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Ep. 7 - Double Standards, Racism, and Democrats missing the play · 4DAFAM

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Welcome to another episode of For The Fam Podcast. What is this,
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episode seven now? I think so, yeah.
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We getting there. Yes, sir. Consistency, consistency.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lucky number seven. You believe in luck and superstition
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and all that kind of stuff? Absolutely.
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I'm minus lucky number five. I don't.
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Not it not it i mean like hold up
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i looked up inside your face was like oh he about to say nah so
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like i don't get down like horoscopes oh no no no and you know play these lucky
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numbers in the lottery all that kind of kind of stuff you know find a penny
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and it's good luck four leaf floor i don't believe in none of that kind of stuff
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but i do acknowledge that sometimes Sometimes lucky things happen.
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Oh, yeah. I acknowledge that. But yeah, as far as like banking on it. Nah, that ain't for me.
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So what you want to what you want to talk about today, bro? So today we're going
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to touch on double standards.
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What we mean by that is the double standards between other groups of people
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and black Americans and how certain things are portrayed when we speak up as
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opposed to when someone else speaks up. For example.
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So for us, let's use comedians. Okay. When a white comedian tells black jokes, they're edgy.
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They're... Okay. But when a black comedian tells jokes, it's taken as defensive or...
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I'm trying to think of the other word, but I think you get my drift.
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No, I 100% get the drift and... Hostile, hostile. Hostile, yeah, sure, sure. Sure.
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So and I mean, like like we were saying earlier, this can apply to so many different walks of life.
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Absolutely. So I'm just I'm going to bounce around. But I mean, like.
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In recent events and I'm going to probably work my way backwards,
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but and we had a discussion about this, how the NFL tried to have a moment of
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silence for Charlie Kirk. Mm hmm.
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But then when Colin Kaepernick and all of the guys were taking were taking knees,
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it was all about we don't get political, just play football.
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We don't we don't come to football games for political views or lectures or whatever.
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No, the masses were saying that basically were just being hypocrites about taking
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a knee because now it's cool to have a moment of silence for this dude.
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But you didn't want to acknowledge that.
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Colin Kaepernick taking a knee for police brutality. That was out of bounds.
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So it's just those type of double standards. And and and and even with like Kyrie.
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And I know you're not the biggest fan of Kyrie, but the whole tweeting the Hebrews
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to Negroes and how they tried to blackball do.
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And force them to give money to what was it, the ADL or something like that was like,
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now you're extorting this dude, especially considering
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how much he does outside of basketball
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i think like like for me with him
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obviously on the court there's no question but i think over the years some of
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his in my opinion right messages me talk right i think some of his criticisms
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and the things that he tried to address just kind of he didn't know how to address
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them at that time but i feel like now,
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When I hear him talk, he does a lot of live streaming.
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I think the brothers turned the corner. He knows how to present it and present it well now. Yeah.
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Well, the whole thing in this, I know I got to tread lightly,
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but with the ADL, how you basically went after Kyrie so hard.
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But right around that same time frame, Marjorie Taylor Greene was talking about
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Jewish space lasers and controlling the weather and all of that kind of silly stuff.
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And nobody said anything to her. Nothing.
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Why didn't you guys try and strong arm her and make her give donations?
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She was talking Cash money shit Wild about Jewish people Yeah So it's those
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Double standards That I'm just like.
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Who speaks up for us? You know what I'm saying?
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Like you've got the ABL or, you know, I guess the what is it?
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The Southern Poverty. Yes. Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Yeah, you got you got. And they kind of like monitor everybody.
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But even with like the NAACP, it's just like, do y'all really go to bat for us?
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I mean, as you were just saying, comedians, whatever, anybody can say anything
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derogatory or negative about black people. And it's just another day at the office.
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But soon as we start saying stuff, it's, oh, my God, what are you doing?
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It's that double standard that just drives me insane. It's the Jim Crow mentality.
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It's the don't talk back mentality.
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You're to be seen, not to be heard. Actually, we prefer you not be seen in certain places.
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Know your place. Know your place. Wow. And a lot of people don't understand.
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Yeah, a lot has changed in the South. We're not sitting around here saying that
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we can't do what we want to do because we can.
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We can pretty much do whatever we want to do. But there are still situations
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where people go through what their ancestors went through on a daily basis.
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They're expected to stay in line.
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Interesting. Interesting. But but you're right. Stay in line. I.
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Yeah. That's probably hitting the nail on the head.
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It's so it's so crazy because like I don't know if you're aware of like the whole.
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I'm going to just talk about it. Jemele Hill and what's the uptick from Fox?
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Oh, yeah. Barbie doll. Fake Barbie doll. What's her name?
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Megan Kellis. That's it. I mean, like, she literally called Jemele Hill ugly.
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And it's just like,
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Where's the pushback from that? You know what I'm saying? And nobody's going
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to say anything about it. No.
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And I'm glad Jamel clapped back. Look that up, y'all, because she got at her.
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And she clapped back in a way that was basically telling her,
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watch yourself. Yeah, for real. Tread lightly.
