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Speaker 1: I'm Tameka D. Mallory.
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Speaker 3: From now until November 3rd, the TMI Show is asking
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Speaker 3: one question.
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Speaker 1: What's at stake?
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Speaker 3: Because the midterm elections are quickly approaching, and what we
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Speaker 3: do now reaches far beyond Election Day. Every week, my
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Speaker 3: son and I are breaking down an issue that impacts
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Speaker 3: our communities, our power, and our future.
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Speaker 4: Voting is not the solution, but it's damn sure a tool.
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Speaker 4: And between now and Election Day, all roads lead to
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Speaker 4: the polls on the TMI show.
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Speaker 2: And that's what's at stake.
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Speaker 1: All right, my son.
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Speaker 3: So it's exactly six weeks to Election Day on November 3rd.
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Speaker 1: And early voting begins in October.
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Speaker 3: So folks don't even have an entire six weeks before
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Speaker 3: they need to make it to the polls. And we
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Speaker 3: don't have to restate this, or maybe we do. That
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Speaker 3: early voting is going to be the key to dealing
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Speaker 3: with voter suppression in this election. Make a plan, get
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Speaker 3: to the polls early. So let's talk about what's at
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Speaker 3: stake today.
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Speaker 1: What's our topic?
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Speaker 4: And today's topic is going to be corporations versus us.
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Speaker 4: We're going to look at the Target fiasco with the
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Speaker 4: monkey costume. We're going to look at the Converse situation
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Speaker 4: where we see someone that looks like a KKK member
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Speaker 4: hanging somewhere. And the absence of DEI is definitely making
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Speaker 4: these things more rampant.
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Speaker 3: But let's talk about some current events first. First of all,
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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that we acknowledge that LaVey.
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Speaker 1: Williams, or LaVoy Williams, excuse me.
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Speaker 3: Was funeralized and buried this past weekend. The community absolutely
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Speaker 3: came out to support her, but I did not know
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Speaker 3: until just a few days before the funeral was that
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Speaker 3: LaVoy was actually the cousin of our dear friend, Ruchon Thompson.
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Speaker 3: And so just sending a lot of love and support
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Speaker 3: and respect and everything to their entire family, you know,
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Speaker 3: in a domestic violence situation. This woman was beaten to
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Speaker 3: death while in the house with her seven month old
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Speaker 3: child by a man who is now in prison.
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Speaker 1: Or in jail rather. But, you know, I don't even know.
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Speaker 1: It's like he's in jail.
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Speaker 3: And what does that mean when the woman's life has
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Speaker 3: been taken and entire community really mourns this woman? You know,
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Speaker 3: and the whole situation is just it's awful and have
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Speaker 3: to give a shout out as we have in the
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Speaker 3: past to warn our sister Stephanie McGraw. who was a
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Speaker 3: major organizer and really just helping to support the family.
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Speaker 3: So I want to make sure that we mentioned that. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, because, you know, I think it absolutely caused
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Speaker 3: trauma to the community for so many different reasons, not
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Speaker 3: just the child being present, which is the worst part, probably.
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Speaker 3: But the other thing is that, you know, it really is,
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Speaker 3: it's shining a light on how serious domestic violence is
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Speaker 3: in our community right now. And I don't think we
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Speaker 3: can state it enough.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 4: Shout out to Stephanie. And my condolences goes out to
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Speaker 4: the family. I actually know her father. You know, he's
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Speaker 4: a DJ, a well-known DJ within the community. He's been
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Speaker 4: in the industry for a while as well. So I
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Speaker 4: want to send out my condolences to her family, her father,
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Speaker 4: you know, someone who is a DJ that I've known
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Speaker 4: for years. You know, I didn't even realize it was
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Speaker 4: his daughter until I seen him talking on the news.
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Speaker 4: So definitely want to send out my condolences to the family.
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Speaker 4: And it's crazy that these situations are so frequent now.
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Speaker 4: You know, you talked about a few weeks ago how
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Speaker 4: leaving a relationship is causing women their lives. So we
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Speaker 4: got to really just pay attention. You know, hopefully we
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Speaker 4: can get in front of this. Shout out to Stephanie
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Speaker 4: who does the work, you know, at WARM to make
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Speaker 4: sure things like this don't happen and that the women
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Speaker 4: are definitely taken care of.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. Got to talk about it.
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Speaker 3: Have to keep uplifting it.
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Speaker 1: We can't talk about it enough every week because we.
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Speaker 3: Just can't have people who are able-bodied in a right
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Speaker 3: mind who will walk away and leave and go anywhere else,
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Speaker 3: deciding that they are going to take the lives of
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Speaker 3: folks who either they've had conflict with or somebody that
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Speaker 3: doesn't want them.
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Speaker 1: It's just not acceptable.
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Speaker 3: And I don't even, I can't even accept people trying
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Speaker 3: to say, well, she hit him.
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Speaker 1: It's no way that the woman in the end should
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Speaker 1: have been dead. That's it. I don't care.
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Speaker 3: There's no excuse for it. I grew up in a
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Speaker 3: different time. And I like the time I grew up
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Speaker 3: in where men, if they had to.
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Speaker 1: Slammed you over here and threw you away while they
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Speaker 1: ran out the door.
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Speaker 3: Not saying that there was not domestic violence issues, because
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Speaker 3: certainly there always have been. But I'm just saying that
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Speaker 3: we cannot have a situation where it becomes more and
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Speaker 3: more frequent. for being unalive in a dispute with their partner.
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Speaker 3: That's just the stuff that we can't let become normalized.
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Speaker 3: And it is absolutely happening too much in this time.
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Speaker 3: So just, you know, again, just.
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Speaker 1: To put that there.
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Speaker 3: The other thing that I think is very interesting, that's
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Speaker 3: the topic we have to talk about today, is what's
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Speaker 3: happening with the media.
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Speaker 1: Last week, Donald Trump, towards.
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Speaker 3: The end of the week, he announced that CNN and MSN, MSNOW,
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Speaker 3: you know, ever since Joanne Reed was terminated from MSNBC,
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Speaker 3: I don't.
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Speaker 1: Pay attention to them. I don't watch them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what goes on over there. And evidently
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Speaker 3: their name changed to MSNOW.
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Speaker 1: It's not MSNBC.
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Speaker 2: Did you know that? I didn't know that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not MSNBC anymore. Now they're MSNOW, MS, yeah, they.
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Speaker 1: Got a new name. and I did not know I
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Speaker 1: mean I literally.
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Speaker 2: I was today years old when I found.
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Speaker 3: This I was I was yesterday years old when I
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Speaker 3: found this out I did not know so their new
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Speaker 3: name MS Now I think hopefully I got it right
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Speaker 3: but he announced that political CNN And MSNOW would no
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Speaker 3: longer be allowed.
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Speaker 1: To come to the press briefings in the White House.
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Speaker 3: So he was banning those three networks, particularly from being
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Speaker 3: able to cover the press briefings. Now, let me just
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Speaker 3: tell you, if you listen to Stacey Abrams, she lays
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Speaker 3: out the different steps towards fascism and authoritarianism. And one
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Speaker 3: of the steps is the manipulation of the media, keeping
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Speaker 3: media out of rooms, deciding who will be allowed to
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Speaker 3: get certain information. That is a part of how you
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Speaker 3: know you are either headed towards or have reached a
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Speaker 3: state of authoritarianism, that you are dealing with a fascist government,
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Speaker 3: fascist society, and somebody who wants to control everything about
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Speaker 3: how you think in order for them to be free
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Speaker 3: to do whatever they're doing. And in his case, to
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Speaker 3: be the most corrupt person probably walking the whole damn earth, right?
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Speaker 3: Like this man, and somebody would say, well, how can
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Speaker 3: you say that when you got people who murder people
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Speaker 3: and other governments? It is because this is a man
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Speaker 3: who is supposed to be the president of the free world,
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Speaker 3: the free world. And he is so damn corrupt and
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Speaker 3: doing so much and getting away with so much until
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Speaker 3: it's not even scary anymore.
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Speaker 1: Like we passed that. We already did. Oh, my God,
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Speaker 1: this is terrible. It's scary.
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Speaker 3: We are in five alarm. We have to protect ourselves.
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Speaker 3: That's why what we're doing and talk in terms of
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Speaker 3: talking about what's at stake on our show. is so
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Speaker 3: important because we're beyond this isn't a game.
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Speaker 1: We already know that.
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Speaker 3: He's doing the things that are a part of the
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Speaker 3: steps towards turning our society into a place where we
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Speaker 3: have literally no democracy. And you know, we already only had.
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Speaker 1: A little drip of it to begin with. So he
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Speaker 1: said he was banning these.
