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Ep. 31 - Consequences and Repercussions: Supreme Court guts VRA · 4DAFAM

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  Welcome to episode 31 of For The Fam Podcast.
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  Yes, sir. You know what, man? I decided to show a little bit of love locally.
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  Good. He deserves it. I guess it's the Reggie Miller episode. Thank you.
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  He deserves it. We can also do the Cornbread Maxwell episode,
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  Cool, cool, cool. I was laughing about it this morning.
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  I was like, I'm going to mess with him and do cornbread match.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all good. So what's been up with you, bro?
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  Nothing much, man. Just, you know, had a doctor's appointment last week.
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  You know, got to keep up on the health as we talked about. Oh, for sure.
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  But everything's good. A few minor changes I got to make.
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  How was the time off? Whoo-wee, man.
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  So, to the listeners, because he already know, my wife and I went to Hawaii
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  for a few days, and, man, it was beautiful. Mm-hmm.
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  Much needed, much deserved, but, yeah, it was beautiful, man.
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  I have to say I enjoyed it a lot.
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  It was great. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was great. I got no complaints about Hawaii. Well, no.
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  That ain't true. It's a little expensive, but to be expected.
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  Especially nowadays. It was already expensive before, but man.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really expensive now.
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  I mean, like, we ordered a side order of fries at a restaurant.
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  It's $10 for a plate of fries. Yeah.
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  No extra anything on them. Just fries.
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  Side order of fries. $10. Man, can a brother get some cheese? Can they get some?
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  Right? Right. Like, man, for ten dollars, these fries ought to be loaded.
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  But but it's Hawaii tourist destination.
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  Expect everything to be overpriced. But besides that, great time.
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  Beautiful. Relaxing. Yeah.
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  The landscape, the scenery, just beautiful. The ocean, white sand beaches.
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  So that ocean always. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was it was excellent.
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  All right. So we'll be getting into today. Today, bro, what you want to talk about?
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  So today we want to talk about the Supreme Court and the voting rights decision.
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  Yep. And we would have talked about this last week, except I was in Hawaii. So.
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  All right, bro. Let's let's let's get into it, because I'm sure we both have a lot to say about this.
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  Yeah, for sure. So, for those who don't know, the Supreme Court struck down
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  portions of the Voting Rights Act in the 6-3 decision back on April 29th.
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  Basically, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which basically says the states can't...
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  I don't want to say the word. The states can't screw you over.
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  They can't just step out and be like, well, here's what we're going to do.
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  We don't give a damn what you think. Right.
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  So, the Section two of the Voting Rights Act stopped states from discriminating
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  against people of color. Because let's be honest.
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  Yes. During that time when the Civil Rights Act was signed with a vote.
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  I'm sorry. Voting Rights Act was signed.
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  One in the same, in my opinion. But yeah, it's it's what what it was for to
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  protect us in these states. Yeah. State elections. Yeah.
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  And and so to make it plain, Section two basically prohibited the states from
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  racial gerrymandering.
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  What the Supreme Court has done with this latest decision is basically said, and this is per Alito,
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  you have to prove the intent was to racial gerrymander.
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  And it's on the voter now. Correct.
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  Correct. Who has hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight the damn state court?
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  How can you prove intent?
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  You can't. You can't prove intent. As I said in the last episode,
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  this is a minority report.
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  Yeah. You can't just say, oh, this is what you assume. Right, right, right.
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  Anyone can easily say that's not what I was trying to do.
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  And it's just too easy to circumvent anyone that claims intent unless you have
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  an email or something that says, hey, I intended to racially gerrymander.
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  You're never going to prove it.
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  And this case, which is the Louisiana case, is similar to the one in South Carolina.
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  Correct. It's it's the section five of the Voting Rights Act got gutted in that
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  decision. It basically allows the state to use partisanship.
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  Correct. As a shield. Correct.
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  Do what we want now. Correct. Correct. Which is why, as a result of this decision.
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  Louisiana immediately.
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  Florida, too. And Florida immediately went to redraw the maps. It's crazy. It's crazy.
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  We were just talking about in the previous episode about how the Supreme Court
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  should not be involved in elections and how they screwed the Gore-Bush election.
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  Here they are again, not so much screwing the election, the upcoming election,
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  they're rigging the system.
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  There's no way now for minority districts to get proper representation.
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  And I don't think people understand behind the scenes in pretty much every election,
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  every midterm, every presidential election, every local election,
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  there are voting laws being passed in a lot of these Southern states that disenfranchise
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  people of color and women on a consistent basis.
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  Even when they win, they are still passing stricter voting laws. Correct.
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  And I'm glad that you brought up the and women, because that's very important.
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  And I think that gets overlooked a lot.
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  Like we always say, affirmative action benefited women just as much as it benefited people of color.
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  This also is going to harm women just as much as it's going to harm people of color.
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  You don't think so now, but it's coming because these guys don't want women to vote.
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  I'm going to say that again. These guys don't want women to vote.
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  In fact, they don't want anyone to vote except for white men.
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  So Louisiana, Indiana, New Hampshire recently passed those laws.
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  We have to show something like a birth certificate or a passport.
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  And I always hear people say in some of these YouTube rants and so on and so
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  forth, who doesn't have direct access to X, Y and Z?
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  I could sit across from you and tell you right now.
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  I didn't need my social security card or birth certificate before I turned at 16.
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  What am I asking my mama for it for? I didn't need it. I either lived with my
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  parents or with my sister and my brother.
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  What did I need it for? And then when it was time to get it,
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  I understand why parents hold on to it for so long. And I'll use my kids as an example.
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  As soon as I handed birth certificates to the twins, they were lost in four months.
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  And who had to drive the crown point to get new ones? I did. Mm hmm.
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  So this whole thing with it's bullshit that people don't know what their documents are.
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  No, it's an everyday reality in a lot of households, especially if you're older. Yes.
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  Yeah. The older you are, probably the more difficult it will be to recover something
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  like that. And if you need it immediately, like I just said,
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  the twins needed theirs immediately. I think it was for physical or they were
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  applying for something where I had to take the day off work and drive to Crown Point. Right.
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  I left India like seven in the morning, get the Crown Point.
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  Had to be backed by three.
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  So this whole nonsense about that doesn't happen.
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  It absolutely happens. And in my opinion, doing this, especially in Indiana,
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  it's nothing more than a modern day poll tax. It is a poll tax, bro.
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  It's a poll tax and a lot of people are comparing it to Jim Crow.
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  And I mean, look, like we've discussed previously, one of the easiest things
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  as an American, One of the easiest things we should do is vote.
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  I don't understand. I do understand, but it is just so...
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  It's so plain to me why these guys keep trying to make it harder and harder
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  and harder for people to vote because their policies are crap,
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  if they have any at all.
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  But low voter turnout usually benefits the Republican Party.
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  And this is the game. This is why they keep making it harder and harder and
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  harder for people to vote or if your vote does go through for it to actually matter.
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  I mean, because let's just be real, the immediate effect will be your vote just won't matter.
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  You can vote, but it just won't matter. The system is so rigged that a Republican
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  is going to win regardless.
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  Remember when we talked about the redistricting? I think we did a current event
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  way back in episode one, two, or three.
