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- 0:00Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, said some tea almost actual tea.
- 0:28Speaker 2: That's a mess. Hid that funny? That was funny right there.
- 0:32Speaker 3: And grand mom would lived him. Have y'all ever tried
- 0:36Speaker 3: like milk in your tea like British people do. It
- 0:39Speaker 3: seems very very odd to me.
- 0:40Speaker 4: So my coworker made me which is essentially was No,
- 0:43Speaker 4: he didn't use the milk. I'm about to say, but
- 0:45Speaker 4: essentially it was a chi tea. But no, he used
- 0:47Speaker 4: vanella flavoring.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Her Chi is really good.
- 0:50Speaker 5: Child is good.
- 0:50Speaker 4: He made me want to work one day and it
- 0:52Speaker 4: was This was years ago, and uh, I think he
- 0:55Speaker 4: used vanilla flavor flavor cream and something else he put in.
- 0:59Speaker 5: It was good, yeah, but not just like regular whole milk.
- 1:05Speaker 2: No, no, but it was cool though.
- 1:09Speaker 6: I like my mother. My mother was real. It is
- 1:13Speaker 6: like real heavy on like tea drinking. Grandmother drinks a
- 1:17Speaker 6: lot of coffee. My great grandmother drinks coke. Her sister
- 1:21Speaker 6: drank pepsi, so it's like it's a lot of caffeine
- 1:24Speaker 6: in the family.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Same my mother loved Folgers and Coca Cola with it
- 1:34Speaker 3: about well it's not it's not a lot, but it
- 1:35Speaker 3: was actually last thing she drank before she died the
- 1:38Speaker 3: co Co cola. She said, I want no fucking water.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Bring me I got a cold Coca cola. I said,
- 1:45Speaker 3: bring it in. You get her?
- 1:49Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 1:51Speaker 3: That was good, that's it.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.
- 1:57Speaker 6: The yeah, the lordship, Yeah, the lord of the quiz
- 2:02Speaker 6: that you have me take.
- 2:02Speaker 2: I was like, hey, that a.
- 2:03Speaker 3: Bit really surprise yourself.
- 2:06Speaker 6: No, I was like I was, I was right on brain. Okay, Like, yeah,
- 2:12Speaker 6: I was right on brain. I was like, oh, I
- 2:13Speaker 6: ain't that Like I tooked it. I was like, yeah,
- 2:15Speaker 6: it's all about right.
- 2:18Speaker 3: But before we get into that, Welcome to this week's
- 2:20Speaker 3: episode of Wine and Audacity, the podcast Happy Election Something
- 2:26Speaker 3: seasoned cycle.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Niggas.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Yeah, one more week, y'all, one more week, My more
- 2:30Speaker 5: fucking week.
- 2:31Speaker 3: My name is bringing the card, and I'm joined by
- 2:33Speaker 3: two of my favorite people in the world. How you
- 2:34Speaker 3: feeling this week?
- 2:36Speaker 6: I'm right, I'm cool, and I'm telling them straight. You
- 2:39Speaker 6: mean it's jery Like yep, mm hmmm.
- 2:45Speaker 3: So what's going on? Niggas?
- 2:47Speaker 5: Ship just want this fuck an election to be old
- 2:49Speaker 5: because I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired of the text messages.
- 2:52Speaker 4: I'm tired of the emails, the phone calls, the little
- 2:55Speaker 4: bit even came knocked on my daughter up there. I side,
- 2:57Speaker 4: I'm voting for Angela. Also brooks, ma'am, do not.
- 3:03Speaker 5: Got vote ship.
- 3:07Speaker 4: God, I'm telling you they fighting hard Fangela baby, they
- 3:10Speaker 4: behave I roll head.
- 3:12Speaker 3: It's rarely fun.
- 3:13Speaker 4: The other day at the school, they is fighting fangilin
- 3:16Speaker 4: Angela don't win.
- 3:17Speaker 5: This ship is is fucking brigged.
- 3:20Speaker 4: But look, I'm sound like the Trump st Greg before
- 3:23Speaker 4: we get into politics.
- 3:24Speaker 3: That's my mic off the whole town. I think, so okay, well,
- 3:31Speaker 3: if if if it was you'll heard me and Aaron
- 3:33Speaker 3: and sewn this, ma so my bad. I think I
- 3:35Speaker 3: might have flipped the switch accidentally. But then even how y'all,
- 3:38Speaker 3: how are you feeling? Yo?
- 3:41Speaker 2: Cool?
- 3:42Speaker 6: Like yo, the funny not but the funny ship is
- 3:44Speaker 6: showing talking about So I'm talking about how it's like
- 3:47Speaker 6: people riding for and ship, but then at the same time,
- 3:49Speaker 6: the same.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Motherfucker's riding for.
- 3:51Speaker 6: You got the same private guy and ship like niggas
- 3:53Speaker 6: is like this bitch steal the money, Like wait a minute, bitch.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Got extra she got extra.
- 3:59Speaker 4: Much grandmother, Like god, damn.
- 4:06Speaker 3: I mean that's the is it egregious? Yes, but she
- 4:09Speaker 3: also did say that she paid the money back.
- 4:13Speaker 2: But no, but I'm saying was like one thing is y'all.
- 4:16Speaker 4: Out here claiming kids that don't belong to y'all, But
- 4:18Speaker 4: y'are right about her claiming to text credit shut up.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Nah. But I noticed that.
- 4:23Speaker 6: I noticed that because when I was in Georgia and
- 4:26Speaker 6: my man, my man war Knock was on, he was
- 4:29Speaker 6: running like he was running. He was trying to get there,
- 4:32Speaker 6: like he was trying to get up there, and everybody
- 4:34Speaker 6: was like, yo, vote vote for him. But then you
- 4:36Speaker 6: got the other people like voting against him. And I
- 4:38Speaker 6: can't remember what short the name was against him.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Noah, no, no, no, I'm talking about the lady.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:45Speaker 5: Yo, I wish I could have voted for Stacey.
- 4:48Speaker 2: We was in there. They was like yeah.
- 4:51Speaker 6: They was like we was like, well like they talking
- 4:52Speaker 6: abou vote Stacey he and so you know, election they
- 4:54Speaker 6: became in and then the white man still one.
- 4:58Speaker 2: I was like, hey, dad, a bit like yo.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Stacey had momentum.
- 5:03Speaker 2: Yo, she had yo. She had Atlanta riding for her.
- 5:06Speaker 6: M that like what I'm saying, all of allmarts even
- 5:10Speaker 6: to like even though you know, all the targets like
- 5:13Speaker 6: they they everybody, like everybody got all her posters up.
- 5:16Speaker 6: I can't even I think the dude that was all right.
- 5:19Speaker 5: I still didn't understand that, and I've seen that on
- 5:20Speaker 5: the news. I was like, how the fuck did she
- 5:21Speaker 5: still lose?
- 5:22Speaker 6: I was gonna that's what I'm saying. I'm sitting here
- 5:24Speaker 6: like soda bitch.
- 5:27Speaker 3: So, of course, so I looked it up on Wikipedia.
- 5:29Speaker 3: It's the twenty eighteen Georgia gubernatorial election, is what we're referencing,
- 5:33Speaker 3: where the Republican Secretary of State and now governor Brian
- 5:37Speaker 3: Kemp ran against former Democratic state representative Stacy Abrams. So
- 5:43Speaker 3: according to the poppet, according to Wikipedia, which of course
- 5:46Speaker 3: you know, has its its flaws, one million, nine hundred
- 5:49Speaker 3: and seventy eight, four hundred and eight people voted for
- 5:52Speaker 3: Brian Kemp, while one million, nine hundred twenty three thousand,
- 5:55Speaker 3: six hundred eighty five people voted for Stacy Abrams. So
- 5:58Speaker 3: she lost by like fifty fifty five thousand.
- 6:01Speaker 5: I'm called bullshit.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I.
- 6:05Speaker 5: Never did understand it.
- 6:06Speaker 4: But if Angela lose to to the turtle from Mastering Disguise,
- 6:12Speaker 4: I'm be pissed.
- 6:13Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
- 6:14Speaker 5: I think that's what he looked like.
- 6:17Speaker 3: So for those of y'all who aren't from Maryland, let
- 6:19Speaker 3: me provide some bats.
- 6:22Speaker 5: I said what I said, Larry, look it up.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Look up Larry Hogan, and then look up Dana Harvey
- 6:28Speaker 4: and Master in disguise.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I can't get it.
- 6:32Speaker 5: I can't get and they look just like.
- 6:38Speaker 4: That's what I hear every time I see one of
- 6:39Speaker 4: his commercials.
- 6:41Speaker 3: So for those of y'all who aren't again from Maryland politics,
- 6:46Speaker 3: in our political figures, Larry Hogan is a former former
- 6:50Speaker 3: governor of Maryland who was a former, of course, real
- 6:52Speaker 3: estate magnet who ran for the office and won twice. Thankfully,
- 6:57Speaker 3: he was term limited, so he, like in many other states,
- 7:00Speaker 3: he could only serve two terms as governor. But when
- 7:05Speaker 3: he was term limited and couldn't run for governor for
- 7:08Speaker 3: a third term, he went back into private life and
- 7:11Speaker 3: floated a run for president. He floated a run for
- 7:13Speaker 3: a House of Representatives from Maryland, and then he ultimately
- 7:17Speaker 3: settled on running for Senator of Maryland. I think who
- 7:21Speaker 3: who's the Senator? Angela also Brooks, let me see.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Thirdle Thirtle, you.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Am I not turtle enough for the Turtle Club. So
- 7:44Speaker 3: according to Wikipedia, our Democratic Senator Ben Cardon is retiring
- 7:50Speaker 3: from from government, so he's elected not to run for
- 7:53Speaker 3: a fourth term.
- 7:55Speaker 2: So that Nigga said, no, I'm good.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's Angela, also Brooks and Joy. Angela also
- 8:02Speaker 3: Brooks is runner who she's actually the current prinsteal Just
- 8:04Speaker 3: County executive and against Larry Hogan, who's a former State
- 8:09Speaker 3: of Maryland governor, a governor for the State of Maryland. Sorry, y'all,
- 8:12Speaker 3: that might be the dyslexy I might have and I
- 8:14Speaker 3: don't know I have in any event, should that be
- 8:20Speaker 3: the episode time I'm a bookmark dad self bookmark that.
- 8:36Speaker 3: So yeah, moving on from my clear lack of knowing
- 8:41Speaker 3: how to speak properly.
- 8:42Speaker 6: Yeah, that sounds like that's not like a term for no.
- 8:44Speaker 6: That sound like a term for lusting.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Girl, you know, dicks apart.
- 8:51Speaker 6: It's like, you know, dude, just start talking, say you're
- 8:54Speaker 6: just getting getting enamored.
- 8:55Speaker 2: It's like, So back to.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Larry Hogan and Angela also Brooks, Shawn, God damn it. Anyway,
- 9:07Speaker 3: So Hogan was in the Eggshell Turtle Power. Larry Hogan
- 9:18Speaker 3: was a very pop he was a very pop was
- 9:20Speaker 3: a Republican. Clearly, he was a very popular governor here
- 9:24Speaker 3: in Maryland.
- 9:24Speaker 5: I know several Democrats. They voted for him first round.
- 9:27Speaker 3: I voted for him the second round. I'm not gonna
- 9:29Speaker 3: lie I did. I voted for him in the second
- 9:30Speaker 3: round because I don't know who the being jealous was.
- 9:34Speaker 6: Either having some of them cookers right, cookies right now.
- 9:38Speaker 3: You know what.
- 9:38Speaker 6: But I'm not like, I ain't mad about, like I
- 9:41Speaker 6: can't like, I can't be upset about, like, you know,
- 9:43Speaker 6: voting for him like a second round, because it's like
- 9:46Speaker 6: niggas just pop up out of nowhere and you're.
- 9:48Speaker 2: Like, who are you?
- 9:50Speaker 3: I feel like what you like?
- 9:51Speaker 2: Who are you? What are your stances?
- 9:53Speaker 4: Like?
- 9:53Speaker 6: What are your sensitively apology sort of like you know,
- 9:55Speaker 6: so like Hamilton, how Hamilton Sponge that about Aaron Barrs
- 9:59Speaker 6: Like Yo, nigg It's like yo, they know who you are,
- 10:01Speaker 6: but they don't know anything that you stand for. So
- 10:06Speaker 6: so I think I can't.
- 10:07Speaker 3: So I think the thing with Ben Jealous was he's
- 10:10Speaker 3: a former president of the NAACP, And again, like you said,
- 10:13Speaker 3: I think it was his relative anonymity in the state
- 10:17Speaker 3: of Maryland was more so the reason why, you know,
- 10:20Speaker 3: even though Maryland votes largely Democratic, not largely, Maryland is
- 10:25Speaker 3: a basically a reliably blue state, and we have a
- 10:29Speaker 3: democratic supermajority in the Maryland General Assembly Maryland, in the
- 10:33Speaker 3: Maryland's General Assembly, we have a democratic supermajority. He won
- 10:40Speaker 3: re election very comfortably against Ben.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Jales because because he.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Was famili he was very familiar. But I mean, after
- 10:48Speaker 3: I voted for him and he got into a second
- 10:49Speaker 3: term right before COVID happened, I learned about a lot
- 10:52Speaker 3: of his policies and a lot of his you know,
- 10:55Speaker 3: a lot of the things he was doing for Maryland.
- 10:57Speaker 3: It recently came out in the news that he funneled
- 11:00Speaker 3: or it was reported that he funneled business to a
- 11:04Speaker 3: lot of people who supported his personal real estate business.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Government of the state government contracts for like road improvements
- 11:10Speaker 3: and tax breaks were funneled from the state to his
- 11:16Speaker 3: businesses that he does business with, his real estate company.
- 11:22Speaker 3: So and of course, as time went on, and then
- 11:25Speaker 3: of course twenty twenty year rolled around and we went
- 11:27Speaker 3: into COVID lockdowns, which he did do a good job on.
- 11:31Speaker 3: I will give him credit for that, but also it
- 11:34Speaker 3: was a lot of the rhetoric around Baltimore which I
- 11:37Speaker 3: did not and do not like and do not agree with.
- 11:42Speaker 3: We had a project back in twenty fifteen called the
- 11:45Speaker 3: Baltimore Red Line, which was the transit line going from
- 11:47Speaker 3: the original iteration of the Red Line, which went from
- 11:50Speaker 3: where we're from in West Baltimore near the Security Square
- 11:52Speaker 3: Mall all the way over to was it Bake Hopkins
- 11:55Speaker 3: Bayview or Dundalk or somewhere up way over east Damn
- 11:59Speaker 3: Dundag But yeah, but no shade people from Dundalk. We
- 12:04Speaker 3: still don't like y'all, but we let y'all because y'all Baltimore. Anyway,
- 12:08Speaker 3: he canceled it. He said that basically it was a
- 12:12Speaker 3: quote unquote boon doggle and he returned nine hundred million
- 12:16Speaker 3: dollars in federal financing for that project, even though the
- 12:21Speaker 3: state had undergone I think environmental impact studies which are
- 12:24Speaker 3: required before construction starts, and the federal government had partially
- 12:27Speaker 3: funded construction of the line. He returned it, returned nine
- 12:31Speaker 3: hundred million to federal funded and then reallocated the states
- 12:34Speaker 3: apportioned set aside money for that to road projects throughout
- 12:39Speaker 3: the state of Maryland for those of y'all who aren't
- 12:43Speaker 3: aware with how like Baltimore's transit system works, and you
- 12:46Speaker 3: mean the one subway line and one light rol line
- 12:48Speaker 3: that we have that aren't that are block away from
- 12:50Speaker 3: each other but don't connect. We have a pretty robust
- 12:54Speaker 3: bus network that basically gets reshuffled every ten to twelve
- 12:58Speaker 3: years because they don't. They did boarding on them to
- 13:00Speaker 3: do with themselves. And this line would have served to
- 13:04Speaker 3: connect a lot of employment center such as Social Security
- 13:06Speaker 3: in the west with downtown, a lot of underserved neighborhoods
- 13:10Speaker 3: such as Poppleton west of downtown I think Canton along
- 13:15Speaker 3: the neighborhoods along the waterfront, and then over to Hopkins
- 13:18Speaker 3: Bayview way over in East Baltimore. And it was canceled.