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For real. For real. But it's like, you know, the whole women aren't supposed
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to denigrate women. And I get it.
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The whole conversation about we're always judged on our parents as opposed to our intellect.
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I get that. So I get like, hey, this is just like some unspoken rule.
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We don't talk about each other's physical appearance.
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I get that 100 percent. So it's like for you to like, oh, it just pisses me off to be to be honest.
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It really pisses me off. And seemingly out of left field, out of left field,
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out of nowhere. Just like what was your reason?
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Unless you just wanted some clicks.
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And and again, we don't promote violence on this show, but if Jamel was to put
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them hands on her, I'd give her two thumbs up.
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Because she kind of deserves it. Like I said, out of left field,
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I'm going to start talking about her. And look, this may have been something.
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Maybe Jamel said something. I don't know the full context. I did see part of
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her response to it, but I don't know the full context what got Megyn Kelly riled
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up about something. It could have been something.
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Nothing that warranted a response like that. Right, just calling the ugly.
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Yeah. if y'all got different views on a
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political topic then talk
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about those differences but to us i was
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about to say assault but to insult that woman like that you
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out of pocket and throughout throughout history especially
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you know the way we grew up what does the person who's losing
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the argument like that you're talking about each other's mamas go
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to go to they make it personal they make it personal yep they
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make it personal yep yep it immediately
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it is not about the topic
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anymore now it's about insults at least my daddy ain't lose his job yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah oh you want to take it there because you know that that's
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what come next where we from oh that okay that's what we doing now especially
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since we all knew each other so it was personal the second that you said something
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about somebody's family.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I don't know, man. I just, I get so upset. And I shouldn't.
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But even with, like, the hypocrisy.
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What between the Democrats and the Republicans, you know, like they try to drag
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Jasmine for the bleach blonde bat built, excuse me, insult.
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But but nobody talked about the fact that she was talking about her eyelashes
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and her and her weave and her. And you know what's crazy, dog?
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White women wear weave. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. They got them clip on.
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They just they just clip it on. white women wear just as much weave as black women.
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And eyelashes, for that matter, and fake nails, and all that stuff.
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But when black women... But you haven't noticed, we don't...
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And I'm not gonna say I'm speaking for us.
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We know that already. Yeah, for sure. And we don't give a damn.
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Don't. I don't care that... You got your hair done. Oh, you look nice.
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Enjoy the rest of your day. Right. But then you want to start talking about
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her because she got on lashes.
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Right. And then I forget who it was that said also... About Jasmine Crockett,
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about where she was raised.
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They always on that, bro.
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When they were talking about how, well, you're not that type of black woman. Always.
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You shouldn't be behaving this way. Excuse me? Right. What do you mean she's
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not that type of black woman?
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It's so crazy because depending on who you ask, she's ghetto.
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Then you ask another one and there'll be, oh, no, she's faking.
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She's not really ghetto. She's really educated and come from, well, which one is it?
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And why is it personal? Why does that matter? Talk about her politics.
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If you disagree with her politics, talk about her politics. Don't talk about her personal life.
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That's off the table. And what's crazy with people like her,
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she's considered radical.
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Whereas people who say the same thing, the same state of that,
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I can't even talk, who say the same things are considered passionate.
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They're passionate about the projects and about the bill that they want to pass.
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But she's radical because she's speaking up against the establishment.
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You should just shut up, get in line, vote, go home.
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Going back to what you said about the hypocrisy, one of the things that I don't
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understand, especially with the way of the world, well, the way of this country right now.
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How many of these people argue in that hall and then go have dinner together
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like ain't nothing just happened? Speak on it.
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Speak on it. Do you understand? Do you not understand that the things that you
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are discussing in that hall is is vital to a lot of people? Sure.
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Real life consequences.
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Black folk white folk hispanic folk
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yep it's detrimental yep to all
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of us at this one yep and to them it's a gang and y'all arguing
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we're gonna put the vote off the lady that just won the special election
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mike johnson is refusing to it's all
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the game her in yeah yeah it's all the game
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it's crazy how about we show up at your house right
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and force you to right right hypocrite
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lying lie lie talk about what
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a good christian he is all the time and get up there and lie for
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trump every single day like bro knock it off you the furthest thing from a good
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christian knock it off but the the double standard with gavin newson the way
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he trolls trump oh he's the worst this This is petty. This is childish.
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But when Trump get up here and call people names, et cetera, et cetera, it's cooler.
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That's why people love him. You know, he, I think this was said a couple of
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days ago. I think that's why people love him because he speaks his mind.
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It was, it was from a lion.
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What's the name? Levitt. Oh my God.
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Well, that's why people like him because he speaks his mind.
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But when somebody else do it. That cross on her neck should have a burn mark right on her chest.
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Crazy. But, but, but, but Pete this though. did you
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see your boy Vance talk about
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the FCC guy he was just kidding with
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Jimmy Kimmel it was a joke wait Jimmy Kimmel's
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the comedian not him he don't get paid to tell jokes Jimmy Kimmel gets paid
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to tell jokes so you trying to get Jimmy Kimmel pulled off the air for telling
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a joke but when And this dude catches all this heat for his blatant,
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blatant violation of freedom of speech.