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  This is what we were talking about. Exactly.
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  You take an area of Indianapolis, as I mentioned, I'm driving up Meridian,
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  and in a four-mile span, I'm in six different districts? Right.
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  What the hell is going on? Right.
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  You've got a whole black community, all black community being split down the middle.
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  Right. So half of those folks can go here that is traditionally leaning red
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  and then the other half traditionally leaning red.
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  Whereas before when it was one district, it leaned blue.
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  Right. But then that's where you eliminate that seat.
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  Yep. So this is absolutely where your vote starts not to matter,
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  even in local elections.
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  Which is why the Voting Rights Act was put into place.
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  Correct. because it disenfranchised all of these communities.
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  You know, it's like their reasoning, right?
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  Whenever the Supreme Court makes these decisions, like affirmative action,
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  how they always rail against affirmative action, how they make these decisions
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  because they claim that race is no longer an issue in America.
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  I want somebody to just run up and slap them every time they say that.
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  To say that race is no longer an issue, which is their reasoning for saying
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  we don't need affirmative action. We don't need these Voting Rights Acts,
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  Section 2, Section 5, because race has been resolved.
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  Mojo, please. Yeah, he actually said that. Yeah. The South is not like it was.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Mojo, please.
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  For anyone who thinks that we live in a post-racial society,
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  I want you to think about this.
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  You're a clown if you think that. Well, yes, you're a clown.
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  But but but think about this also.
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  Out of 47 presidents, one has been a non-white man.
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  One out of 47. I'll take it a step further.
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  And this is just me going off the top of my head. I ain't got no proof of this.
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  Only about 15 of those are probably qualified.
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  Well, you know, only And this is just recent, but I think it's like 13% The
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  congressional representatives Are black, or people of color So Yeah,
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  Imagine Chinatown with a 75-year-old congressman in Chinatown because the district,
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  so I'm sorry, two old white men running Chinatown or a Latino community.
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  What could you possibly? You have nothing in common with your constituents,
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  which means you don't care. Why would you even want to be over a community?
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  I mean, that's a whole different conversation. I was about to say,
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  because of the paycheck and the influence that comes along with it,
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  for sure. That power. For sure.
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  So so so, yeah, just just the whole post racial utopia argument,
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  in my opinion, opinion, disqualifies every Supreme Court judge who says that
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  everyone because it's nonsense is absolute and 100 percent nonsense.
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  And the reason why we needed these things, which wasn't that long ago.
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  1964 is not that long ago. Just to put that in perspective, most people listening
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  by now would know who Ruby Bridges is.
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  She has an Instagram page. I follow her.
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  So no, it was not that long ago. Right, right. Yeah, the reason these acts were
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  introduced is because of racial discrimination. Yeah.
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  The reason why we have affirmative action, because you couldn't get a job if you were a black man.
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  It's not reverse racism.
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  It's so people of color got an opportunity to participate.
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  That's all it is. But these guys, whenever you say anything about it, this is reverse racism.
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  DEI is reverse racism Affirmative action is reverse racism These voting right
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  acts are reverse racism In what universe?
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  So what, the 15th Amendment was 1870? Mm-hmm,
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  We needed another almost 100 years to pass another law that enforces one written
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  in a different century. Correct.
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  So in 1870, technically, my great-great-grandfather, who was a slave at the time. I'm sorry.
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  Slave. He was still around, the previous slave owner.
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  He could technically go vote. But who was going to allow him to? Right.
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  Right. And it didn't matter if he was white passing. Right.
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  Which some of the newspaper articles I've seen of him, he was white passing. Mm-hmm.
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  They weren't letting that man vote. Right. Right.
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  So have you seen the statement from Acting, Acting, Acting, because it's not your job, A.G.
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  Todd Blunt, saying that they're going to have armed representatives at polling
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  stations? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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  And you know what? We should show up. For sure. For sure. Straps in hand. For sure.
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  For sure. Because this is the same thing you're talking about with your ancestors
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  saying they wouldn't allow them to vote.
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  This is the same thing. They're using the same tactics where they're trying
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  to intimidate people from voting, which is your constitutional right.
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  It's the exact same thing. So starting to understand now the make America great
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  again, make America great again for white men.
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  Nobody else. That's that's that's the goal. Put a stamp on that to no one else.
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  Not their wives. Correct. Not their children. Correct.
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  Them. Correct. Make America great again for white men.
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  Title of this should be white men only.
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  But you know what's crazy? Even after talking about the 15th Amendment 1870, it wasn't until Selma.
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  That people said, oh, damn. It had to be broadcast for you to see.
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  The violence had to be broadcast. The violence had to be broadcast for you to see.
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  And even then, you didn't want to do it. Correct. Correct.
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  That's it right there, bro. That we had to force their hands to give us the right to participate.
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  I don't think people understand how much Martin Luther King was on the phone. Yeah. Hey, what's up?
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  Yeah. Had to force them. Yeah.
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  For something that's supposed to be our constitutional right as citizens.
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  So here's why it's so important. The Voting Rights Act as a whole,
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  there was a 30% difference in registering and voting and so on and so forth before that.
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  Do you know it dropped down to 8% after the Voting Rights Act?
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  Wow. It allowed so many people of color and minorities in general of all walks of life to participate.
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  And you said it a few minutes ago, this was for us to participate.
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  You know, people want to know why do you have an all-black college?
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  First and foremost, there's two things. One, you know how many white people go to HBCUs? Correct.
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  Correct. Like there was a white kicker at an HBCU just a few years ago.
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  Correct. A white girl won homecoming queen. Yes.
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  What was it? Shoot, I forget. In D.C.
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  They're not. White folks are not
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  prohibited. Correct. From applying and attending. Prohibited. That part.
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  You are not. Black people were prohibited. Prohibited. That part.
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  From attending college. Yes.
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  Like, there are examples out there on the Internet of people being denied and
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  they've uploaded their denial letters.
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  And it basically said, yeah, we found out you were black. You can go to hell.
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  You're not getting in here. Yeah.
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  Any black institution like a HBCU is because we had to invent those.
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  We just did an episode on the Negro Leagues not too long ago. Why?
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  Because they had to. If they wanted to play baseball, they had to start a Negro league.
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  And they had to start HBCUs in order to get higher education.
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  And to show you how much power they had at the time, there was no law or anything
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  that was stopping black folks from playing Major League Baseball.
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  It was a handshake between two white men.
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  Just didn't want you there. Oh, so we don't want them here anymore?
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  All right, kick them out. That was in what, late 1800s? Yep.
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  Yep. Just for white men only. For white men only. I'm just saying, bro.
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  But it's a post-racial society.
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  Make it make sense. So in 2025, last time I checked last year,
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  Republicans were still in control of everything. Right.
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  So in 2025, state legislatures across the country enacted at least 32 restrictive
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  voting laws that tied the all time record from 2011.
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  And they won everything and were still passing laws to get prepared for 2026 midterm.
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  You know, what was crazy to me is when DeSantis, after he won,
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  was going and trying to round up people for voting illegally.
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  And a lot of them didn't even know that they had been removed from voter rolls.
