one hundred seventy two
40:31
thousand dollars and they work like eight weeks.
40:33
And I mean, I get it as the population grows that you need more people to deal with people.
40:42
I get it, which is what the structure is supposed to be is, you know,
40:46
just a few people can't manage however many people are in America at this point,
40:51
what billion or whatever it's supposed to be. So I get it.
40:55
But at the same time, I think it just adds too many layers of confusion,
40:59
which is why we're at the point we are today where it seems like nothing changes
41:06
and nothing ever gets done,
41:09
especially to help the people.
41:12
When we first built our house up the street.
41:16
Day one move in and there was snow on the ground but you could tell that part
41:21
of the sidewalk was up and cracked,
41:26
heading to the neighbor's house we hadn't even slept one night in the house
41:30
yet and my sidewalk was already damaged.
41:33
Calling trying to get it figured out trying to get it figured out nobody could
41:36
get it figured out it took six months.
41:40
Approvals for somebody to come out with a jackhammer and
41:44
break up that what three foot
41:47
section of the sidewalk six months six
41:50
months because i remember being hot as hell outside when
41:54
they did it because we moved in in january home homeowners or
41:58
just the city or the uh the builders getting
42:01
with the city and so on and so forth it just wasn't important
42:04
so much red tape right it just wasn't
42:07
important to them even though i got
42:10
four kids in my house the neighbor got two kids in their
42:13
house right this lady just had a baby over here
42:16
this is a this is a health hazard right so people gonna be riding bikes
42:19
on the sidewalk even if it's even i know it was a cul-de-sac but
42:22
still yeah we don't want our kids in the middle of a cul-de-sac riding
42:25
bikes at two years two and three years old yeah so but
42:28
it took six months six months and probably
42:31
20 30 phone calls crazy to get
42:34
that fixed something that probably took them all
42:37
of what 30 minutes to do that i can't tell you
42:39
how bad i was about to call my pops and be like
42:42
hey can you come down here so we can break this right three foot
42:45
section right just fix it and then they might have fined you for that oh yeah
42:49
hell out there they probably would have tried to arrest me yeah yeah yeah public
42:55
property nuts so what what about what about crime where where's crime on your
42:59
list Was that one of the things you, because we haven't, we haven't mentioned crime.
43:02
I didn't because I believe that if you institute.
43:08
Things that we talked about. Because nobody wants to address why crime exists.
43:13
Nobody wants to address why certain things happen. Let's get into it.
43:16
So I believe that if you give everybody a fair and equal opportunity,
43:20
and I'm just going to say it, it don't matter who you are.
43:23
Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, it doesn't matter.
43:28
If you give people the opportunities, now there are going to be some people. For sure.
43:34
You'll never read the world of crime. But If you give people an opportunity.
43:41
Things like, you know, just random, you know, carjackings or burglaries and
43:47
robberies, why would I go rob a store? If you're content.
43:51
If I'm content and I have an equal opportunity. Yes, sir. I might not make as
43:55
much as my neighbor does. My neighbor might make a hundred grand. I might make 70.
43:59
But if I make like if I make a 70 grand and then my wife is making 50,
44:04
60, also 70, hell, a hundred thousand dollars.
44:08
We're okay. We're good. We're okay. So why, but if everyone has that opportunity. Yes.
44:14
And keep in mind, those that are
44:16
listening, we have not touched on mental health or any of those things.
44:20
Those things are assumed to be integrated into everything that we're doing.
44:24
We're not going to just leave people out the drive. Oh, absolutely not.
44:28
So, you know, it's, there's so much more we could have done.
44:32
We could talk three hours about it, especially him and I. We could talk three
44:35
hours about this. For sure. Sure.
44:38
So, you know, it's there's a lot more that goes into this. So for those saying,
44:42
well, well, how come you didn't talk about this or that?
44:44
It's because we didn't want to go too deep into the. No, no,
44:47
no. We want to keep it interesting. We don't want to bore people with the minute details.
44:52
And we just can't cover every issue on the spectrum.
44:56
But so, yeah, I agree with you 100 percent.
44:59
And I think we spoke about this recently that a lot of crimes are crimes of necessity.
45:05
So if everyone has enough and there are no have nots and I'm not naive,
45:12
some people are just knuckleheads.