- 13:21Speaker 6: The thing was then it's like it's like, yo, right
- 13:24Speaker 6: there by the parking ride, it's just that big ass
- 13:27Speaker 6: gaping space like right down like like right down there,
- 13:32Speaker 6: like right before you hit like right before you with
- 13:35Speaker 6: the parking ride on seventy. I mean, yeah, but they
- 13:38Speaker 6: cleared that lot, but they ended up they put it
- 13:41Speaker 6: up for sale, so they started doing work. I think
- 13:43Speaker 6: that was supposed to be a stationary at the corner of
- 13:44Speaker 6: inside and Security. Yeah, Cookslane Cookslane Cooks Lane and not
- 13:52Speaker 6: that far down. No, but I'm saying it's like soon
- 13:54Speaker 6: as you come like soon as you come down, like
- 13:55Speaker 6: right there, like right before you get on dead parking ride,
- 13:57Speaker 6: that's what you.
- 13:59Speaker 5: Cross security angle side turned to forest park.
- 14:01Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, your own force park cross over security
- 14:05Speaker 3: wearing turns in the ingle side and that that lot
- 14:08Speaker 3: right there at the corner is where a station was
- 14:11Speaker 3: supposed to be. But the state of purchased did. They
- 14:13Speaker 3: cleared the lane and started doing some work, but because
- 14:17Speaker 3: the project was canceled, they just put it up for
- 14:18Speaker 3: sale and they're sitting there is an empty, basically clear lot
- 14:22Speaker 3: that he didn't put up.
- 14:23Speaker 2: For You could have been worse.
- 14:26Speaker 5: It could have been like, did keep running down on
- 14:28Speaker 5: us like we did the ship.
- 14:29Speaker 3: I didn't do it.
- 14:30Speaker 5: I didn't take your home doing.
- 14:33Speaker 2: Like I mean.
- 14:33Speaker 6: But it could have been verse. It could have been
- 14:34Speaker 6: like the Highway to oil on Martin Luther King m hmm.
- 14:38Speaker 4: And that was another it was they tore up bumpity
- 14:42Speaker 4: bump bumpity bump bum bum.
- 14:44Speaker 5: Twenty to twenty five blocks.
- 14:47Speaker 6: Yeah, I was in Georgia. When the dude asked me
- 14:50Speaker 6: about it, he was like yeah. He was like, he
- 14:52Speaker 6: was like, yo, so you know you lived he did
- 14:54Speaker 6: you live over there? About it about the highway and
- 14:56Speaker 6: highway and.
- 14:57Speaker 3: I was like, I was older than us, so that
- 14:59Speaker 3: was done back in the second year. I was like.
- 15:01Speaker 6: I was like, I was like, nah, yeah, my grandmother dude,
- 15:04Speaker 6: and he was like, he was like, because I was
- 15:06Speaker 6: doing the research project. He was like, he said he
- 15:08Speaker 6: was doing the research project over kennisas kenisas State and
- 15:11Speaker 6: he was saying that he was he was just talking
- 15:14Speaker 6: about how in like urban neighborhoods. And he was a
- 15:19Speaker 6: white guy saying, first of all, I hate when they
- 15:21Speaker 6: say urban, I mean black. He was like, guys, he's like,
- 15:25Speaker 6: because they talk about how urban Decatur is. I was like,
- 15:27Speaker 6: oh yeah, there's a bunch of niggas down there. But
- 15:32Speaker 6: he said doing when he was doing this research paper,
- 15:34Speaker 6: he just got and he was like he noticed that
- 15:36Speaker 6: there was He was like, he was like, have you
- 15:38Speaker 6: ever seen it? And I was like yeah. I was like,
- 15:41Speaker 6: I was like, bro, I was like, it's right there.
- 15:43Speaker 6: And then it's like then it's like elementary school. Then
- 15:45Speaker 6: bossing car is like, and I was like yeah.
- 15:49Speaker 2: He was like, so they put it there. I was like, yeah,
- 15:53Speaker 2: they put it there.
- 15:53Speaker 6: Just just try to stop, you know, just try to
- 15:56Speaker 6: stop growth in the on growth in that parte on
- 15:58Speaker 6: particular thing.
- 15:59Speaker 2: He was like, that's fucked up.
- 16:01Speaker 3: So I looked at the actual plans. Have y'all seen
- 16:03Speaker 3: the plans for that how that highways was supposed to connect. No,
- 16:07Speaker 3: So if you're going down Interstate ninety five going from downtown,
- 16:10Speaker 3: like you're going towards the Beltway going coming south, if
- 16:14Speaker 3: you look right before you get to what exit is
- 16:21Speaker 3: for doing hey, hey aj he in the background, what
- 16:24Speaker 3: exit is is a Saint Agnes on What street is
- 16:28Speaker 3: that Hilton? Now Hilton turns into what Kate Avenue? Yeah? Yes,
- 16:32Speaker 3: So right before you get to Kateon Avenue they are
- 16:34Speaker 3: off There are unbuilt like off ramps and roads right
- 16:38Speaker 3: literally right next to ninety five south Man. So the
- 16:43Speaker 3: Highway to nowhere, or it would have been in the
- 16:45Speaker 3: state one seventy would have basically gone down like through
- 16:48Speaker 3: a wooded area following the Gwin's falls to connect with
- 16:50Speaker 3: Interstate ninety five, and then it would have been that
- 16:53Speaker 3: would have been an exit.
- 16:54Speaker 5: For I'm trying to picture it in my head. Okay,
- 16:58Speaker 5: I pull up a.
- 16:59Speaker 3: Map because it'd be a lot easier to explain it
- 17:01Speaker 3: if y'a can actually see what I'm saying. So, all right,
- 17:07Speaker 3: So there's the end of I seventy right there, that's
- 17:10Speaker 3: Leaking Park right The highway was supposed seventy was supposed
- 17:14Speaker 3: to go here, go through Leaking Park, curved down and
- 17:18Speaker 3: meet up with inter State ninety five right here. That
- 17:21Speaker 3: sounds like a lot, and then the rest it was
- 17:24Speaker 3: supposed to be a separate highway that met up right here. Well, shit,
- 17:28Speaker 3: I'm gonna pressing buttons loops, my bad. And it was
- 17:33Speaker 3: supposed to basically go right here and then follow the highway,
- 17:37Speaker 3: So it was supposed to be like a U shaped
- 17:38Speaker 3: but they were supposed connect essentially Interstate seventy ton State
- 17:41Speaker 3: ninety five. But back in the seventies there were highway revolts,
- 17:45Speaker 3: like in a lot of cities throughout the country where
- 17:50Speaker 3: highways were routed through. Like Aaron said, urban neighborhoods are
- 17:53Speaker 3: neighborhoods with lower property values. In ninety nine, nine percent
- 17:57Speaker 3: of the instances of these areas, all these neighborhoods were
- 18:00Speaker 3: all black, where black people have been redlined and basically
- 18:04Speaker 3: moved into ghettos for lack of a better term, projects
- 18:07Speaker 3: projects ghettos, tenement houses and know where you lived, and
- 18:13Speaker 3: highways are essentially going to be rided through there to
- 18:15Speaker 3: allow people who live in the suburbs to access city centers,
- 18:18Speaker 3: but it would displace tens of thousands of people. Barbara
- 18:22Speaker 3: mccolsk that's how she got her popularity, ended up going
- 18:25Speaker 3: to the Senate. Was she a senator, Barbara Mikowski? Senator
- 18:29Speaker 3: bar she was a senator.
- 18:30Speaker 5: Yeah, she retired.
- 18:32Speaker 3: She retired. I think the twenty sixteen.
- 18:34Speaker 4: I think I can't remember what year. You the time
- 18:35Speaker 4: she retired before Trump came in the office though, right,
- 18:37Speaker 4: I think so. But that's how she ended up gaining
- 18:41Speaker 4: her popularity and throughout the state. She was one of
- 18:44Speaker 4: the people who were at the head of the Maryland
- 18:46Speaker 4: Freeway volts. We basically stopped inn State seventy right inside
- 18:49Speaker 4: the beltway, and it didn't allow for the rest of
- 18:52Speaker 4: the connectivity to occurrent.
- 18:54Speaker 3: So while it does suck, and it's that, you know,
- 18:56Speaker 3: you can't go from downtown to basically anywhere else that
- 19:01Speaker 3: isn't either on the Beltway eighty three or you know,
- 19:04Speaker 3: ninety five it stopped. Neighborhoods are being destroyed, which are
- 19:09Speaker 3: always a plus. So back to my side, Dick Slexia.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Larry Hogan was in a lot of a lot of
- 19:20Speaker 3: ways a governor who held a very obvious disdain for Baltimore.
- 19:24Speaker 3: While he never actually came out and said it, he
- 19:26Speaker 3: made several comments throughout the years about you know, Baltimore
- 19:30Speaker 3: City public schools and not having air conditioning. A lot
- 19:33Speaker 3: of tropes, especially if you look in comments sections online,
- 19:36Speaker 3: especially like on Facebook. Four when the Baltimore Sun post
- 19:40Speaker 3: articles about stuff happening in Baltimore, or the Baltimore Banner
- 19:43Speaker 3: posts comments, or any of like the local news channels
- 19:46Speaker 3: post articles on Facebook about things happening around the city
- 19:49Speaker 3: or even in the metro area, there are always racist
- 19:52Speaker 3: comments about, well, the city is horrible, there's so much crime,
- 19:56Speaker 3: there's so much shit happen, and there's there's people are
- 19:58Speaker 3: so horrible. It's all you know, negative, and Larry Hogan
- 20:02Speaker 3: definitely fed into a lot of that rhetoric.
- 20:06Speaker 2: That s c I mean crazy.
- 20:08Speaker 3: One thing I actually learned recently, and it was actually
- 20:11Speaker 3: it's on the cities. It's on this Baltimore City ballot.
- 20:14Speaker 3: It's a question I remember the question of this for
- 20:16Speaker 3: city residents. But the Baltimore City Police Department has actually
- 20:20Speaker 3: been under control of the State of Maryland for the
- 20:21Speaker 3: past one hundred and forty years. What Yeah, Baltimore Police
- 20:27Speaker 3: Department is under the control of the State of Maryland.
- 20:30Speaker 3: It's not. I never the control of the City of Baltimore.
- 20:32Speaker 5: I knew that.
- 20:33Speaker 3: So when people going into these comments and reading people
- 20:37Speaker 3: people say, going into the comments section and seeing people
- 20:41Speaker 3: comment things about, oh, well the city needs to get
- 20:44Speaker 3: the police under control of the police are were ragged.
- 20:46Speaker 3: It's like, well, we got Baltimore City. City Council in
- 20:49Speaker 3: american't do anything because the city doesn't control the police department.
- 20:54Speaker 3: It's the State of Maryland does.
- 20:56Speaker 5: So that takes me back to when the whole situation
- 21:00Speaker 5: happened with Freddy Gray Lord and Daphne. You were all
- 21:05Speaker 5: in the blake first of May.
- 21:07Speaker 3: At the time she didn't r reelection as she shouldn't have.
- 21:11Speaker 3: But there's a whole number.
- 21:17Speaker 4: I don't know how I feel about. I couldn't stay
- 21:22Speaker 4: in that lady, and the whole thing had to work.
- 21:27Speaker 4: Freddy Gray and the riots and all the ship that's
- 21:31Speaker 4: the riding Uprising and whatever else they wanted to call them,
- 21:36Speaker 4: and Larry Hogan pretty much said, that's a Baltimore problem.
- 21:40Speaker 4: People are both so pissed and him, including me, because
- 21:44Speaker 4: what the fucks are are we not bought? We already
- 21:46Speaker 4: know the d MB don't claim us, but started legally.
- 21:49Speaker 4: We are a part of Maryland, so as the governor,
- 21:54Speaker 4: since the since the health these niggas is acted out
- 21:58Speaker 4: sent some health it ain't. But so much Stephanie can
- 21:59Speaker 4: do that. He was too focused on looks good on camera.
- 22:03Speaker 3: That's it?
- 22:04Speaker 5: You look so precious?
- 22:07Speaker 6: Man?
- 22:07Speaker 5: Yeah, what was that look?
- 22:09Speaker 4: That was the bitchy because after she lost that guy.
- 22:14Speaker 5: Damn wait, honey, you couldn't tell step stuff nothing. And
- 22:18Speaker 5: they used to.
- 22:19Speaker 4: Laugh at me when I was at work. But yeah,
- 22:21Speaker 4: like running into her in my line of work, it
- 22:24Speaker 4: was a lot.
- 22:26Speaker 5: It was a lot. And and what the club pussy Cats?
- 22:32Speaker 3: Baby?
- 22:32Speaker 4: I wish not the pussy Cat that's that ship is
- 22:36Speaker 4: still open. I walked past. We both said, the club.
- 22:46Speaker 5: How'll doing my sort that type of part of.
- 22:52Speaker 2: The oasis.
- 22:53Speaker 4: But no, just just just working in that line of
- 22:55Speaker 4: business and betting around her.
- 22:57Speaker 5: I'm just using that because I can't say where I weren't.
- 22:59Speaker 5: That line should sounded like a whole.
- 23:10Speaker 3: At least you ain't called me a whole. A lot
- 23:16Speaker 3: of people don't understand about Baltimore. And even back to
- 23:19Speaker 3: Larry Hogan Rood because we went on a bit on
- 23:21Speaker 3: a whole tangent. But he even made commentary or had
- 23:25Speaker 3: comments about the air conditioning and heat in public Baltimore,
- 23:31Speaker 3: in the public school and he even was on I
- 23:33Speaker 3: think he was on like w b A L or
- 23:35Speaker 3: w j Z or he was in a press conference
- 23:37Speaker 3: somewhere and alluded to the fact that, well, you know,
- 23:39Speaker 3: Baltimore can't get their structu together because well they don't
- 23:42Speaker 3: have heat near conditioning in.
- 23:43Speaker 5: Their schools because you're not funded it, bitch.
- 23:47Speaker 3: So I'm mayor, no, technically not, I mean, because we
- 23:50Speaker 3: don't live in the city. But Aaron lives in Baltimore City,
- 23:51Speaker 3: But me and Seana don't our Mayor Brandon Scott. There's
- 23:56Speaker 3: no shape. But Brandon Scott came on a press conference
- 23:59Speaker 3: a couple of days after that and says, well, the
- 24:01Speaker 3: mayor and the controller sit on the state bought the
- 24:04Speaker 3: public works and because the state oversees the Baltimore City
- 24:10Speaker 3: Public school system, the city of Baltimore doesn't. They approved
- 24:14Speaker 3: a plan to refurbish HVAC systems throughout all the city schools.
- 24:19Speaker 3: He said, when he was in school, and I think
- 24:22Speaker 3: I went to Baltimore City schools. You know, for a period,
- 24:25Speaker 3: we didn't have air conditioning in them schools back and
- 24:29Speaker 3: I'm saying, motherfucking we had no air we used to
- 24:31Speaker 3: had the time we didn't have work and heat, and
- 24:33Speaker 3: this was back in the nineties. What a lot of
- 24:36Speaker 3: people don't realize, and what a lot of people who
- 24:39Speaker 3: comment on these posts, and a lot of people who
- 24:41Speaker 3: of course aren't adept in you who keep up with politics,
- 24:45Speaker 3: don't realize is Baltimore's history of history when it comes
- 24:50Speaker 3: to race relations, when it comes to the population, when
- 24:52Speaker 3: it comes to why the city is the way it is.
- 24:56Speaker 3: And I think we may have touched on this in
- 24:57Speaker 3: the previous episode where I think back in nineteen fifty
- 25:01Speaker 3: Baltimore had the most high highest population ever at I
- 25:05Speaker 3: think nine hundred and fifty se one hundred and sixty
- 25:07Speaker 3: thousand people lived in the city limits in the city
- 25:09Speaker 3: of Baltimore, and then after nineteen fifty a lot of
- 25:14Speaker 3: the plants closed. I think Bethlehem Steel had downsized. And
- 25:18Speaker 3: like you said, I think mentioned in the previous episode,
- 25:20Speaker 3: back in the fifties and sixties, you could work a
- 25:22Speaker 3: job working at a steel mill, working for you know,
- 25:25Speaker 3: back in then it was singing pe telephone as a
- 25:27Speaker 3: as a line operated as a good. You could work
- 25:30Speaker 3: work for the post office, make a damn good salary
- 25:33Speaker 3: and get a nice as and buy a house for
- 25:36Speaker 3: your family and live comfortably off of us salary. But
- 25:40Speaker 3: when World War two ended and a lot of our
- 25:42Speaker 3: ancestors who fought in World War Two didn't come home,
- 25:45Speaker 3: the gi benefits and suburbs were built in Anna Rondo County,
- 25:50Speaker 3: which I still makes my assage. I don't like Anna
- 25:53Speaker 3: Ronald County, but in places such as Baltimore County, ant
- 25:58Speaker 3: Rondo County, Howard County, these suburbs we build up minorities,
- 26:02Speaker 3: mainly Black people and Jewish people weren't allowed to move there.