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Oh, he was just kidding. He was just telling a joke. When Trump was talking
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about being a dictator on day one.
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Oh, he's just telling a joke. When he say he want to be president for life.
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Oh, he's just telling that dude ain't a comedian.
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We don't want the president to be telling jokes.
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So the FCC chairman, I think it was 2019, he tweeted that the FCC shouldn't be police speech.
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And in a 2022 tweet emphasized the importance of political satire as a form
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of free speech that challenges power and is often targeted for censorship.
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But then you turn around and do the same thing under a different president. Right.
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Right. It's crazy, bro. The double standard. And look, for those out there screaming,
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you know, y'all never say this about Democrats or this and another thing.
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One, because they don't do it. But one of the issues that I have in general, if you are an attorney.
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You don't get to choose what type of attorney you're going to be based on who's in office. Right.
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But we see it so often. Man, say that for the Supreme Court can hear you, bro.
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Like, do you not understand that you are not making decisions that are in the
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best interest of the country, of the country, of the citizens of this country?
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You're making decisions that are for the betterment of one individual. Nuts.
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Nuts. You basically, and this kind of fell under the radar yesterday or day
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before yesterday, you basically took away the last thing that stops him from being a dictator.
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You said, you told him, it's okay if you withhold that foreign aid.
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That money that was allocated by Congress is now set to expire.
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Foreign aid. You've given him the ability to not send foreign aid.
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And I can hear people now, we shouldn't be sending money in the first place.
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Well, I can think of a country right now where we can save billions a year if we stop sending money.
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Don't say it. Matter of fact, I can think of two.
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Don't say it. Don't say it. Three.
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Three different countries where we could possibly say $20 to $30 billion a year.
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Yeah, well, one we can say.
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The other, I mean, one we can't say. The others we can say.
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But, you know, the one we can't say. But, but, but, but, but keep this, though.
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Because I know this is probably one of the countries you're thinking of.
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The lady that got killed on the bus in, what was it, South Carolina? Mm-hmm.
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Look how quick they were this lady
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came here she escaped war-torn ukraine
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and she's just looking for a better
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life and she gets killed by this
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guy who should have been locked away so wait now all of a sudden y'all ukraine
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enthusiasts now now y'all got sympathy for ukraine but y'all don't want to give
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ukraine aid so first let's say this it was horrible it is horrible and that
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guy they should have beat him to death right outside of that bus after it happened.
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But you can't say that a woman from that part of the world has escaped a war-torn
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country, is here doing good, but then arrest the Iowa superintendent of schools yesterday.
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Because you say he's here working illegally. He's a school superintendent.
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The mayor, Republican people have come out in Ohio like, oh, this dude's great.
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Or Iowa, sorry, Iowa. Like, oh, no, this guy is great.
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He was raised in Brooklyn. Yes, he was born in South America and Guyana.
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But he's here working. They say he's here working illegally.
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So what, his visa expired? Oh, no, you say he was born in Brooklyn.
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No, no, he was born in Guyana. Okay, okay. He was raised in Brooklyn.
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Okay. And that's the only details I know because they haven't really released a lot. Okay.
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But he's the school superintendent.
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Yeah. You know how wild that is to arrest a school superintendent? Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. You don't get those positions without being vetted and qualified. And qualified.
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Which is another thing about the double standard, how
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you can have someone with no higher education criticize someone who goes to
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Harvard or any Ivy League school and call them uneducated and unqualified and
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call them DEI hires. It was like, where are your credentials?
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Hold on, before you do that, if you're flying an airplane, what do you have to have?
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A license. You have
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to pass the training you got
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to be qualified or they won't give it to you the
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FCC it's very I'm sorry the FAA there
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are rules and regulations put in place for everyone yep black white it doesn't
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matter yeah if I see a pilot I'm like okay I don't care they passed the test
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you're a pilot Right, right.
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You passed the test. They're not just letting any John John come fly the plane.
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You have to pass the test. You're qualified.
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Let's put a woman in there so we can meet a quota or let's put a black person
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in there so we can meet. They're still qualified. No, that's not how that works.
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Yeah. Even if it is, they're still qualified to fly the damn plane.
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You still got to get your pilot's license. You still got to.
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Simulations All of that, so many hours All of that,
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you have to do it It's just a silly Racist ass thing to say But let's gloss
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over Let's gloss over all of that Because I'd be qualified,
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I'd be worried too Then you're a racist too So I heard somebody say That.
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We're in an environment now where you can get fired for quoting the words of
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someone who's being labeled as a hero.
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Hero loosely. All right. I think we basically shined enough light on the double
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standard that we as black people have to face on a day to day basis.
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So now let's let's move into some current events.
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What you got, bro? So something that's going on specifically for us in Indiana, energy hikes.
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I think I was telling you how my bill went from an average of 130, 135, 140.
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And then I got a bill for, I think my total bill was like $697.
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Your electric and gas is separate? Yes. Okay. My gas, summertime, $17, $18.
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Never a big deal. But even in the wintertime, my gas only goes up to about $38.