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Speaker 3: Particular networks from being able to cover the press briefings
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Speaker 3: and I really was thinking to myself, and I said
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Speaker 3: it out loud at a panel that I had this weekend.
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Speaker 3: It's not even like those particular networks are so radically,
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Speaker 3: you know, like they are radical truth tellers.
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Speaker 1: There's times when I feel like they enable him.
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Speaker 3: There's times when I don't feel that they are covering
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Speaker 3: him for the fascist that he is. I don't feel
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Speaker 3: that they are covering his corruption in the right ways.
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Speaker 3: I don't, what the hell happened to the coverage of
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Speaker 3: the Epstein files?
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Speaker 1: Like, where did that go? You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: So I don't even see them as being sometimes and
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Speaker 3: probably a lot more of course than some of the
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Speaker 3: other networks they say that he's wrong or they fact
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Speaker 3: check which he does not like he does not like
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Speaker 3: to be fact checked because he told us during the
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Speaker 3: time while he was either running for office this time
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Speaker 3: i think it was this time but it might have
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Speaker 3: been last time.
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Speaker 1: That he loves the uneducated did.
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Speaker 2: He not say that Poorly educated.
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Speaker 1: Poorly educated.
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Speaker 3: Did he not say that he loves the poorly educated?
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Speaker 3: So when he said that, what I believe, how you
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Speaker 3: see that play out is that he just lies all
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Speaker 3: the time and he doesn't want anyone to be around
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Speaker 3: who has the audacity to go at that fact check,
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Speaker 3: cover it and print the truth.
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Speaker 1: He does not want that.
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Speaker 3: And I would say that those three net worths At
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Speaker 3: times they do it.
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Speaker 2: Cool.
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Speaker 1: Now, what I think is a good sign.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: A good sign is that a lot of networks got
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Speaker 3: together and said they are not going. They are all
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Speaker 3: boycotting the press. So they're not going to cover it
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Speaker 3: at all. And if they do cover it, they will
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Speaker 3: not play the audio. from the press conferences because they're
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Speaker 3: standing in solidarity with their colleagues.
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Speaker 1: Guess which network joined this boycott?
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Speaker 2: Who? Fox News. No way.
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Speaker 1: I promise you.
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Speaker 2: Fox News ain't boycotting Trump.
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Speaker 1: I promise you.
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Speaker 2: Man, you crazy.
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Speaker 1: I promise you.
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Speaker 2: You bullshitting with me. I'm not. I promise. Fox News
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Speaker 2: said that they boycotting Trump.
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Speaker 3: They are not going to cover the press briefings.
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Speaker 1: They have to.
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Speaker 3: The reason why they have to join the boycott is
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Speaker 3: because it is what Cora Mastersberry tells us All the time.
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Speaker 3: That the white supremacist wannabes always go too far.
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Speaker 1: I say it all the time.
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Speaker 3: I now repeat this twice a day because it's so true.
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Speaker 1: They always go too far. The damn Macklemore situation, right?
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Speaker 3: If they had let that man go up there and
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Speaker 3: say free Palestine and make his good speech, And they
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Speaker 3: moved on from it and didn't bring it up and
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Speaker 3: Pink didn't put her statement out and all of that.
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Speaker 3: People would not have even known it happened. They wouldn't
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Speaker 3: have even known. They're not Macklemore followers. They weren't going
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Speaker 3: to be paying attention to whatever his name is. Ed,
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Speaker 3: I don't even know the man's name's concert.
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Speaker 1: They would not have known.
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Speaker 3: But because y'all always go too far, it has allowed
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Speaker 3: us to re-spark the conversation around Palestine and the genocide
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Speaker 3: that has taken place to the Palestinian people by the
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Speaker 3: Israeli government.
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Speaker 1: And it gave people new energy.
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Speaker 3: Money is being raised. Folks are having to make statements.
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Speaker 3: Mahler Moore made a great statement. This is what happens
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Speaker 3: because they always go too far. So the reason why
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Speaker 3: Fox has to join this boycott is because the pendulum
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Speaker 3: swings from one side to the next. If this administration
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Speaker 3: can get away with banning CNN and these other quote unquote,
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Speaker 3: which I don't believe is the case, but liberal networks.
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Speaker 3: Then what stops the Democrat from getting in there and
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Speaker 3: banning Fox? Meanwhile, Fox be out here lying, white fake news,
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Speaker 3: being racist.
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Speaker 1: All kinds of things goes on over there.
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Speaker 3: None of these other networks are anywhere close to, not
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Speaker 3: even close to the craze, the madness that goes on
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Speaker 3: at Fox. So if it if it if it if
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Speaker 3: it's good for the goose, then it's good for the gander.
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Speaker 3: And therefore, they probably said, you know what?
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Speaker 1: These are our colleagues.
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Speaker 3: They may have reporters over there who are saying, listen,
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Speaker 3: this is too much.
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Speaker 1: Like, it's just too much. We're going too far. And
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Speaker 1: now you've got.
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Speaker 3: A situation where his big dumb self was on TV
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Speaker 3: today and you could not hear a word because they
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Speaker 3: cut the microphones. So the lies that he wants to tell,
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Speaker 3: he's not even able to spread it in the ways
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Speaker 3: that he wants to.
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Speaker 1: This is good. This is a win.
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Speaker 2: No, I get it.
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Speaker 1: Absolute win.
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Speaker 4: I was just a little shocked that Fox actually did
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Speaker 4: something that made a little bit of sense. But you're right,
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Speaker 4: because they understand that when the Democrats get to office,
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Speaker 4: then it's like everything is fair game because.
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Speaker 2: We don't fuck with y'all anyway.
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Speaker 4: Y'all always putting out wrong information, lies that when we
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Speaker 4: fact check, we can fact check 90% of the time.
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Speaker 2: Y'all actually lost.
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Speaker 4: Damn near a billion dollar settlements because y'all put out
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Speaker 4: fake news. So we know that that's y'all reality. So
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Speaker 4: they looking like, yo, we don't even need that type
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Speaker 4: of pressure.
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Speaker 2: We don't even need them. Because most of them, the crazy.
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Speaker 4: Part is Trump's administration already said that most of us
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Speaker 4: are going to go to jail if we lose the midterms.
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Speaker 2: They said that.
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Speaker 4: They literally got on TV and said, look, we have
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Speaker 4: to win the midterms because.
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Speaker 2: If not, a lot of us are going to jail. Like,
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Speaker 2: that's crazy.
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Speaker 4: I've never heard, like, you can say what you want
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Speaker 4: about the liberals and Dems, but I never heard them.
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Speaker 2: Get on TV and say, look, if we lose, we
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Speaker 2: going to jail. Like, that's crazy.
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Speaker 4: That means that we breaking the law.
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Speaker 2: We are bending the law for us.
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Speaker 4: And when the law gets back straight and the people
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Speaker 4: that are supposed to be running this shit come, we
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Speaker 4: all going to jail. So they know exactly what they're
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Speaker 4: doing wrong. So I guess Fox is saying, look, we
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Speaker 4: don't want to go to jail. We know we at
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Speaker 4: odds with them. And they leave us alone in our
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Speaker 4: little crazy world because what happens is I know that
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Speaker 4: if you watch Fox News, it's something wrong with you.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not even mad at.
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Speaker 4: You because y'all got to have, they got to have
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Speaker 4: the slow person television. They got to have the person
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Speaker 4: that don't have all his sense, right? That just believe
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Speaker 4: in the conspiracy theories that want to believe that, you know,
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Speaker 4: all types of bullshit.
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Speaker 2: They need their own channel. So that's for them. But
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Speaker 2: what happened is Donald Trump don't want people to get
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Speaker 2: real news.
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Speaker 4: He wants to be able to sit up there and
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Speaker 4: tell you he's going to give you $ 5, 000 and that
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Speaker 4: he done bombed Iran. It's completely off the map. But
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Speaker 4: yet we can't go do the Strait of Hormuz. And
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Speaker 4: we sitting there paying $ 5 or $ 6 for gas. Like,
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Speaker 4: you want us to believe that and tell us that
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Speaker 4: the economy is just fine and all of this shit?
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Speaker 2: He got the people that he go on Fox News
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Speaker 2: that say the economy is actually thriving. You just got to... J.D.
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Speaker 2: Vance got on TV and said, just give us another chance.
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Speaker 2: Give us another chance, man.
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Speaker 1: He didn't mean that.
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Speaker 4: He said, give us two more years. Give us more time.
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Speaker 4: Give us another chance. We know we fucked y'all.
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Speaker 2: We know it.
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Speaker 4: We know everything we said we lied about, but just
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Speaker 4: give us another shot to fuck you longer and harder.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Listen, I watched the video today of a man who
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Speaker 3: was filling up his gas tank for his truck.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was filling it up with diesel.