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  And it's like, really, bro? You won. Yeah, you won. And this is your initiative
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  that you're going up to random citizens and saying, hey, you voted illegally
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  because you got kicked off a roll, which you had no notification that you had
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  been removed from a voter roll.
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  Come on, man. Give me a break. Give me a break. But here is the thing.
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  That Virginia case where they are, you know, Republicans are trying to sue Virginia.
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  You might as well throw that out because you don't have a legal leg to stand on.
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  Yeah, but, you know, the Supreme Court is getting it's getting appealed, though.
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  Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know. But the fact that. Yeah.
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  The will of the people got over overturned is being ignored.
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  I don't think that people understand.
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  So as much as we rail against Republicans and so-called patriots.
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  One thing that older, the older white generation that are Republican,
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  don't mess with their vote. Right.
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  Don't mess with my vote. Right. They're going to side with the Democrats.
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  Right. They're going to scream from the rooftops with Democrats like,
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  wait a minute. Yeah. We voted on them. Unlike Texas.
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  Oh, for the hell. Because California and Virginia actually asked the people,
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  do you want us to redraw the maps? And the people said yes. Yeah.
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  Democracy at its finest. Texas, Tennessee and Tennessee.
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  Oh, my God, Tennessee. Go ahead. Succeed. Y'all can have your own country. Bye.
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  Just go ahead. Matter of fact, we'll move your country. We'll move it.
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  You can merge with Florida.
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  We'll get Florida half of Georgia or whatever. Like, I know I sound silly,
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  but y'all just go away. Chop it off.
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  Just go away. Chop it off and let them float out into the ocean.
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  Go on, float out into the coast. We'll take Memphis. yeah yeah we'll keep yeah
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  yeah go ahead and just float out into the gulf and become your own little island
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  country yeah yeah i'm cool with that also it's crazy but yeah yeah that that whole virginia case,
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  I'm just like, how can you argue against it with this ruling?
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  So something that we didn't talk about in the early 80s, when they made additional
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  amendments to the Voting Rights Act, it helped the number of majority,
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  like minority areas, boom, and get more representation.
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  So even in the early 80s, when you and I, in 1982, we were seven.
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  We were still fighting to give representation.
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  And then in the 90s it was amended again and now here we are in 2026 and they're
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  like hey all that stuff y'all did in the 60s 80s and 90s it don't mean anything it doesn't.
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  It doesn't. It's been a low key agenda ever since it passed in 1965.
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  Especially with Roberts.
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  Yeah, for sure. Roberts since the 90s. For sure.
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  For sure. For sure. Him and Alito, honestly.
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  But yeah, yeah. They've always had it out for the Voting Rights Act under the
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  guise of it's not needed because we live in a post racial society.
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  It is such an elementary argument.
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  And it's purely based on opinion because there's no evidence to support it.
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  It's flawed opinion. It's flawed opinion. If you're supposed to be about the
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  law, show me the evidence that this is a post racial society.
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  Show me some data because you cannot. So you're making this decision based strictly on how you feel.
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  Which tells me that you're a shitty person Not only that But it's also argument
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  why we need to Freaking expand the Supreme Court And for those listening who
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  are like No we don't need this Did y'all think did you think that we always
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  had nine Supreme Court Justices no at one point there were only three,
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  And presidents throughout history Have expanded I think Biden should have Expanded
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  he should have I think Obama should have He should have stop playing,
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  You're supposed to play The rules right right But if I'm playing a baseball
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  game and the other team is using cork bats,
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  hitting four home runs a game, guess what?
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  That next game, we're hitting eight home runs. Yep. Cork bats for sure.
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  Because the people in power aren't listening. Right.
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  So why should I continue to play under these same rules that the other team
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  is no longer playing? Correct.
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  Correct. Like all of these blue states should have been redistricted overnight.
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  Yep. And then when Republicans complain Then we come to the table and go hey remember that.
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  Bill, we wrote two years ago about outlawing gerrymandering everywhere that
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  you didn't want. Correct.
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  Sign it. We'll go back to the original maps. Don't sign it.
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  California is going to be blue from top to bottom. Simple as that.
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  Illinois, top to bottom. Simple as that.
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  Simple as that. And that right there lets you know how full of shit they really
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  are because they had the chance to sign the legislation that would have ended all gerrymandering.
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  But again, like I was just saying, they know that they will not win based on policy alone.
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  So they have to gerrymander and redline and redistrict and all of that stuff just so they can win.
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  They have to do voter suppression so you can have low voter turnout because
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  that's the only way that they win, because the only thing they ever run on are culture war issues.
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  Nothing that ever does anything to help your quality of life.
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  It's always culture warrior bullshit.
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  And for those that are listening to this and think that my brother's lying,
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  by all means, do your own research and comment, say whatever it is you want to say. None of them.
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  In our lifetime, we go back to Reagan. None. All Reagan did was run on anti-this, anti-that.
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  Yep, yep, yep. Everything. Yep, culture wars.
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  Basically, white people, let me tell y'all what you should be mad about.
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  Now, vote for me because I'll fight so you don't have to be mad.
• 26:26
  In the meantime, I'm taking your money away.
• 26:29
  I'm taking away your job. I'm making the cost of everything more expensive.
• 26:34
  But damn it, that black person who lived next door to you, he's going to have
• 26:39
  to move in a few years because I'm taking away his job.
• 26:42
  Newsflash, he's taking away your job also. Both of you are going to have to move.
• 26:48
  That's the part that you don't understand. It's going to affect you the same
• 26:53
  as it affects your black neighbor. Yep.
• 26:58
  Wake up, people. Wake up, please.
• 27:02
  Anything else you want to talk about as far as this voting rights stuff?
• 27:04
  I mean, I know we can talk and talk and talk about this because it is terrible. Yeah.
• 27:09
  And I'll be honest, if I was a white man sitting here across from you, I'd be terrified.
• 27:14
  If I was sitting next to you as a white Republican, I'd be terrified.
• 27:19
  Because I don't think people understand. They don't just stop.
• 27:23
  That's it. Where does it stop? Right. It continues to go.
• 27:28
  When people taste that blood in the water, when they taste it,
• 27:32
  they're going to keep coming. And people run over that.
• 27:35
  Yes. They got their own mama. The consolidation of power, bro, more and more and more.
• 27:41
  And that's the only thing. Once they see that they can get a little piece,
• 27:45
  they want a larger piece and a larger piece. So, yeah.
• 27:49
  So eventually that part, eventually anyone who disagrees with them will be shut out of the system.
• 27:58
  That's what the plan is They
• 28:02
  throw out The culture war stuff They
• 28:06
  throw out the racial stuff To distract
• 28:09
  us From the real enemy The real enemy Are the elites that's making the rules
• 28:15
  We're all on the same team We just haven't realized it yet This is why I keep
• 28:21
  saying Wake up These things are important Voting is important.
• 28:27
  Next what is it no november the midterms we need a blue wave not because i'm
• 28:33
  in love with democrats no we don't worship people over here no no no i think some democrats are scum.
• 28:43
  But i do think that they would at least try and even things out they they they
• 28:48
  would make it so plain that the system is just rigged for white men only.
• 28:55
  One more thing for people who don't know what a poll tax is.
• 29:00
  Back in the day, they would put together tests that no one could answer the question.