- 26:05Speaker 3: So when all of these suburbs were built in the fifties,
- 26:09Speaker 3: Baltimore lost huge number, huge amounts of its tax base.
- 26:13Speaker 3: Black people couldn't go anywhere because of segregation at the time,
- 26:16Speaker 3: So our ancestors were stuck in the city with no
- 26:21Speaker 3: money because the tax base left, no jobs because all
- 26:24Speaker 3: the plants and steel mill closed. So what else would
- 26:28Speaker 3: have happened right to Baltimore.
- 26:31Speaker 4: I'm saying nothing about that, which is where it came
- 26:33Speaker 4: in with the whole Section eight thing, where they were
- 26:38Speaker 4: qualifying them for Section eight, but then you were still
- 26:42Speaker 4: moving them into neighborhoods that nobody else wanted to fucking
- 26:46Speaker 4: live in. You still moving and then they finally after
- 26:49Speaker 4: people bitch then complained about it, they started moving them
- 26:52Speaker 4: to Howard County and Harford County and Carroll County and
- 26:56Speaker 4: all of that other stuff, and decent neighborhoods were decent schools.
- 26:59Speaker 5: But then the.
- 26:59Speaker 4: People are that there were homeowners were complaining about it
- 27:01Speaker 4: because why are you bringing this this this character elements
- 27:07Speaker 4: they're growing in our neighborhoods. And I understand that there
- 27:10Speaker 4: are always a few bad apples. I get it, same thing,
- 27:13Speaker 4: so baby, it's everybody, yeah, But I mean, despite what
- 27:17Speaker 4: people believe in. Ronald Reagan started this with the with
- 27:20Speaker 4: the myth of the welfare queen. Queen he painted as
- 27:23Speaker 4: a black woman the most people with government assistance are white.
- 27:26Speaker 4: They are most people who get food stamps. And this
- 27:30Speaker 4: is not me just saying this, this is a conjecture.
- 27:32Speaker 4: You can actually look up verifiable facts that show that
- 27:35Speaker 4: white people are the most people who you know, white
- 27:38Speaker 4: people have the highest instances of usage of government progress,
- 27:42Speaker 4: be it Section eight being food stamps, and be it
- 27:45Speaker 4: of any other because it was initially created for them,
- 27:47Speaker 4: for the women who for husbands is the way at war,
- 27:50Speaker 4: and it didn't become an issue until black women was like.
- 27:53Speaker 5: Hmmm, they'll be qualified for this. Then it became a problem.
- 27:58Speaker 6: Oh hell yeahs like sentence, we'd be like, oh oh shit,
- 28:03Speaker 6: we get this too.
- 28:03Speaker 2: It's like, no, y'all don't.
- 28:06Speaker 3: I also did. But just to go back when you
- 28:09Speaker 3: have this this perfect storm of lack of investment and
- 28:15Speaker 3: just talking about back to Baltimore, lack of investment, when
- 28:19Speaker 3: all the businesses leave, when you have a city that's
- 28:21Speaker 3: mainly a service economy. People who work, like I said earlier,
- 28:24Speaker 3: in plants, and they work in steel mill and they
- 28:26Speaker 3: work for factories, and all of these companies either closed,
- 28:29Speaker 3: they outsourced, they moved overseas where labor was way cheaper,
- 28:33Speaker 3: and they could increase their profit margins. When you have
- 28:36Speaker 3: a city like Baltimore, and Baltimore is like a rost
- 28:40Speaker 3: Beelt city in many aspects. When it was mainly built
- 28:43Speaker 3: on one type of industry and the industry basically collapsed
- 28:46Speaker 3: on itself and there was nothing you know, to basically
- 28:49Speaker 3: move in to take over. What else would you expect
- 28:52Speaker 3: to happen? Now you have you know, people work for
- 28:56Speaker 3: like Johns Hopkins, be at the hospital or the university.
- 28:59Speaker 3: It's a lot of service industries for like colleges and
- 29:02Speaker 3: for you know, hospitals, and for different types of you know,
- 29:07Speaker 3: eight federal agency, state agencies, the city of local government.
- 29:11Speaker 3: There are several opportunities. But Baltimore doesn't have compared to
- 29:15Speaker 3: what it did have at one point, the huge tax
- 29:18Speaker 3: spase that it had back in nineteen fifty even nineteen sixty.
- 29:21Speaker 3: So when the baby boomers were coming up and they
- 29:23Speaker 3: built all these schools trying to bring my point around,
- 29:27Speaker 3: these huge schools that could fit two thousand, three thousand,
- 29:30Speaker 3: and four thousand students back in nineteen sixty nineteen seventy,
- 29:32Speaker 3: when the city had the population to support it. With
- 29:35Speaker 3: the city population being on the steady decline for now
- 29:38Speaker 3: seventy years. They're selling off all these buildings because they've
- 29:42Speaker 3: reached the end of their use, their functional life at
- 29:44Speaker 3: fifteen sixty years old. And also they don't have the
- 29:46Speaker 3: population to support a building that can hold four thousand students,
- 29:50Speaker 3: i e. Lake Clifton. That's why Morgan State just bought
- 29:52Speaker 3: that whole campus. Because the city of is exide space.
- 29:57Speaker 3: But a lot of these cities a a lot of
- 30:00Speaker 3: the current ills and a lot of the current state.
- 30:03Speaker 3: The state of these cities currently can't be traced back
- 30:06Speaker 3: to racism, to a lot of racist policies, redline and blockbusting,
- 30:10Speaker 3: all these things that started back in the fifties and
- 30:11Speaker 3: sixties and forties, fifties and sixties which now translate in
- 30:15Speaker 3: today where you have cities and thankfully Baltimore is trying
- 30:18Speaker 3: to turn over a new leaf and a lot of
- 30:20Speaker 3: respects with a lot of new development downtown. A lot
- 30:24Speaker 3: of the office buildings that are downtown currently are being
- 30:27Speaker 3: converted into apartments, you know space of apartments, but they're
- 30:33Speaker 3: being converted for you instead of sitting empty or you
- 30:36Speaker 3: know parking lots that are just sitting there being unused.
- 30:38Speaker 3: They're putting actual buildings there that can be used. It's home,
- 30:42Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have a sauce spot from a home
- 30:44Speaker 3: for our hometown. Always they'll talk shit about Baltimore because
- 30:47Speaker 3: I cut you. But yeah that I'll cut you, I won't.
- 30:52Speaker 3: I'm not losing my job, ain't.
- 30:54Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie to you.
- 30:56Speaker 6: When I was out of state and they started talking
- 30:58Speaker 6: about Baltimore, it's.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Like, you know, not to.
- 31:04Speaker 6: Not too much or us if you ain't never been here.
- 31:06Speaker 6: But I mean they hit people hit me with the
- 31:13Speaker 6: like why you go so hard for Baltimore? I was like,
- 31:15Speaker 6: why ya niggas go? Why y'all go so hard for future?
- 31:18Speaker 6: I said to a future track. Yet niggas try to
- 31:20Speaker 6: kick me out right, I say.
- 31:24Speaker 4: A references in my hometown. But y'all representing the nigga
- 31:26Speaker 4: that spreading seed all around Atlanta.
- 31:29Speaker 2: Yo.
- 31:30Speaker 6: But I do, but not But when when they come
- 31:34Speaker 6: down to like elections and ship and it's like I do,
- 31:37Speaker 6: like my my my main concern and be like, yo,
- 31:39Speaker 6: what you're gonna do?
- 31:40Speaker 2: Like what are you going to like what y'all gonna.
- 31:42Speaker 6: Do for the city, Like what what is it that
- 31:46Speaker 6: you're gonna do?
- 31:47Speaker 2: For the city.
- 31:47Speaker 6: So then when you said somebody else, I mean, cause
- 31:49Speaker 6: I only fun about Rust of Maryland, like that ain't us.
- 31:54Speaker 2: That's you know, they're not like us.
- 31:56Speaker 5: So it's like a minor.
- 31:59Speaker 2: So it was like, you know, my episode, my main,
- 32:03Speaker 2: my main. You think the Baker Literally.
- 32:10Speaker 5: I can't wait for the super Bowl.
- 32:13Speaker 2: I mean, but that's what it is.
- 32:15Speaker 6: It's like because my dad, I have reservations about about
- 32:19Speaker 6: Brandon Scott.
- 32:20Speaker 2: When you know, I found out that nigga was like
- 32:22Speaker 2: thirty something.
- 32:22Speaker 6: I was like two years older than this, and I
- 32:25Speaker 6: think but I think we talked about it on the
- 32:26Speaker 6: previous school talking about talked about it on the previous
- 32:29Speaker 6: episode with the whole with the whole with the worlds of.
- 32:33Speaker 2: How old is too old or how old it is?
- 32:35Speaker 6: Like you know, how old dude, how old should you
- 32:38Speaker 6: be to be in like to be like politics or
- 32:41Speaker 6: because you know, I think how.
- 32:43Speaker 5: Young is too young?
- 32:44Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's like, yeah, you're kind of in the
- 32:47Speaker 6: space where you ain't seen nothing. But then at the
- 32:50Speaker 6: same time, older folks is like, you know, if you're
- 32:54Speaker 6: too old, you ain't seen nothing.
- 32:57Speaker 3: But I think I think we do ourselves, or we
- 33:00Speaker 3: potentially do ourselves a disservice with that line of thinking,
- 33:02Speaker 3: because I think in Brandon Scott's case, he was on
- 33:05Speaker 3: the city council for several years. He actually became city
- 33:08Speaker 3: council president. Right, yeah, buddy, you bet you did. At
- 33:14Speaker 3: least we hear MO in this time. But I mean,
- 33:18Speaker 3: Brandon Scott was in the city camp, Baltimore City Council
- 33:21Speaker 3: for several years, and he actually was Baltimore City Council
- 33:23Speaker 3: president before he became Mayor of Baltimore. And while he's young,
- 33:27Speaker 3: he's actually I mean, we need we as millennials are
- 33:30Speaker 3: now age range from like what forty three to twenty nine,
- 33:36Speaker 3: twenty ninety three, eighty one and ninety six, Yeah, so
- 33:40Speaker 3: twenty eight to forty three ish, we're at that age.
- 33:44Speaker 3: We're in the age range now where a lot of
- 33:46Speaker 3: us will eventually, if we haven't already, are taken interest
- 33:48Speaker 3: in going into politics. And I feel like the thing
- 33:54Speaker 3: with Baltimore is the fact that a lot of the
- 33:56Speaker 3: people who vote, we have caught a business turnout for
- 34:00Speaker 3: old and I think in Baltimore City like elections and
- 34:04Speaker 3: I'll look it up while I'm talking, But we as
- 34:08Speaker 3: millennials and it's gonna officially go into gen Z. We
- 34:12Speaker 3: are the next generation who are not only old enough
- 34:14Speaker 3: to start making policy, but we're gonna we're being affected
- 34:17Speaker 3: by policies that were put in place by William Donald
- 34:19Speaker 3: Shaffer and Coke kirk Smoke and Clarence D.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Burns.
- 34:24Speaker 3: And he got his name on that I screen down
- 34:28Speaker 3: off for Boston Street. But yeah, he was I think
- 34:32Speaker 3: like one year is may, like one term is man
- 34:34Speaker 3: before kirk Smoke came in, after after Shaft.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a ship.
- 34:40Speaker 3: But it's we're at the point now where we somebody
- 34:45Speaker 3: who is in their mid mid to late thirties is
- 34:46Speaker 3: old enough to go in these roads and start affecting
- 34:49Speaker 3: change to bring in a new generation, because what we
- 34:50Speaker 3: don't want to do is we don't want to have
- 34:52Speaker 3: new city council and a lot of these these top
- 34:56Speaker 3: governmental positions as mayor or county executive or or president
- 35:01Speaker 3: or you know, a state senator. Everybody's in their fifty
- 35:03Speaker 3: sixties and seventies, and you don't have their younger perspective
- 35:06Speaker 3: of people who are now living through these gears of
- 35:09Speaker 3: dealing with the after effects of these policy decision.
- 35:12Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that was that was basically I mean,
- 35:14Speaker 6: that was basically my argument when they said when they
- 35:16Speaker 6: say when they were saying that he was too young
- 35:18Speaker 6: because he hasn't like he hasn't.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Been through anything.
- 35:20Speaker 6: But then I'm like, yeah, but you don't want to
- 35:22Speaker 6: but you don't want to be too old because old people,
- 35:26Speaker 6: like old people get set in their ways and like
- 35:28Speaker 6: the way that you've been doing it, that's the way that.
- 35:30Speaker 5: You're doing work. It's not gonna work now.
- 35:33Speaker 4: The way that shit worked in nineteen sixty eight, it's
- 35:35Speaker 4: not gonna work in twenty twenty four.
- 35:38Speaker 6: Especially now because everything is televised, automated and automatic.
- 35:42Speaker 2: That's what I mean. But yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
- 35:44Speaker 6: It's like, yo, I think I can't I can't remember
- 35:47Speaker 6: the quote the Krus wanted to say, but he was
- 35:49Speaker 6: basically saying, like old guys can't see like old guys
- 35:52Speaker 6: can't see nothing through can't see nothing through young guys,
- 35:54Speaker 6: and vice versa, like young people can't like young people
- 35:57Speaker 6: can't talk to old people because it's always a situation
- 36:00Speaker 6: you don't know, like you don't know nothing, and vice versa.
- 36:03Speaker 6: Old people can't talk back in because it's always you
- 36:06Speaker 6: don't know nothing, like you don't know nothing. But if y'all,
- 36:09Speaker 6: if we all worked, if y'all work together, like if
- 36:13Speaker 6: I mean because I do, I mean because I believe.
- 36:15Speaker 6: I believe like Brandon Scott be stuck like he be
- 36:18Speaker 6: stuck in the rock in the harbor place, because he
- 36:20Speaker 6: has innovative ideas. He has he has the ideas, and
- 36:24Speaker 6: he I feel like he has like we have the
- 36:26Speaker 6: infrastructure for him to expand and explore on those ideas,
- 36:30Speaker 6: just like the stuff that they're doing with the harbor,
- 36:31Speaker 6: trying to clean like trying to clean the bay, like
- 36:34Speaker 6: setting up to us, setting up all the people issues.
- 36:37Speaker 4: Besides his age with Brandon is when he was city
- 36:42Speaker 4: council president.
- 36:43Speaker 3: I remember, And before you get into that, I just
- 36:46Speaker 3: looked up there. So back in twenty two for the
- 36:48Speaker 3: twenty twenty general election for a mayor of Baltimore, there
- 36:51Speaker 3: was a forty percent turnout. Two hundred and thirty three
- 36:54Speaker 3: thousand people voted in that election. I'm saying roughly Baltimore
- 36:58Speaker 3: had roughly five hundred and eighty thousand people residents at
- 37:02Speaker 3: the time. Now I don't know the number of registered voters,
- 37:05Speaker 3: but if you compare the number of people who voted
- 37:06Speaker 3: versus the population, it was about a forty percent turnout.
- 37:09Speaker 4: But so what I was saying about about Mayor Brandon
- 37:17Speaker 4: is that when he was city Home for President, I
- 37:21Speaker 4: remember seeing him constantly on the news complaining about the
- 37:25Speaker 4: events and stuff that the city was holding, Like he
- 37:29Speaker 4: went on this whole rank at one point about I
- 37:31Speaker 4: think it's a city cookout that the city hosts every
- 37:34Speaker 4: year for the employees, and he talked about how much
- 37:37Speaker 4: money they spent on that, and this is and this,
- 37:40Speaker 4: and it's so funny to see him as mayor now
- 37:42Speaker 4: and see him boosting about this stuff and make sure
- 37:45Speaker 4: y'all come up to this, to make sure y'all come
- 37:47Speaker 4: up to this event, to make sure y'all come out
- 37:48Speaker 4: to this and this, this and this, And I'm like, sir,
- 37:50Speaker 4: I remember a time when you were mad they were
- 37:52Speaker 4: spending this kind of money on entertainment and stuff like that.
- 37:55Speaker 6: And now, but that's just like us being that's just
- 37:57Speaker 6: like us being kids. And I understand now understanding some
- 38:00Speaker 6: of the things that our parents do or or I'm
- 38:02Speaker 6: sorry us being kids not want to take a fucking nap.
- 38:05Speaker 6: And then when you get older, you were like that's
- 38:07Speaker 6: a beautiful man.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Niggas, don't listen.
- 38:11Speaker 6: I don't sleeping like you know what I mean, like
- 38:15Speaker 6: in or or like how we how we had a
- 38:18Speaker 6: conversation about the ship that we used to that we
- 38:20Speaker 6: used to hate eating, but now we can like now
- 38:22Speaker 6: we're eating, Like now that we're older, it's like, yo,
- 38:24Speaker 6: we're pretty.