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Speaker 3: He went above a thousand dollars and then it cut
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Speaker 3: off because the gas station does not even allow the
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Speaker 3: pump to continue. His tank was not even full.
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Speaker 1: And they are starting to talk about boycotting because you
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Speaker 1: can't afford these rates. So, again, it always goes too far.
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Speaker 1: And now what we're starting to see is a shift.
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Speaker 1: And that's another thing. He wants people out of.
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Speaker 3: The press room while the midterms are just weeks away.
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Speaker 3: Because every day people start to question more and more
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Speaker 3: when they're trying to decide who are they going to
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Speaker 3: vote for and who's actually responsible for what's happening here.
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Speaker 3: The first year of his presidency, he was able to blame...
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Speaker 3: Even Obama, Biden and Obama.
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Speaker 2: The thing is, you was in between both of them.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: And now now that it is in the, you know,
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Speaker 3: the second half of his presidency now.
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Speaker 1: People don't want to hear that anymore, not even his
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Speaker 1: own base. They don't want to hear it anymore. They
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Speaker 1: want to know what are you going to do? And
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Speaker 1: that's a good point that you just made, that he's
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Speaker 1: been in between both. So in both economies, somehow you
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Speaker 1: touched it.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: You messed up, either you messed up Obama's And you
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Speaker 3: sent Biden into office with the mess that you created.
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Speaker 4: During his second year, he tried to fix it up.
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Speaker 4: And now you messed it up again.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. I mean, does Biden have common sense?
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Speaker 4: But niggas don't have common sense. You know what's so
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Speaker 4: crazy to me? I was watching the news the other
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Speaker 4: day and they had a commercial. with a congresswoman from Miami.
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Speaker 4: She's actually a Republican. Her name is Maria Elvira Salazar,
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Speaker 4: Cuban-American Republican woman. And she was talking about how his
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Speaker 4: foreign policies are terrible and they're going to make him lose.
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Speaker 4: And she was just calling him out. And the crazy
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Speaker 4: part is I've been watching the commercials. You know, they
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Speaker 4: always say, I will vote for Donald Trump. I will
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Speaker 4: vote for Donald Trump. Every time they play that commercial
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Speaker 4: and the lady who said that, About two months later,
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Speaker 4: she's like, he lied to us.
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Speaker 2: He used us.
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Speaker 1: He used us. That really didn't work out for them.
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Speaker 2: It didn't work out for them at all. Nothing worked out.
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Speaker 4: They still ain't got their doze checked. They ain't got
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Speaker 4: the dividends. They ain't got the tax refunds. And they're
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Speaker 4: not going to get no $ 5, 000. And black people said
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Speaker 4: that he was making this fund for black people. It
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Speaker 4: was all types of dumb shit.
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Speaker 1: I never heard that.
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Speaker 2: You didn't hear that one?
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Speaker 4: Oh, he's supposed to be doing the platinum package.
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Speaker 2: They said he had.
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Speaker 1: The platinum package. What's his name? Ice Cube.
18:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, he sat down with Ice Cube and he said, yeah, yeah,
18:43
Speaker 4: whatever you need, Ice.
18:44
Speaker 2: We got you. Lie.
18:46
Speaker 3: And that's what we were saying. Like, I mean, we
18:48
Speaker 3: can't keep rehashing all the things.
18:50
Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
18:51
Speaker 3: It really pisses me off when people try to say
18:53
Speaker 3: that we were upset with Ice Cube because he was
18:58
Speaker 3: trying to get something done. No, we were not upset
19:01
Speaker 3: with Ice Cube because we were trying to get something done.
19:02
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
19:04
Speaker 3: What we were upset with is the fact that you
19:08
Speaker 3: waited until it was only him and Joe Biden as
19:12
Speaker 3: the two people running against each other when it.
19:16
Speaker 1: Was nine hundred and fifty thousand people running before.
19:19
Speaker 3: And so what you could have done was approach both
19:22
Speaker 3: or all the candidates. So that we could choose who
19:26
Speaker 3: seems like the most viable, the person that's most enthusiastic,
19:30
Speaker 3: that's not just.
19:31
Speaker 1: A habitual liar. Yeah, I mean, you know what I'm saying?
19:34
Speaker 3: It's like if we want to leverage a plan, let's
19:39
Speaker 3: leverage it against real options. We're leveraging this plan against
19:44
Speaker 3: two people that one of them we know is probably
19:48
Speaker 3: one of the most dangerous people. in the entire world.
19:52
Speaker 3: And then Joe Biden, who we didn't love either.
19:54
Speaker 1: And by the way, for all the people out here
19:56
Speaker 1: who have so much to say about, well, you know,
19:59
Speaker 1: y'all just wanted Joe Biden. No, actually we didn't.
20:03
Speaker 2: We would have.
20:04
Speaker 3: Appreciated if the plan had been introduced to the other
20:07
Speaker 3: candidates who was running so that we could have got
20:10
Speaker 3: behind somebody else, i.e. Elizabeth Warren, who I thought should
20:15
Speaker 3: absolutely be the candidate. It could have been Bernie Sanders.
20:18
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of people.
20:20
Speaker 2: I wanted Bernie. I was feeling the Bern.
20:22
Speaker 1: And there were others.
20:24
Speaker 3: And there were others that I may not have even liked,
20:26
Speaker 3: but they weren't Joe Biden.
20:28
Speaker 1: So that's the problem. And you got to keep saying
20:31
Speaker 1: it over and over.
20:32
Speaker 4: And another issue was, you know, we had conversations with
20:37
Speaker 4: Ice Cube's counsel, who are our friends, who reached out
20:40
Speaker 4: to us and was like, hey, you know, Cube wants
20:43
Speaker 4: to do this. And I explained to him, I said, listen,
20:46
Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with having a conversation with anybody. But
20:49
Speaker 4: don't let them people get you on no cameras. Don't
20:51
Speaker 4: let them people try to use you as an endorsement.
20:53
Speaker 4: And don't let Because until they promise you, until you
20:57
Speaker 4: get something, don't let them people use you. So when
21:00
Speaker 4: he came out and said that he met with them,
21:03
Speaker 4: and he had presented his platinum package for Black people,
21:07
Speaker 4: and they said, yeah, yeah, we met with Ice Cube,
21:09
Speaker 4: and he has a good plan and all this, but
21:11
Speaker 4: they never committed to anything.
21:13
Speaker 2: Right.
21:13
Speaker 4: So what happened is they utilized him saying he met
21:16
Speaker 4: with them as some type of good faith thing. And
21:20
Speaker 4: it was a ploy. The same thing they did with
21:23
Speaker 4: Steve Harvey. You know, and he talked about it. He
21:28
Speaker 4: went up there to talk about something else, and they
21:30
Speaker 4: came down with the elevator with him hugging, saying, yes,
21:33
Speaker 4: we met with him, and they didn't do nothing. You
21:35
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying? So this is always their strategy.
21:37
Speaker 4: Same thing they did with Kanye. They're like, yo, he
21:39
Speaker 4: trying to get Larry Hoover. He trying to get Larry
21:42
Speaker 4: Hoover out. Man, y'all hear, he playing the long game,
21:44
Speaker 4: and they put him on TV, and they watch Kanye dance.
21:47
Speaker 4: You go talk crazy. And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:49
Speaker 4: And he put Kanye out of his office and they
21:51
Speaker 4: never spoke to him.
21:52
Speaker 2: Larry Hoove ain't out.
21:54
Speaker 4: This is second term. Ain't nobody done got Larry Hoove out.
21:57
Speaker 4: But y'all said he was trying to do something. All
22:00
Speaker 4: he was trying to do was utilize y'all people for
22:02
Speaker 4: photo ops. And that's what he did.
22:04
Speaker 3: And that brings us to our last current event topic,
22:09
Speaker 3: which is Shaq, who was with the FBI director.
22:13
Speaker 1: What's his name? Cash Patel the other day.
22:15
Speaker 3: And I wanted to talk about this from one perspective,
22:18
Speaker 3: which was to speak on the dangers of associating yourself
22:23
Speaker 3: with this administration. I really think people, including Shaq, don't
22:28
Speaker 3: take seriously enough where we are in this moment, right?
22:31
Speaker 3: And we see it all around us. It happens every day.
22:34
Speaker 3: I walk around and people send.
22:35
Speaker 1: Me, oh, hey, girl, how you doing?
22:38
Speaker 3: And I try to be normal with the rest of
22:41
Speaker 3: the people because it's crazy if you're walking around and
22:43
Speaker 3: you got this stern, firm.
22:46
Speaker 1: Attitude all day, all the time.
22:48
Speaker 3: That's not healthy for any human being, being under stress
22:52
Speaker 3: every minute.
