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Ep. 14 - Sitcoms & Scandals · 4DAFAM

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  it's your boy kg welcome to another episode of for the fam podcast episode 14 yes sir teenagers.
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  Sir man so what's been up with you bro how you feeling good man can't complain
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  you know as we We were talking before we started trying to start a new,
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  trying to eat a little bit healthier, stay away from the fast food.
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  And something I didn't mention, I do feel a lot better without all that extra,
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  you know, eating all that.
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  For real, for real. So just trying to make a turn, eat a little bit better.
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  That's what's up. I can't argue with that. You know, I always try and be health
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  conscious and eat healthy and exercise and stuff.
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  So, yeah, man, that's what's up. You ever need any any tips?
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  Oh, let me. You know I got you. I got you. It's the discipline.
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  It is the discipline. And it gets easier the more you do it,
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  though. Like anything, you know what I'm saying?
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  So what do you want to get into today? So we're going to talk about the 10 best black sitcoms.
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  We don't have any eras that are blacked out.
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  For example, we can go back to the 70s, 80s, 90s. It doesn't matter.
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  But as you mentioned before we started, no sketch comedies, no Unliving Color,
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  no show has to be an actual sitcom. Correct.
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  So we're not going to do any type of ranking in a particular order.
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  We're just picking 10.
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  Now, of course, this is subjective.
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  And this is a reason for y'all to get at us in the comments.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  If we leave off your favorite show or there's a show that you think that we
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  miss, holla at us in the comments.
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  You got no excuse not to. Also.
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  Nothing makes the list unless we both agree on it. Right.
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  So if there is one that comes up and we don't agree, then we have to explain
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  why it cannot make the list.
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  So with that being said, let's get into it, bro. Let's let's let's have some fun with this thing.
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  All right. You want me to start? You gonna start? Go ahead, bro.
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  All right. I'm I'm I'm I'm copping out. I'm doing the easy one first, Martin. Definitely.
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  Start easy. Something I know we both like. Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
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  So, Martin, for sure. All right. That's an easy one.
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  I'm going to do the controversial. Well, I guess controversial, too.
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  Cosby show in a different world.
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  Not the shows themselves, but because of Cosby and his bad juju. Right.
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  Are we excluding those or are they? Hell no. They are fair game.
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  All right. Cool. Well, Cosby show. Absolutely. All right. Cool.
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  Without a doubt. Without a damn. All right. All right. Cool.
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  I'm glad we on the same page on that.
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  So I'm about to hit something that a lot of people might not remember or even know about.
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  Amen. I got amen on my list. One of my favorite shows. Love it.
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  All right. I'm with it. Let's go with it.
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  Let's go with it. So we got Martin so far. We got Cosby show.
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  We got amen. All right, cool.
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  I'm going to go with a classic, Sanford and Son. Oh, yeah.
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  Okay. Watch the episode of Sanford and Son yesterday. Without a doubt,
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  Sanford and Son. All right, we got four.
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  Here's one, Living Single. I got it on my list.
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  But can we come back to it? Yeah. Let's come back to Living Single.
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  And there's a reason why I'm saying let's come. No, no, no. You know what?
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  Forget it. Yes. Living Single was a yes.
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  We can still revisit it. Okay. On what you were thinking about.
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  Well, here's something I will say about Living Single. For all of the Friends
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  people, they stole their idea from Living Single.
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  Friends is basically the white version of Living Single.
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  So, yeah, Living Single is on the list. Although a lot of people disagree with that.
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  But however, it's the exact same format.
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  It's so obvious once you get into it and you get past your racial bias.
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  It's 100 percent. I ain't going to say the same show, but it's the same setup. Mm-hmm. All right.
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  What about Family Matters?
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  I mean, I can't disagree because, I mean, we all loved Family Matters.
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  That TGIF lineup was undefeated. Yeah.
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  Yeah, let's do that. All right. All right. All right. We got Family Matters on the list.
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  We got to get into some ones that we're going to have to start cutting here
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  because this list is going to fill up real fast.
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  It's one that I can't even believe we ain't mentioned yet, but I'm going to
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  save it. I'm going to wait and see if you bring it up. But I got one that's controversial.
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  It ain't any controversial. It was just only on the air for three years.
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  Rock. I got rock on my list, bro.
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  Rock. Two of the most, no, three or four of the most powerful episodes in sitcom
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  history, in my opinion. I know which one you're talking about.
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  With Clifton? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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  Man. Yes, sir. And if you guys don't know what we're talking about,
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  look up Rock, R-O-C, with Clifton Powell.
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  And this is about three or four episodes he played
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  the drug dealer it was i'm gonna i'm gonna say
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  let's let's let's hold off on rock for now
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  and we can definitely revisit it it it
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  may be like an honorable mention but but yeah
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  i like i like rock we got we got to give it some
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  type of shine because i did like that show i'm gonna
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  go one for the uh the next generation one-on-one
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  one-on-one was a give
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  me the main character flex and kyla pratt he was raising he was the single dad
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  raising her yep oh boy with the funny eyes so here's why i'm almost tempted
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  to say no if you want to say no just say no but i want to tell you why okay
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  because i enjoyed the show okay i did give it to me.
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  Somebody hired Flex to play Michael Jackson. Okay, enough said.
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  One-on-one ain't making the list. And I love Flex. One-on-one ain't making the
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  list. All right, enough said.
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  Have you ever seen the videos where he's making fun of himself,
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  too, when somebody bring it up? It's pretty funny.
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  But, oh, my God, man. I can't believe they hired Flex to play.
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  No, man, it was terrible. Was that VH1? Yeah. It was terrible.
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  Yeah, it was really bad.
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  All right, one-on-one. Not going to make the best.
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  All right, I'll go ahead and bring it up since we neither one of us has done it yet.
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  Fresh Prince. I got it on my list. I was I was I was waiting.
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  I felt like it was like kind of obvious. Yeah.
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  But yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. That one and those that one and Martin was almost like. Yeah. Givens.
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  That's that's seven, bro. We going through it. We might have to do more than
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  10 or we're going to have to do a part two because we get in the 10 like real fast.
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  I think that's probably because we're not explaining some of them,
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  too. Well, I don't think they need explaining, though.
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  I mean, for our target audience, who does not know what's on this list.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  But I'm going to go to one that I think probably should be on here is getting
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  overlooked. The Jamie Foxx show.
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  No? Wasn't a fan. All right. All right.
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  You want to know why? Yes. I just thought it was corny as hell.
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  I thought Jamie Foxx overdid everything. I thought it was just. corny.
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  With Fancy and Braxton and... No, I thought everybody else was cool.
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  I just thought Jamie Foxx was corny as hell on that show.
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  Okay, alright. I thought he overdid it. Alright, cool. Jamie Foxx show was a no.
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  I can hear people not going, what? I love Jamie Foxx. I just didn't like the
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  show. Alright, alright. Cool.
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  Except for that episode with Mark Curry, where he was a drill sergeant doing the...
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  Personally, I liked the Jamie Foxx show. It started getting corny towards the end, like...
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  When they didn't have anywhere else to go, when him and Fancy finally got together
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  and he was leaving for whatever he was trying to do.
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  And I was getting kind of corny. But I thought those first couple of seasons
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  were actually pretty good.
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  All right. I'm going to take it way back to the 70s.
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  What's happening? I got what's happening on my list, bro.
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  Listen, if you told me I could only watch one sitcom for the next six months
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  and told me it was what's happening, I'd be like, all right.
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  Don't worry. I watch it every day, all day. No, no complaints, bro.
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  I like what's happening. So that's eight. We got two more spots.
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  Let me see. I'm trying. I'm trying to get some of these newer shows and not
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  just stick to like our generation. What about Moesha?
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  I liked Moesha. Enough for it to make this list is one of the top 10 or.