• 29:05
  For example, here is a question off of a poll tax questionnaire.
• 29:11
  How many bubbles are in this bar of soap?
• 29:18
  I would have died that day. You had to kill me. What? What?
• 29:26
  How many bubbles are in this bar of soap? Yeah. What? Yeah. That's like when we were growing up.
• 29:33
  Occasionally, a teacher would have a jar of marbles on the desk. Right.
• 29:36
  Let's guess how many. Guess the marbles, right. Yeah, try to make a little fun.
• 29:39
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guess the jelly beans, all that silly mess.
• 29:42
  But for us, it was just something, you know, oh, yeah, yeah.
• 29:46
  There was no consequences if we got it wrong. The consequences for our ancestors
• 29:51
  getting that wrong was sent back home with the inability to exercise their God
• 29:58
  given rights with no education. Zero.
• 30:02
  So there is no way they could have known.
• 30:04
  Right. Right. Right. With no education. How am I even supposed to know these things? Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:11
  It's nuts. The system is so rigged. It has been.
• 30:17
  And they're just continuing the rigging of the system.
• 30:21
  This is all this is, is a rigging of the system. And it's right in front of our eyes.
• 30:28
  Well, what's the new saying? Quit playing in our faces. Yeah.
• 30:31
  But that's exactly what they're doing. They're just playing in our faces right now.
• 30:35
  And in Tennessee, literally laughing.
• 30:39
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But but I don't I don't want to put this all on Justin,
• 30:45
  but at least they got Justin.
• 30:48
  If he's going down, he's going down swinging. I tell you what, though, man, I fear.
• 30:54
  Don't. With the reactions of the people in Memphis. is,
• 31:00
  I hope nothing bad happened. Okay. I kind of felt like that's where you were
• 31:05
  going. I'm just like, oh, man, let's not even.
• 31:08
  Like those, when that guy told them when he was walking out of that room, shut up, boy.
• 31:13
  And them folks following him outside and was all in his face. He looked terrified.
• 31:17
  Even the cops looked terrified because it was so many people surrounding him. Like, what did you say?
• 31:23
  What did you say? Which boy will get you knocked out. You're in Memphis, bro. Yeah.
• 31:27
  I don't care how many districts you control. Yeah. You are still in Memphis.
• 31:32
  Yeah, boy, it'll get you knocked out.
• 31:34
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, y'all, we're going to move into our current events,
• 31:41
  which is we're not going to have separate current events this episode.
• 31:44
  We're just going to sort of continue the same political discussion,
• 31:49
  and we're just going to talk about this ballroom funding.
• 31:53
  Oh, Lord, have mercy, Jesus.
• 31:56
  So at his genesis, when this idea was initially proposed,
• 32:04
  Trump is on tape video saying taxpayers won't have to pay a dime.
• 32:14
  Me and my cronies, I mean donors, are going to pay for the ballroom.
• 32:20
  Flunkies, more like it. And it's going to cost 300 million.
• 32:25
  Now they're talking about one billion with a B billion dollars for this ballroom
• 32:34
  that somehow magically became a national security threat.
• 32:39
  Yeah, I heard that. Which is like, what? So. So.
• 32:43
  If it was a national security threat, then why the hell did you demolish it
• 32:47
  without Congress's approval?
• 32:49
  If it was such a security threat, why did you open it up? That's a different topic, though.
• 32:55
  So now they want the taxpayers to put up the money to complete the ballroom.
• 33:05
  Talk about an idiot who created a problem and now is looking for a way to solve it.
• 33:14
  And let's be real. This is what he does. He's been doing this our entire lives.
• 33:18
  That's exactly what he does. You're you're right. That's his M.O.
• 33:21
  And for people that that, you know, I say this so much and I know it's like a broken record.
• 33:25
  But those people who knew of Trump before 2014, this is who he is.
• 33:31
  He breaks shit. He's been doing this my entire life.
• 33:35
  He has been a clown my entire life. Yep.
• 33:41
  Yep. He breaks shit and then looks for someone else to come in and help him
• 33:45
  fix it and then wants to take credit for it.
• 33:49
  Like, I'm sorry, man. If you can bankrupt a casino, you have no business owning anything. Correct.
• 33:56
  Directing anything. Correct. And again, as you said yesterday on the phone,
• 33:59
  it was funny until it wasn't. Correct. Correct.
• 34:04
  Correct. It's funny until it's not. You are absolutely correct.
• 34:08
  So so so. So, yeah, y'all.
• 34:10
  Just think about how the goalpost has been moved as it relates to this ballroom
• 34:17
  and honestly, as it relates to all of his policies, the goalpost always moves.
• 34:23
  But initially we weren't supposed to pay anything.
• 34:27
  Then it was supposed to be 300 million.
• 34:31
  Then it was 400 million. It was going to be done in what, six months,
• 34:36
  which is comical at best. Yeah, yeah. Now it's already a year later.
• 34:41
  Now they're talking about making the taxpayers pay for it and is not going to
• 34:47
  be done probably before his term is up, which is so.
• 34:51
  So, so, so again, it's like, why did you do any of this?
• 34:56
  You won't even be in office to enjoy it. And no, I don't care what he said the
• 35:01
  other day about eight, nine more years.
• 35:03
  He's not running for a third term. And the thing is this, too.
• 35:08
  Well, I'm just going to say it. I mean, you've been a piece of shit of a human
• 35:11
  being since before I was born.
• 35:13
  You're the president of the United States now. You hate being there.
• 35:17
  We go back to 2016 where people were like saying he was shocked he won. He didn't want to win.
• 35:23
  He was just trying to disrupt the whole flow of things.
• 35:27
  You're never going to come back because you're going to talk shit about the president.
• 35:31
  Nobody will ever invite you back. Right. So why would you build something that
• 35:35
  you're only going to get an opportunity to maybe see half complete? Right.
• 35:40
  And not to mention a billion dollars. Yes. But the fourth package is 70 billion dollars.
• 35:47
  70 billion. So you're telling me you want 69 billion dollars for ICE and so
• 35:52
  for immigration? Oh, because it's tied to that other bill.
• 35:55
  I got you. I got you. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:59
  But again, that's their M.O.
• 36:02
  That's their M.O. is they try and sneak in some mundane bullshit legislation
• 36:07
  into a bigger, larger bill to hide it and then try and claim,
• 36:14
  oh, you don't want to support ICE.
• 36:15
  Oh you're you're you're you're weak on national national security because you
• 36:19
  don't want to support this bill no i don't want to support this bill one because i've read it.
• 36:27
  Because i know that the devil's in
• 36:29
  the details do people not understand that you can pull up
• 36:32
  that stuff on the white house's website or other websites copy it paste it yeah
• 36:37
  and tell any form of ai hey do me a favor break this down like i'm a five-year-old
• 36:43
  yeah and they will break this shit down where you don't have to read the because this is what they do.
• 36:50
  They make bills 20,000 pages because they don't want you to read it. Right.
• 36:54
  And then they use confusing language also because they don't want you to understand. But you're right.
• 37:00
  They're trying to hide this billion dollars,
• 37:05
  in that bill for ICE. Well, just putting all that money in there for the Secret
• 37:08
  Service. Like the Secret Service's yearly budget is $3.3 billion.