22:53
Speaker 1: But sometimes... I feel like I am in, I'm like
22:59
Speaker 1: a fish outside the fishbowl. Like I really do. When
23:03
Speaker 1: I'm out, I'm thinking to myself.
23:05
Speaker 3: Do we even know, do we even understand what it
23:08
Speaker 3: means for a president to start denying people access?
23:12
Speaker 1: President Obama spoke the next.
23:14
Speaker 3: Day after Trump made the announcement and he said, I
23:18
Speaker 3: really am just sitting here trying to think what would
23:21
Speaker 3: happen if I was still president and I started banning me.
23:26
Speaker 1: They might have locked him up because by the way.
23:28
Speaker 3: It's against the constitution to not allow certain media people,
23:34
Speaker 3: media outlets to be a part of press briefing.
23:37
Speaker 2: The white supremacists would have puked.
23:41
Speaker 1: They would have lost.
23:42
Speaker 4: There's no way that that black man, the black man
23:46
Speaker 4: couldn't wear a tan suit. There ain't no way he
23:49
Speaker 4: was going to be able to deny no white people
23:51
Speaker 4: from the White House.
23:52
Speaker 2: It just wasn't going to happen.
23:54
Speaker 1: Exactly.
23:54
Speaker 3: He had to sit there, meet with them, talk to them,
23:57
Speaker 3: do all the dance around and do all the things.
24:00
Speaker 1: And so... I so, you know, it makes you feel
24:04
Speaker 1: like you just bugging. And because so many people are
24:07
Speaker 1: walking around like la la la la la. And I
24:09
Speaker 1: feel like in a way that's Shaq's thing.
24:12
Speaker 3: He was going to get something that he thought was
24:15
Speaker 3: cool for him. A little trinket for him. You know,
24:18
Speaker 3: I don't think that he takes seriously enough what his alignment,
24:23
Speaker 3: the photo.
24:23
Speaker 1: Op of him is.
24:24
Speaker 3: Standing next to this particular FBI, which, by the way,
24:28
Speaker 3: these people are not an independent agency the way that
24:33
Speaker 3: they're supposed to be from Donald Trump. So you can't say, well,
24:36
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that I'm supporting Trump. No, because they
24:39
Speaker 3: have become Trump's tools for terrorizing American citizens.
24:43
Speaker 1: That is what they're doing.
24:45
Speaker 3: They have surveillance that they are now using on Americans.
24:49
Speaker 3: They are politicizing their entire office.
24:53
Speaker 1: We already.
24:54
Speaker 3: We have watched Kash Patel as the FBI director. You
24:59
Speaker 3: want to talk about people who are running errands. He
25:02
Speaker 3: is running errands for the White House. And you're standing
25:06
Speaker 3: there aligning yourselves with an agency that has become completely rogue.
25:12
Speaker 3: They are terrorizing American citizens. And let's not even talk
25:17
Speaker 3: about things that's happening with activists around this country that
25:21
Speaker 3: it doesn't really get to the media because, one, we
25:24
Speaker 3: don't have any media, and two, people are trying their
25:26
Speaker 3: best to keep contained some of the unfortunate circumstances around
25:32
Speaker 3: Black political movements right now.
25:34
Speaker 1: And it is a plenty.
25:35
Speaker 5: People are receiving... Look at me. I got a letter
25:38
Speaker 5: from the FBI saying.
25:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know that somebody was threatening your life, but
25:43
Speaker 3: we've closed the case.
25:44
Speaker 1: So go figure it out on your own. Like this
25:46
Speaker 1: is the FBI. And I'm sure there are other people
25:49
Speaker 1: that can see and lay.
25:50
Speaker 3: Out line by line by line by line by line of.
25:55
Speaker 1: All the things that this FBI has done. But it's
25:59
Speaker 1: not that serious to.
26:00
Speaker 3: You if you don't feel connected and or impacted. And
26:06
Speaker 3: so I was gonna talk about all of that, but
26:09
Speaker 3: I decided that instead, I wanna focus on Shaq's response
26:15
Speaker 3: because it just brings up so much in me. And
26:19
Speaker 3: it also connects to why he doesn't understand what he
26:24
Speaker 3: has done and how damaging it is. He doesn't understand
26:28
Speaker 3: it because in his mind, as a person who has wealth,
26:34
Speaker 3: What we think as everyday people does not matter to him.
26:39
Speaker 3: That's why he went straight to calling people broke and
26:43
Speaker 3: talking about how this doesn't impact his bottom dollar.
26:46
Speaker 1: That's why he went straight to that.
26:48
Speaker 3: Because in his mind, money is what he values more
26:54
Speaker 3: than actually looking at the impact to many communities.
27:01
Speaker 1: So you could be sitting.
27:02
Speaker 3: Here all you want giving out scholarships and programs and
27:06
Speaker 3: doing all this, but then people don't have healthcare.
27:09
Speaker 1: People don't have food. You're not there to help them
27:12
Speaker 1: every single day. You can't give money to a family
27:16
Speaker 1: or to multiple families, millions of families to make sure
27:19
Speaker 1: they have healthcare all the time. That's the government's responsibility.
27:23
Speaker 3: And so when you align yourselves with these people, the
27:27
Speaker 3: little great things you do, do not in any way
27:32
Speaker 3: cancel out the horrible impact that these folks are causing
27:37
Speaker 3: on the lives of everyday citizens.
27:39
Speaker 1: And he doesn't see that.
27:41
Speaker 3: And the first thing he went to, like I said,
27:44
Speaker 3: was talking about people being broke because that's his value.
27:49
Speaker 3: Like they say, some people, the only thing they.
27:52
Speaker 1: Have is money.
27:54
Speaker 3: And what struck me, especially in the context when we
27:58
Speaker 3: were talking about Jay and his response to the Target situation.
28:03
Speaker 1: It's really... your response that makes the situation even worse.
28:08
Speaker 1: And the reason why I can say that is.
28:09
Speaker 3: Because I've done it, where I'm either frustrated because I
28:13
Speaker 3: feel like I'm being wrongfully targeted. And sometimes it might
28:17
Speaker 3: be that I don't even realize that I'm dealing with
28:19
Speaker 3: a sense of guilt that, well, I'm a good person
28:22
Speaker 3: and you're coming after me. And yet what I may
28:24
Speaker 3: have done or however I, whatever people are complaining about
28:29
Speaker 3: or critiquing me about.
28:32
Speaker 1: I'm actually wrong. I'm actually wrong, period.
28:35
Speaker 3: So sometimes we can, it doesn't take away that we,
28:39
Speaker 3: or make us these horrible individuals, but nevertheless, when you
28:43
Speaker 3: go out there and start trying to defend yourself and
28:46
Speaker 3: saying stupid things, disrespectful things, gaslighting people, this is what happens.
28:52
Speaker 1: The situation gets even worse.
28:55
Speaker 3: And so now Shaq has gone, you know, hanging out
28:59
Speaker 3: with Cash Patel, sitting up there looking crazy, aligning himself
29:04
Speaker 3: with folks he should not be working alongside at all.
29:07
Speaker 3: In fact, we should be condemning them. And you've done that,
29:11
Speaker 3: and that was bad enough. But there's going to be
29:13
Speaker 3: some people that love Shaq so much that they'll say, well,
29:17
Speaker 3: you know, he's been dealing with law enforcement for a
29:19
Speaker 3: long time.
29:20
Speaker 1: Shaq is a good brother.
29:22
Speaker 3: It was a bad decision, but I'm not going to
29:24
Speaker 3: hold him to this one decision and make that the
29:28
Speaker 3: totality of everything he's ever done in the world. So
29:31
Speaker 3: that's where a lot of people would have been. But
29:33
Speaker 3: when you start calling people broke and DMing people crazy
29:37
Speaker 3: things and talking to people as if they are beneath
29:40
Speaker 3: you because they are choosing to critique you about something
29:44
Speaker 3: where you are literally wrong, then you put yourself in
29:47
Speaker 3: a situation where folks start questioning your character. And that
29:52
Speaker 3: for me is the, for me, I'm not talking, everybody
29:55
Speaker 3: else has the right to analyze it in all the
29:57
Speaker 3: different directions that they want. But for me, that is the, like,
30:03
Speaker 3: to me, that's like the substance of what I took
30:07
Speaker 3: away from how this whole situation played out this week.
30:11
Speaker 4: You know, and I get it. So, you know Shaq
30:13
Speaker 4: is a friend of mine. I've known Shaq for years.
30:15
Speaker 4: You know, so I hate that all of this is happening.
30:19
Speaker 4: OG Matt is somebody that I just recently met. He's
30:21
Speaker 4: a cool dude. I just finished doing his podcast a
30:24
Speaker 4: couple of weeks. You know, I love his content. And
30:27
Speaker 4: I hate to see them go at it. But when
30:29
Speaker 4: I listen to what OG Matt said, it came from
30:32
Speaker 4: a place of disappointment.