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  No. And here's why. OK, because we still got some heavy hitters left on it,
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  at least on my list. I got some heavy hitters on here. Here's why.
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  The whole drama with her dad and Ray J.
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  It's character unnecessary all of it the writing all of it completely unnecessary
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  to have a perfectly happy because you know how I feel about every time somebody
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  makes a movie that involves a black family or hell even a white family there's always the asshole kid,
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  there's never just a happy ass household the Moesha household was happy,
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  and then all of a sudden his wife like no I can't trust you no more what was
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  the point of writing that in there I thought Ray J as a character,
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  period, was unnecessary.
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  Well, yeah, that too. The show was fine without him. Spring Brandy's brother.
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  Yeah, why? All right, let's do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  All right, cool. No to Moesha.
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  We got two spots left now.
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  You know what? I'm going to take a swing at the newer.
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  Oh, no, I know you ain't watched that one yet.
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  Let's do a, no, you know what? What about the Bernie Mac show?
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  Oh, man. That's one I overlooked.
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  Gosh. I didn't have Bernie Mac even. Oh, shame on me for not having Bernie on my list.
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  Let's revisit that. All right. Let's revisit that. I got to get out on some
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  thought. Damn, I missed that one.
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  What about my wife and kids? I liked her. Yeah, I liked my wife.
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  Definitely? Yeah. Okay.
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  Especially the Cat Williams episodes. All right. That's nine, bro.
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  Yeah, we might have to just go 15. I mean, it's our world. It's our world.
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  Hanging with Mr. Cooper. I got it on my list, bro.
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  Love it. I got it on my list. I kept like I was waiting on you to bring it up.
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  Like, you got to bring up Hanging with Mr. Cooper, especially when you said Mark Curry.
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  Like he has to bring it up. All right. So that's 10 right there. That's our hard 10.
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  Then we still got rock. We need to revisit. We got the Bernie Mac show. We need to revisit.
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  I'm going to just run down some ones that didn't make the list so far.
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  And, and you can, uh, you know, hit me with something that I miss.
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  So I still got the Jeffersons. That's number one. I still got two to seven.
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  I still got a different world. But you did mention a different world when you
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  mentioned Cosmo Show. Right, right, right.
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  So I guess they kind of like one in the same.
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  I'll give that a pass.
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  Those are the ones that are still lingering out there, in my opinion.
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  One, I'm leaving off for a reason, and I'll get to that later on in the show when we do our work.
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  So I got parenthood. Gosh, I forgot about the parenthood.
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  Michael Minetti? I don't think it was popular enough. Fair enough.
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  Homeboys and Out. No, I'm just playing. That was only one year. Right.
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  I fought with myself about putting the Steve Harvey show.
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  Yeah, it was a good show. Yeah, it was decent. I was like, I don't know if it was a top.
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  Indication wise, it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I fought with myself about
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  putting that on the list.
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  Give me a break. is that a black show or is that just a black lead though yeah
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  she was like her and her friend were like the only black characters on the show
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  it was a predominantly white cast and she was kind of like the mammy you know,
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  yeah no your favorite no I'm gonna hit you with your favorite go ahead good time I know,
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  that's what I said it was one I left off the list for a reason oh shoot and
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  i'm gonna tell y'all why when we get into our rart why i don't like good times,
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  good times is a definite no for me yeah definitely
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  no yeah no for me as well i mean
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  i guess i mean this show was was a pretty
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  well mixture but the show was about two the two
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  main characters were really black different strokes
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  i got different strokes on the list bro okay i
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  i i can make an argument for different strokes to be on this list but who would
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  I have to take off you know what I'm saying and all of these shows have predominantly
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  black cast where different strokes kind of had a mixed cast.
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  Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so I don't know who excuse me I don't know who I would
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  replace and put in different strokes do we even mention the Wayans Brothers?
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  It's on my list. I got it. I got it on my list.
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  Would they replace i mean look we got
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  excuse me we got martin the cosby
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  show amen sanford and son living single family matters fresh prince what's happening
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  my wife and kids hanging with mr cooper who can they replace and then we still
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  got rocking the bernie max show.
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  I think they just might not make the list and most people will probably hear
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  that list you just read and say well what about hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper if you think hanging with Mr. Cooper it's a great show it's a great show
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  with a great run on top of that I mean honestly I would say five years,
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  that Raven was probably more popular with our community from hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper Then she was for That's So Raven.
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  That's it right there. Then That's So Raven. That's exactly what I was about
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  to say. That's So Raven pretty much introduced her to everybody.
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  Yeah, yeah. Whereas, you know, Cosby Show and Hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper was a certain group of people.
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  I know one that didn't make the list, but I liked it. Sister, Sister. Oh, yeah.
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  I can't... We ain't going to sit here and act like we ain't watch Sister,
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  Sister. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I cannot...
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  Replaced them with anybody on the list, but Sister, Sister was a good show.
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  We didn't mention the Hughleys. We didn't mention the Hughleys,
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  but I think it had like one good season. I was really into it,
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  and then like second season, I kind of was like, eh, it's just okay.
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  I think the jokes got old kind of fast on the Hughleys, in my opinion.
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  Let's revisit Rock. Mm-hmm.
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  Sometimes when I think of rock, I think it was more of a drama than a sitcom.
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  And look, no diss to rock. Rock was a great show. It was.
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  And like you said, they really touched on some very serious topics most of the time.
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  So in real time, in real time. Yeah. Yeah.
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  So I'm going to say rock gets honorable mention. I can't put it in the top 10,
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  but it definitely gets honorable mention.
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  Bernie Mac. I love Bernie Mac.
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  Think the jokes kind of got old after the first couple seasons on the Bernie
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  Mac show also. Like, you can only just like, it's just tears.
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  Yeah. So much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They, they, they can only be bad
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  for so long before it's just like, come on, man.
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  So I love Bernie Mac. It was a good show, but I'm gonna say it,
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  it can't replace anything we have on our top 10. I agree.
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  So you want to, you want to make an argument for anything
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  else nah because i
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  mean yeah i mean when we look at you know sitcoms in
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  general i mean there's a lot of them we left off obviously oh for
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  sure but for for us they don't even come close to yeah it seems because like
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  the parkers yeah it was popular but i what what are you going to replace that
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  with you know a show i really liked but there's really nothing we can take off
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  the list, but I think that if,
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  the little nonsense behind the scenes wouldn't have happened,
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  would have had a great run, Eve. Yeah.
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  She would have probably had a good eight, nine seasons in that show. People love that show.
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  But yeah, you're right. It just did not last long enough, man. Oh, we.
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  And see, this is why these type of shows can't even make the list.
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  Do you remember Bill Bellamy's sitcom?
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  Briefly. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was funny, but it got like, what, one season? Yeah.
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  So it's like this is this is why we're saying like some of these shows,
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  we're not like dissing them, but they just one season. You can't make the list.
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  You know what I'm saying? And they just these shows we have on this list,
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  you can probably go up to any white person and they would.
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  Well, I guess from a certain age group for the most part, but they would recognize
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  these shows and a lot of these other shows.
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  They didn't have that mainstream or crossover appeal, I guess.
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  I would say a lot of the shows, too, that we mentioned, they were cultural.
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  They were like, I'm using the wrong word. Why am I drawing a blank?
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  It is like you can like you just said, you can ask anybody.
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  Yeah, they had crossover. I know who the Fresh Prince is. Yeah.
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  Oh, yeah, Martin. Yeah, I watched. Yeah.
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  Yeah. You know, it's some of these other shows you and I know about.
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  Their niche. They are black shows for the black community, you know,
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  which isn't a bad thing. No, no, especially in the 70s.
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  Oh, for sure. Julia. Yeah. Frank's Place. Right.
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  Right. Right. I enjoy watching Julia. That's my grandmother's man.