- 38:25Speaker 2: It's a different appreciation.
- 38:26Speaker 4: So it could very well be that he went and
- 38:28Speaker 4: they and got shipped together and that's why he saw
- 38:30Speaker 4: it like he saw that. It felt like it ain't
- 38:32Speaker 4: no no difference, like sir, it's the same events. Matter
- 38:35Speaker 4: of fact, is more events now than you do. Damn
- 38:37Speaker 4: there because there wasn't no JOm City Live. That's some
- 38:39Speaker 4: ship that's been going on for the last few years.
- 38:41Speaker 4: It wasn't no charm City Live. It was the ad
- 38:43Speaker 4: Frame and art Skate. But I believe that disappeared for
- 38:47Speaker 4: a while then came back.
- 38:48Speaker 2: But I believe I believe that.
- 38:50Speaker 6: Kind of stuff and take pride in the city. It's
- 38:53Speaker 6: like he's trying to take pride in his city. Liked
- 38:55Speaker 6: like Brandon just said, it's like, yo, I still got
- 38:58Speaker 6: I got I saw a spot for this city.
- 38:59Speaker 2: I loved it.
- 39:00Speaker 6: It's like, I love this city and he wants, you know,
- 39:02Speaker 6: he wants everybody to feel that same love.
- 39:04Speaker 5: I love my city, I just don't like some of
- 39:05Speaker 5: the people in it.
- 39:07Speaker 2: I think.
- 39:09Speaker 3: I think a big part of it is also trying
- 39:11Speaker 3: to get people to understand that we need you, we
- 39:15Speaker 3: need we need people to show up and show out.
- 39:17Speaker 3: But it's also using the saying the grass isn't greener,
- 39:23Speaker 3: isn't greener on the other side of greener where you watering,
- 39:26Speaker 3: And if you invest in the people, you invest in
- 39:30Speaker 3: the city and through cultural means, through jobs, through a
- 39:33Speaker 3: lot of things to draw people back into the city.
- 39:37Speaker 3: That will foster growth in a lot of ways. It
- 39:41Speaker 3: will make people want to come into the city more people,
- 39:44Speaker 3: It will have people spend their tax dollars, or not
- 39:46Speaker 3: their tax dollar, but have people spend their dollars that
- 39:48Speaker 3: they earned in the city. And it's only a win
- 39:51Speaker 3: for the city, I will say. And I think I
- 39:54Speaker 3: mentioned this or not on the podcast, but I mentioned
- 39:55Speaker 3: this in a comment that I left on the post
- 39:58Speaker 3: The Baltimore Banner posted and articles several months ago about
- 40:01Speaker 3: like Baltimore's decline in black population. And let's say, since
- 40:07Speaker 3: maybe the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, Baltimore's Black population
- 40:11Speaker 3: has been steadily declined, and for a lot of the
- 40:13Speaker 3: same reason, with like job access to jobs and you know,
- 40:17Speaker 3: procede crime and a lot of like the poor housing
- 40:20Speaker 3: stock in a lot of areas of the stagnant, you know,
- 40:23Speaker 3: stagnant growth of different different facets of life in the city.
- 40:29Speaker 3: And I left to comment, you know, on on that
- 40:33Speaker 3: post and stated that you know, I knew grew up
- 40:36Speaker 3: in Park Heights. Initially I went to Morgan State, which
- 40:39Speaker 3: is also in Baltimore City. Go Bears, but I ended
- 40:42Speaker 3: up leaving because I wanted to live closer to work.
- 40:46Speaker 3: I ended up getting a job closer to DC when
- 40:50Speaker 3: I graduated from college, and I tried to community for
- 40:52Speaker 3: a couple Muscle was like hell no, and I ended
- 40:54Speaker 3: up moving to be closer to work. So while I
- 40:58Speaker 3: don't live in Baltimore City anymore, I'm close by, but
- 41:01Speaker 3: I'm still tapped into a lot of the politics and
- 41:04Speaker 3: things happening. But if you want to foster, I mean,
- 41:09Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of people who maybe go
- 41:11Speaker 3: to Copper or go to Morgan, or black people who
- 41:13Speaker 3: live in the city who have the money and means
- 41:16Speaker 3: they may not want to stay in the city. They'll
- 41:17Speaker 3: move to out to you know, Baltimore County, be it,
- 41:20Speaker 3: you know, Parkdale, or they're moved moved to Woodlawn or
- 41:23Speaker 3: Randallstown or Riister's Town, which fucking far from everything. Or
- 41:27Speaker 3: they'll even move move to Atlanta and move the Myphis.
- 41:30Speaker 3: So move the cities where it's supposed they perceive it
- 41:33Speaker 3: to be. Cost of living is.
- 41:34Speaker 6: Lower, it's better, and you know what the funck shit
- 41:37Speaker 6: about the whole cost of living thing. When niggas go
- 41:40Speaker 6: to like they it's like, yo, because while we were
- 41:43Speaker 6: down there and I'm seeing it, like you know what
- 41:45Speaker 6: I mean, Like I'm seeing how like how beautiful Atlanta is,
- 41:49Speaker 6: how how beautiful Atlanta is, how built it is, and
- 41:52Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, it reminded me of Baltimore.
- 41:55Speaker 3: I mean, but you also have to remember, like and
- 41:57Speaker 3: I think a lot of us we have this conversation
- 41:59Speaker 3: is how you know, we get old where back in
- 42:00Speaker 3: my day we starting to have those conversations ourselves, Like.
- 42:03Speaker 2: I remember when.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Back in my day, you know, the harbor of us
- 42:07Speaker 3: just about me and yeah it was thirty years ago,
- 42:10Speaker 3: but everything has a life cycle everything, you know, cycicle,
- 42:14Speaker 3: everything changes, and it's possible for it to come back.
- 42:18Speaker 5: Yeah, but running back every now and then.
- 42:22Speaker 3: But you need to have the investment in that area
- 42:24Speaker 3: because people can play. Well, it's not safe. There's no
- 42:27Speaker 3: stores open.
- 42:27Speaker 6: It's it's why he keep trying to do all these
- 42:29Speaker 6: goddamn festivals downtown.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Like, hey, listen, we.
- 42:33Speaker 5: Cool, we fun, it's safe, kind of.
- 42:40Speaker 3: Kind of look around, it's safe.
- 42:43Speaker 6: Just don't just don't go on the other side. Just
- 42:44Speaker 6: don't go on the other side of Lumbard. But can
- 42:47Speaker 6: be good.
- 42:48Speaker 3: But a lot of people And I think this is
- 42:50Speaker 3: why I go. So I'm so passionate about well, we
- 42:52Speaker 3: talked about this in the previous episode of the show.
- 42:54Speaker 3: I'm so passionate about the development plans for Harbor Place
- 42:57Speaker 3: because with the two like lift youre pavilion and the
- 43:00Speaker 3: Pratt Street Pavilion being there. Yes, when the area was
- 43:04Speaker 3: initially prior to nineteen eighty, it was all industrial. It
- 43:08Speaker 3: was the McCormick factory is right there on Light Street
- 43:10Speaker 3: where four fourteen Light Street is now, and it was
- 43:13Speaker 3: all piers. Ships would come in. That was all a
- 43:15Speaker 3: part of the Port of Baltimore. And ships would come
- 43:18Speaker 3: in to drop off goods and services, spices, sugar and stuff,
- 43:21Speaker 3: and they would go up to Pennsylvania, out to western
- 43:24Speaker 3: Maryland down to DC from there. But when William Donald
- 43:27Speaker 3: Schaeffer had the idea to turn it into a tourist destination,
- 43:30Speaker 3: it revitalized that whole area, and rightfully so. But Harbor
- 43:35Speaker 3: Place opened in nineteen eighty, it's forty four years later.
- 43:40Speaker 3: Like you have a lot of places, and I look
- 43:43Speaker 3: at it like a mall, because that's essentially what Harbor
- 43:44Speaker 3: Place is, stores, restaurants. But a lot of these malls
- 43:49Speaker 3: that we started going to, remember Golden Ring Mall, Old Child,
- 43:53Speaker 3: Marley Station, Marley Station is fucking empty, yeah, Sun Maley
- 43:58Speaker 3: Station is a lot of these right to write central applies.
- 44:01Speaker 3: A lot of these malls that we grew up going
- 44:02Speaker 3: to are now if they're opening the shelves of their
- 44:06Speaker 3: of their former selves. And a lot of these balls,
- 44:08Speaker 3: like On's Mills for example, that was some more we
- 44:09Speaker 3: went up, came up growing to it's now a strip
- 44:12Speaker 3: mall because they read, they reimagined, didn't turned it into
- 44:15Speaker 3: something else. And I think, I think that's what's needed
- 44:18Speaker 3: for Harbor Plays.
- 44:19Speaker 5: I agree. I agree.
- 44:23Speaker 4: I feel like it should be filled with like small
- 44:25Speaker 4: businesses and restaurants and stuff like that, like homegrown stuff.
- 44:31Speaker 3: Before we keep talking, I as sewn and eron to
- 44:34Speaker 3: go take a quiz. P Research Center, which is a
- 44:39Speaker 3: trusted source of research and polls and a lot of
- 44:41Speaker 3: other things. Poles polls, not not tripper poles, but actual polls,
- 44:45Speaker 3: p oo pools, polls, p o ll s. I can
- 44:53Speaker 3: spell and I can't speak. I asked them to take
- 44:56Speaker 3: what is a quiz called what is your political type typography?
- 45:00Speaker 3: And it basically asked people that take it a series
- 45:03Speaker 3: of questions and it spits out your put what it
- 45:09Speaker 3: assumes your political leanings are based on I think it
- 45:11Speaker 3: was maybe seven to ten questions sixteen okay, based off
- 45:15Speaker 3: of like what are your thoughts on this? What are
- 45:18Speaker 3: your thoughts on that? Should the government do more of this?
- 45:20Speaker 3: Or us of this? And after you answer all the questions,
- 45:24Speaker 3: it gives you a answer your political leanings are X.
- 45:27Speaker 3: So I'll go first. I've taken this quiz now two
- 45:31Speaker 3: or three times and I actually got most not surprising.
- 45:36Speaker 3: It's said that I am progressive, left leaning. Yeah, I
- 45:42Speaker 3: advocate for you know more government spending in terms of
- 45:45Speaker 3: social programs, more investment in communities, more investment in like
- 45:50Speaker 3: different facets of people, less dependent let's on businesses, and
- 45:56Speaker 3: more on investment in people. Yeah, so, Seana, what did
- 46:02Speaker 3: it give you and where you so? Okay? First start off?
- 46:05Speaker 3: What did what did the test say that you you were? Politically?
- 46:09Speaker 3: Were you surprised by that or do you think it
- 46:12Speaker 3: was correct?
- 46:13Speaker 4: So it put me in the category of a democratic
- 46:16Speaker 4: mainstay and basically, uh, democratic mainstays. Distinguishing features are committed Democrats,
- 46:25Speaker 4: which that's true. Economically liberal, they say, I am and
- 46:32Speaker 4: concerned about crime, which I am because I got a
- 46:35Speaker 4: whole teenager.
- 46:37Speaker 5: Am I really surprised? No, I'm not.
- 46:39Speaker 4: I I feel like the government should do more than
- 46:42Speaker 4: what they do. I feel like it should be fair
- 46:45Speaker 4: and spread wide and not just concentrated on one freaking thing.
- 46:49Speaker 4: I eat the school system because they.
- 46:51Speaker 5: Always got all this money for all the.
- 46:54Speaker 4: Howard Counties and you know, the Carroll Counties and all
- 46:57Speaker 4: of them, the communities they got the damn money.
- 46:59Speaker 5: Are I am ready to richer.
- 47:01Speaker 4: Communities versus Baltimore County in Baltimore City, they don't send
- 47:05Speaker 4: as much money into the school.
- 47:06Speaker 3: Systems and stuff, and it was proven and I state
- 47:09Speaker 3: this with facts. Maryland matters dot org released a study
- 47:14Speaker 3: several years back stating that the state of Maryland had
- 47:18Speaker 3: underfunded Baltimore City public schools to the tune of maybe
- 47:21Speaker 3: three or four hundred million dollars over the past thirty
- 47:24Speaker 3: or forty years. So there is proof that city schools
- 47:28Speaker 3: have been chronically underfunded. So yes, yeah, So.
- 47:35Speaker 4: The day answer didn't really surprise me. When I read
- 47:37Speaker 4: each description, I was like, oh, yeah, it.
- 47:39Speaker 5: Kind of sounds like me. I'll get it. But what
- 47:43Speaker 5: you end up getting therened?
- 47:45Speaker 3: So what you conservative? Fuck? No, I conser I gotta ask.
- 47:52Speaker 6: No, they gave me outside of left, okay, because like
- 47:58Speaker 6: one of the like a couple of lotical usons that
- 48:00Speaker 6: they asked that they but the distinguishing features that I
- 48:03Speaker 6: was out of left is young, dissatisfied with, dissatisfied with parties,
- 48:07Speaker 6: and liberal on most issues. That sounds like, honestly no,
- 48:12Speaker 6: because one of the one of the main one of
- 48:14Speaker 6: the questions that was like religion should be kept out
- 48:17Speaker 6: of kept separate from government policies. And I was like, yeah,
- 48:21Speaker 6: I believe that it should be like I believe that
- 48:22Speaker 6: it should be like you know, we should keep government
- 48:25Speaker 6: and religious separate. But but I it's just it's just
- 48:30Speaker 6: certain things. But one of the things that they that
- 48:32Speaker 6: did stick out to me was like they said, it asked,
- 48:35Speaker 6: do I do I think that that America should be
- 48:38Speaker 6: the only one, like the only like the strongest military
- 48:41Speaker 6: military power. And I was like, I wouldn't be I mean,
- 48:45Speaker 6: I would be okay if somebody else was, because I mean, honestly,
- 48:48Speaker 6: after I was talking to Kea, as I was taking it,
- 48:50Speaker 6: I was like, Yo, at the World War two, I
- 48:51Speaker 6: think Japan got.
- 48:52Speaker 2: Us beat, but they on some ship like Japan or
- 48:55Speaker 2: some ship like you got us once again.
- 49:01Speaker 4: However, you leave me alone with you. You ain't got
- 49:06Speaker 4: no beef. I ain't got no beef.
- 49:08Speaker 2: But it's a I mean. But it was like, you know,
- 49:10Speaker 2: like I said, I'm liberal.
- 49:11Speaker 6: I mean I'm liberal on most issues, Like I don't
- 49:13Speaker 6: believe that the one thing said something about I would
- 49:17Speaker 6: not I would not bother us. I would not bother
- 49:20Speaker 6: you or at all to regularly hear people speaking language. Oh,
- 49:24Speaker 6: it wouldn't bother me to hear other people speaking languages
- 49:26Speaker 6: because I accept that American. Yeah, it's like I accept
- 49:30Speaker 6: that I accept our country as being like the hub
- 49:33Speaker 6: for everybody.
- 49:35Speaker 3: So it's surprisingly so outside Left is actually to the
- 49:38Speaker 3: right of Democratic mainsteam. Hmm, all right, so of course,
- 49:44Speaker 3: like I said earlier, I got Progressive Left. In the States,
- 49:46Speaker 3: Progressive Left is the only majority white, non Hispanic democratic
- 49:50Speaker 3: orients and political typology group have very liberal views on
- 49:54Speaker 3: virtually every issue, and support far reaching changes to address
- 49:57Speaker 3: racial injustice and expand the social safety dep They are
- 50:00Speaker 3: among the smallest topology groups, but also one of the
- 50:04Speaker 3: most politically engaged. They feel less warmly towards a Democratic
- 50:07Speaker 3: party than establishment liberals or Democratic main stays, but those
- 50:11Speaker 3: who vote in the twenty twenty general election, we're nearly
- 50:13Speaker 3: unanimous in their support for Joe Biden. They are the
- 50:16Speaker 3: only group in which a majority said that they like
- 50:18Speaker 3: political leaders who identify as democratic socialists.
- 50:21Speaker 6: That's your curt, I mean, but that's your curry. I mean, actually, yeah,
- 50:25Speaker 6: it's not right. I mean because I mean, we just
- 50:27Speaker 6: saying that the conversation. I'm just saying I had the
- 50:29Speaker 6: conversation about about about growth and growth, and I'm economic
- 50:33Speaker 6: growth and like you, how you are for development? You
- 50:37Speaker 6: know you are for development, Like I mean, I'm in
- 50:41Speaker 6: I can say like, I can say the same. I
- 50:42Speaker 6: mean I can say the same. I'm the same way
- 50:44Speaker 6: as far as it's like, yo, how is it like?