30:34
Speaker 2: And, you know, and I understand. First of all, Cash
30:36
Speaker 2: Patel looks crazy. He is crazy.
30:40
Speaker 4: He's not qualified. He's never worked in the FBI. He
30:43
Speaker 4: never worked for the law enforcement. He wasn't a police officer.
30:48
Speaker 4: He wasn't in the army.
30:49
Speaker 2: He was nothing.
30:50
Speaker 4: He's not qualified to be the person who runs the FBI.
30:55
Speaker 4: It makes no sense. He was just at a congressional
30:58
Speaker 4: hearing where he said, you are not disqualified from being
31:03
Speaker 4: an FBI agent if you have bestiality.
31:06
Speaker 1: What if you had bestiality? You don't want to talk
31:11
Speaker 1: about it because it don't make sense.
31:12
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. If you have bestiality on your job.
31:15
Speaker 1: If you participated in bestiality.
31:18
Speaker 4: If it's on your jacket, that's what have bestiality means.
31:21
Speaker 4: Like if you got robbery, if you got murder, all
31:24
Speaker 4: those things automatically exclude you from the job. If you
31:28
Speaker 4: got bestiality on your jacket, Cash Patel says you are
31:32
Speaker 4: not excluded from being an FBI agent.
31:34
Speaker 2: You can work with him.
31:36
Speaker 1: He said, well, there's reasons.
31:38
Speaker 2: Yes, there's reasons.
31:39
Speaker 4: But there's no reason. No, nobody's been forced into bestiality.
31:44
Speaker 4: That's on your jacket. That you've been convicted of a
31:48
Speaker 4: crime for. You don't have bestiality you convicted of.
31:52
Speaker 1: That's an important point.
31:53
Speaker 3: It's the difference between you were forced to do it
31:57
Speaker 3: as a child and then people found out and they
32:00
Speaker 3: got you out the household and put you in the
32:02
Speaker 3: program and then somehow a stigma got attached to you
32:06
Speaker 3: because you did it.
32:07
Speaker 1: But if you were convicted of a crime.
32:10
Speaker 4: Beastie, I don't even know.
32:12
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
32:13
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure out. It's like, you know
32:15
Speaker 4: what it's like saying? It's like we keep making the ifs.
32:18
Speaker 4: It's like, yo, listen, man.
32:20
Speaker 2: Right now, if.
32:22
Speaker 4: you had one million people kill you, you shouldn't be able...
32:26
Speaker 4: If you killed one million people, you should be able to...
32:29
Speaker 4: Ain't nobody killing one million... This is the reality. The
32:33
Speaker 4: possibility of somebody being forced into bestiality and it being
32:36
Speaker 4: on their jacket is not a thing.
32:38
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
32:40
Speaker 4: So we're making up scenarios that have not been seen yet.
32:45
Speaker 4: Right now, if you got bestiality on your jacket, your
32:49
Speaker 4: ass should not be no FBI agent. And Cash Patel
32:51
Speaker 4: don't see it that way. So that's just the bottom line.
32:54
Speaker 4: You know, these people mad, they can't stand trans people,
32:57
Speaker 4: all of this and that. But bestiality, you can do it.
33:01
Speaker 2: They want to eliminate trans people from everything possible.
33:04
Speaker 4: But you can have sex with cats and dogs and
33:07
Speaker 4: you're not eliminated from being an FBI agent.
33:09
Speaker 2: That's just crazy to me.
33:10
Speaker 4: So the fact that we have somebody like that in
33:13
Speaker 4: law enforcement, right, and Shaq is on the stage with
33:16
Speaker 4: them and he's taking pictures with them, people are disappointed.
33:20
Speaker 2: You know, the guy he's beefing with Big Mac, Big
33:23
Speaker 2: Matt showed that he had his jersey. He had his jersey.
33:27
Speaker 2: He had his sneakers. And he threw them away because
33:29
Speaker 2: he was hurt. Sometimes you get hurt.
33:32
Speaker 4: And rather than lash out at somebody who you know
33:35
Speaker 4: is a fan and is just disappointed at something, you
33:37
Speaker 4: got to take it in and say, what could I
33:39
Speaker 4: have done better?
33:40
Speaker 2: Why am I getting this response?
33:42
Speaker 4: Why are people that say they once loved me, people
33:45
Speaker 4: who've been fans of mine for years coming out having
33:48
Speaker 4: the same response? I shouldn't look and say, well, I
33:50
Speaker 4: got this and I got that and you don't, so
33:52
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. No, because without those individuals, you wouldn't
33:56
Speaker 4: be who you are, Shaq, and I love you, but
33:58
Speaker 4: you're just wrong in this situation. And a lot of
34:00
Speaker 4: times we go, just like you said, Jay was wrong
34:03
Speaker 4: when he said the thing about Target.
34:05
Speaker 2: He was wrong.
34:05
Speaker 4: Like, you're wrong about certain things. Sometimes the backlash, and
34:09
Speaker 4: being human, I understand. You know, I've received backlash. I'm online,
34:14
Speaker 4: people saying shit about me and sometimes you want to
34:17
Speaker 4: respond in a way, and sometimes you do respond in
34:19
Speaker 4: a way that makes people feel like you above them
34:23
Speaker 4: or you just ignoring the critique or the fact that
34:26
Speaker 4: they're hurt or angered by something that you may have
34:28
Speaker 4: done or that maybe they.
34:28
Speaker 2: Perceive you done.
34:30
Speaker 4: So sometimes, if you care enough about The fact that
34:34
Speaker 4: you've gained your celebrity status, that you're able to be
34:38
Speaker 4: rich because these people supported you. If you care enough
34:41
Speaker 4: about that situation, then maybe sometimes you either should say
34:44
Speaker 4: nothing and just take the criticism or give them a
34:48
Speaker 4: response and say, I heard what you said.
34:50
Speaker 3: And really be considerate about how you respond to the issue.
34:57
Speaker 3: Because I think we've had to do that when being...
35:01
Speaker 3: critique and or attack about certain things. Taking the time
35:05
Speaker 3: to explain to people your perspective doesn't mean it's going
35:09
Speaker 3: to change how they feel, but it definitely puts you
35:12
Speaker 3: in a better situation than for you to come out
35:15
Speaker 3: and just be.
35:16
Speaker 1: Like, that broke B-I-T-C-H. Because let me tell you, I'm
35:18
Speaker 1: not going to lie. I've done that.
35:20
Speaker 3: I have had people coming after me or saying things
35:24
Speaker 3: about me and I've made stereotypes about them. Dumb so-and-so,
35:30
Speaker 3: broke so-and-so. I have done that. I'm not above it.
35:34
Speaker 3: Now I don't go online and.
35:36
Speaker 1: Do it, but I have. So I know where it
35:38
Speaker 1: comes from because.
35:39
Speaker 3: It's generally your ego responding versus you actually taking responsibility
35:45
Speaker 3: for the fact that people respect you enough that they
35:47
Speaker 3: would even critique you. Sometimes it's some people that don't
35:52
Speaker 3: even get critiqued because nobody cares.
35:54
Speaker 1: Literally nobody cares.
35:56
Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's black folks running over there all
35:58
Speaker 3: the time doing the.
36:00
Speaker 1: Show and the thing and the thing and the thing
36:03
Speaker 1: with them.
36:03
Speaker 3: Folks at the FBI and all of it, because all
36:06
Speaker 3: it is is basically their little morale boosters for their
36:09
Speaker 3: agencies that they get a moment. It's like, take your
36:12
Speaker 3: daughter to work day, take your dad to school day.
36:14
Speaker 3: You get a little, you know, or you the mayor
36:17
Speaker 3: of the city for the day. These are things that
36:20
Speaker 3: people do to try to boost the morale of agencies
36:24
Speaker 3: and jobs, corporations, or what have you. And so with
36:28
Speaker 3: that being said, you do have a responsibility. And again,
36:31
Speaker 3: preach it to the self. to sit back and take
36:36
Speaker 3: some time to really analyze to your point the why,
36:39
Speaker 3: and then if I should even respond at all, because
36:43
Speaker 3: I could say nothing. And like, we do not respect
36:48
Speaker 3: enough the power of saying nothing.
36:51
Speaker 1: You can do that.
36:52
Speaker 3: You can literally say nothing if that's what you choose
36:56
Speaker 3: to do. Because the time will pass.
36:58
Speaker 1: On, the world will move on, but the thing the
37:02
Speaker 1: world will not move on from is what you.
37:05
Speaker 3: Said in the middle of an attack. They never going
37:09
Speaker 3: to move on from that. Whatever you said becomes.
37:12
Speaker 1: The thing that fuels the next part of the conversation.