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It's not a big deal. So I want to talk about things that we know that are fact
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as it pertains, especially for us here in central Indiana.
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And we'll talk about where we're from in northwest Indiana as well.
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So the proposed rate hike that AES is putting in is 13.5%. And that's roughly
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a $21 more per month for a typical residential customer. And that's by 2027.
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First phase, a 7.5% increase is for April 2026, followed by 6% in January of 2027.
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Now, what's not in here is the fact that we just had that rate increase. That's right.
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It was like 13.9% or something like that. Yeah. Was it last year,
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beginning of this year, something like that? Yeah.
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It's fairly recent. Let's put it like that. Now, back home.
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Now, we grew up hearing folks talk about how that NIPSCO bill was $600. $700.
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They received approval for a 16.7% rate hike. Nipsco? Nipsco.
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Effective through early 2026. The increase was reduced from an initial proposed
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22% after negotiations with Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
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So finally somebody stepped in and was like
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nah right because i can speak from experience hearing
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that now obviously my father retired from nipsco so he don't complain about
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much anyway but hearing my mother talk about nipsco bill went from 250 to 500
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even i think the last time i spoke with her about Nipsco.
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The bill was like $700.
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Who can afford that? Yeah. Yeah, you're right, bro.
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And it's colder up there than it is here because they're closer to the lake. Absolutely.
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Wow. I don't miss that hook. No, not at all. But, you know, I just wanted to briefly...
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Briefly touch on that and at least bring to light that the Regulatory Commission
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is actually fighting across the state to stop these rate hikes.
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Well, when we when we and we discussed this briefly, we were talking about these data centers. Yes.
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And how the how one they just rejected a data center to be built.
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But as they add more data centers, I mean, because eventually they're going
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to come, how that also will add to people's utility bills.
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So as we discussed the other day, there are dozens of data centers in central Indiana.
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But again, we're talking 6,000 square feet, 4,000 square feet.
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The one that they were going to build over by where I live. The Google. Yeah.
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Where the people got together. Yes. Basically forced Google to withdraw their proposal.
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Yes. I mean, you're talking about something that was like three or four Costco size, which.
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So the rub on that is the data center would not pay for all of the energy that they consume.
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Correct. Some of that cost is going to get passed on to the residents.
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That's crazy. But you know what's crazier? If they would have agreed to pay
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for all of it, the state politicians here would have found a way to raise it
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anyway so they can make more money, get more money.
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And then there's also the water consumption part as well. Which they claim was
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not going to be as much as the people who researched it said it was going to be.
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They were like, oh, it's just a couple million gallons a day.
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And the researchers were like, nah.
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Because you have to cool down your equipment. Yeah.
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Wow. And they can't recycle that water because basically it's going to evaporate because of the heat.
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So it's a constant influx of water. Yeah.
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Oh, it's always something, bro. I mean, you got to really, really,
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really pay attention to not get caught up in the okie-dope.
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And if those people wouldn't have shown up to those town halls,
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they would have. But the difference is those folks got money.
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Right. And they pay attention to what's going on. They're in those Facebook
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groups and whatnot. Right.
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So they paid attention to what's going on in their community and they showed
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up. I mean, there were hundreds of people at that place when that lawyer spoke.
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Good for them. That is excellent. And honestly, we need more community outreach,
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outlook, whatever you want to call it, because, yeah, a lot of the times these
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companies do skate by because no one's paying attention.
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And next thing you know, you've got some big building in your community and
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you're going, wait a minute, this is not what we signed up for.
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Or what the hell is that place? Or what the hell is that place?
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And they always get you with the carrot of we're going to have.
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This is going to add more jobs to the community, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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Yeah, it's crazy. Anything else you want to cover in your current event,
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bro? Nope. That's it for me.
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All right, cool. I'm going to swing this. Man, I sort of touched on this briefly.
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Well, I mentioned his name, but I didn't talk about this in particular.
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But recently, the Charlie Kirk resolution was passed in the House of Representatives.
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And when I say recently, I mean like earlier this week, I believe.
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I don't want to talk about the resolution per se.
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What I want to talk about is the 95 Democrats that supported this resolution. Right.
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I don't understand it. I am perplexed. Now, the few interviews I've seen,
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they have been very adamant and animated about we didn't vote for Charlie Kirk.
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We voted to end political violence. And that's cool.
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Justify it however you want. But in the end, this is called the Charlie Kirk resolution.
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Solution so we are
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all against political violence but
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god damn you couldn't negotiate at all
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and go we'll vote for this if you take his name off of it
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that ain't even a hard ask is this about honoring charlie kirk or is this about
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stopping political violence if you're telling me it's about stopping political
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violence then remove his name call it something else you got my support but
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to call it to Charlie Kerr and you vote for it.
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This is why y'all lose. This is why y'all look like little sissies. This is exactly why.
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Quit playing by the old rules. On the flip side of that, you know how many Republicans
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voted for the George Floyd Act? Zero. Zero.
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Zero. You see how they stay on point? Why can't y'all stay on point?
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It makes my head want to explode.
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Old way of doing things. It's over.