• 37:13
  You're trying to get a Secret Service like $30 or $40 billion?
• 37:16
  Like what the hell is going on?
• 37:17
  Right, right, right. And that's the right question. What the hell is going on?
• 37:23
  That's the right question. That's the question that every Democrat should be asking.
• 37:27
  What the hell is going on? And I know we're talking about the ballroom,
• 37:30
  but I want to just briefly, because this is about crazy spending too.
• 37:33
  Now we got the FBI driving around the BMWs man
• 37:38
  what I don't know how to do America first huh
• 37:41
  yeah yeah we go from Chevys yeah
• 37:45
  which have been around since hell you can go back and watch Clear and Present
• 37:49
  Danger all those movies you know they drove around in GMC trucks and Chevys
• 37:55
  yeah at least that's an American owned company yeah because you're showing love yeah to America Yeah.
• 38:02
  Where I live, all of those SUVs they drive, they're for us. Yeah, exactly.
• 38:09
  Exactly. But yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:12
  One is nuts because of the unnecessary spending. Yeah, that's the biggest thing.
• 38:16
  Yeah, but two is nuts because BMW is a German company.
• 38:21
  He loves Germany, don't he?
• 38:25
  He loves ballrooms and secret bunkers.
• 38:31
  Keep going keep going keep going keep going and false flag operations keep going,
• 38:39
  keep going keep going he loves Mein Kampf I'ma just say a flag keep going trying
• 38:45
  to take over countries yeah keep going keep going keep going JD Vance was right
• 38:51
  JD Vance hit the nail on the head the one time in his life that he actually
• 38:56
  told the truth he does love Germany me.
• 39:00
  You know something that irritates me, and I know the older I get.
• 39:03
  I'm telling you, the older I get, the more I understand my grandfather.
• 39:06
  Nothing irritates me more the older I get than seeing mediocre-ass people control things.
• 39:12
  And I'm not saying I want to be there. Correct. You couldn't pay me enough to
• 39:16
  be a politician. Correct.
• 39:17
  To see mediocre people who don't know a third of what I know controlling billions
• 39:25
  and trillions of dollars, making decisions.
• 39:28
  Like i've told you before whatever district
• 39:31
  marjorie taylor green came from i think she won it and the
• 39:35
  total vote count she got was like 6200 votes you
• 39:38
  making decisions for 392 million people right no right hell no right take your
• 39:45
  country ass back to wherever you came from in georgia and control that community
• 39:50
  but see we live in a post-racial society bro.
• 39:56
  And don't get me talking about miss gd herself when you're when you're when
• 40:00
  you're white you can be mediocre and excel but when you're not white you have
• 40:06
  to be excellent you have to be perfect,
• 40:12
  in order to get somewhere not even to that same place to maybe half of where
• 40:19
  they are right you get half of the success of some of these mediocre white people
• 40:25
  you talking about and you're perfect you're 10 times listen.
• 40:30
  There's no comparison between Obama and Trump.
• 40:33
  And I know people love to make those type of comparisons. Trump think he's on Obama's level.
• 40:40
  You're not even one third of the man Obama was.
• 40:46
  And this is not me idolizing Obama because he did some shit that was crazy.
• 40:51
  But when you think about that man's charisma, when you think about his level
• 40:57
  of intelligence, When you think about his moral compass, Obama was damn near that perfect Negro.
• 41:07
  Hell. And they still didn't want him to be there. Hell, they treat J.D.
• 41:12
  Vance like he dropped out of school in third grade. I'm like,
• 41:15
  even that man is more intelligent than any damn body in your cabinet.
• 41:20
  And yet he has to sit back. Right.
• 41:22
  Right. Go sit in the background. And watch this shit. Yeah.
• 41:26
  But, but that's his penance. Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:29
  That's right. That's what you get for signing the deal with the devil.
• 41:33
  You you yourself called Trump all types of shit just five, six years ago.
• 41:39
  And now you signed the deal with the devil. Right.
• 41:42
  That's his that's his ambition that got him in this position.
• 41:47
  So take it like a man. I don't want to hear no complaints from him.
• 41:52
  And anything else you want to touch on that? All right, y'all,
• 41:55
  we're going to slide right into our rant about a random topic.
• 42:01
  My favorite segment of the show. You got a rant, bro, or you want me to go?
• 42:06
  I got one. Go, go. Get it off.
• 42:09
  So today I want to talk about Don Colossus. Okay.
• 42:15
  You know what that is, brother? No. All right, Don Colossus.
• 42:18
  There's a new statue that has been unveiled in remembrance to the attempted
• 42:24
  assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania.
• 42:28
  It was unveiled at his golf course, Doral, a few days ago by Pastor Mark Burns.
• 42:35
  You know, I know who that clown is. Coolness brother. Oh, yeah, I know that.
• 42:40
  It is 22 feet tall, including the pedestal.
• 42:43
  All right. You ready? It is gold.
• 42:50
  Now, you and I grew up in church. So this is like the Butler area?
• 42:55
  No, this is in Florida, Miami. Oh, okay, okay, okay. At the Doral.
• 42:59
  Okay, okay. Now, here's the significance of that.
• 43:02
  In a couple of weeks, the G20 Summit is where? In Miami, at Doral.
• 43:08
  So they get to come and see this gaudy, whatever, monstrosity that it is on his golf course.
• 43:17
  There's two things. Pastor Mark Burns, which, by the way, let me say this,
• 43:22
  just because you have a church, just because you have followers,
• 43:25
  just because you got pastor before your name does not make you a man of God. Thank you.
• 43:29
  So with that being said, he on the phone, speakerphone with it up to the mic
• 43:35
  and Trump, and he's just coning, smiling.
• 43:38
  And thank you, Mr. President, all that bullshit. this project was paid for by
• 43:45
  some guys launching the patriot meme coin.
• 43:48
  Another grift now it's been plagued by non-payment because the sculptor who's
• 43:55
  from ohio wouldn't release the statue because he said that those guys still
• 44:00
  owed him 75 anywhere between 75 to $125,000.
• 44:05
  Here's the crazy part. That Patriot meme coin actually dropped down to zero
• 44:11
  at one point, which is why they could not pay him.
• 44:16
  So you know what they did to get it to go back up? Here's what they did.
• 44:21
  President Trump wrote a letter to Mark Byrne saying that it looked good.
• 44:26
  Hey man, I saw the progress of the statue looks good. So what do they do?
• 44:31
  They take a picture, They post it all across social media to get more people
• 44:34
  to come along and buy more of the meme coin to boost it back up. Right.
• 44:41
  Here's my biggest issue. He immediately addressed this monstrosity when it was
• 44:48
  unveiled and said, I know how this looks.
• 44:53
  This isn't a golden calf thing That right there Let's you know,
• 44:59
  The fact that you felt you had to address it And tell people We are not idolizing
• 45:07
  this This isn't a worship This is more of an appreciation For his patriotism His courage under fire.
• 45:15
  I'm just going to say it, man. Fuck you. Seriously.
• 45:19
  I'm speechless, bro. I'm speechless. I'm just I'm just sitting here listening.