37:16
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? As soon as you respond.
37:19
Speaker 1: So I'm learning, not everything requires a response.
37:23
Speaker 3: And I think Jack should have just left it alone
37:25
Speaker 3: and went on and did what he did and kept
37:27
Speaker 3: it pushing.
37:29
Speaker 4: I think it's right, man. It's just like when you
37:31
Speaker 4: look at Lil Boosie's situation. I think people understood, okay, Boozy,
37:36
Speaker 4: you wanted to get you know, that pardon, but sometimes
37:39
Speaker 4: when you align yourself with certain people and then look
37:42
Speaker 4: at the outcome, the people end up scamming you out
37:44
Speaker 4: your money because it never was good natured in the
37:47
Speaker 4: first place. So sometimes you, you, you, you know what
37:50
Speaker 4: you think you want to do, but you can't align
37:53
Speaker 4: yourself with everybody.
37:54
Speaker 2: You just can't.
37:55
Speaker 4: You have a brand, you have a perspective, you have
37:58
Speaker 4: people who respect you for a certain thing. And when you,
38:01
Speaker 4: when you align yourself with certain people, it diminishes your
38:04
Speaker 4: credibility and you can't get mad at somebody else. You
38:08
Speaker 4: can't get mad at somebody else when you, when you
38:10
Speaker 4: on there talking about Trump, Trump, I want to talk about.
38:13
Speaker 2: And they like booze.
38:13
Speaker 4: Are you supposed to be for the real people? You're
38:15
Speaker 4: supposed to be for black people. And you up here
38:17
Speaker 4: talking to this man, we get it. You want a pond,
38:19
Speaker 4: but you can't sell your soul for it. Now you
38:22
Speaker 4: ain't got your money and you look crazy because you
38:25
Speaker 4: attach yourself to them.
38:26
Speaker 2: Racist white people. And for what? It didn't even make sense.
38:29
Speaker 2: So a lot, sometimes what you have to do is
38:31
Speaker 2: say to yourself, it don't even be worth it. You
38:34
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
38:35
Speaker 3: Because saying about puff, Say what you want to say
38:38
Speaker 3: about Puff. All the things you want to say, you
38:42
Speaker 3: can list them, and I can add a few things
38:44
Speaker 3: about how I feel. One thing we know, and I
38:47
Speaker 3: said this, because knowing him and the person that he is,
38:51
Speaker 3: I said to myself, his lawyers are supposed to ask
38:56
Speaker 3: the president for a pardon. That's what you're supposed to do.
38:59
Speaker 1: You don't have good lawyers if they're not looking.
39:02
Speaker 2: At every single possible remedy.
39:08
Speaker 3: And now for our main topic of the day, what's
39:11
Speaker 3: at stake? As we've said, midterm elections are coming up.
39:15
Speaker 3: To me, this is the most important thing in the world.
39:17
Speaker 3: People have been asking me, they've been saying, can you
39:21
Speaker 3: speak here on October 27? One lady said, listen, if
39:26
Speaker 3: you come to my event, I could sell you at
39:28
Speaker 3: least $ 250 to $ 300. books because my crowd, they buy books.
39:32
Speaker 1: They love to tell you. I said, what's the date?
39:33
Speaker 1: October 17th. I said, I tell everybody.
39:38
Speaker 3: Kids, mama now, good now, everybody between now.
39:46
Speaker 1: And November 27th. I'm like a boxer that's training for
39:50
Speaker 1: a match. I only want to hear the numbers. where
39:55
Speaker 1: we're having issues, where we need to get more people
39:58
Speaker 1: to the polls, how we turn more folks out, how
40:02
Speaker 1: we wake more people up, how we make folks understand
40:05
Speaker 1: that their vote counts. That's where I'm at with this.
40:08
Speaker 3: So these weeks of breaking down what's at stake, I'm
40:12
Speaker 3: glad you came up with it because I'm really feeling
40:16
Speaker 3: like I need to be doing something every hour of
40:20
Speaker 3: the day that.
40:21
Speaker 1: Lends itself to us winning these midterms.
40:26
Speaker 3: And by winning, I mean massive turnout everywhere you can
40:30
Speaker 3: think of and.
40:31
Speaker 1: Putting some of these people who are running for office,
40:34
Speaker 1: like Abdul-Saheed in Detroit, Michigan, or in Michigan, And of.
40:40
Speaker 3: Course, Angie Nixon in Florida, who I'm organizing a number
40:44
Speaker 3: of people, we're organizing a number of people to go
40:47
Speaker 3: to Florida to really make it a battleground to help
40:51
Speaker 3: her become a United States senator. And, you know, there's
40:55
Speaker 3: there's there are other there are other elections. Charles Booker
41:00
Speaker 3: in Kentucky. There's other elections that's happening around the country.
41:04
Speaker 3: This shit is serious.
41:05
Speaker 1: It's not a joke. It's not a drill.
41:08
Speaker 3: We are down the road of the elections become, as
41:13
Speaker 3: you said, not the election day and going to vote
41:17
Speaker 3: is not the solution. But it's a damn tool. And
41:21
Speaker 3: it's an important tool because we you.
41:24
Speaker 1: Can't just do nothing about what's happening. You can't do nothing.
41:27
Speaker 1: You have to do something with the use our power
41:31
Speaker 1: to do what we can. But we also have.
41:33
Speaker 3: To help people connect the dots because there are folks
41:38
Speaker 3: who are trying to understand what is.
41:40
Speaker 1: All of this discomfort I'm experiencing. People keep telling me
41:44
Speaker 1: it's just weird. It's just weird.
41:46
Speaker 4: No, it's not just people is broke.
41:50
Speaker 2: Broke.
41:51
Speaker 1: It's not just broke.
41:52
Speaker 4: No, it's broke because broke lends itself to everything else.
41:55
Speaker 4: You start finding yourself stressed when you don't have money
41:58
Speaker 4: to afford things. You start thinking about other shit. Everything
42:01
Speaker 4: starts to aggravate you. You go to the store. Shit
42:03
Speaker 4: is too much. Kids asking you for things that they
42:06
Speaker 4: normally would.
42:06
Speaker 2: You like, yo, y'all bugging out.
42:08
Speaker 4: The lights is on. You need to turn the lights off.
42:10
Speaker 4: Why is the water running? Why the fuck is the
42:12
Speaker 4: AC on? Like, we can't afford. Like, everything becomes stressful
42:16
Speaker 4: for you when you don't have money.
42:18
Speaker 2: So when we did.
42:19
Speaker 4: So when you think about it, it really is the
42:21
Speaker 4: root cause of a lot of distress, especially black people
42:24
Speaker 4: are dealing with right now.
42:25
Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. Absolutely.
42:28
Speaker 3: And as you said, it's a trickle down effect. But
42:30
Speaker 3: I'm saying that it's also the environment. Like one of
42:34
Speaker 3: the things about Obama is that even though he was
42:40
Speaker 3: not the perfect president, we know you and I was on.
42:45
Speaker 3: Some of the front lines protesting him for the water
42:48
Speaker 3: crisis in Flint, police accountability. I mean, we never said
42:52
Speaker 3: that Obama was the best. He may have been the
42:55
Speaker 3: best of our lifetime. And of course, because he was
42:58
Speaker 3: a black man that we felt had empathy and respect
43:02
Speaker 3: for the issues that black folks are facing. Of course,
43:05
Speaker 3: we loved him and what he stood for in his
43:07
Speaker 3: family and the whole thing. But one of the things
43:10
Speaker 3: that I can tell you is that my nervous system
43:13
Speaker 3: never felt this off because when the president, the president
43:17
Speaker 3: of the United States of America sets the tone for
43:19
Speaker 3: the world.
43:20
Speaker 1: And so when you.
43:21
Speaker 3: See a stable individual. who can communicate properly, who's not
43:26
Speaker 3: calling people names in the middle of a press conference,
43:30
Speaker 3: calling women names. You know how painful it is to
43:34
Speaker 3: hear a president calling a woman who's asking them a
43:39
Speaker 3: question dumb and stupid.
43:42
Speaker 1: That's not healthy. It's not healthy for a society.
43:45
Speaker 3: Because what happens is that other people feel like it's
43:48
Speaker 3: okay for them to do it too. And so this
43:51
Speaker 3: is why the president is supposed to have some level
43:54
Speaker 3: of decorum. And remember, I used to be a little
43:56
Speaker 3: bit upset, not upset with you, but I felt the
43:59
Speaker 3: way when you said he's 34 times convicted felon. And
44:01
Speaker 3: I'm like, but my son, you have a felony as well.
44:05
Speaker 3: So do you feel like you shouldn't be president?
44:07
Speaker 1: And you're like, yo, maybe not. You're like, this is this.