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They are not playing by the same rules. You cannot continue to go.
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We're the adults in the room.
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That shit is over. Knock it off. Play by their rules.
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They bring a gun. You bring a bigger gun.
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This is why you keep losing the fight. I'm just like, what a bunch of sissies
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what a bunch of silly i can't say sissy my bad what a bunch.
29:25
Anyway bro i'm gonna don't even edit that out leave that in that's my current
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event right there so i'm gonna add something to that what doesn't make sense
29:34
and i saw somebody a comedian i want And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
29:39
May have been Godfrey. I don't know.
29:41
But they said that the Democrats should immediately propose a resolution after
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that event happened in Utah called the Charlie Kirk Gun Reform Act and make
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them explain why they didn't vote.
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Because, you know, as well as I do, every Republican would have either not shown
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up or said no. That's a great idea. And then you make them explain.
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I mean, since we're playing these games, you know what I'm saying?
30:13
I mean, it's all a game to them. Yeah.
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So since you're playing games, we're going to do the same thing.
30:19
There's no one that I know personally that I have spoken with that have publicly
30:24
said that they're OK with political violence.
30:28
We've seen way too many leaders over the years. And I'm sorry,
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I'm not putting him in leader category. No.
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But I'm saying we've seen way too many leaders, black and white,
30:40
assassinated for the for the political violence act not to have already been a thing. Right.
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This is what did it. Right. That's what I said.
30:52
Like you said, playing by the old rules, they should have immediately put a
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Charlie Kirk gun reform act on the floor. That's a great idea.
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That's great. We got two former presidents that have been assassinated.
31:06
And this is the guy you want to prop up? Come on, man. Do better.
31:12
Do better. Look, it took Reagan.
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Like, people don't understand. Reagan was less than a quarter of an inch away
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from that. It got him in the armpit, right? Or something like that.
31:23
He was. It almost pierced his heart.
31:25
Even after that, they didn't want to pass the Brady bill.
31:30
I forgot about that. You're right. And that guy is your favorite president. Right. You're right.
31:36
I forgot about. I forgot about the Brady. Yep. You're right.
31:39
It's crazy. It's crazy because.
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We're trying to make a murderer out of a guy who is just a guy,
31:49
never held political office, never served in the military, was never a public servant of any kind.
31:58
He's just a guy, just a private citizen.
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May find this controversial and I mean you the listener, but the guy didn't
32:06
do anything to help anyone.
32:07
Why is he a hero? Why is he getting the hero treatment?
32:13
Why does he get the fly? Well, not he, but his dead body gets flown on Air Force Two.
32:21
Again, not a political, didn't hold political office, not ex-military,
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no reason your body should be flown on Air Force Two. And to me,
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that's not controversial.
32:34
Well, you know. I mean, what you're saying to me is not controversial.
32:37
Yeah. Because we've already stated he should still be alive.
32:41
Right. He should be at home with his wife and his children. Sure. Period.
32:45
Sure. And if these colleges want to host him and let him come on and debate, that's fine.
32:52
Yeah. He should not be dead. But what happened after that is he was treated
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like he was Gandhi, Mother Teresa. Crazy.
33:02
The MLK comparisons is like, knock it off. It's an insult. It really is an insult.
33:08
It really is. Not just the MLK. To all of us, it's an insult.
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Yeah. Black, white, red, poor. Sure. Sure.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Did you happen to watch any of the rally slash funeral?
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I did not. Whoo.
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Nothing but a freaking Trump political rally, dog.
33:31
It had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk at all.
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If I'm a family member, I'm in that audience going, what the hell is this? Well, I heard that.
33:40
I mean, obviously. And look, I don't doubt that his wife is tore up about it.
33:44
I mean, I'm not doubting that. But I did see pictures and slight video clips
33:49
of Trump hugging her in a weird way. I'm like, yo, what is this?
33:55
Dude, like merchandise for sale in the lobby. All of that.
33:59
All of that, bro. It was nothing but a political rally. It was the most disrespectful,
34:04
quote unquote, funeral ever.
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Yeah, it was it was unreal. You got Stephen Miller gets up here and give his complete Nazi speech.
34:14
Didn't mention Charlie Kirk not one time just
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a whole us against them we're going
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to get you we're better than you you're nothing what does this have to do with
34:25
Charlie Kirk bro after she gets up here and says I forgive the shooter doofus
34:31
goes right behind her and go I don't forgive anybody and it's just like wow really really bro okay.
34:40
I hate I hate my enemies yeah
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I don't forgive anyone I'm just like I don't
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expect nothing from them oh my god it was just it
34:49
was just absolutely horrible man but anyway
34:52
enough about that and let me just state for the record I apologize to anyone
34:58
who was offended by me saying what I said in the last segment not my intent
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from the old school sorry that's all I'm gonna say it. Sorry.
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Shouldn't have said it. My bad. So now it's time for our favorite segment,
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which is the RART segment, the rant about a random topic.
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And I'm going to get really random today, but stick with me.
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So earlier this week, Mackenzie Scott, you know, you know who she is? Miss Donation.