• 45:24
  I'm going to look this up when we finish. I'm speechless. The fact like I just I don't worship anyone.
• 45:32
  I love my mother and father. I do not worship my mother and father.
• 45:37
  I love them. I respect them and I appreciate them. I do not worship them.
• 45:44
  I don't want anybody to worship me. I don't want my kids to worship me. Respect me.
• 45:50
  Understand where I'm coming from. Love me. That's all I can ask.
• 45:54
  Because worship leads to stupid shit like this.
• 45:58
  The only thing I'll say is If you need that validation.
• 46:04
  If you constantly have to remind people of
• 46:07
  how great you are If you constantly need
• 46:10
  that reassurance It's because deep down inside you're insecure And you know
• 46:17
  that you're not a great person And for those who might want to give any pushback
• 46:23
  to the golden calf Please by all means open the good book that you have in your
• 46:27
  home and read Exodus. Yeah.
• 46:31
  Got one more small. Okay, go ahead, bro. It'll take about 30 seconds. No, no, no. Get it off.
• 46:35
  Have you seen the t-shirt that got pulled from the Indy car? No.
• 46:40
  Now, as far as the Indy 500? Yeah, well, yeah, just the, and the 250th anniversary
• 46:44
  for the event that's happening in D.C.
• 46:47
  No, I didn't even know that they merged for a t-shirt. So, I understood what,
• 46:52
  I understand what they were trying to do. I'm not calling nobody racist.
• 46:55
  So, I'm just going to say that. I know we live in Indianapolis and people get crazy about racing.
• 46:59
  They put out a t-shirt And at the top, it said one nation, one race.
• 47:08
  Idiots. Now, I know what they meant. Idiots.
• 47:16
  Now, you know what they meant. I know what they meant.
• 47:21
  But. Idiots. We all know that there was not a single person under 60 in that
• 47:27
  room and there were no black people.
• 47:29
  Right. now they pulled it immediately because I think they realized holy shit
• 47:34
  we done fucked up this what are we doing I mean again I know what you mean,
• 47:44
  But that term has been coined and used by white supremacists for centuries.
• 47:48
  I would buy one just for just just for the memento. I would buy one, bro.
• 47:55
  Man, when I saw that story, I was like, who was in the room when they did? Correct.
• 48:00
  Correct. Who signed off on this? It's similar to what I forget the clothing
• 48:04
  store that that came out with the the Kent State sweater some years ago with the bullet holes in it.
• 48:11
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:14
  What are y'all, out y'all mind?
• 48:16
  Yeah, or the, what is it, the Versace blackface sweater a few years ago.
• 48:21
  Or the kid in the, which I mean I laughed but it's not funny and I shouldn't
• 48:25
  be laughing with the kid, the black kid wearing the shirt with the monkey on
• 48:29
  it. I'm like, oh, come on.
• 48:32
  My bad, man. I'm taking in real time. No, no, no, no, no, no,
• 48:35
  no. Bro, we are, we are, we're golden on time, alright?
• 48:38
  So I'm gonna touch on something that is race related but not in that way.
• 48:44
  Are you familiar with this Blacks are Viltrumites?
• 48:49
  No. So you're not? No. Do you know what a Viltrumite is? No.
• 48:54
  So you don't watch Invincible? No. Okay.
• 48:57
  Quick little history. So Invincible is a superhero on Amazon. It's a cartoon.
• 49:05
  Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, his father was a Viltrumite. Okay.
• 49:11
  And basically they were conquerors.
• 49:14
  And the goal was to just go out and conquer as many planets as you can,
• 49:20
  take over, impregnate the women, blah, blah, blah.
• 49:23
  So recently, and it started in Japan.
• 49:27
  Now, I don't want to assign this to all Japanese people, but it started in Japan,
• 49:31
  where someone made a post talking about how terrified they are when they see
• 49:38
  black people, some Japanese person.
• 49:41
  Oh, and it goes on to talk about how black people are just naturally muscular
• 49:51
  and bigger and stronger.
• 49:54
  And if this person was to get into a fight with a black person,
• 49:58
  they would ultimately lose because black people are this, that.
• 50:02
  And just talk about the physical appearance of black people and how we're scary. Mm hmm.
• 50:08
  So here's what I want to write about.
• 50:12
  The subliminal racism of all of these type of arguments like this or stereotypes,
• 50:21
  even the ones that are supposed to be a positive, they're still racist stereotypes.
• 50:30
  And I want anyone who's not black to consider this the next time you say all black people can dance.
• 50:43
  That is a racist stereotype. It's also a damn lie. It's a lie.
• 50:48
  Whenever you say all black people can run fast, that is a racist stereotype.
• 50:57
  I'm proof positive that shit ain't true. When you say all black people can jump
• 51:01
  high, that is a racist stereotype.
• 51:06
  You may think that it's a compliment. It's not. It's not funny neither.
• 51:13
  If you say all black women have big asses, that's not a compliment.
• 51:20
  That is a racist stereotype. And here's one that probably people are going to
• 51:27
  say you should be happy about that.
• 51:29
  All black men have large penises.
• 51:34
  That is a racist stereotype. That is not a compliment. It's not the compliment
• 51:41
  that you think it is. And here's why.
• 51:45
  All of that reduces black people to what? Physical objects.
• 51:52
  We talked about how black women are over-sexualized. Oh yeah, all the time.
• 51:57
  The black women have big asses. It's just a sexualization of black women and
• 52:02
  you're negating their intelligence.
• 52:06
  All black men have big penises. You're reducing black men to sexual objects
• 52:13
  and you're negating the fact that black men can be good fathers,
• 52:19
  good husbands, good providers.
• 52:22
  No, just someone to have sex with.
• 52:25
  Stop with the racist stereotypes even when you think that it's a compliment. It's not.
• 52:33
  Okay. Whenever you generalize someone, regardless of their race,
• 52:37
  whenever you generalize them, you're being racist.
• 52:42
  Please keep that in mind going forward.
• 52:45
  That's more rock, bro. Anything you want to add to that? Uh-uh.
• 52:48
  Yeah. Got it. All right, cool.
• 52:51
  We're going to transition into our five on the blackhand side movie review,
• 52:56
  and we got a good one this week, y'all.
• 52:59
  Great movie. We chose Boomerang, starring Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence,
• 53:06
  Robin Givens, Holly Berry, and the list goes on and on and on.
• 53:11
  My brother, take it away.
• 53:13
  All right, so I'm just going to pick up right where you left off.
• 53:15
  So, as my brother was saying, Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, got Robin Givens,
• 53:20
  Martin Lawrence, David Alan Greer.
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  Grace Jones is us. Grace Jones. Stranger. Stranger. Strange. Right.
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  Earth the Kid, John Witherspoon, and Chris Rock as Boney T. Boney T.
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  First the fat boys break up and now this. Now this.
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  So, the movie, I'm going to give a brief synopsis. of what I found on the internet.
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  So Boomerang is a classic hunter becomes the hunted. I like it.
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  Centered on Marcus Graham, who's Eddie Murphy. The hunter.
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  Right. A high-powered, chauvinistic advertising executive who treats women like
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  disposable commodities.
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  He has a laundry list of shallow requirements for the perfect woman,
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  including this is funny, including a notorious obsession with beautiful feet.