- 50:46Speaker 6: How's it gonna benefit? How does it like? How?
- 50:50Speaker 3: Like?
- 50:50Speaker 6: You know, I'm more for the people than the you know,
- 50:55Speaker 6: than for the what you're gonna do for us?
- 50:59Speaker 2: Oh? That I answered.
- 51:00Speaker 6: A lot more needs to be done to ensure equal
- 51:03Speaker 6: rights for all Americans, and most US laws and majority
- 51:06Speaker 6: institutions need to be completely rebuilt because they are fundamentally
- 51:09Speaker 6: biased against some racial and ethnic groups. Like yeah, yeah,
- 51:17Speaker 6: because the country was built for the country was built
- 51:19Speaker 6: for I mean those people. Yeah, the people business corporations
- 51:25Speaker 6: make too much profit.
- 51:26Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, it's not that they made too much profit.
- 51:30Speaker 3: Well yeah. I also think that our tax tax the
- 51:35Speaker 3: US tax code has basically because of Ronald Reagan and
- 51:39Speaker 3: a lot of ways, has eroded to where corporations pay
- 51:45Speaker 3: less and that tax share is centered on people. People
- 51:50Speaker 3: have to pay more and get less in return.
- 51:53Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, man, you know it's funny.
- 51:57Speaker 6: I hear older people talking about, you know what, those
- 51:59Speaker 6: in those other countries they don't have to pay for
- 52:01Speaker 6: health They don't got to pay.
- 52:02Speaker 2: For health care.
- 52:03Speaker 3: They're doing their taxes, right, theyre like.
- 52:05Speaker 2: They don't have they don't.
- 52:05Speaker 6: They got free health care, and then they got free college,
- 52:08Speaker 6: and I was like, yeah, but what's the like, ain't
- 52:12Speaker 6: ship free? Motherfucker?
- 52:14Speaker 2: Like they they paned, they paned.
- 52:16Speaker 6: Some they paying they paying for I was like, Yo,
- 52:18Speaker 6: they're paying for their own education somewhere, or they paying
- 52:21Speaker 6: for their own healthcare some way.
- 52:22Speaker 2: I was like, not say taxes, like what are their taxes?
- 52:26Speaker 6: How much are they paying in taxes to you know,
- 52:29Speaker 6: in order to keep you know, in order to keep
- 52:31Speaker 6: health healthcare? Because I mean, I thought that's what I mean.
- 52:34Speaker 6: I thought that's what you had to do. If you
- 52:35Speaker 6: want to do free healthcare, you're gonna have to raise taxes, right, Yeah,
- 52:39Speaker 6: you had to raise taxes. Or if you want to
- 52:41Speaker 6: do the college education, like yo, if you're trying to
- 52:44Speaker 6: do like tuition for college or yeah, you're gonna have
- 52:46Speaker 6: to raise taxes some way.
- 52:47Speaker 2: You gotta recoup that money.
- 52:49Speaker 3: And I feel like their corporations there are so many
- 52:52Speaker 3: major or mega corporations in this country that make billions
- 52:56Speaker 3: and billions and billions of dollars in profit every year
- 52:59Speaker 3: that don't don't pay pay little to know income tax.
- 53:03Speaker 3: And I feel like if they paid their fair share,
- 53:06Speaker 3: even if like for example, would be on board for
- 53:09Speaker 3: like a minimum like a minimum effective tax rate to
- 53:12Speaker 3: where even if you could reduce your taxes through like, well,
- 53:15Speaker 3: we invested in this sector and we you know, got
- 53:17Speaker 3: all these we did this, and we did this, so
- 53:19Speaker 3: they got their tax rate that they should pay down
- 53:22Speaker 3: to zero percent. Every corporation, in my opinion, should have
- 53:25Speaker 3: a minimum tax rate of fifteen percent.
- 53:27Speaker 2: Okay, because if you make sixteen sixteen.
- 53:30Speaker 3: Billion dollars a year in profit, you shouldn't just be
- 53:33Speaker 3: able to walk away and not pay any federal tax
- 53:34Speaker 3: because you still use roads, you fly in American airspace,
- 53:39Speaker 3: you use you know, Americas and services to build or
- 53:43Speaker 3: to to make your product. So why should you not
- 53:47Speaker 3: then pourt that money back into the government so people
- 53:49Speaker 3: can that people can live. Yeah, I mean and instead
- 53:53Speaker 3: of you know, invested that money in stock buybacks, shareholder.
- 53:57Speaker 6: Go and invest that money. And these goddamn Baltimore streets,
- 54:00Speaker 6: motherfucker like potholes like like fifteen on like two foot
- 54:04Speaker 6: potholes and shit in the middle of the goddamn street.
- 54:07Speaker 3: I mean, that's and honestly, that's the way, in my opinion,
- 54:09Speaker 3: to pay for a lot of you know, student loan forgiveness,
- 54:12Speaker 3: to pay for you know, universal health care, to pay
- 54:15Speaker 3: for free college. I think a minimum, a minimum corporate
- 54:19Speaker 3: effective corporate tax rate will saw a lot of those
- 54:21Speaker 3: issues and could get us on a much better foot
- 54:23Speaker 3: than than we are now.
- 54:24Speaker 6: I mean, I believe that's what That's what Bottom was
- 54:26Speaker 6: trying to do coming in, like trying to eliminate student
- 54:29Speaker 6: debt because they then my I think he was saying,
- 54:32Speaker 6: I can't remember, it was years ago, but I believe him,
- 54:36Speaker 6: and Common lovel was on that ship, like you know,
- 54:38Speaker 6: they wanted more homeownership, absolutely, and you can't and a
- 54:41Speaker 6: lot of times, a lot of times you can't really
- 54:43Speaker 6: you can't really get that loan from the bank because
- 54:47Speaker 6: you already still because you're still owe the government. And
- 54:49Speaker 6: I mean, well, we don't know too many people who
- 54:52Speaker 6: paid back their student loans in full.
- 54:55Speaker 3: Well, I think it's also an age thing to it. Well,
- 54:57Speaker 3: but us we're still firmly in that that group of
- 55:00Speaker 3: people who are paying their loans off. Whereas I think
- 55:04Speaker 3: it was it was stated and I can't recall offhand
- 55:08Speaker 3: where I saw this, but it was stated that there's
- 55:11Speaker 3: there are stark differences between white borrowers and black barbers
- 55:14Speaker 3: to where white borrowers will pay off their loans within
- 55:17Speaker 3: a ten or twelve year period, but for whatever reason,
- 55:19Speaker 3: black barrowers will end up paying or owing more than
- 55:23Speaker 3: what they initially took out because of forbearance or because
- 55:26Speaker 3: of you know, the types of payment plans offered. And
- 55:29Speaker 3: I don't think that was just specific to federal loans.
- 55:31Speaker 3: I think that was just across the entire student loan, right.
- 55:35Speaker 2: I mean, but granted, let it tell me it is forgiving.
- 55:41Speaker 3: It was a glorious day. I was here. I was
- 55:43Speaker 3: in here. I wasn't here about to do a flip
- 55:46Speaker 3: until I almost broke my ankle and I ain't gonna do that.
- 55:48Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, y'all said.
- 55:49Speaker 6: No, y'all said, I said, y'all put that in the
- 55:52Speaker 6: group chat about like still long forget. I was like, Yo,
- 55:55Speaker 6: what the fuck do I gotta do to get this ball?
- 55:59Speaker 3: Get? Looks like.
- 56:02Speaker 6: Jesus, like you know what I'm saying, what Dorise loans is.
- 56:06Speaker 5: Not up the kingdom? Honey shut out to Terry k
- 56:08Speaker 5: Is not off the Kingdom.
- 56:10Speaker 3: I think it's just it's that, but I think it's
- 56:12Speaker 3: also more so a thing of just the fact that
- 56:14Speaker 3: the entire industry is just predatory. You have seventeen, eighteen,
- 56:17Speaker 3: nineteen year olds who don't know anything about finances, signing
- 56:21Speaker 3: loans or signing for these loans to go to college
- 56:24Speaker 3: and not understanding the terms, and then when they graduate,
- 56:27Speaker 3: if they don't take out additional loans to go to
- 56:29Speaker 3: graduate school or professional school, you have these loans that
- 56:32Speaker 3: basically accrue interest every day. The payment terms suck, the
- 56:36Speaker 3: interest rates suck, and you're stuck in the cycle of
- 56:40Speaker 3: several people who have paid off the ballots they borrowed now,
- 56:43Speaker 3: but because they owe so much interest, they still owe
- 56:45Speaker 3: an additional one hundred and thirty thousand or they owe
- 56:48Speaker 3: probably don't. They should be what they took out.
- 56:51Speaker 4: For front charge me interest on some day, I should
- 56:55Speaker 4: have to pay back the I borrow.
- 56:57Speaker 3: I feel like that if you're going to charge interests
- 56:59Speaker 3: and cape it a one percent cap it at two percent.
- 57:01Speaker 5: Like, why should I have to pay interest money?
- 57:03Speaker 3: Make a simple interest, not compelling interests? Make it simple? Right?
- 57:08Speaker 3: The government, you did take out the loan on the
- 57:09Speaker 3: back of the US government. We have to pay back
- 57:11Speaker 3: one percent or two percent of this money. Make it
- 57:14Speaker 3: simple and not compounding interest. And then there you go.
- 57:16Speaker 6: Yeah, but instead of enticing it, instead of enticing these
- 57:19Speaker 6: little motherfuckers, but you know, you get your rebate check back,
- 57:22Speaker 6: and it's like, for real.
- 57:25Speaker 3: I didn't know shit about I mean, if my mother
- 57:27Speaker 3: explained that to me early. And I'm you know, like
- 57:29Speaker 3: I said in a previous episode, I'm thankful I didn't
- 57:31Speaker 3: go to Howard, even though it was my first choice school,
- 57:33Speaker 3: because I would have been over eighty grand a student
- 57:35Speaker 3: loan debt just from an undergraduate degree. Yeah, and I
- 57:39Speaker 3: would have had to pay all that back. And I
- 57:41Speaker 3: have several friends now who have gone to you know,
- 57:45Speaker 3: get their under gone to undergrad and gone to grad
- 57:48Speaker 3: school and now they are over six figures of student
- 57:50Speaker 3: loan debt and the only hope they have is to
- 57:54Speaker 3: either hit the lottery, have loan forgiveness, or die. But
- 58:00Speaker 3: even even in that case, because student loans aren't discharged
- 58:03Speaker 3: they the laws state that student loans can't be discharged
- 58:06Speaker 3: through death or bankruptcy. Those are the only hopes you
- 58:09Speaker 3: had to either pay it off wouldn't the a lottery
- 58:11Speaker 3: to pay it off or get it forgiven by the government.
- 58:13Speaker 6: So what so whatever I do to go get yeah,
- 58:16Speaker 6: we're going, y'all gonna put me in at the directaurant.
- 58:18Speaker 2: I get that damn student loan.
- 58:20Speaker 3: Well, teachers, teachers can't get their loans forgiven. So it's
- 58:23Speaker 3: not just public sector employees for the public Service Loan
- 58:25Speaker 3: Forgiveness program. It's public service meaning I think educators, people
- 58:31Speaker 3: who work for federal, local, state, or tribal government, police, firefighters, like,
- 58:39Speaker 3: so it's it's a that group is just law. I
- 58:42Speaker 3: think what ended until President Biden read I think they
- 58:47Speaker 3: worked out he reworked some of the wording of those
- 58:50Speaker 3: of the p s l f P. Yeah, where I
- 58:57Speaker 3: think about that because I was like, I don't think
- 58:58Speaker 3: that t in there. People were applying for the program,
- 59:04Speaker 3: but I think they the program only had like I
- 59:06Speaker 3: think the three or four percent acceptance rate to where
- 59:08Speaker 3: so you have people who met the requirement so to speak,
- 59:11Speaker 3: but when they would reach the end of their loan
- 59:13Speaker 3: terms and they were put in for that for the
- 59:16Speaker 3: for the forgiveness approval, only three percent of those people
- 59:20Speaker 3: got approved for it. And it's like what I made
- 59:23Speaker 3: my one hundred and twenty payments. I'm in a qualifying plan,
- 59:29Speaker 3: but you're telling me now that I still don't apply
- 59:31Speaker 3: because of because of what reason? For lo and forgiveness?
- 59:35Speaker 3: I took took less money than a job. I could
- 59:38Speaker 3: have gone to the private sector and made probably close
- 59:39Speaker 3: to double what I'm making now all these years paying
- 59:43Speaker 3: my loans back like you said, I'm and now you're
- 59:46Speaker 3: not still not going to forgive my loans.
- 59:49Speaker 2: So, yeah, the dude just don't like a big fuck
- 59:52Speaker 2: you man.
- 59:53Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it absolutely does.
- 59:54Speaker 3: Yeah, so he I think he took that and he
- 59:58Speaker 3: through through executive action. And in a lot of ways,
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: the pandemic helped because they they the Department of Education
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: counted the payment pause as qualifying payments for basically everybody.
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: So while the federal government paused payments because of COVID lockdowns,
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: every month that payments for pause counted towards that that
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: you know, that that payback, that qualifying payment for everybody.
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: So that's it.
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: I'm a fucking teacher, that's how.
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: That's how. That's how I got my loans forgiven. That's
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: how I got my loans forgiven. And I had to
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: I think I told Seana this back when a few
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: years back, when I finally decided to sit down and
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: look at why I'm making a payment every month, but
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: my loan balance isn't going down at all, or it's
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: going up every month, and I'm making a payment, right
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: And I had to call at the time, my service,
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: so I think was sadly May and I said, I'm
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: paying y'all the money, purtise payment. Why is my payment
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: not going down every month? And the lady literally said
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: to me, said to me, sir, the payment you submit
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: is the minimum payment that we allow, but it's not
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: covering all of your interests every month. Let's say if
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: my minimum interest payment every month was two hundred and
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: forty dollars, I'm paying two thirty two, So I'm carrying
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: over eight dollars a month in interest every.
- 1:01:17Speaker 6: Month, so either way, so so either way, it's just
- 1:01:20Speaker 6: gonna say the same.
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: Yeah, And at the end of every year, I think,
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: or every year, that amount capitalizes onto the balance of
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: the loan. Now, I was on the graduated plan to
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: where it basically my payment starts at started at a
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: certain rate back in twenty twelve, and it jumps every
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: two years. And they said, well, sir, unfortunately, graduated plans
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: aren't allowed under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, but
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: you can go under an income based plan. And I said, well,
- 1:01:46Speaker 3: if I do an income based plan, I would essentially
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: pay off my loan before it could be forgiven. Why
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: would I do that? That's ad if but I don't
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: have six hundred dollars a month to pay towards student loan.
- 1:02:00Speaker 6: Yeah, that's like if I get us to pay out
- 1:02:02Speaker 6: for early when he was getting them all he was
- 1:02:03Speaker 6: getting them goddamn checks from buying bro.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: If if I go to an income playing income based playing,
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: my loan would be paid off within ten years, so
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: I wouldn't need long forgiveness. What since does that mean, sir? Unfortunately, yeah,
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: you have to go through this plan. She said. Also,
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: if you do go under this plan, because none of
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: the payments you've made to this point qualify for that,
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: your qualifying payments will start at one and you'd have
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: to pay ten years from this point forward. I said, well,
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: fuck it. For all of that, all of that, I
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: might as well just not just pay my own loan.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: So yeah, I tell you my day right now.
- 1:02:46Speaker 6: And like lit I'm an educated that's run me, so
- 1:02:52Speaker 6: I will say because to fix my credit.
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: But we started talking about Larry Hogan and Angela also
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: Brooks turtle to jump jump back to him. While he
- 1:03:01Speaker 3: was a very popular governor here in Maryland, he did
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: have a lot of flaws. And I think that while
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: he is popular, Maryland is still a blue state, and
- 1:03:15Speaker 3: we vote blue in federal elections for president, for Senate,
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: I think Maryland has voted blue. We've had democratic senators.
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: I think the Artoquard reads said since nineteen sixty, every
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: Senator we've had has been a Democrat. We haven't had
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: a Republican. I am, and I think with the margins
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: being as tight as they are, with you know, women's
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: reproductive rights being such a huge issue for a lot
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: of people, I don't foresee him winning that race. It'll
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: be close, but I think a lot more people will say,
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: if we get Democrats in, we can try to protect
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: our rights. But if we put Larry Hogan, and yes
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: he may be popular, but he may or may not,
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: caut us with the Republicans and if they move to strike,
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: you know, reproductive rights for women start, you know, dealing
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: with with a lot of federal programs and on the
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: fire the federal departments. Because he's a Republican, he may
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: or may not end up siding with Republicans because that's
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: his focus, and we end up shooting ourselves in the foot.