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Mackenzie Scott, for those who don't know, is Jeff Bezos' ex-wife,
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the one who helped him build Amazon, the one that he left for a GD. And I don't mean folks.
35:54
You get that so.
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So miss mckenzie scott just
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gave 70 million dollars to the united negro college fund and hbcus good job
36:14
i'm giving you your flowers now i'm not saying that her motivations weren't,
36:22
altruistic. But this isn't the first time.
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She's done this twice before. Okay. Okay, cool.
36:27
So I'm not questioning her motives. I'm not saying they're not altruistic.
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But a part of me, in my opinion,
36:37
saying she's doing this to piss off Bezos. Let me give let me give your money
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away. This is what I think about you.
36:44
Hold on. So here's my suggestion, McKenzie.
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Don't stop there. Go all the way.
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You really want to piss him off? Go find Keontae.
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Go find Deshaun. Go find Anquan. and start showing up in public with one of them on your arm.
37:08
And that will really piss Jeff Bezos off. And I'm not talking about no old.
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I'm talking about a 35, 40.
37:17
Mandingo, go get him. And that'll really piss that dude off.
37:22
Or start your own shipping company or donate to FedEx and UPS.
37:29
But no she has she's made
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several donations throughout the years where i personally saw him and was like
37:37
that's strange but then you realize that jeff bezos is not feuding but like
37:44
like market value with this person that person she'll come in and donate crazy
37:49
amounts of money Mm hmm. To some of those.
37:54
It's exactly what E.G. Carroll said, if she ever gets her money and that's a
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huge if she said, if she gets the money, you say, I don't even want it.
38:02
I'm just going to donate it to like his least favorite charity.
38:05
She said, that's what I'm going to donate the money to just to piss him off.
38:08
And she was like, I don't even want the money. She should take it.
38:11
And then she should go to Trump Tower everywhere and organize unions like having
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people organize unions and fund every single dime of it. That would be excellent. I support it.
38:23
What you got for a writer? So this is like really random and stupid.
38:28
I used to get accused of this a lot when I was still married.
38:31
Why do we yell at two things when we're driving?
38:36
People who can't hear us and the GPS.
38:41
I don't do that. So I pretty much know my way around everywhere.
38:46
The last few jobs I've had, I drive everywhere.
38:49
But I know there's a lot of construction up north in those areas that I go to.
38:55
So what I like to do is have it on in the background.
38:58
Well, on I-69, this lane is closed on Sunday. This lane is closed on Monday. It's back and forth.
39:06
The other day, when I tell you I screamed so loud at my phone,
39:12
I had to drink water because my throat was dry.
39:15
I was screaming at him because it was telling me to stay left,
39:19
and both lanes were closed.
39:23
So I done got in the left lane twice. twice.
39:27
Because you know the first thing that we do when we merge on the highway is
39:31
everybody merges to the left lane because everybody wants to do 120.
39:36
I'm trying to get over so I can get past this barrage of semis.
39:41
Both lanes closed. So I'm stuck. Dude behind me giving me the finger.
39:46
Because I'm trying to merge.
39:48
He doesn't want to let me over. But he realized that I'm not going to stop getting
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over. So he cussing me out giving me the finger.
39:55
But I used to get accused all the time. Why are you yelling at them?
39:59
They can't hear you. That part, I 100% do.
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100%. That I do. But we've had this discussion before. Yeah, absolutely.
40:10
And it's about safety. That's why I do it. If you're out there driving like
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an idiot, you're risking my safety.
40:17
If I got my family in the car, you're risking my family's safety.
40:20
And not just me personally, but all of us that's out here on the highway.
40:24
So that's why it angers me because it's just like stop
40:28
driving like an idiot man like like you
40:31
said dude don't want to let you in share the road bro what you
40:35
can see where am i supposed to go at that point
40:38
the state of indiana and i think i may have mentioned this on one
40:40
of the previous episodes zip merging we
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are a zip merging state which means that
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you go until that road ends and
40:50
then you alternate it's called zip merging
40:53
it's i think the people in central in central indiana like i said before they
40:58
need to google what yield signs mean no that's why i hate roundabouts but that
41:03
that that's a whole nother topic no that's what i was about to mention i'll
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never forget when they put the first roundabout in hindrance county because
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that's when we had just built a house out there mm-hmm.
41:13
Heard a radio broadcast about going to the police station to pick up your complimentary
41:19
DVD on how to drive on roundabouts.
41:22
Do you know how fast we got in that truck and drove to the police station? Really?
41:28
Man, we sat there and watched that DVD and laughed. Because I'm thinking to
41:32
myself, there's no way people need these.
41:35
And now that they're everywhere, every police station needs to hand them out.
41:39
They need to mail them out because people still don't know how to drive.
41:43
Well, I don't I don't think is I don't think is that they don't know how to yield.
41:48
I just think they refuse to do it. No one wants to yield and let the person go.
41:53
Everyone speeds up when they start approaching the roundabout and they just
41:57
want to zip through it like Jeff Gordon.
41:59
And it's just like that's how accidents happen.
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That's my problem with it. That no one yields.
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Everyone speeds up instead of letting the person go through it.