45:15
Some people are going to do stupid stuff. I get that.
45:19
But generally speaking.
45:23
There are no have-nots, that would reduce crime a lot.
45:29
And I think that's something that's not spoken about here in America is the
45:34
reason we have so much crime is because there are so many people who are have-nots.
45:40
Poverty is such a issue. But you know how many people would disagree with you
45:44
right now? Oh, I know a lot would. And it's crazy.
45:47
I know a lot because they'll tell you that stupid ass pull yourself
45:50
up from your bootstrap line think about how many people you
45:53
and i grew up with that was just wild a lot
45:56
of them did it because they didn't have any structure they didn't have a job
45:58
they didn't have any path to the people that was always walking around asking
46:02
nothing to do right walking around asking for five dollars yeah i mean we know
46:08
the people we could probably rattle off five to ten people right now who was
46:12
just out there walking around You know,
46:14
being a minister to society, they had, like you said, there was nothing to do.
46:18
There's nothing for them to do. But if you had a good job to go to.
46:21
Right. Where you know I'm going to be compensated fairly.
46:25
I know I'm going to be able to go buy my family some food and we're going to
46:30
have clothes to wear and we got a nice home.
46:33
There is no need for me to go mess with somebody else. Think about how many
46:38
times you and I, whether it be together or with other people,
46:43
and jump in the car and go to the city.
46:45
Not batting eye. Go to Great America.
46:49
Go to the mall. Wherever. Go to the flea market out in Allison.
46:56
We ain't think twice about it. We know cats that hardly ever left our 13 block radio. For sure.
47:03
And still there to this day. To this day. Still there. But I know somebody's
47:07
out there saying, well, crime ain't just financial.
47:10
What about rape? What about murder?
47:14
Okay, well, like I said, you can never get rid of all crime.
47:18
So in my country, there are no jails.
47:23
If you get caught going, I mean, committing a crime, you're out.
47:27
We're going back to the 15th, 16th century. You're exiled.
47:32
Depending on your crime, could be a year, could be five years,
47:37
could be forever. But that's how I'm doing it.
47:40
You're gone. I just don't want you here.
47:43
Because when you go out, in my mind, in my mind, this place is so nice that
47:52
when you go out into the other countries, you're going, man, I done messed up.
47:56
Yeah, so I got to get back in and this time I'm going to act right.
48:00
If you're a repeat offender, yeah, then your exile is going to be doubled, whatever.
48:05
But yeah, no jail. You're just getting out because we don't want you here.
48:10
We don't want you here. We don't need it here.
48:13
We're trying to be a peaceful, loving community where everyone carries their own weight.
48:18
So if you want to be a knucklehead, You got to go. Now, I will say this in my country.
48:23
If you are a rapist or a murderer, you might get exiled to the cemetery.
48:30
Well, one thing I can't stand is somebody that has to take advantage of a woman and man.
48:38
But yeah, again, we could talk about this for three hours. Yeah.
48:42
Yeah. We're going to transition here in a second.
48:45
All right. So as I was saying earlier, we we may have to revisit this.
48:52
I'm pretty sure there are some things that we missed, but I think we've hit
48:57
on the main points that we wanted to cover.
49:00
So with with with that, I mean, we're already like over 50 minutes into this podcast.
49:05
So we're going to skip our current events rant.
49:10
We're going to skip our work and we're going to move right into five on the
49:16
black hand side, which is our review of a black movie and the movie.
49:26
The movie that we chose this week to discuss is War of the Worlds,
49:34
the Amazon Prime edition,
49:38
starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria.
49:42
And what's your boy who was Agent Phil Coulson? He'll always be Phil Coulson. Okay, cool, cool, cool.
49:48
All right. Go ahead, bro. Tell me what you think. So yesterday I was laying
49:53
down and I just pulled it up looking for something to watch.
49:57
And I kid you not, I pulled up Prime and I sat on it and I just stared at Ice Cube's face.
50:02
And I'm not I'm not joking for like 50 seconds.
50:06
And I was like, should I watch this, man?
50:10
This this thing got a two percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
50:16
I've already been told that it's horrible.