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  You know, a lot of those old shows weren't bad. It's just they didn't get a
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  chance to blow up, you know.
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  So, again, like I said, we're not dissing them. They just, they can't make this
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  top 10 list. Well, we will just, well, you will.
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  Well, we'll just one in a little while. Oh, definitely.
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  So that's our list, y'all. That's our top 10 best black sitcoms.
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  Again, we're going to read the list one more time.
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  No particular order, no ranking. This is just the 10 that we think are the best black sitcoms.
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  Martin, The Cosby Show, Amen.
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  Samford and Son, Living Single, Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
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  What's Happening, My Wife and Kids, Hanging with Mr. Cooper.
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  Again, y'all, let's squad up in the comments. If y'all think we left something
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  off, y'all disagree, highlight us in the comments.
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  We can have a discussion about it. It's all good. It's all in good fun.
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  That's the fun thing about making
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  these lists is they are debatable and they're subjective. Thank you.
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  Create dialogue and that's all we're trying to do is create some
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  some some dialogue some light-hearted dialogue all
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  right so with that being said now we're going to
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  move into current events you got a current event you want to talk about brother
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  yeah it you know i said i was going to not be irritated this week but man it's
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  too hard not to that ain't gonna happen so even though So you have several.
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  I want to talk about the redistricting, the map that the House just passed for the state of Indiana.
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  So although you do have quite a few Republicans in the Senate saying, nah, we ain't with this.
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  You and I both know that that's a crock of shit.
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  They'll toe the party line and they'll probably get this redrawn.
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  And for those who don't understand why this is such a big deal,
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  I travel around central Indiana.
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  Thankfully, I don't travel anywhere outside of central Indiana,
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  but I visit a lot of different places across central Indiana for my job.
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  I drive down Keystone quite often, specifically Keystone Parkway and Carmel
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  from, I believe, 62nd Street to 146th.
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  I will drive through five damn districts if this is redrawn.
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  Five. That's crazy. Whereas before I drove through three, two,
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  maybe three, depending on which direction I went on 146th to 151st Street. Right.
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  So that's Indianapolis. of Sumerian County. Back home, they are pairing us with Wabash, Pulaski.
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  So Wabash, Pulaski, Lake County.
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  Crown Point, when we were growing up, predominantly white.
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  Still is, but there are a lot more diverse. Yes, yes. It's getting more diverse,
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  but not enough to affect the vote in that way. Exactly.
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  The people of Crown Point should be pissed. I don't have nothing in common with
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  the people of Pulaski County, Wabash County, and I think it's Franklin County or something like that.
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  But anyway, the reason why this is a big deal, normally you have voters picking who represents them.
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  What we're going to have is the people who represent us picking the damn voters.
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  And when you do that, you have things in Indianapolis, for example,
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  when it comes to potholes, when it comes to education and infrastructure.
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  Well, guess what? If somebody from a small rural county 20 miles from where
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  we're sitting right now, because as we know we could drive 20 miles and be in
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  the middle of nowhere in central Indiana.
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  They give a damn that the people on the east side ain't had their streets cleared yet. Right.
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  They small town is perfectly fine. Right. Oh, you need the infrastructure for
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  that bridge on Washington and Sherman? Well, guess what?
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  I need a bridge rebuilt that leads from this farm to that farm.
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  Where do you think that damn money going to go to?
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  You know, I'm glad you touched on this because I thought about touching on it.
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  I just got a few things to say. fuck Mike Brian. Thank you. Full stop. Yeah.
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  Continue.
• 24:36
  But it's it's not about politics. Well, I'm sorry. Let me let me rephrase that.
• 24:41
  It's it's political, but it's not about Republicans and Democrats at that point.
• 24:46
  It's about right and wrong.
• 24:47
  These people are redrawing these maps to determine the amount of money coming
• 24:54
  into their their projects.
• 24:55
  And I'll give you another one. Like him, hate him, agree, disagree with him.
• 25:02
  Andre Carson represents the people of Marion County.
• 25:06
  His grandmother represented the people of Marion County. She is a legend in
• 25:11
  this damn city, a legend in this city.
• 25:15
  She never left Hallville. She lived in Hallville until the day she died.
• 25:19
  Andre Carson still serves that district.
• 25:21
  Andre Carson will be pushed out. Yes. If this goes through. That's the intent.
• 25:27
  Exactly. Andre Carson will no longer have that voice. And I'm sorry,
• 25:32
  he'll have the voice amongst us, but he would lose the power to take how we
• 25:37
  feel to Washington, D.C.
• 25:41
  But the guy that graduated from a high school in the middle of nowhere with
• 25:46
  30 students is now responsible for the well-being of over a million people.
• 25:52
  A community that he has nothing in common. Nothing.
• 25:55
  It's the and I'm about to take a quick U-turn. It's why I believe that police
• 26:01
  officers should be forced to live in the city that they patrol.
• 26:05
  They should be forced to live amongst the people that they serve.
• 26:10
  You shouldn't be allowed to live in a $200,000 house 30 miles outside of a community
• 26:16
  and then come and try to tell people of that community how the hell they should be acting.
• 26:20
  You shouldn't be able to be a politician of an area that you don't have anything in common with.
• 26:28
  100%. Like this state had two, what, District 1, where we're from,
• 26:33
  and District 7, where we live. Yeah.
• 26:35
  Only two. Yeah. They're going to be gone. Yeah.
• 26:39
  Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think people understand. We're not saying this because we vote Democrat.
• 26:46
  We're saying like even poor Republicans are about to be left holding the bag.
• 26:52
  Here's everything you said is spot on.
• 26:57
  Here's why I just said what I said about Mike Brown.
• 27:01
  You clearly do not care about Indiana. You care about pleasing Trump.
• 27:10
  The only reason any of this is happening is because you want to please Trump
• 27:16
  and you won't let sleeping dogs lie. It got voted down once.
• 27:22
  I'm sure Trump sleep right now. Good point.
• 27:25
  But it got voted down once and you're coming right back to it.
• 27:31
  Nah, that's not good enough. Get in there and vote. To please somebody who is
• 27:37
  going to be out of office in a few years, if he even lasts a whole term,
• 27:42
  who just threatened to primary all of the people that you support.
• 27:46
  Bomb threats swatting
• 27:50
  the one guy in
• 27:53
  the Lafayette area I'm going
• 27:56
  to do it because he's threatening to pull the funding
• 27:59
  for my district that's a reason not to do it yep he can't do that you idiot
• 28:05
  that's how you get voted out real fast exactly exactly so no I am I'm with you
• 28:12
  100% I'm going to stay on a
• 28:16
  political topic. Were you done with that? Yeah, yeah, I'm done.
• 28:19
  I'm going to stay on that, stay in the political atmosphere for my current event.
• 28:24
  And I want to talk about these, what is it, like 87 now murders that the United States are committing?
• 28:31
  80, 82, 87, something like that. The number is in the 80s.
• 28:37
  To talk about that and i want to talk about because we
• 28:39
  took off last week because we had inclement weather so this
• 28:43
  story may seem old but not that
• 28:45
  old y'all get it i want to talk about those seven republicans who made that
• 28:50
  there was a six well however many six or seven republicans that made that video
• 28:55
  saying don't uh don't follow illegal orders oh yeah yeah yeah the operative word,
• 29:05
  the key word is illegal.
• 29:10
  Why would anyone be upset about someone saying don't follow an illegal order
• 29:19
  unless you're doing something illegal?
• 29:23
  It's the only reason you would ever be upset about it.
• 29:28
  So, I think of a few good men.
• 29:33
  Very good movie. Oh yeah.
• 29:37
  The whole point of the movie is you don't follow illegal orders because you
• 29:46
  subordinate are going to be prosecuted.
• 29:51
  You will not be able to say I was just following orders.