42:09
It is oh i i just feel like it's a it's
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a danger danger danger
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danger that that's that's that's what i feel like it's just danger
42:18
so uh that's that's that's it bro that's all that's all you got on that's it
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that's all i had today okay all right cool cool cool no problem well let's move
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on to our next segment which is five on the black hand side so i must apologize okay i don't have for.
42:38
Well, we can just talk about a movie that I know we've seen.
42:41
I was about to say, we've seen pretty much all that. We've seen a lot.
42:45
So, one of my favorites. Let's get into the five heartbeats.
42:49
Well, of course. I got family in that movie, so, of course. You do?
42:54
Yeah, Bobby in that movie. Is he? Yeah, he's in Flash and the...
42:58
Really? He's in the group.
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Man, I did not know that, bro. He was in all them Robert Townsend movies back
43:04
then. Okay, alright, alright, All right, cool.
43:06
You want you want to give a brief synopsis of Five Heartbeats?
43:09
So basically the Five Heartbeats, it's a drama.
43:14
Of course, we're unserious about everything. So we have turned it into a comedy over the years.
43:19
But it's about several groups feuding with one another.
43:22
It's kind of a I don't want to say knockoff because that sounds like a bad word to use with this.
43:27
But it's like the like the temptation. Hold it before you go there.
43:31
Yeah. First of all, Five Heartbeats came out first. True. But here's an interesting fact.
43:38
Five heartbeats was was originally supposed to be the temptations.
43:45
Town told Robert Townsend, no, change it because they didn't want that negative
43:52
publicity around the Temptations.
43:54
So if you've seen the Temptations and you've seen the five heartbeats and you
43:59
think that these movies are similar, you're right.
44:02
Because the five heartbeats was originally supposed to be about the Temptations.
44:07
Now, sorry for interrupting. No, it's all good. Go ahead. Go ahead.
44:10
So, I mean, that's pretty much the gist of it.
44:13
You know, the struggles, the day-to-day struggles of a group,
44:17
the inner workings when they're on the road, the shy brother,
44:21
which is hilarious. So many comedic moments.
44:25
So many. Yeah. That's what we remember. Well, in my household,
44:29
my kids, my sister-in-law watched Temptation so much. Yeah.
44:34
When the twins were always down south, they would watch it a hundred times in
44:38
the summer. So everything is funny in that movie today.
44:41
Yeah. So it's it's supposed to be a drama, but we've turned it into a comedy.
44:48
It it it does have some pretty dramatic. Yeah, absolutely. Tear jerker type moments, though.
44:56
Well, the end. Well, the end when they when they get back together.
45:01
But when the manager spoiler alert, when the manager gets killed,
45:06
it's a real tear jerker moment. I was referring to, uh, well,
45:10
obviously the end, they get together, but at church, church scene.
45:14
Oh yeah, man. That's my favorite scene at church, bro.
45:17
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, uh, even like, like when they're, uh,
45:21
when they're after the funeral and they're in their little, I don't know,
45:25
wherever they were back in the hood.
45:27
Cause it looked like they were in an alley or something. and dresser
45:31
comes in and he's like eddie eddie and
45:35
you know like the weakest fight but i get it
45:38
because he wore he they they weren't fighting to hurt each
45:41
other right he was like i'm hurt and i
45:44
just want to punch you but he hugged him after he punched him a couple times
45:50
he just sat there and hugged him and they all just sat there and cried and it's
45:54
just like like there are some really touching moments but there are some comedic
45:59
moments like you said shy brother and everything i personally.
46:03
I like it better than The Temptations. Yeah. And The Temptations is great.
46:08
The Temptations, that's a great movie. But I think I like Five Heartbeats a little bit better.
46:14
Now, the parallels between Big Red and Barry Gordy, I didn't quite make those connections.
46:23
Yeah, because we've never heard of Barry Gordy. Now, we've heard of some shrewd
46:27
business dealers, but we've never heard of Barry Gordy hanging somebody over
46:32
there. Right, right, right.
46:34
My office hours are nine to five.
46:37
You need to talk about my royalties right now.
46:41
Hold on, hold on. When he hit him and threw him in the room,
46:46
and those girls were in there, he was like, excuse me, lady. Oh, yeah.
46:55
Big red. Yeah, it slightly touches on racism.
47:02
Oh yeah you know and and and
47:05
and when they were forced to sing when they were forced to
47:08
sing when they uh wanted to put the white guys or they wanted to put the white
47:12
people on the album cover but because they didn't want people yeah they didn't
47:17
want people to know that uh it was a black group trying to give their song to
47:22
the white group which happened back in the day yeah all the time Yeah,
47:27
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know what's sad?
47:30
Hell, it even happened in our community. Sure, sure.
47:34
I mean, think about going back to I Got the Power.
47:40
That was, gosh, do you remember the Weather Girls? Yeah, absolutely.
47:44
That was the Weather Girls singing that, bro. Yeah, because remember when she was on Arsenio?
47:48
Yeah. And Arsenio asked her to sing, and she sang it. Yeah.