50:23
And i decided to watch it so i
50:27
watched the first like 45 minutes yep and then
50:30
paused it and i because i had to make a run and do something and i text you
50:35
and i said hey man i mean i ain't mad at the plot but the acting is bad yes
50:40
then i watched the rest of it and the last 35 to 40 minutes completely erased the first 44 minutes,
50:48
this i'm not mad at the plot i'm not
50:51
mad at the at the like you were just saying a second ago we're
50:54
stealing of the data yeah i thought that was an interesting twist
50:57
on it all of that but this might
51:00
have been one of the worst movies i've ever seen the acting
51:04
in this movie is top tier this
51:08
the acting in this movie makes came from minister society look like benzel washington
51:13
whoa and that says a lot that says a whole lot cube was horrible yes his son
51:21
was horrible yes they made agent phil colson into a bad actor,
51:27
can't I can't stress enough this dude had access to every camera at the snap of a finger.
51:37
Without any warrants well I'm
51:41
sorry nope let me let me back up he had access to
51:44
everything nobody was monitoring him he
51:47
was monitoring everybody right but somehow the FBI had to wait for him to drop
51:55
a file to kick in the door of a suspected cyber terrorist while Q didn't access
52:03
Starbucks the cameras on the highway,
52:07
cameras in the apartment building, his daughter's job,
52:11
her lab her lab, right like
52:14
everything but yet he wasn't
52:18
on social media he didn't know
52:21
how to do this to do right and don't get me started on
52:23
the ludicrous line well this this
52:27
is this is what i didn't i didn't and and like you said distilling the data
52:33
that was cool it was different i'm like okay that's cool what what i didn't
52:40
particularly like and again i'm not naive i understand that Yes,
52:46
the government does watch us to a certain extent, but I didn't like the implying
52:53
the implication that government has access to all of this stuff with no warrants
52:59
that I for the conspiracy theorists.
53:04
That's what I didn't like is I kind of felt like it was pandering to the conspiracy
53:08
theorists about how much access that the government has to your Twitter account.
53:14
You know, and I'm sure they do to a certain extent, but I don't think one guy
53:19
is just sitting there watching, watching, watching and is able to tap into whatever he was tapping into.
53:27
Like you said, the lab, the highway cameras, et cetera.
53:30
It's just like I don't think that that's realistic. He was commandeering drones
53:36
as a DHS employee, not the military.
53:41
He gave access to his son, and his son started randomly blowing up aliens with drone missiles.
53:51
Do you know how ridiculous that is?
53:54
Do you know how ridiculous it was for his future son-in-law to take a drone and deliver?
54:03
A thumb drive. Right. Keep in mind, one of the things I thought that was hilarious
54:08
was he actually had to go into Amazon.
54:10
Yeah. And buy it in order for him to send a drone.
54:13
What? Yeah. The other thing that I found ridiculous is your daughter is a doctor
54:21
and she's dating an Amazon delivery driver.
54:26
Now, that seems a little bit uneven. I'm not saying it's unrealistic,
54:31
but it's kind of unrealistic.
54:33
But I think the reason it obviously was on Prime and they kept mentioning monitoring
54:37
people's Amazon inboxes. Yeah. I got the symbolism.
54:41
It's kind of like movies back in the 90s where a Pepsi can would be positioned. Yeah.
54:45
Yeah. Yeah. You know, yeah. Promoting their own brand. Yeah.
54:48
Yeah. Yeah. So I get that. But why couldn't he be an Amazon exec?
54:53
But I'm like, so you, you, you, you're and he was goofy and he was goofy.
54:57
But you're a doctor and I'm guessing that you're doing some really important
55:01
work based on your title.
55:03
Well, they told us that she was basically world renowned.
55:07
Yeah. And and and you're dating a guy that probably makes minimum wage,
55:11
maybe a little bit more than minimum wage.
55:13
I'm like this just don't make it just in the real world.
55:18
I just don't think it would happen. But I mean, don't take this the wrong way.
55:24
I know athletes date down and no one frowns upon it.
55:29
Rarely do you see a woman date down. I mean, it just is what it is,
55:34
women. I'm sorry, but women don't usually date down.
55:37
If they do, it's still comparable. It's close.
55:42
You ain't going to be Alicia Keys and you dating some IG, Instagram model type dude.
55:49
No. You're going to be like, no, hell no.
55:51
Unless you're Star Jones, but we all know how that worked out.