- 1:04:14Speaker 6: I believe, no, but I believe that's what I believe.
- 1:04:16Speaker 6: That's what happened with Donald Trump. Like Donald Trump was
- 1:04:18Speaker 6: on that ship with the Republicans and then so he
- 1:04:20Speaker 6: got off like like y'all, y'all got nice stupid. But
- 1:04:24Speaker 6: we'll come back to that when Seana comes back to
- 1:04:26Speaker 6: the table. So we're gonna take a commercial break and
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: we will be right back. And we're back from our
- 1:04:34Speaker 6: commercial break.
- 1:04:35Speaker 5: We're not ready to admit that she really can't saying
- 1:04:37Speaker 5: she just make good music.
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: No, they didn't hear using what you're talking about. So
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: they've been moved past that.
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's.
- 1:04:48Speaker 4: Gone back the politics. Basically, I say what I said,
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: back the politics.
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not getting that.
- 1:05:05Speaker 4: I'm with her. Kamla twenty twenty four. Say what you
- 1:05:11Speaker 4: want to say about her. The girl daddy is jamaking.
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: The only difference between Jamaicans and Black Americans. It's a
- 1:05:16Speaker 4: different island.
- 1:05:16Speaker 5: Stop. I don't give a fucking none of y'all say.
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: I was about to say just the ocean. But you
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: know it's cool too, now, is it.
- 1:05:21Speaker 5: They just dropped us off in different places. It's fine,
- 1:05:24Speaker 5: it really is.
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: Everything is fine everything.
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: That's how a y'all feeling about this election. We are
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: now but ten days out from the general from election
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: day one week one two. Yeah, we're ten days out.
- 1:05:40Speaker 3: Today's the twenty sixth. This episode will come out on
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: the thirtieth. So as of today, we are ten days
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: out from election day. How y'all feeling about it?
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: So I thank you like a blessing.
- 1:05:51Speaker 6: M I think I think I'm gonna go ahead on
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: YouTube and beinge and beinge all the all the debates,
- 1:05:58Speaker 6: and it be like, you know, just to stay rest
- 1:06:00Speaker 6: of the situation, because happens.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: When you having voted jail.
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: Nah.
- 1:06:05Speaker 6: I just I got the ship. I got the ship
- 1:06:07Speaker 6: and I did mailing. Yeah, yeah, I got the I
- 1:06:10Speaker 6: got it mailed. Then, I mean I'm thinking I'm thinking
- 1:06:13Speaker 6: about it should if I whether I should go on
- 1:06:16Speaker 6: personal just something or just mail it.
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: Then, So you already have a mailing ballot?
- 1:06:19Speaker 6: Yeah I got Yeah, my my mother dropped it up.
- 1:06:22Speaker 6: My mother in law dropped it off. The dropped it
- 1:06:24Speaker 6: off the other day. Yeah, so I might, I might
- 1:06:28Speaker 6: pull out, might pull a shaw him go ahead on
- 1:06:30Speaker 6: mail and then and then you know, be like, oh damn,
- 1:06:33Speaker 6: I was in the line. I've been in the line
- 1:06:36Speaker 6: since five since five thirty. God, I'm you know, show
- 1:06:39Speaker 6: up at work like run like NW not fine thirty damn.
- 1:06:44Speaker 6: We was in man that that that line of that
- 1:06:46Speaker 6: school was long as fuck.
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: So I actually early voted yesterday. I got to my
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: local Poland place. I don't know what you're laughing at.
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: I'm scared to ask.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: The water whatever. Yeah, anyway, we got your poland place.
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: Our early voted yesterday, which is Friday the twenty fifth. Yeah, Friday,
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: October twenty fifth. Got to my polling place and I
- 1:07:14Speaker 3: was in and out in maybe twenty five minutes. And
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: I literally had good time of because when I got there,
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: I just walked in, went straight to the table. They
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: gave me my ballot. I don't know how it is
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: where you know everybody is, but here in Maryland you
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: can register to vote the day of. They had a
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: table off to the side for voter registration. You could
- 1:07:30Speaker 3: register the same day, vote the same day and get
- 1:07:33Speaker 3: it all done and over with if you wanted to.
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: And the process was simple. Here where I live, not
- 1:07:41Speaker 3: in Baltimore City or county closer to Washington, d C.
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: We have different stuff on our ballot and our election
- 1:07:49Speaker 3: for the county I live in, and we had vote
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: for president, of course, vote for Senate for replacement senator,
- 1:07:59Speaker 3: and we had about five or six questions about like
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: state amendments for taking our bonds for like infrastructure projects,
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: for school construction, for library construction, for public service and
- 1:08:15Speaker 3: public safety construction. So you know, I voted yes on
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: all of those things because we always need infrastructure improvements.
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: But anyway, I feel like so, like I said, ten
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: days away from the election and a lot of states
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: early voting has already started, make a plan to vote
- 1:08:31Speaker 3: if you have not already on my personal Instagram, And
- 1:08:36Speaker 3: stop that.
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: Bullshit about our votes not counting. If I votes didn't count,
- 1:08:40Speaker 4: why the fuck did they try to fight so hard
- 1:08:42Speaker 4: against us having a right to vote, dumb asses?
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: I mean I could see what.
- 1:08:47Speaker 4: You know, how hard our ancestors for it. I wish
- 1:08:49Speaker 4: I would say I wasn't voting it hard? Is my
- 1:08:51Speaker 4: damn grandparents fort to be able to head to rate
- 1:08:53Speaker 4: the vote. My grandfather to live to see the first
- 1:08:57Speaker 4: black president of the United States. My grandmother is a
- 1:09:00Speaker 4: live to see a possible female president. Young kids, my ass,
- 1:09:05Speaker 4: I'm gonna vote never God damn election they got, I sure, am,
- 1:09:07Speaker 4: because again if they if our votes.
- 1:09:10Speaker 3: Didn't count, they.
- 1:09:12Speaker 5: Wouldn't afford so hard to keep us from doing it. Period.
- 1:09:16Speaker 4: So almost sound one of your dumb ass family members
- 1:09:18Speaker 4: say that that's what you tell.
- 1:09:19Speaker 6: Them to Shawna's point, but to China's point, like on
- 1:09:23Speaker 6: the other side of the fence, like I do understand,
- 1:09:26Speaker 6: like I do understand somebody saying that.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: You know my vote, don't you know what I mean?
- 1:09:29Speaker 6: Like my vote don't count, but it's only but it's
- 1:09:31Speaker 6: only because you know, but you know, you only feel
- 1:09:34Speaker 6: like that because the person that you voted for, like
- 1:09:36Speaker 6: the person that you voted for, it didn't win like
- 1:09:38Speaker 6: they win. But you also gotta take into consideration just
- 1:09:41Speaker 6: like yo, you went out and voted for this motherfucker,
- 1:09:43Speaker 6: other people voted against this motherfucker.
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: And you know, and some.
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: People vote, you know, some people vote based on they
- 1:09:50Speaker 6: although a person might be the right candidate for they
- 1:09:53Speaker 6: vote on based on personal interest, Like if this person
- 1:09:57Speaker 6: like you know, like uh, President Cheeto did the whole
- 1:10:03Speaker 6: shit with you know what I mean? It was like, yo,
- 1:10:05Speaker 6: tax breaks, like tax breaks for you know, taxpaces for
- 1:10:09Speaker 6: those for those for the for the rich folk. And
- 1:10:11Speaker 6: they was like, yeah, that's you know ship. Some people
- 1:10:15Speaker 6: will say, say what you want, Donald Trump? Donald Trump
- 1:10:17Speaker 6: made sure he was paid, and.
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: It's like.
- 1:10:21Speaker 6: Some of y'all, y'all, bitch, I ain't get no tax
- 1:10:25Speaker 6: break when this nigga right like, I'm still didn't.
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: Give y'all, didn't write checks for y'all that came from
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: the Democratic majority in Congress. Trump just put his name
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: on there to food y'all into thinking that he actually
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: signed that he actually gave y'all checks. Trump didn't give
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: y'all money. Was the economy better for people under under Trump? Yes,
- 1:10:46Speaker 3: but if you recall, we have been under Trump's or
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: rather the tax the Paul Ryan Tax Plan since since
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: it was enacted into law in twenty seventeen, which included
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: graduated tax increases for everybody who isn't isn't wealthy, right
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: every year or every other year until we reach the
- 1:11:09Speaker 3: maximum amount until the phases out in twenty twenty six.
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: So while the economy may have been better under Trump,
- 1:11:16Speaker 3: no it's not. It was designed to get worse. But
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: you just have to look below the surface, just one
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: level below the surface to get the full understanding and
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: the nuance of why you think Trump did so much
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: for the economy, because he did.
- 1:11:33Speaker 6: And with that and what that band said, what that
- 1:11:35Speaker 6: band said, though you know, do your research. I mean,
- 1:11:38Speaker 6: it's still trying to do research before you you vote,
- 1:11:41Speaker 6: and just don't you know, and don't go with like
- 1:11:43Speaker 6: we're voting everybody's vote for this person, a vote for
- 1:11:45Speaker 6: this person too, Like yo, think about your own personal
- 1:11:48Speaker 6: and like think about your personal interests in what can
- 1:11:50Speaker 6: have like what like what you can gain from this?
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: Because Lord knows, like you know, Lord knows.
- 1:11:57Speaker 6: Is Like I mean, a lot of people make elevia,
- 1:12:03Speaker 6: a lot of people make elevised votes, you know, not
- 1:12:05Speaker 6: knowing like not knowing everything, you know, not knowing everything
- 1:12:08Speaker 6: about this person.
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: And then when you see it, when you see shit
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: happen in real time, like what the fuck? Like what's
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: going like what's going on here?
- 1:12:14Speaker 6: And it's like, yo, you listen to them during debates,
- 1:12:17Speaker 6: you to listen to them, because aren't they supposed like
- 1:12:20Speaker 6: are they supposed to like put their plans up, put
- 1:12:22Speaker 6: them put their plans up also for public consumption, so
- 1:12:25Speaker 6: you can know, like you can know what the what.
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: The web, but you can't. I always tell people you
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: can't rely on talking points. You can't rely on talking heads.
- 1:12:36Speaker 3: Candidates should have their views and their plans on their website.
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: The onus is on you to do your own research
- 1:12:43Speaker 3: into being informed voter, because the vote is regardless of
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: what anybody says. It'll be you in there voting booth
- 1:12:50Speaker 3: making the decision.
- 1:12:52Speaker 6: So you don't got you don't got grandma or cousin
- 1:12:54Speaker 6: right ready talking about Hey listen, you know.
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: Eye voted for Eye, voter for such and such, But
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: why did you vote.
- 1:12:59Speaker 6: On like Seanna just say, oh, we are black people
- 1:13:02Speaker 6: don't vote for the vote and like people try to
- 1:13:04Speaker 6: keep us right from voting.
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: So yeah, exercise you're right.
- 1:13:08Speaker 3: So what I will say is if you're not sure,
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: even though like I said, early voting has started in
- 1:13:14Speaker 3: a lot of states, they should be should have started
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: in all states by the time this air is on
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: this upcoming Wednesday. If you have not done any research
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: into your local candidate or what's on your local ballot.
- 1:13:25Speaker 3: Go to a website I found which actually was really
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: informative for me, helping me to fill out my sample
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: ballot that I actually took to go early vote. It's
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: a website and the address is vote save America dot com.
- 1:13:37Speaker 3: V O T E S A V E A M
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: E R I c A dot com.
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: Should I say that.
- 1:13:45Speaker 3: Yes, I shared it. What you do is you put
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: in your your personal email address and your actual physical
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: uh physical address where you live. It will pull up
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: a sample ballot, or not the sample ballot, but it
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: pull up, you know, a list of all the candidates
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: running for positions for president, Senate, if you have a
- 1:14:05Speaker 3: Senate race coming, if you have somebody for the House
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: of Representatives running in your area, any local ballot measures
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: for local government, state government, your county government, or whatever.
- 1:14:16Speaker 3: It will give you all the supporting information for each candidate,
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: their positions on things, and it's a nice one stop
- 1:14:21Speaker 3: shop to just say, hey, I want to learn about
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: who's running for Senate in my state. I live in
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: Georgia and I want to see who are my options
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: this year? We have Rafael Warnock. I'm speaking on the
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: top of the head. I don't know he's actually up
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: for reelection this cycle, because.
- 1:14:36Speaker 6: I don't know, Nigga. We was in there, We was
- 1:14:38Speaker 6: down there, like yo.
- 1:14:40Speaker 3: But you have, let's say, for example, Rafael Warnock, and
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: you have the Herschel Walker, and it'll give you a
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: side by side comparison of their policy positions, what they
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: plan to bring to the role. They're a short resume on,
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: like what they've done their professional jobs prior to interim
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: politics at education. If they have it, and it gives
- 1:15:02Speaker 3: you just a primer on what each person does. It
- 1:15:04Speaker 3: still doesn't preclude you from going to each person's website
- 1:15:07Speaker 3: to learn about their specific plans and ideas for implementing
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: laws and you know what they stand for staying to
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: vote for or against. But it's a good starting point
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: and it helped me literally fill out my sample ballot
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: after reading through all of the biographies of people that
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: weren't just you know, federal positions, but local positions. And
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: I went took my, you know, my ballot into the
- 1:15:28Speaker 3: voting booth and.
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: What were you talking about?
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: Talked about voting to drink. I'm sitting behind the whole
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: ball in front of the whole ball but.
- 1:15:37Speaker 6: You want remember hold on no no no no no
- 1:15:40Speaker 6: no no no no no no no no no.
- 1:15:43Speaker 5: And I want nothing you got because I feel like
- 1:15:45Speaker 5: I'm going to die.
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: I got ginger. Be staying correct, I got you want
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: some ginger. Okay, well let's wrap up. But so what
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: I was basically saying was at the vote gave people
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: vote Save America dot com. It's a website. You put
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: in your email address and your your physical address. It'll
- 1:16:09Speaker 3: pull up your local ballot and all the candidates running.
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: It'll give you a synopsis on them, their policy positions.
- 1:16:15Speaker 3: They're a short resume on them, what they stand for,
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: what they're standing to vote for or vote against.
- 1:16:21Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, And I was just saying, like I
- 1:16:25Speaker 6: was just saying, like do your research.
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely your research.
- 1:16:27Speaker 6: Do your research, and you know, think about think about
- 1:16:30Speaker 6: your personal interests and what and what like you know,
- 1:16:33Speaker 6: how you feel as though you can benefit. Don't just
- 1:16:36Speaker 6: make don't just make it elevis ilevised decision because niggas
- 1:16:42Speaker 6: you know, and I don't mean to say it like
- 1:16:44Speaker 6: you know, like that like it's like it's always that.
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: One like one percentage of people.
- 1:16:48Speaker 6: But also younger people you know, younger people, yo, we
- 1:16:51Speaker 6: still like yeah, y'all, y'all votes matter, you know, like
- 1:16:55Speaker 6: this is this is probably the one thing, you know,
- 1:16:57Speaker 6: the one thing that you can do at when you
- 1:16:59Speaker 6: turn since turned eighteen, because lord nor you can't buy
- 1:17:02Speaker 6: cigarettes no.
- 1:17:03Speaker 3: More because it's sixty four dollars a pack.
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: No, nigga, they turn They changed that to twenty one.
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: Oh the age yeah and Maryland, yep, all over twenty one.
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: You gotta be twenty one to purchase tobacco now.
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, really, yeah, this is it. I don't I
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: don't smoke.
- 1:17:22Speaker 5: So when you go buy cigarette skin you called.
- 1:17:24Speaker 6: Now yes, a few yeah, I d id now it's
- 1:17:28Speaker 6: happened like a few years ago. And that's like I
- 1:17:30Speaker 6: saw that vapes too. It's just cigarettes, bapes too.
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: I think anything that has the back of products or damn.
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm says for y'all. However, any found
- 1:17:41Speaker 3: words before we wrap because rock the Vote?
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No Diddy get
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: get on the vote?
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: No did he was voter die?
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: It was both.
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: I remember the remember rocked the Vote, but I do
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: remember voting.
- 1:17:54Speaker 5: Twenty twenty four.
- 1:17:55Speaker 4: I'm with her. We are not going back, absolutely not.
- 1:17:59Speaker 4: It didn't work first time for a reason.
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: I told you.
- 1:18:01Speaker 5: God is trying to tell you something right now, right now.
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: But yeah, voting, Like I said, early voting has started.