47:52
And people were like, that's you? Yeah, Freedom Williams was a straight up fraud,
47:58
like Milli Vanilli, a fraud.
48:02
I just lost my train of thought. Hey, Freedom Williams going to come looking for me.
48:07
Thinking of Milli Vanilli. What was the other one? LL.
48:13
Mean doing it and doing it and the girl in
48:16
the video that ain't the girl that's rapping oh really no sir
48:19
i did not know that no sir oh wow
48:21
the girl that's rapping is hood i did
48:24
not know that yeah no that's that's not her and
48:27
he got criticized big time for that i mean but he's he's spoken
48:30
about it since then and the girl that said that rap she's spoken
48:33
about it and i think they all good but yeah at that time
48:36
the record label def jam didn't want her in the video oh wow I'm
48:40
gonna look that up yeah I did I did not I did not know that bro yeah yeah it's
48:45
yeah it's crazy how the music industry would just take your song and give it
48:49
to somebody else nah you're ugly we don't want you like what well well think
48:54
about the British lady beautiful voice Susan Boyle,
48:59
oh yeah can sing her ass off she didn't have the look so she never blew up but
49:06
was like the best singer probably since Whitney Houston, in my opinion.
49:11
Now, we loved her here because of the show.
49:14
And then obviously over in the UK, she blew up. But that was it.
49:19
I think she made two albums. The first one did very well. And the second one... Great voice.
49:25
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Great voice. Came out of nowhere. If she was a little bit cute,
49:31
a little bit sexy, she would have took off.
49:34
She'd be hosting an award show by now. Absolutely.
49:38
Absolutely it's crazy how the music industry isn't
49:42
so much well it is about talent but also about your
49:46
look and your image which is why i've
49:49
always liked tlc because they were like we're not going to be sexy we're not
49:54
going to wear the tight clothes we're going to come out with the baggy clothes
49:57
because we don't want you to be what's the word i want to now they did a couple
50:04
videos Where they had on some tight fitted stuff.
50:07
But yeah, they were like, don't. They never change. It's not about our bodies.
50:12
Excuse me bless you bless you thank you thank you sorry y'all allergies but
50:17
yeah it's it's so it's so tied to i got is it just for women i mean do they
50:23
do they do it to the men also,
50:25
seem like it happens more to women i mean it definitely happens more to women
50:29
but i mean i'm sure that there's some uh some men throughout the years rather
50:33
it be actors that just didn't have the look that just didn't have the look i
50:38
mean something that's something to definitely looking to the...
50:42
I mean, Seal didn't have to look, but yeah, Seal, you're catching some strains.
50:50
But at least he kept his physique in tip-top shape. Yeah, well,
50:55
nobody about to tell Seal he couldn't sing. Yeah.
50:59
He talked briefly recently about the stuff on his face.
51:03
And I forget exactly what it was, but it was... Is it... Gosh,
51:07
I want to say lepers, but that's not...
51:10
And he said it came pretty much just came out of nowhere. He just just dealt with it.
51:16
He had Heidi Klum. So she didn't care. Nope. So kudos. Kudos for that. She didn't care at all.
51:26
What do you want to rate? Five on the blackhand side, bro. Is this a classic?
51:30
We're giving this a... Oh, man. Five Heartbeats is a classic from here until the end of time.
51:36
All right. Five Heartbeats. Honestly, I didn't want to say this earlier because
51:39
it would have gave it away, but this is like one of my favorite movies. Oh, yeah.
51:42
Well, I'm biased because I got family in the movie, so... Yeah.
51:46
I love Five Heartbeats, and it has a great soundtrack also.
51:51
What? After Seven, Patti LaBelle The Dales Yeah just a great soundtrack To the
52:00
five heartbeats So yeah if you get a chance You haven't seen five heartbeats
52:05
Go back and check it out Came out like what 1990,
52:08
1991 Something like that Yeah somewhere around there Yeah yeah yeah go back
52:12
and check out five heartbeats We consider it a classic Definitely a high five
52:18
On the black hand side Yes sir All right.
52:21
So now we're going to move into our closing monologue. My brother, the floor is yours.
52:29
All right. So I want to briefly talk about free speech.
52:34
So free speech has come under fire recently with the indefinite suspension of
52:41
Jimmy Kimmel and then the turnaround.
52:42
And look, I don't spend my evenings listening to and or watching Jimmy Kimmel,
52:47
but I believe he had the right to say any and everything that he said.
52:52
So for those that don't understand, free speech is more than words.
52:56
It's the backbone of who we are. It's our democracy.
52:59
It allows us to challenge power, speak truth and defend our rights.
53:03
If a government strips that away from you, it's not just silencing voices.
53:07
It's erasing accountability.
53:09
It's rewriting history and creating a society where fear replaces freedom.
53:14
Without free speech, people don't just lose their voices, they lose power.
53:19
And when the people lose their power, tyranny takes its place.
53:24
It bro that's all you got that's it all right cool short and
53:26
sweet short and sweet i like it all right well we're gonna leave it there for
53:31
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54:11
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54:23
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54:26
So with that being said, I'm Six Mill, keeping it true. It's your boy KG.
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