55:55
That's a whole other story. Sorry, Star.
56:00
Yeah, so I mean, the movie itself, I mean, did I hate that I watched it?
56:04
Not really. I mean, it passed the time, but I laughed more than I was on the edge of my seat.
56:11
I just thought that Eva Longoria should have died four different times in the
56:16
movie, and she didn't. Cube should have died twice.
56:19
His son should have died Thank you.
56:22
Twice. Mm-hmm. Dude, he commandeered a Lexus. I mean, a Tesla. Mm-hmm.
56:29
And just was telling the Tesla, no, don't go. No, the hospital is full.
56:32
Mm-hmm. Like, Q knew he had access to find out if the beds were full or anything. Mm-hmm.
56:37
So you're telling me the alien invasion just happened two minutes ago,
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and every hospital in the city is already full? Two minutes. Right.
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Right. Your daughter didn't know that she shouldn't pull that thing out of her
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leg? Right. That she would probably bleed to death? Right. She's a doctor.
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Right. No, no, no. She's not a medical doctor. She's a doctor.
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She's a doctor. She's not stupid.
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Right. And she's also pregnant. And she's pregnant.
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And then at the end, y'all couldn't get all four actors together to take a picture
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in the park? You had to CGI a fake baby shower? Right. Right.
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And again, to me, I felt like this was red meat for the conspiracy theorists.
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And I felt like it was something that Amazon just pushed out like,
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yeah, let's just go ahead and knock this out without like really getting into
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the, let's make sure we got a good story here.
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It was like, yeah, it's entertaining enough. Let's push it out. We got Ice Cube.
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We got Evil and Gore. We got a couple of big names.
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Yeah. Let's go ahead and just dump it.
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We went from Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning.
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Good movie, even though it had its issues, but still good.
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And random guest stars from elite
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actors to this yeah like
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that's i don't know i could just i could go on and on
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like i said i'm i know it sounds like i'm i'm mad that i watched it but you
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know it passed the time but i i was just i don't think it's a two percent on
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rotten tomatoes i'd give it at least a 40 but i guess two percent is better
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than what it was because you know it was sitting that's zero for like the first
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week it came out. I don't.
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I don't want to be the critique that just like this is because someone put some
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time and effort into this.
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So and it got greenlit. So I'm not going to diss it and say that it's a horrible movie.
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But I will say that I would be reluctant to watch this again.
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Oh, yeah. I never I never. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't think this is worth a second watch.
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So I think it's safe to say, based on everything we've said,
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that this does not get a high five on the black hand side. Nah.
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You can't even slit me some skin.
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Oh, man. Sorry. Sorry, man. It's not it's not it's not my I don't I don't want
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to be that harsh critique.
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But sometimes we just got to call a spade a spade. The acting,
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like I said, the acting, Q's reactions to life-altering events blew my mind.
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Q's performance was Doughboy in a government job.
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I just can't sum it up any other way.
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It was Doughboy or Fudge in a
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government job. That's Tyrone Biggums as president. That's what that was.
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That was Tyrone Biggums. No, that was Tyrone Biggums on Fear Factor and it's your fail show.
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Yeah, it was just like, bro, I don't think you would behave in this manner if
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this was your job, if this was your career.
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I don't think you would behave. I don't think you would carry yourself this way.
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It don't. Now the first 10 minutes? Yeah. It was like, oh, okay.
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We're setting it up. He's doing his job. He's looking at this camera, monitoring.
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You're like, all right, cool. Who was this lady that he's monitoring?
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It's like, oh, that's his daughter. Man, that fool hijacked her fridge. Right.
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She ain't had no food. Right.
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You ain't had no protein. How you know that? Right, right, right,
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right. He knows what she ate. That's the crazy part.
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And that's way too nosy. by the way
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too man my man right your kid
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would be like bro what i'm grown what's up
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with you look i know my daughter loved me to death but if i was like that she'd
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be like dad look just call me next week sometimes yeah i'll be blocked on everything
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yeah that's that's that's way too nosy man and they tried to explain it away
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with you know the mom being dead whatever ever, but still.
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That's way, as overprotective as I was as a parent, I don't think I was that bad. I mean, come on.
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Yeah, that's going above and beyond on steroids. Yeah, nah.
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