• 29:56
  That's not going to work. And this is why they made the video saying you don't
• 30:04
  have to follow an illegal order because you will be held accountable and excuse me,
• 30:11
  you will be held accountable.
• 30:14
  Trump's not going to be president forever.
• 30:18
  The clock is ticking.
• 30:21
  Did you see your boy Clown A. Smith and his rant? Oh, yeah.
• 30:26
  Hell, which one? And it's just like, bro, you are such a clown. Like, you're a fool.
• 30:31
  You are, I mean, like yelling and screaming to the top of your lungs.
• 30:37
  Did you? No one said disobey a legal order.
• 30:42
  Said disobey an illegal order. You're going to have a stroke on air because you misheard.
• 30:50
  Or just as our parents told us, you only hear what you want to hear.
• 30:55
  Or you heard what you want to hear.
• 30:57
  It is just like, listen, do you win?
• 31:02
  Somebody, the Supreme Court, not going to do anything. We know that they're feckless.
• 31:07
  Somebody has to stop this. I mean, the U.S. is literally committing murder.
• 31:12
  We have not seen one piece of evidence saying that these people were drug dealers.
• 31:21
  There are no drugs being recovered.
• 31:24
  We don't know the names of these individuals.
• 31:29
  Nine times out of 10, those little fishing boats probably wouldn't even make it to America.
• 31:34
  So you can't say that they were coming here to terrorize Americans.
• 31:38
  They wouldn't even make it.
• 31:39
  We are literally just committing murder and no one is saying or doing anything.
• 31:48
  Crazy times we are living in. Absolutely.
• 31:53
  Crazy. Anything you want to add to that, brother? No, I think we may have had another one.
• 31:59
  It was like a couple of days ago. I think there was another strike.
• 32:02
  Like maybe Thursday. Yeah. Maybe late Thursday or Friday.
• 32:05
  Yeah. And it's funny because just how Colonel Jessup was trying to throw those
• 32:12
  two soldiers under the bus on a few good men.
• 32:16
  What are they trying to do to Admiral Bradley? Throw him under the bus.
• 32:19
  Hey, man, look, we don't know nothing about a second strike.
• 32:24
  After he had already admitted it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 32:31
  It's just, I don't understand why anyone would take a bullet,
• 32:38
  Metaphorically, take a bullet. Got it. Got to say that for this guy.
• 32:42
  He's totally going to throw you under the bus as soon as he gets the opportunity.
• 32:48
  As soon as the water gets hot, he's out.
• 32:51
  He's out. You're you're you're you're standing there holding the bag.
• 32:56
  I don't think what's what's crazy to me is as how many people forget how many
• 33:01
  people from the previous administration back from 16 to 20.
• 33:06
  How many of them went to jail? Wasn't there like 30-something people that were
• 33:09
  either indicted or convicted or something?
• 33:11
  Did y'all forget? Did y'all think that that's not going to happen the next time?
• 33:16
  Right. Right. It is baffling, man. It is truly, truly, truly baffling.
• 33:23
  All right. We're going to leave it there as far as current events because we
• 33:27
  could talk about that all day. All day.
• 33:29
  We're going to move into our rant about a random topic.
• 33:36
  Everyone's favorite segment. So you want me to start off, brother,
• 33:40
  with my good times rant or you want to just, you got something you want to get up your chest first?
• 33:45
  No, I think everybody, I've heard your good times rant, but I don't want to
• 33:48
  think everybody else should hear. All right.
• 33:50
  So on my YouTube page, I did a video a few years ago about why good times was problematic.
• 33:58
  Go and check that out. I'm not going to go deep into it now as to why I don't like Good times.
• 34:06
  But it's one of the saddest shows, in my opinion, when it comes to representing
• 34:16
  black people and the black family structure.
• 34:20
  And there's a reason why.
• 34:23
  Good Times was written and created by a white Jewish man named Norman Lear.
• 34:34
  Let that sink in.
• 34:37
  When you watch Good Times, keep this in mind.
• 34:42
  This is how this white man thought black families behaved.
• 34:48
  This is his perception of black life in the ghetto.
• 34:57
  I don't like the show because there was never any progress on that show.
• 35:05
  Started off with two grown ass kids living in this little bitty apartment with mom and daddy.
• 35:10
  Then Michael grew up. He didn't leave. And now you got three grown ass kids
• 35:15
  living in this apartment. Daddy die.
• 35:19
  But Thelma gets married. So now you got four grown ass people living in this
• 35:24
  little apartment with them. Man, knock it off.
• 35:30
  The show is problematic in
• 35:33
  so many ways and then
• 35:37
  you always had some shady character
• 35:40
  bookman never wanted to fix anything the elevator never worked did the the pimp
• 35:49
  sweet daddy why is he coming up to they crib why are y'all friends with the
• 35:54
  pimp unless he was trying to get Thelma,
• 35:57
  he ain't had no reason to be up there. Nope.
• 36:00
  Unless JJ was his no favorite character, which it seemed like not character, but customer.
• 36:07
  JJ, you in trouble. So what you owe the pimp money?
• 36:12
  And I mean, if that's what happened in that off screen and they just don't want
• 36:15
  to say just, it just, yeah.
• 36:18
  Yeah. I, I, I really like if they took good times off the air and I,
• 36:22
  I never, ever watched another episode, I'd be A-O-K.
• 36:29
  You want to add to that, bro? I want you to finish. I don't want you to leave
• 36:33
  out my favorite part of your rant about good times. Florida.
• 36:41
  Nope. I ain't going to do it. I'll do it.
• 36:45
  So, piggybacking off what you said, Norm Van Lear, who wrote and produced damn
• 36:49
  near everything in the 70s. All of those shows, yeah.
• 36:53
  Similar to how, what's the name, Taylor Sheridan does it nowadays.
• 36:57
  Mm-hmm. You know, Yellowstone. Or Shonda, you know, got a lot of different shows.
• 37:02
  So Florida shot down every single idea anybody in that household had.
• 37:11
  They wrote her character to be divisive and anti-progress in every way,
• 37:18
  shape, or form. Unsupportive.
• 37:20
  Now, they filmed that show in Burbank, California. Yeah.
• 37:25
  It was set in Robert Taylor homes. Yep. Chicago, Illinois. Robert Taylor Holmes.
• 37:32
  Although we didn't live in Chicago, we knew a lot of people from those areas.
• 37:38
  Knew of a lot of people from those areas.
• 37:42
  Black woman back then was all about progress. Kids getting good grades.
• 37:47
  Working. Upkeep of the home. Making sure her kids are okay.
• 37:51
  She was almost anti-everything. With the exception, they always had food on
• 37:58
  us. They was always sitting down and eating. They always had that.
• 38:00
  They always had the food. They were always sitting down and eating, but.
• 38:04
  Idea seemed to be shot down. Why was her character written to be like that?
• 38:10
  And then you see what happened. The second that John Amos started talking about
• 38:16
  money and all this other stuff, they killed him off the show.
• 38:18
  They gave him a heart attack. Yep. Killed him off the show.
• 38:20
  The only positive black character, role model.
• 38:26
  In the only positive anyway the only positive black role model on the entire show.
• 38:36
  But you're right. They killed him off the show.
• 38:39
  And then you just, like I said, every shady alderman.
• 38:44
  Oh, yeah. It just like no one was on the up and up on this show.
• 38:50
  No one. It was really just a sad show. And another thing that made no sense,
• 38:55
  like you said, the elevator never worked.
• 38:57
  So everybody climbing up to the 20th floor to come see y'all. Right.
• 39:02
  Right. It was just, it just, it just, just a, just a bad show.
• 39:08
  Y'all. I know we, we, we think it's a classic, but really it's not. It's.
• 39:14
  Popular because it was all we had. And the characters. J.J. was a good character.
• 39:20
  And J.J. was an artist who never sold any paintings.