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  We'll get to why it's funny later y'all.
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  So basically in a nutshell the setup is
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  this marcus is at the top of his game when his company is
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  acquired by a cosmetic mogul which is lady eloise
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  which is earth the kit yes he sleeps with her yes assuming let me let me say
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  that again he sleeps with earth the kit who is probably what 75 80 yes yeah
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  assuming it will secure him a promotion only to realize she's just a figurehead
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  The figurehead. With no real power.
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  Instead, the company brings in a new head of marketing, which is Jacqueline,
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  which is Robin Gibb. Mm-hmm.
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  So, the reversal, the karma. Yes. Jacqueline is effectively the female version
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  of Marcus, cold, career-driven, emotionally detached. Yep.
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  Marcus falls hard for her, but for the first time in his life,
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  he's on the receiving end of a hidden and quitted lifestyle.
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  Yep. Jacqueline treats him as a sexual plaything, ignores his cause,
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  remains completely non-committed.
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  This boomerang effect sends Marcus into a professional and personal tailspin.
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  So the turning point.
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  While pining for Jacqueline, Marcus spends time with Angela, who's Halle Berry. Yes.
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  A more grounded and artistic colleague who is actually the girlfriend,
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  I use quote to air quotes, girlfriend of his best friend, Gerard,
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  David Allen Greer. Not necessarily, though.
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  They were just friends. They went out on, what, one or two dates?
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  But I wouldn't classify her as his girlfriend. No, no, not at all.
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  Yeah, yeah. As Marcus begins to recover from his heartbreak,
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  he realized that Angela offers the genuine connection he's actually been missing.
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  So the resolution. The drama peaks when Marcus, caught between his old desire
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  for the unattainable, Jacqueline, and his growing love for the real,
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  which is Angela, eventually sleeps with Jacqueline again.
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  This betrayal leads to a breakup with Angela and a riff with his friends.
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  The movie concludes with Marcus finally choosing dignity and behavior over his
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  old habits. rejecting Jacqueline's game and successfully wanting Angela back
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  by proving he has finally evolved into a man capable of commitment.
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  So I think something gets missed in Boomerang especially for this to be in 1992.
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  This is one of the first movies where you have a predominantly black cast.
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  There's a few white people sprinkled in.
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  Predominantly black cast. No one's a gang member.
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  No one's a drug dealer. No one's doing anything ratchet.
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  These are all well-educated, successful black people in the business world.
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  I think that gets missed a lot. Is we got to see ourselves as successful black
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  people in America. Before Wakanda.
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  I think that part gets missed by a lot of people as it relates to Boomerang.
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  This movie also gave us so much like John Witherspoon.
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  Coordinate with the mushrooms inside the suit jacket and the belt and the shoes.
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  Got to coordinate. That fool said, we'll just pull another piece off and make some earrings out.
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  Hey, what? Hey, Marty. Hey, Marty. I heard.
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  Boy, you got to whip that. Babe, babe, babe, babe.
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  But here's the funny part.
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  The quick turnaround at that table, it went from, we're just friends.
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  Yeah. Okay, I'll let it go.
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  Yeah. Fuck it. Yeah. I'm about to change this whole, I'm about to switch this whole thing around.
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  Yeah. Yeah, man. And then when they went in the bathroom. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Also, this movie was about friendship, though.
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  Oh, for sure. This was about three black men who were close friends and how
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  one selfish act fractured their friendship.
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  Because when he did what he did, it broke all of them apart and nothing was right after that.
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  So that was also the resolution. It wasn't just the resolution that he had to
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  have with Holly Berry, but it was also the resolution that he had to have with
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  his friends and men. that relationship as well. Did...
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  People think of, you know, Harlem Nights and just like, oh, yeah, that's a classic.
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  But man, honestly, I think this might be one of the better Eddie Murphy movies,
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  man. Well, it was also his.
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  None of his comedy seemed forced in this movie.
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  And I'm not saying this scene, but I don't want to insult the man.
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  Obviously, we like Eddie Murphy.
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  But it was just he wasn't the funny man in this. No.
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  He just kind of sat back and let air like like. Well, we always forget,
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  like Martin, the pool table.
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  Man, Martin at the pool table, bro, was man.
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  He went to another level, man. Chris Rock actually stole every scene he was in as the male boy.
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  But yeah, Chris Rock was hilarious. This was also one of the first movies where
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  you saw a woman matching the bullshit of the main character. Yeah.
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  Because she was. She was like emotionally detached. Yeah.
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  And checked him on it a few times. Like, hey, listen.
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  There's still a job, homie. We just having sex. Yeah. Yeah. And you got a job
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  to do. And if you can't do this job, then your ass getting fired.
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  And also, at that time, it was the most expensive movie with an all-black cast.
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  $40 to $42 million was the budget, and it made $131 million.
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  Now, for those that are used to seeing every movie make $100 million nowadays. It's 1992.
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  If you adjust that, which I didn't do.
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  I should have done the math on it. But $131 million, if I had to guess,
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  that's probably like three, 400 million out of days. Yep.
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  That's the comma. Yep. Ingested for inflation without a doubt. Without a doubt.
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  And it, again, it broke the trope that you can't have a Black successful movie. Uh-huh.
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  It all, again, we got 1992, Boomerang.
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  All the way to Wakanda forever. Not Wakanda forever, but Black Panther.
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  And you still had that spattering out there that you can't have an all-black
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  movie because it's not going to do numbers at the box office.
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  Yet we had the evidence right here at Boomerang in front of us.
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  Right. So it's it's it's not about having an all-black cast or a black centric story.
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  The problem is we're tired of seeing the same black story.
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  That's the problem.
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  We're tired of being the stereotypical typecast, drug dealer,
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  gang member, blah, blah, blah. We're tired of that.
• 1:01:36
  But if you give us just a good story, we'll support it.
• 1:01:41
  And even with, I'll give you an example.
• 1:01:44
  Now, you and I don't really care for a lot. The overwhelming majority of Tyler Perry movies.
• 1:01:49
  There's a couple of them that, you know, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Why
• 1:01:53
  Did I Get Married, the first one. Right.
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  Which I think are just great movies. They are good, yes. And The Family That
• 1:01:58
  Praise is a good movie. The Family That Praise is pretty good, yeah.
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  It's one of the reasons why he gets so much flack because he just keeps writing
• 1:02:04
  the same things over and over and over again.
• 1:02:08
  You know what I mean? Yes. But the reason Tyler Perry got so much support, obviously,
• 1:02:12
  being friends with Oprah helped, especially at the
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  height of where she was for sure but tyler perry
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  brought in something different a consistent not
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  different consistently betraying black folks as successful right and that's
• 1:02:27
  why black people migrated right and then giving us comic relief right with medea
• 1:02:32
  right and for those that just you know kind of got on with with tyler perry
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  movies they missed the plays because we used about it.
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  Correct. The play is on bootleg. Correct. And they were fun. Correct.
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  They truly were. So yeah, if you make movies that don't portray black folks
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  as a typical drug dealer, hoodlum, and this and that, people will support you. Correct.
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  And I think this movie is definitely at that time making $131 million worldwide at the box office.