44:10
Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm telling you.
44:12
Speaker 3: That nobody should have 34 felonies and be a president
44:16
Speaker 3: of the United States. And I was like, well, you know,
44:19
Speaker 3: trying to make it make sense. And you were like, no,
44:22
Speaker 3: that's why I could say it, because.
44:24
Speaker 1: I have a felony.
44:25
Speaker 2: You're 100% right.
44:26
Speaker 4: As a 34-time felon, I don't believe that you should
44:30
Speaker 4: qualify to run the nation. Like, there's a lot of
44:32
Speaker 4: things you qualify to do. I think you can have
44:35
Speaker 4: positions within. But I think if you have 34 felonies,
44:40
Speaker 4: I think that that position should be for someone else.
44:43
Speaker 4: You know, I don't mind you being somebody that's an
44:46
Speaker 4: ally to the president. I don't mind you being within
44:49
Speaker 4: the president's cabinet. An advisor. An advisor to the president
44:54
Speaker 4: in the president's cabinet. I don't mind you running one
44:57
Speaker 4: of being, you know, in a position of power. But
45:00
Speaker 4: I don't think you should be the president. I think
45:02
Speaker 4: that should be for people who have lived stellar lives,
45:05
Speaker 4: who have been astute, esteemed, who have done things properly.
45:09
Speaker 4: I don't think somebody who has proven that they're willing
45:12
Speaker 4: to do something wrong 34 times, that's considered a felony.
45:15
Speaker 1: 34 ways.
45:16
Speaker 4: 34 ways, 34 times I should be the president. I
45:20
Speaker 4: just don't think that should be what you should do.
45:23
Speaker 4: Certain shit should exclude you from being the president. And
45:25
Speaker 4: I'm okay with that. And I was wrongfully convicted, but
45:30
Speaker 4: I've done so much shit that I'm cool with whatever's
45:32
Speaker 4: going on.
45:33
Speaker 2: That man shouldn't have been the president. And that's just
45:36
Speaker 2: the bottom line.
45:37
Speaker 4: So when we talk about it and we look at
45:40
Speaker 4: the trajectory of where we are, we are in a
45:43
Speaker 4: criminal enterprise. We have a criminal that's running a criminal enterprise.
45:48
Speaker 4: The man is running America like the mafia. It's literally
45:51
Speaker 4: you kiss the ring. Whoever's on his team is good.
45:54
Speaker 4: Anybody who ain't, he gonna get rid of you. He
45:57
Speaker 4: gonna knock you off. You want to make some money?
45:58
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you the inside track on how to
46:01
Speaker 4: treat criminals.
46:02
Speaker 2: How to cheat. We're going to get all the money.
46:03
Speaker 4: We're going to keep getting billionaires and we're going to
46:06
Speaker 4: keep doing what we do. We're going to run it
46:08
Speaker 4: up until they catch us. Until we lose the midterms and.
46:11
Speaker 2: They lock us up. Like his team said, we're going
46:14
Speaker 2: to jail. They said, fuck it.
46:15
Speaker 4: Before we go to jail, we're going to clean up.
46:17
Speaker 2: We're going to make billions.
46:19
Speaker 4: All of his billionaire friends have doubled and tripled their
46:22
Speaker 4: money while the average person is broke.
46:25
Speaker 1: That's absolutely right. So that's why what's at stake is
46:29
Speaker 1: all that. All these things. And making the connection is important.
46:33
Speaker 3: So as you said at the top of the show,
46:36
Speaker 3: we are examining what has happened with these corporate, and
46:40
Speaker 3: I'm not going to call them snafus because I don't
46:43
Speaker 3: believe that these are snafus. I think that more people
46:47
Speaker 3: have to understand that marketing departments have multiple layers of
46:54
Speaker 3: people that put eyes on ads, multiple eyes of people.
46:59
Speaker 3: And even before it makes it to the public, it
47:03
Speaker 3: goes through production, which is kind of like a different department.
47:07
Speaker 3: It is closely aligned with the marketing department, but the
47:11
Speaker 3: production is how after all the marketing has happened, it's
47:15
Speaker 3: been approved, it's been signed off on. Then it goes
47:18
Speaker 3: through production so that it can go to, you know,
47:20
Speaker 3: social media or a TV ad or in the newspaper
47:25
Speaker 3: or in a magazine or pop up at a particular conference.
47:29
Speaker 1: Or, you know, in person somewhere.
47:31
Speaker 3: So there are so many different levels and layers to
47:35
Speaker 3: it that for no one at all to catch the
47:40
Speaker 3: things that have somehow made it to mainstream from at
47:45
Speaker 3: least these last two corporate incidents, it's impossible unless you
47:51
Speaker 3: don't have anybody there who is paying attention or worst
47:57
Speaker 3: case scenario, which I know people will beat me down.
48:03
Speaker 1: And say is, no, I can't, you can't, that's a conspiracy,
48:07
Speaker 1: this and that. It's actually intentional, right?
48:11
Speaker 3: I don't know why we would sit here and not
48:13
Speaker 3: understand that there have been intentional things done to our
48:19
Speaker 3: communities since we got here off the damn ships where
48:23
Speaker 3: we were trafficked to the Americas that we have been
48:28
Speaker 3: targeted in various ways.
48:31
Speaker 1: And that it is not far fetched to believe that
48:35
Speaker 1: every now and then in marketing departments, especially if they
48:39
Speaker 1: know they.
48:39
Speaker 5: Could kind of run it through a loop, that there
48:42
Speaker 5: would not be people who consider themselves to be white
48:45
Speaker 5: supremacists who are sitting there doing the thing that they
48:49
Speaker 5: know is going to impact black folks.
48:52
Speaker 1: That's going to harm black folks or harm some other community.
48:56
Speaker 1: It is not far fetched. It's not.
48:59
Speaker 3: The intentionality of it all is that you would get
49:02
Speaker 3: rid of diversity, equity and inclusion, knowing that that is
49:07
Speaker 3: one of the mechanisms, one of the mechanisms that has
49:10
Speaker 3: helped people to kind of stay out of, I don't
49:13
Speaker 3: want to say trouble, but has helped them to avoid
49:18
Speaker 3: these types of incidents.
49:20
Speaker 1: The reason why diversity.
49:22
Speaker 3: Equity, and inclusion became so important In the last, you know,
49:28
Speaker 3: many years, it's not just because, you know, there's this
49:31
Speaker 3: misconception that DEI started during or when George Floyd was murdered.
49:38
Speaker 1: And it is not true. DEI existed before the death and.
49:43
Speaker 3: The murder again of George Floyd. And in fact, in
49:47
Speaker 3: many ways, you can look at it as being like
49:49
Speaker 3: the child of affirmative action. It has been since Reverend
49:55
Speaker 3: Jesse Jackson was out there on the front line. And
49:58
Speaker 3: even thinking about Reverend Sharpton, when they had the Madison
50:02
Speaker 3: Avenue Initiative, they were looking at diversity, equity and inclusion.
50:07
Speaker 3: And one of The particular the one of the particular
50:11
Speaker 3: campaigns that the Madison Avenue Initiative, which was under National
50:16
Speaker 3: Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpton's organization. I was not executive
50:21
Speaker 3: direct at that time.
50:21
Speaker 1: I was younger.
50:22
Speaker 3: But this was an initiative that man was was really
50:27
Speaker 3: focused on and they were going into corporations and. asking
50:32
Speaker 3: the question, who is in your marketing department? Who is
50:36
Speaker 3: in the purchasing department? Who is in the supplier diversity department?
50:41
Speaker 1: Who's on your board?
50:43
Speaker 3: Where are their executives that are within your companies that
50:48
Speaker 3: have the ability to one, connect with our communities, but
50:51
Speaker 3: that also will make sure that we have opportunities and
50:55
Speaker 3: that your companies are.
50:56
Speaker 1: Not doing things to harm our people.
51:00
Speaker 2: Right.
51:00
Speaker 3: Like to have cultural competence in the most important positions
51:06
Speaker 3: within your company.
51:08
Speaker 1: This was a thing that happened.
51:10
Speaker 3: So when people say, oh, DEI, it wasn't for black people.
51:14
Speaker 3: It didn't impact black people. It absolutely 100 percent had
51:20
Speaker 3: a lot to do with things that are above just
51:23
Speaker 3: people having a job.
51:25
Speaker 2: And so.
51:26
Speaker 1: It's intentional no matter how you look at it.
51:29
Speaker 3: Your marketing department or your art department could be the
51:33
Speaker 3: ones that has some type of person that has a
51:36
Speaker 3: racial bias against our community, some sick, twisted thing where
51:40
Speaker 3: they want to.
51:41
Speaker 1: See these types of images re-emerging.