• 39:25
  And then when he did, they brought a brother on the show, a rich brother to
• 39:31
  screw him out of his money. Right.
• 39:33
  And his daddy had to get involved to tell him, hey, this boy put in a lot of
• 39:37
  work for this parent. Right. You gonna pay him. Right.
• 39:40
  You brought up the brother with the ass to be divisive. Always.
• 39:47
  It was always us doing everything to hinder that family from making any progress. It was always us.
• 39:56
  I don't know what Thelma... Look, Thelma was fine. We all know what Thelma was
• 40:00
  fine. Yeah, Thelma can do whatever she wants.
• 40:02
  But I don't know what she did for money.
• 40:05
  Michael, when he got old enough to go to college, I guess he was just a student. He ain't had no damn job.
• 40:13
  We don't know what Walona did across the hall, but she was always dress fly.
• 40:18
  I kind of feel like she worked for Sweet Daddy.
• 40:23
  I'm just saying, bro. They bring in Janet Jackson to the show.
• 40:29
  She was escaping an abusive mom.
• 40:32
  That burned her with an iron. Burned her with the iron. Yeah.
• 40:36
  There was nothing good about the show. The theme song is just like, what?
• 40:41
  The theme song basically is the opposite of good times. That's exactly. It's terrible.
• 40:47
  Hanging in a childlike. Good times. It is. Right.
• 40:50
  Right. Hanging out, waiting for soup. Right. It's a good time. Right.
• 40:56
  And then say, please be happy we got them. Or be lucky we got them or something. Yeah.
• 41:04
  Lord have mercy, Jesus. Man, that show just became more problematic than it was 25 minutes ago. Yep.
• 41:09
  Yep. I mean, when you sit down and think about it, man, it's really,
• 41:13
  like I said, it's one of those shows that's just like, this is what that white
• 41:18
  man thought of black people.
• 41:22
  And this is what he thought we should be celebrating about having nothing. Yeah.
• 41:30
  Almost cuss. F you, Norman Lear. How about that? I know you did, but F you.
• 41:37
  All right. That's my, that's my work. Y'all you got, you got a right brother. Oh yeah.
• 41:42
  So I want to talk about, about as random a topic as you can get national parks.
• 41:48
  Two things about national parks one if you guys have not seen the official national
• 41:53
  park tiktok page please go look it up it is disgusting it is ridiculously immature
• 42:00
  it is high schoolish it is,
• 42:03
  probably one of the most ridiculous accounts on tiktok and i know they're saying
• 42:07
  a lot and this is an official government tiktok page i won't say what's on it
• 42:13
  because they would reclassify us as It's an explicit podcast.
• 42:17
  Oh, wow. Yeah, it's wild. It's ridiculous.
• 42:21
  So a couple of days ago, it was announced that there were a couple of holidays
• 42:24
  being taken off of the free fee days for national parks. One is Juneteenth.
• 42:33
  And the other is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
• 42:37
  So I saw that and I thought to myself, of course, typical.
• 42:42
  You know, with this guy. Yeah. With him, it's typical.
• 42:47
  Then I woke up this morning and maybe I missed it, but I woke up this morning
• 42:52
  and I do what a lot of people do nowadays. Grab my phone.
• 42:57
  Before I even stepped out to bed. I think I know where you're going with this.
• 43:00
  I'm looking at news articles and I saw Donald Trump's birthday added to FIFA. Yep.
• 43:11
  So I thought to myself, my next thing was to go, well, that's unprecedented.
• 43:22
  No, surely FDR's birthday is free. Mm-hmm.
• 43:29
  Surely Gandhi's birthday, maybe, you know, we show a lot. Hell,
• 43:33
  surely Christopher Columbus's birthday is free. No.
• 43:37
  This is the first president ever, living or dead, to say, you know what?
• 43:45
  Enjoy the national parks. It's my birthday.
• 43:48
  Don't give a fuck. It's your birthday?
• 43:51
  Like, do you know the levels? And of course, this is rhetorical because you
• 43:54
  do know the levels of arrogance you have to have. There you go.
• 43:59
  The levels of arrogance, just in general, to put your name on a building that
• 44:07
  belongs to the people. Right.
• 44:09
  Which, by the way, he did like three weeks ago.
• 44:13
  There's a privately funded, one of the things that when he came in office,
• 44:18
  when they started stealing money, because that's what they were doing.
• 44:20
  When Doge was stealing money from us, he has put his name on one of those buildings.
• 44:27
  So it's like, you know, for example Like say Health and Human Services, it would be The Donald J.
• 44:32
  Trump Health and Human Services, he's done That to a building in D.C.
• 44:38
  Yeah, that's it. No, no, keep going, bro.
• 44:42
  Keep going. I can't even fathom waking up going, hey, y'all,
• 44:47
  put my A, the fee-free day.
• 44:51
  Get rid of MLK and put my name on it. Yeah. You haven't done shit for this country.
• 44:59
  So. You haven't done shit to better. No.
• 45:05
  Anything. No. And for the people out there crying and complaining,
• 45:08
  oh, listen to these two liberals, go to hell.
• 45:10
  Because he hasn't. He hasn't done anything beneficial that will last a lifetime to help people.
• 45:19
  Because he know people won't worship, and I'm using air quotes,
• 45:23
  because he know people won't worship him.
• 45:26
  He's trying to force. Yeah, it's forced. Yeah, he's trying to force the praise.
• 45:31
  He's trying to force the recognition by adding his name.
• 45:36
  Just to buildings, to doing this with the national parks so he can say,
• 45:41
  look at all this traffic they're getting on my day.
• 45:44
  Yeah, because everybody else, they got to pay.
• 45:48
  You rigged the deck, homie. What are you talking about?
• 45:52
  Which is what he's doing, period. He's rigging the deck with the government, period.
• 45:58
  Everything he does is self-serving.
• 46:02
  Everything. The only reason he wants all of this redistricting done is because,
• 46:09
  one, he knows that if the Democrats get the House and the Senate,
• 46:14
  he's getting impeached.
• 46:16
  And this time he may actually get removed from office.
• 46:21
  And if we're lucky, thrown in jail for the rest of his life. Right.
• 46:25
  But that's all of this redistricting is him trying to save his ass.
• 46:32
  And the Supreme Court is allowing it.
• 46:36
  Know if this is possible. What I do know is not possible because of the way the law is set up.
• 46:45
  I think there needs to be accountability for the Supreme Court.
• 46:49
  I think these six, not the three, but these six who have voted and supported and paved the way.
• 47:00
  Based on party lines. Based on party lines.
• 47:04
  Yeah, based on party lines. Not the law. Right. That allows him to get away
• 47:09
  with all of this stuff. I think they need to also be held accountable.
• 47:13
  I don't care what history writes about them.
• 47:16
  I want them to be held accountable now while they're still alive,
• 47:21
  while they can still feel some punishment.
• 47:25
  They need to be held accountable just as much as him.
• 47:29
  And in my opinion, if he's in cell A, they need to be in B, C, D, E, F.
• 47:38
  All lined up right next to his ass. That's how I feel about it.
• 47:42
  And I will say this, just like many presidents have done in the past,
• 47:46
  which a lot of people don't understand how the Supreme Court got to be non-justices
• 47:49
  as opposed to what it was, what, three back in the 20s and 30s.
• 47:53
  We add justices to the Supreme Court as we go along.
• 47:57
  I would add three more damn justices to that Supreme Court and I'd appoint three
• 48:01
  Democrats in the next session.
• 48:02
  So you're going to be forced to do things by law. Yep, debate on ideas.
• 48:09
  Because they don't have to meet the House. No. They sit at their home office.
• 48:14
  They type up a well, this is my opinion. Yeah.
• 48:17
  And then they release it to the public. Well, you know, this justice said this the damn what he said.