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  And in that time, it was unheard of for a black cast.
• 1:03:05
  Right. And it should have made more, to be And this doesn't give me VHS and
• 1:03:11
  DVD sales and stuff like that, but...
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  Oh, excuse me. Grace Jones' character. Yes.
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  Sean J. Do you know the overwhelming majority of everything she did on camera was not in the script?
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  If you go back and watch it, pay attention to Halle Berry.
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  Like, she's almost, like, in tears. Laughing at her? Yes.
• 1:03:35
  Like, you can tell she can't hold it together. Like, with the whole hair and the face.
• 1:03:40
  All of those reactions. Like, she decided on the scene to flip her hair in his face.
• 1:03:46
  He legitimately had a piece of her wig in his teeth so when he was picking it
• 1:03:51
  out Halle Berry was in the background like with her head down all of that was like just,
• 1:03:58
  unscripted we didn't mention the legendary Milvyn Van Peebles was in this movie.
• 1:04:03
  Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was he was he was he was the editor.
• 1:04:07
  Yeah. And then talk about a brother with a complicated past. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:13
  I mean, just just just shout out to Eddie for getting Grace Jones.
• 1:04:18
  Oh, at that time to be in this movie. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:21
  To get Melvin Van Peebles and put him in this movie to get Eartha Kitt and put
• 1:04:26
  her in this movie. You know, I'm saying even the guy who was the chemist that
• 1:04:32
  was that was that was making the perfume.
• 1:04:33
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's he's the guy from the seven up commercials back in the day. Yeah.
• 1:04:37
  Yeah. So so so shout out to Eddie for getting those ancestors.
• 1:04:42
  Well, I want to call them ancestors because, well, I think most of them are
• 1:04:46
  dead now. But back then, of course, they were they weren't ancestors.
• 1:04:49
  But but but forgetting those elders, I guess that's the word I was looking for
• 1:04:52
  to get those elders and sort of put them back into the spotlight.
• 1:04:57
  And pay homage i thought that was pretty cool which
• 1:05:00
  is the same thing he did in harlem knights to
• 1:05:03
  to to to give proper respect to those who came before you or before us i guess
• 1:05:10
  i should say so so that was that was that was cool uh i said getting john with
• 1:05:14
  the spoon and uh myra who's always the same in everything she plays and it's
• 1:05:20
  always funny and it's always funny.
• 1:05:25
  Tisha Campbell oh yeah the next door neighbor yeah yeah yeah let's talk about the feet bro cause.
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  My brother is Marcus Graham I'm just gonna say it my brother is Marcus Graham
• 1:05:41
  so something I found out well let me just say this at the time of this movie
• 1:05:47
  Layla Rashawn was the most beautiful woman on the planet for me like she just
• 1:05:52
  was I felt like Richie and Harlem Nights,
• 1:05:55
  Sunshine I love that woman,
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  Now, me being so young when this movie came out, you don't know no better. I'm like, we were 16.
• 1:06:06
  Yeah. I mean, we were still pretty young. Yeah. But I'm just like,
• 1:06:10
  why do her feet look like that?
• 1:06:16
  I didn't realize until this movie how much that mattered to me.
• 1:06:21
  Now, I'm not, you know, and I'm not knocking anybody's fetish.
• 1:06:24
  I'm not a foot fanatic or none of that. But there are some things I can't say
• 1:06:30
  on here that somebody... You can say it without saying the name.
• 1:06:34
  Right. But they would know who I'm talking about. Oh, okay. I got you.
• 1:06:38
  But something I found out about that whole scene, they spent hours like doctoring
• 1:06:44
  her feet with prosthetics and all of that stuff.
• 1:06:48
  Obviously, that wasn't, you know, you figure it out as you get older.
• 1:06:51
  Obviously, that's not her feet. But at that time, I'm like, you know what?
• 1:06:56
  That matters to me, too. But at 16, we ain't thinking about nobody's damn feet. I definitely...
• 1:07:04
  No, no, no. Just no. Yeah.
• 1:07:08
  But, yeah, that's what we were laughing about in the beginning. Like that, yeah.
• 1:07:13
  I've come across some people's feet that look exactly like that in real life.
• 1:07:17
  Yeah, what they call it, hammer time? Yeah, I just leave it at that.
• 1:07:25
  When you told me about it i was like what and you were like man i just i was
• 1:07:31
  like what and you were like man i just couldn't and i was like what i said oh
• 1:07:37
  man you are marcus from boomerang.
• 1:07:44
  That was a rough day. Oh, man. That was funny, bro.
• 1:07:49
  It still tickles me to this day. I can still hear you explaining it. It just tickles me.
• 1:07:55
  All right, y'all. So I think there is no suspense here. We're going to rate
• 1:08:01
  Boomerang pretty freaking high.
• 1:08:03
  I'm giving it a five. Same here.
• 1:08:06
  High five on the black hand side for Boomerang. Watching it recently.
• 1:08:10
  It's still like I laugh. It works. I enjoy it. Yep, it works. The jokes do not get old.
• 1:08:16
  I didn't watch that movie again for this podcast.
• 1:08:19
  I did, but I didn't. It's like when I watched it, I'm watching it.
• 1:08:23
  Yeah, it's just a good movie. Phone sitting down.
• 1:08:26
  I think I may have touched my phone maybe once. Yeah. Just a good movie.
• 1:08:29
  No, it is definitely high up on the rewatch scale.
• 1:08:34
  Some movies you can't. You know, you watch them one time and then the jokes get old.
• 1:08:38
  Not this. Or just some movies you just.
• 1:08:41
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But nah, I'm good. Yeah, I kind of feel that way about thin lines.
• 1:08:48
  I don't know, man. Bobby Brown was funny as hell. He was. He was. But I don't know, man.
• 1:08:52
  I think I tried to watch it recently and I was just like... She brought me down to my break pads.
• 1:08:58
  It got its moments. Where's the justice? It got its moments.
• 1:09:02
  It got its moments. All right, y'all.
• 1:09:04
  It's time for our closing monologue.
• 1:09:09
  KG, the floor is yours. Appreciate it. All right.
• 1:09:12
  So, we laid out the history today so you knew exactly what the reality is right
• 1:09:18
  now with the voting rights.
• 1:09:20
  To use sports reference, because we do have basketball on in the background,
• 1:09:25
  Supreme Court took the referees completely off the field.
• 1:09:29
  They gave state legislations a green light to draw lines and silence a community,
• 1:09:34
  hiding behind the excuse of just playing politics.
• 1:09:39
  But here's the bottom line. This is about basic dignity.
• 1:09:43
  It's about the behavior we demand from a system that's supposed to work for us.
• 1:09:49
  And let's be clear, this is nothing new, as we mentioned earlier.
• 1:09:53
  This is exactly how this country ran before the Voting Rights Act.
• 1:09:57
  We already know what happened before these protections were in place.
• 1:10:00
  The strategy hasn't changed at all. They want us to be silent.
• 1:10:04
  They want us to sit around, accept it, and do nothing.
• 1:10:08
  But we know what it took to get those rights the first time,
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  and we are not going backwards. Period.
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  All right, y'all, that concludes episode 31 of For The Fam podcast.
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