- 1:18:07Speaker 3: If you have not vote save America dot com to
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: research your local ballot, go to these candidate's websites, all
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: skin folks and kim folk. Just because somebody looks like
- 1:18:17Speaker 3: you does not mean you align on political things. Somebody
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: may claim to be a Democrat but may have opposite
- 1:18:23Speaker 3: things somebody, and they're.
- 1:18:25Speaker 4: Gonna change with they support in order to pander to
- 1:18:28Speaker 4: certain people.
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: Christie Cinema from Arizona.
- 1:18:31Speaker 4: Because Larry hogan just did it all of a sudden.
- 1:18:33Speaker 4: Now he's pro choice since when? Since when he was
- 1:18:36Speaker 4: pro life?
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: Sorry he also withheld money to abortion providers in Maryland,
- 1:18:42Speaker 3: discovernor so anyway, moving me on that I'm voting. I
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: voted for Angela also Brooks indeed. But regardless of what
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: we say, do vote in your interest. If you are
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: a woman and having access to reproductive care is a
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: question something that is valuable to you. Align with candidates
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: who will vote to give you the choice to decide
- 1:19:01Speaker 3: to do with your own buy force you to keep a.
- 1:19:03Speaker 5: Baby that was conceived out of grape or incests.
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: Yeah, no, so yeah, because.
- 1:19:10Speaker 4: Feticides is going to increase if they keep trying to
- 1:19:13Speaker 4: take people rights away. And no, old white man got
- 1:19:15Speaker 4: no business making no damn decisions about a woman's body period.
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's already gone up in these states
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: that have damn their total abortion bands. Infant mortality rates
- 1:19:24Speaker 3: have increased, you know, the rates of women going to
- 1:19:28Speaker 3: hospitals and that being denied care or hospitals are afraid
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: to give them care because they don't want to be
- 1:19:33Speaker 3: sued or thrown in jail. But yeah, vote for you
- 1:19:40Speaker 3: know what you feel is best for you and your situation.
- 1:19:43Speaker 3: And just you know, realize whether you vote for Kamala
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: or for Donald Trump, I'm not going to say that
- 1:19:50Speaker 3: there there are. There are negatives on both sides.
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: Yeah, because nobody perfect.
- 1:19:56Speaker 3: Nobody's perfect, and you're not. You're not ever going to
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: find a candidate that aligns with everything. Everything that you
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: want agreed, But I don't agree with everything absolutely not
- 1:20:06Speaker 3: less of the two evils, I'll tell you that ship
- 1:20:08Speaker 3: And unfortunately that's politics. Change happens incrementally and I'd rather
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: have common in office to where you can complain and
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: you can push get her in office and hold her
- 1:20:19Speaker 3: and Tim Walts and the rest of Democrats to task
- 1:20:21Speaker 3: for ship that they said they were going to do
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: but may not end up doing. Versus with the Orange cheetah,
- 1:20:26Speaker 3: versus having Trump and uh, what's the what's what's the couchman?
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: What's the couchman from Ohio? Yeah, fans, I'm talking about
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: Lindsey Grant, I said, lazy boy, lazy Okay, yeah, couchman,
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: Versus having them in office and them doing whatever they
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: want to dismantle protections, dismantle the federal departments of Education
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: and other things, and instituting all these laws and taking
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: us back to for them. The community to the police, Brandon, Yeah,
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: full community to police. You know when America was truly
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: great with just them. So vote, get out and vote.
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: Rock the vote. I'm not gonna say vote to die,
- 1:21:06Speaker 3: but I mean for some people, unfortunately.
- 1:21:08Speaker 5: Vote does matter.
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: Your vote, and especially if you live in a swing state,
- 1:21:12Speaker 3: voting matters everywhere.
- 1:21:16Speaker 4: Don't torch all that dumb ship ancessity to come back
- 1:21:20Speaker 4: and whoop your aids.
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: We're gon We're gonna take another commercial break, y'all. No, Sean,
- 1:21:26Speaker 3: it's not getting up this time. We're just gonna take
- 1:21:28Speaker 3: another commercial.
- 1:21:28Speaker 4: I'm going through over no more locked doors.
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: I ain't gonna bullshit.
- 1:21:37Speaker 6: I was thinking teenage meeting Nindaturtors theme song for this
- 1:21:40Speaker 6: for the episode.
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: We are going to the polls. P O l e
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: y s. We're gonna take a final commercial break. What
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: we will be.
- 1:21:50Speaker 7: Right back, y'all, Hen we back go to the Oh,
- 1:21:58Speaker 7: we're gonna talk about this or no, and all know
- 1:22:00Speaker 7: what the polls p O.
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: L E S.
- 1:22:03Speaker 5: I mean, I know we're going through some ship fight
- 1:22:04Speaker 5: at Frank, but I think we had the books.
- 1:22:09Speaker 3: In this episode. Time we are going to the polls.
- 1:22:17Speaker 3: Take a swing for democracy, not drop it like it's hot,
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: drop it like your right's estate.
- 1:22:32Speaker 5: Pussy pops for progress.
- 1:22:34Speaker 8: Ye, No, that's it's that episode time Dixx lets him
- 1:22:44Speaker 8: popping for progress and popper for progress.
- 1:22:54Speaker 3: I'm an informed voter. Well so I can make a
- 1:23:07Speaker 3: class and have a minimum living wage.
- 1:23:14Speaker 6: Hey yo, and then that ben not giving hair face.
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: Let the song be.
- 1:23:22Speaker 6: Let the song be Travis Scott Okay, ladies, yeah, help
- 1:23:33Speaker 6: me lord.
- 1:23:35Speaker 5: Oh man, that's funny. Hurry y'all before we get started.
- 1:23:44Speaker 3: We are not eating dogs or cats here.
- 1:23:49Speaker 5: I mean it's a cat eating but not concast they
- 1:23:51Speaker 5: think about.
- 1:23:58Speaker 2: Both.
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: For Comma, you could really eat some cat.
- 1:24:02Speaker 4: And the privacy in your own home mind the goddess. Yeah,
- 1:24:06Speaker 4: all right, all right, before we get started, y'all. Y'all
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- 1:24:56Speaker 4: of Charade Whitfield with all of her original.
- 1:24:58Speaker 5: Parts, who want to check you book? Nobody? Okay, all right.
- 1:25:05Speaker 3: If you're a Republican that might be able to check you, and.
- 1:25:11Speaker 5: Well and well.
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: Whole bunch of stuff.
- 1:25:15Speaker 4: Since this episode that's been with the talks of the
- 1:25:17Speaker 4: politics and the fuckery and uh, you know, things like that.
- 1:25:23Speaker 4: I am going to start on a thread full of fuckery.
- 1:25:27Speaker 4: And this thread goes by the title six Brown Chicks.
- 1:25:31Speaker 4: This is Brandon's favorite thread.
- 1:25:32Speaker 9: Okay, okay, that's.
- 1:25:44Speaker 5: A new call. What you're doing, what you do, what
- 1:25:45Speaker 5: you do?
- 1:25:46Speaker 4: All I cheated on? Iha, I've been cheating. But she
- 1:25:51Speaker 4: went through my phone and had receipts. This time I
- 1:25:54Speaker 4: punched her for going through my phone. I used to
- 1:25:57Speaker 4: ran out of my house. I went out with another few.
- 1:26:01Speaker 4: Aisha's father, he works with horses, followed me from my
- 1:26:04Speaker 4: house to my date's location, but I didn't notice him.
- 1:26:07Speaker 4: I got out my car and ran into that nigga's
- 1:26:09Speaker 4: fist repeatedly. He had a horse whip. He strangled me
- 1:26:14Speaker 4: with it and whip me like a runaway sleg. The
- 1:26:17Speaker 4: other female was standing on her porch recording and screaming.
- 1:26:20Speaker 4: After Aisha's father drove off, I got back in my
- 1:26:23Speaker 4: car and went home to soap. I pulled in front
- 1:26:27Speaker 4: of my house. I swollen neck red. I could hardly sing.
- 1:26:31Speaker 5: Get for him.
- 1:26:33Speaker 4: I got out my carrying, put their shitty work boot
- 1:26:37Speaker 4: in my back.
- 1:26:38Speaker 5: It was Aisha's father with his whip again.
- 1:26:43Speaker 4: Basically, he promised to follow me around town and whip
- 1:26:45Speaker 4: me whenever he recalls how I punched his precious baby girl.
- 1:26:49Speaker 5: I've apologized to Aisha.
- 1:26:52Speaker 4: I can't call police because I have an outstanding warrant.
- 1:26:55Speaker 5: I'm still sore. I'm afraid to go out advice.
- 1:26:59Speaker 4: Sorry, well, Peter Griffin, your.
- 1:27:04Speaker 5: Ass on your ass, sir.
- 1:27:06Speaker 4: This is a wonderful episode of funk around and find out.
- 1:27:13Speaker 5: You knew her daddy and play about his daughter before
- 1:27:16Speaker 5: you put your.
- 1:27:16Speaker 4: Hand on you because usually that would be the father,
- 1:27:19Speaker 4: usually the ones that say you hurt my baby girl.
- 1:27:20Speaker 4: Like I feel like, mister, mister, mister Tate, I feel
- 1:27:24Speaker 4: like mister.
- 1:27:26Speaker 6: Yeah, that's Diamond Daddy from Home Player Players Club.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: What you doing with my daughter?
- 1:27:32Speaker 6: Right?
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, just just the movies come back.
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: You know. He used to work at the courthouse. He
- 1:27:38Speaker 3: he wasn't a judge. He was probably like a paraegueal something.
- 1:27:40Speaker 3: He was no nonsense. He adn't play a boy this.
- 1:27:42Speaker 5: No, he's a bailer.
- 1:27:44Speaker 4: He's a bail sometimes they be coming to the polls too.
- 1:27:48Speaker 4: Then he comes to the polls, p O L E.
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: S give me your pole.
- 1:27:55Speaker 3: But anyway, come to the post you can get a pole.
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: Oh the bailer passed on that ad.
- 1:27:59Speaker 5: But the Breton one Jesus.
- 1:28:01Speaker 4: But yeah, they they they they don't play. They know
- 1:28:04Speaker 4: they would be the nicest people in the world. But
- 1:28:05Speaker 4: if you over you, you overstep your boundaries, you cross lines.
- 1:28:09Speaker 5: Oh baby, they getting your ass.
- 1:28:10Speaker 3: They don't play with you at all.
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: Judy, Lord, Judge Judy. Homeboy looked like he.
- 1:28:17Speaker 4: Bird the first which one the one that got accused
- 1:28:20Speaker 4: of murder, Yeah, bird one of her bailiffs, her old
- 1:28:24Speaker 4: bailers or something. But he was even on Judge Judy
- 1:28:27Speaker 4: or people's court. It was one of the two and
- 1:28:28Speaker 4: he got charged. He ended being charged with underlive.
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: And his wife Nigga told you the bailers the TV.
- 1:28:34Speaker 5: Bas I forgot which one it was. I find didn't
- 1:28:37Speaker 5: tell y'all later.
- 1:28:38Speaker 4: But yeah, sir, it's he gonna he gonna beat your
- 1:28:45Speaker 4: ass until he don't feel like beating your ass no more.
- 1:28:47Speaker 5: So, we ain't got no advice for you.
- 1:28:52Speaker 6: My man, man, he said, my gonna beat your ass
- 1:28:56Speaker 6: every day, every day at three thirty for the next
- 1:28:59Speaker 6: six weeks.
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: That's the fun going on.
- 1:29:02Speaker 4: I advised you to go find George from a couple
- 1:29:04Speaker 4: of episodes ago j R R g E George and yeah,
- 1:29:11Speaker 4: going to Witness Protection with him because daddy daddy on
- 1:29:14Speaker 4: your ass. Daddy that does it with his work, you
- 1:29:17Speaker 4: deserve it. You put your hands on her because she
- 1:29:20Speaker 4: caught you doing dirt.
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: I had a shitty ass work boot in my back.
- 1:29:25Speaker 5: Well he was in your back and not.
- 1:29:27Speaker 2: You got stout horsewhip.
- 1:29:29Speaker 3: Nigga, I'd say better start ordering stuff to get the
- 1:29:32Speaker 3: livings in the house because as soon as you step
- 1:29:33Speaker 3: out that door, he's gonna be on yours.
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: Every time nigga pull up.
- 1:29:39Speaker 6: Nigga pulled up and ship just Joe, he doesn't pull
- 1:29:41Speaker 6: up just to see if you alongside saved your car
- 1:29:44Speaker 6: in that driveway and then order Amazon and be like, yeah,
- 1:29:52Speaker 6: open that door, bitch sends you.
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: Open up the door. Here come the horsewhip.
- 1:30:03Speaker 4: That's right, you're just a little bit. I'm sorry, but
- 1:30:11Speaker 4: I have moved out after that.
- 1:30:11Speaker 5: Nigga.
- 1:30:12Speaker 3: Here that's where Jody come freaking moum.
- 1:30:17Speaker 5: Nigga and if he was in the pen.
- 1:30:19Speaker 4: I make get on your knees and apology, sir Melvin,
- 1:30:23Speaker 4: that that's not of the Lord, that that was very
- 1:30:27Speaker 4: that was a lie.
- 1:30:28Speaker 5: Anyway, Yes, you won't keep you in your ass kicked.
- 1:30:30Speaker 5: We I don't feel sorry for you.
- 1:30:32Speaker 4: You deserve you shouldn't changed, should put your hands on
- 1:30:36Speaker 4: Look at you, just scared with your stupid ass.
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: Pops, don't play.
- 1:30:41Speaker 5: You'll be right with your stupid ass.
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: Start. I guess get some icy hot because you won't
- 1:30:47Speaker 3: need it.
- 1:30:47Speaker 5: We won't need it absence, so doctor tells is amazing.
- 1:30:50Speaker 3: You can't leave the house to get it because.
- 1:30:54Speaker 5: You better eat it.
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: He said in different at the end of the yard, like.
- 1:30:57Speaker 4: You better do it, dash it that episode saying at
- 1:31:01Speaker 4: the end of the course, like I got your bag,
- 1:31:02Speaker 4: come get it.
- 1:31:04Speaker 6: Remember the episode of Everybody Has Cursed when he said,
- 1:31:07Speaker 6: every time you turn around, I'm gonna beat that.
- 1:31:10Speaker 3: What you got in here? Oh my wife had this
- 1:31:14Speaker 3: good stuff home.
- 1:31:18Speaker 5: A real man.
- 1:31:19Speaker 4: You know, I've been whipping this whip all day. Showed
- 1:31:21Speaker 4: the nigga showed hurt a little bit.
- 1:31:24Speaker 3: You can be outside in a colassable chair watching the
- 1:31:26Speaker 3: football game. Come outside, Nick, go Ravens.
- 1:31:31Speaker 4: He wouldn't have been the back of my daughter house period,
- 1:31:33Speaker 4: so you wouldn't have a choice but to come outside
- 1:31:37Speaker 4: your cheek.
- 1:31:37Speaker 5: Named you abusive.
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: For assault. Swing but in a lot of advocate, but
- 1:31:44Speaker 3: we understand.
- 1:31:45Speaker 4: But we understand in a certain situations because if a
- 1:31:48Speaker 4: female put our hands on my son, I'm like.
- 1:31:49Speaker 5: Don't touch your back. I got this. I'm worried about. Nigga,
- 1:31:52Speaker 5: you got aunties and the mama who ain't got no
- 1:31:54Speaker 5: good sense.
- 1:31:55Speaker 6: Niggas ain't crashed out, and don't worry about.
- 1:31:59Speaker 5: We stayed. We stayed already.
- 1:32:02Speaker 3: Brandon was at his house that day.
- 1:32:05Speaker 5: That's the alibi. Uncle Brandon was at his house, and
- 1:32:08Speaker 5: we're giving.
- 1:32:09Speaker 4: You all our phones so you can bring it back
- 1:32:10Speaker 4: to the house. So it looked like all us.
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: I don't know it.
- 1:32:14Speaker 4: They just it was game night, bro. They came to
- 1:32:17Speaker 4: my house and dropped off all their phones and left.
- 1:32:19Speaker 4: I don't I was home.
- 1:32:20Speaker 5: I was For some reason, my camera went out. I
- 1:32:22Speaker 5: don't know why. My camera ain't catching nothing.
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: But you can see I had left my home all day.
- 1:32:28Speaker 4: I was We were saying, we was in here having
- 1:32:30Speaker 4: an old school horror movie marathons. We've eating pizza and
- 1:32:35Speaker 4: popcorn and say on the table skittles.
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: And we want to play taboo, and then we then
- 1:32:45Speaker 2: we played operation.
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: Next question, next question and Operation next question.