• 48:23
  What did everybody say? And it is all based on personal beliefs.
• 48:30
  It has nothing to do with the law nine times out of ten.
• 48:33
  It's just their personal belief systems that you're forcing upon the rest of us. And again...
• 48:42
  The way for this clown to get away with absolute murder. And I do mean murder in this case.
• 48:52
  That's the part we can't overlook to go back to the boats in the Caribbean and Venezuela.
• 48:58
  It's murder. These are someone's father, someone's brother, someone's cousin
• 49:08
  that They just go out on the boat and boom, you're dead.
• 49:13
  You're not coming home. And no one knows why.
• 49:16
  Like, imagine just being out fishing. And look, we're not naive.
• 49:20
  We understand. We know where the drugs come from. We know who grows them. We know who sells them.
• 49:25
  But you can't tell me that you're just, oh, that's a drug dealer. Blow it up.
• 49:31
  We have people in Venezuela, a family that came out and said,
• 49:35
  that dude's a fisherman.
• 49:37
  And you just killed him. Well, bro, what is the Coast Guard's job? To intercept.
• 49:44
  Detain put them on trial called due process to make it plain it's called due
• 49:51
  process which nowadays apparently those two words don't mean anything to anybody
• 49:56
  no no the same with all of the ICE deportations it's called due process,
• 50:04
  you give them a trial you find out they're here illegal then you deport them
• 50:09
  you don't just snatch them up off the street and deport them and you don't even
• 50:14
  know who the hell you deported.
• 50:16
  This whole thing is just like bizarro world. This whole time we're living in.
• 50:24
  Listen, we need to stop being blinded by the D and the R.
• 50:32
  In the end, this shit don't have nothing to do with the D or the R.
• 50:38
  Like you said earlier, this is about right and wrong. Forget the D.
• 50:43
  Forget the R. Focus on the legal aspect. This shit is wrong.
• 50:49
  Stop it. We need to stop.
• 50:53
  I think that a lot of people need to understand, too, because,
• 50:56
  you know, when people say, well, that person's a Nazi, that part.
• 50:58
  Yeah, I got to stop comparing this to Germany and this and that.
• 51:01
  OK, cool. I won't compare him to Hitler. That's fine.
• 51:04
  But do you people understand how Germany fell?
• 51:09
  Like there are stages. And for those who are wondering, if you get,
• 51:13
  you know, six to eight hours of your time that, you know, six to eight hours
• 51:16
  that you want to dedicate to something, watch the rise and fall of the Third
• 51:20
  Reich from the History Channel. Watch it.
• 51:23
  And then I guarantee you, you'll finish it and go, oh, it all started.
• 51:28
  This is how Germany failed.
• 51:30
  Little by little by little. As well as Italy.
• 51:33
  That's how Italy failed. You look up one day and you're like,
• 51:37
  what do you mean I can't do that?
• 51:38
  So right now, they're snatching up people who you all think are illegal aliens,
• 51:45
  which I can't stand that term, undocumented immigrants.
• 51:48
  Tomorrow they're going to be grabbing you because what people don't understand
• 51:51
  is that the Supreme Court two
• 51:53
  days ago just agreed to hear arguments on birthright citizenship. Crazy.
• 51:58
  For all of those listening, do a quick Google search as to who qualifies under
• 52:03
  birthright citizenship.
• 52:05
  Who determines it? Right. Trump? Watch how fast you start calling some of your
• 52:09
  closest relatives, telling them to be careful. The president cannot and should
• 52:15
  not be able to determine who's a citizen.
• 52:19
  We have citizenship tests and all these other things.
• 52:25
  But is it the 14th Amendment that says if you're born here, you are a citizen? Yeah.
• 52:33
  You can't reverse that. How do you reverse that? So the Supreme Court is deciding,
• 52:38
  oh, well, let's revisit that amendment.
• 52:41
  If you can revisit the 14th, you can revisit the 13th. you can revisit the second
• 52:47
  and damn sure can revisit the first. Right.
• 52:52
  Which the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing which I love how he just roasts Trump every night now.
• 52:59
  Every night he just roasts him. Yeah. Alright man we done.
• 53:03
  We probably done. We've been glad to talk about this before. Alright y'all.
• 53:09
  We gotta lighten this thing up a little bit. We got kinda deep in there.
• 53:15
  That's what taking a week off of dude if we didn't have a
• 53:17
  chance to get it all all of this out of our system last week uh
• 53:20
  but we're going to move now into
• 53:23
  our five on the black hand side movie
• 53:27
  review and the movie we chose to review this week is the education of sonny
• 53:35
  carlson before we get into it brother i want to ask you why did you suggest
• 53:42
  this movie so i know i told you i just like the movie.
• 53:45
  But there's another reason. So one of my favorite authors of all time is Alex Haley.
• 53:52
  Wrote this movie i didn't know that yes sir okay
• 53:56
  yeah alex haley and arnold pearl wrote this movie
• 53:58
  together and i think that just coming
• 54:02
  up in the 80s we knew a lot of cats like this and now i sound like i'm from
• 54:08
  the 70s because i just said cats we knew a lot of people like this we knew a
• 54:14
  lot of the the gangs that ran around like it was it was just that time coming
• 54:18
  up a lot of those movies we saw, you know, Warriors.
• 54:22
  It just... That's kind of what I thought of when I was watching it.
• 54:25
  The movie is always just intriguing. I enjoyed it.
• 54:28
  I thought the guy who plays Sonny Carson did an amazing job,
• 54:32
  which is Ronnie Clanton, is his name.
• 54:36
  So, and then Curtis McLaren was the teenager, which is one of my favorite scenes
• 54:42
  in the movie when he jumps off the back of that bus.
• 54:44
  I put trademarks around your eyes.
• 54:47
  Just, man, love it. Thank you.
• 54:50
  Those that are wondering, you know, it's basically a young black kid. He's gifted.
• 54:55
  The movie starts with him receiving an award of an essay that he wrote.
• 54:59
  And as it goes along, he and some friends of his rob what looked like a grocery store.
• 55:06
  Convenience store or something like that. Him and one of his other buddies get caught.
• 55:10
  Hey, wait, let me interrupt a second. Yeah, yeah. Am I jumping ahead? No. Oh, okay.
• 55:15
  Was his buddy going to eat them pig's feet, bro? Oh, man, that's hilarious.
• 55:20
  I'm like, I'm like, bro, you just going to open the jar and yuck.
• 55:25
  Pickle, pickle, pig. All right, all right, man. My bad. Go ahead. Go ahead.
• 55:28
  So, you know, rob a store. He gets, you know, him and one of his buddies get caught. He goes to jail.
• 55:34
  What? Three months. I think he got six months. Six months. Something like.
• 55:39
  Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. So he gets six months. He comes out.
• 55:42
  He met a guy inside named Willie. Mm-hmm. Who was the warlord of the Lord.
• 55:47
  Yeah. well, Willie got a message for you. Right, right.
• 55:52
  Give me the message. So he goes to a different neighborhood.
• 55:56
  It's kind of confusing at first because he's from the neighborhood. Yeah.
• 56:00
  But six months for him seemed like it was six years. Because he comes out and
• 56:03
  don't nobody know who he is.
• 56:05
  And he ends up getting initiated into the gang, goes through the gauntlet.
• 56:09
  Brutal. Brutal scene. Pipes and chains and jump him into the gang.
• 56:14
  And he basically becomes, you know, head.
• 56:17
  Of that fact that years go
• 56:20
  by yeah yeah years go by because now they're
• 56:23
  in high school they're in high school whenever they're
• 56:26
  feuding with the hawks yeah uh the tomahawks
• 56:30
  the tomahawks yeah but the movie has its little little pieces a lot of singing
• 56:36
  a lot of random singing gospel songs the uh the first bra they had was at an
• 56:44
  event where they were sitting around in the circle Singing gospel hymns.