51:45
Speaker 3: So it could be that. Or the intentionality could be
51:48
Speaker 3: that you got rid of the people who would be
51:51
Speaker 3: able to notice some type of twisted bullshit.
51:55
Speaker 1: And stop it. So either way, you're just wrong.
51:59
Speaker 3: And on the last thing with the Converse ad, worst
52:04
Speaker 3: case scenario or best case scenario, let me say best
52:07
Speaker 3: case scenario because worst case is intentional. Best case scenario,
52:11
Speaker 3: it's just bad art. It's just bad advertising completely. Like
52:16
Speaker 3: whoever that is needs to be fired immediately. And I
52:20
Speaker 3: think that that's what we have to be calling on
52:22
Speaker 3: these corporations to do is to immediately terminate.
52:27
Speaker 1: The individuals responsible because.
52:30
Speaker 3: Their minds are twisted that they could even be thinking
52:34
Speaker 3: of putting out this type of material that the fact.
52:38
Speaker 1: That a monkey is even in your mind with a.
52:41
Speaker 3: Dark face around Halloween for children and that a spotlight
52:47
Speaker 3: is on a white skirt or sheet or whatever it
52:51
Speaker 3: is with some sneakers that look like they're hanging. The
52:54
Speaker 3: fact that that's even in your mind, it should be
52:56
Speaker 3: like the damn government. When they see you do certain
52:59
Speaker 3: things under previous governments, I don't know what happens in
53:01
Speaker 3: this one.
53:02
Speaker 1: I know it definitely in the police department.
53:04
Speaker 3: They see you do certain things when you're getting when
53:07
Speaker 3: you're in training. They see your mind going in certain
53:10
Speaker 3: directions where, you know, you are choose if this is
53:14
Speaker 3: if the training is being done properly, because sometimes you're
53:17
Speaker 3: being trained to have racial bias. But sometimes in the
53:22
Speaker 3: proper environments where the training has been looked at and
53:26
Speaker 3: that people have helped them.
53:27
Speaker 1: With cultural competencies, You will you will they will.
53:31
Speaker 3: Assess whether or not you have mental health issues or
53:35
Speaker 3: you have racial bias based upon some of the answers
53:39
Speaker 3: that you give.
53:40
Speaker 1: And so I I think.
53:43
Speaker 3: You know, just saying I'm sorry is not enough. You
53:46
Speaker 3: need to be saying that you're actually cleaning up the
53:48
Speaker 3: entire damn entire damn department. So just apologizing is not enough.
53:55
Speaker 5: People actually need to be fired. People need to be terminated.
54:00
Speaker 5: And a plan needs to be put forth on what
54:03
Speaker 5: it will look.
54:04
Speaker 3: Like for these companies and these institutions to not just
54:09
Speaker 3: do better, but to actually transform and ultimately to return
54:14
Speaker 3: to some DEI principles to re-replace and reestablish diversity, equity, and.
54:21
Speaker 1: Inclusion in their companies.
54:23
Speaker 3: Because quite frankly, what you're learning from Target all the
54:26
Speaker 3: way to Nike around Converse, and it.
54:29
Speaker 1: Goes on and on.
54:30
Speaker 3: We could go back to the Gucci black first, black
54:33
Speaker 3: face sweater. I can take you back to the New
54:36
Speaker 3: York Post when they used to use ads and they
54:40
Speaker 3: had one that had like a chimpanzee, like basically a
54:44
Speaker 3: monkey as a black person.
54:46
Speaker 1: This has been going on. We go through rounds and
54:48
Speaker 1: rounds of it and it is not in any way
54:51
Speaker 1: a coincidence.
54:53
Speaker 3: It's all very much so aligned with what we see
54:56
Speaker 3: happening in our society. And we have to be responsible
55:00
Speaker 3: for holding these people accountable that we cannot give them
55:04
Speaker 3: our money and support them and then turn around and
55:08
Speaker 3: be upset and outraged. when the time comes that they
55:12
Speaker 3: do some bullshit and i'm you know i wear brands
55:15
Speaker 3: all the time i'm not saying i don't i wear
55:17
Speaker 3: a lot of black owned brands but i also wear
55:19
Speaker 3: other brands but i tell you one thing it does
55:22
Speaker 3: not take me but a split second to make the
55:24
Speaker 3: decision to cut a brand off they could they do
55:27
Speaker 3: one or two things and i'm completely done because you're
55:30
Speaker 3: not that important and there's other things that i can
55:33
Speaker 3: buy and my money actually speaks for me my money
55:36
Speaker 3: speaks for.
55:36
Speaker 1: Me my vote My money and my voice.
55:39
Speaker 3: Are three things that I use to protest, to speak
55:43
Speaker 3: out against, and to demand that I get the respect
55:46
Speaker 3: that I deserve.
55:48
Speaker 2: So yeah, basically everything you said, man.
55:51
Speaker 4: If we have to deal with an administration that is anti-Black,
55:54
Speaker 4: you know, that thinks it's OK to not have DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion,
56:00
Speaker 4: then we're going to deal with things like this on
56:03
Speaker 4: a higher level. And we've seen it, you know, since
56:05
Speaker 4: they've eliminated DEI, since this administration has been in place,
56:09
Speaker 4: we've seen how the marketing strategy is anti-Blackness. The marketing
56:14
Speaker 4: strategy is disrespecting Black people. The marketing strategy is eliminating
56:18
Speaker 4: Black history. The marketing strategy is firing Black women from jobs.
56:22
Speaker 4: It's firing Black men from jobs. It's ignoring Black history.
56:26
Speaker 4: It's ignoring the realities that Black people face in America.
56:29
Speaker 4: So we understand that's what's at stake right now. You know,
56:32
Speaker 4: when we talk about these corporations and we talk about how,
56:35
Speaker 4: you know, Gucci did this. I started wearing Gucci years ago.
56:39
Speaker 4: We talk about what happened with Kyrie Irving. You know,
56:42
Speaker 4: how Nike saw fit to just... eliminate him, even though
56:46
Speaker 4: he was the second biggest earner in Nike. They sought
56:49
Speaker 4: to eliminate him for something that had nothing to do
56:52
Speaker 4: with him, but still went on Amazon with a place
56:54
Speaker 4: where the book that he was reading from was being sold.
56:58
Speaker 2: And they didn't do anything about that. So that just
57:00
Speaker 2: shows that in their minds, we are expendable. And this
57:03
Speaker 2: administration is.
57:04
Speaker 4: Not only okay with that, that is their biggest problem.
57:09
Speaker 4: strategy to make sure that you understand that white supremacy
57:12
Speaker 4: is the thing. So this is what's at stake. What's
57:15
Speaker 4: at stake is our humanity. What's at stake is our
57:18
Speaker 4: Black history. What's at stake is our.
57:20
Speaker 2: Jobs, our economy. It's our whole existence.
57:23
Speaker 4: So if we're not very strategic and understand what we're
57:27
Speaker 4: dealing with and how these people have this Project 2025
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Speaker 4: that they have been implementing from the day they got
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Speaker 4: in office and it is basically to eliminate Blacks, and
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Speaker 4: eliminate what we have added to this culture and to
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Speaker 4: this world and to America, if we're not intentional about that,
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Speaker 4: then they're going to continue to do it.
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Speaker 2: So what's at stake?
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Speaker 4: Everything for Black people is at stake. And I guess
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Speaker 4: I can drop the mic with that. If Black people
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Speaker 4: don't understand the seriousness of where we are right now,
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Speaker 4: because you can feel it in your pockets, Every day
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Speaker 4: you look on the TV, you see how something black
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Speaker 4: is being erased, how something black is being targeted, how
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Speaker 4: something black is being marketed to disrespect us. If you
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Speaker 4: don't understand that this administration is built.
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Speaker 2: On that, and that's what's at stake, then there's nothing
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Speaker 2: else for me to say.
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Speaker 4: And with that, we've come to the end of another
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Speaker 4: episode of the TMI show.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate y'all.
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Speaker 4: You know, I know that we come up here every
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Speaker 4: week and we give you a show, but I want
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Speaker 4: you to understand how serious we are in times now.
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Speaker 4: We are in very serious times, so continue to watch us.
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Speaker 4: Let us know what you don't understand about why you
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Speaker 4: need to vote. Let us know who you want us to...
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Speaker 4: to talk about what candidates you're into. You want to
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Speaker 4: know what they represent, what they don't represent. Let us
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Speaker 4: know so we can give you that information. Because listen,
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to always be right.
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Speaker 2: Tamika D.
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Speaker 4: Maverick's not going to always be wrong, but we will
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Speaker 4: both always, and I mean always, be authentic.
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Speaker 3: Listen to the TMI podcast on the Black Effect Network,
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Speaker 4: Or catch the video version on YouTube at TMI Show PC.