- 1:32:55Speaker 6: Ship Yeah, operation Sean said. Sh said she wanted to
- 1:32:58Speaker 6: show me her steady hand yup.
- 1:33:00Speaker 4: I've been working on this because I know my nerves
- 1:33:02Speaker 4: beds on my hands be shaking. Next question every going
- 1:33:05Speaker 4: to reddit them I asshole? Or yes, yes you are problem.
- 1:33:11Speaker 4: Let's go, Am I the asshole for getting upset after
- 1:33:14Speaker 4: my husband asks for.
- 1:33:15Speaker 5: A paternity test? No, no, ma'am you or not? Okay?
- 1:33:21Speaker 4: My husband, thirty male and I have twenty seven female,
- 1:33:24Speaker 4: recently welcomed our.
- 1:33:25Speaker 5: Baby boy just a few months ago.
- 1:33:27Speaker 4: Adjusting to life of a newborn has been challenging, But
- 1:33:29Speaker 4: until recently, I had no reason to think that he
- 1:33:31Speaker 4: was unhappy or suspected anything. Two days ago, out of
- 1:33:35Speaker 4: the blue, he asks for a paternity test. He insisted
- 1:33:38Speaker 4: it wasn't because he suspected me of cheating, and that
- 1:33:40Speaker 4: he only wanted a peace of mind, mentioning how he'd
- 1:33:44Speaker 4: hate to unwillingly raise a.
- 1:33:45Speaker 5: Child who might not be his.
- 1:33:47Speaker 4: I was heartbroken to me asking for a paternity test
- 1:33:51Speaker 4: feels like an accusation of infidelity, even though I kept
- 1:33:55Speaker 4: insisting I'm sorry, even though he kept insisting that that
- 1:33:58Speaker 4: wasn't the case. During the conversation, he even brought up
- 1:34:01Speaker 4: little incidents that supposedly fueled his doubts, which only added
- 1:34:05Speaker 4: to my hurt and confusion. Overwhelmed and in tears, I
- 1:34:09Speaker 4: ended up shouting at him and leaving to calm down.
- 1:34:12Speaker 4: The next day, I couldn't bring myself to talk to
- 1:34:14Speaker 4: him about last night. He confronted me with the He
- 1:34:18Speaker 4: confronted me about the silent treatment, and we ended up
- 1:34:20Speaker 4: in another heated argument. Since then, we haven't spoken. Honestly,
- 1:34:25Speaker 4: I'm at a complete loss. I love him deeply, and
- 1:34:28Speaker 4: I don't want our marriage to unravel, especially now with
- 1:34:30Speaker 4: the baby involved. This is the first time we've had
- 1:34:34Speaker 4: a conflict like this, and I'm struggling to make sense
- 1:34:37Speaker 4: of it all. So am I then asshole for reacting
- 1:34:40Speaker 4: the way that I did? Is there something I'm missing?
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: Now?
- 1:34:43Speaker 5: Before y'all answered, there is an.
- 1:34:45Speaker 4: Update and it says we talked today and I finally
- 1:34:49Speaker 4: agreed to the paternity test. He also handed over his
- 1:34:52Speaker 4: phone on my request, as some suggested, and so far,
- 1:34:55Speaker 4: I haven't found any signs of infidelity on his part.
- 1:34:58Speaker 4: He also said that he sincerely doesn't belie even I
- 1:35:00Speaker 4: have been unfaithful, but still hasn't explained why he wants
- 1:35:03Speaker 4: to test because he's cheating dull. I'm still really hurt
- 1:35:07Speaker 4: that he doesn't seem to trust me, but I hope
- 1:35:09Speaker 4: the results will put his mind at ease and we
- 1:35:11Speaker 4: can put this behind us.
- 1:35:15Speaker 5: Okay, what y'all think he cheating? If he don't think
- 1:35:19Speaker 5: you're cheating, but he wants a paternity test, why is
- 1:35:22Speaker 5: he's hoping that he can justify his own cheating by saying, well,
- 1:35:24Speaker 5: you're cheating. They had a baby about somebody else.
- 1:35:26Speaker 6: That's what it sounds like to be I mean or
- 1:35:29Speaker 6: that I mean that, or he just won't make sure
- 1:35:31Speaker 6: it is before he put this money in.
- 1:35:32Speaker 2: I mean put this money into the show.
- 1:35:34Speaker 5: But you're married to her, so I understand it. I
- 1:35:38Speaker 5: get it.
- 1:35:39Speaker 4: I'm actually one of the people who actually believe that
- 1:35:42Speaker 4: paternity tests and probably should be mandatory at birth because
- 1:35:45Speaker 4: some people.
- 1:35:46Speaker 5: Do some shady shit.
- 1:35:46Speaker 4: I ain't gonna hold you, however, the fact that you're
- 1:35:50Speaker 4: asking for one with no justifiable reason. Every time she
- 1:35:54Speaker 4: asks you why why why? Oh, it's not that I
- 1:35:56Speaker 4: don't trust you. I just want to know. But if
- 1:36:00Speaker 4: you trusted me, you wouldn't know, right, So it's kind
- 1:36:03Speaker 4: of a double edged sword type thing.
- 1:36:05Speaker 6: I mean when when I was I mean, you know,
- 1:36:09Speaker 6: early in a relationship, and we talked about uh, we
- 1:36:13Speaker 6: talked about the possibility of kids whatever, kids whatever, kid
- 1:36:16Speaker 6: to offered like she brother, she was like she'd offer
- 1:36:18Speaker 6: the paternity test, paternity test, even if I didn't, like,
- 1:36:22Speaker 6: even if I didn't ask for it. And I mean
- 1:36:24Speaker 6: she was off for my mother paternity test just to be,
- 1:36:27Speaker 6: you know, just to make sure, just to be like,
- 1:36:29Speaker 6: you know, this is you know it is.
- 1:36:31Speaker 2: You know it is what it is.
- 1:36:33Speaker 6: And it's like, like you just said, it's like I believe,
- 1:36:35Speaker 6: you know, I believe that. However, it's something else up.
- 1:36:39Speaker 6: You know, it's something else up up to up with
- 1:36:42Speaker 6: the with your person like yeah, he's yours.
- 1:36:49Speaker 4: Next questions you sure you sure? I mean it don't
- 1:36:54Speaker 4: look like nothing, nothing like you. But okay, no you're not.
- 1:36:59Speaker 4: That is whole says I would have been pissed off too,
- 1:37:02Speaker 4: But stop paying attention because he out there slinging, dick,
- 1:37:05Speaker 4: I'm just gonna tell you that now. Sorry to be
- 1:37:08Speaker 4: the bear of people always telling themselves on my way
- 1:37:10Speaker 4: or every damn time, don't.
- 1:37:11Speaker 5: You're gonna heard from him or her every damn time.
- 1:37:18Speaker 2: I said what I said you did?
- 1:37:20Speaker 6: Brow you gonna hear from him with her suspect anything
- 1:37:24Speaker 6: differently from this motherfucker.
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: Anyway, Nobody with any sense in their brain just randomly
- 1:37:30Speaker 3: starts accusing you out of cheating, out of the of cheating,
- 1:37:32Speaker 3: out of the blue, for no reason.
- 1:37:34Speaker 2: But I also but I also think that.
- 1:37:35Speaker 6: I also think that whenever somebody says anything about apportunity,
- 1:37:39Speaker 6: they automatically assume I'm asking because I think you're cheating.
- 1:37:46Speaker 4: Orry one more questions, I guess I here, chill, I care.
- 1:37:52Speaker 4: We're gonna go back to six brown tricks. Okay, that's right.
- 1:37:58Speaker 5: I'm going to own up to what I do.
- 1:38:00Speaker 4: My friend's baby daddy and I have been hooking up
- 1:38:02Speaker 4: for months. I'm the reason they broke up. I met
- 1:38:06Speaker 4: up at his house and we were just getting started
- 1:38:09Speaker 4: when his baby mama pulled up with his kids. I
- 1:38:12Speaker 4: waited in his backyard because she is the slicing dice
- 1:38:15Speaker 4: type of female. She always has a knife on her
- 1:38:18Speaker 4: or raisor blade under her wig.
- 1:38:20Speaker 5: So I head.
- 1:38:21Speaker 4: I found a loaded gun in his yard. I picked
- 1:38:24Speaker 4: it up, and the gun exploded in my hand and
- 1:38:26Speaker 4: a fragment hit my face. I saw nothing but blood.
- 1:38:29Speaker 4: I'm screaming my ass off, banging on his door while
- 1:38:32Speaker 4: he's in the house, potending like I.
- 1:38:33Speaker 5: Didn't just shoot myself in the face. Their kids are
- 1:38:36Speaker 5: telling him.
- 1:38:36Speaker 3: Don't you randomly find a gun in his Oh?
- 1:38:39Speaker 5: Sorry?
- 1:38:40Speaker 4: Their kids are telling him somebody did back there, and
- 1:38:43Speaker 4: he's still trying to keep her from checking.
- 1:38:45Speaker 5: I keep knocking.
- 1:38:46Speaker 4: Finally he cracks open the door and says, get off
- 1:38:49Speaker 4: my property before I call the police. My phone, keys,
- 1:38:52Speaker 4: and purse were inside his house. His neighbor helped me.
- 1:38:56Speaker 4: I have stitches in my forehead and my right eye
- 1:38:58Speaker 4: moved slowly, but I covered that with makeup and long bangs.
- 1:39:01Speaker 4: He apologized and explained that his baby mama stabs him
- 1:39:04Speaker 4: before and he was trying to save us from that.
- 1:39:06Speaker 4: We've hooked up since then, but I feel like he
- 1:39:08Speaker 4: will always choose her over me. How do I become
- 1:39:11Speaker 4: his main woman?
- 1:39:13Speaker 5: Bitch?
- 1:39:14Speaker 6: You will not become the main woman because that nigga
- 1:39:16Speaker 6: is scared of her.
- 1:39:17Speaker 3: He gonna she's gonna turn you in the in the
- 1:39:19Speaker 3: Swiss cheese, bitch, keep playing.
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: You want him to leave, you want him to leave
- 1:39:24Speaker 2: the bitch.
- 1:39:24Speaker 3: He can't.
- 1:39:26Speaker 2: Okay, he can't. He can't go nowhere because.
- 1:39:29Speaker 6: If he goes somewhere, she the status, she just she
- 1:39:32Speaker 6: the stabby type. M hm, probably gonna do it. She
- 1:39:38Speaker 6: probably gonna do it with a box cutter that way.
- 1:39:40Speaker 6: It ain't that bab It ain't that, you know it
- 1:39:43Speaker 6: ain't ain't gonna go that deep. But she gonna she
- 1:39:45Speaker 6: gonna cut him. He gonna he gonna know it, or
- 1:39:48Speaker 6: she making shives out of toothbrushres.
- 1:39:51Speaker 3: Oh god, oh okay.
- 1:39:54Speaker 2: I was aboutching runs the other day.
- 1:39:56Speaker 3: I see ship other tooth brushes.
- 1:40:01Speaker 6: Like this, bitch like like you wanted, you want to
- 1:40:04Speaker 6: be the main bitch, You can't.
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: You can't. You're not going to be and stop playing
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: with your life. Leave let him.
- 1:40:13Speaker 6: Stay that he want to die, you know, he he
- 1:40:16Speaker 6: he that nigga scared. He he ain't gonna be with
- 1:40:18Speaker 6: you because he's scared to be with you. I mean,
- 1:40:20Speaker 6: I'm sorry, he's scared to leave her right right?
- 1:40:23Speaker 2: Fuck that ship.
- 1:40:29Speaker 6: And if you must start taking some self defense classes
- 1:40:34Speaker 6: and you know, learn how to.
- 1:40:35Speaker 4: But my thing is you play, you play stupid games,
- 1:40:38Speaker 4: you win stuper prizes. So my thing is, if that
- 1:40:40Speaker 4: was your supposed friend, you knew this bitch was crazy,
- 1:40:44Speaker 4: and you still chose to go lay up with this
- 1:40:45Speaker 4: girl baby daddy.
- 1:40:47Speaker 5: So I mean that just proves that you was not
- 1:40:48Speaker 5: my friend in the first place.
- 1:40:49Speaker 3: But at all you you knew she was.
- 1:40:51Speaker 4: Crazy, So whatever happens to you happens to you. See
- 1:40:53Speaker 4: that was calm. And then who picked up a random gun?
- 1:40:57Speaker 4: You saw it laying there, was like, oh, let me
- 1:40:58Speaker 4: pick this up. I don't know if the crime.
- 1:41:00Speaker 5: You got your finger your fingerprints on it?
- 1:41:02Speaker 4: What you're stupid, And now we don't know if somebody
- 1:41:04Speaker 4: got shot down the street, like going on.
- 1:41:07Speaker 6: Oh, it don't even matter you you your finger person
- 1:41:10Speaker 6: on that bitch, You stupid yo.
- 1:41:13Speaker 2: What if yo? What if the baby, the baby mother dad,
- 1:41:18Speaker 2: that ship just left just left the gun. There's a
- 1:41:20Speaker 2: bit smart.
- 1:41:21Speaker 5: But no, because one of her kids could have picked
- 1:41:23Speaker 5: that up.
- 1:41:23Speaker 3: That's true, or it could have been tossed in his jock.
- 1:41:26Speaker 3: If somebody had committed a crime and just tossed it
- 1:41:29Speaker 3: into a random.
- 1:41:30Speaker 6: Yard, bow I'm trying to tell you right now, you're stupid.
- 1:41:34Speaker 6: You're not gonna be with him. I'm sorry.
- 1:41:38Speaker 3: This man tells you. You found out he was in
- 1:41:40Speaker 3: a relationship, you choose to choose to get fucking with him.
- 1:41:43Speaker 3: Then you found out his girlfriend is is the slicing
- 1:41:46Speaker 3: dice type, and you still you've deserved, You got what you.
- 1:41:49Speaker 2: Know, you know what, you know where she is, you
- 1:41:52Speaker 2: know what she about? Bro, Yeah, fuck that ship, leave it,
- 1:41:56Speaker 2: let it go.
- 1:41:57Speaker 6: Cut you look, cut your losses, but yo, just let
- 1:42:01Speaker 6: it go, run, let it go. Not worth it, It's
- 1:42:05Speaker 6: not worth it like that, that's not worth it.
- 1:42:08Speaker 2: You.
- 1:42:08Speaker 5: I stop playing with people because she ain't got a
- 1:42:11Speaker 5: ship to lose.
- 1:42:13Speaker 3: But you do a couple of pints of blood, a
- 1:42:14Speaker 3: couple of pieces of skin, and you knows.
- 1:42:19Speaker 5: I move slow now, just.
- 1:42:25Speaker 3: Hey, I can see some more up, a little bit
- 1:42:31Speaker 3: more mm hmmmm, anything else showing we're gonna go.
- 1:42:38Speaker 6: Y'all got your eyes straight, bitch, you don't move said
- 1:42:43Speaker 6: she cut it enough?
- 1:42:44Speaker 2: That mother fucking now that motherfucking the marble.
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- 1:43:26Speaker 3: time you hear us will be the day after election.
- 1:43:29Speaker 3: Day to day after. We already know fuckery is coming
- 1:43:32Speaker 3: because if if it's shown that Kamala winds, they're gonna
- 1:43:36Speaker 3: start calling election in the into into doubt again again
- 1:43:41Speaker 3: to be ready for the fuckery.
- 1:43:44Speaker 2: Like the mathematic And I gotta go to work.
- 1:43:46Speaker 5: The day after. I might call, I might call out
- 1:43:48Speaker 5: that I wish I could, I got meeting.
- 1:43:51Speaker 3: I don't take they said bring you they got damn.
- 1:43:58Speaker 3: But anyway, take care of yourself if you need to,
- 1:44:00Speaker 3: just if you've already voted, you need to disconnect, take
- 1:44:03Speaker 3: care of yourself, lean on your network.
- 1:44:07Speaker 2: Listen to all. Listen listen, mister.
- 1:44:11Speaker 3: We're going into this next season of America and her Function.
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: It's about to be some more stuff.
- 1:44:16Speaker 5: But anyway, fuck yeah.
- 1:44:21Speaker 3: But that being said, We thank y'all, we love y'all,
- 1:44:23Speaker 3: and we will be back next week with an all
- 1:44:25Speaker 3: new episode.
- 1:44:27Speaker 5: Bye y'all, Bye, she said, slow eyed bitch.
- 1:44:30Speaker 3: I'm with her right into that pole. We will not
- 1:44:35Speaker 3: go back by y'all.
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: Movies, he said, Vibe bro, I'm sorry. That is that.
- 1:44:56Speaker 3: Bye y'all.
- 1:45:00Speaker 6: Its contdates classy