• 56:50
  The parade. The parade. Why they were in the parade, only God knows.
• 56:54
  That part I didn't understand. Like, why are the gang dudes leading the parade? But whatever.
• 56:59
  Well, no. They were right behind what looked like the ROTC.
• 57:03
  Because all them kids. But I thought the one dude was like out in front.
• 57:07
  Oh, yeah. The drum major. Yeah. He was out in front. The drum major was out
• 57:10
  in front with the Lord's jacket on.
• 57:11
  So apparently nobody cared that the gang was running the neighborhood.
• 57:15
  Right. But then they sprinkled in, you know, the cops, obviously.
• 57:18
  They didn't like Sonny. one cop in particular told that one cop,
• 57:22
  get him out of here or I'm going to kill him. Get him out of here.
• 57:26
  Is it a great movie? No. Is it a movie that a lot of us that grew up around
• 57:33
  that time can identify with?
• 57:37
  Absolutely. That's what struck me.
• 57:41
  This movie was 1974? Yep, 1974.
• 57:47
  I felt like As a teenager in the 90s, everything that they were going through
• 57:53
  was absolutely relatable in the 90s.
• 57:57
  Now, it would be, what, 51 years now?
• 58:02
  Of course, we're not teenagers, so we can't say. But I imagine at some level
• 58:08
  that some of these kids out here today could still relate to this movie and
• 58:14
  draw some similarities.
• 58:16
  Maybe not all, but some similarities.
• 58:19
  To their plight and what they're going through. And it is the social commentary is just like, wow.
• 58:28
  For all of the progress that they claim we've made, it's like, have we?
• 58:35
  I mean, when you really peel back the layers, have we really made that much progress?
• 58:45
  Know if we have you know and and and i
• 58:48
  think i said just the fact that 20 years
• 58:51
  later when we were kids in the 90s we were teenagers in the 90s we totally could
• 58:56
  have remade that totally could have been us oh yeah out there in those lords
• 59:00
  jackets absolutely 100 and just like this this is exactly what instead of the
• 59:05
  jackets we had the hats yeah like like this is exactly what we were going through around that time.
• 59:10
  So it's just kind of.
• 59:16
  When you put back the layers, I don't think we've made as much progress as people like to think. No.
• 59:23
  It's been minimal, for lack of a better word.
• 59:27
  So going back to what I was mentioning with the current events, redistricting.
• 59:32
  Redistricting shows that we haven't made much progress. Because now we're losing
• 59:37
  representation again. Right.
• 59:39
  In a red state that we live in, like you and I grew up, we were considered the
• 59:44
  greatest Chicagoland area.
• 59:46
  Right. A lot of the things happening in central Indiana, southern Indiana didn't affect us.
• 59:50
  It just it just didn't affect us. And to go back to what you were saying about constituency. Yeah.
• 59:57
  What would someone who's not in tune with the community do? Right.
• 1:00:02
  Bring in more police. Which is what they did to us when we were coming. Right.
• 1:00:07
  And instead of trying to create programs to help the community,
• 1:00:11
  let's just send in more police.
• 1:00:13
  Yeah. And let's make it harder instead of trying to help.
• 1:00:17
  We're going to get rid of this program because we don't need these welfare social,
• 1:00:23
  quote unquote, programs.
• 1:00:25
  So we're going to cut this program. We're going to slash funding for this slash funding for that.
• 1:00:29
  And now you're creating a larger ghetto.
• 1:00:33
  Right. For lack of a better term. And instead of trying to help people ascend
• 1:00:38
  out, you're creating a larger ghetto and then you're going to go where these
• 1:00:43
  people act like savages.
• 1:00:44
  They act like animals because you don't know anything about us.
• 1:00:48
  You don't know the issues that we face.
• 1:00:51
  And your system, your policies are impacting us in a way that we just got to
• 1:00:59
  do what we got to do to survive.
• 1:01:00
  So what you call Savage Savage Dream Savage Whatever.
• 1:01:09
  Call surviving absolutely but i
• 1:01:14
  am gonna say i i you say
• 1:01:17
  the acting was man i thought the acting was terrible in
• 1:01:20
  this movie oh no i just didn't get a chance to say oh okay okay
• 1:01:23
  okay okay because man the preacher
• 1:01:27
  at the funeral i was so angry watching that
• 1:01:30
  he was so extra yeah it was oh my
• 1:01:33
  god he was extra who killed little
• 1:01:36
  man who the message the message the
• 1:01:39
  message was great was on point but he
• 1:01:42
  was so extra i'm just like bro where they do that at y'all couldn't y'all telling
• 1:01:48
  me y'all couldn't find somebody from the bronx like a different preacher from
• 1:01:50
  the bronx oh my goodness yeah it was yeah like i i was mad listening to him
• 1:01:57
  yeah man i would have got up and walked out of that funeral,
• 1:02:02
  man. He was so extra.
• 1:02:06
  My goodness. But little man was extra too. But of course, I've never been stabbed in the back.
• 1:02:10
  But when little man died... That was some horrible acting. Whoa,
• 1:02:15
  you talking about extra.
• 1:02:16
  I thought he was going to start dancing, man. I ain't even going to lie.
• 1:02:20
  First, I'm like, wait, he hurt. What? Right? Is he?
• 1:02:25
  Yeah. Then they showed a knife in his back. I'm like, okay, he is hurt.
• 1:02:29
  At first, I couldn't tell. When Sonny was getting beat up in the police station
• 1:02:32
  when a dude kicked him in the nuts and his eyes got real big oh man,
• 1:02:38
  bro yeah yeah the act and and you know you you got paul benjamin you got mary
• 1:02:47
  alice you got good actors and you barely used them they barely had any screen
• 1:02:55
  time and it just like Like,
• 1:02:56
  I thought Sonny had a few moments where it was bad.
• 1:03:01
  But overall, I thought he did an okay job.
• 1:03:05
  All. When he was getting beat up by the police is when I was just like,
• 1:03:08
  bro, you were so overactive. Other than that, you're right. He did okay.
• 1:03:13
  I thought a little bit of screen time Willie had as an adult.
• 1:03:16
  They ran into each other in prison. When he robbed that, well, that was bad too.
• 1:03:21
  Give me the money. Yeah, that was bad too.
• 1:03:25
  How much you got?
• 1:03:28
  You're like, what if I just give you half? I'm going to lose my job.
• 1:03:32
  Man, if you don't get that money and get the hell out of it.
• 1:03:35
  Right. I'm like, this ain't no negotiation. You getting robbed, fool. Give me the money.
• 1:03:40
  So the other half of why I like this movie.
• 1:03:45
  Sonny Carson was a real person. Yeah. It's totally based on a true story.
• 1:03:49
  Yeah. So it was loosely, yes, loosely based on his life.
• 1:03:52
  He was a civil rights activist and a leader. He died in 2002.
• 1:03:57
  So 1933 to 2002 lived a long life.
• 1:04:01
  Bronx. Yeah, pretty sure he was born in the Bronx, but After I realized that,
• 1:04:06
  I remember thinking to myself, it would have been kind of cool to see what he did after.
• 1:04:11
  Like at the end when this lady almost OD'd and then he walked out,
• 1:04:16
  which I was glad they didn't turn down to him being an addict. Right, right, right.
• 1:04:21
  That was when heroin was making a big push in the 70s.
• 1:04:24
  So the fact that he walked away from that scot-free to live his life,
• 1:04:28
  I thought was pretty cool.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, that was wild, bro, because he was only gone for, what, three, four years?
• 1:04:34
  Yeah, three. And he came back. Came back. And his boy, his boy was strung out. Crazy.
• 1:04:40
  His girl was strung out. Just like, damn. And then like all the other homies,
• 1:04:44
  he was like, man, they either dead or they strung out too. Yeah.
• 1:04:48
  And so like, damn, in three years? Woo.
• 1:04:52
  Whole neighborhood was jacked. Whole neighborhood, man.
• 1:04:56
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was, that was, that was, that was crazy.
• 1:04:59
  So I guess it's time for us to rate this thing.
• 1:05:05
  It brother no i love it i love the movie based on everything i just said obviously you know it was,
• 1:05:12
  i wouldn't call it a blaxploitation flick no i
• 1:05:15
  don't think it was no no but the acting of a
• 1:05:18
  lot of those movies were pretty bad yes i mean it kind of felt like they just
• 1:05:23
  like got random people off the street and it's like you want to be in this movie
• 1:05:27
  i'm gonna recommend this movie but if you got something to watch instead of this,
• 1:05:35
  then watch that first. I'll say that.
• 1:05:41
  And if you can fast forward past the preacher at the funeral,
• 1:05:46
  then fast forward past that scene.
• 1:05:48
  Oh my goodness. Like if you go to church every Sunday, he made you not,
• 1:05:53
  he would make you want to go, I'm not going to church no more.
• 1:05:55
  No, literally I've never, we both grew up in church. I've never seen any Reverend,
• 1:06:02
  pastor, whatever Act like that I'm like, bro, what What are you doing?
• 1:06:08
  And if they did, it would be along the lines How my Bob Bernie Mac was making
• 1:06:11
  fun of And you know, that But his was like.
• 1:06:17
  To say who killed little man like 37 times and and
• 1:06:22
  then his gesturing and and in that
• 1:06:25
  voice yeah his voice was like who killed little man who put the knife in his
• 1:06:35
  back oh yeah yeah who killed little man and he got the hanky and he,
• 1:06:43
  gyrating and it's just like, bro, what in the F are you doing?
• 1:06:47
  And luckily the camera was up close because if the camera was back even further,
• 1:06:51
  it probably would have looked worse. Right.
• 1:06:53
  Because, yeah, I'm like, what is he doing? Is he dancing? Right. Right.
• 1:06:57
  I mean, it was oh, yeah, so extra. And then the up close camera picture of the mother.
• 1:07:03
  Right. When they had the camera like up under her neck. Yeah.
• 1:07:07
  That's a horrible camera angle. Yeah. I like it based on, as you said,
• 1:07:13
  it's solely, that could have been us.
• 1:07:15
  Right. A lot of the things they did in that movie, I mean, outside of,
• 1:07:19
  you know, robbing a store and you know, fortunately for you and I,
• 1:07:23
  you know, we were raised in homes where we didn't want for much. Right.
• 1:07:27
  You know, our parents worked their butts off. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:29
  we didn't have to steal, yeah.
• 1:07:32
  But we knew plenty of people. For sure. That was struggling. For sure.
• 1:07:36
  But that's one of the reasons I liked it so much. And then, of course,
• 1:07:39
  just hearing some of the talk from the 70s was always fun.
• 1:07:43
  Yeah, they were definitely spitting that slang.
• 1:07:47
  Crazy how we could relate to it, though. Yeah. We could totally relate to it. Just like, oh, wow.
• 1:07:54
  To somebody else who'd be watching this going, what are they talking about?
• 1:07:57
  Like, I know exactly what they're talking about. This is all made up.
• 1:08:00
  It's like, no, it ain't. Yeah.
• 1:08:02
  We could take you to, during that time, hell, we could probably take you to,
• 1:08:06
  20 or 30 people that live just like that.
• 1:08:08
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real. real. So.
• 1:08:13
  The reverend. I'm going to give this two high fives on the blackhand side. Yes, sir.
• 1:08:19
  All right. Yeah. All right. Cool. All right. With that, y'all,
• 1:08:22
  we're going to move into our closing monologue. Take it away, my brother.
• 1:08:26
  Appreciate it. So I didn't write anything down. I want to talk about something
• 1:08:30
  that we've already kind of touched on, and that's immigration.
• 1:08:35
  We've done this before, and I feel like, you know, it's beating a dead horse.
• 1:08:41
  But I want to talk about, what was it, Two weeks ago, my brother and I were
• 1:08:46
  at our favorite sports. Oh, we.
• 1:08:49
  Oh, we. And we were watching the game, you know, watching the Bears.
• 1:08:55
  And there were two Indian guys sitting across the bar. One big dude, one scrawny dude.
• 1:09:03
  We don't know what happened because, you know, we're paying attention to the game.
• 1:09:06
  You know, when the Bears game is on, we locked in. Correct. But we look up during
• 1:09:10
  the commercial break and the skinny dude is yelling at two white dudes at the bar.
• 1:09:17
  Something must have been said from the white dude because the Indian dude was
• 1:09:21
  losing his mind and actually threatening to take it outside and hold your bag.
• 1:09:26
  In the process of all of this going on, the younger white guy says, welcome to America.
• 1:09:36
  Now, I'm a lover, not a fighter. But I was, what, 30 seconds away from escalating
• 1:09:43
  that into a situation where the Avon Police Department was probably going to have to be caught.
• 1:09:48
  I think the majority of the patrons felt like it was out of control, though.
• 1:09:58
  So eventually, my brother told me, hey, man, chill out. Just chill out. Just chill out.
• 1:10:04
  And I think the fact that we were laughing with some of the people at the table
• 1:10:07
  behind us kind of eased the situation.
• 1:10:10
  But I bring all of that up to bring this up, to say this.
• 1:10:15
  Have any more right than anybody else to be in this damn country. Facts.
• 1:10:20
  This is not your country. Facts.
• 1:10:23
  This country belongs to whoever is here, who is ever trying to get ahead,
• 1:10:29
  put in the work, and make the community around them better.
• 1:10:33
  There are some people that live in this country right now who are on work visas,
• 1:10:38
  who have to have to have DHS authorization to work here.
• 1:10:43
  They have social security cards. that say either DHS authorization or authorized
• 1:10:49
  for work in the United States.
• 1:10:51
  And what DHS authorization means is that they have the authority to work in
• 1:10:56
  certain, like they have to get approved to work in certain areas around the country.
• 1:11:00
  But make no mistakes about it.
• 1:11:02
  They have done the work to be here and to work.
• 1:11:08
  Just because you were born here you have
• 1:11:11
  the you know the the the privilege of being born on
• 1:11:14
  the soil of this country which now is also in jeopardy
• 1:11:18
  you don't get to tell somebody else and everyone on that's listening to this
• 1:11:23
  understands what welcome to america means you know what he wanted to say because
• 1:11:27
  if he's black you know what he would call him and then it i probably would have
• 1:11:31
  got thrown out of there arrested or whatever the case may be but you have no
• 1:11:35
  more right to be here than the next person.
• 1:11:37
  If somebody comes here and they're trying to do good and they're working and
• 1:11:40
  putting in the work to make this country better, they are allowed to be here just as much as you are.
• 1:11:45
  When you protest that, the only thing that you are, you may think you're a patriot,
• 1:11:52
  but you're nothing more than an asshole.
• 1:12:00
  All right, y'all. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of For The Fam Podcast, episode 14.
• 1:12:08
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• 1:12:13
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• 1:12:19
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• 1:12:22
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• 1:12:25
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• 1:12:37
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• 1:12:43
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• 1:12:44
  I'm sorry, Apple. Jesus Christ, Kyle.
• 1:12:47
  Not Apple Music, but that gets your podcast on Apple.
• 1:12:52
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• 1:13:05
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• 1:13:09
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• 1:13:12
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• 1:13:16
  Yeah. Yeah. For sure. All right, y'all. We gonna excuse me. We gonna be gonna
• 1:13:21
  leave it there. I'm six meal. Keeping it true. It's your boy KG.
• 1:13:24
  And we'll holler at y'all next time. Peace.